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孙宁英语演讲稿
孙宁，1981年生于南京。
1993年考取南京外国语学校，其间获全国中学生英语能力竞赛和中澳国际英语能力竞赛高中组特等奖。
1999年保送北京外国语大学英语系口译专业8月入外交部翻译室工作，次年9月公派赴英国留学。
孙宁在2009年3月第十一届全国人大二次会议上为发言人李肇星担任口译。
以下是他当年参加第七届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛获冠军时的演讲：globalization: challenges and opportunities for chinas younger generation 全球化：中国年轻一代所面临的机遇与挑战 good morning, ladies and gentlemen.today i’m very happy to be here to share with you some of my thoughts on the topicof globalization. and first of all, i would like to mention an event in our recenthistory.正如我们今天所看到的，不同国家的环保专家们正齐心协力在全球变暖这一问题上各抒己见；经济学家们一同寻找着对付金融危机的办法，虽然这一危机只发生在一定区域，但它还是会阻碍世界经济的发展；外交官和政治家们则聚到一起探讨打击恐怖主义的问题。
和平与繁荣已成为全世界共同奋斗的目标。
如此强大趋势的“全球化”正应证了e. m. 福斯特的那句话：“但求沟通！”decision-making, ruthless expansionists in the global market place and adevastating presence to local businesses.卡尔·马克思提醒我们，资本跨越国界，便会逃离对象国政治实体的管制，这一点已成为现实。
跨国公司一直在实行寻求最低成本、最大市场和最多收益的政策。
英语演讲稿-第四届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军
英语演讲稿第四届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军第四届“21世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛冠军——蔡力蔡力南京大学蔡力，出生于江苏南京，1998年起就读于南京大学，1999年于上海参加“21世纪杯”英语演讲比赛，获一等奖。
同年赴伦敦参加国际英语演讲比赛，获”Best Non-Native Speaker”称号。
本科毕业后赴美国俄亥俄州州立大学攻读传播学硕士。
2003年毕业后进入北卡拉罗那大学教堂山分校心理学系攻读博士，改攻心理计量，同事在UNC统计学系修读树立统计硕士。
WE AND OUR YELLOW RIVER: THRIVING TOGETHERGood afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The issue of the Yellow River has become the biggest concern of members of the Chinese peoples Political Consultative Conference. My childhood, in fact, is closely associated with the river. My father is an engineering geologist, and he used to take me with him on his trips to the hydropower stations on the river. I enjoyed those trips, especially the trip to Longyang Xia reservoir. Although ten years have passed since my visit, Ican still recall the scenery; I can still recall the water I saw at the reservoir. It was pure, clean and blue, not like the water I saw in the middle reaches of the river, which had turned brown and muddy after passing through the Loess Plateau.Once during our stay at the power station, we were caught in a thunderstorm. And when rain stopped, I could see trickles of water rolling down mountain slopes and flowing into the reservoir. It carried little mud or sand, because at that time, trees and grass still grew around the reservoir. And they protected the soil. At Longyang Xia I was struck by the beauty of nature, and as a child I wanted to stay there and to grow up with our Yellow River.Li Bai, the Tang Dynasty poet, said praises to the flowing water in the Yellow River. He saw it as coming down from heaven and nurturing the people along her way to the sea. However, in 1997,for 330days, not a single drop of water from the Yellow River went into the sea. And droughts are not the only punishment by nature. A friend of my father’s, a university professor, is doing research on the Yellow River. According to this professor, the Yellow River will soon change its course if we allow this situation to continue. Because there is no longer enough water to carry away the silt and mudin the lower reaches of the river and the riverbed rises higher and higher each year.We have taken too much from nature, but given back too little in return. And this is the cost of the unbalanced growth. If we had taken care of the vegetation in the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River, we would still experience the river as Li Bai described it.While the developed countries are consuming proportionally more natural resources than the rest of the world, they’ve also taken some good measures in protecting nature. And as a developing country, China can learn from them in this aspect.Last year, when I was visiting Australia with a group of Chinese students who had won prizes in an English Skills Test, our Australian hosts invited us to join them for a horse-ride in the mountains. After two hours on horseback, we reached a valley, where there was a most beautiful meadow, with flowers in all colors dotted on a huge blanket of green. When I began to praise the beauty of nature, my friends told me that in this valley, there used to be a big mine and the wastewater from the mine turned everything brown. When the mine was abandoned, people made great efforts to restore the greenvegetation. They also used the latest biological technology choosing the best grass seeds suitable for the local soil. So the beautiful meadow is a result of commitment, hard work, and new technology.What happened to this valley in Australia should also happen to our Yellow River and, in fact, it is happening. I have seen farmers planting trees on mountains along the Yellow River. I have seen them climb the mountain tops with seedlings on their shoulders because they had no machinery. I have seen them pour on trees the water they had carried up in buckets from miles down the valley. These farmers are quietly nourishing our Yellow River, just as the river has nourished them.And these farmers, men and women I don’t know, gave me the confidence that we and our Yellow River will grow together, and someday in the future, we will be able to drink the clean water from our Yellow River again, because she is our dearest mother.Thank you.。
英语演讲原文：成功之我见(第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军的演讲稿)
成功之我见(第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军的演讲稿)My Definition of Success By Chen Heng 陈恒上海外国语大学获得第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军) 专家点评:演讲开头用了一个寓言故事，十分生动，最后点出对成功的看法，达到了点题的效果。
“Once upon a time， there was a king who had a daughter as beautiful as a blooming rose. To all the suitors who came to the king's palace to ask for the hand of the princess, the old king assigned three tasks to be accomplished, each next to impossible. One day, into the king's palace came a handsome young prince..." Well, you know the rest. The three tasks may be different in different versions, but the main plot is always the same, with the prince claiming the princess's hand triumphantly 1 . And the ending is always the same, finishing with the line "And they live happily every after."Why aren't we tired of something so fanciful, so unrealistic,and, I would say, so unimaginative? How can a story like that endure generations of repetition`? Because, I think, it is a typical success story. It is highly philosophical 2 and symbolic 3 . By implication, we see a 4-step definition of success: 1 ) a goal to be set. as represented by the beautiful princess; 2 ) challenges to be met, as represented by the three tasks; 3 ) the process of surmounting 4 difficulties, as represented by the ordeals 5 the youth goes through; and 4 ) the reward of success, as represented by the happy marriage.The story not only caters 6 to everyone's inward yearning 7 for success, but also emphasizes the inseparability of the process and the result. The reward of success will be much amplified 8 if the path leading towards it is treacherous, and vice 9 versa. If a person inherits his father's millions and leads an easy life, he is not a successful person even in material terms, because there are no difficulties involved in his achieving affluence 10 . The term "success", to be sure. will not sit still for easy definition. But as I understand it, the true meaning of success entails 11 a combination of both the process and the satisfactory result of an endeavor. To clarify my view, let me give another analogy.If we changed the rules of football, greatly enlarged the goal and sent away David Seaman 12 or any other goalkeeper, so that another David, namely David Beckham, could score easily, then scoring would not give him the thrill of accomplishment 13 and the joy that it brings. If we further changed the rules by not allowing Arsenal's defenders 14 to defend, so that Beckham needed only to lift a finger, actually a toe, to score, then there would be no game at all, because the meaning of winning would have disappeared. In accepting the challenge, in surmounting the difficulties and in enduring the hardship, success acquires its value. The sense of attainment 15 varies in proportion to the degree of difficulties on overcomes.The concept of success is not constant but relative because the nature of difficulty is also relative. Something you do effortlessly might pose a great difficulty for a handicapped person. In acquiring the ability to do the same as youcan, he or she achieve success. That's why we greatly admire Stephen Hawking 16 , because, though confined to a wheel chair, he has contributed greatly to the field of science.I myself, a rather shy person by nature who easily suffer from stage fright, had to pluck up great courage to take part in a speech contest like this. I could have stayed away and had an easy time of it by not entering the university level contest.But I chose to accept the challenge and to face thedifficulties. Now here I am. If I come out first, it will be a great success for me. If I come out last-I hope this will not be the case-but if I come out last, I will not call my attempt a failure, but will also celebrate it as a true success, because part of my goal is my own character training-to do more assertive, to be brave in face of difficulties. For me, it is a meaningful step forward, small as it is, in the long journey toward the final success in my life, because I have truly gained by participating.Let us return to our handsome young prince and the 4-step definition of success. You my have noticed that the usual worldly criteria 17 of wealth, position and fame were not mentioned as part of the story, but rather, it emphasized the process of overcoming difficulties. The ancient wisdom had already defined the meaning of success, and this is my definition, too.Thank you.译文:成功之我见“很久以前，有个国王，他的女儿貌美如花。
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第三届21世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛冠军梁励敏
思维的游戏——第三届21世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛冠军梁励敏来源：为成功而演讲 作者：梁励敏 日期: 2010-08-31第三届21世纪杯全国英语演讲比赛冠军梁励敏 可能是由于我对英语学习一直怀着巨大的热情，同时成绩也不错的缘故吧，从中学起我就成了各种英语比赛的常客，尤其在大学阶段，我有幸两次参加全国性的英语赛事。
如今，当时比赛中扣人心弦的种种情形已渐渐被时间冲淡，只在偶然间会被重新记起。
然而备战的过程却给我留下了许多值得回味的东西，它在潜移默化中影响甚至是改变着我的生活。
北外—青春的课堂 如果有人问我，大学时代感受最深、收获最大的是什么？我会毫不犹豫的说，是有幸得到诸多良师的指点。
他们赋予我的，不但是知识上的熏陶，更是把一种人文主义的精神长久的植入我的脑海。
这些感受，许多来自课堂，也有许多来自数次为参加全国比赛而进行的集训。
杨宇光老师是我两次比赛的指导老师，1997年辩论赛时他就是我们辩论队的主教练。
印象中他永远的治学严谨，永远的绅士风度，永远说用词考究的British English，有着英国式的幽默。
尽管当时比赛的辩题并不是特别深刻的学术话题，但他依然要求我们深入破题，在底下做充分的research。
为了给我们拓宽思路，他屡次召集系里的热心老师，从老教授到年轻教员，与我们一同讨论。
用他的话来说，只有充分剖析，写出来的东西才能有分量——这也是北外的学术传统的体现。
为了指导我们，他放弃了许多休息的时间。
对我们的presentation，他逐字逐句进行修改；几乎每天他都亲自安排我们的训练并细心点评我们发挥中的优缺点。
到了第二年演讲赛的时候，他又成为我的指导老师。
当时我的演讲稿写得并不顺。
有的学校在这种大赛时采取老师替学生捉刀的方法，准备演讲部分的写作就由老师代劳。
但杨老师始终认为，这一环节也是对学生极好的锻炼。
记得那一个讲稿，我重写了两三遍，每一遍都对选题有了更深的理解，写得也更好一些。
比赛时间迫近了，他把学院参加第一届“21世纪杯”并获奖的师兄徐翌成找来，说，“Let’s put our heads together, and make a final effort at it.”那天晚上，我们改稿改到深夜，终于拿出了一个令人满意的version，稿子比我自己的更大气，更层层深入，也更有文采。
英语比赛演讲稿(优秀6篇)
英语比赛演讲稿(优秀6篇)英语比赛演讲稿篇一everyone:I’m a happy Chinese girl, My name is WangSiwen. You can call me Alice. Nice to meet you! My English name is Alice. Today is my birthday, so I’m very happy. I’m nine years old. I have a round face and a small mouth. My eyes are not too big and not too small. And I have long black hair.My story for today is tadpoles mummy .Spring es. Tadpoles are missing their mummy. They want to look for her.A duck is ing. The tadpoles says: “mummy, mummy!” the duck say:“sorry, I’m not your mummy. Your mummy has a white belly ”the tadpoles says:“Thank you, Good-- Bye ”。
A fish is ing. The tadpoles says: “mummy, mummy!” the fish say:“sorry, I’m not your mummy. Your mummy has two big eyes ”the tadpoles says:“Thanks, Bye ”。
A turle is ing. The tadpoles says: “mummy, mummy!” the turle say:“sorry, I’m not your mummy. Your mummy has a white belly ”the tadpoles says:“Thanks a lot, See--you”。
全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿：TheDoorsthatareOpentoUs-演讲致辞模板
全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿：TheDoorsthatareOpentoUsgood morning ladies and gentlemen:the title of my speech today is “the doors that are open to us “.the other day my aunt paid me a visit. she was overjoyed. “i got the highest mark in the mid-term ex amination!” she said. don’t be surprised! my aunt is indeed a student; to be exact, a college student at the age of 45.last year, she put aside her private business and signed up for a one-year, full-time management course in a college. “this was the wisest decision i have ever made,” she said proudly like a teenage girl. to her, college is always a right place to pick up new ideas, and new ideas always make her feel young.”pared with the late 70s,” she says, “now college students have many doors.” my aunt cannot help but recall her first college experience in 1978 when college doors began to be re-opened after the cultural revolution. she was assigned to study engineering despite her desire to study chinese literature, and a few years later, the government sent her to work in a tv factory.i was shocked when she first told me how she (had) had no choice in her major and job. look at us today! so many doors are open to us! i believe there have never been such abundant opportunities for self-development as we have today. and my aunt told me that we should reach our goals by grasping all these opportunities.the first door i see is the opportunity to study different kinds of subjects that interest us. my aunt said she was happy to study management, but she was also happy that she could attend lectures on ancient chinese poetry and on shakespearean drama. as for myself, i am english major, but i may also go to lectures on history. to me, if college education in the past emphasized specialization, now, it emphasizes free and well-round 《全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿：the doors that are open to us》ed development of each individual. so all the fine achievements of human civilization are open to us.the second door is the door to the outside world. learning goes beyond classrooms and national boundaries. my aunt remembers her previous college days as monotonous and even calls her generation “frogs in a well.” but today, as the world bees a global village, it is important that our neighbors and we be open-minded to learn with and from each other.i have many fellow international classmates, and i am applying to an exchange program with a university abroad. as for my aunt, she is planning to get an mba degree in the united kingdom where her daughter, my cousin, is now doing her master’s degree in biochemistry. we are now taking the opportunity to study overseas, and when we e back, we’ll put to use what we have learnt abroad.the third door is the door to lifelong learning. as new ideas appear all the time, we always need to acquire new knowledge, regardless of our age. naturally, my aunt herself is the best example. many of my aunt’s contemporaries say that she is amazingly up-to-date for a middle-aged woman. she simply responds, “age doesn’t matter. what matters is your attitude. you may think it’s strange that i am still going to college, but i don’t think i’m too old to learn.” yes, she is right. since the government removed the age limit for college admissions in XX, there are already some untraditional students, sitting with us in the same classrooms. like these people, my aunt is old but she is very young in spirit. with her incredible energy and determination, she embodies both tradition and modernity.the doors open to us also pose challenges. for instance, we are faced with the challenge of a balanced learning, the challenge of pre 《全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿：the doors that are open to us》serving our fine tradition while learning from the west, and the challenge of learning continuously while carrying heavy responsibilities to our work and family. so, each door is a test of our courage, ability and judgment, but with the support of my teachers, parents, friends and my aunt, i believe i can meet the challenge head on. when i reach my aunt’s age, i can be proud to say that i have walked through dozens of doorsand will, in the remainder of my life, walk through many more. possibly i will go back to college, too.thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.以下翻译是借助工作翻译而来，仅供参考：早上好，女士们，先生们：我今天演讲的题目是“向我们开放的门”。
全国大学生英语演讲比赛第一名演讲稿的中文翻译
全国大学生英语演讲比赛第一名演讲稿的中文翻译篇一：大学英语演讲稿(含翻译)How to Be PopularMost people would like to be popular with others, but not everyone can achieve this goal. What is the secret to popularity? In fact, it is very simple. The first step is to improve our appearance. We should always make sure that we stay in good shape and dress well. When we are healthy and well-groomed, we will not only look better but also feel better. In addition, we should smile and appear friendly. After all, our facial expression is an important part of our appearance. If we can do this, people will be attracted to our good looks and impressed by our confidence.Another important step is developing more consideration for others. We should always put others first and place their interests before our own. It's also important to be good listeners; in this way people will feel comfortable enough to confide in us. However, no matter what we do, we must not gossip. Above all, we must remember to be ourselves, not phonies. Only bybeing sincere and respectful of others can we earn their respect. If we can do all of the above, I am sure popularity will come our way.如何才能受人欢迎大部分的人都想受人欢迎，但是并非每个人都能达到目标。
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全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿
National English Speech Contest Champion's speech
演讲人：JinTai College
全国英语演讲比赛冠军演讲稿
前言：演讲是指在公众场合，以有声语言为主要手段，以体态语言为辅助手段，针对某个具体问题，鲜明、完整地发表自己的见解和主张，阐明事理或抒发情感，进行宣传鼓动的一种语言交际活动。
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Building Bridges for the Future
I’m studying in a city that’s famous for its walls。
People who visit my city are amazed at the imposing sight of its walls， especially when silhouetted against the setting sun with gold，
shining streaks。
The old， cracked bricks are covered with lichens and the walls are weather-beaten guards standing still for centuries。
Our ancestors liked to build walls。
They built walls in Beijing，Xi’an， Nanjing and many other cities， and they built the Great Wall， which snakes across half our country。
They built walls to protect against enemies and evil spirits。
This tradition has survived to this day: we still have many parks and schools walled off from the public。
For a long time， walls were one of the most natural things in the world to me。
My perceptions， however， changed after I made a hiking trip to the eastern suburbs of my city。
My classmates and I were walking with some foreign students。
As we walked out of the city， we found ourselves flanked by tall trees， which formed a wide canopy above our heads。
Suddenly one foreign student asked me，“Where is the entrance to the eastern subur bs?”
“We’re already in the eastern suburbs，” I replied。
He seemed taken aback，“I thought you Chinese had walls for everything。
” His remark set
off a heated debate。
At one point， he likened our walled cities to “jails”， while I insisted that the eastern suburbs were one of the many places in China that had no walls。
That debate had no winners， but I did learn a
lot from this student。
For instance， he told me that some major universities like Oxford and Cambridge were
not surrounded by walls。
I have to admit that we do have many walls in China， and as we develop our country， we must look carefully at them and decide whether they are physical or intangible。
We will keep some walls but tear down those that impede our development。
Let me give another example。
A year ago， when I was working on a term paper，
I needed a book on business law and found a copy in
the law school library。
However， the librarian
coldly rejected my request to borrow it， saying，“You can’t borrow this book，you’re not a student here。
” I n the end， I had to spend 200 yuan to buy a copy。
Meanwhile， the copy in the law school gathered dust on the shelf。
At the beginning of this semester， I heard that my university had started to think of unifying its libraries and linking them to libraries at other universities，so my experience wouldn’t be repeated。
Barriers would be replaced by bridges。
An inter-
library loan system would give us access to books from any library。
With globalization and China integrated into the world， I believe many of these intangible walls will be knocked down。
I know that globalization is a controversial issue， and it is hard to say whether it is good or bad。
But one thing is for sure: it draws our
attention to China’s tangible and intangible walls and forces us to examine their role in the modern world。
And how about the ancient walls of mine and other cities? Should we tear them down? Definitely not。
My city， like Beijing and other cities， is actually XXX a great effort to preserve the walls。
These walls attract historians， archaeologists， and many schoolchildren who are trying to study our history and cultural heritage。
Walls have become bridges to our past and to the rest of the world。
If the ancient builders of these walls were still alive today， they would be proud to see such great changes in the role
of their walls。
They are now bridges that link East and West， South and North， and all countries of the world。
Our cultural heritage will survive globalization。
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