【正文】 trodden path of English I chose the lonely road Spanish. Lonely you may ask? Despite there being 400 million Spanish speakers in the world, a mere fraction of that number studies it in China.
It’s very mon that when students don’t know which major to choose in college, they choose English。
然而，這不過是我們當今社會中所發(fā)生的文化變遷的表面現(xiàn)象而已，真正發(fā)生的卻是我們的民族心理開始了微妙而又有重大意義的重建，大家只要看看周圍就會清楚。
第一次讀到這首詩，我很震驚——過去兩個民族何以如此疏離、彼此陌生?當然今日的社會呈現(xiàn)出完全不同的情景:那些過去吃米飯的人們也開始喜歡吃魚和薯條。
英國詩人羅得雅德 benefits that our forefathers had never, ever dreamed of.
To end my speech, I would like to quote Rudyard Kipling again:
“All the people like us are We
And everyone else is They
But once you cross over the sea
You will end by looking on We
As only a sort of They” Thank you.
譯文:穿越海洋
女士們、先生們，晚上好。東西方文化的融合表現(xiàn)得十分鮮明，意味深長，是篇優(yōu)秀的演講。2002年進入中央電視臺英語頻道采訪組工作，所采寫的新聞獲得2020年全國新聞彩虹獎二等獎。21世紀報英語演講比賽篇一：21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽演講稿
目錄
第三屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——梁勵敏................................................ 2
第三屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽亞軍——芮成鋼................................................ 5
第四屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——蔡力 ................................................... 9
第六屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——戚悅 ..................................................11
第七屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——孫寧 ................................................. 13
第八屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——顧秋蓓.............................................. 17
第九屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——洪曄 ................................................. 20
第十屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——夏鵬 ................................................. 22
第一章 尋訪記憶
引子
美麗的女主播，劉欣
思維的游戲 梁勵敏
演講就要言之有物 芮成鋼
Is There a Short Cut？孫寧
Be yourself 顧秋蓓
無一不可入演講 洪曄
平談中透著哀傷 夏鵬
第二章 昨日重現(xiàn)（原聲）
第一屆 央視《環(huán)球了望》選段 劉欣
第二屆 穿洋越海 梁勵敏
第三屆 東西方相聚 芮成鋼
第四屆 我們和黃河一道成長 蔡力
第六屆 新北京，三色新奧運 戚悅
第七屆 全球化：中國年輕一代所面臨的挑戰(zhàn)與機遇 孫寧
第八屆 難忘的一幕 顧秋蓓
第九屆 機會之門就在前方 洪曄
第十屆 城墻與橋梁 夏鵬
第三章 明燈導(dǎo)航
“21世紀杯”英語演講的藝術(shù) 史蒂芬盧卡斯
第三只眼看演講 吳杏蓮
附錄
“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽和流程簡介
歷屆比賽一覽
第三屆“21世紀杯”全國英語演講比賽冠軍——梁勵敏
梁勵敏
北京外國語大學
梁勵敏，生于浙江杭州，畢業(yè)于北京外國語大學，獲英語語言文學碩士學位，研究生期間專攻方向為美國社會研究。
專家點評:引用文學大師的詩句作為開場白，與結(jié)束語首尾呼應(yīng)，頗有感染力。
Crossing the Sea
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The title of my speech today is “Crossing the Sea”. An English poet by the name of Rudyard Kipling once wrote in his poem “We and They”:
“All the people like us are We
And everyone else is They
We live over the sea
While They live over the way
We eat pork and beef with cowhornhandled knives
They who gobble their rice off a leaf
Are horrified out of their lives.”
When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shockedhow could two peoples remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Today’s society, of course, is an entirely different picture. Those people who used to eat with cowhornhandled knives might be very skillful in using chopsticks, and those people who used to gobble their rice might be as well have taken to fish and chips.
Indeed, just take China as an example: Our modern life has been influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that it’s no longer surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rockandroll, whole families dining out at McDonald’s and even rather elderly people dressed in Apple Jeans.
However, these are only some expressions of the cultural changes taking place in our society today. What is really going on is a subtle but significant restructuring of the nation’s mentality. Just look around.
How many college graduates are ready to pete aggressively for every job opportunity, whereas not long ago they were asked just to sit idle and wait for whatever was to be assigned to them by the government?
How many young people are now eager to seek for an independent life whereas only two decades ago they would rely totally on their parents to arrange for their future? Ask anyone who participates in today’s s