大学生英语演讲稿?

大学生英语演讲稿?
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大学生的演讲,可以是说一些你的大学生活,你的远近目标,毕业后的规划,也可以就目前社会的热点事件发表意见,贴近生活一些。
 
一、大学生英语演讲稿实用技巧

1.选题要慎重

很多演讲者觉得题目不重要,只要起一个差不多的就行。但是作为演讲者本人,你必须了解这个题目,这样演讲时才能真正地投入,才能现场发挥地很好,也更易克服紧张心理。除此之外,选题时也要考虑听众和评委的知识结构、文化背景、职业特征等等,只有能引起共鸣的演讲才会让大家印象深刻。
 
2.遣词造句要通俗易懂

在演讲时要尽量选择简单易懂的日常口语词汇,不要用太难的生僻词。因为演讲不同于写文章,要照顾到听众的感受,你的听众只有一次机会,听不懂的话等于浪费时间。所以演讲时尽量用大家能听懂的词句,必要的时候可以用一些比喻、重复、反问等修辞方法画龙点睛。
 
3.语速和音量

演讲时语速的快慢和声音的大小也非常重要,常常会被人忽视。如果说话太快别人听起来很吃力,说太慢听众又感觉很拖拉。要学会把握说话速度和声音大小很重要,如果演讲现场空间大,说话的速度就慢一些,声音略大一些,同时还要考虑音响设备和观众数量。
 
二、大学生英语演讲稿经典句型

1.I am honored to have a chance to speak to you today.
我今天很荣幸跟大家讲几句。
 
2.Words can’t express... 言语表达不了……
Words can’t express how lucky I am.
简直不能用言语来表达我有多幸运。

Words can’t express how thankful I am.
言语表达不了我的感激之情。

3.I’d be happy to…我很高兴……
I’d be happy to tell you about my experiences.
我很高兴和你们分享我的经验。

4.Today I want to talk to you about... 今天我想跟你们谈谈……
(演讲都有个主题,如何在演讲中介绍自己的主题呢?这个句型是最常用的。)

Today I want to talk to you about a very important subject.
今天我将和你们谈一个非常重要的话题。

5.I ask all of you present to... 我要求在座各位……
I ask all of you present to join me in raising your glasses to our everlasting friendship.
我要求在座的各位与我一起举杯,为我们的友谊长青干杯。
 
6.I should like to pay tribute to… 我想对……表示敬意
I should like to pay tribute to the dedication of all the professionals who worked on this project.
我想对参与这个项目的所有专家的奉献表示敬意。

7.Best wishes for… 对……致以良好的祝愿

Best wishes for a very successful exhibition!
对展会的成功致以美好的祝愿。
 
三.范文

good evening, honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen.

it’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech—change the world, change ourselves.

it’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. not long before about 10 doctors in beijing university and qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.

frankly speaking, i don’t quite agree with them.indeed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples).but why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture.

there are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in china. on the one hand, some of the western holidays which we chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful, such as father’s day and april fool’s day etc. on the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in china. overwhelmed by such a trend,chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.

with the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. we are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the earth.the only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? the answer is definitely no. what we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.

at last i’d like to share a famouse saying of gandhi with all of you ,that is:if you want to change the world, then you must change yourself first.”

Ranpeki

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写英语演讲稿时,尽量不要用太复杂的单字。毕竟你的脱稿演说,听众没有稿子。用太复杂的单词不便听众理解。
速度不要太快。
 
英语演讲格式:
 
发言稿一般由称呼语、正文和结束语三部分组成. 发言稿的开头和结尾一般有固定的格式. 
 
dear friends,
 i am very glad to introduce myself to you……that’s all .thank you.
 
如果面对的是熟悉的听众,开头和结尾也可以活泼些、灵活些
 
good morning /good afternoon, everyone…...that’s all .thank you.

hi, everyone,

it is so nice to see all of you here……that’s all .thank you for listenin.


(2)正文(见屏幕)


发言稿正文常分为三部分:

(1) 第一部分:开门见山地提出本人要谈的问题及对问题的看法

(2) 第二部分:说明理由。常用到的连接成分有:first of all,secondly,finally等等。

(3) 第三部分:照应开头,总结全文。可以对全文作简明扼要的总结,也可以谈自己的感想、看法或期望。 常用到的句式有:in short…,in a word,i think,i expect等

写正文时要注意以下三点:

(1) 观点要鲜明。对问题持有什看法,要明确表态,不要含糊其辞。要中心明确,重点突出,但不必面面俱到。

(2) 条理要清晰。一篇发言稿要谈几方面的问题,每一方面有那些要点要进行阐述,都要安排得有条有理,让人听起来容易抓住重点。

(3) 适当增加关联词和细节。发言稿开头于结尾已经给出。那么在命题形式上侧重于考查发言稿正文的写法,所以我们在根据要点组织正文内容时,可以适当增加关联词和细节,以使短文连贯、完整。

(4) 语言要简洁明快,发言时因为要直接面对听众,所以发言稿的特定形式决定了其语言的口语性强,因此应少用复杂句,多用简单句。话说的要准确、易懂,最好运用大众语言。所以我们在组织句子时要注意“三多一少”即简单句式多,祈使句多、情态动词多,修饰性词语少。但文中的句型也要善于变化,不要过于单一。 罗列观点的句型:

my personal opinions on … are as follows.
here are my personal opinions on …
i’ll tell you my personal opinions on…

从大的方面看,英语演讲词实际上是属于一种特殊的说明文或议论文,其基本组成部分是:

1.开始时对听众的称呼语 最常用的是 ladies and gentlemen,也可根据不同情况,选用 fellow students, distinguished guests, mr chairman, honorable judges(评委)等等。 

2.提出论题 由于演讲的时间限制,必须开门见山,提出论题。提出论题的方法有各种各样,但最生动,最能引起注意的是用举例法。比如:你要呼吁大家关心贫穷地区的孩子,你可以用亲眼看到的或者收集到的那些贫穷孩子多么需要帮助的实例开始。另外,用具体的统计数据也是一个有效的引出论题的方法,比如:你要谈遵守交通规则的话题,你可以从举一系列有关车辆、车祸等的数据开始。

3.论证 对提出的论题,不可主观地妄下结论,而要进行客观的论证。这是演讲中最需要下功夫的部分。关键是要把道理讲清楚。常见的论证方法有举例法、因果法、对比法等等

4.结论 结论要简明扼要,以给听众留下深刻印象。

5.结尾 结尾要简洁,不要拉拉扯扯,说个没完。thank you very much for your attention。
 
英语演讲稿范文:

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大学生英语演讲分享:
 Good afternoon ,ladies and gentlemen!
女士们,先生们,下午好!

I’m very honored to stand here and give you a short speech! To begin with ,I want to ask a question .Does everybody dream a good dream last night? Actually ,today I want to talk about dream with you. Of course, What I want to talk is not a dream you have last night,but a dream—— about life.
我很荣幸站在这里给大家做一个简短的演讲!首先,我想问一个问题,昨天晚上大家都做了一个好梦吗?实际上,今天我想和大家谈谈梦想。当然,我想说的不是你们昨晚做的一个梦,而是一个关于生活的梦。

Everyone has dreams about life, different dreams at different life stage,and we need dreams to support us. Dreams are like the stars we never reach in the sky,but like most mariners(水手),we can chart our course by them. With the dream,we have a direction,with a direction, we were no longer confused.With the dream, there is hope,With hope, we have the strength to fight.
每个人都有关于生活的梦想,在不同的人生阶段有不同的梦想,我们需要梦想来支持我们。梦想就像天上的星星,我们永远无法到达,但是最喜欢水手(水手),我们可以用它们。有了梦想,我们就有了方向,有了方向,我们就不再迷茫。有了梦想,就有希望,有了希望,我们才有力量去战斗。

But I know,life is tough,and there are always ups and downs, maybe we fail in the way to our aims,and we may feel depressed ,whenever at this time, the dream in our heart can always comfort us, encourage us ,and support us to move ahead .
但是我知道,生活是艰苦的,总是有起起落落,也许我们失败在我们的目标,我们可能会感到沮丧,每当在这个时候,我们心中的梦想总是可以安慰我们,鼓励我们,支持我们前进。

Young!Fortunately, I am young now. Just due to it, I know that nothing is impossible.I firmly believe that nothing can stand in my way. If I can't realize my dream,it result from that I haven't work harder enough and I won't find other excuses. If no people believe you, you can make it to prove that you are right. If you think the god haven't blessed you and there is no truth here, you can become the god and create the truth.
年轻!幸运的是,我现在还年轻。正因为如此,我知道没有什么是不可能的。我坚信没有什么能阻挡我。如果我不能实现我的梦想,那是因为我没有足够努力,我不会找到其他的借口。如果没有人相信你,你可以证明你是对的。如果你认为上帝没有祝福你,而这里有无真相,你可以成为上帝,创造真理。

"My breath swallows the sky and make the yellow river overflow, my sword is famous in Kyushu and it can collapse the five sacred mountains." At some time in the past I also had am bitious words and I had some achievements. Each achievement results from my hard work. I always believe that "If you want to have more achievements than others, you must work harder."
“我的呼吸吞下了天空,使黄河泛滥,我的剑在九州闻名,它可以摧毁五岳。”在过去的一些时候,我也有固执的话,我有一些成就。每一项成就都是我努力工作的结果。我一直相信“如果你想比别人有更多的成就,你必须更加努力。”

In some extent, the dream is the hope. If you can insist on doing something, the victory will come.
在某种程度上,梦想就是希望。如果你能坚持做某事,胜利就会到来。

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow. So my dear friends, think of your old and maybe dead dreams. Whatever it is, pick it up and make it alive from today. Let's take actions!
紧紧抓住梦想,因为一旦梦想破灭,生活就像折断翅膀的鸟儿,再也不能飞翔。紧紧抓住梦想,因为一旦梦想消失,生活就像贫瘠的荒野,雪覆冰封。所以,我亲爱的朋友们,想想你们那些古老的,也许已经死去的梦想吧。不管是什么,从今天起把它捡起来,让它活起来。让我们行动起来吧!

Thank you for your listening!
谢谢你的聆听!

何须多见复多求

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大学生英语演讲稿?

 Smoking And Health
Today smoking is a widespread habit ali over the world. Not only the old, the youth, but also middle school students have been engaged in smoking. Many of them think that smoking is a smart symbol.
However, smoking is harmful to one’s ,health. It contributes a lot of lung cancer, from which many people have died in the past years. It can also cause many other diseases. In a word, if you smoke, you do have a much greater chance of losing your health. Furthermore, scientific research shows that smoking is not only harmful to smokers themselves, but also a threat to public health, especially to women and children. Therefore, many countries have made laws forbidding smokers to smoke m public places such as cinemas, stations, hospitals, and so on Giveup smoking! If you don’t smoke, don’t start. Give upsmoking for the sake of your health, for the sake of your family, and for the sake of the whole world.

吸烟与健康
现在,吸烟是一个世界范围的习惯,不仅老年人、青年人吸烟,就连中学生也加入到这个行列中来,他们中的许多人认为吸烟是一种潇洒的象征。
然而,吸烟对人的健康是有害的,它会引起肺癌,在刚刚过去的几年中;许多人因此而丧命,还可能引发其他的疾病。总之,如果你吸烟的话,你就很可能失去拥有健康的机会,更进一步说,科学研究显示,吸烟不仅危害吸烟者本人,而且对公共健康来说,也是一个凶兆,尤其是对妇女和孩子。因此,许多国家都制定了不准在公共场合吸烟的法规,例如:电影院,车站,医院等地。
戒烟吧,如果你还未染上,请不要开始; 戒烟吧,为了你的健康,为了你的家庭的健康,为了整个世界的健康。

顿顿痴肉o

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大学生英语演讲稿?

1.选题要慎重
很多演讲者觉得题目不重要,只要起一个差不多的就行。但是作为演讲者本人,你必须了解这个题目,这样演讲时才能真正地投入,才能现场发挥地很好,也更易克服紧张心理。除此之外,选题时也要考虑听众和评委的知识结构、文化背景、职业特征等等,只有能引起共鸣的演讲才会让大家印象深刻。

2.遣词造句要通俗易懂
在演讲时要尽量选择简单易懂的日常口语词汇,不要用太难的生僻词。因为演讲不同于写文章,要照顾到听众的感受,你的听众只有一次机会,听不懂的话等于浪费时间。所以演讲时尽量用大家能听懂的词句,必要的时候可以用一些比喻、重复、反问等修辞方法画龙点睛。

3.语速和音量
演讲时语速的快慢和声音的大小也非常重要,常常会被人忽视。如果说话太快别人听起来很吃力,说太慢听众又感觉很拖拉。要学会把握说话速度和声音大小很重要,如果演讲现场空间大,说话的速度就慢一些,声音略大一些,同时还要考虑音响设备和观众数量。
 
大学生英语演讲稿经典句型

1.I am honored to have a chance to speak to you today.
我今天很荣幸跟大家讲几句。
2.Words can’t express... 
言语表达不了……
Words can’t express how lucky I am.
简直不能用言语来表达我有多幸运。
Words can’t express how thankful I am.
言语表达不了我的感激之情。
3.I’d be happy to…
我很高兴……
I’d be happy to tell you about my experiences.
我很高兴和你们分享我的经验。
4.Today I want to talk to you about... 今天我想跟你们谈        谈……
(演讲都有个主题,如何在演讲中介绍自己的主题呢?这个句型是      最常用的。)
Today I want to talk to you about a very important subject.
今天我将和你们谈一个非常重要的话题。
5.I ask all of you present to... 
我要求在座各位……
I ask all of you present to join me in raising your glasss      to our everlasting friendship.
我要求在座的各位与我一起举杯,为我们的友谊长青干杯。
6.I should like to pay tribute to… 
我想对……表示敬意
I should like to pay tribute to the dedication of all the      professionals who worked on this project.
我想对参与这个项目的所有专家的奉献表示敬意。
7.Best wishes for… 
对……致以良好的祝愿
Best wishes for a very successful exhibition!
对展会的成功致以美好的祝愿。
 
无论是学习还是工作,都会有演讲场合。作为大学生的我们必须时时刻刻注意积累,努力提高自己的口语水平,在演讲中展示出自己的风采。

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Change The Ingredients Of Your Life 

This is a glass of water, tasteless, right? However if you add sugar, it will taste sweet, but if you add vinegar, it will become bitter. The same is true with our life the flavor is created by our choices.

If kindness is added to a strange you will have a friend; but if hostility is added, you will have an enemy. If love is added to a pile of red bricks you will have a home, but if hatred is add to those bricks , you will have an concentration camp.

So my dear friends, never complain that life is boring and the world is disappointing. If don’t like the taste of your life, change the ingredients.

Three year ago, I weighed more than 100 hundred kilograms which caused significant embarrassment and frustration in my life. Like always failing my P.E examinations, like always being laughed at by girls, like being terrified to speak in public. It was my grandmother’s encouragement that revived from my passive attitude to become confident in myself. She said “ My dear, if you can’t change you figure, why not treat it as your own style. So I began to cautiously employ the new way of thinking. By choosing to change my outlook on life, I developed the confidence to make a difference and finally I found a totally new world.

So my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to conquer your limitation and embrace new challenges. And hopefully with my speech included, you will have a fantastic speech contest.

改变生活的味道

这是一杯白开水,平淡无味,对吧?可是加上点糖呢,他尝起来会有甜味;如果加的是苏打水,味道就会变苦。人生同样如此——个中滋味在于我们的选择。

善待他人,你会拥有朋友;但如果充满恶意,则会多个敌人。将爱赋予一堆红砖,你会拥有一个家;用仇恨来浇铸这堆红砖,就会铸成一座集中营。

因此亲爱的朋友们,不要抱怨人生乏味,世间无望。不喜欢生活的味道,那就换一换生活的调料吧!

三年前,我重达100多公斤,这给我带来了很多尴尬和挫折:体育课老是不及格,总被女孩们嘲笑,更不敢当众发表意见。幸而由于祖母的鼓励,我不在消极人生,而是充满自信。她曾经说过:“孩子,如果体形无法改变,为什么不把它看做自己独特的风格呢?” 我开始这样来审视人生,通过改变生活的视角,我信心大增地去改变我的人生,很快就发现一个崭新的世界。

朋友们,将信念,希望,爱意和忍性溶入生命,你就会找到自信,克服缺点,迎接人生新的挑战。最后我的演讲包括在内,希望你会看到一场精彩的演讲比赛。

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精彩的大学生英语演讲范文

1.I believe in our future

Honorable Judges, fellow students: Recently, there is a heated debate in our society. The college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places. But will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? Will we be able to better the lives of others? Will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country?

The cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. But the cynics are wrong. The college students I see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. We help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money.

The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation. But again, the cynics are wrong. We care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. Last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.

As college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. We all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. I believe in all my fellow classmates. Though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. I believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. We are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. I believe in our future.



我对未来充满信心

尊敬的评委,各位同学:最近,社会上有一场很激烈的争论。大学生是一种稀有特权的享有者,在很棒的地方接受高等教育。但是,我们能面对挑战而无所畏惧吗?我们能够改善他人的生活吗?我们能够承担建设祖国未来的重任吗?

怀疑论者说大学生是被宠坏的一代,一丁点挫折都受不了。但是他们错了,我所看到的大学生正在努力的学习独立生活。我们互相帮助打扫卫生,一起上街砍价购物,一起参加兼职工作来赚零花钱。 怀疑论者说我们除了成绩什么都不关心,从而忽略了性格的培养。但是,他们又错了。我们彼此关心,我们向往自由,我们珍惜公正,我们追求真理。上个星期,很多我的同学去验血,为了给患血癌的孩子贡献自己的力量。

作为大学生,我们是处在人生分水岭的青年。我们都面临一个重要的选择:怀疑人生还是相信自己,每一种都会给我们的人生带来重大的影响,甚至影响我们祖国的未来。我相信我们的同学们,虽然我们依然缺乏经验,甚至有些志气,但是我相信我们有勇气和自信来面对生活的挑战并承担我们的责任。我们正努力准备接受新的任务,用我们所学习的知识将世界变得更美好。我对我们的未来充满信心。
 
2. Change The Ingredients Of Your Life 



This is a glass of water, tasteless, right? However if you add sugar, it will taste sweet, but if you add vinegar, it will become bitter. The same is true with our life the flavor is created by our choices.

If kindness is added to a strange you will have a friend; but if hostility is added, you will have an enemy. If love is added to a pile of red bricks you will have a home, but if hatred is add to those bricks , you will have an concentration camp.

So my dear friends, never complain that life is boring and the world is disappointing. If don’t like the taste of your life, change the ingredients.

Three year ago, I weighed more than 100 hundred kilograms which caused significant embarrassment and frustration in my life. Like always failing my P.E examinations, like always being laughed at by girls, like being terrified to speak in public. It was my grandmother’s encouragement that revived from my passive attitude to become confident in myself. She said “ My dear, if you can’t change you figure, why not treat it as your own style. So I began to cautiously employ the new way of thinking. By choosing to change my outlook on life, I developed the confidence to make a difference and finally I found a totally new world.

So my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to conquer your limitation and embrace new challenges. And hopefully with my speech included, you will have a fantastic speech contest.



改变生活的味道

这是一杯白开水,平淡无味,对吧?可是加上点糖呢,他尝起来会有甜味;如果加的是苏打水,味道就会变苦。人生同样如此——个中滋味在于我们的选择。

善待他人,你会拥有朋友;但如果充满恶意,则会多个敌人。将爱赋予一堆红砖,你会拥有一个家;用仇恨来浇铸这堆红砖,就会铸成一座集中营。

因此亲爱的朋友们,不要抱怨人生乏味,世间无望。不喜欢生活的味道,那就换一换生活的调料吧!

三年前,我重达100多公斤,这给我带来了很多尴尬和挫折:体育课老是不及格,总被女孩们嘲笑,更不敢当众发表意见。幸而由于祖母的鼓励,我不在消极人生,而是充满自信。她曾经说过:“孩子,如果体形无法改变,为什么不把它看做自己独特的风格呢?” 我开始这样来审视人生,通过改变生活的视角,我信心大增地去改变我的人生,很快就发现一个崭新的世界。

朋友们,将信念,希望,爱意和忍性溶入生命,你就会找到自信,克服缺点,迎接人生新的挑战。最后我的演讲包括在内,希望你会看到一场精彩的演讲比赛。
 
3.普林斯顿大学校长2020年毕业演讲:生命是一种深刻而充满激情的东西

Welcome to the 273rd Princeton University Commencement.

This virtual event is not the ceremony that any of us would have wished for to recognize and celebrate the graduating seniors of the great Princeton University Class of 2020 and the recipients of advanced degrees from Princeton’s Graduate School.

We are, however, happy to have an opportunity today to mark this momentous occasion with our graduating students and with the family members and friends who have supported them throughout their Princeton journeys.

Before we begin, I want to take a moment to offer my deepest sympathy to those who have lost family members or friends to COVID-19. You are in our thoughts and our hearts at this difficult time.

I also want to recognize that all of our graduating students have lost something irreplaceable as a result of the pandemic. As I have said before, I wish that we could give back the special experiences that all of you have missed, and I regret very much that we cannot.

Let me also extend warm greetings to the families and friends of our graduating students. Your support has been indispensable to the success of the students who graduate today. I hope they are applauding you right now, and as I am myself the father of a college senior graduating this year at another university, believe me, I know how much you were looking forward to celebrating your student’s success in person and with trumpets blowing. You can be very proud of what your students have accomplished, and I send my congratulations to you as well as to them.

I wish we could all be together right now on the front lawn of Nassau Hall, and I look forward to the time in the future when we can gather on Princeton’s campus to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of our graduating students.

For now, however, I am delighted to have this opportunity to celebrate vigorously, enthusiastically, and virtually the recipients of advanced degrees from our Graduate School and the graduating seniors of our great Class of 2020.
 
A venerable Princeton tradition allows the University president to offer a few words to the graduating students at each year’s Commencement exercises. You’ve all heard more than enough online speeches this spring, so I’ll keep my remarks brief. I would be remiss, however, if I did not say something to mark the special achievements, and the exceptional potential, of this graduating class.

During my own senior year, which was a very long time ago, I chose a quotation from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to accompany my picture in The Nassau Herald. The quote was, “Through our great good fortune, in our youth, our hearts were touched with fire.”

This was a terribly naïve selection on my part. I wanted to say to my classmates that our time together at Princeton had kindled dreams, ideas, and friendships that could inspire us throughout our lives. But when Holmes claimed that he and his generation had been “touched with fire,” he meant that their character had been forged through the searing challenges and tragic deaths of wartime military service. Through that perilous endeavor – and here I will quote the next line from his speech – “it was given to us to learn…that life is a profound and passionate thing.”

My generation experienced nothing like that. For the most part, we had it rather easy.

You graduate in much harder times. The awful contagion that now spreads among us tends to afflict the old more harshly than the young, so you may or may not feel your own life at risk.  Some of you, however, have lost relatives or friends to this virus, or struggled with it yourselves.  Many of you have seen jobs disappear or felt the economic devastation inflicted by this pandemic. Each and every one of you has lost something precious and irreplaceable.

In far too many ways, you have seen how fragile our world is. So much vanished so fast:  scholarly projects, artistic performances, athletic competitions, even the simple pleasures of sharing meals or hugging friends. This ordeal affects us all, but it comes at a particularly formative moment in your lives.

So what will you do with this hardship? The losses are real and painful. What they took from you was beyond your control. What you take from them, however – that is at least partly up to you.

It is thus worth asking: how will you remember these difficult times when you look back on them many years from now? Might you say, do you want to say, after Oliver Wendell Holmes, that “In our youths, our lives were touched by tragedy, and so it was given to us to learn that life is a profound and passionate thing”?

You are already the Great Class of 2020 in the sense that we traditionally call Princeton classes “great”: during your time as Princeton students, you animated this University with your creativity, curiosity, intelligence, aspiration, persistence, and energy. I have no doubt that you will continue to impress us with your achievements in the years to come.

I believe, however, that your class has the chance to be the start of something truly extraordinary, to appreciate anew the value of ordinary human experience and to cooperate afresh for the common good. You enter a world that needs not only your talent, but also your insight, your courage, and your compassion. With those qualities and with the education you complete today, you have the opportunity to chart a new course. I hope you seize that opportunity.

For today, though, I hope simply that you celebrate as exuberantly as circumstances allow. You have persisted in tough times, achieving something remarkable. I send heartfelt best wishes to you now, and I look forward to congratulating you in person next spring.

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I believe in our future

Honorable Judges, fellow students: Recently, there is a heated debate in our society. The college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places. But will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? Will we be able to better the lives of others? Will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country?

The cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. But the cynics are wrong. The college students I see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. We help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time jobs to supplement our pocket money.

The cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation. But again, the cynics are wrong. We care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. Last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.

As college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. We all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. I believe in all my fellow classmates. Though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. I believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. We are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. I believe in our future.
 
我对未来充满信心

尊敬的评委,各位同学:最近,社会上有一场很激烈的争论。大学生是一种稀有特权的享有者,在很棒的地方接受高等教育。但是,我们能面对挑战而无所畏惧吗?我们能够改善他人的生活吗?我们能够承担建设祖国未来的重任吗?

怀疑论者说大学生是被宠坏的一代,一丁点挫折都受不了。但是他们错了,我所看到的大学生正在努力的学习独立生活。我们互相帮助打扫卫生,一起上街砍价购物,一起参加兼职工作来赚零花钱。 怀疑论者说我们除了成绩什么都不关心,从而忽略了性格的培养。但是,他们又错了。我们彼此关心,我们向往自由,我们珍惜公正,我们追求真理。上个星期,很多我的同学去验血,为了给患血癌的孩子贡献自己的力量。

作为大学生,我们是处在人生分水岭的青年。我们都面临一个重要的选择:怀疑人生还是相信自己,每一种都会给我们的人生带来重大的影响,甚至影响我们祖国的未来。我相信我们的同学们,虽然我们依然缺乏经验,甚至有些志气,但是我相信我们有勇气和自信来面对生活的挑战并承担我们的责任。我们正努力准备接受新的任务,用我们所学习的知识将世界变得更美好。我对我们的未来充满信心。
 

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