英语演讲稿

Question

要英语演讲稿或可以做演讲搞的文章，4分钟左右，内容积极向上

Answer 1

这篇是我比较喜欢的文章，曾经用来演讲过。快读的话它没有4分钟，不过，慢点，把它演绎好的话，2分多钟左右。
塞缪尔·厄尔曼（Samuel Ullman ）的名篇了

YOUTH

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

参考译文

青春

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

Answer 2

Literary Contributions of Mark Twain
Most Americans think that Mark Twain is a very famous and great writer. He described Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure. Therefore, this nation’s best-loved writer was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he ranged across the nation for more than a third of his life, digesting the new American experience before sharing it with the world as writer and lecturer. He adopted his pen name from the cry heard in his steamboat days, signaling two fathoms of water—a navigable depth. His popularity is attested by the fact that more than a score of his books remain in print, and translations are still read around the world. He associated some humorous writer in 1864. They encouraged and helped him and enhanced his comprehension of creation. And then he made a decision to make a living by writing. So, a great writer was born from then on.
In the dreary winter of 1864—1865 in Angels Camp, he kept a notebook. Scattered among notations about the weather and the tedious mining-camp meals lies and entry noting a story he had heard that day—an entry that would determine his course forever: “Coleman with his jumping frog—bet stranger $50—stranger had no frog, and C.’s frog full of shot and he couldn’t jump. The stranger’s frog won.” After his descriptive genius, the story was printed in newspapers across the United States and became known as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Mark Twain’s national reputation was now well established as “the wild humorist of the Pacific slope.”
Two years later the opportunity came for him to take a distinctly American look at the Old World. In New York City the steamship Quaker City prepared to sail on a pleasure cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. For the first time, a sizable group of United States citizens planned to journey as tourists—a milestone, of sorts, in a country’s development. Mark Twain was assigned to accompany them, as correspondent for a California newspaper. When he came back to America, he created a book. And the book version of his travels, the Innocents Abroad, became an instant best-seller.
As early as 1870 Mark Twain had experimented with a story about the boyhood adventures of a lad he named Billy Rogers. Two years later, he changed the name to Tom, and began shaping his adventures into a stage play. Not until 1874 did the story begin developing in earnest. After publication in 1876, Tom Sawyer quickly became a classic tale of American boyhood. Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.
Nine years after Tom Sawyer swept the nation, Huck was given a life of his own, in a book often considered the best ever written about Americans. His raft flight down the Mississippi wit ha runaway slave presents a moving panorama for exploration of American society.
On the river, and especially with Huck Finn, Mark Twain found the ultimate expression of escape from the pace he lived by and often deplored, from life’s regularities and the energy-sapping clamor for success.
Mark Twain created many excellent creations in his life. Such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), The Innocent Abroad (1869), The Glided Age (1873), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), The Adventures of Harley berry Finn (1884), The Man That Corrupted Hadley bury (1900). The moralizing of his earlier writing had been well padded with humor. Later the gloves came off with biting satire. He pretended to praise the U.S. military for the massacre of 600 Philippine Moros in the bowl of a volcanic crater. In the Mysterious Stranger, he insisted that man drop his religious illusions and depend upon himself, not Providence, to make a better world.
The literary contributions of Mark Twain are so great. We should read more his creations to remember this great writer.

Answer 3

我改写了这篇”珍惜每一分”不知你是否喜欢?
Good morning, everybody!
In this world, there is one thing that is very fair to everybody, whether you are a male or female, young or old, rich or poor. Does anybody know what it is called?
Right. It is time. The topic I am going to present to you today is called “ Treasure Every Minute”.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with.
And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!! The clock is running. Make the most of today.
Good luck, everybody!

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Answer 4

Take The Time !

I got up early one morning
and rushed into the day.
I had so much to accomplish
that I didn't have time to pray.

Problems came tumbling about me
and heavier came each task.
Why doesn't God help me, "I wondered?"
He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty
but the day dragged on, grey and bleak.
I wondered why God didn't show me,
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence,
I used all the keys at the locks.
God gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning
and paused before entering the day.
I had so much to accomplish that
I had to take time to pray !