SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
I began my college experience just after my family had fallen apart. 我的大学生涯伊始，家庭就分崩离析。 Our financial situation disintegrated just after my father's departure from our lives. 随着父亲离我们而去，家里的经济状况急转直下。 This thrust my mother, my sister and I out of the relative comfort of middle-class life and into the almost constant struggle to make end...
Now, today my identity quest is no longer to find my tribe. 现在我对自己身份的追寻不再是为了找到我的部族。 It's more about allowing myself to embrace all of the possible permutations of myself 而是为了允许我接受自己所有的可能性，形成自身的多元化， and cultivating diversity within me and not just around me. 而不仅仅是周边环境的多元化。 My boys now are three years and five...
We're holding hands, staring at the door. 我们手牵着手，盯着门口。 My siblings and I were waiting for my mother to come back from the hospital. 我和兄弟姐妹们在等着妈妈从医院回来。 She was there because my grandmother had cancer surgery that day. 因为那天是我的外婆做癌症手术的日子。 Finally, the doors opened, and she said, "She's gone. She's gone." 终于...
It goes like this: 163 people across four separate tests. 比如这个：163个人进行4组不同测试。 Everyone wrote down their personal goal. 每个人写下他们各自的目标。 Then half of them announced their commitment to this goal to the room, and half didn't. 然后一半实验的人在房间里宣布他们的目标承诺，另一半人保守目标。 Then everyone was given 45 minutes of work that would directl...
At an airport I overheard a father and daughter during their last moments together. Her flight was ready for boarding and they were standing near the departure gate. They hugged and he said, I love you, I wish you enough. 在机场我无意中听到父女俩在最后分别时刻的谈话。女儿正准备上飞机，他们站在飞机门附近。他们拥抱着，父亲说：我爱你，我希望你能知足常乐，尽享人生。 She in turn ...
Hiding from the rain and snow 逃离雨雪的侵袭 Trying to forget but I won't let go 费尽心机 也止不住想你 Looking at a crowded street 熙熙攘攘人群里 Listening to my own heartbeat 却只闻我心跳声音 So many people all around the world 人间的大地无数的生灵 Tell me where do I find someone like you girl 哪有另一个你何处去追寻 Take me to your heart take me to your soul 请让靠近贴...
If I were to live the life twice. 如果有来生 I would like to be a tree. 要做一棵树 Standing in the dust firmly, 结成永恒 without happiness and sadness. 没有悲欢的姿势 A half of my body will be sleeping in the earth peacefully. 一半在尘土里安详 A half of my body will be dancing with the wind joyfully. 一半在风里飞扬 A half of my body will be providing green shade for passers-...
At ten years old, I was falsely accused by a teacher of leng a jump rope on the playground. She assigned me the outrageous punishment of writing 5000 sentences. I refused. 10岁时老师冤枉我把跳绳落在操场上，竟然罚我写5000个句子，我没同意。 She sent me to the principal's office. He used a wooden paddle and beat my buttocks and back of legs 10 times. 她把我送到校长室，校长...
I used to believe that love meant putting everyone else and their needs first, before my own. While I do think there is some truth to that, in the sense that being a giving person is one of the ultimate acts of being a loving person, I came to realize that I must give to and love myself first and foremost. 我曾经认为爱，就意味着所有事都先人后己。直到现在我都认为这种观点有一...
I've seen the world 我已看遍世间繁华， Done it all, had my cake now 历经沧桑，人已老， Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel-Air now 如今有钻石珠宝，名声显赫，坐拥豪宅， Hot summer nights mid-July 七月中旬，炎热的夏日夜晚， When you and I were forever wild 过去你和我放荡不羁无止尽， The crazy days, the city lights 疯狂的日子，在城市霓虹下， The way you'd play with me like a c...
Romain Rolland once said: 'Most men die at twenty or thirty; 罗曼·罗兰曾说： 很多人在20岁、30岁的时候就死了， thereafter they are only reflections of themselves，for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves, 一过这个年龄，他们只不过变成了自己的影子， 此后的余生不过在模仿自己中度过。 repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they sa...
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage,rage against the dying of the light. 不要踏入静谧的良夜 暮年也应在黄昏中燃烧 反抗吧，在这将逝的时光里反抗吧 Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they 智者临终前深知黑夜到来 他们的智言将不能再照亮岔路 Do not go gentle into that good...
Life is crazy And totally unpredictable It's going to push you over Kick you while you're down And hit you when you try to get back up 生活时而疯狂 全然猝不及防 让你受尽磨难 继以拳脚相加 当你倔强爬起 它又上来补刀 Not everything can beat you Things are going to change you But you get to choose which ones you let change you 凡事未必打败你 凡事皆能改变你 凡事终将塑造你 ...
How I wish, to have a door in the morning 我多么希望，有一个门口 The sunlights shine on the grasses 早晨，阳光照在草上 We stand upon the door 我们站着，扶着自己的门扇 Low the door is, but the sun shines 门很低，但太阳是明亮的 The grass is seeding 草在结它的种子 The wind is waving its leaves 风在摇它的叶子 We just stand, without saying anything 我们站着，不说话 Everything is ...
I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I am still in the middle of it. This habit annoyed first my Mom, then my friends, and finally even my own daughter. 我有一个换习惯就是看书看到一半，就翻到最后看结局。我的母亲、我的朋友以及连我的女儿都很不喜欢我这样。 Often my impatience wouldn't be confined just to the books I read but ...
We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do that when I drive! I turn on the radio, find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the air and I am m...
Every morning, you are defining how your life would be like. 每一天早上， 你都在定义你未来人生的模样。 No, I'm not saying the cliche that every morning you have the chance to make a different decision. 不， 我并不是在说， “你每天早上都可以做出不同的抉择” 这种陈词滥调。 What I'm suggesting is that how you choose to live your morning speaks a lot about how you choose t...