SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
The Importance of Being Honest 诚信无价 In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened. 在繁华的纽约，曾经发生了这样一件震撼人心的事情。 On a friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the weekend. In this case, many of t...
One morning as Cam left the radio station, he saw a young man sitting in an old yellow Dodge in the parking lot Cam waved to him and drove away. When he went back to work that night, he noticed the car again, parked in the same space. After a couple of days, it dawned on him that this car had not moved, The fellow in it always waved cordially to him as he came and went. Wha...
“It means what you think you are singing is different from the music.” Sister patted my hand. “It’s nothing to be ashamed of, dear. You will still be in the pageant. You will be a lip-syncher. You may mouth the words, but no sound must be uttered. Do you understand what I’m saying?” “就是说你发出来的声音与你自己想像的不一样，”她拉着我...
Courage 勇气 A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy. 一位父亲为儿子担心。儿子16岁了，却没有一点勇气。于是，父亲决定去拜访一位禅师，请他训练儿子。 The Buddhist monk said to the boy’s father, “You should leave your son alone here. I’...
Life’s Journey 生命的旅程 Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. 不要跟人攀比而妄自菲薄， It is because we are different that each of us is special. 我们的独特之处正在于与众不同。 Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. 不要按别人的标准设定目标， Only you know what is best for you. 只有你自己才明白...
Keep Your Goals in Sight 锁定目标 When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast. ...
The Brewer’s Son 酿酒也疯狂 When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to dissuade me from becoming a brewer. He’d spent his life brewing beer for local breweries, barely making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him. He didn’t want me anywhere near a vat of beer. 在青少年时期，父亲就极力告诫我，将来不要做一个酿酒人。因...
Just for Today 就为了今天 Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not solve my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime. 就为了今天，我将尽力只度过今天而不立刻去解决终身的问题。对一件令我沮丧而又必须坚持一辈子的事，我只能坚持十二个小时。 Just for today I will be...
Ballad of the Bottom Dollar 最后一美元 Cameron , Mounger and I have been friends since we were teenagers. 卡梅伦，我和mounger自从我们青少年的时候就是朋友。 Both of us liked rock’n’roll, and several years after we left high school, Cam became a disc jockey. 我们都喜欢摇滚乐，我们离开高中几年之后，卡梅伦成了一名DJ。 Recently he told me the story ...
All Flowers Are Beautiful 所有的花儿都美丽 I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. 我在一个小镇上长大，在那儿，从我家步行到我就读的小学只要10分钟。在那个时代——其实就是不久以前，孩子们可以回家吃午饭，妈妈总在等着。 ...
Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest hurdle yet: getting it into beer drinkers’ hands. Distributors all said the same thing: “Your beer is too expensive; no one has ever heard of you.” So I figured I had to create a new category: the craft-brewed American beer. I needed a name that was recognizable and elegant, so I called my beer Samuel Adams, after...
Then one day I met a friend who was wearing a very beautiful sweater. It was plain in color, but it had a lovely and unusual stitch. 后来有一天，我遇到一位朋友，她穿着一件非常好看的毛线衫，毛线衫的色彩平淡，但是针法却可爱、别致。 “Did you knit that sweater?” I asked her. 我问她：”毛线衫是你织的吗？” “No,” she answered. “...
The Thing I Value Most 我最珍视的东西 It has been somtimes since Jack has seen the old man.College,girls ,career,and life itself got in the way.In fact,Jack moved clear crossed the country and persuit his dreams .There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his fut...
Then Cam remembered his Frand Ole Opry dollar. He wrestled with his conscience a minute or two, pulled his wallet out and studied the bill. Then he walked back to the man and gave him his bottom dollar, “Somebody has written all over this ,”the man said, but he didn’t notice that the writing was dozens of autographs. He took the bill. 然后卡梅伦想起了他...
A Simple Hello 简单的一句问候 I have always felt sympathy and compassion for the kids I see at school walking all alone, for the ones that sit in the back of the room while everyone snickers and makes fun of them. 我一直对我看见的那些孩子保持同情和怜悯，在学校一个人孤零零走在路上的孩子，那些坐在教室最后面且被别人嘲笑和捉弄的孩子。 But I never did anything about...
Your Name 你的名字 Jessica Blade 杰西卡.布莱德 I wrote your name in the sky, 我把你的名字写在蓝天, but the wind blew it away. 可风却把它吹散; I wrote your name in the sand, 我把你的名字写在沙滩, but the waves washed it away. 可浪却把它冲散。 I wrote your name in my heart, 我把你的名字写在心间, and forever it will stay. 它就留在那...
You 超凡卓越的你 Consider… YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You’re better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion… 试想一下……你！一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会...
After the play, I took home the flower I had stuffed in the apron of my costume. My mother pressed it between two sheets of paper toweling in a dictionary, laughing as she did it that we were perhaps the only people who would press such a sorry-looking weed. 演出结束后，我把那朵蒲公英塞进了我演出服的口袋里带回了家。妈妈把它压在两张纸巾之间再夹进字典里，笑着说，这世上也许...
Aunt Dolly’s Hat 多莉姨妈的帽子 Three things I was sure of as a child: My family loved me. The sun would come up tomorrow. I had a wonderful voice.I figured that was unquestionably true because I participated at the top of my lungs in all the family sing-alongs, and no one ever stopped me. So I was delighted when my second-grade teacher announced her plans for a...
My first discovery was his grandmother’s great love of music. She spent hours playing her old, off-key piano. One day, she told me I didn’t have enough fun in my life and took it upon herself to teach me the art. 我的第一个发现是他的祖母无比热爱音乐。她许多时候都在弹她那架又旧变调的钢琴。有一天，她说我的生活缺乏乐趣，并执意亲自教我艺术。 Grandma was impres...