SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Difficulties arise in the lives of us all. 生活中困难在所难免。 What is most important is dealing with the hard times, coping with the changes, and getting through to the other side where the sun is still shining just for you. 最重要的是要挺过艰难的时刻，积极应对种种变故，冲破黎明前的黑暗，你终会看到只属于自己的灿烂阳光。 It takes a strong person to deal with tough times and...
The sun is just rising in the morning of another day. What can I wish that this day may bring me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop me but touch me rather, as they pass and gather strength. 朝阳又在新的一天中冉冉升起。我期许这一天带给我什么呢？我希望带给我的不是...
The adolescent girl from Tennessee is standing on the stage of a drama summer camp in upstate New York. It's a beautiful day. But the girl doesn't feel beautiful. She's not the leggy, glamorous Hollywood type. In fact, she describes herself as dorky. 一名少女由田纳西州来到纽约北部，她站在戏剧夏令营的舞台上，虽然天气是那么好，她的心情却一点也不好。因为她不是那种身...
One Girl Changed My Life 一位女孩改变了我的生活 My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns in the country, theaters, concerts. And books, big Braille books that came with me on...
The first snow 初雪 The first snow came.How beautiful it was, falling so silently, all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs of the living, on the graves of the dead! 初雪来了。她是多么美丽。一整天，一整夜，静静地落在山岭上，落在草地上，落在人们居住的房顶上，落在沉寂的坟墓上！ All white save the river, that marked its course by a winding bl...
When Love Beckons You 当爱召唤你 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. 当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险...
Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave . 从前有一个岛，所有的情感都住在那里：幸福、悲伤、知识和所有其它的，爱也不例外。一...
It's Great to Be a Guy/Woman Because… 做男人/女人真棒，因为…… It's Great to Be a Guy Because… 我想成为一个男子汗因为…… Our last name stays put. 称谓还等着我们去填写。 We can be President. 我们可能称谓总统。 The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. 几年保持同一个发型，也许是十年。 Car mechanics tell us the truth. 汽车修理师告诉我们一个真理。 We d...
Levels of Communication 1 交际面面观 Phatic communication: Using conventional messages to establish rapport, 交际沟通：使用传统的信息建立密切关系， to break the ice, and/or to end a conversation. 打破僵局，以及/或结束一段对话。 You might hug, kiss, shake hands, bow, smile, make eye contact, and face one another. 你可能会拥抱、接吻、握手、鞠躬、微笑、眼神接触，并面对彼此。 We...
If I Rest, I Rust 如果我休息，我就会生锈 The significant inscription found on an old key—“If I rest, I rust”—would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if one allows his faculties to rest, like the iron in the un...
My room at home was too small for me. I barely had room for all the little knickknacks I'd collected over the years. There were so many things I had to pack away in boxes and store in closets all over the house. Oftentimes I didn't quite remember exactly where everything was. 我在家里的房间很小，偏偏我平时又喜欢搜集一些可爱的小玩意，几年下来，各种各样小玩意就渐渐摆满...
When Love Beckons You 当爱召唤你 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe in him, though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. 当爱召唤你时，请追随她，尽管爱的道路艰难险...
The Road to Success 成功之道 It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon them at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice...
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed man chose to spend his last days or his last hours. I speak, of course, of free men who have a choice, not condemned criminals whose...
A Beautiful Dress 一条美丽的裙子 My neighbor's eight-year-old daughter used to stay in the countryside, her native place. 我邻居八岁的女儿之前住在乡下，她的老家。 Recently her parents brought her to town to live with them. 最近被带到城里来和爸妈一起生活。 Wild and uneducated, she would swear or use dirty words when she was displeased. 她是个没有受过教育的野孩子，她不开心...
We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. 一年前，我们曾打算卖了我们的车。 A guy came over to the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. 一个哥们来看车，然后在附近开了45分钟。 We get back to the house, he gets out of the car, 等我们开车回家，他下车后， reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe, then says, "Damn that's hot!" 把手伸到车下摸排气...
The Language of Music 音乐的语言 A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer a...
I'm Stupid! 我真笨！ Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm Stupid." That way you wouldn't have to rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me…oops… never mind, didn't see your sign."It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there...
The World's Biggest Family 世界上最大的家庭 Mr. and Mrs. Albina don't know where all their grown-up children are living now. 阿宾娜夫妇不知道他们已成年的孩子们现在在哪里生活。 They aren't sure how old all their children are either. Ask them, for example, 他们也不确定他们孩子们多大了。 "How old is your daughter Susanna?" and they say, "We're not...
Levels of Communication 4 交际面面观 Emotional communication: involves sharing our emotions and feelings with another. We are sharing our inner-self when we allow others to know our heart. This is risky business! Societies place constraints upon the specific emotions (e.g., It's good to express love; it's bad to express hatred). We also have rules about when and how ...