SD冠军锦标赛｜美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛

Hi, everybody. 嗨，大家好！ Over the last few years, Democrats and Republicans have come together and cut our deficit by more than $2.5 trillion through a balanced mix of spending cuts and higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. 过去几年里，民主党和共和党携起手来，按照削减支出及提高富人税率的综合平衡方案，削减了超过2.5万亿元的财政赤字。 That's more than halfway to...

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We Are What We Choose 选择塑造人生——杰夫·贝索斯 Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices. 聪明是一种天赋，而善良是 一种选择。天赋得来很容易——毕竟它们与生俱来。而选择却颇...

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Message from Prime Minister David Cameron to mark the Chinese New Year 英国首相卡梅伦2013年春节贺词 I want to send my very best wishes to everyone celebrating Chinese New Year in Britain, in China and all around the world. Britain's links with China are becoming ever stronger and ever deeper. We are on course to record our best ever year of trade, up more than 7 per cent...

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And yet 16 guys with very high IQs and very decent people entered into that game. 我所不能理解的是，这16 个如此高智商的能人怎么就会玩这样一个游戏。 You know I think it is madness. 简直就是疯了。 It is produced by an overall reliance to same extent on things. 某种程度上，他们的决定基本上都依赖于一个客观上的联系。 You know those guys would tell me back at Salomon, a six Sigma ...

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Class of 2009! 2009届的同学们， I don't think I hurt you. 我不认为这伤害了你们。 First I’d like you to stand up, and wave and cheer your supportive family and friends! 首先我希望大家都站起来，向支持你们的亲朋好友挥手致意！ I’m sure you can find them out there. 我相信你们都能在人群中找到他们。 Show your love! 把你们的爱表现出来吧! It is a great honor for me to be here tod...

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I didn't see it then, 我当时没有觉察, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. 但是事后证明，从苹果公司被炒是我这辈子发生的最棒的事情。 The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,less sure about everything. 尽管前景为卜，但从头开始的轻松感取代了保持成功的沉重感。...

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I'd like to just say a few words primarily and then the highlight for me will be getting your questions in a few minutes. 我想先讲几分钟的套话，然后我就主要来接受你们的提问。 I want to talk about what is on your mind. 我想谈的是你们的所思所想。 I urge you to throw a hard ball. 我鼓励你们给我抛一些高难度的球， It’s more fun for me if you, if you feel a little speed of amb...

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1994年5月9日，多种族议会正式开幕，纳尔逊.曼德拉当选为新政府总统。1994年5月10日　纳尔逊？曼德拉宣誓就职总统。翌日，南非新内阁宣誓就职。下面是曼德拉总统就职演讲稿，附中文译文。 英语演讲稿： Your Majesties, Your Highnesses, Distinguished Guests, Comrades and friends: Today, all of us do, by our presence here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and the world, ...

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My third story is about death. 我的第三个故事是关于死亡的。 When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." 当我十七岁的时候, 我读到了一句话:“如果你把每一天都当作生命中最后一天去生活的话,那么有一天你会发现你是正确的。” It made an impression on me, 这句话给我留下了深刻...

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Hi, everybody. 嗨，大家好。 Three years ago this weekend, we put in place tough new rules of the road for the financial sector so that irresponsible behavior on the part of the few could never again cause a crisis that harms millions of middle-class families. 三年前的这个周末，我推出了严苛的法规规范金融板块，以便使这个领域少数人的不负责任行为再也不造成损害成千上万中产阶级的...

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I lived with that diagnosis all day. 我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。 Later that evening I had a biopsy, 后来有一天晚上我作了一个活切片检查， where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, 医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. 用一根针在我的胰腺上...

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. 我们唯一害怕的 是害怕本身——这种难以名状、失去理智和毫无道理的恐惧，把人转退为进所需的种种努力化为泡影。 President Hoover, Mister Chief Justice, my friends: 胡佛总统，首席法官先生，朋友们： This is a day of national consecr...

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Hi, everybody. 嗨，大家好。 Over the past four and a half years, 回首过去的4年半， we've been fighting our way back from an economic crisis and punishing recession that cost millions of Americans their jobs, 我们用自己的方式击退了经济危机，惩罚了造成衰退的人，此次危机让数百万人失去工作、 their homes, and the sense of security they'd worked so hard to build. 失去家园...

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President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers,members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates, 福斯特主席，哈佛公司和监察委员会的各位成员，各位老师、家长、全体毕业生们： The first thing I would like to say is "thank you." Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I’ve en...

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Hi, everybody. 大家好。 This week, I've been speaking about America's national security—our past, our present, and our future. 本周我想谈谈美国国家安全的过去，现在以及未来。 On Thursday, I outlined the future of our fight against terrorism—the threats we face, and the way in which we will meet them. 在周四，我提出了我们未来打击恐怖主义的蓝图，我们所面临的威胁以及我们...

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For the past few weeks, 过去几个星期， I've been visiting folks across America to talk about what we need to do as a country to secure a better bargain for the middle class. 我走遍美国，与人们谈论作为一个国家为中产阶级争取更好的保障应该做些什么。 I've been laying out my ideas for how we can build on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class in America. 对...

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Hi, everybody. 嗨，大家好！ Our top priority as a nation is reigniting the true engine of our economic growth—a rising, thriving middle class. 作为一个国家的我们，最高任务就是重新点燃促进经济增长的真正引擎：一个不断增长、复苏繁荣的中产阶级。 And few things define what it is to be middle class in America more than owning your own cornerstone of the American Dream: a home. 如...

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Some of your families maybe don’t believe in your dreams. But let me tell you something, my young friends. Keep your dreams. No matter what, keep your dreams. Don’t give up on them, even when you are temporarily defeated or denied. Keep your dreams. 你们的家人也许不相信你们的梦想，但是，朋友们，让我告诉你们，执着于你的梦想！无论如何，坚持你们的梦想。即使你们遭遇暂时的失败或...

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Hi everybody. 嗨，大家好。 I hope you all had a safe and happy Fourth of July, filled with parades, cookouts, fireworks and family reunions. 我希望在7月4日这一天你们所有人都享受这到处是欢乐游行、野餐、烟花和家庭团聚的安全幸福的独立日。 We celebrated at the White House with a few hundred members of the military and their families. 我们在白宫与几百名官兵将士和他们的家人一起共...

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This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: 这是我距离死亡最近的一次，我希望它也是未来几十年里我离死亡最近的一次。经历了这件事，死亡对我而言已经不再只是一种有益却仅限于纯粹...

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