SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
编者按: 这时小男孩弯下腰，拉起左边的裤管，露出用以支撑双腿的金属支架。他抬头看看老板，轻声地说：“我自己也跑不快，这只小狗正好有个同病相怜的主人。” Puppies for sale A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his o...
Halloween1） All Saints’ Day，which falls on 1st November，is regarded in the West as a festival．It was formerly a religious day and has been observed since the 4th century．31 st October，the night before All Saints’ Day called Halloween，was originally New Year’ s Eve celebrated by the Celts．The Celtic authoritative2） druids3） believed that demons and spirits of the de...
小时候，生活还没有带走所有的天真，爸爸常把我高高举起，跟妈妈和我跳舞，然后抱着我旋转直到我睡着。 All I ever dream Back when I was a child, before life removed all the innocence, my father would lift me high and dance with my mother and me and then Spin me around till I fell asleep.Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved. If I could get another ch...
If you’ re invited to an American friend’s home for dinner，keep in mind1) these general rules for polite behavior．First of all，arrive approximately2) on time (but not early)．Americans expect promptness3)．It’ s OK to be 10 or 15 minutes late but not 45 minutes late．Dinner might be overcooked and ruined by then．When you’ re invited to someone’ s home for a meal，it’ s p...
编者按: 有时候，挣扎正是我们生活中所需要的。如果我们能得以毫无障碍地走过一生，这会使我们软弱。我们就不可能变得强壮。 Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything. Animals, spiders, insects… One day while walking through the woods the nice old man found a cocoon of a butterfly. He took it home. A few days later, a small ope...
编者按: 在生活中，我们可以驾驶那些带来疾病、灾难、失败、失望的暴风雨.我们可以翱翔在暴风雨之上。 请记住,把你压垮的不是生活中的重担,而是你的态度。 Eagle in a Storm Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will p...
编者按： 简尼特从她的打字机里抽出纸，紧张地看了看手表。差不多到时间了。从里面的办公室传来她的老板准备离开的声音。门一开一关的声音。给他做了８年的秘书，她很熟悉这些声音。 Double Cross Janet pulled the page from her typewriter and looked nervously at her wrist－watch．It was almost time．From the inner－office came sounds of her boss preparing to leave．The sounds of doors op...
编者按： 兰迪·波许（Randy Pausch）是曾经感动过无数人的《真正实现你的童年梦想》的演讲人。这里推荐的内容是他在其母校卡内基梅隆大学毕业典礼上的演讲。这篇演讲只有6分钟左右，而且风格和之前的那篇很不同。在这篇演讲里，他少了些幽默，却多了些真诚的忠告。相信大家看后一定会受益匪浅。 Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates September 18, 2007 I am glad to be here today, Hell, I am glad to be an...
编者按： 萨拉跑进来。”看，我发现了什么。”我正在看报，一条卷长的有点支离破碎的东西出现在报纸上，把我吓得跳了起来。那是一条蛇的蜕皮，我们的花园里有很多蛇。 “它难道不漂亮吗？”我那7岁的小女儿眨着她的大眼睛问道。 Peeling Away Artifice For the Pure Original Sarah came running in.”Look what I found.” Over the top of the paper I was reading came a...
我的前公爵夫人墙上的这幅面是我的前公爵夫人，看起来就像她活着一样。 如今，我称它为奇迹：潘道夫师的手笔经一日忙碌，从此她就在此站立。 Robert Browning: My Last Duchess That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will’t plea...
【英文原文】 Yousuf Kansh: In Search of Greatness Yousuf Karsh，the Canadian portrait artist who photographed many of the most influential figures of the 20 th century，died in a Boston hospital on July 13，2002after complications following surgery．He was 93． Working from a studio in Ottawa，Karsh produced famous portraits of such subjects as Winston Churchill，John F．Ken...
编者按： 尽管我因为当时年幼而无法记清双亲共聚的时刻，我还是听说他俩曾度过烛光闪闪、乐声缭绕的浪漫夜晚。 Hepburn, the Wife Although too young to remember my parents together, I was told of romantic evenings, of candle light and soft music. Anyway, no one is to blame. There is only sadness when two souls cannot merge. The snarling void left by her father’s absence bore an equa...
【英文原文】 Dog and Cat It is reported that the following addition to the Book of Genesis of the Bible was discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls．If authentic，it would shed light on the question，“Where did pets come from？” And Adam said，“Lord，when I was in the garden，you walked with me every day．Now I do not see you anymore．I am lonesome here and it is difficult for m...
【英文原文】 Marty Had a Little Lamb It was lambing season．The neighbors’ phone call brought my dad and me rushing to their barn1) to help with a difficult delivery．We found a lamb whose mother had died while giving birth．The orphan2) was weak，cold，still shrouded with the placenta3)，and walking impossibly on tall and wobbly legs．I bundled him up in my coat and put h...
【英文原文】 Freeman：Australian Heroine At 16 years of age Freeman won gold at the Commonwealth Games as part of the 4×100m relay team．In 1990she was awarded Young Australian of the Year，and Aboriginal Athlete of the Year in 1991．In 1992 Freeman became the first Aboriginal track and field athlete to represent Australia at an Olympic Games．She became one of popular figur...
编者按： 从我头一次见到他起，他便总是出现在我的周围。每次他向我投以微笑时，他同时也将一丝丝的温暖和友情送入我的心房。我想每一天结束时，一定是他给了我无论如何也要继续下去的力量。 About A Friend He wasn’t a guy of big words1)，and he seemed to live entirely in his own world．I remember that during the days he worked with us none of us exactly knew who he was，where he ca...
【英文原文】 Tom Dolan 400－meter individual medley1) gold winner at Sydney Olympic Games Dlan began swimming at age 5，because his older sister Kathleen was a swimmer．“Whatever she did，I wanted to beat her，”he says．While he says he was a “pool rat”as a child，he didn’t aggressively2) pursue swimming until his freshman year in high school．Golf was his favorite sport the...
编者按： 粗鲁的人总是霸道欺人，而谦逊有礼的人却无能为力。这就是我和米歇尔在思索如何对付这些粗鲁的人之后得出的结论。 Rude Awakening I was driving late one night，alone．This was not easy，as two feet of snow lay on the road．The heck with what lane I was in；I was just trying to keep my car pointed forward．A guy behind me in a four－wheel－drive vehicle began flashing his he...
编者按： 如果，还有人怀疑美国是一切皆有可能的国度，还有人怀疑国父们的梦想在我们的时代是否还存在，还有人怀疑我们的民主所拥有的力量，那么今晚，你听到了回答。 If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, ton...
【英文原文1】 Forever George George Harrison was never the world’s greatest guitarist，vocalist or songwriter．But he was as essential to the Fab Four formula as John Lennon’s rebellious smile or Paul McCartney’s great cow eyes．He was“the quiet one”，the serious musician who held the beat together while John and Paul were skylarking1） at the mike．Beatles fans who screamed...