SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
More changes—changing the world 更多的改变—改变世界 After thinking about some changes I'd like to make with myself, I started thinking about the changes I'd like to make with my family, and even my neighborhood. 在思考了一些我想要对自己做出的改变后,我开始思考改变我的家人,甚至我的邻居。 It's possible to think about things to add and to leap in your work place, too...
Freedom Choice and Responsibility 自由 选择 责任 I love choices. 我爱选择。 I love to walk around in bookstores-not because I can buy all the books, 我喜欢在书店里徜徉，不是因为我能买下所有的书, but because I could buy one book, and I have so many to choose from. 而是因为我可以买一本书,我有这么多的选择。 I like buffets. 我还喜欢自助餐。 I rarely get to go to them, but when I...
Pictures… Photos 照片…摄影 They say that a picture paints a thousand words. 他们说一幅照片描绘的是千言万语。 I have to say I agree. I love photographs. 我必须说我同意。我爱摄影。 I used to be crazy about taking pictures. 我曾经对摄影感到疯狂。 I used to take a lot of black and white photographs and disappear into the dark room for hours just to make pictures. 我曾经拍...
Crying Tears 哭泣 流泪 I don't cry much. 我不是经常哭。 Of course, when I was really young, 当然,在我真的很年轻的时候, crying was not a big deal. 哭不是一个大问题。 But it is when one gets older that crying becomes one big deal. 但是一个年纪大些的人哭就成了大事。 I was never a crying baby. 我从来不是一个爱哭的泪人。 I mean I never cried more than other kids. 我的意思是,...
The tides advance; the tides recede. Winter goes and summer comes. summer wanes and the cold increases. The sun rises; the sun sets. The moon is full; the moon is black. The birds arrive; the birds depart. Flowers bloom; flowers fade. Seeds are sown; harvests are reaped. all nature is a circle of moods and I am a part of nature and so, like the tides, my moods will rise; my ...
I grew up in Jamaica Plain, an urban community located on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. In the 1940’s it was a wholesome, quaint little community. It was my home and I loved it there; back then I thought I would never leave. My best friend Rose and I used to collectively dream about raising a family of our own someday. We had it all planned out to live next d...
More changes—changing the world 更多的改变—改变世界 After thinking about some changes I'd like to make with myself, I started thinking about the changes I'd like to make with my family, and even my neighborhood. 在思考了一些我想要对自己做出的改变后,我开始思考改变我的家人,甚至我的邻居。 It's possible to think about things to add and to leap in your work place, too...
A number of years ago, I had the rather unique experience of being backstage in Madison Square Garden, in New York, during the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. To say the least, it was a fascinating experience. I was able to walk around looking at the lion tiger giraffes and all the other circus animals. As I was passing the elephant I suddenly stopped, confused...
Old friends. They finish your sentences, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when you’ve had a bad haircut. But mostly, they are always there for you—whether it’s in person or via late night phone calls—through good times and bad. But as the years pass, it becomes increasingly difficult to see each oth...
To write or not to write 拿起笔还是放下 Writing is not easy. I do it everyday. 写作非常不容易。我每天都在写作。 And I can tell you, it’s quite a challenge. 我可以告诉你,这是一个相当大的挑战。 But, the more I do it, the easier I get to just write. 但是,我写作的越多，我就越会容易的感觉下笔如有神。 Sometimes, that’s the most difficult part starting. 有时候,最困难的部分是开始。 ...
For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the store, the school and the church. Then, I met, or rather—got to know, the lady who threw me my first lifeline. 差不多有一年，我都泡在家、店铺、学校和教堂里。然后我遇到了，或者更确切地说，认识了扔给我第一根救生索的那位夫人。 Mrs. Bertha Flowers was the aristocrat of Black Stamps. She had the grace of control to appea...
Love is a verb 爱是一个动词 Do you ever think about words how they are used? 你曾经想过词语会如何使用吗? They are some words that can be used in many different ways. 有一些词语,可以用于许多不同的方面。 Depending upon how you use the words, it could have several different meanings. 这取决于你如何使用,它可能有很多不同的意思。 Love is an example of this. 爱是一个这样的例子。 Of...
Long Walk to Freedom 漫漫自由路 Then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did. That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of ...
Trying New Things… Risk and Reward 尝试新事物…风险和回报并存 When we try new things, 当我们尝试新事物的时候, there is always the risk that we will not be happy with our choice, 总会有我们将不会满意我们的选择的风险相伴, we might try a food we have never tried before and end up disliking it. 我们可以尝试我们还没有尝过的食物，最终以讨厌它告终。 It could be too sour or too salty...
Green 绿色 Another day, another color. 另一天,另一种颜色。 What comes to mind when you think of green? 当你想到绿色，脑中会浮现什么？ I think of different things like a cool green forest where I can walk with a friend, a green leaf of lotus to wrap my food in, a green watermelon that I can share, a green frog croaking away. 我会想到很多不同的事物，就像一个凉爽的绿色森林,在那...
Thank you 谢谢你 Magic words,There are so many of them. 这是一句有魔力的词语，而且有很多这样的词语。 Let's talk about another magic word in English. 让我们来谈谈在英语的世界里另一个具有魔力的词。 If someone does something for you,it's considered polite to thank him. 如果有人为你做了什么事情,感谢他被认为是一种礼貌。 A simple "Thank you " or "Thanks"...
I believe we are not alone. 我相信我们并不孤单。 Even if I am on the other side of the world from the farmhouse I live in, I still dream of the ancient vines out the window, and the shed out back that my grandfather’s father built in 1870 with eucalyptus trunks. As long as I can recreate these images, I never quite leave home. 即使我处身地球的另一端,远离我家农庄,我仍然...
She was dancing. My crippled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely stunned. I glanced at the kitchen table and sure enough-right under a small, framed drawing on the wall-was a freshly baked peach pie. 她在跳舞。我那身有残疾的祖母居然在跳舞。我站在客厅的门口,被彻底惊呆了。我扫了一眼厨房的餐桌,果不其然,在餐桌上——墙上那幅小小的镶框...
It was worth the extra thirty-five dollars just to see this kind of excitement. 看到男孩满足的样子，为他支付额外的35美元还是值得的。 John ordered his own flowers and had the clerk to be sure that delivery would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her. As he drove away from the shop, he was feeling good. He caught a light about two blocks from the shop. As he ...
On March 16, 2002, when daffodils were swaying in the slowly warming wind of a North Carolina spring, I found myself in a snug hospital room with my wife and just-born daughter, only hours old, and I thought of ice. 2002年3月16日,北卡罗来纳州的春天时节,水仙花在渐渐变暖的春风中摇曳,我与妻子以及刚刚出生才几个小时的女儿呆在一间温暖的病房里。这时,我想到了冰雪。 A poem called Fro...