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...
Amy’s dad guessed a picture book. But Amy wasn’t ready to reveal her secret Christmas wish just then. 艾米的爸爸认为是一本图画书。但是艾米当时还不想告诉他们，她的秘密圣诞节愿望。 Here is Amy’s letter to Santa, just as she wrote it that night 以下是艾米写给圣诞老人的信，就是那晚上她写的： Dear Santa Claus, 亲爱的圣诞老人， My name is Amy. ...
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. ...
I Love You Anyway 爱你没商量 It was Friday morning and a young businessman finally decided to ask his boss for a raise．Before leaving for work, he told his wife what he was about to do．All day long he felt nervous and apprehensive. Finally, in the late afternoon, he summoned the courage to approach his employer and to his delight,the boss agreed to the raise. 这...
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...
That day he found two sacks, which he took to the rambling wooden factory and sold to the man in charge of packing nails. 那天，他找了两条麻袋，拿到杂乱的木材厂，卖给为钉子装袋的人。 The boy’s hand tightly clutched the five-cent pieces as he ran the two kilometers home. 两公里的路程他是一路跑着回的家，手里紧紧攥着两个5分硬币。 Near his house stood the anci...
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。 ...
A Little Care Goes a Long Way 撒播爱心 He was driving home one evening, on a two-lane country road. Work, in this small, mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the Levis factory closed, he’d been unemployed, and with winter raging on, the chill had finally hit home. 一天晚上，在一条双车道的乡间...
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...
I Am a Dreamer 我是一个梦想家 I am a dreamer. 我是一个梦想家。 I wish I had endless power. 我希望我有无穷无尽的力量。 When you want to take a picture , I can be your camera. 当你需要拍照的时候，我就是你的相机。 When it is bad weather ,I can be your umbrella. 当天气很坏的时候，我就是你的雨伞。 I am a dreamer, a happy dreamer. 我是一个梦想家，...
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...