SD冠军锦标赛｜美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛

Dry cleaners and hair cutters don't rob us blind. 干洗店和卷发器不会让我们没眼光。 We can leave the motel bed unmade. 我们可以不整理床铺直接离开旅馆。 We get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. 一点点体贴的行为就能增加我们的信誉。 If we're 34 and single, nobody notices. 如果我们34岁，单身，没有人会注意到。 Everything on our face stays its original c...

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and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 并且不能重启，在这种情况下，你将不得不重新安装引擎。 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive… but would run on only five percent of the roads. 麦金塔将使一辆可靠的太阳能车，以五倍的速度行驶，驾驶起来比之前轻松两倍……...

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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 ...

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Always Changing 人生处处是转角 Please excuse me if I’m a little pensive today. 如果我今天有点郁郁寡欢,请原谅我。 Mark is leaving, and I’m feeling kind of sad. 马克要走了,我感到有点难过。 You probably don’t know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He’s been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of year combining e...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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An Hour before Sunrise 日出前的一小时 An hour before sunrise in the city there is all air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets, which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely shut buildings which throughout the day are swarming with life. The drunken, the dissipated, and tile criminal have disapp...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Power Walk Getting more exercise 劲走 得到更多的锻炼 I've been thinking and talking and writing about how I need to get some exercise. 我一直在想,在说及在写我需要如何去做些运动。 But I haven't done much about it. 但我还没有做很多运动。 So, the other day, after a radio show, I went for a walk. 所以,有一天,在一个广播节目后,我出去散步了。 I walked a little faster than n...

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What I have Lived for 我为何而生 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. 我的一生被三种...

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Making changes—getting rid of bad habits 做出改变–摆脱坏习惯 I was cleaning up my computer yesterday, organizing files, deleting some unused things to make more space, and improving what I already have. 我是昨天整理我的电脑,整理文件,删除一些闲置的东西以便腾出更多的空间,提高我已经有的文件。 Even though my computer was almost five years old, pretty old in computer years,...

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Thoughts on Love and Happiness 关于爱和幸福的想法 　Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift. When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but oftentimes we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for ...

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Focus—trying to concentrate 专注——试图集中注意力 A famous athlete once said: 一个著名的运动员曾经说过: It is not necessarily the amount of time you spent of practice that accounts, 你为锻炼所花费的时间多少并不重要, it's what you put into the practice. 重要的是你在其中所投入的。 So we can spend our time, studying, or practicing, or doing whatever, 所以我们可以花时间,学习,...

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Time Off—Vacation 空闲时光—度假 I haven’t had a vacation in a while. 我有段时间没有度假了。 I think I’ll take off soon. 我想自己不久就会启程。 I’m not sure where I’ll go or what I’ll do. 我不知道我要去哪里或我会做什么。 But I can learn a tourism place where I can go for a long road, 但是我了解到的是在旅游的地方我可以走很长的一段路、 breathe fresh air and take some nice pictu...

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Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat. Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and, shall we say, love. 我住的公寓大楼里的每个人都认得这只丑八怪。丑八怪曾是小区里的流浪猫。在这个世界上他只喜欢做三件事：战斗、吃垃圾，还有，应该说是爱吧。 The combination of these things combined with a life spent o...

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Staying in touch with old friends 与老朋友们保持联系 I recently met an old friend I hadn’t seen in ages. 我最近见了一位许久没见面的老朋友。 He said that he had been busy and also didn’t really know to contact me. 他说自己过去一直很忙,也真的不知道与我联系。 I told him the same. 我告诉我也是一样。 The truth is, we have a few mutual friends, if we had really wanted to contact e...

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Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?" 从前，有个孩子马上就要诞生了。于是有一天他问上帝：“听说明天您就送我去人间了，但是，我这么弱小和无助，我在那儿怎么生活呢？” God replied, "Among the many angel...

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