SD冠军锦标赛｜美国藤校演讲与辩论赛中国选拔赛

It all began as we were standing in front of the bathroom mirror, me fixing Amanda's blonde hair. I said, “I love you, Amanda.” “And, I love you,” she replied. “Oh, yeah,” I taunted. “Well, I love you more.” Her eyes lit up as she recognized the cue for the start of another “I love you more” match. “Nuh-uh...

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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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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...

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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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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"...

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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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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...

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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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The sun shone brightly in the cloudless blue Wabash, Indiana, sky. 　印第安纳州沃巴什县晴空万里的蓝天上，太阳光芒四射地照耀着。 “That was an especially beautiful sunny day,” recalls Jimmy Mitchell, a statuesque man in his early thirties. 　“那是一个特别美丽的晴日。”吉米•米切尔回忆道。他30出头，五官轮廓分明。 That day Jimmy was driving his car beh...

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