SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Reflections of a Mother 慈母心曲 I gave you life, but I cannot live it for you. 我给了你生命，但不能替你生活。 I can teach you things, but I cannot make you i learn. 我能教你知识，但不能强迫你学习。 I can give you directions, but I cannot be there to lead you. 我能为你指路，但不能为你引路。 I can allow you freedom, but I cannot account for it. 我能让你自由，但不能带给你自由...
We've become disconnected. Idolizing people we've never met. 人们的隔阂越来越深，以至于把从未见过的人当做偶像。 We witness the extraordinary on screens but ordinary everywhere else. 我们见证着屏幕里的伟大事迹，却在自己的生活中处处平凡。 We wait for someone to bring change without ever thinking of changing ourselves. 我们坐等别人改变世界，却从未想过要改变自己。 Presid...
Love Needs No Words 大爱无声 "Can I see my baby?" the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. “我能看看我的孩子吗？”刚刚做了母亲的女人高兴地问。当襁褓被放到她怀里，她拿开挡着孩子小脸的布时，她倒吸了一口凉...
"What box?" Mom asked. “什么盒子？”妈妈问。 "There was a small gold box that he kept locked on top of his desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. All he'd ever tell me was, 'The thing I value most.' Jack said. “在他的桌子上面，放着一个小小的，总是上着锁的金盒子。我问过他无数次那盒子里面有什么东西。他总是告诉我说‘那是我最珍视的...
Let Me Put It This Way by Simon Armitage Let me put it this way: if you came to lay your sleeping head against my arm or sleeve, and if my arm went dead,or if I had to take my leave at midnight, I should rather cleave it from the joint or seam than make a scene or bring you round. There,how does that sound? （联系方式：新浪微博 @关爱抖森健康成长） NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲/...
Sonnet 18 – William Shakespeare 十四行诗 – William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 能否把你比作夏日璀璨？ Thou art more lovely and more temperate; 你却比夏季更可爱温存； Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 狂风摧残五月花蕊娇妍， And summer's lease hath all too short a date; 夏天匆匆离去毫不停顿； Sometime too hot the eye of h...
From Romeo And Juliet: Act 5, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare Oh，My love! My wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath. Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou are not conquered. Beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? O, what more favour c...
Mother's Hands 妈妈的手 Night after night, she came to tuck me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding custom, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead. 母亲总是在我入睡之后，为我掖好被子，然后俯下身子，轻轻拨开覆在我脸上的长发，亲吻我的前额。日复一日，母亲一直保持着这个习惯，即使我已不再是小孩子了，这一切...
The awards opened yesterday and he won a prize of $500,000. So he felt very happy after work and felt the music was so wonderful, that he took out 50 dollars and put in the hat. However the lottery ticket was also thrown in. The violinist was a student at an Arts College and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. He had booked the ticket and would fly that morning...
He challenged his deacons to get busy and raise enough money for the larger building. 牧师还向教堂的执事提议，通过募集资金来扩建这座小教堂。 But the story does not end there! 但是，故事并未就此结束…… A newspaper learned of the story and published it. It was read by a Realtor who offered them a parcel of land worth many thousands.When told that the church could not pay so muc...
What he looked for in others was a "good heart", and if he found one, the owner was good enough for him. 他所期望的是人家"善良的心"，当他得到时，人家真的对他很好。 Now that I am older, I believe that is a proper standard by which to judge people, even though I still don' t know precisely what a "good heart" is. But I know the times I don'...
A Boy with a Mission 男孩的使命 In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the price—five dollars—was far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family. 1945年，一个12岁的男孩在一家商店橱窗里看到一样令他心动的东西，但是——5美元——远不是鲁本·厄尔能付得起的。5美元几乎够买全家一周...
But she sensed my unease, and instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard. 但她感觉到了我的不安。于是，她没有提议我们继续练台词，而是问我愿不愿意和她一起到院子里走一走。 It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine on the trellis was turning green. Under the huge elm trees, we could see yellow dandelions popping through the grass in ...
More Than One Way to the Square 通往广场的路不止一条 We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why."Look down, Elsa," Father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross of twisting,...
The Little Girl Who Dared to Wish 许愿的小女孩 As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she collided with a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction. 在艾米绕过她的教室对面的走廊的拐角时，她迎面撞到了一个5年级的高个男孩。 “Watch it ” The boy yelled. 那男孩大叫，“看路，” Then, with a smirk on his face, the boy took hold of ...
To buy an hour from father-Samuel 向爸爸买一个小时 A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. 一个人工作到很晚，带着疲惫与愤怒回到家里，却发现5岁大的儿子正在门口等他。 “Daddy, may I ask you a question?” “爸爸，我可以问你一个问题吗？” “Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man. “当然，什么问题？” “Daddy, how much...
Otherwise we're going to be making other people's choices, not our own. 否则，我们就将按别人的、而不是自己的意愿行事了。 After three and a half years with Outward Bound, I was ready to go hack to school. I finished Harvard and got a highly paid job at the Boston Consulting Group. a think tank and business-consulting firm. Still, after working there five years, I was ...
Down by the salley gardens by W.B.Yeats 柳园里 威廉·巴特勒·叶芝 Down by the Salley Gardens my love and I did meet 我曾和我的挚爱相遇在莎园中 She passed the Salley Gardens with little snow-white feet 她踏著雪白的纤纤玉足，轻轻走过莎园 She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree 她要我简单的追求真爱，就像大树长出树叶一般自然 But I being young and foolish with her ...
The Power of Gratitude 感恩的力量 When my older son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, my first reaction was relief － I finally knew the reason for his behavior. 当我的大儿子被确诊为“注意缺陷多动障碍”时，我的第一反应就是放松——我终于知道他那些行为举止的原因所在了。 However, I was also overwhelmed with sadness, fear and anger. I felt sorry for my son...
这是一份《美国幼儿园给家长的备忘录》，是老师以孩子的口吻，提醒父母对待孩子时的注意事项，用心阅读的家长和老师从中一定都会有所启示和收获，也许对你教育孩子以及每个成年人对待自己的成长经历与自我成长及对幼小心灵的认同有所帮助。Memo From A Child To Parents 孩子给爸爸妈妈的备忘录 1. Don't spoil me. I know quite well that I ought not to have all I ask for. I'm only testing y...