It's easiest to see this link between fear and the imagination in young children, whose fears are often extraordinarily vivid.
When I was a child, I lived in California, which is, you know, mostly a very nice place to live, but for me as a child, California could also be a little scary.
I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping.
And what we say about kids who have fears like that is that they have a vivid imagination. But at a certain point, most of us learn to leave these kinds of visions behind and grow up.
We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down. But maybe it's no coincidence that some of our most creative minds fail to leave these kinds of fears behind as adults.
These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of “Moby Dick.”
Even in today's world, their situation would be really dire, but think about how much worse it would have been then.
No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong. No search party was coming to look for these men. So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what it's like to be afraid.
We know how fear feels, but I'm not sure we spend enough time thinking about what our fears mean.
As we grow up, we're often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates.
And I think it's no accident that we think this way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard'wired to be optimists.
So maybe that's why we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. “Don't worry,” we like to say to one another. “Don't panic.” In English, fear is something we conquer. It's something we fight.
The classmates, everybody! In this season of osmanthus fragrance, we will soon celebrate the 60th anniversary of National Day. 58 years ago, we won't forget - - gate towers on chairman MAO's "the founding of new China," a solemn. Let's look back and on the tripod of kemen oracle, read the motherland childhood spiritual; In war of the Great Wall, and read the motherland youth bold; On with poetry and science of the earth, read the motherland mature mature... Why do people always compared the motherland mother? Someone said: "the motherland with the milk from the rivers feeding us." Someone said: "the motherland with broad mind to hold big us." Yes, so people use the word "mother" to express our feelings for the motherland.
When the motherland poor people go hungry seas; When the motherland weak, people had enough ling - shame; When the motherland strong, people with pride. The clue is in the history. When the aggressors invaded China, Shanghai park erected "Chinese and no dogs allowed" sign; When imperialism opened the door of the motherland, and countless people was killed by the sword, 'when hoisting of the flag of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese people stood up. When the country women's volleyball world champion, overseas Chinese also. Because of the motherland and the people are together forever. Lu xun once said: "only Chinese is worth precious, only carry forward it, China is true progress." Lu xun, referring to what is Chinese? It is our "national rise and fall, fortunes of" sense of responsibility. Please remember, no matter how many hardships, the motherland has always be accompanied by our motherland mother's side. Our motherland is a used orientation of the motherland, is a boiling rising country, it is a full-fledged motherland. My words can be more of a Milky Way, but the most emotional said, would be - take off the motherland. We will aspire to, to the prosperity of you, children do the biggest contribution! Thank you very much.
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同學們，大家好!在此丹桂飄香的時節，我們即將迎來國慶60週年。我們不會忘記58年前，天-安-門城樓上毛主席那句“新中國成立了”的莊嚴宣告。讓我們回首望去，在刻滿甲骨文的鐘鼎之上，讀祖國童年的靈性;在佈滿烽火的長城之上，讀祖國的青春豪邁;在綴滿詩歌與科學的大地之上，讀祖國壯年的成熟……為什麼人們總把祖國比做母親?有人說：“祖國用江河的乳汁餵養了我們。”有人說：“祖國用寬廣的胸懷抱大了我們。”對，所以人們用“母親”這個詞來表達我們對祖國的感情。
當祖國貧窮的時候，人們挨餓受凍;當祖國弱小的時候，人們受夠凌-辱;當祖國強大的時候，人們就昂首挺胸。歷史就說明了這一點。當侵略者侵入祖國時，上海公園豎起了“華人與狗不得入內”的牌子;當帝國主義打開了祖國的大門，無數人民群眾就慘死刀下’而當新中國的旗幟升起時，中華兒女站了起來;當祖國女排登上世界冠軍的寶座的時候，海外僑胞也揚眉吐氣。因為祖國與人民是永遠在一起的。魯迅先生說過：“唯有民魂是值得珍貴的，唯有它發揚起來，中國才有真進步。”魯迅先生所指的民魂是什麼?是我們“國家興亡，匹夫有責”的責任感。請同學們記住，不管祖國還要經歷多少磨難，我們永遠都要陪伴在祖國母親的身邊。我們的祖國是一個除舊迎新的祖國，是一個沸騰上升的祖國，這是一個如日中天的祖國。我的話語多得可組成一片星河，但是說得最多最動情的一句，便是——騰飛吧祖國。我們都將立志，為你的繁榮昌盛，做兒女最大的貢獻!謝謝大家。
good evening, honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen.
it’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech—change the world, change ourselves.
it’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. not long before about 10 doctors in beijing university and qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.
frankly speaking, i don’t quite agree with ed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples) why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture. there are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in china. on the one hand, some of the western holidays which we chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful, such as father’s day and april fool’s day etc. on the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in china. overwhelmed by such a trend,chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.
with the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. we are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? the answer is definitely no. what we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.
at last i’d like to share a famouse saying of gandhi with all of you ,that is:if you want to change the world, then you must change yourself first.”
Recently, the news that U.S attack on China's Internet is always exposed. And the question of how to stay online safely raises a lot of discussion in our country. As a result, in the era of rapid development of network, we must take measures to protect our security of privacy and property effectively.
最近的新聞都揭示了美國對中國網路的攻擊。如何安全地上網在我國引起了大量的討論。結果是在網路飛速發展的時代，我們必須要採取有效的措施來保護我們的隱私和財產安全。
From my perspective, in the first place, we should call attention to our personal information. Not only do we not offer them at random in some strange websites, but we need to distinguish right from wrong among the numerous websites. Furthermore, it is inevitable that some secure anti-virus soft wares can be installed. And it will make it possible for that network can run more steadily. In addition to doing some work by ourselves, the government needs to draw up some policies to preserve national cyber security. It involves probing for deeply rooted reasons, devising creative solutions, developing high-tech talents and strengthening the supervision.
從我的角度來看，首先，我們應該關注我們的個人資訊。我們不僅不隨隨便便在一些奇怪的網站提供自己的資訊，而且我們需要在眾多的網站之間明辨是非。此外，安裝一些安全的防毒軟體是必須的。這使得網路執行更加穩定。除了我們自己該做一些努力之外，還需要政府制定相關政策來保護國家網路安全。這就涉及到探究深層次的原因，想出有創造性的解決方案，發展高新技術人才、加強監管。
Although scientists still cannot overcome the problem completely, they are studying a great deal about how to protect our national cyber security. However, consciousness of cyber security should not decline. Only in this way, we just enjoy the convenience brought by the network.
儘管科學家仍無法完全克服這個問題，但是他們正在研究大量關於如何保護我們國家網路安全的辦法。然而，不應該放鬆網路安全意識。只有這樣我們才能享受到網路帶給我們的便利。
Nowdays, copying other's homework has become a popularity amomgthe use of a large nunmber of difficlt homework ,students are not interested in kinds of finish the homewok to make teachers happy,they decide to copy the homework.
In my opinion, it's wrong to copy is against the school should be honest and we have any trouble,wo can ask teachers and students for ay,wo should'nt copy other's stndents.
Dear teachers and students: Good morning! My name is , is a primary school. 11 years old, the Ming Road Primary School in fifth grade reading. I have today and we talk about "my story with an school "----- since coming to the school, with, , and three teachers to learn English, I began to have a strong interest in English! My first English teacher was American, her name is , her tall, very young, very beautiful! Her eyes are blue. She taught me courage to speak English. I like her. But she returned to the . Where her father and mother, that is her home. My current English teacher is , he is also an , he is a male teacher, he's tall, very thin. I like his English class. We play in the classroom, play games, play in the process, I learned to speak English and foreign friends to speak. Another teacher she called , she is Chinese. Her big eyes, long hair. She is very beautiful! She told us very well! I know a lot of children here, they are in a different school. However, every Saturday, we are gathered here to listen to and lectures, play games together with , we all very happy together! Also learned a big schools, where teachers from the, the , as well as . I like English! Because it's fun! When I grow up, I'm going to the, and travel, get to know people there. I also want to go to Harvard University to study! I have an uncle who read the book in Harvard, he is very good! He is now working in. Another uncle visited the, Bell Labs study, he was great! I want to be like them, learn, grow, and to use their knowledge to build our country!
親愛的老師和同學們：上午好! 我叫,是一名小學生。今年11歲，在路國小讀五年級。我今天和大家談談關於"我與xx學校的故事"-----自從來到了xx學校，跟，,和三位老師學英語後，我開始對英語產生了濃厚的興趣!我的第一個英語老師是個美國人，她叫,她個子高高的，很年輕，很漂亮!她的眼睛是藍色的。她教會了我勇敢的開口說英語。我很喜歡她。但是她回美國了。那裡有她的爸爸和媽媽，那是她的家。我現在的英語老師是Ray，他也是一個美國人，他是一個男老師，他的個子很高，很瘦。我喜歡上他的英語課。我們在課堂上玩兒，做遊戲，在玩的過程中我學會了用說英語和外國朋友說話。還有一位老師她叫,她是中國人。她眼睛大大的，長頭髮。她很漂亮!她對我們很好!我在這裡認識了很多小朋友，他們在不同的學校讀書。但是，每到週六，我們就聚在這裡聽和講課，跟一起做遊戲，我們大家在一起很開心!也學到了很多東西。xx學校很大很大，這裡的老師有來自，，還有。我很喜歡英語!因為它很有趣!等我長大了，我要去，和旅遊，去認識那裡的人。我還想去哈弗大學唸書!我的一個舅舅曾經在哈弗讀過書，他很優秀!他現在在工作。另一個舅舅去過貝爾實驗室學習，他也很棒!我要像他們一樣，好好學習，長大了，用自己的知識建設我們的國家!
Students, guests , teachers and Honorable Judges
Good morning !
my great pleasure to share my dream with you I was a child, I wanted to be a teacher. My father was a teacher, and he taught me a lot. I worshiped him very much. On my tenth birthday, he asked me,“What do you want to be when you grow up?”I answered proudly,“I want to be a teacher like you!”On hearing this, my father was very happy and said to me, “Work hard and your dream will come true.” Not long ago, one of my primary school teachers was ill. She wanted me to take her place for two weeks. I was glad but nervous. My father said to me,“This is a good chance. Seize it! I wish you success!” When I came into the classroom, the children were very happy.
I introduced myself to them. Soon, I got on well with them. They all liked me and I loved them. With my father and headmaster's help, I did the work very well. Now, I often miss those lovely children. That experience had made me even more interested in being a teacher in the future.
At a seminar, a famous speaker didn't speak a prologue, but he held a $20 bill in his hand
In the face of 200 people in the meeting room, he asked: "who wants this $20" one hand went up. Then he said: "I am going to put this $20 to one of you, but before that, please allow me to do one thing." he said the bill into a ball, and then asked: "who will" people are still held up his hand. He said: "so, if I do this" he threw the money on the ground, and set foot on one foot, and grinds it with the foot. Then he picked up the bill, the bill has become dirty wrinkled. "Now who also" there are still people who raised his hand. "My friends, you have a very interested The meaning of the class. No matter how I treat the money, you still wanted it because it did not fall, it is still worth $20. Life on the road, we will many times down by their own decision or encounter adversity, bullying or even grind to be smashed to pieces. We seem to feel worthless but no matter what happens. Or, what will happen, in the eyes of God, you will never lose your value. In his opinion, dirty or clean, neat clothing neat or not, you are still priceless "
Courage is very important. Everyone needs it. We will meet manydifficulties in our life and sometimes we will fail, but we can’t lose we lose courage, we can’t do anything, because we don’t dare to do anything;we are afraid of failure. This is my Chinese teacher me in the first class. Iagree with him. For example, we don’t have the courage to hands up to say ouranswer, how can we know we are right or wrong. I will remember his wordforever,” never lose courage .”
New Year's Day is one of important days for many people in the world during the year. Most people spend the New Year's Day in hotels. January 1st is considered as the New Year's Day. Most companies, shops, school, and government offices are closed during that time. People prepare for New Year's Day from late December. First, people spend a few days to clean their houses completely. Some families then put up some new painting from November to be sent in January. The New Year's meal is also prepared from the end of December. During the New Year's Day, people usually do not cook and relax at home. On New Year's Eve, it is common to have a bag dinner with family members or friends at home or in hotels and hear bells which informs us of the coming New Year. On New Year's Day, people greet each other. Some people wear new coats and visit temples to pray for happiness and health through out the New Year. Children are busy with getting the gifts from their parents and relatives.
Good morning,dear teacher and my friends.
It’s a very intresting topic today.
I think my dad was a hero for me when i was a young child. we'd go fishing, walks, and other fun things for a kid.
Every child has a good and great father, and so do i. my dad played a very important role in my daily life——exactly speaking, in my past 16 years.
My father always stands in the center of my life， from past till now and possibly in the future.
My family was rather poor when i was in my childhood. we didn't have our own house and had to live in a shabby， small room rented from my father's factory. the room was so small that there was little space for people to walk. i didn't have my own bed and had to sleep with my parents. this is terrible both for my parents and me.
But father made this all different!he works very hard on his own business, now we have our own 2 housese,surly,i have my own he take our family so much happiness, richer and richer.
When i was little, i did everything with my dad. you could always find me sitting on his knee or walking and doing everything with him. every night he would read me a bed time story and make the voices of each character.
I learnt a lot from my daddy. i learnt to never take things to seriously and to always smile.
Like many other fathers, my dad and i also has generation gap. he is not good at or even can’t work the computer. so when i sitting at the computer desk,he will say something like ‘you should pay more attention to your study’， ‘don’t waste time on the computer games’ , ‘it will be bad for your eyes’ and so on. how can i- a computer fan – reduce time on computer? so i continue studying and playing on it
Years pasted, my father is over 45 now. it is time for me to look after him and i am sure i will do and we will live an even better life. and i will say,i really love you dad,cause you are the hero in my mind.
Thank you so much!
Every one has his own I was a little kid ，my dream was even to have a candy shop of my own now ，when I am 16 years old ，standing here ，my dreams have already changed a lot.
I have got quite different experience from other e they were playing toys at home，while they were dreaming to be the princesses in the story .I was running in the hard rain，jumping in the heavy snow，pitching in the strong ing could stop me ，because of a wonderful call from my heart -- to be an ，of course ，I＇m an athlete，I＇m so proud of that all the time .
When I was 10 years old ，I became a shot-put training was really hard ，I couldn＇t bear the heavy shot in my hands I always believe that ＂god only help those who help themselves＂ng those hard days，I find I was growing more quickly than others of the same be an athlete is my most correct ，I quit my team after entering high school because of a silly excuse.I really didn＇t want to stop my sports career anyway.
Today I say to you my friends that even though I must face the difficulties of yesterday ，today and tomorrow .I still have a dream is a dream deeply rooted in my soul.
Good afternoon ，ladies and gentlemen!
I’m very honored to stand here and give you a short speech! my topic is Opportunities and Challenges.
First, I would like to know, what does your destiny offer you? Happiness, wisdom, a strong body or something else. If I had asked this question to president Nixon, he would probably had said,”Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.”
Needless to say, one of the biggest opportunities given to China is the 20xx Olympic Games. Till now, we have used two sevenths of the preparation time. How much changes have you seen? New roads, new subway lines, public-exercising equipments with beautiful colors, large blocks of grass fields, and also lots of modern gyms which are under construction.
Other than those, there are even more good effects brought to us by the Olympic Games that cannot be seen directly. For example, more and more people will get to know China. I’m sure the mysterious Chinese culture will attract them strongly. And the games will also do good to the economy and environment, for it is gaining the attention of foreign investors and the awareness of environmental protection is being strengthened. What is more, Olympic Games give a unique opportunity to inspire and educate a new generation of Chinese youth with the Olympic values and the Olympic spirit. Now that we have seen so many advances, could you even imagine us losing the holding rights?
I’ve already said a lot about the Olympics and China. But I think everyone should use some time to think of this question, ”Does the Olympic Games have any special meaning to you?”
For us, I mean the Chinese youth, 20xx Olympic Games is a tremendous gift. Because what we are waiting for is to do something significant as repaying the love given to us society is just like a ship, and in our dreams the captain is waving his hand and saying ”Hey! Come here and take the helm! ”How charming his voice is, but we have never heard of it in our true life. This morning, however, when we wake up, we will see the Olympic Games waving its hand. After chewing, most of us will have at least one plan about what to do for the Olympic Games. And mine is to be a “comforter” ----that is someone who will give comfort to others.
At the end of my speech, I hope all the preparation will go well, and everyone will show their ability to the world. Let us seize opportunities and give a big smile to challenges.
I like spring best of all the four seasons. When spring comes, it's gettingwarmer and warmer, and the world becomes rich and colorful.
The sun is red, the sky is blue, clouds are white, and the trees get greenagain.
In spring, we can see beautiful flowers everywhere. The birds come backfrom the south, and sing happily all day. Everything comes back to lifeagain.
Look, the boys and girls are flying kites by the river happily. Howbeautiful the season is!
Everybody will meet all kinds of difficulties during their lives, of course, they are willing to accept success, but the fact is that no one can win all the time, they will meet failure now and then. Fail is an unpleasant thing to face, people treat fail a bad thing. While for me, I think we can learn from failure and be a better man.
每個人都會在他們的一生中遇到各種各樣的困難，當然，人們喜歡接受成功，但是實際上，他們會時而不時地失敗。失敗是一件不愉快的事情，人們把失敗當成一件壞事。然而對於我來說，我覺得我們可以從失敗中學到東西，成為一個更好的人。
Everyone is afraid of facing failure, because failure brings them the sense of frustration. When facing failure, people choose to avoiding talking about it, they feel that they will be looked down upon by others. Indeed, no one likes to failure anything, they want to be successful all the time.
每個人都害怕面對失敗，因為失敗會給人帶來挫敗感。當面對困難時，人們選擇避免談論它，覺得會被別人看低。確實，沒有人會喜歡做事情失敗，他們想要一直成功。
If people change their idea about failure, they can see the positive side. There is an old saying that failure is the mother of success, which means that people will learn from failure and make preparation for the success. So failure is not that hard to face, if people take right attitude towards it, they will gain success soon.
如果人們改變他們對失敗的看法，他們可以看到積極的方面。有一句老話，失敗乃成功之母，這意味著人們可以從失敗中學習，為成功做準備。所以，失敗並不是那麼難以面對，如果人們正確對待成功，他們會很快成功。
In a word, failure is not a bad something, it can bring success, only if people treat it right.
總的來說，失敗不是一件壞事，它可以帶來成功，只要人們正確對待。
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