chinese traditional festivals
as we know, we have lots of festivals, such as spring festival(春節), lantern festival(元宵節), tomb-sweeping day(清明節), dragon boat festival(端午節), mid-autumn (moon)festival(中秋節), double-ninth day(重陽節), new year's eve(除夕)and so on.
as for me, i likenew year's eve the most, because only in that daycan itake a party forall of my friends. we talk with each other sincerely, and we drink heartily(盡情地)。i enjoy this process very much。
between chinese traditional festivals and western festivals, i prefer the the former. because chinese festivals contain our traditional culture, we must inherit and develop(繼承和發展) it.
recently, more and more chinese would rather to celebrate the foreign festivals, such as christmas day, easter(復活節)，thanksgiving（感恩節），saint valentine's day（情人節），halloween（萬聖節）and so on .
i think christmas day would not replace our spring festival. because spring festival is our culture and era of faith(信仰).
in order to protect and develop our traditional festivals, i think
government should take more steps todraw people’s attention. for example, give people more vacation in traditional festivals and pay attention to traditional culture education
as the development of our society, we are all under heavy pressure because of fierce competition, fast-paced lifestyles, and etc. everyday we may face some kind of stress and difficulties from work, school or family. some people think working under pressure keeps us motivated. maybe a little pressure is good for us, but too much pressure is not beneficial to us. in recent years, there has been an increase in stress-related diseases amony college and high-school students.
how to alleviate our pressure in an effective way? how to weaken the effects of stress?
firstly, exercise regularly. physical activity plays a key role in reducing and preventing the effects of stress. make time for at least 30 minutes of exercise, three times per week.
second, eat a healthy diet. well-nourished bodies are better prepared to cope with stress, so be mindful of what you eat.
three, get enough sleep. adequate sleep fuels your mind, as well as your body. feeling tired will increase your stress because it may cause you to think irrationally.
besides, i think that communication can help to reduce the pressure. when people share their worries with others, they will feel less stressed. at that same time, approprite encouragement will also stimulate people to work harder and feel better. for example, when feeling depressed because of the failure in an exam, i often choose to talk with my friends and
parents because they will comfort me, and i will be full of hope again.
also, listening to the gentle music or rock music is a good way to reduce our stress.
in a word, people can use different ways according to different yone can find the best way that is suitable for himself
earn english not only because of its importance and its usefulness,but also because of my love for i learn english, i can feel a different way of thinking which gives me more room to touch the i read english novels,i can feel the pleasure from the book which is different from reading the i speak english, i can feel the confident from my i write english,i can see the beauty which is not the same as our chinese...
i love english,it gives me a colorful dream.i hope i can travel around the world one day. with my good english, i can make friends with many people from different contries.i can see many places of great intrests.i dream that i can go to london,because it is the birth place of english.
i also want to use my good english to introduce our great places to the english spoken people,i hope that they can love our country like us.
i know, rome was not built in a day. i believe that after continuous hard study, one day i can speak english very well. if you want to be loved, you should learn to love and be lovable. so i believe as i love english everyday , it will love me too.
i am sure that i will realize my dream one day!
thank you!
Ladies and gentlemen
the first time i saw bao was in , the year when thomas and uber cup was held. at that time he was playing against li zongwei, who is also a good player from malaysia. bao beat him. to tell the truth, at first the reason why i liked him was just because i thought he was pretty.*(maybe it is not a suitable word, but i think no better word can describe him, he is really pretty!) from that time, i have focused on him. then gradually, i found that he not only has good appearance, but also has a talent for badminton.
he is very tall, about 1.90 meters. he is the tallest one among all the players in the chinese badminton team. in , he is chosen as the flag holder stands for china in the opening ceremony in the 15th asian games held in doha. it was the first time that the badminton players were chosen to take over the special task, before which time, it belonged to the basketball players. it was a great honor. and it also proved that bao was an excellent athlete. we are all proud of him.
he began to play badminton when he was at primary school. in , he won his first good medal, which was significant to him, in guangzhou. because of that, he entered the chinese badminton team. as he is as old as lin dan, who is the top one in the world, he is always put into a situation which is not good to him. he seldom beats lin dan, so he gained a name which is called’. in fact, his techniques are comprehensive, but he is lack of passion, the desire to win is not so strong. so he always has misplays. due to this, he seldom wins the gold medal. i think this is related to his character. he is easygoing and couth; he looks as if he will never get angry with anybody. so this affects him while he is playing badminton. in a period of time, critical voice has come towards him. he is under great pressure. he was not in the best state. but recently he cheers up again. several days ago, the chinese badminton championship was held in guangzhou. i went to see him on saturday. i was very excited, and i shouted loudly, hoping he could hear me. there is no doubt that he won the game. before he went away, he waved hand to us, how excited i was at that time! the next day, he beat li zongwei again and he won the man’s single gold medal. all of us are very happy. after 7 years, which could be a long time for an athlete, he proved himself again in guangzhou, which is considered as his lucky place.
i think this will be the energy of his advancing. and i hope he can keep this fighting will and win the gold medal in the 29th olympic games held in beijing!
best wishes!
A Brother Like That A Brother Like That A friend of mine named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the shiny new car, admiring it. "Is this your car, Mister?"
he said. Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas."
The boy was astounded. "You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn’t cost you nothing? Boy, I wish . . ."
He hesitated. Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his heels. "I wish,"
the boy went on, "That I could be a brother like that."
Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively he added, "Would you like to take a ride in my car?"
"Oh yes, Id love that."
After a short ride, the boy turned with his eyes aglow, said, "Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?"
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?"
the boy asked. He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled brother. He sathim down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car. "There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day Im gonna give you one just like it . . . then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the Christmas windows that Ive been trying to tell you about."
Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began a memorable holiday ride. That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when he said: "It is more blessed to give . . . "
中文譯文;
哥哥的心願 聖誕節時，保羅的哥哥送他一輛新車。聖誕節當天，保羅離開辦公室時，一個男孩繞著那輛閃 閃發亮的新車，十分讚歎地問：
"先生，這是你的車?"
保羅點點頭："這是我哥哥送給我的聖誕節禮物。"男孩滿臉驚訝，支支吾吾地說："你是說這 是你哥送的禮物，沒花你一分錢?天哪，我真希望也能……"
保羅當然知道男孩他真想希望什麼。他希望能有一個象那樣的哥哥。但是小男孩接下來說的話 卻完全出乎了保羅的意料。
"我希望自己能成為送車給弟弟的哥哥。"男孩繼續說。
保羅驚愕地看著那男孩，衝口而出地說："你要不要坐我的車去兜風?"
"哦，當然好了，我太想坐了!"
車開了一小段路後，那孩子轉過頭來，眼睛閃閃發亮，對我說："先生，你能不能把車子開到 我家門前?"
保羅微笑，他知道孩子想幹什麼。那男孩必定是要向鄰居炫耀，讓大家知道他坐了一部大轎車 回家。但是這次保羅又猜錯了。"你能不能把車子停在那兩個臺階前?"男孩要求道。
男孩跑上了階梯，過了一會兒保羅聽到他回來了，但動作似乎有些緩慢。原來把他跛腳的弟弟 帶出來了，將他安置在第一個臺階上，緊緊地抱著他，指著那輛新車。
只聽那男孩告訴弟弟："你看，這就是我剛才在樓上對你說的那輛新車。這是保羅他哥哥送給 他的哦!將來我也會送給你一輛像這樣的車，到那時候你就能自己去看那些在聖誕節時，掛窗 口上的漂亮飾品了，就象我告訴過你的那樣。"
保羅走下車子，把跛腳男孩抱到車子的前座。興奮得滿眼放光的哥哥也爬上車子，坐在弟弟的 身旁。就這樣他們三人開始一次令人難忘的假日兜風。
那個聖誕夜，保羅才真正體會主耶穌所說的"施比受更有福"的道理。
愛因斯坦曾經說過：“我認為，對於一切來說，只有熱愛才是最好的老師，他遠遠的超過了責任感。”一個人不論從事什麼行業，首先必須熱愛自己的職業。只有這樣他才會全心全意的投入。而熱愛自己職業的動力在於能在工作中得到快樂。
陶行知先生曾對教師職業特徵做過這樣的分析：教育者應當知道教育是無名無利沒有尊榮的事，純系服務的機會，貢獻的機會。而無絲毫名利尊榮可言。現代的教師為適應當前社會的迅速變化，面臨許多挑戰，如知識結構的更新，教學技術的改進，新型教學手段的嘗試，日益難以應付的雜事……為應付這些變化，教師必須付出代價，而付出的代價往往無法獲得可見的收益。正因為如此，教師更傾向於從社會地位上而非經濟地位上來獲得尊嚴，這也是教師與其他許多職業不同的地方，教師在很大程度上是將自己的精神世界作為職業資源的，並不以實際的可被清點的收益來取勝。那麼我們就更應該在工作中尋找快樂。 首先、愛崗敬業是樂教勤業的動力源泉。
教師只有在愛崗敬業，把學校教育工作的發展、國家教育事業的興旺和自己命運緊密聯絡在一起的精神指導下，兢兢業業，勤於奉獻，淡泊名利，默默的耕耘在三尺講臺之上，而且以苦為樂，甘於寂寞，勤勤懇懇，才能領悟從師的樂趣，才能以從師為榮，以師為自豪。在“愛崗敬業”這種精神支配下，教師也不會視平凡的工作為平凡，不會視瑣碎的工作為瑣碎，而是會認真對待教育，教學的過程的每一個環節，於細微處顯精神，於小事上下。
The past two days are special for the 7.23 million examinees and their parents. It is the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao in Chinese). Based on the current education system in China, the result of the two day exam greatly impacts the future of any students in China. The score will decide whether you can receive college education. For most places in China, only half of the students are eligible for college education (only 3.40 million will be admitted to colleges in 2019) and the rest has to start work after high-school. In cities like Beijing and Shanghai, students are lucky enough to have a much higher ratio (more than 70%) to enter colleges.
Tsinghua, Peking University, Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University are among the first class in China. But only very few people can go there.
To enter a college or not, or to enter a good college or not directly impact the first offer they can get after graduate and impact their career. So it is the most critical time for students.
Isaac recorded the "No Honking During Gaokao" sign. I saw the same sign near Henan Rd. and Zhaojiabang Rd.. Not only honking is not allowed. All construction sites around schools were ordered to work in limited time in the recent 10 days. Thousands of policemen are working around schools to make sure there is no noise or traffic jam during the two important days. Taxi drivers even offer free ride to transport examinees and their family.
Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes.
Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness or ineffectiveness.
As Horace Mann, the great educator, once said, “Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it everyday and soon it cannot be broken.” I personally do not agree with the last part of his expression. I know habits can be learned and unlearned. But I also know it isn't a quick fix. It involves a process and a tremendous commitment.
Those of us who watched the lunar voyage of Apollo 11 were transfixed as we saw the first men walk on the moon and return to earth. But to get there, those astronauts literally had to break out of the tremendous gravity pull of the earth. More energy was spent in the first few minutes of lift-off, in the first few miles of travel, than was used over the next several days to travel half a million miles.
Habits, too, have tremendous gravity pull- more than most people realize or would admit. Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. “Lift off” takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.
Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cohesiveness and order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.
hello, it's a pleasure to meet you all. i am yu lin jeng. i am from shanghai ,china. this is my third trip to the united states, and i really enjoy staying here. i am working for a trading company as an assistant manager in the overseas distribution section. thank you.i'm ma li. i am a system engineer for ibm. my job is to develop new computer software and i enjoy the job very much, because software development is very creative and imaginative work. so if anyone here is interested in computer and computer software, please let me know.
we can spend hours talking about o, everybody. i am ning cai chen from beijing, i am working for an agent for a electric company in beijing. it is about five months since i came to the united states, and i miss my family very much. it'll be several months before they come here, and i hope to continue to have an enjoyable single life till then. ：sjbssb/xpj/ woaisjb/wyb/ sjbjcgz/888zr/ bxsjb32q/xamylc/ sjbssb/dfpk/
尊敬的評委，尊貴的來賓，女士們，先生們，大家晚上好!能夠站在這裡進行演說，我感到十分榮幸。今天我將和大家一起分享……
honorable judges,distinguished guests,ladies and gentlemen,good evening!I feel really honored to stand here and make a y I"m going to look together with you into this question:……
Good morning everybody!It's my honor to speak here,and I am very glad to share my topic with you. Then today I'd like to talk something about.....
(大家早上好!能在這裡做此次演講我十分榮幸，也很高興能跟大家一起分享我的主題，今天我想演講的是......)
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the English Speaking Competition for Grade 20xx. (掌聲~~~) First of all, please allow me to introduce myself, your host for today. I’m Sammy from Cla6, Grade 20xx.
(譯文：女士們，先生們，大家晚上好!歡迎來到05級英語演講比賽的現常首先，請允許我來個自我介紹。我是今晚的主持人—來自05級6班的典典。)
There are all together 26 contestants to compete in today’s English Speaking Competition, all from Grade 20xx. And this competition will be mediated by a panel of five judges. Also on the panel are “question masters” who will be responsible for raising questions of today’s contestants. Now, I have the great privilege of presenting today’s judges.
(譯文：角逐今晚比賽的有26名選手,他們均來自外院05級的同學。此次比賽我們邀請到了五名評委，五名評委中有兩名是“提問員”，這兩名“提問員”將對每位選手進行提問。好的，我很榮幸地向大家介紹一下我們的五位評委。 微笑狀~)
Ladies and gentlemen, MiLiu, (掌聲~~~) welcome; MiLuo, (掌聲~~~)welcome…OK, after introducing our judges, now let’s go over the rules of the competition.
(譯文：女士們，先生們，她們是劉老師，歡迎!駱老師，歡迎!…好的，介紹完我們的評委之後，讓我們來看看今天的比賽規則吧。 微笑狀~)
Each of the contestants has 3 minutes to present a prepared speech and 2 minutes to answer questions raised by the judges.
(譯文：每位選手要進行3分鐘的命題演講和2分鐘的回答。)
During the prepared speech, a staff member will raise a yellow board as a signal that there is half a minute left. Then, at the end of 3minutes, a red board will be raised to let the speaker know that the time has run out. So, please raise the red board. Thank you!
(譯文：在命題演講環節，在選手的演講時間還剩下半分鐘的時候，我們的工作人員將會舉一塊黃顏色的牌子示意。當3分鐘時間一到，我們的工作人員會舉一塊紅色的牌子示意時間已到。現在，工作人員示意一下下。謝謝! 微笑狀~)
Now the topic for today’s prepared speech is “Olympic Games, Beijing 20xx”.
(譯文：今天的命題演講的題目是：北京20xx奧運會。)
Ladies and gentlemen, the top four winners today will be able to attend the College Final to be held on November 3rd.
(譯文：女士們，先生們，今晚比賽的前四名選手將可以參加11月3號晚上的院裡的決賽。)
Now let’s welcome contestant No.1
(譯文：現在，讓我們有請1號選手。 微笑狀~)
Thank you for contestant No.1, now let’s welcome contestant No.2.
(譯文：謝謝1號選手的演講。接下來，讓我們有請我們的2號選手。 微笑狀~)
Thank you for contestant No.2. Here, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce the score of contestant No.1 is 86.6. Congratulations! Now, let’s welcome contestant No.3
(譯文：謝謝我們的2號選手。女士們，先生們，下面我宣佈1號選手的最後得分是：86.6分。恭喜!接下來，讓我們有請我們的3號選手。 微笑狀~)
Hello everyone!I'm so pround that I stand here to make a y my topic is "defeat".
According to The New Oxford Dictionary of English,frustration,bydefinition,means the feeling of being upset or annoyed,especially because ofinability to change or achieve e frustration seems to be anegative feeling,some people may be tempted to think that frustration is bad believe that constant frustration may cause serious le suffering from such psychological problems often resort toviolence or suicide,which poses a big threat to the people around them and thuscauses instability to the whole society.
Others,however,hold a different maintain that it is beneficial goes side by side with inspires people to overcomehardships and difficulties and achieve the final le with this vieweven go so far as to say that no frustration,no ed,we cannot alwayshope to embrace success and never accept most importantly,only if welearn from many a failure can we do things better and finally overcome such abad feeling as frustration.
Frustration thus is part of our life our process of growingup,we may inevitably experience it when confronted with situations that don’tcome up to our is a test of our courage when it befalls welet it control us,we may fall into the abyss of being inflicted by seriouspsychological if we harness it and take it as our source ofinspiration,we may ultimately enjoy the glory of success.
Thank you for your listening!
have you ever Dreamt of being in the movies? maybe you're a bit of a thespian? but what if you don't have matinee-idol looks? well, if you're creative and write well you could make your mark in hollywood as a screenwriter instead.
tony gilroy is one of hollywood's most sought-after screenwriters, with blockbusters such as the devil's advocate, armageddon and the bourne identity under his belt.
his advice to budding screenwriters is to make stuff up but keep it real. gilroy believes knowing about human behaviour is the deal-breaker. according to him, "the quality of your writing will be directly related to your understanding of human behaviour".
he says: "you need to become a journalist for the movie that is in your head. you need to report on it; every scene has to be real."
gilroy also thinks you've got to start with a very small idea that you can build on. for example, the bourne films are based on novels by the writer robert ludlum, but gilroy says he didn't actually read them. instead he created a world around the character of jason bourne, a spy who has lost his memory and tries to discover his own identity.
gilroy says: "the smallest thing with bourne was, 'if i don't know who i am and i don't know where i'm from, perhaps i can identify who i am by what i know how to do'. we built a whole new world around that small idea."
in short, he explains: "you just start small, you build out and you move one step after the next and that's how you write a hollywood movie".
one thing a screenwriter can't do without though, is a thick skin. you've got to learn how to handle rejection. even when you're successful. gilory was nominated for an Oscar for his script for michael clayton, starring george clooney. but the 20xx award in that category went to brook busey-maurio, for her debut script for the film juno.
so, do you think you have what it takes to consider a career in the movies?
Look, I had second thoughts, really, about whether I could talk about this to such a vital and alive audience as you guys. Then I remembered the quote from Gloria Steinem, which goes, "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." (Laughter) So -- (Laughter)
So with that in mind, I'm going to set about trying to do those things here, and talk about dying in the 21st century. Now the first thing that will piss you off, undoubtedly, is that all of us are, in fact, going to die in the 21st century. There will be no exceptions to that. There are, apparently, about one in eight of you who think you're immortal, on surveys, but -- (Laughter) Unfortunately, that isn't going to happen.
While I give this talk, in the next 10 minutes, a hundred million of my cells will die, and over the course of today, 2,000 of my brain cells will die and never come back, so you could argue that the dying process starts pretty early in the piece.
Anyway, the second thing I want to say about dying in the 21st century, apart from it's going to happen to everybody, is it's shaping up to be a bit of a train wreck for most of us, unless we do something to try and reclaim this process from the rather inexorable trajectory that it's currently on.
So there you go. That's the truth. No doubt that will piss you off, and now let's see whether we can set you free. I don't promise anything. Now, as you heard in the intro, I work in intensive care, and I think I've kind of lived through the heyday of intensive care. It's been a ride, man. This has been fantastic. We have machines that go ping. There's many of them up there. And we have some wizard technology which I think has worked really well, and over the course of the time I've worked in intensive care, the death rate for males in Australia has halved, and intensive care has had something to do with that. Certainly, a lot of the technologies that we use have got something to do with that.
So we have had tremendous success, and we kind of got caught up in our own success quite a bit, and we started using expressions like "lifesaving." I really apologize to everybody for doing that, because obviously, we don't. What we do is prolong people's lives, and delay death, and redirect death, but we can't, strictly speaking, save lives on any sort of permanent basis.
And what's really happened over the period of time that I've been working in intensive care is that the people whose lives we started saving back in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, are now coming to die in the 21st century of diseases that we no longer have the answers to in quite the way we did then.
So what's happening now is there's been a big shift in the way that people die, and most of what they're dying of now isn't as amenable to what we can do as what it used to be like when I was doing this in the '80s and '90s.
So we kind of got a bit caught up with this, and we haven't really squared with you guys about what's really happening now, and it's about time we did. I kind of woke up to this bit in the late '90s when I met this guy. This guy is called Jim, Jim Smith, and he looked like this. I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care. His daughter's here and she wants everything possible to be done." Which is a familiar phrase to us. So I go down to the ward and see Jim, and his skin his translucent like this. You can see his bones through the skin. He's very, very thin, and he is, indeed, very sick with pneumonia, and he's too sick to talk to me, so I talk to his daughter Kathleen, and I say to her, "Did you and Jim ever talk about what you would want done if he ended up in this kind of situation?" And she looked at me and said,
"No, of course not!" I thought, "Okay. Take this steady." And I got talking to her, and after a while, she said to me, "You know, we always thought there'd be time."
Jim was 94. (Laughter) And I realized that something wasn't happening here. There wasn't this dialogue going on that I imagined was happening. So a group of us started doing survey work, and we looked at four and a half thousand nursing home residents in Newcastle, in the Newcastle area, and discovered that only one in a hundred of them had a plan about what to do when their hearts stopped beating. One in a hundred. And only one in 500 of them had plan about what to do if they became seriously ill. And I realized, of course, this dialogue is definitely not occurring in the public at large.
I'm a lifelong traveler. Even as a little kid, I was actually working out that it would be cheaper to go to boarding school in England than just to the best school down the road from my parents' house in California.
我這輩子都是個旅行者。 即使還是一個小孩子的時候， 我便了解，事實上， 去讀英國寄宿學校會比 去加州父母家附近 最好的學校就讀還來得便宜。
So, from the time I was nine years old I was flying alone several times a year over the North Pole, just to go to school. And of course the more I flew the more I came to love to fly, so the very week after I graduated from high school, I got a job mopping tables so that I could spend every season of my 18th year on a different continent.
所以，當我 9 歲時， 我在一年中，會獨自飛行幾回， 穿越北極，就只是去上學。 當然，飛得越頻繁， 我越是愛上旅行， 所以就在我高中畢業後一週， 我找到一份清理桌子的工作， 為了讓自己可以在 18 歲那年， 在地球不同的大陸上， 分別待上一季。
And then, almost inevitably, I became a travel writer so my job and my joy could become one.
接著，幾乎不可避免地 我成了一個旅遊作家， 使我的工作和志趣 可以結合在一塊兒。
And I really began to feel that if you were lucky enough to walk around the candlelit temples of Tibet or to wander along the seafronts in Havana with music passing all around you, you could bring those sounds and the high cobalt skies and the flash of the blue ocean back to your friends at home, and really bring some magic and clarity to your own life.
我真的開始發覺 如果你可以幸運地 漫步於西藏的燭光寺廟， 或者在音樂的繚繞間 悠然信步於哈瓦那海岸， 你便能將那聲音、天際 與靛藍海洋的閃爍光芒 帶給你家鄉的朋友， 真確地捎來些許神奇， 點亮自身生命。
Except, as you all know, one of the first things you learn when you travel is that nowhere is magical unless you can bring the right eyes to it.
除了，如你們所知， 當旅行時，你學到的第一件事情是 你必須以正確的視角看世界， 否則大地依然黯淡無光。
You take an angry man to the Himalayas, he just starts complaining about the food. And I found that the best way that I could develop more attentive and more appreciative eyes was, oddly, by going nowhere, just by sitting still.
你帶一個易怒的男人爬喜馬拉雅山， 他只會抱怨那兒的食物。 我發現，有點怪異的是， 最好的讓自己可以培養 更專注和更珍惜世界的視角的訣竅是 哪兒都不去，靜止於原處即可。
And of course sitting still is how many of us get what we most crave and need in our accelerated lives, a break. But it was also the only way that I could find to sift through the slideshow of my experience and make sense of the future and the past.
當然呆在原地正是我們許多人 尋常所得到的東西， 我們都渴望在快速的生活中獲得休息。 但那卻是我唯一的方法， 讓自己可以重歷自身的經驗幻燈， 理解未來與過去。
And so, to my great surprise, I found that going nowhere was at least as exciting as going to Tibet or to Cuba.
如此，我驚異地發現， 我發現無所去處 和遊覽西藏或古巴一樣，令人興奮。
And by going nowhere, I mean nothing more intimidating than taking a few minutes out of every day or a few days out of every season, or even, as some people do, a few years out of a life in order to sit still long enough to find out what moves you most, to recall where your truest happiness lies and to remember that sometimes making a living and making a life point in opposite directions.
無所去處，只不過意謂著 每天花幾分鐘， 或每季花幾天， 甚至，如同有些人所做的， 在生命中花上幾年 長久地靜思於某處， 尋找感動你最多的一瞬， 回憶你最真實的幸福時刻， 同時記住， 有時候，謀生與生活 彼此是處於光譜線上的兩端的。
And of course, this is what wise beings through the centuries from every tradition have been telling us.
當然，這是明智的眾生歷經幾百年 從每個傳統中所告訴我們的。
It's an old idea. More than 2,000 years ago, the Stoics were reminding us it's not our experience that makes our lives, it's what we do with it.
這是一個古老的概念。 早在兩千多年前， 斯多葛學派提醒我們 並不是我們的經驗 成就了我們的生命， 而是我們用那經驗做了什麼。
Imagine a hurricane suddenly sweeps through your town and reduces every last thing to rubble. One man is traumatized for life.
想象一下，一陣颶風 迅速撲向你的城市， 將所有一切化為廢墟。 某個人身心遭受終身頓挫
But another, maybe even his brother, almost feels liberated, and decides this is a great chance to start his life anew. It's exactly the same event, but radically different responses. There is nothing either good or bad, as Shakespeare told us in "Hamlet," but thinking makes it so.
但另一個人，也許甚至是他的兄弟， 卻幾乎感覺釋懷， 並認定，這是一個可以 使自己重獲新生的重要機會。 這是同樣的事件， 截然不同的迴應。 沒有什麼是絕對的好壞， 正如莎士比亞 在《哈姆雷特》中所告訴我們的， 好壞由思維決定。
And this has certainly been my experience as a traveler. Twenty-four years ago I took the most mind-bending trip across North Korea. But the trip lasted a few days.
Hi, everybody. Sunday is Father’s Day. If you haven’t got Dad a gift yet,there’s still time. Just barely. But the truth is, what we give our fathers cannever match what our fathers give us.
大家好。週日是父親節。如果你還沒有給爸爸準備禮物，現在還來得及。大大方方地。但是事實上，我們給父親們的永遠比不上父親們給我們的。
I know how important it is to have a dad in your life, because I grew upwithout my father around. I felt the weight of his absence. So for Michelle andour girls, I try every day to be the husband and father my family didn’t havewhen I was young. And every chance I get, I encourage fathers to get moreinvolved in their children’s lives, because what makes you a man isn’t theability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.
我深知你們一生中有個父親是何等重要，因為我從小到大沒有父親。我深知沒有他我們的艱難。所以對米切爾和我們的兩個女兒，我每天都努力做一個好丈夫和好爸爸，這是我這時候家裡沒有的。我總是利用一切機會鼓勵父親們更多地融入孩子們的生活，因為這使你成為一個不止是有能力生孩子的男人，而是有撫養孩子的勇氣的男人。
Still, over the past couple years, I’ve met with a lot of young people whodon’t have a father figure around. And while there’s nothing that can replace aparent, any of us can do our part to be a mentor, a sounding board, a role modelfor a kid who needs one. Earlier this year, I launched an initiative
called My Brother’s Keeper – an all-hands-on-deck effort to help more ofour young men reach their full potential. And if you want to be a mentor to ayoung man in your community, you can find out how /MyBrothersKeeper.
還有，在過去的幾年裡，我遇到很多沒有父親的年輕人。儘管沒有什麼可以取代一個家長，我們中的任何人都可以儘自己的努力成為導師，一個傾聽者和孩子需要的任何角色。今年早些時候，我推出了一個叫做“弟弟的監護人”的動議--一個人人盡責的努力旨在幫助我們的年輕人發揮他們的潛能。
Now, when I launched this initiative, I said that government can’t play theprimary role in a young person’s life. Taking responsibility for being a greatparent or mentor is a choice that we, as individuals, have to make. Nogovernment program can ever take the place of a parent’s love. Still, as acountry, there are ways we can help support dads and moms who make thatchoice.
當我推出這個動議的時候，我說政府不能在任何年輕人的生活中起主導作用。擔起作為偉大的父母或導師的責任是我們作為個人必須做出的選擇。沒有一個政府專案可以取代父母的愛。還有，作為一個國家，我們有很多方式幫助父親們和母親們做出這個選擇。
That’s why, earlier this week, we brought working dads from across Americato the White House to talk about the challenges they face. And in a few weeks,I’ll hold the first-ever White House Working Families Summit. We’ve still gottoo many workplace policies that belong in the 1950s, and it’s time to bringthem up to date for today’s families, where oftentimes, both parents areworking. Moms and dads deserve affordable child care, and time off to care for asick parent or child without running into hardship. Women deserve equal pay forequal work – and at a time when more women
are breadwinners for a family, that benefits men, too. And because noparent who works full-time should have to raise a family in poverty, it’s timefor Congress to follow the lead of state after state, get on the bandwagon, andgive America a raise.
這就是為什麼本週早些時候，我們邀請了一些來自全美各地的工薪父親們來到白宮討論我們面對的挑戰。在今後幾周裡，我將在白宮舉辦白宮工薪家庭峰會。我們現在有很多職場政策還是1950年代的，現在是使它們跟上今天的家庭的時候了，這些家庭通常是雙親都工作。母親們和父親們理應得到可承受的兒保，可以請假照顧生病的父母或孩子而不至於陷入困境。婦女理應得到同工同酬待遇--當更多婦女成為家庭支柱時，男人也從中受益。因為我們不允許任何全職父母支撐一個家庭就要陷入貧困，所以現在是國會緊跟一個又一個州的潮流，給美國一個提升。
Dads work hard. So our country should do what we can to make sure theirhard work pays off; to make sure life for them and their families is a littleless stressful, and a little more secure, so they can be the dads their kidsneed them to be. Because there’s nothing more precious in life than the time wespend with our children. There’s no better feeling than knowing that we can bethere for them, and provide for them, and help give them every shot atsuccess.
父親們勤奮工作。所以我們的國家應該盡力讓他們的努力得到回報;確保他們和他們的家庭的生活更加成功一點，更加安全一點，以使他們成為他們的孩子們想要的父親們。因為人生中沒有什麼比他們花在孩子們身上的時間更加珍貴了。沒有什麼比知道我們就在他們的身邊，為他們提供他們需要的，給他們任何成功的機會更加幸福的感覺了。
Let’s make sure every dad who works hard and takes responsibility has thechance to know that feeling, not just on one Sunday, but every day of theyear.
讓我們保證每個辛勤工作承擔責任的父親有機會不僅在一個週日，而是年年月月日日有這種感覺。
Thanks everybody, happy Father’s Day, and have a great weekend.
謝謝，父親節快樂，週末快樂。
Hello everyone,
I’m happy to be here. I’d like to introduce myself
My name is Yan Yuhan. My English name is Anita.
I’m 7 years old, I’m a student, I’m in class three grade one
I am very glad to make a speech here! This time, I'd like to talk something about English. My topic is “I Love English”。
我很高興可以在這裡做一次演講。這一次，我想談談英語。我講的話題是我愛英語。
When I was young, my mother sent me to an English school. At there, I played games and sang English songs with others . Then I discovered the beauty of the language, and began my colorful dream in the English world.
當我還小的時候，我的媽媽送我到一間英語學校。在那兒，我和其它的小朋友們玩遊戲，我發現這種語言的優美之處，從那時開始就對英語有著色彩斑斕的夢。
Everyday, I read English following the tapes. Sometimes, I watch English cartoons.
每天，我跟磁帶讀英語，有時也看看英語卡通片。
I know, Rome was not built in a day. I believe that after continuous hard study, one day I can speak English very well.
我知道，羅馬不是一天築成的.。(成功需要日積月累。)我相信在持續不斷的努力學習下，總有一天我可以擁有一口流利的英語。
my dream home is very big and clean. it has at least five floors and fifteen rooms. on the ground floor, there is a kitchen, a dining room and a bathroom. there are no other rooms on the ground floor. my bedroom, study, bathroom are on the first floor. they are all very comfortable. my parents’ room is on the second floor. it’s also very big and clean. my grandparents live with us in this big house, too. their rooms are on the third floor. on the fourth floor, there is a big balcony. i can play games, read books and chat with friends there. i also have a big and nice garden. it is beside the big house. there are many flowers and vegetables in it. it has a big tree. in summer, i can sit under the tree with my family. behind the garden, there is a swimming pool. i can swim with my friends in summer. i think it is very comfortable to live in my dream home.
Everyone has pressure, as long as you have things done or to heart, the pressure will go unnoticed in the attachment in the man's body, cause all sorts of "symptoms", for example: can't sleep, reduce appetite, or in a bad mood... And so on.
My pressure is not home after finish homework can't write, often busy to midnight; Dad's pressure is accounting work done; Mother's pressure because he was a career woman, a candle burning at both ends and worry can't give attention to both family and work is good, and her sister's pressure is myopic degree increased very fast, it is difficult to control.
Pressure are not necessarily bad, there are also some is good. The rules in our class, for example: not diligent student didn't change class will not be able to finish homework, because of the pressure, a heartbreaker for these people, finally they decided to change my homework finished, also get real learning, no longer look for excuses to slack off. So the pressure is often motivates us go forward.
Large and small pressure exists in our life, we should be appropriate to adjust the mood, the pressure into power, so as to let the life become more colorful.
good morning/afternoon/evening to mr.____(your teacher's name) and my friends.
i would like to introduce you a short novel named “the old man and the sea”.
it is written by ernest hemingway in cuba in 1951 and published in 1952.
the story of an aging, life-long fisherman who attempts to find himself, and hopefully a fish, on a fishing trip in the gulf waters off cuba.
after spending most of his life alone and losing his only companion who is a young cuban boy, the old man heads out to sea once again.
his 84 days without a notable catch end on this trip, but will he be able to defeat the odds after catching a gigantic marlin?
this short novel is universal in its consideration of the plight of an old man struggling against age, loneliness, mortality, humility and poverty to maintain his identity and dignity. apart from that, the cheerful and optimistic old man wants to reestablish his reputation in the community. besides, he also wants to ensure for all time his relationship with those he loves and to whom he hopes to paon everything he values the most. finally, he survives and wins the battle. this has shown his heroic struggle not only redeems himself but also inspires and spiritually enriches those around him.
Life on earth are the most valuable things money can not buy、jewelry—for—not go back. Life only once、should not renewable and will not re—COME. Students、and your life has just begun blooming flower、you are prosperous home sustenance、development of the Chinese nation are the hope of；your future offspring transmission of both task and maintenance obligations of parents. Therefore、you have to cherish life and take care of life、for themselves and for parents、good for homeland alive.
Life for each person only once、no life、everything is no—go. Therefore、we must firmly embrace the "Yes to life、safety first" awareness of construction safety of our campus so that students can grow up healthily.
Campus safety relates to our lives and learning potential safety problems have as many as 20 kinds、including traffic accidents、poisoning、fire fire、drowning、sports injury and so on. These are at times a threat to the healthy growth of young students. According to statistics、every year our country has around 16、000 unnatural deaths in the primary、elementary and middle school students because of safety accidents、food poisoning、drowning and other deaths、the average has more than 40 people every day、that is to say every day there will be a class of students at "disappeared." So we not only have safety awareness、and more importantly、prevention awareness and preventive measures. Study at daily life、we should note the following：
One、pay attention to safety recess activity. Want the students up and down stairs in an orderly manner and must not hurriedly up and down、up and down the stairs right to cultivate the good habit of walking to prevent accidents on campus crowded stampede. Rainy at our school buildings and office building corridor、staircase、will be very slippery、please the whole Student must light when walking at the foot walk. Everyone should pay attention to civilization recess breaks should not chased noisy.
it is necessary to pay attention to traffic safety. We must strictly comply with rules of the road、without people to ride、not red light running、horse way to go before crosswalks、it is necessary to take the initiative to avoid motor vehicles. Not want to develop the habit of school by bike.
pay attention to food safety. Not to buy "three noes" of food；we should not be at the school gate and street stalls mobile buy snacks、to prevent food poisoning. To learn how to protect themselves、take care of themselves、pay attention not to overeating、try eating less food cold.
it is necessary to pay attention to sports safety. On physical education and extra—curricular activities to prepare before the warming—up、attention should be paid to exercise when not to dramatic collision、so as not to be knocked down or fall.
it is necessary to pay attention to Internet security. Network is a very good learning tool、we can use it to gather information、broaden our horizon. But the network also has a lot of harm、if unhealthy Internet browsing web pages、or indulge in unrestrained virtual space、then it will affect our physical and mental health.
students for their own actions but also have safety awareness. Student encountered at the contradictions between、we want a calm、rational、should not substitute for reasoning with fists、give themselves and their classmates bring about adverse effects. Conflict with the people must bear in mind：the broader picture.
Teacher and fellow students、only one person's life. A collision、a wrestling are probably the lives of vulnerable people's hard to imagine the harm caused. Therefore want to protect their own safety、we comply with the minimum required、the most simple rules and order. Let us bear in mind：human life、safety first！Let us work together to create a harmonious campus、campus safety！
Chinese New Year is the most important festivity for the Chinese people. Itis also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.
Every year has an animal’s name. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger,rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chineselegend says that these twelve animals had a race. The first year was named afterthe rat, the winner. The other eleven years were named after the order in whichthe animals arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the ox’s back thenat the end jumped over the ox’s head to arrive first!
The Chinese believe that a person born in a particular year has some of thecharacteristics of animal.
On Chinese New Year’s Eve all family members enjoy a big, delicious is very important for the Chinese to be with their families on this is always part of the dinner because it represents abundance.
On New Year’s Day all Chinese children wear new clothes with bright is considered a lucky color. Parents and relatives give children thetraditional New Year’s gift called lucky money. This money is put into brightred and gold envelopes. Fill under the pillow. in the morning of new year , thekid wakes up to see the “lucky money”, express that oneself become one yearolder. Red is a traditional color for festivals, celebrations, weddings andbirthdays.
The lion dancers are always part of the festivities. The lion has a bighead and long body made of cloth. The lion dance is accompanied by drums,cymbals and noisy firecrackers. According to ancient traditions the great noisefrightens away evil spirits.
The dragon is the most important figure of the Chinese New Year festivitiesand parades. The dragon is considered a lucky figure. A parade dragon can be 20to 30 meters long! Sixty or more men move under a long cloth that represents thedragon’s tail.
During the parade children represent the animals of the Chinese e are also acrobats and musicians in beautiful costumes.
Happy New Year!
We want to hold a green Olympic Games ,so everyone should do somethinguseful to protect the environment ,whether it is big or small.
我們要舉辦一個綠色奧運，每個人都應該做些無論是大或小的有用的事來保護環境。
We should do something to stop people from doing bad things to theenvironment should put rubbish into dustbins instead of throwing it yone must care for flowers ,grass and tress in public shound collectthings like paper ,plastic bags our neighborhood as well ,it’s necessary toplant more trees every year .
我們應該做些什麼來阻止人們對環境做一些不好的事情。我們應該把垃圾放進垃圾箱而不是直接扔了，每個人都必須愛護公共場所的花，草，樹木。我們應該收集社群的一些像紙，塑料袋的東西，每年種植更多的樹是必要的。
It is everyone’s duty to make our neighborhood much better with our handsminds ’s make a contribution to protecting the environment and the PlympicGames successfully.
用我們的雙手和頭腦使我們的社群變得更好是我們每一個人的職責。讓我們為保護環境做貢獻，祝奧運會成功。
The judges dear colleagues:
Everybody is good!
I believe that not long ago the unit of organization training to everyone left a deep impression that are in high altitude timid to conquer yourself after the joy of encouragement and warm embrace together to complete the project after the excited tears dribs and drabs are so vivid and real stayed in our memory forever. Flow through the sweat and tears we can understand the what?
From the beginning my team is faced with many difficulties: older on average physical quality is bad the heart not neat team such as fragmented... Therefore we wryly his team named "sunset". Still we devote and participation in gradually found that team's weakness overcome difficulties strengthen communication and cooperation at the same time of brave to challenge themselves a concerted effort to complete each project.
In big bully game our feet together formed the containment the players have different walking speed bad grasp rhythm we walked so hard. Any error the team cannot be further. Us against each other from the original suspicion eventually realized that to complete the project the heart want to go to one place time to go to one place. We try to roll up the arm to form a whole we shouted rhythm slowly have the tacit understanding try to be consistent pace although difficult but insist on comes to an end. In our understanding expand training for first as long as everyone in the team to be able to devote to complete each project has been a great success!
And escape the walls of the project is completed let me see the potential of everyone in the group of excitation and a collective work need the tacit understanding and sacrifice. Initially for all 70 individuals in the case of can't talk to climb over 4 meters high wall of escape 2 I was skeptical I think even a person to climb this wall is impossible. When have I the idea of people may not be in the minority. In the hesitation we according to the coach teaching method into action but because the teams who violated the rules not only to stop by the coach also let the chief generation we are being punished. The drizzle our mood become very heavy involuntarily shed a tear. Second everyone seemed to have the tacit understanding pull up a ladder and protective wall and do you remember the rules no longer talk clapping laughing concentrate on what we want to do together act quickly. First up 10 best efforts of the colleagues below build a ladder with colleagues endured the pain of shoulder and legs everyone in the mind only one idea: we took a ship to sink must help all players within the given time climb walls to escape!
This process the prism is sacrifice and cooperate. A team must be someone in silently sacrifice but the pay all the players look in the eyes in mind. Individual's success is not the success of the team only a smooth over all is the real victory so we must put our heads together in the most efficient the most appropriate way to the end of the day a colleague over the past to this end everyone to his own effort. After the completion of the project the coach announced we took only a quarter of the time at that moment everybody finally tasted the joy of victory.
From training I also realized that each person all the time since birth not grow in the team oneself is a member of the collective the first thing to give full play to their potential trying to do their work to strengthen coordination play to their ability to innovate. Second the development of the team is the real development. Encounter a problem must focus on the wisdom of the whole team to form a unified plan then according to the plan implementation adjustment method and strategy in time to be the best. Third will not give up speaking out of turn strengthen the courage and perseverance believe you can do it. The fourth is to learn the perspective-taking standing in the other person's point of view for others change an Angle to think more understanding and more caring.
In our successful challenge behind each project from beginning to end is the common effort of all our players. We are a whole only trust each other support each other make oneself should do a good job in every step of the way can our collective into a rich combat effectiveness the execution of the team.
Through this training activities let I to team consciousness and personal role in the team feeling to the deep. If from the activities of the comprehension to the reasonable use of in the future work we believe that our tomorrow will be better our team will be more powerful and perfect!
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