SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
编者按： 正如要想拥有自由就要时刻保持警惕一样，要想取得伟大的，持久的成功，就必须坚持不懈地努力。 If I Rest, I Rust The significantinscriptionfound on an old key—“If I rest, I rust”—would be an excellent motto for those who areafflictedwith the slightest bit ofidleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder that, if...
Clear Your Mental Space Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion—like stress, anger, or frustration. What was going through your mind as you were going through thatnegativity? Was your mindclutteredwith thoughts? Or was it paralyzed, unable to think? The next time you find yourself in the middle of a very stressful time, or you feel angry or frustrated, st...
All you remember about your child being twelve is sitting in the stands during baseball practice and hoping your child’s team would strike out fast because you had more important things to do at home. The coach didn’t understand how busy you were. You wished the baseball season would be over soon. All you remember about your child being fourteen is being asked no...
编者按： 成功的首要条件和最大秘诀就是：把你的精力，思想和资本全都集中在你正从事的事业上。一旦开始从事某种职业，就要下定决心在那一领域闯出一片天地来；做这一行的领导人物，采纳每一点改进之心，采用最优良的设备，对专业知识熟稔于心。 The Road to Success It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessme...
Learning: a Lifelong Career As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity. Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reason...
Eternal Love (A man facing death leaves this for his wife) Your love is priceless,that is the best part of you that nothing could buy, or replace. I recall that look in your eyes, when I stood there saying, dancing now or never,and I knew then you had a love that would last forever…all I had to do was find it, and tell you it would be ok. It was, and is…and while...
编者按： 人生的完整性在于知道如何面对缺陷，如何勇敢地摒弃不现实的幻想而又不以此为缺憾。 Once a circle missed awedge. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way. It chatted with worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of diff...
The lives of most men are determined by their enviroment.They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even with good will.They are like streetcars running contendedly on their rails and they despise the sprightly flitter that dashes in and out of the traffic and speeds so jauntily across the open country .I respct them; they are good...
I am nature’s greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. All men are my brothers yet I am different from each . I am an unique creature. Although i am ...
引言： 就为了今天，我将不再害怕。尤其我不会再害怕享受美丽的事物，并且相信我给予世界的，世界也会给予我。 Just for today Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what...
Today I begin a new life. And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life’s growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not , I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments spent each day on this new habit are but a...
The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman, “How have you done so much in your lifetime?” He replied, “I have dreamed. I have turned my mind loose to imagine what I wanted to do. Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams. In the night I dreamt about my dreams. And when I awoke in the morning, I saw the way to make my dreams rea...
Consider… YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You’re better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion… You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity!!! You’re amazing! YouR...
Equipment Figure it out for yourself, my lad. You have got all that the great have had: two arms, two legs, two hands, two eyes, and a brain to use if you’d be wise. With this equipment they all began, so start for the top and say” I can”. Look them over the wise and the great. They take their food from a common plate. With similar knives and forks they u...
I'll try ——C.G Rossetti The little boy who says "I’ll try" Will climb to the hill-top. The little boy who says "I can’t". Will at the bottom stop. 'I'll try" does great things every day. "I can't" gets nothing done. Be sure then that you say "I'll try" And let "I can't" alone. 我要试试 说“我要试试...
编者按： 如果你对当前中国那里所发生的种种感到兴趣，那么你便可说也活在中国；如果你对一本佳妙小说中的人物感到兴趣，你便是活在一批极有趣的人们中间；如果你能全神贯注地听点好的音乐，你就会超脱出你的周围环境而活在一个充满激情与想象的神奇世界之中。 To be or not to be Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world.They were spoken by Hamlet...
A Forever Friend “A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out.” Sometimes in life, you find a special friend; Someone who changes your life just by being part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop; Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door...
引言： 决定成败的不是你的大小，只要你做最好的自己! Be the best of whatever you are ——Douglas Malloch If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley—but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a bush be a bit of grass—— And some highway happier make. If you can&#...
When Henry ford decided to produce his famous v-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design in one for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece. Ford said, “Produc...
Room For The Future At the age of forty－five，my usually well－ordered life became fraught with changes． After twenty－two years of working for a major financial institution，a downsizing initiative and a major bank merger resulted in the elimination of over one hundred jobs，mine being one of them． My once secure future became a fallacy．However，I was one of the lucky o...