SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
编者按: 如果我们能扩大视野、拓宽思路，就会发现每个人身上都有创在的天分。正是这种创造力让每个生命的个体独具个性，在永恒之脉上有一席之地。如果我们能认识到这一点，我相信我会发现自己生活在一个激情澎湃、充满奇遇与革新的时代，它将带领我们走向一个更美更好的世界。 The thread of permanence By William Zorach It is strange how certain things make a great impression on us in childhood. ...
A new Version1) of Washington and Cherry Tree Mr．Washington looked at the cherry tree and scratched his chin．“Now George，”he said to his son，“Are you sure you had nothing to do with chopping2) this tree down？”“I don’t clearly recall chopping this tree down，”answered George．“Isn’t this your axe3)？”asked the father，pointing to the tool on the ground by the stump of th...
编者按： 要无所畏惧而不是听天由命。因为你明白，我相信当我满怀诚意，静静等待事情发生时，它们便会发生。这并不是一种消极的状态，而是对自己真正处境的了解。 The Art of Bouncing Back by Joyce Grenfell I think the center of my faith is an absolute certainty of good. Like everyone else, I get low and there are times when I feel as if I have my fins backwards and am swimming upstream...
编者按: 晨曦是我的亚述古国； 日落和明月是我梦想中怕弗仙境；正午是我感觉与理解中是英格兰；夜晚是我神秘哲思与梦境的德意志。 The Beauty of Nature Nature satisfies by its loveliness,and without any mixture of corporeal benefit.I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house,from daybreak to sunrise,with emotions which an angel might share.The long slender b...
The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast- Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms. Tree you are, Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child – so high – you are, And all this is folly to the world. By Ezra Pound 少女 树长进我的手心， 树叶升上我的手臂， 树在我的前胸 朝下长， 树枝象手臂从...
编者按: 如果弱小的我无法掌握宇宙的特征，至少我能在自己窄小的轨道里按我的信念生活，从其他人那里获得力量，直到有一天所有的人都能休息一下——去招待自己的灵魂。 Two Commandments Are Enough By Peggy Wood Occasionally my mother used to announce that she was going to take time out from the day’s activities “to rest,” she would say, “and to invite my soul.̶...
You don’t have to pay for lightning Teacher：Who can tell me the difference between lightning and electricity？ Student：You don’ t have to pay for lightning. 老师：谁能告诉我闪电与电的区别？ 学生：闪电不用付钱。 NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲与辩论大赛（大学组）/SDcamps全国中小学生英语演讲与辩论大会（中小学及幼儿组）/美式辩论赛（以下简称大赛/大会）现诚招全国省市合作伙伴或城市合...
编者按: 我终于意识到真正的幸福来自人的精神世界，来自人的心智与灵魂。诚然，在这个纷扰喧嚣的时世，想拥有宁静祥和的内心世界并非易事，这需要我们时常反省、冥思，还要自律。坦然直面自己实属不易。（你得有耐心，能体谅，只要可能，寻求上帝的帮助。）而一旦你的精神世界能真正远离暴风骤雨和阴风邪气的侵犯，你必将获得无比丰厚的回报。 A Reporter Quotes His Sources It’s rather difficult in the...
14 years ago, I gave a commencement speech at another New Jersey school. 14年前，我在新泽西的另一所学校做了一场毕业演讲。 Through the magic of Google search, I was able to do a "back to the future moment," 通过谷歌搜索的魔力，我得以“回到未来时刻”， looking back on my words to see if any of what I had to say to the class of 2001 stood up today. 回顾我之前所说的话，...
How do you define … "Daily active usage" seems like a really dangerous term to be optimizing. Taken, 你是如何定义……过于美化“每日活跃参与度”这个数值似乎是一件危险的事， taken alone, it is, but you didn't let me finish the other metric, which is, we're watching for conversations and conversation chains. 确实，如果你单独讨论这个数值的话，但你得让我介绍其...
We had to get lucky in a lot of different ways. And sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good. 在很多方面我们都需要幸运的眷顾。有时，运气比正确操作更重要。 In this case, we were both, I like to think. But light had to come from the black hole. 我认为这一次，我们不但操作正确，运气也很好。但我们需要接收来自黑洞的光线。 It had to come through intergalactic space, through...
Fortunately, in the 1950's, conformity was encouraged — though we were also in a period of transition. 幸运的是，20世纪50年代，人们鼓励随大流–虽然当时我们也处于转型期。 Women were finding our voices at Wellesley, but we were also expected to be young ladies — except perhaps during that occasional outing to Boston. 在韦尔斯利学院妇女有话语权，但人们还是...
You'll see here that some light from behind it gets lensed, and some light does a loop-the-loop around the entire orbit of the black hole. 你现在看到的是在黑洞后面的一些光透过它，有些光的确会一直绕着黑洞转。 But when you get enough light from all this hot gas swirling around the black hole, 但如果光足够多，它们来自黑洞周围的高温气体中， then you wind up seeing all of the...
Let's see what you guys are asking. I mean, this is — generally, one of the amazing things about Twitter is how you can use it for crowd wisdom, 让我们看看你们在问什么。我觉得，这是——总体而言，推特的特点之一在于它能够集中大众智慧， you know, that more knowledge, more questions, more points of view than you can imagine, and sometimes, many of them are really healthy...
This is a very powerful black hole. Not by universal standards, it's still powerful, 这是一个强有力的黑洞。虽然不是公认的，但它依然非常强大， and from the north and south poles of this black hole we think that jets are coming. 在这个黑洞的北极和南极，我们认为射线正从这两段过来。 Now, we're too close to really see all the jet structure, but it's the base of those ...
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. 命运已经落定，为了和平而前往探索月球的人将在月球上安息。 These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. 这些勇敢的人，尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和埃德温·奥尔德林，知道他们没有返回的希望。 But they also know that there is hope ...
Well, do you, though? Because that's the core question that a lot of people want to know. 并且——安德森：你是这么想的吗？这是许多人想问的一个核心问题。 Surely, Jack, you're constrained, to a huge extent, by the fact that you're a public company, you've got investors pressing on you, 当然，杰克，你在很大程度上受到约束，因为这是一家上市公司，你会收到投资者的压力...
So say EPC. EPC. Say it, EPC! EPC! 说EPC！EPC！说EPC！EPC！ "I like to say it with pride now, when you do it, do it well, and make sure that it counts. You're not down with a discount." “我喜欢自豪地说出来。如果你要偷情，就尽情地去吧，好好享受这其中的激情全没半点折扣。” You down with EPC? Yeah, you know me! 你对EPC无法自拔吗？是啊，你懂的！ Now, I had always be...
Good morning, Mayor Redd, President Barchi, Chancellor Haddon, governors, trustees, alumni, family, friends, 早上好，雷德市长，巴奇校长，哈登校长，理事们，校董们，校友们，家长们，朋友们， and especially, the graduating class of Rutgers-Camden, congratulations! 尤其是罗格斯大学卡姆登分校的毕业生们，恭喜你们！ I want to thank you for inviting me here today on one of the most s...
Life is a long, bumpy road, but that makes for an exciting ride. 人生是一条漫长崎岖的道路，却也因此成为一段令人兴奋的旅程。 Choose a direction, and if the road turns — turn! 选择一个方向，如果这条路转弯了–那就随着转吧！ If there is a fork in the road — take it! 如果路上出现了岔路口，那就做出选择吧！ It's OK to map out your future — but do it in pe...