The Importance of Being Honest诚信无价In the busy city of New York, such an astonishing thing that ever happened.在繁华的纽约，曾经发生了这样一件震撼人心的事情。On a friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Though the music was great, people were quickly going home for the

One morning as Cam left the radio station, he saw a young man sitting in an old yellow Dodge in the parking lot Cam waved to him and drove away. When he went back to work that night, he noticed the car again, parked in the same space. After a couple of days, it dawned on him that this car had not mo

&quotIt means what you think you are singing is different from the music.&quot Sister patted my hand. &quotIt&#39s nothing to be ashamed of, dear. You will still be in the pageant. You will be a lip-syncher. You may mouth the words, but no sound must be uttered. Do you understand what I&#39m saying?

Courage勇气A father was worried about his son, who was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk to train his boy.一位父亲为儿子担心。儿子16岁了，却没有一点勇气。于是，父亲决定去拜访一位禅师，请他训练儿子。The Buddhist monk said to the boy&#39s father, &quotYou should leave your son alone here.

Life&#39s Journey生命的旅程Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.不要跟人攀比而妄自菲薄，It is because we are different that each of us is special.我们的独特之处正在于与众不同。Do not set your goals by what other people deem important.不要按别人的标准设定目标，Only you know what is best for you.只有你自己才明白什么最合适。Do not take

Keep Your Goals in Sight锁定目标When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the firs

The Brewer&#39s Son酿酒也疯狂When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to dissuade me from becoming a brewer. He&#39d spent his life brewing beer for local breweries, barely making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him. He didn&#39t want me anywhere near a vat of beer.在青少年时期，

Just for Today就为了今天Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not solve 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.就为了今天，我将尽力只度过今天而不立刻去解决终身的问题。对一件令我沮丧而又必须坚持一辈子的事，我只能坚持十二个小时。Just for today I will be ha

Ballad of the Bottom Dollar最后一美元Cameron , Mounger and I have been friends since we were teenagers.卡梅伦，我和mounger自从我们青少年的时候就是朋友。Both of us liked rock&#39n&#39roll, and several years after we left high school, Cam became a disc jockey.我们都喜欢摇滚乐，我们离开高中几年之后，卡梅伦成了一名DJ。Recently he told me the story about th

All Flowers Are Beautiful所有的花儿都美丽I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting.我在一个小镇上长大，在那儿，从我家步行到我就读的小学只要10分钟。在那个时代——其实就是不久以前，孩子们可以回家吃午饭，妈妈总在等着。At the ti

Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest hurdle yet: getting it into beer drinkers&#39 hands. Distributors all said the same thing: &quotYour beer is too expensive no one has ever heard of you.&quot So I figured I had to create a new category: the craft-brewed American beer. I needed a name that w

The Thing I Value Most我最珍视的东西It has been somtimes since Jack has seen the old man.College,girls ,career,and life itself got in the way.In fact,Jack moved clear crossed the country and persuit his dreams .There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no t

Then one day I met a friend who was wearing a very beautiful sweater. It was plain in color, but it had a lovely and unusual stitch.后来有一天，我遇到一位朋友，她穿着一件非常好看的毛线衫，毛线衫的色彩平淡，但是针法却可爱、别致。&quotDid you knit that sweater?&quot I asked her.我问她：&quot毛线衫是你织的吗？&quot&quotNo,&quot she answered. &quotIt was done by

Then Cam remembered his Frand Ole Opry dollar. He wrestled with his conscience a minute or two, pulled his wallet out and studied the bill. Then he walked back to the man and gave him his bottom dollar, &quotSomebody has written all over this ,&quotthe man said, but he didn&#39t notice that the writ

A Simple Hello 简单的一句问候I have always felt sympathy and compassion for the kids I see at school walking all alone, for the ones that sit in the back of the room while everyone snickers and makes fun of them.我一直对我看见的那些孩子保持同情和怜悯，在学校一个人孤零零走在路上的孩子，那些坐在教室最后面且被别人嘲笑和捉弄的孩子。But I never did anything about it. I

Your Name你的名字Jessica Blade杰西卡.布莱德I wrote your name in the sky,我把你的名字写在蓝天,but the wind blew it away.可风却把它吹散I wrote your name in the sand,我把你的名字写在沙滩,but the waves washed it away.可浪却把它冲散。I wrote your name in my heart,我把你的名字写在心间,and forever it will stay.它就留在那里,永远永远。NSDA“SDcamps”全国英语演讲/美式辩论赛 诚招省市合作伙伴 NS

You超凡卓越的你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&#39re better than one in a million, or a billion, or a gazillion…试

After the play, I took home the flower I had stuffed in the apron of my costume. My mother pressed it between two sheets of paper toweling in a dictionary, laughing as she did it that we were perhaps the only people who would press such a sorry-looking weed.演出结束后，我把那朵蒲公英塞进了我演出服的口袋里带回了家。妈妈把它压在两张纸巾之间再

Aunt Dolly&#39s Hat多莉姨妈的帽子Three things I was sure of as a child: My family loved me. The sun would come up tomorrow. I had a wonderful voice.I figured that was unquestionably true because I participated at the top of my lungs in all the family sing-alongs, and no one ever stopped me. So I was deligh

My first discovery was his grandmother&#39s great love of music. She spent hours playing her old, off-key piano. One day, she told me I didn&#39t have enough fun in my life and took it upon herself to teach me the art.我的第一个发现是他的祖母无比热爱音乐。她许多时候都在弹她那架又旧变调的钢琴。有一天，她说我的生活缺乏乐趣，并执意亲自教我艺术。Grandma was impress

A Mouse Trap鼠夹A Mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. &quotWhat food might this contain?&quot He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.一只老鼠透过墙上的裂缝看到农夫和他的妻子正在打开一个包裹。“里面可能装的是什么吃的呢？”它想。可是当它看到里面是一个捕鼠器的时候，它吓坏了。Retreating to the farmyard, the

We were like detectives, Mrs. Vidian and I. We put ourselves on the trail of any Armenians who lived in Paris. One friend led us to another. At last we tracked down women, each of whom could knit the special stitch. Two weeks later the sweaters were finished. And the first shipment from the new hous

&quotWhat box?&quot Mom asked.“什么盒子？”妈妈问。&quotThere 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&#39d ever tell me was, &#39The thing I value most.&#39 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

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 ad

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 p

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.&quotLook down, Elsa,&quot Father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in t

Otherwise we&#39re going to be making other people&#39s 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 fi

Piano Music难忘的钢琴曲There are advantages and disadvantages to coming from a large family. Make that a large family with a single parent, and they double. The disadvantages are never so apparent as when someone wants to go off to college. Parents have cashed in life insurance policies to cover the cost