ever since the dawning of the history of mankind, there have been myriads of diversifed inventions, discoveries, and even explorations of the mysteries of the universe. in fact, the human beings are so intelligent that we have solved almost all kinds of problems we have confronted with.

however, nobody has ever made out what the word love really connotes, not even the most famous people such as great politicians, saints and philosophers can clarify the meaning of love， neither can they deal with the various affairs concerning love. love is like a huge boundless net that shrouds us all in. we can neither break away from it nor escape from it. like it or not, we are always entangled in it. it is an invisible net without any form, that shrouds in different people from different angels; it is a merciless net that upsets us or even tortures us to death. it is also a supreme net which almost no human can surpass. even if they are heroes, emperors, wise men or saints, they can do nothing but show their helplessness in its face. those who can breathe through the holes of the net should be regarded beyond commonness and vulgarity. love can bring us temporary comfort and happiness, but mostly they bring about annoyance and sufferings. maybe this is the reason why many people have seen through the illusions of the mortal world. however it is not so easy to break away from this boundless, ever-existing and indifferent net of love.

love is varied and changeable, but roughly it can be divided into three categories: family love, fraternal love and amatory love. not like monkey king who jumped out of the rocks, we were all born after mother's pregnancy of about nine months, hence we have countless relatives without any choice: parents, grand-parents, and grand-parents-in-law, uncles and aunties, brothers and sisters, etc. and once looking at the genealogical tree, we'll see no end. family love is what everyone longs for, but the warmth and support from our beloved ones are what everyone yearns for the most. but how many of us are determined to contribute to our beloved one? and how many don't expect repayment and relaxed. conscience even if they have the desire and preparation to contribute to their beloved. the distance between relatives is different and so are their expectations. but since it's very difficult to know how much we should expect, a lot of worries and distresses emerge.

parents always expect their children to show their filial obedience, or at least pay them frequent visits after they have got married. if the children fail to do this, they feel hurt and upset, and they'll even complain about their children, because they just can't understand why their children don't care about them after what they have done for the children for so many years to bring them up. nevertheless, one's experience determines his ideology. young children are naturally attached to their parents, but when they grow up, specially when they have made their own friends, and got married, what they need most is independence and freedom, and parents sometimes might become their burden. once there is generation gap, it becomes more difficult to communicate and this keeps them away from their parents. objectively speaking, they need more independence in order to achieve success. in the present society, what the children want to have most is the economic support from their parents, not their moral support or guidance. they would complain if your economic support is not up to their expectations. the love from uncles and aunties would naturally dwindle after they have had their own children. only the love from grand-parents and grand parents-in-law is pure and demands no repayment, and they are also too old to wait for any repayment. as for the distant relatives, their love depends on their needs, just as the old saying goes the poor have no friends even if they live in downtown while the rich have distant relatives even if they live in deep mountains。 granny liu, a distant kinsfolk, in a dream of the red mansions , claims kinship with the wealthy jia family, thinking that she may benefit from it in some ways. liu might have run away without any traces if the jia family had been a poor one. another saying goes close neighbors are better than distant relatives. the most difficult is to manage the relatives when doing business together, just as what the tv series program liu laogen discloses. it is all right to stay poor together, but as soon as the business grows prosperous, the group will become estranged and even dissolve because of the unfair distribution. family love is like a maze which we shouldn't go too far into it, otherwise, we'll surely get lost. love is a bilateral matter and unilateral love can only lead you to nowhere in spite of your good intentions. family love is, sometimes, like an arranged marriage, leaving no choices to you. due to the different experiences and tastes, staying together temporarily can be entertaining, while living together for a long time can only be boring due to the lack of common interest and understanding. how can we communicate with each other without understanding? parents have the duty to support the children who are not yet economically independent, and children have the responsibility to provide for the elderly parents who are lack of economic abilities to support themselves. except these two kinds of duties which we must fulfill, other kinds of love become conventional formalities such as paying visit to the sick or the dead and giving presents to the newly-born etc.

no love among relatives has become a normal phenomenon which needn't to be fussed about. what's worse is when love is contaminated by money. sooner or later we will get hurt. the sooner we get out of this net of love, the more we can preserve beautiful memories.

we are not living in vacuum, and the society is formed of various kinds of people. as long as we want to live, study, or work, we have to contact, communicate and cooperate with others. those who enjoy common interests, mutual understanding, common undertakings and common benefits become friends.

some friends are called fair-weather friends, because they are together just for entertaining themselves by eating, drinking, and gossiping. once there's nothing to eat and drink, their friendship is finished. some are spiritual friends who share common ambitions, pursuits and education. they enjoy talking and laughing with the great talents and never make friends with the good-for-nothings. the best examples would be yu boya and zhong ziqi of the ancient times who are famous not only for their lofty music but mainly for their lofty characters and mutual understanding and appreciation. they cared very little about material wealth, so their friendship is known as gentlemen's friendship as pure as water.the third type of friendship belong to those who show their utter devotion to each other. they are ready not only to share weal and woe but also to die for each other, like the three brothers liu, guan and zhang in the novel romance of the three kingdoms. . we all wish to have this kind of friendship, but it's of great difficulty for the ordinary people to be as devoted as they were.

fraternal love or friendship is wide-ranged and flexible. generally speaking, everyone is our friend, just as chairman mao says our friends are all over the world。 but transcend age, sex, nationality, state and economic conditions. to them the most important is common benefit, common interest and understanding. friendship is formed during the course of studying, working and fighting. the battle companions who have survived many hazards usually enjoy long-lasting friendship.

however, fraternal love is not stable. being away for too a long time, losing all common benefits, friends will become estranged. once their interest has changed, they no longer understand each other, and even this would harm friendship. at all times and in all countries, many close friends and battle companions who once worked together and fought together became enemies in the end. quiet a few of the emperors in ancient china even killed those who had helped them found their dynasties. the taiping heavenly kingdom would not have failed if it hadn't been for the contending and massacring among the those who first rose in rebellion at the beginning of the uprising. what else we need to pay attention to is that some friends, after being away from each other for too long a time, have lost so much of their original characters that when meeting again, you will feel that you are still the same as you were, while they are no longer themselves. they may have the same feeling about you, so sometimes it's better not to meet each other again. as the chinese proverb goes friendship can not last for three years and flowers can not stay in blossom for three months.it's not so easy to maintain real friendship which needs mutual understanding, tolerance and sacrifice. any kinds of harsh treatment will damage friendship.

amatory love has been a mystery for ages. there's neither a criterion to judge nor a common rule to follow. nobody can tell the exact reasons why love emerges. it is not always because of beauty (the ugly doorkeeper quasimodo in the hunchback of notre dame is loved by the beautiful gypsy girl esmeralda),nor kindness (hitler also has his mistress),nor wisdom ( even the blockhead may sometimes marry a beautiful girl),nor strength (some love starts from sympathy).true love is like getting an electric shock, shaking our soul. it is a sweet dream, a kind of intoxication, indulgence, and endless passion.

true love doesn't need a long time to grow up, to make clear the family tree of the other, neither does it needs the time to look ahead and behind again and again. love is not marriage, which usually starts from love, but doesn't always depend on love to maintain. long-lasting marriage can eventually turn into a kind of family love, a kind of companionship which preserves the companion but loses the passion. love is often an wink of the eye, or a smile that hints mutual understanding. in spite of the great distance between them, people may fall in love incidentally. hence the saying a distant marriage is tied up with a mysterious thread. love needs passion, and it can stand bumps and stumbles, ups and downs, complaints and blames. when it turns into a pool of water, especially dead water, without any billows or waves, it's time for it to die.

delicacies are tasty, but eating everyday can still make one lose appetite. happiness is what everyone longs for, but too much happiness can spoil people who may not care about the happiness they already have. it's universal to live in happiness without knowing it. the same is true with love. very few people can love the same person passionately all their lives. all love stories come to an end no matter how beautiful they are, which also demonstrate the changeability of love. what one has been chasing wildly may turn into something one wants to get rid of desperately in the end. besides, love is usually blind, especially those who fall in love at the first sight. at the very beginning, both try to demonstrate their beautiful side and cover up their weakness. fooled by the mysterious color of love, one often mistakes the weaknesses as merits. however, as time passes by, frequent contacts make one bored, and even merits become defects, and then the end of love is coming. what's more, there are the capricious men and women who never take love seriously, leaving the devoted ones suffering alone. the saying that the devoted is always abandoned by the heartless has almost become the truth of love affairs. what we can't neglect is that love may turn into hatred, and lovers may also become enemies. the best proof is the numerous divorces.

even though true love is hard to find nowadays, we still can see some true and infatuated boys and girls who readily give up their families, their parents, their studies, their careers and even their lives for love. they love so passionately, crazily and wildly that they hate anyone who is against their love, and may even harm or kill him if he insists on his objection.

love has magical power that can exploit people's potential abilities, bring people's positive factors into full play, and provide people with the courage to face trials and hardships, to go through life and death, and even to risk universal condemnation. even in the ancient feudal society, some people were courageous enough to carry on clandestine love affairs. the examples in point were the courageous ones who dared to love the concubines of the emperors or the children of their foes. love also has miraculous power which can startle the universe and move the gods by attracting the heavenly celestials coming down to earth ( the love story of the cowboy and the weaving girl ),and by turning ghosts into human ( strange tales of liao-zhai ),love can transcend age and generation (dr. sun yat-sen and madam song qingling; luxun and xu guangping).love can show contempt for all conventions and prejudices; love can heal wounds and cure diseases, and love can readjust people's state of mind. of course, the result would be the opposite once it hurts.

great men yearn for true love even more than ordinary people. since the ancient times, so many heroes couldn't help falling into the trap of love that the sex-trap has been regarded as one of the 36 stratagems in military tactics. fuchai, the king of the wu state, couldn't be spared of this trap, and generals dongzhuo and lubu fell deeply into it while xiangyu, the king of the western chu state , bid farewell to his beloved concubine in tears. people may have to pay very high price, even their illustrious name for the love they long for even though it may last for only a very short time. nonetheless no one can tear himself away from love. people often say that their earthly affinity is not yet finished, but in fact it is the love affinity that is the most difficult to finish.

love is shapeless and priceless. we can blame nobody when captured by it. love can not be forced, nor can it be pretended. sympathy is not love, neither is gratitude. love must be generated from the heart, and expressed in actions. it can not be called love without passions and a deep longing from the bottom of the heart. there's no impassable gulf between family love and fraternal love. some family love may turn into friendship. at the same time, natural barriers doesn't exist either between fraternal love and amatory love. some friendship may develop into amatory love. the same is true with amatory love which may change into family love after a long time of mutual grinding and polishing.the closer the relationship, and the higher the expectations are, the more difficult it is to get along with each other. family love, fraternal love and amatory love are three main human feelings. if handled well, they can bring us extreme happiness, while handled improperly, will bring us great sufferings.

the present society is a world of dazzling money and dwindling human feeling contacts. most people hold a snobbish attitude. they only make friends with people of wealth and of high social status. just as zhen shiyen said in his expounding of the song all good things must end in a dream of the red mansions while men with gold and silver by the chest, turn beggars scorned by all and dispossessed.frankly speaking, however, if we regard money the first thing in whichever one of the three kinds of loves, it will depreciate and even become worthless.

love can not pretend, nor can it tolerate too much selfish motives. it is reported that an old man in jiangsu province left his million yuan heritage to his young housekeeper instead of his own children, because his own children didn't take care of him while the young housekeeper accompanied him through his last lonely and helpless years.

love is easily perceivable and perceptible. flattery words may be cheatable, but true love and false feelings can easily be distinguished. if the people you love only know how to spend your money, you should be careful of them. everyone can help you spend your money if you give them the chance. never turn your love into the slave of money.

love should be selfless, and feelings should be sincere. we shouldn't judge our feelings according to the distance of the relationship. everyone treasures love and nobody can fool himself or the others. a chinese saying goes: real heroes yearn even more for true love, and great men cherish tender love for their children.

we are the saint on earth, and should treasure our love, but we should know how much is good and where to stop. since there's no ever-lasting banquet, nor is there an endless love story, we should take the gains and losses of love with perfect composure. there's fragrant grass in every corner of the earth, and you can always find your love in this world.

著名的演讲稿篇2

亲爱的同学们：

“吸烟有害健康”已为人们所公认，烟草的危害是当今世界最严重的公共卫生问题之一，是人类健康所面临的最大的然而又是可以预防的危险因素。吸烟既有害自身的健康，也影响着他人的健康，在经济上更是一种极大的浪费。为了进一步提高我们未成年儿童对吸烟危害的认识，远离吸烟对我们的危害，我们提倡：“拒吸第一支烟，做不吸烟新一代”！

青少年正在长身体，智力发展正处于关键时期，对将来面临人生的重大抉择有着举足轻重的作用；你愿意自己成为未来的吸烟者吗？你希望自己成为一种疾病缠身的人，还是做一个终生健康的人呢？你愿意接受健康、科学的生活方式吗“如果选择健康，你就要充分相信，能主宰自己的心理和行为，完全可以拒绝第一支烟的诱惑，你要树立信心，不去吸烟，并赢得健康。

下面告诉大家怎样以文明礼貌而又不使自己和别人陷入尴尬的方式聚聚吸烟。

一．有人让你吸烟时：

微笑着说：不，谢谢！

说出理由或找借口拒绝吸烟；不，谢谢，我不能吸烟。

礼貌的反复谢绝，坚持不伸手接别人递送的烟。

躲开，在别人让烟时，立刻找借口暂时躲避。

二．下决心远离吸烟这一坏习惯

远离吸烟人群，与不吸烟的人在一起，为自己创造一个无烟的环境。

当家长或亲戚朋友吸烟时，请用礼貌用语劝说，让他们由少抽转为不抽，这样你还会是一个优秀的“戒烟小帮手”呢！

如果你知道哪些地方有人经常吸烟，请避开这些场所。

世界各国都在积极地倡导人们远离吸烟，并把它与吸毒联系在一起，为人类生存空间创造一个良好的环境，为了自己和他人的健康，让我们行动起来，拒绝吸烟，做不吸烟的新一代，成为一个积极向上，活泼乐观，健康快乐的同学。

著名的演讲稿篇3

transcr ipt of apple ceo tim cook's commencement address at tulane university

苹果ceo蒂姆·库克杜兰大学毕业典礼演讲致词

hello tulane! thank you president fitts, provost forman, distinguished faculty, other faculty (laughs), and the entire tulane family, including the workers, ushers, (and) volunteers who prepared this beautiful space. and i feel duty-bound to also recognize the hard-working bartenders at the boot. though they're not here with us this morning, i'm sure some of you are reflecting on their contributions as well. (the boot is a popular college bar right next to tulane's campus which has been around for decades.)

你好，杜兰大学！感谢菲茨校长、福尔曼教务长、尊敬的教职员工、其他教职员工[笑]以及整个杜兰大家庭，包括为这个美丽的讲堂做准备的工作人员、引座员和志愿者。我觉得我有责任也称赞一下在the boot工作的辛勤的调酒师。虽然他们今天早上没有和我们在一起，但我相信你们中的一些人也在反思他们的贡献。[the boot是一家受欢迎的大学酒吧，紧挨着杜兰大学校园，已经存在了几十年了。]

and just as many of you have new orleans in your veins, and perhaps your livers, some of us at apple have new orleans in our blood as well. when i was a student at auburn, the big easy was our favorite getaway. it's amazing how quickly those 363 miles fly by when you're driving toward a weekend of beignets and beer. and how slowly they go in the opposite direction. apple's own lisa jackson is a proud tulane alum. yes. she brought the green wave all the way to cupertino where she heads our environment and public policy work. we're thrilled to have her talent and leadership on our team.

就像你们中很多人的血管里也许还有肝脏里有新奥尔良一样，我们苹果公司的一些人的血液里也有新奥尔良。当我还是奥本大学的学生的时候，我们最喜欢的度假胜地是big easy。非常神奇的是，当你在周末开车驶向这个胜地，想象着甜甜圈和啤酒的时候，363英里的距离似乎一闪而过；而当你返程时，路途却显得那么遥远。苹果的员工丽莎-杰克逊(lisajackson)是一位令人骄傲的杜兰大学校友。是。她把绿色浪潮一路带到了库比蒂诺，在那里她领导着我们的环境和公共政策工作。我们很高兴她能在我们的队伍中发挥才华和进行领导。

ok, enough about us. let's talk about you. at moments like this, it always humbles me to watch a community come together to teach, mentor, advise, and finally say with one voice, congratulations to the class of 2019!

好了，别再提我们了。让我们谈谈你们。在这样的时刻，看到一个社区聚集在一起传道受业解惑，最后用一个声音说，祝贺2019年的同学们，这让我感到很谦卑！

now there's another very important group: your family and friends. the people who, more than anyone else, loved, supported, and even sacrificed greatly to help you reach this moment. let's give them a round of applause. this will be my first piece of advice. you might not appreciate until much later in your life how much this moment means to them. or how that bond of obligation, love, and duty between you matters more than anything else.

现在还有一个非常重要的群体：你们的家人和朋友。那些比任何人都更爱你们、更支持你们、甚至甘愿自我牺牲的人，为了帮助你们达到这一时刻，他们付出了巨大的代价。让我们为他们鼓掌。这将是我的第一条建议。直到你生命的后期，你们才会意识到这一刻对他们来说有多么重要，或者意识到你们的义务、爱和责任有多么重要。

in fact, that's what i really want to talk to you about today. in a world where we obsessively document our own lives, most of us don't pay nearly enough attention to what we owe one another. now this isn't just about calling your parents more, although i'm sure they'd be grateful if you did that. it's about recognizing that human civilization began when we realized that we could do more together. that the threats and danger outside the flickering firelight got smaller when we got bigger. and that we could create more - more prosperity, more beauty, more wisdom, and a better life - when we acknowledge certain shared truths and acted collectively.

事实上，这就是我今天真正想和你们说的。在一个我们沉迷于记录自己生活的世界里，我们中的大多数人对我们彼此亏欠的东西没有给予足够的关注。这不仅仅是给你们的父母打更多的电话，尽管我相信如果你们会这么做，他们会很感激的。当我们意识到我们可以在一起做更多的事情时，人类文明就开始了。当我们变得更越来越强大时，在闪烁的火光之外的威胁和危险就会变得越来越小。我们可以创造更多——更多的繁荣，更多的美，更多的智慧，更美好的生活——只要我们承认某些共同的真理并采取集体行动。

maybe i'm biased, but i've always thought the south, and the gulf coast in particular, have hung on to this wisdom better than most. (tim cook grew up in robertsdale, alabama, which is about an hour from new orleans and is similarly close to the gulf of mexico.) in this part of the country, your neighbors check up on you if they haven't heard from you in a while. good news travels fast because your victories are their victories too. and you can't make it through someone's front door before they offer you a home-cooked meal.

也许我有偏见，但我一直认为南方，特别是墨西哥湾海岸，比大多数人更能坚持这一智慧。[库克在阿拉巴马州的罗伯茨代尔长大，那里距离新奥尔良大约一个小时的路程，同样靠近墨西哥湾。]在这个国家的这个地方，如果你们的邻居有一段时间没有你们的消息，他们会忍不住来看望你们。好消息传得很快，因为你们的胜利也是他们的胜利。在他们提供一顿热饭热菜招待你们之前，你们是不可能走出大门的。

maybe you haven't thought about it very much, but these values have informed your tulane education too. just look at the motto: not for one's self, but for one's own. you've been fortunate to live, learn, and grow in a city where human currents blend into something magical and unexpected. where unmatched beauty, natural beauty, literary beauty, musical beauty, cultural beauty, seem to spring unexpectedly from the bayou. the people of new orleans use two tools to build this city: the unlikely and the impossible. wherever you go, don't forget the lessons of this place. life will always find lots of ways to tell you no, that you can't, that you shouldn't, that you'd be better off if you didn't try. but new orleans teaches us there is nothing more beautiful or more worthwhile than trying. especially when we do it not in the service of one's self, but one's own.

也许你们还没有想太多，但这些价值观也影响了你们杜兰大学的教育。看看这句座右铭：不是为了自己，而是为了自己人。你们很幸运地生活、学习和成长在一座城市里，在这个城市里，人类的潮流融合成了一种神奇的、意想不到的东西。在那里，无与伦比的美，自然的美，文学的美，音乐的美，文化的美，似乎不期而至地从河口涌出。新奥尔良的人们使用两种工具来建造这座城市：不太可能的和不可能的。无论你走到哪里，都不要忘记这个地方的教训。生活总会找到很多方法来告诉你，不，你不能，你不应该，如果你不去尝试，你会过得更好。但是新奥尔良告诉我们，没有什么比尝试更美丽和更有价值了。尤其是当我们这样做不是为自己服务，而是为自己人服务的时候。

for me, it was that search for greater purpose that brought me to apple in the first place. i had a comfortable job at a company called compaq that at the time looked like it was going to be on top forever. as it turns out, most of you are probably too young to even remember its name. but in 1998, steve jobs convinced me to leave compaq behind to join a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. they made computers, but at that moment at least, people weren't interested in buying them. steve had a plan to change things. and i wanted to be a part of it.

对我来说，正是为了追求更伟大的目标，我才第一次来到苹果。我曾在一家叫康柏(compaq)的公司找到了一份舒适的工作，在当时看来，这份工作将永远是的工作。事实证明，你们中的大多数人可能还太年轻，甚至不记得它的名字。但在1998年，史蒂夫-乔布斯说服我离开康柏，加入一家濒临破产的苹果公司。他们制造电脑，但至少在那一刻，人们对购买这些电脑并不感兴趣。史蒂夫有个改变一切的计划。我也想成为其中的一员。

it wasn't just about the imac, or the ipod, or everything that came after. it was about the values that brought these inventions to life. the idea that putting powerful tools in the hands of everyday people helps unleash creativity and move humanity forward. that we can build things that help us imagine a better world and then make it real.

这不仅仅是imac，或者ipod，或者之后的一切，而是使这些发明创意复活的价值观念。把强大的工具放在普通人手中将有助于释放创造力和推动人类向前发展。我们可以建造一些东西来帮助我们想象一个更美好的世界，然后让它成为现实。

there's a saying that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. at apple, i learned that's a total crock. you'll work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands. as you go out into the world, don't waste time on problems that have been solved. don't get hung up on what other people say is practical. instead, steer your ship into the choppy seas. look for the rough spots, the problems that seem too big, the complexities that other people are content to work around. it's in those places that you will find your purpose. it's there that you can make your greatest contribution. whatever you do, don't make the mistake of being too cautious. don't assume that by staying put, the ground won't move beneath your feet. the status quo simply won't last. so get to work on building something better.

有句谚语说，如果你做你喜欢做的事，你的人生中将永远不会有一天是在工作。在苹果公司，我知道了这是一个彻头彻尾的谎言。你会比你想象的更努力工作，但你却一点也不觉得费劲。当你走进这个世界的时候，不要把时间浪费在已经解决的问题上。不要为别人所说的是实际的情况而心烦意乱。相反，引导你的船进入波涛汹涌的大海。寻找那些蛮荒之地，那些看起来还很难解决的问题，那些其他人乐于解决的复杂问题。在那些地方，你会找到你的目标。在那里你可以做出你的贡献。无论你做什么，都不要犯太谨慎的错误。不要以为原地不动，地面就不会在你脚下移动。现状根本不会持久。所以开始做些更好的事吧。

in some important ways, my generation has failed you in this regard. we spent too much time debating. we've been too focused on the fight and not focused enough on progress. and you don't need to look far to find an example of that failure. here today, in this very place, in an arena where thousands once found desperate shelter from a 100-year disaster, the kind that seem to be happening more and more frequently, i don't think we can talk about who we are as people and what we owe to one another without talking about climate change.

在某些重要的方面，我们这代人辜负了你们。我们花了太多时间辩论。我们一直太专注于斗争，而没有把足够的注意力放在进步上。你不需要看太远就能找到失败的例子。今天，就在这个地方，在这个成千上万人曾经绝望地躲避百年灾难的地方，这种灾难似乎变得越来越频繁。我认为，如果我们不谈论气候变化，我们就无法谈论我们是谁，以及我们彼此亏欠了什么。

(applause) thank you. thank you.

谢谢！谢谢！

this problem doesn't get any easier based on whose side wins or loses an election. it's about who has won life's lottery and has the luxury of ignoring this issue and who stands to lose everything. the coastal communities, including some right here in louisiana, that are already making plans to leave behind the places they've called home for generations and head for higher ground. the fishermen whose nets come up empty. the wildlife preserves with less wildlife to preserve. the marginalized, for whom a natural disaster can mean enduring poverty.

这个问题不会因为谁胜谁负而变得简单，这是一个关乎谁赢了人生彩票、谁有忽视这个问题的能力、谁会失去一切的问题。沿海社区，包括路易斯安那州的一些社区，已经在计划离开世代以来被称为“家园”的地方，前往更海拔更高地方。如今渔民的渔网空空如也、野生动物生计萧条。对于生存在边缘地区的人来说，自然灾害往往就意味着持久的贫困。

just ask tulane's own molly keogh, who's getting her ph.d. this weekend. her important new research shows that rising sea levels are devastating areas of southern louisiana more dramatically than anyone expected. tulane graduates, these are people's homes. their livelihoods. the land where their grandparents were born, lived, and died.

问问杜兰大学的莫莉·基奥（molly keogh）就知道了，她这个周末就要拿到博士学位了。她的一项重要新研究表明，海平面上升对路易斯安那州南部地区造成的破坏比任何人预想的都要严重。杜兰大学的毕业生们，这些地方都是人们的家园、他们的生计、他们祖父母出生、生活和去世的地方。

when we talk about climate change or any issue with human costs, and there are many, i challenge you to look for those who have the most to lose and find the real, true empathy that comes from something shared. that is really what we owe one another. when you do that, the political noise dies down, and you can feel your feet firmly planted on solid ground. after all, we don't build monuments to trolls, and we're not going to start now.

当我们谈论气候变化或任何与人类成本有关的问题时，我有很多问题希望你们能够着手去做：去寻找那些因此损失的人，并从一些共同的东西中找到真正的、真正的同理心，这才是我们真正亏欠彼此的东西。当你这样做的时候，政治上的喧嚣就会平息下来，你会感到自己的脚牢牢地踩在了坚实的土地上。毕竟，我们从来不为巨魔建造纪念碑，也不会现在开创这个先例。

if you find yourself spending more time fighting than getting to work, stop and ask yourself who benefits from all the chaos. there are some who would like you to believe that the only way that you can be strong is by bulldozing those who disagree or never giving them a chance to say their peace in the first place. that the only way you can build your own accomplishments is by tearing down the other side.

如果你发现自己花在斗争上的时间比上班的时间还多。那么停下来，问问自己谁能从所有这些混乱中受益。有些人想让你相信，你能变得强大的方法，就是制服那些不同意你观点的人，或者从一开始就不给他们机会表达自己的机会。他们想让你相信，你能成就自己的方法就是摧毁对方。

we forget sometimes that our preexisting beliefs have their own force of gravity. today, certain algorithms pull toward you the things you already know, believe, or like, and they push away everything else. push back. it shouldn't be this way. but in 2019, opening your eyes and seeing things in a new way can be a revolutionary act. summon the courage not just to hear but to listen. not just to act, but to act together.

我们有时会忘记，我们先前存在的信念有其自身的引力。今天，某些算法会把你已经知道、相信或喜欢的东西主动拉向你，而把其他的东西推开，但事情本不应该如此。然而在2019年，睁开眼睛、以一种全新方式看待事物可能是一种革命性的行为。你不仅要鼓起勇气去听，还要有勇气去听。不仅仅是行动，而是要一起行动。

it can sometimes feel like the odds are stacked against you, that it isn't worth it, that the critics are too persistent and the problems are too great. but the solutions to our problems begin on a human scale with building a shared understanding of the work ahead and with undertaking it together. at the very least, we owe it to each other to try.

有时候你会觉得机会对你不利、觉得这么做不值得、觉得批评之声太过顽固，亦或觉得问题太大（超出了自己的`处理能力）。但是，解决我们当下问题的办法首先就是在人类范畴内建立对今后工作的共同理解，并着手共同解决这一问题。至少，我们也应该放手一搏。

it's worked before. in 1932, the american economy was in a free-fall. twelve million people were unemployed, and conventional wisdom said the only thing to do was to ride it out, wait, and hope that things would turn around. but the governor of new york, a rising star named franklin roosevelt, refused to wait. he challenged the status quo and called for action. he needed people to stop their rosy thinking, face the facts, pull together, and help themselves out of a jam.

这样的方式在之前曾成功过。1932年，当时的美国经济一落千丈，有1200万人失业。传统观点认为，我们能做的就是撑过这段时间、等待，并希望情况会有所好转。但当时政途冉冉升起的纽约州州长富兰克林o罗斯福（franklin roosevelt，后就任美国第32任总统，美国历连任超过两届的总统）拒绝等待。他敢于挑战现状，呼吁采取行动。他呼吁人们停止继续抱有乐观的想法，面对现实、齐心协力，帮助自己摆脱困境。

he said: "the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. it is common sense to take a method and try it. if it fails, admit it and try another. but above all, try something."

他说：“这个国家需要一些大胆、持续的尝试。采取一种方法并加以尝试是再正常不过的事情。如果失败了，我们就承认失败，然后再试一次。但最重要的是，我们需要尝试一些东西。”

this was a speech to college students fearful about their future in an uncertain world. he said: "yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world."

这是一场对大学生的演讲，他们担心自己在一个不确定世界里的未来。他（罗斯福）说：“你们的任务不是在世界上开辟自己的道路，而是改造世界。”

the audacious empathy of young people, the spirit that says we should live not just for ourselves, but for our own. that's the way forward. from climate change to immigration, from criminal justice reform to economic opportunity, be motivated by your duty to build a better world. young people have changed the course of history time and time again. and now it's time to change it once more.

年轻人无畏的同情心告诉我们，我们不仅要为努力生活，而且要为自己而活。这是一条前进的道路，从气候变化到移民、从刑事司法改革到经济机遇，我们都要以建设一个更美好世界的责任为动力。此前的年轻人一次又一次地改变了历史的进程，现在是时候再次改变了。

i know, i know the urgency of that truth is with you today. feel big because no one can make you feel small. feel brave because the challenges we face are great but you are greater. and feel grateful because someone sacrificed to make this moment possible for you. you have clear eyes and a long life to use them. and here in this stadium, i can feel your courage.

我知道，今天你们所接触到真相带来的紧迫性。大胆一些，因为没有人能让你感到弱小。勇敢一些，因为我们面临的挑战是巨大的，但你们将更加伟大。懂得感恩，因为已经有人为你们生活在的当下做出了牺牲，让这一刻成为可能。你们拥有一对清澈的眼睛，人生的道路也还很长。在这个体育场，我能感受到你们的勇气。

call upon your grit. try something. you may succeed. you may fail. but make it your life's work to remake the world because there is nothing more beautiful or more worthwhile than working to leave something better for humanity.

呼唤你的勇气。尝试，你可能会成功，也可能会失败。但是，请让改造世界成为你自己的人生工作，因为没有什么比为人类留下更好的东西更具价值。

thank you very much, and congratulations class of 2019!

非常感谢，祝贺2019届的毕业生们！

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change the world? change ourselves

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 them.indeed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples).but 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 becom#from 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 earth.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.”

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改变世界?改变自己

晚上好，尊敬的评委，女士们，先生们。

我很高兴站在这里发表我的演讲改变世界，改变我们自己。

引人注目的是，西方的节日日益变得越来越流行，而中国的传统节日被冷落。不久前在北京大学和清华大学约10名医生宣布，我们应该拒绝入侵的西方节日，因为他们认为西方节日作为一种挑战我们的传统节日和文化。

坦白地说，我不太同意，我们不应该忽视甚至抛弃我们的传统节日作为中国拥有辉煌的历史和灿烂的传统。但是为什么我们不能吸收有意义的西方节日和文化呢?。

有明显的原因，一些西方节日在中国如此受欢迎。另一方面，一些西方的节日，我们中国人不合理和有意义的事情，比如父亲节，四月的愚人节等，另一方面，普遍的全球化使得西方文化在中国盛行。被这一趋势，中国卷入西方节日和文化。

随着世界的发展，文化交流不同国家和民族之间成为更加快捷和更重要。我们来自不同的国家，但我们是公民相同的世界，所以不同的民族优秀文化是我们保护我们的传统文化在地球每个人的共有财产的唯一途径就是拒绝外国的文化吗?答案当然是否定的。我们应该做的是不遗余力地教育中国人去认识和珍惜我们灿烂的传统，而不是拒绝外国文化。只有通过教育，我们才能树立我们对文化的信心和信念。只有通过教育才能保持和提升的财富，我们的祖先留给我们。

最后我想说的一个著名的分享甘地和你们，那就是：如果你想改变世界，那么你必须改变你自己。”

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尊敬的各位领导，评委，亲爱的学子：

大家晚上好！

“香烟随风飘，戒烟莫忘掉”是我今天演讲的主题。

我亲爱的同学们，吸烟的兄弟们，你们有没有搞清楚自己吸烟的真正原因？有的出于公共社交的需要，有的为了减轻心理压力，而现在的我们则是为了追求时髦。而这种所谓的时髦是无形杀手，时刻危害着自己，影响他人。

同学们你们知道吗？那一支支香烟是用金钱做成的，点燃时灰白色的烟如同烈日炎炎灼照，淡灰色的烟灰如同爸妈血汗挥洒在地。他们面朝黄土背朝天，不分昼夜工作多少个小时才换来一包香烟！而今天的你们却手指夹烟，乐欢逍遥，你能对得起他们吗？更不能谈得上爱自己，爱自己的父母！拿着父母赐给我们的生命，在慢性自杀，我们的爸妈伤心啊！我们的爸妈是无辜的啊！他们爱我们啊！爸妈的心在滴血，你们知道吗？

今天，我们为了爸爸妈妈，为了他人，更为了自己，从现在开始，把烟戒掉吧！兄弟们，我相信你们，记住我，记住今天，从现在开始戒烟吧。

让香烟随风飘去，跨过我们的__大学，从此之后，向我们兄弟姐妹们说再见！发扬爱国，崇德，团结，奋进的精神。

爱国--为祖国栋梁打下基础，让香烟远离祖国；

崇德--念父母，为他人，远离香烟；

团结--手牵手，心连心，共同戒掉香烟；

奋进--把我们打下建造成绿色，文明，健康的校园！

同学们，行动吧！我的演讲完毕，谢谢大家。

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honorable judges, fellow students:

good afternoon!

recently, ther is a heated debate in our society. the college students are the beneficiaries of a rare privilege, who receive exceptional education at extraordinary places. but will we be able to face the challenge and support ourselves against all odds? will we be able to better the lives of others? will we be able to accept the responsibility of building the future of our country?

the cynics say the college students are the pampered lost generation, which would cringe at the slightest discomfort. but the cynics are wrong. the college students i see are eagerly learning about how to live independently. we help each other clean the dormitory, go shopping and bargain together, and take part time s to supplement our pocket money.

the cynics say we care for nothing other than grades; and we neglect the need for character cultivation. but again, the cynics are wrong. we care deeply for each other, we cherish freedom, we treasure justice, and we seek truth. last week, thousands of my fellow students had their blood type tested in order to make a contribution for the children who suffer from blood cancer.

as college students, we are adolescents at the critical turning point in our lives. we all face a fundamental choice: cynicism or faith, each will profoundly impact our future, or even the future of our country. i believe in all my fellow classmates. though we are still inexperienced and even a little bit childish. i believe that we have the courage and faith to meet any challenge and take on our responsibilities. we are preparing to assume new responsibilities and tasks, and to use the education we have received to make our world a better place. i believe in our future.

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protect first wildlife existence environment.protect a wildlife the most important is to protect their habitats,don't chop down in disorder to fell in disorder,don't at will the heap put garbage,don't abuse agrochemical and insecticide and protect headwaters and air is also one parts which protects habitat.secondly and not and over catch to over kill a wildlife,don't participate an illegal business wildlife,see the illegal immediately reflects toward the wildlife association or the forest public security official's organization.again take out our benevolences and courage,the person who advises zu close relatives and surroundings refuses to eat game,don't go to game restaurant to have a meal;for use the ware that the rare wildlife do,such as the fur-lined jacket,drugs,tonic...etc.,should also determinedly boycott.end,aggressive publicity protection wildlife of important meaning,start to do from i,start to do from the family,start to do from now,develop to respect all the moralses of the lifes view hard.

首先,要保护野生动物生存环境.保护野生动物最重要的是保护它们的栖息地,不要乱砍乱伐,不要随意堆放垃圾,不要滥用农药和杀虫剂,保护水源和空气也是保护栖息地的一部分.

其次,不滥捕滥杀野生动物,不参与非法买卖野生动物,见到违法者立即向野生动物协会或森林公安机关反映.

再次,拿出我们的爱心和勇气,劝阻亲人和周围的人拒食野味,不去野味餐馆用餐;对于用珍稀野生动物做的制品,如皮衣、药品、补品等,也应坚决抵制.

最后,积极宣传保护野生动物的重要意义,从我做起,从家庭做起,从现在做起,努力培养尊重一切生命的道德观.

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ladies and gentlemen, good morning. it’s my great honor to be here and i am very happy to see you all. thank you for being here. what i am going to talk about today is how to speak good english. making

first of all, i’d like to talk about the importance of speaking good english and share my experience in learning english with you. as you know, english has become an international language. wherever you go, english is always commonly used. it is convenient to know the language. at the same time, english may be the most important factor in deciding which countries are leaders in the future. the language of the most advanced management and technology is undoubtedly english. being able to absorb this information is really the key to the new century. in the 21century. we can’t go there and speak our own language because nobody is going to learn it in order to understand us. our asian rival, india, has surged ahead of other developing countries in information technology because of its superior english skills. unlewe are able to master english, we will not be able to get our population to use it and take advantage of the new economy. there is an urgent need to have a workforce which is proficient in the language in view of the information technology onslaught.

second, about learning english, i think laying a strong foundation is the first and most important step. in other words, you should read and speak english every day. memorizing new words and phrases is also helpful. of course, learning english takes some time, so don’t be impatient. remember, rome wasn’t built in a day. and then since english is not our native tongue, we must develop the muscles of your speech organs to produce unfamiliar sounds. when you read, read as loudly as possible, as clearly as possible and as quickly as possible. tongue muscles’ training is of importance in learning any foreign language.

third, if you want to speak good english, please don’t care how poorly well you speak, only care about catching the chances to speak. you must enjoy losing face, just forget about your face. the more you speak, the better your english will become. the more mistakes you make, the more progreyou will make. you must enjoy speaking poor english, because speaking is the only thing that will lead you towards success. don’t give up. just try your best. every time you move your mouth, your memory will deepen, your muscles will strengthen. you can make it.

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