21世纪全国中学生英语演讲比赛总决赛-冠军诸康妮演讲听译稿

Morning, ladies and gentlemen, today I’m going to talk about discover yourself. Ever since the accelerated development of human civilization, perpetual scientific discoveries of nature had accompanied mankind all along the journey. It was by discovering the world around us that the human being is then able to lead a more sophisticated life. However, as G.K. Chesterton once said, one may understand the cosmos but never the ego. The self is more distant in any star. Thus, our life is a journey of unrelenting efforts to discover more of ourselves. When I was six, I constantly pictured myself as an elegant-skilled pianist that rendered XIAOBANG’s nocturnal beautifully on stage receiving warm applause after my performance. However, as I furthered my piano lessons, it was hard to be oblivious of my non-gifted skil ls. Sometimes, I couldn’t help but have this feeling of despair when I woke up to reality and discovered that my goal was unrealistic. Brutal but real. It was the first time I had discovered that I couldn’t have it all. When I was twelve, I thought the coolest job in the entire universe was to be a surgeon. I spent hours and hours watching the drama Grey's Anatomy and couldn’t help falling in love with the kind of life those doctors lead on the screen. I was utterly mesmerized by the scalpel and all those fancy medical terms they use. However, I stopped dreaming about being a surgeon when I discovered that it was the idea of being a surgeon that appealed to me not what it truly was. As a result, the dream ended and I discovered some more about myself. This year, I turned sixteen and I could proudly say I do not dream to be but ascertain to pursue being a lawyer in the future. Since junior high school, I had always been awarded the most eloquent debater in every single debater participated in. I can not only think logically but also deliver my thoughts promptly. My huge interest in philosophy also adds to my reasoning whenever I try to argue with something equivocal. Being aware of the obstacles and hardships on the way to become a great lawyer never panics me for the simple reason that I have this faith and passion in what I’m aspiring after. G.K. Chesterton was absolutely correct: the most complicated part of comprehending the world is the study of the somehow smaller world, ourselves. I’ve subsequently realiz ed that growing up is the process of discovering yourselves. We get to know what we truly are and become who we dream to be. As we shape

ourselves and as we shape our lives, we gradually become more aware of our limits and potentials and consequently learn to adjust to what’s out there. And by that, ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to say that I have discovered the part of myself and so discovery today and definitely a lot more in the future. I will always keep this embedded in my heart. Things do not change. We do. And that’s all. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Now, here is your topic for impromptu speech. This is kind of challengeable. Nowadays, many students fall in love high school. Do you support this behavior? And will such love relationships last lon g? And is it good for students’ future development, your idea, please?

Ok, thank you very much. (Here come several sentences in BRITISH ACCENT SOOOOO OBVIOUS & TYPICAL) First of all, I would like to say that this is rather a prevalent phenomenon these days. We can see that a lot of students around me are having this kind of “young puppy love”. And I think it’s utterly normal for them because I can understand why they do this. They are trying to seek recognition from the other sex instead of from academic s uccess. However, I’m utterly against it because I think it is utterly detrimental to our future development and also it will never last long. First of all, we can understand that we are still rather immature psychologically at this current stage and most important thing for love is that we cannot actually fully understand what love is. And for the most important part is that I can see students around me having puppy love simply messing around seeking pleasure instead of making commitments. And because of this kind of flimsy attitude, I think all they could do is to mess around and that’s why puppy love dies in a blink of an eye. And for example, I could see Mary would be dating David on the first day of November. However, two days later, she is kissing Tom o n the inside of campus. And that’s very normal these days. And secondly, I think it’s because for puppy love, it is very detrimental to our future development because, at this particularly stage of our time, what we should do is to dedicate our valuable time to studying and participating in activities in order to go to a wonderful

college in the future. And time is less and because of that I think Shakespeare once said that love is blind. And a lot of young students sort of lost themselves in this procedure. And that’s very, very costly. And so in conclusion, I would like to view this problem from the view of economics. We are making rational choices; we should consider the modular benefit and modular cost of its particular problem. And in the case of puppy love, I see the modular cost exceeds the modular benefit a lot. And that’s the reason why I think this is something that should not be approbated and for the case of those people who are thinking that true love might be lost through this way. I always say that true love can wait, because if not, it would not be true love at all. And we will have nothing to lose. And that’s the reason why I have kind of opinion, thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

My question has to do with faith and passion. In your speech you say that a billion times in your life you had the faith and the passion for a specific career in that time. What makes no different you feel that’s the way you want to go professionally is to be a great lawyer but young people nowadays tend to have a thought one day to be this and the next day to be that. So what makes no different from the way you were before?

Ok, thank you very much. I think the reason why I choose to be a lawyer in the future I choose to pursue this career is different from choosing to become a pianist and a surgeon is because there was one time that I think this kind of career is the one that best fits me. I am a sort of a debater in my early days and I have this kind of technique in order to pursue this career. And that is the practical reason why I think this is why, that this career is best fits me. And secondly it is because personally I have watched a movie called “the time to kill” and it was about a case where a black girl got rapped and the only lawyer who stepped forward to fight for her is a white lawyer. And the whole process is very complicated. But what I see from that story is that I’m very interested in human rights and I want to argue for those people who have their rights trampled and their

freedom, how to say, stealed(stole) away and if I could be that lawyer although sometimes I may have to go against my will and argue for a murderer, a rapper, a criminal, I will always remember that I have taken an oath that I have to do this job. This is my obligation. And I think because of these reasons I have this passion because I love this job and I have the technique because I’m a debater and speaker in public situations and that’s why I think this is different from the other choices. That’s all, thank you.

Good morning.

Good morning.

If love can be mission, it’s economic benefits and economic disadvantages. Is that actually love? And what is love?

Ok, thank you for your question first. I think love is something that cannot be really measured qualifiedly. But the reason why I brought up the terms, terminology in economics is because it first jumped to my mind when I think about making rational choices. And Love is something that makes us become irrational. And that is the reason why I applied this two terminology. But I think for to answer your question of what love is, personally, I would say that viewing from my parents’ view and also looking at different cases around me and from novels and films and movies, I think love is about commitment. It is something; it’s responsib ility instead of just love for the first sight because if you believe in love in the first sight you should believe that it would be gone in an instantly away. And because of that, I think love is something that should be taken at heart. It is not just physical attraction, because one day it would die out. But what makes love go, goes on forever is this kind of responsibility that we have to shoulder on our shoulder. And it’s something that we should not be just giving it away instantly. And that is what I think is love. That’s all, thank you.