穿越海洋-第三届全国英语演讲比赛冠军作品

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Crossing the Sea

By Liang Limin(梁励敏北京外国语大学)

(获得第三届全国英语演讲比赛冠军)

专家点评:引用文学大师的诗句作为开场白，与结束语首尾呼

应，颇有感染力。东西方文化的融合表现得十分鲜明

，意味深长，是篇优秀的演讲。

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The title of my

speech today is "Crossing the Sea" . An English poet by

the name of Rudyard Kipling once wrote in this poem "We

and They" :

All the people like us are We

and everyone else is They

We live over the sea

While They live over the way

We eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives

They who gobble their rice off a leaf

Are horrified out of their lives.

When these lines first caught my eyes, I was

shocked--how could two people remain so isolated and

ignorant of each other in the past? Today s society, of ´

course, is an entirely different picture. Those people

who used to eat with gobble their rice might be as well

have taken to fish and chips.

Indeed, just take China as example; Our modern life

has been influenced by Western style of living in so

many ways that it s no longer surprising to see teenagers´

going crazy about rock-and-roll, whole families dining

out at McDonald s and even rather elderly people dressed ´

in Apple Jeans.

However, these are only some expressions of the

cultural changes taking place in our society today. What

is really going on is a subtle but significant

restructuring of the nation s mentality. Just look´

around.

How many college graduates are ready to compete

aggressively for every job opportunity, whereas not long

ago they were asked just to sit idle and wait for

whatever was to be assigned to them by the government?

How many young people are now eager to seek for an

independent life whereas only two decades ago they would

rely totally on their parents to arrange for their

future? Ask anyone who participates in today s speech ´

contest. Who has not come with a will to fight and who

has not come determined to achieve self-fulfillment in

winning the game? And I m quite certain that if Confucius´

had lived to see today s China, he would have been ´

horrified to see young lovers kissing each other in

public places in an unreserved expression of their

passion.

It is therefore evident that we as descendants of an

ancient Eastern civilization are already living under

strong influence of the Western culture. But it is not

only in China that we find the incorporation of the two

cultures.

Take the United States as an example: During the

1980s, in face of the overwhelming competition from

Japan, many American companies such as the Ford began to

adopt a teamwork management from their rivals, the

essence of which, lay at the very core of Eastern

culture.

Take the Chinese acupuncture as another example: This

traditional treatment of diseases is finally finding its

way to the West and hence the underlying notion that

illness is resulted from the imbalance between yin and

yang within the body--an idea which would strike any

Westerner as incredible in the past!

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穿越海洋-第三届全国英语演讲比赛冠军作品CrossingtheSeaByLiangLimin(梁励敏北京外国语大学)(获得第三届全国英语演讲比赛冠军)专家点评:引用文学大师的诗句作为开场白，与结束语首尾呼应，颇有感染力。东西方文化的融合表现得十分鲜明，意味深长，是篇优秀的演讲。Goodafternoon,ladiesandgentlemen.Thetitleofmyspeechtodayis"CrossingtheSea".AnEnglishpoetbythenameofRudyardKiplingoncewroteinthispoem"WeandThey":Allthepeoplelikeu...

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