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1、2022年穿越海洋-第三届全国英语演讲比赛冠军作品Crossing the SeaBy Liang Limin(梁励敏 北京外国语高校)(获得第三届全国英语演讲竞赛冠军)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非常显明，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 t
2、his poem We and They :All the people like us are Weand everyone else is TheyWe live over the seaWhile They live over the wayWe eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knivesThey who gobble their rice off a leafAre horrified out of their lives.When these lines first caught my eyes, I was shocked-how
3、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 be
4、en 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
5、 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 idl
6、e 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
7、 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 unreserve
8、d 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: Durin
9、g 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
10、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!Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integr
11、ation of economy and the information revolution have brought cultures of the world closer than ever before. We live in a particular era when countries, East and West, find themselves in need of readjusting their traditional values. We live, at the same time, at a critical juncture of our evolution b
12、ecause such problems as ethnic conflicts and regional unrest are increasingly posing a threat to the peace and happiness of the whole human race.To cope with such an era and to embrace an even brighter future, we need to learn to live more harmoniously in a world community which is becoming smaller
13、and smaller. My dear fellow students, our command of the English language render sit possible for us to gain an insight into Western culture while retaining our own cultural identity.Therefore, it is our sacred responsibility to promote the cultural exchanges and hence the mutual understanding betwe
14、en China and the rest of the world.It is my happiest dream that new generation of Chinese will not only grow up drinking Coca cola and watching Hollywood, but also be blessed with the far-reaching benefits of multiple cultures; benefits that our forefathers had never, ever dreamed of.To end my speec
15、h, I would like to quote Rudyard Kipling again:All the people like us are WeAnd everyone else is TheyBut once you cross over the seaYou will end by looking on WeAs only a sort of They.Thank you.译文:穿越海洋女士们、先生们，晚上好。今日，我演讲的题目是:穿越海洋。英国诗人罗得雅德吉卜林曾写过一首诗，名叫我们与他们，其中写道:像我们的人是我们其余的人是他们我们生活在海这边他们生活在路那边我们用牛角柄的刀叉
16、吃猪牛肉吞吃粽叶包饭的他们吓得要死。第一次读到这首诗，我很震惊过去两个民族何以如此疏离、彼此生疏?当然今日的社会呈现出完全不同的情景:那些过去吃米饭的人们也起先喜爱吃鱼和薯条。的确如此，就拿中国来说，西方的生活方式已经广泛地影响了我们的现代生活，以致对于年轻人对摇滚乐着迷，全家去吃麦当劳，老年人穿苹果牌牛仔裤，大家都已习以为常。然而，这不过是我们当今社会中所发生的文化变迁的表面现象而已，真正发生的却是我们的民族心理起先了微妙而又有重大意义的重建，大家只要看看四周就会清晰。不久以前，高校生还只是束手空坐，等待政府给他们安排工作;如今，又有多少高校生正在做充分打算，为争取任何工作机会而激烈角逐?2
17、0年前年轻人还完全依靠父母为他们支配将来，今日又有多少年轻人在急迫地寻求一种独立的生活?试问今日参与演讲竞赛的诸位，谁不是带着志在一搏的心情来到这里?谁不是铁下心来赢得这场竞赛以实现自我?如今年轻人毫无顾忌地宣泄情感当众亲吻，我确信，倘如孔子在世，他必被吓坏。很明显，我们这些东方古老文明的后裔们早已生活在西方文化的剧烈影响之下，然而出现这种异质文化合流的现象不止是在中国。以美国为例，20世纪80年头，面对来自日本的强大竞争压力，很多美国公司如福特公司起先采纳对手的集体合作管理方式，而这种方式正是东方文化核心之精华。再以中华针灸为例，这种传统的医疗方法以及这种疗法的依据即人体阴阳失调导致疾病最终
18、得到西方社会的承认，而在过去，西方人还认为这是无稽之谈。女士们，先生们，我们恰逢一个宏大的时代:全球经济一体化、信息革命使得世界各种文化联系比以往更加紧密;我们恰逢一个特别的年头:无论是东方国家还是西方国家都意识到自身急需调整传统价值。与此同时，我们正生活在发展的关键时刻:种族冲突，地区动荡正越来越威逼着整个人类的和平与华蜜。如何对待这一时代，拥抱更加绚丽的将来，我们须要学会在越来越小的世界大家庭中更加和谐地生活。敬爱的同学们，我们驾驭英语，得以了解西方文化，与此同时，又不失本民族的文化特征。因此，促进中国与世界的文化沟通与相互理解是我们神圣的责任。我有一个美妙的幻想，我幻想中国的年轻一代不仅仅在喝可口可乐、看好莱坞影片中成长，而且还受益于我们的父辈所从未幻想过的多元文化所带来的深远影响。最终，再次以罗得雅德吉卜林的诗作为我此次演讲的结尾:像我们的人是我们其余的人是他们然而一旦你们穿洋越海就不会再把我们看做仅仅是他们。感谢。