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1、精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 1 / 9穿越海洋Crossing the SeaBy 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 Kip
2、ling once wrote in this 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 hornhandled knivesThey who gobble their rice off a leafAre horrified out of their lives.When these lines first caught my eyes,
3、 I was shockedhow could two people remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Todays society, 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 2 / 9of 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. Indee
4、d, just take China as example; Our modern life has been influenced by Western style of living in so many ways that its no longer surprising to see teenagers going crazy about rockandroll, whole families dining out at McDonalds and even rather elderly people dressed in Apple Jeans. However, these are
5、 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 nations mentality. Just look around. How many college graduates are ready to compete aggressively for every job opportunity, whereas not long ago
6、 they were asked just to sit idle and wait for whatever was to be assigned to them by the government? 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 3 / 9How 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 thei
7、r future? Ask anyone who participates in todays speech contest. Who has not come with a will to fight and who has not come determined to achieve selffulfillment in winning the game? And Im quite certain that if Confucius had lived to see todays China, he would have been horrified to see young lovers
8、 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
9、 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 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 4 / 9began to adopt a teamwork management from their rivals, the essence of which, lay at the very core
10、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 bodyan idea which would strike any Westerner
11、as incredible in the past! Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integration 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 readjustin
12、g their traditional values. We live, at the same time, at a critical juncture of our evolution because such problems as ethnic conflicts and regional unrest are increasingly posing a threat to the peace and 精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 5 / 9happiness of the whole human race.To cope with such
13、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 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 ow
14、n cultural identity. Therefore, it is our sacred responsibility to promote the cultural exchanges and hence the mutual understanding between 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 al
15、so be blessed with the farreaching benefits of multiple cultures; benefits that our forefathers had never, ever dreamed of. To end my speech, I would like to quote Rudyard Kipling again:精品文档2016 全新精品资料-全新公文范文 -全程指导写作 独家原创 6 / 9All 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。今天，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
