itsquo;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 donsquo;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 cansquo;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 donsquo;t have are reasonable and meaningful, such as fathersquo;s day and april foolsquo;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 becomes 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 isquo;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.

著名演讲稿篇2

尊敬的各位老师、亲爱的同学们：

早上好!

“吸烟有害健康”在这个话题一直被人们关注着，大家都知道吸烟对我们的健康有着极大的伤害。近50多年来，世界各国特别是工业发达国家，肺癌的发病率和病死率均迅速上升，死于癌病的男性病人中肺癌已居首位。大量流行病学研究证实，吸烟是导致肺癌的首要危险因素。为了引起国际社会对烟草危害人类健康的重视，世界卫生组织建议将每年的5月31日定为世界无烟日。

香烟中的尼古丁、一氧化碳和多种其它金属化合物对人体危害很大，对青少年的影响更甚。据医学研究表明，青少年正处在生长发育时期，各生理系统、器官都尚未成熟，其对外界环境的有害因素的抵抗力比成人弱，易于吸收毒物。据调查，吸烟开始年龄与肺癌死亡率直接相关。

15岁以下开始吸烟者死亡率为19.68%;20～24岁为10.08%;25岁以上为4.08%。这说明吸烟开始年龄越早，肺癌发生率与死亡率越高。同时，吸烟还会损害大脑，使思维变得迟钝，记忆力减退，影响学习和工作，使学生的学习成绩下降。心理研究结果表明，吸烟者的智力效能比不吸烟者低了10.6%。

我们也常听人说“饭后一支烟，快乐像神仙”，可事实并非如此。吸烟的坏处就像繁星点点，数也数不完。烟草里有三种危险化学物质：焦油，尼古丁和一氧化碳。

焦油是由好几种物质混合成的物质，在肺中会浓缩成一种粘性物质;尼古丁是一种会使人成瘾的药物，由肺部吸收，主要是对神经系统发生作用;一氧化碳能减低红血球将氧输送到全身去的能力。其实烟也是一种毒品，只是没有那么剧烈，国家没有禁止而已。

吸烟不仅会对自己的身体造成威胁，还会对你身边那些被动吸烟的人也造成极大的危害。这一根根烟头，就像一只只毒药，徐徐的向我们逼近，给我们的生活和工作也带来了极大的威胁。假如你每天都处在烟雾中，你的身体会越来越虚弱，病魔会时时侵害你，甚至危及你的生命。

可怕的是：一个每天吸15到20支香烟的人，极易患肺癌、口腔癌或喉癌致死的机率，要比不吸烟的人大14倍;极易患食道癌致死的机率比不吸烟的人大4倍;比死于膀胱癌的机率要大两倍;死于心脏病的机率也要大两倍。吸香烟是导致慢性支气管炎和肺气肿的主要原因，而慢性肺部疾病本身，也增加了得肺炎及心脏病的危险，并且吸烟也增加了高血压的危险。

现在，我郑重的呼吁大家，积极宣传吸烟有害健康的科学知识，让你的亲人、朋友放下手中的烟，形成禁烟的良好氛围，把禁烟纳入精神文明建设的轨道。

我们都要做“无烟青少年”做文明的主人!

让我们一起和家人幸福的生活，一起创造美好的未来吧!

著名演讲稿篇3

美联储主席伯克南普林斯顿大学毕业典礼演讲稿中英双语对照：

it's nice to be back at princeton. i find it difficult to believe that it's been almost 11 years since i departed these halls for washington. i wrote recently to inquire about the status of my leave from the university, and the letter i got back began, "regrettably, princeton receives many more qualified applicants for faculty positions than we can accommodate." 重返普林斯顿感觉不错，很难相信，我离开校园赴华盛顿已经11年了。近期我向校方询问了我的教职问题，回信称：“很遗憾，普林斯顿收到很多更有才华的学者的求职信，而教职有限。”

i'll extend my best wishes to the seniors later, but first i want to congratulate the parents and families here. as a parent myself, i know that putting your kid through college these days is no walk in the park. some years ago i had a colleague who sent three kids through princeton even though neither he nor his wife attended this university. he and his spouse were very proud of that accomplishment, as they should have been. but my colleague also used to say that, from a financial perspective, the experience was like buying a new cadillac every year and then driving it off a cliff. i should say that he always added that he would do it all over again in a minute. so, well done, moms, dads, and families. 我将在稍后献上对毕业生的最美好祝愿，首先我要恭喜在座的家长们。作为父母，我知道这年头供孩子读完大学不容易，数年前，我的一个同事有3个孩子毕业于普林斯顿，尽管他们夫妻都不毕业于此，但我的同事常说，从财政角度讲，这如同每年买辆卡迪拉克，然后让车坠崖。他总会补充说，他会毫不犹豫的选择重新来过。所以，感谢你们的工作，母亲们，父亲们，及家人们。

this is indeed an impressive and appropriate setting for a commencement. i am sure that, from this lectern, any number of distinguished spiritual leaders have ruminated on the lessons of the ten commandments. i don't have that kind of confidence, and, anyway, coveting your neighbor's ox or donkey is not the problem it used to be, so i thought i would use my few minutes today to make ten suggestions, or maybe just ten observations, about the world and your lives after princeton. please note, these points have nothing whatsoever to do with interest rates. my qualification for making such suggestions, or observations, besides having kindly been invited to speak today by president tilghman, is the same as the reason that your obnoxious brother or sister got to go to bed later--i am older than you. all of what follows has been road-tested in real-life situations, but past performance is no guarantee of future results. 这确实是做毕业典礼演讲的合适场合，我认为，在这一讲台上，每个精神导师都受到过“十诫”的教诲，我没有那样的信心，而且无论无何，觊觎邻居的驴牛已不是目前的问题，所以今年前几分钟我将提出“十个建议”，或称为对这个世界和你们毕业后的生活的十个观察。请注意，这十点与利率毫无关系。我之所以有资格提出这些建议和或观察，除了普林斯顿的善意邀请外，理由和你们讨厌的哥哥姐姐可以晚睡是一个道理：我比你们更老。以下内容均经受过生活的考验，但以往表现并不能确保未来的结果。

1. the poet robert burns once said something about the best-laid plans of mice and men ganging aft agley, whatever "agley" means. a more contemporary philosopher, forrest gump, said something similar about life and boxes of chocolates and not knowing what you are going to get. they were both right. life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks he or she knows where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination. look what happened to me: a dozen years ago i was minding my own business teaching economics 101 in alexander hall and trying to think of good excuses for avoiding faculty meetings. then i got a phone call... in case you are skeptical of forrest gump's insight, here's a concrete suggestion for each of the graduating seniors. take a few minutes the first chance you get and talk to an alum participating in his or her 25th, or 30th, or 40th reunion--you know, somebody who was near the front of the p-rade. ask them, back when they were graduating 25, 30, or 40 years ago, where they expected to be today. if you can get them to open up, they will tell you that today they are happy and satisfied in various measures, or not, and their personal stories will be filled with highs and lows and in-betweens. but, i am willing to bet, those life stories will in almost all cases be quite different, in large and small ways, from what they expected when they started out. this is a good thing, not a bad thing; who wants to know the end of a story that's only in its early chapters? don't be afraid to let the drama play out. 1、阿甘曾讲到人生和巧克力的相似性，你不知道下一块巧克力的味道。人生确实难以预料，任何一个认为知道其10年后情况的毕业生，更不同说三十年了，我只能说他或她缺乏想象力。看看我吧，12年前我一心教经济学入门课程，想着编造什么理由不参加教学会议，结果我接到了那个电话。有过你有机会与毕业25年、30年或40年的校友交谈，并使他们敞开心扉，他们将告诉你，他们对生活中哪些事满意或不满意，他们经历过的高潮和低谷。但我敢打赌，他们的人生故事将与预期相异。这是好事而不是坏事，谁想在故事的开篇就知道结局呢？

2. does the fact that our lives are so influenced by chance and seemingly small decisions and actions mean that there is no point to planning, to striving? not at all. whatever life may have in store for you, each of you has a grand, lifelong project, and that is the development of yourself as a human being. your family and friends and your time at princeton have given you a good start. what will you do with it? will you keep learning and thinking hard and critically about the most important questions? will you become an emotionally stronger person, more generous, more loving, more ethical? will you involve yourself actively and constructively in the world? many things will happen in your lives, pleasant and not so pleasant, but, paraphrasing a woodrow wilson school adage from the time i was here, "wherever you go, there you are." if you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction. 2、是否人生偶然性之大的事实，意味着小的决定和行动无足轻重，不需要规划和奋斗呢？当然不是。无论未来人生如何，她将是一个宏大和漫长的项目，是你作为个人的发展过程。你的家人、朋友和你在普林斯顿的时光已经为你造就了良好的开端，未来你会如何？你会不断学习、竭力思索、对至关重要的问题持批判态度吗？你会成为情感上更强大、更大度、更有爱心、更道德的人吗？你会更积极的、更建设性的参与世事吗？你的人生会有很多故事，快乐的，及不太快乐的，如果你不为自己感到快乐，就连最伟大的成就业也不会让你感到满足。

3. the concept of success leads me to consider so-called meritocracies and their implications. we have been taught that meritocratic institutions and societies are fair. putting aside the reality that no system, including our own, is really entirely meritocratic, meritocracies may be fairer and more efficient than some alternatives. but fair in an absolute sense? think about it. a meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement, and, probably, income; luckiest in their educational and career opportunities; and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate--these are the folks who reap the largest rewards. the only way for even a putative meritocracy to hope to pass ethical muster, to be considered fair, is if those who are the luckiest in all of those respects also have the greatest responsibility to work hard, to contribute to the betterment of the world, and to share their luck with others. as the gospel of luke says (and i am sure my rabbi will forgive me for quoting the new testament in a good cause): "from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded" (luke 12:48, new revised standard version bible). kind of grading on the curve, you might say. 3、成功的概念促使我考虑所谓的精英主义及其含义。精英是在健康和基因上最幸运的人，他们在家庭支持、鼓励上，或在收入上也是最幸运的，他们在教育和职业机遇上最幸运，他们在很多方面都最幸运，一般人难以复制。一个精英体制是否公平，要看这些精英是否有义务努力工作、致力于建设更好的世界，并与他人分享幸运。

4. who is worthy of admiration? the admonition from luke--which is shared by most ethical and philosophical traditions, by the way--helps with this question as well. those most worthy of admiration are those who have made the best use of their advantages or, alternatively, coped most courageously with their adversities. i think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect--and help, if necessary--than many people who are superficially more successful. they're more fun to have a beer with, too. that's all that i know about sociology. 4、谁值得尊重？是那些充分利用其优势，或勇敢面对逆境的人。我想我们会认同，那些虽然接受的正式教育不多，但诚实劳动、勤勉的为家人提供衣食和教育的人，相比更多表面上很成功的人，更值得尊重，和他们喝两杯是更有趣的事情。

5. since i have covered what i know about sociology, i might as well say something about political science as well. in regard to politics, i have always liked lily tomlin's line, in paraphrase: "i try to be cynical, but i just can't keep up." we all feel that way sometime. actually, having been in washington now for almost 11 years, as i mentioned, i feel that way quite a bit. ultimately, though, cynicism is a poor substitute for critical thought and constructive action. sure, interests and money and ideology all matter, as you learned in political science. but my experience is that most of our politicians and policymakers are trying to do the right thing, according to their own views and consciences, most of the time. if you think that the bad or indifferent results that too often come out of washington are due to base motives and bad intentions, you are giving politicians and policymakers way too much credit for being effective. honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives. for these reasons, the greatest forces in washington are ideas, and people prepared to act on those ideas. public service isn't easy. but, in the end, if you are inclined in that direction, it is a worthy and challenging pursuit. 5、提到政治，愤世嫉俗是批判性思考和建设性行动的更糟糕的替代品。当然，利益、金钱和意识形态都有影响力，如你在政治课上所学。但我的感受是大部分政界人士都在寻求做正确的事情，大部分时候，这由他们的观点和意识决定。在复杂及难于处理的问题上所犯的诚实错误，更是糟糕结果的主要原因，而非不良动机。因此，华盛顿最有影响的力量是观念和想法，人们基于这些观念去行动。公共服务并不轻松，如果你选择了这一道路，那是值得的，并颇具挑战性。

6. having taken a stab at sociology and political science, let me wrap up economics while i'm at it. economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. about the future, not so much. however, careful economic analysis does have one important benefit, which is that it can help kill ideas that are completely logically inconsistent or wildly at variance with the data. this insight covers at least 90 percent of proposed economic policies. 6、经济学是颇具诡辩性的思维领域，她在解释决策者以往所犯错误方面显得很崇高，但在预测未来时，则不仅如此。然而，谨慎的经济分析确有重要益处，她能去除那些不合逻辑或与数据不符的想法，这对90%的经济政策建议有影响。

7. i'm not going to tell you that money doesn't matter, because you wouldn't believe me anyway. in fact, for too many people around the world, money is literally a life-or-death proposition. but if you are part of the lucky minority with the ability to choose, remember that money is a means, not an end. a career decision based only on money and not on love of the work or a desire to make a difference is a recipe for unhappiness. 7、我不会告诉你们金钱无用，反正你们也不会听的。事实上，对全球很多人来说，金钱能够决定生存还是死亡。但如果你属于那些幸运得有能力进行抉择的少数人，请记住，金钱只是途径，而非最终目标。职业选择基于收入、而非热爱，或做出贡献的热情，是日后苦恼的根源。

8. nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. if your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game. 8、没有人希望失败，但失败是生活和学习的一部分。如果你衣衫整齐，你并没有进入比赛。

9. i spoke earlier about definitions of personal success in an unpredictable world. i hope that as you develop your own definition of success, you will be able to do so, if you wish, with a close companion on your journey. in making that choice, remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites. don't get me wrong, i am all for beauty, romance, and sexual attraction--where would hollywood and madison avenue be without them? but while important, those are not the only things to look for in a partner. the two of you will have a long trip together, i hope, and you will need each other's support and sympathy more times than you can count. speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, i can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion. 9、我希望你们能够发展自身对成功的定义，在这一过程中，你们能够选择一位亲密的伴侣。在做出选择时，要记住外表美只是人类演变的一种方式，它使我们确信对方没有肠道寄生虫。不要误解我，我也为美丽、浪漫和性所吸引，不然美国影视业和广告业怎么生存下去呢？但尽管重要，这些不是寻找人生伴侣时需要考虑的事情。你们将共同走过人生旅程，需要对方的支持和关爱。作为已婚35年的人士，我想象不到比选择人生伴侣更重要的事情。

10. call your mom and dad once in a while. a time will come when you will want your own grown-up, busy, hyper-successful children to call you. also, remember who paid your tuition to princeton. 10、时不时的给父母去个电话。早晚有一天，你希望自己长大成人的、工作繁忙的、超级成功的孩子给你来个电话，再者，请记着谁供养你上的大学。

those are my suggestions. they're probably worth exactly what you paid for them. but they come from someone who shares your affection for this great institution and who wishes you the best for the future.

congratulations, graduates. give 'em hell. 最后，毕业生们，给他们点颜色看看。

著名演讲稿篇4

nature is our mother:

let me begin my speech with a replay of scenes familiar to most, if not all, of those present here today.

take. take. take.. the relationship between a mother and a child always seems to follow such a pattern. i know my mother is always there for me, providing me with everything i need; from food to clothing, from tuition to pocket money. i never thought twice about all she did until one day she said,

like a child endlessly asking, we humans, throughout history, have been continually demanding what we desire from nature. we enjoy the comfort and beauty of our furniture, yet we never bother to think about the serious soil erosion caused by deforestation. we take it for granted that we must warm ourselves in winter times, yet we seldom realize the burning away of precious natural resources.we appreciate all the prosperity from the development of modern industry, yet few would give the slightest consideration to the global air and water pollution caused by industrial wastes. our ruthless exploitation has permanently impaired our mother earth.as we tragically learned from last summer's floods. we cannot continue our carelessness. finally, standing here at the threshold of the 21st century, we cannot help thinking of our posterity. nature is not only the mother of the present generation, but

also the mother of the generations to come. how severely our descendents will criticize us if we leave them a barren and lifeless mother? how much more they will appreciate us if we give them a world of harmony to inherit? let us start respecting and caring for nature from now on. let us start the campaign of creating a mutually beneficial relationship between people and nature right from this moment. with this new start, i firmly believe that our children, and our children's children will live in a brand new age of green trees, clean air, crystal water, blue sky and an even more promising world!

著名演讲稿篇5

you are where you are. accept it and feel the power your acceptance givesyou to move forward.

this moment is as it is. accept its uniqueness and experience the freedomof not having to fight against it.

there are difficult challenges in your life. accept them and feel theenergy that will enable you to rise above them.

accept that this is your starting point. instead of placing judgements onit，see the real，positive value that’s already yours. you cannot change whereyour past priorities and choices have brought you. yet you can make use of thewisdom you’ve earned to create a future that fulfils your most treasureddreams.

lovingly and gratefully accept who you’ve been，what you’ve done，what youhave and where you are. for you can now transform it all into what you most wishto be.

著名演讲稿篇6

have you ever bought any food on the train? and do you ask for the receiptafter buying it? nowadays, all trains in china provide its passengers withreceipts for commodities, but 7 years ago, things were quite different.

on 13th of october, 20__, the train t109 from beijing to shanghai wasspeeding on the railway. a graduate student bought a sausage at 1 yuan on thetrain, then asked for a receipt.

“are you kidding? it’s just one yuan!” the crew member was surprised.

the student, however, answered in a determined voice, “i paid the money, soi deserve the receipt.”

“but we never give receipts on the train.’ as a result, his further requestwas turned down by a cold shoulder.

several days later, the student sued the national railway ministry, for notproviding receipts for passengers.

to his dismay, the court turned down the case for lack of evidence. but he,who majored in law at that time, believed law as a most powerful weapon, so hedid not give up. instead, he began his journey of collecting first-hand evidenceby taking trains and buying commodities aboard. when his classmates were playingsoccer, he was taking the train; when his classmates were buying food atmcdonald’s, he was buying food on the train; when his classmates were askinggirls out, he was asking for the receipts. as he joked, ‘i was either taking thetrain or on the way to take the train.’

one month later, he appeared in the court again, with newly-collectedevidence and a stronger confidence. and i guess, ladies and gentlemen, you willall cheer for the result because this time, the student won the case. very soon,a regulation about receipts on the train came out. and whatever we buy on thetrain now, there’s a receipt for us.

outside the court, the student was asked, “how do you make it to the end?”he said, “as a law student, i root my faith in law. i believe that law is there,to protect every person with no exception, and to ensure every person has asay.”

his words spread a strong faith in law, which is not only a doctrine of alaw student, but also a belief that all citizens ought to hold. it is this faiththat initiates the student to resort to law for a tiny issue; it is this faiththat supports him to endure all the exhausting trips when collecting evidence;it is this faith that makes a seemingly “ridiculous” receipt request legal andrightful. it is this faith that helps to change our life, enhance our judicialsystem and bring social justice.

to many, a receipt of 1 yuan is too small to mention, however rights are tobe respected and law is to be believed in. it all starts with a tiny receipt of1 yuan, but we get a monumental case, a new regulation and a bumper harvest insocial justice. the bridge that leads a tiny start to a bumper harvest is faith,the faith in law, rightful and strong.

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