英语演讲稿：Coffee, Tea（优秀范文5篇）

第一篇：英语演讲稿：Coffee, Tea

英语演讲稿：Coffee, Tea

孟凯元

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.After listening to so many speeches, are you feeling a little thirsty?

So would you fancy a drink?

I know some of you prefer coffee.However, I like tea better.So we have different preferences.Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean that we are enemies.Just like some of you, one of my friends likes coffee very much.He’s a columnist who writes articles for newspaper.Because of his occupation, he always has to work at midnight.Thus, coffee becomes his close “soul mate”.He gradually gets addicted to it while I still love drinking tea.Why do people have different preferences and tastes? I think that’s because everyone is unique.Different people are born in different families, accept different education and experience different things in life.In other words, every subtle difference makes a person unique.That’s why the world is so colorful.That’s why life is so wonderful.That’s why we love to travel, to make friends.Imagine a world where everybody has the same face and shares the same habits.Every time you looked at your friends, it would feel like looking into a mirror.people would just be like machines, doing the same thing at the same time.Just as I said, every subtle difference makes a person unique.So we have thousands of standards to divide people into groups.But one group should not be against another.For example, men and women.In Holy Bible, Adam said, “this is now the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.She shall be called ‘woman’ for she was taken out of a man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.From the word “united” we can see that God created men and women not to separate them.On the contrary, God intended to make people closer to each other.However, there are still some differences which can cause conflicts, nationality, for example.There are countless wars in history.Most of them were because that countries fought for their own benefits.Millions of people died for nothing but their nationalities.I believe many of you have watched the movie English patient.Count Almasy could not save Katherine’s life just because he had a German name.He was taken as a German spy.The story was completely a tragedy, but think about it, how ridiculous it is that people have to kill each other for their nationalities.You might say that it can only happen in the old times, the war time, but nowadays the conflicts can be more fierce and the causes can be more ridiculous.people throw stones and glass bottles at each other because they support different football teams.Yesterday people fought for nationalities, today people fight for football teams, who knows what people will fight for tomorrow? Maybe coffee and tea.The most amazing thing in the world is difference.It makes world beautiful but it also makes the world bloody and nasty.I hope in the future, there will be no prejudice, no hatred.You love your coffee, I love my tea, and we are still friends, never enemies.Coffee, Tea

张允宜

One of my friends used to tell me about a girl he once met on a train tour.She was an art student majoring in traditional Chinese painting.Every day she woke up with the sun, took a bath, poured a cup of tea for herself and then began to paint.She never used computers or mobile phones.My friend’s life back then seemed to be a remarkable contrast.He was a researcher at Microsoft.With instant coffee he began his day and spent the rest of the morning writing code.At that time, he admitted, he was touched by another life style and therefore started to reflect on his own.He categorized the two as tea and coffee.He said when he was all logic about his obligations and had to use caffeine to stay focused, he finally learned another possibility, a possibility that enables you to live artistically, but a possibility that most of us are never able to reach.There indeed are moments when we stop to look at what we have and become jealous of those who are brave enough to go after an idyllic life.Like Henry David Thoreau, by his reclusive living at the Walden he fronted only the essential facts of life, declared of independence and simplicity.We at occasions wish we had the same courage.But we don’t.Because we are at the same time jealous of those who live with a sense of self-fulfillment as their life is so organized that it appears to be flawless as well.We enjoy the “coffee” side too.The dilemma is that we keep telling ourselves we cannot have them both.But the fact is, for most of the times, we are puzzled by choices that we don’t have to make.Living deep does not mean a conflict with realism.Thoreau himself could manage to be an individualist anarchist on his voyage of spiritual discovery, and Adam Smith used to lecture us on how happiness originates from inner peace.Just think of the taste of the Green Tea Latte at Starbucks, mixed with the fragrance of tea and the delightful bitterness of coffee.This is the smell of life.Life is never a question of coffee or tea.It is an exploration of coffee and tea.The difference is made when you spare a second for introspection and link the two of them.Werner Heisenberg spent a summer in his youths in the Southern German villages and after viewing the picturesque scenery he depicted himself as not willing to look at physics for even another glance.However, later, when he was devoted again to laboratory, he claimed that he had found the unity of science and nature.This is the Eureka moment.Sooner or later it comes into our own lives too to teach us about the harmony of coffee and tea.As Jorges Luis Borges would say, for a genuine poet, every facet of the diamond of life is shining, for art is its heart.That friend of mine has now put his programmer days behind.Although late in the night when I pass his office the light might still be on, I am glad to hear new stories from him about discoveries on a lately opened café or a thought-provoking movie.I guess we have finally learned that life is sometimes like a cup of coffee.It is too hard to live to abstract ideals.And sometimes it is like a cup of tea, inspiring you to suck out the marrow of it.And we know that either coffee or tea needs to be exquisitely brewed.That is, after all, how we live in the world and of the world.

第二篇：TEA的演讲稿

篇一：something about tea演讲稿

when you feel thirsty,which one you will choose tea,coca-cola or coffee? chinese famous tea can be divided into different categories mainly including black tea, green tea, dark tea,white tea, oolong tea.su-xinyangmaojian tea with rich, tom green, the unique style of renowned chinese and foreign dark tea belongs to post-fermented tea.it is our nations peculiar tea, a long history in production, varieties of design and color.the puer tea has the obvious medication effect, the first to sober up, of disappear of disease, clear oneself stomach.white tea is slightly fermented tea.the dry leave is covered with fine white fur.the major varieties are yinzhen baihao, white peony, gongmei, and new craft white tea.oolong tea, also called green tea and half fermented tea,takes the founder of tea as its name.it has pharmacological effects, outstanding performance for breaking down fat, reducing weight and strong and handsome, etc.the chinese people, in their drinking of tea, place much significance on the act of savoring.savoring tea is not only a way to discern good tea from mediocre tea, but also how people take delight in their reverie and in tea-drinking itself.snatching a bit of leisure from a busy schedule, making a kettle of strong tea, securing a serene space, and serving and drinking tea by yourself can help banish fatigue and frustration, improve your thinking ability and inspire you with enthusiasm.you may also imbibe it slowly in small sips to appreciate the subtle allure of tea-drinking, until your spirits soar up and up into a sublime aesthetic realm.china is a country with a time-honored civilization and a land of ceremony and decorum.whenever guests visit, it is necessary to make and serve tea to them.篇二：2014年3月 chinas_tea_culture 茶文化配套ppt演讲稿 chinas tea culture good morning, ladies and gentlemen!today i’d like to talk about chinese tea culture.china, the hometown of tea, has a long history of tea culture.its said that chinese people have been drinking tea as early as shen nong tasted hundreds of herbs.tea has been closely associated with chinese peoples daily lives and tea culture became an important part of chinese culture.as early as the opening of silk road, tea has been exported to the west.to a certain extent, westerners get acquitained with chinese culture since they knew chinese tea.people throughout china drink tea daily.because of thegeographic location and climate, different places grow various kinds of tea.tea is an important part of the traditional chinese culture.1.introduction chinese tea has a history of about 4,000 years, and until now its reputation spreads all over the world.japan, south korea, the united states, the tea culture derived from han dynasty, flourished in song dynasty and ming dynasty, and declined inqing dynasty.meanwhile, the spirit of the tea culture was reflected through making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea, drinking tea and tasting tea.tea-producing areas tea is produced in vast areas of china from hainan lsland to shandong province in the north, from tibet in the southwest to taiwan across the straits.china has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of tea plants dates back two thousand years.tea from china, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known theworld over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important chinese export.at present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with asian countries producing 90% of the worlds total output.russians/ english / japanese /europe and america.types of chinese tea chinese tea may be classified into seven types of teas ： : ? ? green teawhite tea? ? ? ? ? black tea yello tea oolong tea dark tea scented tea-green tea green tea has the largest output in china.it is the unfermented tea and has the longest history.also, it can be subdivided into longjing tea from the west lake of hanzhou, maofeng tea from huangshan mountain, yunwu tea from lushan mountain and biluochun tea from jiangsu.west lake dragon well tea black tea black tea is totally different from 大家上午好，我将代表第一组向你们讲解我们的ppt，我们着重向你们分析中国和英国这两个国家的茶文化的区别。

good afternoon，everybody！i’m tang na.i’d like to show the differences between chinese tea culture and british tea culture, representing for group 1.１．茶文化的起源

作为茶树的原产地，中国是最早种植、加工和饮用茶的国度，是当之无愧的“茶的祖先”。中国茶文化始发于神农，闻名于鲁周公，兴于唐朝，流行于宋朝，普及于明清。至今已有五千年的历史，它与中国的佛教、儒学等糅合，独成一体。

２． 饮用方式的不同 中国人饮茶，注重“品”。用煮沸的清水冲泡茶叶，顺乎自然，在清幽的环境中优雅地品尝，寻求茶的固有之味，重在意境。饮茶要求安静、清新、舒适、干净。品茶的环境多在园林或自然山水间，人们搭设茶室，小憩品茗，意趣盎然。

英国在茶里加入牛奶，或者蜂蜜、肉桂、胡椒、威士忌、黄油、鸡蛋，以及一切他们想加入的东西，从而把苦涩的茶水变成适合自己口味的饮料。

now, we can know the different way of tea drinking.chinese often pay much 与之相比，英国人则嗜爱举行名目繁多的茶宴(tea party)、花园茶会(tea in garden)，野餐茶会(picnic tea)。about different tea etiquette, chinese attaches great importance to the tea etiquette.for example, after soliciting opinions of the guest, the host would choose tea which is the most suitable for its flavor, with the best tea hospitality.at the same time, the host should pay attention to the residueof tea water in the cup, if there’s a half cup, the host will add boiling water, keeping the concentration of tea consistent, and moderate temperatures.by contrast, british people are addicted to various tea feasts, such as tea party, tea in garden, or picnic tea.４． 影响不同

茶是我国人民物质生活的必需品，更是我国传统文化的载体。品茶、待客是中国个人高雅的娱乐和社交活动，坐茶馆、茶话会则是中国人社会性群体茶艺活动。中华茶文化在发展的过程中所发挥着多方面的社会功能和作用，比如，以茶祭祀、或者作诗、制药。

喝茶，对英国现代文明的进程有着不一样的影响。下午茶不仅仅是休闲的家庭生活的象征，更为女性的社交生活提供了场所。另外，国内茶叶的巨大消费量刺激了英国的对外贸易和殖民扩张，英国和东印度公司赚取了滚滚财富，为早期工业文明提供了资本积累。

talking about social affect, we can see, for china, tea is one of the necessities in chinese material life, but also the carrier of chinese traditional culture.entertaining a guest with tea, is chinese personal elegant entertainment while sitting in the teahouses or holding tea party is chinese social groups activities.the chinese tea culture plays various social functions in the developing process of tea, for example, it being used for sacrifice, banquet, poetry or medicine.tea has different effects on the progress of british modern civilization.afternoon tea is not only a symbol of leisure family life, but it offers more places for womens social life.in addition, the huge domestic consumption of tea stimulus britain foreign trade and colonial expansion and the uk has made a fortune, so that it could provide rich capital accumulation for their early industrial civilization that’s all.thank you.well do you have any questions?

第三篇：优秀英语演讲稿

The Power of a Smile

we are busier and busier now.sometimes we just feel stressed and painful and we forget to smile.please smile!smile to others around you.smile to the world!

smile is important in our life.for ourselves, smile can make us happy and relaxed when we are sad or stressed.when you smile, the world in your eyes are better.for others, smile can make others feel comfortable and relaxed and they will like you.also, smile can bring you success.i once read a story.a salesman tried his best to sale things but always failed before.then he learned how to smile.he smiled all the time and others felt he was so kind and his smile was so attractive that they all wanted to but his things.finally, the man became successful.no matter you are happy or sad, do it now.the power of a smile is large.it can make all of us feel happy including yourself.smile to the world, to others and to everything.

第四篇：优秀英语演讲稿

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Thank you.Thank you, President Chen, Chairmen Ren, Vice President Chi, Vice Minister Wei.We are delighted to be here today with a very large American delegation, including the First Lady and our daughter, who is a student at Stanford, one of the schools with which Beijing University has a relationship.We have six members of the United States Congress;the Secretary of State;Secretary of Commerce;the Secretary of Agriculture;the Chairman of our Council of Economic Advisors;Senator Sasser, our Ambassador;the National Security Advisor and my Chief of Staff, among others.I say that to illustrate the importance that the United States places on our relationship with China.I would like to begin by congratulating all of you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating the centennial year of your university.Gongxi, Beida.(Applause.)As I’m sure all of you know, this campus was once home to Yenching University which was founded by American missionaries.Many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an American architect.Thousands of Americans students and professors have come here to study and teach.We feel a special kinship with you.I am, however, grateful that this day is different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years ago.In June of 1919, the first president of Yenching University, John Leighton Stuart, was set to deliver the very first commencement address on these very grounds.At the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students appeared.They were all out leading the May 4th Movement for China’s political and cultural renewal.When I read this, I hoped that when I walked into the auditorium today, someone would be sitting here.And I thank you for being here, very much.(Applause.)Over the last 100 years, this university has grown to more than 20,000 students.Your graduates are spread throughout China and around the world.You have built the largest university library in all of Asia.Last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study, including half of your math and science majors.And in this anniversary year, more than a million people in China, Asia, and beyond have logged on to your web site.At the dawn of a new century, this university is leading China into the future.I come here today to talk to you, the next generation of China’s leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between China and the United States.The American people deeply admire China for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and technology.We remember well our strong partnership in World War II.Now we see China at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your future.Just three decades ago, China was virtually shut off from the world.Now, China is a member of more than 1,000 international organizations--enterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural development.You have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large scale.Today, 40,000 young Chinese study in the United States, with hundreds of thousands more learning in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.Your social and economic transformation has been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a driving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decades of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and outside China, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job, attend a better school.As a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from poverty.Per capita income has more than doubled in the last decade.Most Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years ago.Of course, these changes have also brought disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous strains on your environment.Once every urban Chinese was guaranteed employment in a state enterprise.Now you must compete in a job market.Once a Chinese worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in Beijing.Now the global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of the world.For those who lack the right training and skills and support, this new world can be daunting.In the short-term, good, hardworking people--some, at least will find themselves unemployed.And, as all of you can see, there have been enormous environmental and economic and health care costs to the development pattern and the energy use pattern of the last 20 years--from air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water shortage.In the face of these challenges new systems of training and social security will have to be devised, and new environmental policies and technologies will have to be introduced with the goal of growing your economy while improving the environment.Everything I know about the intelligence, the ingenuity, the enterprise of the Chinese people and everything I have heard these last few days in my discussions with President Jiang, Prime Minister Zhu and others give me confidence that you will succeed.As you build a new China, America wants to build a new relationship with you.We want China to be successful, secure and open, working with us for a more peaceful and prosperous world.I know there are those in China and the United States who question whether closer relations between our countries is a good thing.But everything all of us know about the way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us that our two nations will be far better off working together than apart.The late Deng Xiaoping counseled us to seek truth from facts.At the dawn of the new century, the facts are clear.The distance between our two nations, indeed, between any nations, is shrinking.Where once an American clipper ship took months to cross from China to the United States.Today, technology has made us all virtual neighbors.From laptops to lasers, from microchips to megabytes, an information revolution is lighting the landscape of human knowledge, bringing us all closer together.Ideas, information, and money cross the planet at the stroke of a computer key, bringing with them extraordinary opportunities to create wealth, to prevent and conquer disease, to foster greater understanding among peoples of different histories and different cultures.But we also know that this greater openness and faster change mean that problems which start beyond one nations borders can quickly move inside them--the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the threats of organized crime and drug trafficking, of environmental degradation, and severe economic dislocation.No nation can isolate itself from these problems, and no nation can solve them alone.We, especially the younger generations of China and the United States, must make common cause of our common challenges, so that we can, together, shape a new century of brilliant possibilities.In the 21st century--your century--China and the United States will face the challenge of security in Asia.On the Korean Peninsula, where once we were adversaries, today we are working together for a permanent peace and a future freer of nuclear weapons.On the Indian subcontinent, just as most of the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, India and Pakistan risk sparking a new arms race.We are now pursuing a common strategy to move India and Pakistan away from further testing and toward a dialogue to resolve their differences.In the 21st century, your generation must face the challenge of stopping the spread of deadlier nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.In the wrong hands or the wrong places, these weapons can threaten the peace of nations large and small.Increasingly, China and the United States agree on the importance of stopping proliferation.That is why we are beginning to act in concert to control the worlds most dangerous weapons.In the 21st century, your generation will have to reverse the international tide of crime and drugs.Around the world, organized crime robs people of billions of dollars every year and undermines trust in government.America knows all about the devastation and despair that drugs can bring to schools and neighborhoods.With borders on more than a dozen countries, China has become a crossroad for smugglers of all kinds.Last year, President Jiang and I asked senior Chinese and American law enforcement officials to step up our cooperation against these predators, to stop money from being laundered, to stop aliens from being cruelly smuggled, to stop currencies from being undermined by counterfeiting.Just this month, our drug enforcement agency opened an office in Beijing, and soon Chinese counternarcotics experts will be working out of Washington.In the 21st century, your generation must make it your mission to ensure that today’s progress does not come at tomorrow’s expense.China’s remarkable growth in the last two decades has come with a toxic cost, pollutants that foul the water you drink and the air you breathe--the cost is not only environmental, it is also serious in terms of the health consequences of your people and in terms of the drag on economic growth.Environmental problems are also increasingly global as well as national.For example, in the near future, if present energy use patterns persist, China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the gases which are the principal cause of global warming.If the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are causing global warming, sometime in the next century there is a serious risk of dramatic changes in climate which will change the way we live and the way we work, which could literally bury some island nations under mountains of water and undermine the economic and social fabric of nations.We must work together.We Americans know from our own experience that it is possible to grow an economy while improving the environment.We must do that together for ourselves and for the world.Building on the work that our Vice President, Al Gore, has done previously with the Chinese government, President Jiang and I are working together on ways to bring American clean energy technology to help improve air quality and grow the Chinese economy at the same time.But I will say this again--this is not on my remarks--your generation must do more about this.This is a huge challenge for you, for the American people and for the future of the world.And it must be addressed at the university level, because political leaders will never be willing to adopt environmental measures if they believe it will lead to large-scale unemployment or more poverty.The evidence is clear that does not have to happen.You will actually have more rapid economic growth and better paying jobs, leading to higher levels of education and technology if we do this in the proper way.But you and the university, communities in China, the United States and throughout the world will have to lead the way.(Applause.)In the 21st century your generation must also lead the challenge of an international financial system that has no respect for national borders.When stock markets fall in Hong Kong or Jakarta, the effects are no longer local;they are global.The vibrant growth of your own economy is tied closely, therefore, to the restoration of stability and growth in the Asia Pacific region.China has steadfastly shouldered its responsibilities to the region and the world in this latest financial crisis--helping to prevent another cycle of dangerous devaluations.We must continue to work together to counter this threat to the global financial system and to the growth and prosperity which should be embracing all of this region.In the 21st century, your generation will have a remarkable opportunity to bring together the talents of our scientists, doctors, engineers into a shared quest for progress.Already the breakthroughs we have achieved in our areas of joint cooperation--in challenges from dealing with spina bifida to dealing with extreme weather conditions and earthquakes--have proved what we can do together to change the lives of millions of people in China and the United States and around the world.Expanding our cooperation in science and technology can be one of our greatest gifts to the future.In each of these vital areas that I have mentioned, we can clearly accomplish so much more by walking together rather than standing apart.That is why we should work to see that the productive relationship we now enjoy blossoms into a fuller partnership in the new century.If that is to happen, it is very important that we understand each other better, that we understand both our common interest and our shared aspirations and our honest differences.I believe the kind of open, direct exchange that President Jiang and I had on Saturday at our press conference--which I know many of you watched on television--can both clarify and narrow our differences, and, more important, by allowing people to understand and debate and discuss these things can give a greater sense of confidence to our people that we can make a better future.From the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, D.C., the monument to our first President, George Washington, dominates the skyline.It is a very tall obelisk.But very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains these words: The United States neither established titles of nobility and royalty, nor created a hereditary system.State affairs are put to the vote of public opinion.This created a new political situation, unprecedented from ancient times to the present.How wonderful it is.Those words were not written by an American.They were written by Xu Jiyu, governor of Fujian Province, inscribed as a gift from the government of China to our nation in 1853.I am very grateful for that gift from China.It goes to the heart of who we are as a people--the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to debate, to dissent, to associate, to worship without interference from the state.These are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years ago.These are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world stage.These are the ideals that Americans cherish today.As I said in my press conference with President Jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up to those ideals.The people who framed our Constitution understood that we would never achieve perfection.They said that the mission of America would always be “to form a more perfect union”--in other words, that we would never be perfect, but we had to keep trying to do better.The darkest moments in our history have come when we abandoned the effort to do better, when we denied freedom to our people because of their race or their religion, because there were new immigrants or because they held unpopular opinions.The best moments in our history have come when we protected the freedom of people who held unpopular opinion, or extended rights enjoyed by the many to the few who had previously been denied them, making, therefore, the promises of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution more than faded words on old parchment.Today we do not seek to impose our vision on others, but we are convinced that certain rights are universal--not American rights or European rights or rights for developed nations, but the birthrights of people everywhere, now enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights--the right to be treated with dignity;the right to express one’s opinions, to choose one’s own leaders, to associate freely with others, and to worship, or not, freely, however one chooses.In the last letter of his life, the author of our Declaration of Independence and our third President, Thomas Jefferson, said then that “all eyes are opening to the rights of man.” I believe that in this time, at long last, 172 years after Jefferson wrote those words, all eyes are opening to the rights of men and women everywhere.Over the past two decades, a rising tide of freedom has lifted the lives of millions around the world, sweeping away failed dictatorial systems in the Former Soviet Union, throughout Central Europe;ending a vicious cycle of military coups and civil wars in Latin America;giving more people in Africa the chance to make the most of their hard-won independence.And from the Philippines to South Korea, from Thailand to Mongolia, freedom has reached Asia’s shores, powering a surge of growth and productivity.Economic security also can be an essential element of freedom.It is recognized in the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.In China, you have made extraordinary strides in nurturing that liberty, and spreading freedom from want, to be a source of strength to your people.Incomes are up, poverty is down;people do have more choices of jobs, and the ability to travel--the ability to make a better life.But true freedom includes more than economic freedom.In America, we believe it is a concept which is indivisible.Over the past four days, I have seen freedom in many manifestations in China.I have seen the fresh shoots of democracy growing in the villages of your heartland.I have visited a village that chose its own leaders in free elections.I have also seen the cell phones, the video players, the fax machines carrying ideas, information and images from all over the world.I’ve heard people speak their minds and I have joined people in prayer in the faith of my own choosing.In all these ways I felt a steady breeze of freedom.The question is, where do we go from here? How do we work together to be on the right side of history together? More than 50 years ago, Hu Shi, one of your great political thinkers and a teacher at this university, said these words: “Now some people say to me you must sacrifice your individual freedom so that the nation may be free.But I reply, the struggle for individual freedom is the struggle for the nation’s freedom.The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation’s character.” We Americans believe Hu Shi was right.We believe and our experience demonstrates that freedom strengthens stability and helps nations to change.One of our founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, once said, “Our critics are our friends, for they show us our faults.” Now, if that is true, there are many days in the United States when the President has more friends than anyone else in America.(Laughter.)But it is so.In the world we live in, this global information age, constant improvement and change is necessary to economic opportunity and to national strength.Therefore, the freest possible flow of information, ideas, and opinions, and a greater respect for divergent political and religious convictions will actually breed strength and stability going forward.It is, therefore, profoundly in your interest, and the world’s, that young Chinese minds be free to reach the fullness of their potential.That is the message of our time and the mandate of the new century and the new millennium.I hope China will more fully embrace this mandate.For all the grandeur of your history, I believe your greatest days are still ahead.Against great odds in the 20th century China has not only survived, it is moving forward dramatically.Other ancient cultures failed because they failed to change.China has constantly proven the capacity to change and grow.Now, you must re-imagine China again for a new century, and your generation must be at the heart of China’s regeneration.The new century is upon us.All our sights are turned toward the future.Now your country has known more millennia than the United States has known centuries.Today, however, China is as young as any nation on Earth.This new century can be the dawn of a new China, proud of your ancient greatness, proud of what you are doing, prouder still of the tomorrows to come.It can be a time when the world again looks to China for the vigor of its culture, the freshness of its thinking, the elevation of human dignity that is apparent in its works.It can be a time when the oldest of nations helps to make a new world.The United States wants to work with you to make that time a reality.Thank you very much.(Applause.)From：sjbycwz.com/dfylce/ bxsjb32q.com/xamylc/ sjb321.com/188jbb/ bxsjbbcw.com/zlgj/ bxsjb520.com/bjw/

第五篇：优秀英语演讲稿

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We often hear people say, &;“Never give up.&;” These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in them will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.

One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel discouraged and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow as people. Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes only if we make a new effort. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted. Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.

In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better, more confident people. Furthermore, if we give up, we have non chance of attaining our goals, but if we keep trying, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.