大连科技学院教务在线-暑假最难忘的一件事

关于奋斗的英语短文演讲

人总要经过一番刻苦奋斗才能获得成功，卡莱尔 曾经说过，停止
奋斗，生命也就停止了。与此可见奋斗是生命之根本，如果你没有奋
斗的目标， 你甚至连自己为什么而活都不知道。那是比死更惨痛的。
精心收集了关于奋斗的英语短文演讲，供大家欣 赏学习!
Some years ago I took on an assignment in a southern
county to work with people on public welfare. What I wanted
to do was to show that everybody has the capacity to be
self-sufficient and all we have to do is to activate them. I asked
the county to pick a group of people who were on public
welfare, people from different racial groups and different
family constellations. I would then see them as a group for
three hours every Friday. I also asked for a little petty cash to
work with as I needed it.
几年前我在南部某郡接受了一项工作任务，与靠领取政府 福利救
济金的人共事。我想做的就是向每一个人证明他们都有自给自足的能
力，而我们所要做的 就是激励他们。首先，我让郡长给我挑选了一组
靠领取政府福利救济金生活的人，他们均来自不同的种族 部落、家庭
群体。每周五，我与他们以小组的形式见面谈话三个小时。由于工作
需要，我还申请 了一小笔备用金。
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I asked what their dreams were. Everyone looked at me as
if I were a kind of wacky. “Dreams? We don’t have any
dreams.”
我问他们的梦想是什么。大家却都以一种古怪的表情看着我。“梦
想户我们没有梦想。”
I said, “Well, when you were a kid, what happened?
Wasn’t there something you wanted to do?”
我说“好的:!那么当你还是个孩子的时候发生过什么?那时难道就< br>没有什么你想要做的事情吗?
One woman said to me, “I don’t know what you
can do with dreams. The rats are eating my kids. ”
一位妇女说:“我不知道你可以用 梦想解决什么问题。我只知道
我的孩子正在一口一口被老鼠吃掉。”
“Oh,” I said, “that’s terrible! No. Of course
you’re very much involved with the rats and your kids.
How can that be helped?”
“噢 ，”我说，“真是太恐怖了。不，当然，你的确被这些老鼠和
孩子所累。怎样做才能阻止这种事情的发生 呢?”
“Well, I could use a new screen door, because there are
holes in my screen door.”
“唉，我家纱门上都是洞，我需要一个新纱门。”
I asked, “Is there anybody around you who knows how to
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fix a screen door?”
“在座的各位，有谁会装纱门?”我问。
“Maybe I can have a try,” a man said.
“或许我可以试试。”一位男士说道。
The next week when the group was seated, I said to the
woman, “Well, is your screen door fixed?”
下周五，大家又坐到了一起时，我问那位女士，一新纱门装好了
吗?”
“Oh, yes,” she said.
“噢，是的。”她答道。
“Then we can start dreaming, can’t we?”She sort
of smiled at me.
“那么，我们可以开始梦想了，对不对?”她看着我，笑得很开
心。
That helped the group to begin to dream. The seemingly
small successes allow the group to see that dreams were not
insane. The small steps began to get people to see and feel
that something really could happen.
这件事使整个组的人都开始寻找梦想了。表面上的小成功 就让组
员们认识到梦想并不荒唐。不断的进步令人们逐渐意识和感觉到改变
真的可能发生。
Everyone found something. The man who put in the
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screen door became a handy man, and another woman who
took in the children became a licensed foster care person. In
twelve weeks, I had all these people off public welfare.
I’ve not only done that once. I’ve done it many
times.
每个人者倒 浅到一些值得重视的东西。那位装纱门的男士后来成
为一名勤杂工。另外一位带小孩的妇女成为一名手寺 证护卫廷人员。
帮助所有的小组成员摆脱福利救济总共用了12周时间。这不是一次
性完成的， 而是分好几次。逐步努力实现的。
关于奋斗的英语短文演讲：One Success is Enough一次成功
就够了
There was a man who had undergone numerous failures
in his life. But he said, "One success is enough for
me!"
有一个人，一生中经历了无数次失败。但他却说：“一次成功就
够了。”
When he was five years old, his father died of illness
without leaving him any property.
5岁时，他的父亲突然病逝，没有留下任何财产。
When he was twelve, his mother married another man His
step-father treated him strictly and often beat him when his
mother was away.
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12岁时，母亲改嫁，继父对他十分严厉，常在母亲外出时痛打
他。
When he was fourteen, he dropped out from school and
began his life of roving.
14岁时，他辍学离校，开始了流浪生活。
When he was twenty, he changed his job from electrician
to ferry staff to railway worker. All his jobs were tough for him.
20岁时，他当电工、开渡轮，后来又当铁路工人，没有一样工
作顺利。
When he was thirty, he did a sales work in an insurance
company. But before long, he fell out with his boss due to the
bonus problems.
When he was thirty-one, he learnt law by himself and
began working in law with the encouragement of his friends.
But in a trial, he fought with the litigant on court.
When he was thirty-two, he was out of work and led a
tough led a tough life.
When he was thirty-five, he suffered such severe injuries
in an accident that he could no longer continue his job of
promoting tires.
30岁时，他在保险公司从事推销工作，后因奖金问题与老板闹
翻而辞职。
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When he was sixty-six, he made a living by promoting his
chicken-frying technics to various restaurants in different
places.
When he was seventy-five, he felt powerless to maintain
his company, so he transferred his brand and patent to others.
The new owner suggested giving him ten thousand stock
shares as part of the purchasing price. But he turned down the
suggestion. Later the price of the stocks of the company
soared and he lost the chance of being a billionaire.
31岁时，他自学法律，并在朋友的鼓动下干起了律师行 当。一
次审案时，竟在法庭上与当事人大打出手。
When he was eighty- three, he opened another fast-food
restaurant but fell into a lawsuit due to trademark and patent
issues.
32岁时，他失业了，生活非常艰难。
When he was eighty-eight, he achieve great success and
became weU-known to the whole world.
35岁时，他在一次事故中身受重伤，无法再干轮胎推销员的工
作。
He was exactly the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ha
Lunde. Sandoz. He often said, "People always complain
about the bad weather. Actually the weather is not bad at all.
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As long as you are optimist and confident all the time, you will
have a good weather everyday."
66岁时，为了维持生活，他到各地的小餐馆推销自己掌握的炸
鸡技术。
75岁时， 他感到力不从心，因此转让了自己创立的品牌和专利。
新主人提议给他1万股，作为购买价的一部分，他 拒绝了。后来公司
股票大涨，他因此失去了成为亿万富翁的机会。
83岁时，他又开了一家快餐店，却因商标专利与人打起了官司。
关于奋斗的英语短文演讲：A Blind Woman's Vision海
伦;凯勒─奋斗的人
She fought for women’s rights, crusaded for the
causes of workers, promoted equality for minorities, and
championed the underprivileged and the oppressed. She also
earned several prestigious awards from countries as diverse as
Japan, Brazil, and Lebanon. An impressive list of achievements
for any human, all this was accomplished by a woman who
was blind and deaf.
她为女权而战、投身工人事业、促进弱势团体平等权利、支持受
苦和受压迫的人。 她还荣获日本、巴西、黎巴嫩等国颁发的几项荣誉
奖。对任何人来说，这都是给人印象深刻的成就，然而 这是由一位双
眼失明双耳失聪的女人取得的。
Helen Keller was born a healthy child in 1880 in Alabama.
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Stricken by illness at the tender age of nineteen months, Helen
lost her ability to see, hear, and speak. Growing up unable to
comprehend the world around her, Helen became wild and
unruly, until her parents found help.
1880年，海伦;凯勒在美国的阿拉巴马州出生时是个健康的孩
子。可在她19个月大时，她 得了一场大病，海伦从此失去了视觉、
听觉和说话的能力。在成长的过程中，她无法了解周围的一切，变 得
狂躁而难以管教，最后她的父母只好求助于他人。
They contacted Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the famous
inventor and teacher of the deaf, who introduced them to an
institute for the blind in Boston, Massachusetts. A student
there, Annie Sullivan, was asked to help. Annie would later
become known as the “Miracle Worker.”
他们和著 名的发明家、聋哑教师亚力山大;贝尔博士取得联系之
后，被介绍到一家位于马萨诸塞州波士顿的盲人机 构。该机构的学生
安妮;苏利文应邀提供帮助。她就是后来那位著名的“奇迹创造者”。
Annie Sullivan taught Helen how to connect objects with
letters by spelling words into Helen’s hands.
Helen’s breakthrough came when Annie held her hand
under a water pump while spelling “water” into her other
hand repeatedly. Helen suddenly understood, and from then
on progressed by leaps and bounds.
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苏利文在海伦手上拼字 ，借此教她如何将物体和字母联系在一
起。有一次安妮把海伦的手放在水泵出水口下，并且在她的另一支 手
上重复拼写water 的时候，海伦突然明白了，她的学习有了重大突
破。从此她进步神速。
Having mastered both the manual and Braille alphabets,
Helen became proficient in reading and writing, and began
learning how to speak in 1890. Helen entered Radcliffe College
and, assisted by Annie Sullivan, graduated cum laude in 1904.
She was the first blind-deaf person ever to graduate from
college.
海伦在学会了手指拼字法和布莱耶盲 人点字法后，她的阅读和书
写能力变得熟练起来;1890年，她开始学习说话。后来海伦在苏利文的帮助下，进入拉德克利夫(Radcliffe) 学院就读，1904年以优异的
成绩毕业，她成为第一位大学毕业的盲哑人。
Helen Keller spent the rest of her life as a writer, lecturer,
and advocate for the deaf and blind and other disadvantaged
groups. She traveled to numerous countries on behalf of the
disabled, and founded the Helen Keller Endowment Fund for
the American Foundation for the Blind in 1930. She died on
June 1, 1968, an outstanding example of the unconquerable
human spirit.
海伦;凯勒的余生都致力于写作和演讲，声援盲人、聋人和其他
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弱势群体。她代表残疾人，足迹踏遍海外各国，并且在1930年为美
国盲人基金会创建了海伦 ;凯勒捐赠基金。海伦;凯勒于1968年6月1
日与世长辞，她可以说是人类不屈不挠精神的最佳典范 。


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