Crossing the Sea

 

by 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 kipling once wrote in this poem "we and they" :

all the people like us are we

and everyone else is they

we live over the Sea

while they live over the way

we eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives

they who gobble their rice off a leaf

are horrified out of their lives.

when these lines first caught my eyes, i was shocked--how 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 been 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 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 idle 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 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 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 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 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 of diSeases is finally finding its way to the west and hence the underlying notion that illness is result ……此处隐藏1323个字……o 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 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 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 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 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!

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第五篇：Crossing the red Sea

Crossing the red Sea

after the passover, all of us, the israelites, went up out of egypt. god led us around by the desert road toward the red Sea，which was really a long way. we were followed by egyptians armed with horses and chariots.

as a matter of fact, i was scared and afraid that i would be killed by the enemy. all the people said to moses, ”was it because there were no graves in egypt that you brought us to the desert to die?” to be honest, we all would rather serve the egyptians than die in the desert. then, moses persuaded all of us to calm down and told us that lord would help us by our sides.with hesitation and worry, i went on. suddenly, after moses stretched out his hand over the red Sea, the Sea was droved back by a strong wind and there was a dry road before us. how incredible and surprising it was! at that moment, my heart was filled with the hope of life. i, as an ordinary man, never had a chance to know what the so called lord looked like. was he really omnipotent? there was no answer in my mind.

later on, we the israelites crossed the Sea together. however, the following egyptians was drowned, all the chariots and horses covered by the water. our hearts leapt up. we could

never imagine that Crossing the red Sea was a piece of cake. what’ more, why exactly israelites went through the hardship rather than our enemy?

besides me, others were also confused because i heard they talked about it. i was lost in thought. by chance, i saw the rainbow as soon as i looked up. the sky was so clear, so did my heart now: yes, there was a lord, a psionic lord! it occurred to me where there was the belief, there was the existence.

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