英语10分钟的演讲稿
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Hello,everyone !It's terrific that I came into the final. Foremost I want to say ,thank you so much my dear teachers and classmates today,I want to introduce my class for you.and there is a which called in CangZhou , HeBei Province. There are so many classes in our , Class 2 is an extraordinary one . ,as you know ,our 60 classmates and our head teacher live in this common classroom. Accurately speaking, we have been staying here for six month, some one came and some one gone, but, the stories are still going on .so let me tell you the stories about our family..Everyone writes down their own dreams on the wall of the class culture, someone would like to be thinner or taller than before.someone dreams of being admitted by his ideal university,another one hopes to go for a trip And many other fantastic dreams on it .I believe our dreams will be blossom.Now ,listen, here are the stories.Firstly, I would like to tell you something about my headmaster!His name is ZhuChong,we often call him Brother Chong Believe it or not,he is one of post-90s generation,just like us.Maybe he is too young in your opinion.Mr.zhu deserves his name.,he always keeps full of energy. He is strict and conscientious when he is doing his tasks.there is a few hairs on his head maybe because of his working hard .when MR. Zhou stands on the class stage., we may see the bright light that comes from his head lighter than the sunshine. He is not a tall man who is shorter 2 centimeters than me. of course, Mr zhou’s height could not effect the strong romantic love between him and Miss Lv. What is the image of the monitor in your mind? Our two monitors are really terrific!If the monitress which called Miss. Nan 。
She is regards as a soprano in our class. Her high voice could hold the class in awe. Miss Nan says , no talking .all of us would say nothing. We are no exception. Mr.Zhen is another monitor. Although He looks like be very thin, in fact be strong , he is enthusiastic about leading a team of boys to carry the bottled water. Their action means carrying the spring to our lives.Do you like sports? How about playing baketball ?class 2 has a great basketball team . And we are glad to invite other baskerball teams to play a game with us.I am not kidding
The tallest basketball player in class 2 is also good at drawing cartoons. another great player is Mr.Zany ,the coolest boy in our class.,he is skillful in Playing Rubik's Cube.maybe the experts play it on TV, but a real master is by your side. We called the talent shooter Mr.Cute.Why? We could find his cuteness in everyday life. you can't imagine how confident and strong he is in the game. Look ,Hualun has the coolest hair style in Class 2 ,she just like the role in a funny cartoon which called Chi-bi Maruko. the two beautiful painters in class 2, 婉榕同学和怡然同学are full of artistic temperament., Another girl I want to introduce is Mother.Wang,yes Mother.Wang .She is willing to help classmates..She helps her roommates to buy the breakfast and put them on their desks.She always be the first one to arrive at our classroom ,and turn the lights and the water fountain on. The class beauty is so cute ,look this is a picture that is drew by herself.Oh ,there is a stranger in our class,almost everyone knows the existence of the stranger. but none of them know his name . Maybe he is a cyclist,or a man who get so obsessed withe IT. Sometimes the stranger is a music lover who knows about so much great workpieces of music .the stranger always tell us some truths when we are in trouble. he just like V for Vendetta ， nobody knows what does he looks like.At last ,have a look at our treasure,it’s a pice of handwriting,we inherited from the last Class 2 .the dusty thing on the handwriting stands for the time step . .I love the last sentence in this article of the handwriting,Class 2 can do it!Maybe in someone’s eyes we are common，but I want you know, we are hard-working,the spirit of ClASS 2 is our belief!That's all ,thank you for your attention!
一篇英语演讲稿
前边是中文的，后面是英文的中英文都是对应的，你随便找一段就行感 恩 教 育 演 讲 稿各位老师、同学们：大家好
今天很高兴有机会和大家在一起聊一聊当下倡导并受到人们广为关注的感恩教育。
究竟什么是感恩教育呢
我们曾被哪些事情感动过
这次高二年级语文月考卷中有一篇文章，题目是“假如今天是我生命中的最后一天”，我觉得这个题目很好，于是在班级中作了一个调查：假如今天是我们生命中的最后一天，你会做哪些事情
台下发言较为涌跃：有的就说，我们要好好地吃一顿，有的说要好好地玩，还有的说什么都不做……各种答案五花八门。
这时候我想起以前看到过的一篇报导：一位母亲陪同儿子参加高考，儿子在教室里考试，母亲在外面守侯。
因为天气太热，气温过高，不久这位母亲便中暑倒在了地上，被路人送到了医院。
在医院，母亲一直没有苏醒过来，令众多医生束手无策，最后还一个护士想到一个好点子，在母亲的耳边轻轻地说 “高考结束了”。
话还没说完，母亲便坐立起来，大声地说“我得赶紧问问我儿子考得怎么样
”在这个生死关头，母亲心里牵挂的仍是正在考试的儿子。
这是一种多么伟大的母爱啊，她永远把儿子放在了第一位，因为关心儿子，而忽略了自己的一切，甚至是生命。
我相信各位同学的家长在遇到这种情况的时候，也同样会为你们付出的，因为你是她的孩子。
他们爱你，她们关心你胜过自己的生命。
可是同学们，你们又有多少人是把父母放在第一位的呢
不少同学总是不断地报怨自己的父母这样不好，那样不对，对父母的行为和做法挑三拣四，横加指责，甚至于直接与父母顶撞
有些同学不知道自己父母身体的健康状况，不记得自己父母的生日，有的连自己父母的工作单位在哪都不知道，想想看，父母为你们付出那么多精力和心血，扪心自问，你关心过他们吗
你为你们的父母做过什么呢
如果什么也没做过的话，那又有什么理由去指责你们的父母呢
对待自己的父母尚且如此，又怎么敢奢望你们会善待你们的老师和朋友呢
国家有难，又怎么敢指望你为他抛头胪洒热血呢
如果人人都是这么自私自利的话，社会哪里还会有温情呢
如果我们生活在这个失去温情的世界，那么我们活着又有什么意义呢
光靠喊口号是没有任何用处的，我们应该用我们实际的行动来关爱我们的父母
同学们，我想说，假如今天是我生命中的最后一天，我们要做的第一件事情，就是报答养我育我的父母
为他们献出自己的一份爱心。
还有一篇报导，一位不识字的母亲劳作了大半辈子，买了一副银手镯，很是珍爱，成天戴在手上舍不得摘下。
有一次她去城里看望他正在读高三的儿子，儿子惊奇地发现母亲手上的手镯不见了，便问他母亲手镯去哪了，母亲笑盈盈地掏出一个蓝布包，说：“娘用这副手镯给你换回来两本“天书”，这回俺娃考大学可是有希望啦
”看着母亲充满笑意的脸，儿子感到很惊奇，这个世界上哪有保证能考上大学的“天书”啊
社会上的骗子这么多，该不会是上当受骗了吧
接过布包，层层打开，果然，那两本所谓的“天书”，不过是两本小学课本罢了。
儿子一急，准备说出真相，希望找到骗子挽回损失。
可是当他看到母亲满脸的皱纹和充满希望的双眼的时候，儿子放弃了。
他实在不忍心告诉他母亲这个残酷的事实，柔弱的母亲将受不了这样致命的打击
于是便笑着告诉母亲：“娘，你回去吧，我记下啦
一定考好”
望着母亲渐渐离去的瘦小背影，儿子哭了，哭得很伤心，回去后，儿子便把这个充满爱意的“天书”摆放在最显眼的位置，让它激励自己。
半年后的高考，儿子获得了前所未有的成功，北京的一所重点大学录取了他，他从此踏上了人生的正轨。
爱其实就是我们的身边，我们并不缺少爱，缺少的只是发现它的双眼。
每天早晨睁开双眼，我都会庆幸，今天我还活着，活着是多么地美好，世界上每天发生那么多的灾难和不幸，却没有一件落在我的头上，我活得很快乐。
什么是幸福
想起非洲那么多的难民，突然懂得了吃得饱其实也是一种幸福。
比起那么先天性残疾或是智障，我们的父母给了我们健全的肢体和聪明的大脑，这也是一种幸福。
那些天生残疾的人尚且没有埋怨老天的残忍和不公，仍然为了能够更好地生存而在不断地奋斗着，那么拥有健全的肢体，聪明大脑的我们，又有什么理由去怨天尤人呢
记得我读中学的时候，爆发了美伊战争和轰炸南联盟事件。
看着电视新闻里每天不断变化的战况，我感到很庆幸，庆幸的是我身在强大的中国，而非伊拉克或是南联盟，我们的国家保证着我的生命和财产不受外敌的侵害，我用不着成天提防着导弹的袭击。
路上遇到人民警察的时候，我会感到特别地亲切，因为是他们用辛劳维护了整个社会的稳定和安宁，让我不必担心歹徒的肆意侵挠。
努力吧，同学们，为了我们国家的更加繁荣和富强，为了我们的母亲的强健和安康，努力吧
我相信，只要我们都能够尽我们的全力了，即便不能取得成功，我们也将无悔
谢谢大家
（2）感恩的心（演讲稿）首先我要感谢今天让我能够站在这里参加此次活动的所有的人，包括我自己。
我今天演讲的题目是《感恩的心》。
有人说，忘记感恩是人的天性。
当我们偶然来到这个世界上，什么都还没来得及做的时候，我们就已经开始享受前人带给我们物质和精神上的一切成果了。
这就提醒着我们每一个人，要怀有一颗感恩的心。
怀有一颗感恩的心，才更懂得尊重。
尊重生命、尊重劳动、尊重创造。
怀着感恩的心，一代伟人在古稀之年说：“我是中国人民的儿子，我深深的爱着我的祖国和人民
”怀着感恩的心，诗人艾青在他的诗中写到：“为什么我的眼中饱含泪水，因为我对这片土地爱得深沉。
”听说过一个人向树道歉的故事吗
听说过所有正在行驶的汽车为狗让路的故事吗
这些真实的故事，感动于人对生命的关爱，感动于人对生命的尊重。
当我们每天享受着清洁的环境时，我们要感谢那些保洁工作者；当我们迁入新居时，我们要感谢那些建筑工人；当我们出行，要感谢司机……懂得感谢，就会以平等的眼光看待每一个生命，重新看待我们身边的每个人，尊重每一份平凡普通的劳动，也更加尊重自己。
怀有一颗感恩的心，才更能体会到自己的职责。
在现代社会每个人都有自己的职责、自己的价值。
当2004感动中国十大人物之一的徐本禹走上银幕时，人性的善良再一次被点燃，这个原本该走入研究生院的大学生，却义无返顾的从繁华的城市走进了大山。
这一平凡的壮举刺痛了每一个人的眼睛，也点燃了每一个人内心未燃的火种。
而让他做出这一抉择的理由很简单：怀着一颗感恩的心。
徐本禹用他感恩的心，为大山里的孩子铺就了一条爱的道路，点燃了贫穷和希望，完成了他的职责，实现了他的人生价值。
怀有一颗感恩的心，不是简单的忍耐与承受，更不是阿Q，而是以一种宽宏的心态积极勇敢的面对人生。
我相信，最温暖的日子来自寒冷，我更相信，最温暖其实是对寒冷的一种谅解，一种感恩中的感动。
一个人要学会感恩，对生命怀有一颗感恩的心，心才能真正快乐。
一个人没有了感恩，心就全部都是空的。
“羊有跪乳之恩”，“鸦有反哺之恩”， “赠人玫瑰，手有余香”，“执子之手，与子偕老，”这些都因怀有一颗感恩的心，才芬芳馥郁，香泽万里。
所以我要感谢你，我生命中往来的路人，让我懂得淡来淡去才不牵累于心灵，感谢有你，来来去去，我都会珍惜；感谢你，我生命中所有的师长，让我懂得知识的宝贵，感谢有你，岁岁年年，我都会铭记；感谢你，我生命中至亲至密的朋友，快乐有你分享，悲伤有你倾听，感谢有你，忙忙碌碌，我都不会忘记；感谢你，我至真至爱的亲人，在岁月途中，静静的看护着我，挡风遮雨，让我在被爱的幸福中也学会了如何去爱他人，感谢有你，日日夜夜，我都留在心里。
感谢日升日落，感谢快乐伤痛，感谢天空大地，感谢天上所有的星星，感谢生活，感谢得到和失去的一切，以及无所得无所失的一切的一切，让我在草长莺飞的季节里拈起生命的美丽
我的朋友们，让我们怀着感恩的心面向世界吧
让我们怀着感恩的心对待我们的生活吧
只要我们对生活充满感恩之心，充满希望与热情，我们的社会就会少一些指责与推诿，多一些宽容与理解，就会少一些争吵与冷漠，多一些和谐与温暖，就会少一些欺瞒与涣散，多一些真诚与团结，我们的精神家园将永远年轻……最后，让我们一起再来静静地聆听这首《感恩的心》吧：感恩的心，感谢有你，伴我一生，让我有勇气做我自己，感恩的心，感谢命运，花开花落，我一样珍惜。
我今天的演讲到此结束，谢谢大家
Thanksgiving education speechTeachers, students:Good!I am very pleased to have the opportunity to chat with the current widely advocated and are concerned about the education of Thanksgiving. What is Thanksgiving education? We have been touched off what? High grade on the language papers in an article entitled If my life today is the last day, I think this topic very well, so in the class made a survey: If today is the last of our lives One day, what would you do? The audience to speak : Some say, we have to eat a good meal, and some said that a good play, there is nothing to say ... ... a variety of answers to a wide variety. At this time I am reminded of the past seen a report: a mother accompanied her son to participate in college entrance examination, and the son in the classroom examination, the mother守侯outside. Because the weather is too hot, the temperature is too high, and soon the mother would heat stroke fell on the ground, the passers-by to the hospital. In the hospital, the mother has not regained consciousness, so that doctors at a loss, a nurse finally came up with a good idea, in the mother's ear gently say the end of the college entrance examination. If not yet finished, the mother would sit up and loudly said, I hastened to ask how my son's test?! In this life and death, the mother was still concerned about being the son of the examination. This is how great a love, ah, she always put her son on the first, as concerned about his son, to the neglect of everything, even life. I am sure that parents of students at a time when this happens, you will also pay for, because you are her children. They love you, they care about you more than their own lives.But the students, how many people you are the parents of this first? Always a lot of students complained to their parents this well, as wrong, for the acts and practices parents choosy, to accuse, or even directly contradict with their parents! Some students do not know their own physical health status of parents, parents do not remember their birthday, and some even their own parents in the work units which do not know, to think of it, parents pay so much for your energy and effort to ask, are you concerned about the have them? You have your parents done? If nothing done, then what reason to blame your parents? Treat their parents like this, how dare you expect you will treat the teachers and friends? Countries are difficult, how dare he expect you blood throw it onto the first group of people? If everyone is so selfish, the community where it will be warm? If we lose the warmth of life in this world, then we live, what significance does it have? Slogans alone is of no use, we should use our practical action to care for our parents! Students, I want to say, if today is my last day of life, we are the first thing to do is to return education to take care of me my parents! For they give their love.There is a report, one can not read the lives of mothers work, bought a pair of silver bracelets, was a treasure, all day long in the hands of reluctant to wear off. On one occasion she went to town to visit his son读高三, son surprised to find her mother gone hand bracelets, bracelets asked his mother where the mother took out a wide smile to a blue cloth, said: The mother Using this pair of bracelets for you to come back for two Book, this time she took the university entrance exam but I hope you! looked at his mother's face full of smile, his son was very surprised, how in the world guaranteed to university the Book ah? The community so many of the swindlers, the deception is not it? Take over the cloth, layers of open, really, that two so-called Double Dutch, but only two of primary school textbooks. Son of a radical, ready to tell the truth, to restore the lost hope of finding liar. But when he saw his mother's wrinkled face and eyes full of hope when his son to give it up. He can not bear to tell his mother the fact that this brutal, weak mother will not stand such a blow! Then smiled and told his mother: Mother, you go back, I take note of it! Necessarily a good test! Gradually leave the mother looked at the little background, my son cried, cried very sad, to go back later, then the loving son of the Book placed in the most prominent position, let it motivate themselves. Exam after six months, his son was an unprecedented success, a focus on Beijing's University of him, since he set foot on the right track of life.In fact, love is around us, we do not lack love, but found it missing eyes. Open your eyes every morning, I will be glad, I was still alive, how life is beautiful, the world daily so many disasters and misfortunes, but no one fell on my head, I live a very happy . What is happiness? Reminds me of so many refugees in Africa and suddenly know how to eat in fact a kind of happiness. Then compared with congenital disabilities or mental retardation, our parents gave us a sound physical and smart brain, which is a blessing. Those born with disabilities who did not even complain about the cruel and unjust God, still to be better able to survive in a constant struggle, then a sound body, we have smart brain, what grounds does the blame on others? I remember high school when the war broke out in the incident and the bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Watched television news every day fighting the ever-changing, I feel very fortunate, fortunate that I was in a strong China, rather than the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or Iraq, our country to ensure that my life and property damage from foreign I do not need all day to beware of the missile attacks. Encountered by the People's Police on the road, I feel particularly warm, because it is hard to maintain them throughout the social stability and peace, let me not have to worry about who's wanton invasion scratch. It up, students, and to our country more prosperous and strong, for our strong and well-being of mothers, it up! I believe that as long as we can all do our best, and if not successful, we will have no reason to regret!Thank you!(2)Grateful Heart (speech)First of all I would like to thank today so that I can stand here and to participate in the activities of all people, including myself. My speech today is entitled the heart of Thanksgiving.It has been said that people forget is the nature of Thanksgiving. When we came to this world by chance, not too late to do anything, we had already started to bring us to enjoy our predecessors in all material and spiritual results. This is to remind every one of us, it is necessary to have a heart of Thanksgiving.Have a grateful heart, know how to respect it more. Respect for life, respect for labor, respect for creation. Thanksgiving with the hearts of a generation in the age of Deng Xiaoping said: I am the son of the Chinese people, I deeply love my motherland and the people! Thanksgiving with the heart, in his poem Ai Qing wrote: Why is my eyes full of tears, because I am Shen land. heard of a person to apologize to the tree of the story? Heard of all dogs in vehicles to make way for the story? These real stories of people touched by the love of life, moved in respect of life. When we enjoy every day a clean environment, we would like to thank those cleaning workers; when we moved into a new home, we would like to thank those of construction workers; when we travel, would like to thank ... ... know how to thank the drivers, it will equal look at each and every life, a fresh look at everyone around us, respect for each ordinary general labor, but also greater respect for themselves.Have a grateful heart, only to better understand their duties. In modern society everyone has their own responsibilities, their own value. When in 2004 China moved one of the top ten of Xu Yu onto the screen, the kind of human nature was ignited once again, this was the college students into the graduate school, but from the bustling city into the mountains. This extraordinary feat stung everyone's eyes, everyone has ignited the fire inside unburned. And let him make the reasons for this choice is simple: with a grateful heart. Yu Xu this Thanksgiving with his heart, for the children of the mountains and a love of paved roads, set fire to the poor and hope to complete his duties, the realization of the value of his life.Have a grateful heart, and patience is not a simple subject, nor the Arab-Israeli Q, but the mentality of a generous and courageous to face life positively. I believe that the most warmth from the cold days, I believe that the most warm and the cold fact is a kind of understanding, of moving a Thanksgiving. A person to learn how to Thanksgiving, have a Thanksgiving for the life of the heart, the heart can be truly happy. Thanksgiving is not a person of the heart on all empty. Milk of the sheep have to kneel en, feeding of TU have crow, gifts were roses, there are hand, son of the hands of bailiffs, These are due to have a heart of thanksgiving before Fenfang fragrance, Ze Xiang Wan.Therefore, I would like to thank you, my life between the passers-by, let me know how to short to tie faded not only in the soul, and grateful for you, come and go, I will treasure; thank you, my life all the teachers, so that I know the valuable knowledge, grateful for you, year after year, I will bear in mind; thank you, loved ones in my life to close friends, happy to have you share your sorrow to listen, grateful for you, busy, I will not forget; thank you, I really loved to loved ones, in the years to come his way, quietly look after me,遮雨wind, so I also loved the well-being of learned how to love others, grateful for you, day and night, I stay in my heart.Thanks to the rising sun, thanks to a happy pain, thanks to the sky the earth, thanks to all the stars in heaven, thanks to life, thanks to access to and lost everything, and without any loss of income of all of all, let me in the long grass flying Orioles拈起season the beauty of life!My friends, let us hearts with gratitude for the world now! Let us treat the heart with gratitude in our lives it! As long as we live is full of thanksgiving for the heart, full of hope and passion, our world would be less blame and shift responsibility onto others, a little more tolerance and understanding, will be less bickering and indifference, more harmony and warmth, will be less fool with the slack, a little more good faith and unity, our spiritual home will always be young ... ...Finally, let us come together to listen quietly to the song Grateful Heart now: the heart of Thanksgiving, grateful for you, with my life, let me have the courage to do so myself, the heart of Thanksgiving, thanks to the fate of the flowers bloom, I like to cherish.I end today's speech, thank you!
英语演讲稿
Today, I stand here. I feel very excited and proud . First, please allow me to introduce myself. I’m yanglei and I’m from a small countryside. As we all know that life in the countryside is not easy. In my college most of my classmates who come from the countryside share the same dream: they wish they could live a better life in the city数.I could understand their feelings. It is true that life in the countryside is hard and poor.But what if everybody chooses to live in the city, who is going to help those poor farmers? Who is going to bring changes to the place that has nourishes us, a place that I have great feelings ? I can't join my classmates.I have made up my mind to go back to my hometown after graduation. When I was little I had dreamed of making my hometown a better place. Now a student majored in Computer Science , I’ll try my best to acquire knowledge .In the future, I will devote all my life for my hometown
英语演讲稿
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.当时，我只想去写小说。
但是，我的父母出身贫寒，没有受过大学教育。
他们认为，我那些不安分的想象力只是一种怪癖，根本不能用来还房贷，或者挣来养老金。
They had hoped that I would take a vocational degree; I wanted to study English Literature. A compromise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern Languages. Hardly had my parents’ car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics corridor.他们希望我再去读个专业学位，而我想去攻读英国文学。
最后，达成了一个双方都不甚满意的妥协：我改学外语。
可是等到父母一走开，我立刻报名学习古典文学。
I cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics; they might well have found out for the first time on graduation day. Of all subjects on this planet, I think they would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology when it came to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.我不记得将这事告诉了父母。
他们可能是在毕业典礼那一天才发现的。
我想，在全世界的所有专业中，他们也许认为，不会有比研究希腊神话更没用的专业了，根本无法换来一间独立的宽敞卫生间。
I would like to make it clear, in parenthesis, that I do not blame my parents for their point of view. ... I cannot criticise my parents for hoping that I would never experience poverty. They had been poor themselves, and I have since been poor, and I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. 我要申明，我并不责怪父母。
……他们只是希望我不要过穷日子，我不能批评他们。
他们自己很穷，我后来一度也很穷，所以我很理解他们，贫穷是一种悲惨的经历。
它带来恐惧、压力、有时还有抑郁。
它意味着许许多多的羞辱和艰辛。
靠自己的努力摆脱贫穷，确实让人自豪，但是只有傻瓜才会将贫穷本身浪漫化。
接着，她谈到了自己那些最悲惨的日子：A mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. 我毕业后只过了7年，就失败得一塌糊涂。
An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew. 短命的婚姻闪电般地破裂，我还失业了，成了一个艰难的单身母亲。
除了流浪汉，我是当代英国最穷的人之一，真的一无所有。
我父母对我的担忧，我对自己的担忧，都变成了现实。
用平常人的标准，我是我所知道的最失败的人。
That period of my life was a dark one. I had no idea how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.那段日子是我生命中的黑暗岁月。
我不知道还要在黑暗中走多久，很长一段时间中，我有的只是希望，而不是现实。
但是，J.K. 罗琳认为，没有那段日子的失败，就不会有后来的她。
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. 为什么我说失败是有好处的
因为失败将那些非本质的东西都剥离了。
我不再伪装自己，我找到了真正的我，我将自己所有的精力，投入完成对我最重要的唯一一项工作。
Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. 要是我以前在其他地方成功了，那么我也许永远不会有这样的决心，投身于这个我自信真正属于我的领域。
I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.我自由了，因为我最大的恐惧已经成为现实，而我却还依然活着，依然有一个深爱着的女儿，我还有一台旧打字机和一个大大的梦想。
我生命中最低的低点，成为我重建生活的坚实基础。
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies. 失败使我的内心产生一种安全感，以前通过考试也没有的安全感。
失败让我看清自己，以前我从没认识到自己是这样的。
我发现，我比自己以为的，有更强的意志和决心。
我还发现，我有一些比宝石更珍贵的朋友。
You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned.只有到逆境来临的那一天，你才会真正了解你自己，了解你结识的人。
这种了解是真正的财富，虽然是用痛苦换来的，但是它比我以前得到的任何证书都有用。
在演说的下半部分，她还谈了毕业后在大*赦*国*际（Amnesty International）伦敦总部的第一份工作。
这部分内容也很精彩，不过我就不翻译了，大家可以去看原文。
三、我要重点谈的，是演说的结尾部分。
一般来说，在演讲结束时，嘉宾将对毕业生提出期望。
我们可以看到，在这种场合，几乎所有嘉宾，都没有说“祝愿同学们取得个人成功”，而是说“希望同学们努力去减轻人类的苦难”。
比尔·盖茨去年说：Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world's worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school … the children who die from diseases we can cure?哈佛是否鼓励她的老师去研究解决世界上最严重的不平等
哈佛的学生是否从全球那些极端的贫穷中学到了什么……世界性的饥荒……清洁的水资源的缺乏……无法上学的女童……死于非恶性疾病的儿童……哈佛的学生有没有从中学到东西
Should the world's most privileged people learn about the lives of the world's least privileged?那些世界上过着最优越生活的人们，有没有从那些最困难的人们身上学到东西
These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your policies.这些问题并非语言上的修辞。
你必须用自己的行动来回答它们。
When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given – in talent, privilege, and opportunity – there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.想一想吧，我们在这个院子里的这些人，被给予过什么——天赋、特权、机遇——那么可以这样说，全世界的人们几乎有无限的权力，期待我们做出贡献。
J.K.罗琳今年说：the fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. You might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success. Indeed, your conception of failure might not be too far from the average person’s idea of success, so high have you already flown academically.你们是哈佛毕业生的这个事实，说明你们并不很了解失败。
你们也许极其渴望成功，所以非常害怕失败。
说实话，你们眼中的失败，很可能就是普通人眼中的成功，毕竟你们在学业上已经很成功了。
But how much more are you, Harvard graduates of 2008, likely to touch other people’s lives? Your intelligence, your capacity for hard work, the education you have earned and received, give you unique status, and unique responsibilities.…… That is your privilege, and your burden.但是，所有各位哈佛大学2008届毕业生，你们对其他人的生活了解多少
你们的智慧、你们的能力、你们所受的教育，给了你们独一无二的优势，也给了你们独一无二的责任。
……你们的优势就是你们的责任。
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. 你们要用自己的地位和影响，为那些被忽略的人们说话；你们不仅要看到那些有权有势者，也要看到那些无权无势者；你们要学会设想，那些条件不如你们的人们是如何生活的；那样的话，不仅你们的亲人们将为你们感到自豪，而且千千万万的人们将因为你们的帮助而生活得更好。
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.我们不需要改变世界的魔法，我们自己的体内就有这样的力量：那就是我们一直在梦想，让这个世界变得更美好。
