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英文的演讲稿【第一篇】

What fear can teach us

恐惧可以教会我们什么

One day in 1819, 3,000 miles off the coast of Chile, in one of the most remote regions of the Pacific Ocean, 20 American sailors watched their ship flood with seawater.

Theyd been struck by a sperm whale, which had ripped a catastrophic hole in the ships hull. As their ship began to sink beneath the swells, the men huddled together in three small whaleboats.

These men were 10,000 miles from home, more than 1,000 miles from the nearest scrap of land. In their small boats, they carried only rudimentary navigational equipment and limited supplies of food and water.

These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of "Moby Dick."

Even in todays world, their situation would be really dire, but think about how much worse it would have been then.

No one on land had any idea that anything had gone wrong. No search party was coming to look for these men. So most of us have never experienced a situation as frightening as the one in which these sailors found themselves, but we all know what its like to be afraid.

We know how fear feels, but Im not sure we spend enough time thinking about what our fears mean.

As we grow up, were often encouraged to think of fear as a weakness, just another childish thing to discard like baby teeth or roller skates.

And I think its no accident that we think this way. Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard-wired to be optimists.

So maybe thats why we think of fear, sometimes, as a danger in and of itself. "Dont worry," we like to say to one another. "Dont panic." In English, fear is something we conquer. Its something we fight.

Its something we overcome. But what if we looked at fear in a fresh way? What if we thought of fear as an amazing act of the imagination, something that can be as profound and insightful as storytelling itself?

Its easiest to see this link between fear and the imagination in young children, whose fears are often extraordinarily vivid.

When I was a child, I lived in California, which is, you know, mostly a very nice place to live, but for me as a child, California could also be a little scary.

I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldnt sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping.

And what we say about kids who have fears like that is that they have a vivid imagination. But at a certain point, most of us learn to leave these kinds of visions behind and grow up.

We learn that there are no monsters hiding under the bed, and not every earthquake brings buildings down. But maybe its no coincidence that some of our most creative minds fail to leave these kinds of fears behind as adults.

The same incredible imaginations that produced "The Origin of Species," "Jane Eyre" and "The Remembrance of Things Past," also generated intense worries that haunted the adult lives of Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bront and Marcel Proust. So the question is, what can the rest of us learn about fear from visionaries and young children?

Well lets return to the year 1819 for a moment, to the situation facing the crew of the whaleship Essex. Lets take a look at the fears that their imaginations were generating as they drifted in the middle of the Pacific.

Twenty-four hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship. The time had come for the men to make a plan, but they had very few options.

In his fascinating account of the disaster, Nathaniel Philbrick wrote that these men were just about as far from land as it was possible to be anywhere on Earth.

The men knew that the nearest islands they could reach were the Marquesas Islands, 1,200 miles away. But theyd heard some frightening rumors.

Theyd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals. So the men pictured coming ashore only to be murdered and eaten for dinner. Another possible destination was Hawaii, but given the season, the captain was afraid theyd be struck by severe storms.

Now the last option was the longest, and the most difficult: to sail 1,500 miles due south in hopes of reaching a certain band of winds that could eventually push them toward the coast of South America.

But they knew that the sheer length of this journey would stretch their supplies of food and water. To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land.

These were the fears that danced in the imaginations of these poor men, and as it turned out, the fear they chose to listen to would govern whether they lived or died.

Now we might just as easily call these fears by a different name. What if instead of calling them fears, we called them stories?

Because thats really what fear is, if you think about it. Its a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do. And fears and storytelling have the same components.

They have the same architecture. Like all stories, fears have characters. In our fears, the characters are us. Fears also have plots. They have beginnings and middles and ends. You board the plane.

The plane takes off. The engine fails. Our fears also tend to contain imagery that can be every bit as vivid as what you might find in the pages of a novel. Picture a cannibal, human teeth sinking into human skin, human flesh roasting over a fire.

Fears also have suspense. If Ive done my job as a storyteller today, you should be wondering what happened to the men of the whaleship Essex. Our fears provoke in us a very similar form of suspense.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

In other words, our fears make us think about the future. And humans, by the way, are the only creatures capable of thinking about the future in this way, of projecting ourselves forward in time, and this mental time travel is just one more thing that fears have in common with storytelling.

As a writer, I can tell you that a big part of writing fiction is learning to predict how one event in a story will affect all the other events, and fear works in that same way.

In fear, just like in fiction, one thing always leads to another. When I was writing my first novel, "The Age Of Miracles," I spent months trying to figure out what would happen if the rotation of the Earth suddenly began to slow down. What would happen to our days?

What would happen to our crops? What would happen to our minds? And then it was only later that I realized how very similar these questions were to the ones I used to ask myself as a child frightened in the night.

If an earthquake strikes tonight, I used to worry, what will happen to our house? What will happen to my family? And the answer to those questions always took the form of a story.

英文的演讲稿【第二篇】

the footsteps of the 2010 world expo is getting closer and closer to us, civilized and harmonious call is still ringing in my ears.

shanghai, china obtained the right to host the world expo 2010, expo 2010 shanghai china will be a world event, the development of shanghais new round of golden opportunity, as it is an important embodiment of our national d expo is a great influence and a long history of international activities, is the largest gathering of human beings.

people from around the world gathered in one place display their products and skills, boast of their hometown and motherland.

expo set the culmination of human civilization, which has a unique appeal, make you feel d expo is a platform, we are the masters.

she put up a platform for us to let the world know us; she built a bridge for us, so we better communicate with the world.

this platform may let us display self wantonly.

we are the masters here, we have to landlord, let guest experience enthusiasm and yone to contribute for the expo, we are no exception, as a living piece of fertile land in pudongs teachers, we are proud and pride.

in the vision of a better tomorrow, we have to do for the world expo will own a wonderful ability, we have through our hands, warm heart and sincerity to practical action to achieve the commitment of shanghai to the world.

we should educate the many students: do not throw garbage anywhere, no spitting, no jaywalking 。.。

。.。， hello, thank you frequently mention, let the material on this city with the new york comparable to the spiritual civilization.

educate our students to exciting 2010, willing to shanghais future by copies of power, if only planted a small tree, participants in the shanghai world expo foreign guests feel: this is a forest city, pollution-free city, ancient and civilized city.

better city, better life! until the time of the 2010 expo, then, we want to become a glorious volunteers, to changing our foreign friends in shanghai and chinas long history, about our education for the world expo will contribute their expect the majority of teachers will be great enthusiasm for the world expo into practical action to meet the world expo, the expo will be a total growth, and the city of development, the development of shanghai devote their efforts to advance hand in hand with shanghai.

英文的演讲稿【第三篇】

Soy food good for women

Women who ate soy regularly as children have a lower risk of breast cancer, American researchers report. And men who eat fish several times a week have a lower risk of colon cancer, a second team of researchers have told the American Association for Cancer Research.

The studies add to a growing body of evidence about the role of diet in cancer. Cancer experts now believe that up to two-thirds of all cancers come from lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and lack of exercise.

The US National Cancer Institute and researchers at the University of Hawaii found that women who ate the most soy-based foods, such as tofu and miso, when aged 5 to 11, reduced their risk of developing breast cancer by 58 per cent. It was not clear how soy might prevent cancer, though compounds in soy called isoflavones have estrogen-like effects.

A second study showed that men who ate fish at least five times a week had a 40 per cent lower risk of developing colorectal cancer compared with men who ate fish less than once a week.

Many kinds of fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which interfere with the cyclooxygenase-2 or COX-2 enzyme. COX-2 affects inflammation, which may play a role in tumour growth.

英文的演讲稿【第四篇】

I am a love reading girl, since I was young, and the book.

I love reading because I can learn a lot of knowledge in the book. For example, in the idiom story I learned many useful idioms. In the ancient started I read a lot of beautiful poems; I learned in the little humor truth many to be the truth.。.

Every time, I am eagerly waiting for at home, waiting for my mother came back from the library, finally arrived, I cant wait to took the book from the hand of the mother, like a hungry Wolf, greedy read.。.

Mom and dad are all teachers, so its easy to borrow books from school library, the use of the favorable conditions, mother helped me to develop a habit: dont read in the evening and sleep. I want to thank you, mom, if it werent for my mother borrow books for me, I may never know the pleasure of reading.

I was a little girl love reading, book is my most close partner.