Change the World,Change Ourselves
Good evening, Honorable judges, Ladies and gentlemen.
It’s my great pleasure to stand here to present my speech—Change the World,Change Ourselves
It’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. Not long before about 10 doctors in beijing university and qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional festivals and culture.
Frankly speaking, i don't quite agree with them.Indeed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as china boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples).But why can't we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture.
There are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in china. On the one hand, some of the western holidays which we chinese don't have are reasonable and meaningful, such as father's day and april fool's day etc. On the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in china. Overwhelmed by such a trend,chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.
With the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. We are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the earth.The only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? The answer is definitely no. What we ought to do is to spare no effort to educate chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. Only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. Only by educating can we play a really important role in the world.
译文如下：
晚上好，尊敬的法官，女士们，先生们。
我很高兴站在这里发表我的演讲 - 改变世界，改变我们自己
值得注意的是，西方节日越来越受欢迎，而中国传统节日却被忽略了。不久之前，北京大学和清华大学的大约10名医生宣布我们应该拒绝西方假期的入侵，因为他们认为西方假期是对我们传统节日和文化的挑战。
坦率地说，我不太同意他们。事实上，我们不应该忽视甚至抛弃我们的传统节日，因为中国拥有辉煌的历史和灿烂的传统。 （例子）。但为什么我们不能吸收有意义的西方节日和文化。
西方一些节日在中国如此受欢迎的原因显而易见。一方面，我们中国人没有的一些西方假期是合理和有意义的，比如父亲节和愚人节等。另一方面，全球化的盛行使西方文化在中国盛行。受这种趋势的影响，中国人不情愿地涉足西方节日和文化。
随着全球的进一步发展，不同国家和民族之间的文化交流变得越来越快，越来越重要。我们确实来自不同的国家，但我们是同一个世界的公民，所以不同国家的优秀文化是地球上每个人的共同财富。我们保护我们的传统文化的唯一途径是拒绝外来文化？答案肯定不是。我们应该做的是不遗余力地教育中国人去了解和珍惜我们灿烂的传统而不是拒绝外国文化。只有通过教育，我们才能树立我们对文化的信心和信念。只有通过教育，我们才能在世界上发挥非常重要的作用。
延时阅读
怎么做好大学生英语演讲：
做好演讲的准备。了解听众，熟悉主题和内容，搜集素材资料，准备演讲稿，作适当的演练。
运用演讲艺术。通过运用各种演讲艺术，使演讲具备两种力量：逻辑的力量和艺术的力量。
善用空间的演讲。演说者所在之处以位居听众注意力容易汇集的地方最为理想。
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演讲时的视线。必须忍受众目睽睽的注视，也不能漠视听众的眼光，避开听众的视线来说话。
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声音和腔调。吐词清楚，要让观众听清观点，整场演讲不可没有节奏变化和音调变化。
