精选-CrossingtheSea-word范文

1、Crossing the Seaby liang limin(áoà? ±± ?ía1úó ?ó ?§)(? ? úè y?ìè ?1úóó ?y?2±èèü 1ú?ü)ר ?ò ?à: òyó?§óê|?×÷ ?a?a3?°×?ó?&#

2、225;ê ?ó?ê× ?2o?ó| ?óe?eè?á|?÷· ? ?èú o?±í?ê?·?ê?÷ ?òa?é?3¤?ê?aó?e?y?2?good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. the title of myspeech today is "crossing the sea" . an english poe

3、t bythe name of rudyardkiplingonce wrote in thispoem "we andthey" :all the people like us are weand everyone else is theywe live over the seawhile they live over the waywe eat pork and beef with cow horn-handled knives they who gobble their rice off a leaf are horrified out of their lives.

4、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第 1页withgobble their ricemight be as wellhave taken to fishand chips.inde

5、ed, justtakechina as example; our modern lifehas beeninfluencedby westernstyleoflivinginso many ways thatit's no longer surprising to see teenagers going crazyabout rock-and-roll, whole families dining out atmcdonald'sand even ratherelderlypeople dressedinapplejeans.however, these are only s

6、ome expressions of the culturalchanges taking place in our society today. what is reallygoing on is a subtle but significant restructuring of thenation's mentality. just look around.how many college graduates are ready to competeaggressivelyforevery jobopportunity,whereasnotlongago they were ask

7、ed just tositidleand wait for whateverwas to be assigned to them by the government?how many young people are now eager to seek for anindependentlife whereas only two decades ago theywouldrelytotallyon theirparentsto arrangefor theirfuture?ask anyone who participates intoday's speech contest.who

8、has not come with a will to fight and who has not comedeterminedto achieveself-fulfillmentin winningthegame?第 2页and i'm quite certain that if confucius had lived to seetoday's china, he would have been horrified to see youngloverskissingeach other inpublicplaces inan unreservedexpression of

9、their passion.itisthereforeevidentthatwe as descendantsof an ancienteastern civilization are already living under stronginfluence of the western culture. but it is not only inchinathatwe findtheincorporationof thetwo cultures.take the unitedstatesas an example:duringthe 1980s, inface of the overwhel

10、ming competition fromjapan, manyamerican companies such as the ford began to adopt ateamwork management from their rivals,the essence ofwhich, lay at the very core of eastern culture.take the chinese acupuncture as another example: thistraditionaltreatmentof diseasesisfinally findingitsway tothewest and hence the unde