名人名校英语演讲读书笔记

1、名人名校演讲精粹SPEECHES IN FAMOUS UNIVERSTIES追逐梦想Go for Your Dreams 张峪齐 You Make Your Own Future Barack Obama Speech at Wakefield High school Arlington, Virginia September 8,2009First Part: 政界精英 The story of America isnt about people who quit when things got tough. Its about people who kept going, who trie

2、d harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future. The truth is, being successful is hard. You wont love every subject that you study. You wont click with

3、 every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you wont necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. Thats okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones whove had the most failures. J.

4、K. Rowlings - who wrote Harry Potter - her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, I have failed over and o

5、ver and over again in my life. And thats why I succeed. 事实上，成功是件难事。你不可能对要读的每门课程都兴趣盎然，你不可能和每名带课教师都相处顺利，你也不可能每次都遇上看起来和现实生活有关的作业。而且，并不是每件事，你都能在头一次尝试时获得成功。 但那没有关系。因为在这个世界上，最最成功的人们往往也经历过最多的失败。J.K.罗琳的第一本哈利波特被出版商拒绝了十二次才最终出版；迈克尔乔丹上高中时被学校的篮球队刷了下来，在他的职业生涯里，他输了几百场比赛、投失过几千次射篮，知道他是怎么说的吗？“我一生不停地失败、失败再失败，这就是我现在成功的

6、原因。 Obama tells us, we may not have much money, or our family may be poor, or we dont have a good look. But they cant be the reason for neglecting the homework or having a bad attitude at school. It sounds like a saying we often hear in China “There is no excuse for your bad grades .”Actually , it i

7、s true. We usually try to find different kinds of excuse to explain why we have so many things to make parents and teacher unhappy. But in fact, we do have something need to improve. Most of us know that Obama is the president. However ,only few people know ,Obama had a unhappy childhood. He lived i

8、n Indonesia when he was young. His mother didnt have enough money to send him a American school . So his mother began toFeelingsteach him by her self. And because she had to work, she could only have class at 4:30 in the morning. Obama had the worth childhood than we have. However, in the end, he be

9、came the president. But we can also predict that easily, some people with wealthy families will achieve nothing. Why？Because Obama wrote his own destiny, the poor life cant stop him achieving success, but some people just let the life make their future. We are studying for our selves. While we are l

10、ooking for excuse for our mistakes, we are also looking for the excuse for our failures in the future. So why cant we make our own futureSecond Part: 商界精英 To Hold Accountable in Life Jamie Dimon Speech at Syracuse University May 16,2010 杰米戴蒙 金融天才，华尔街的传奇人物，摩根大通CEO，世界上最让人敬畏的银行家。摩根大通在戴蒙带领下不仅在每个季度均保持盈利近

11、20亿美元，而且其投资银行等业务还在五大投行纷纷倒台的情况下逆市走高，更让摩根大通在风暴中屹立不倒。他还是花旗银行的创始人之一。 And so it takes courage, knowledge, a strong sense of self, a capacity to overcome failure, and a healthy amount of humility and humanity to be truly accountable. It takes courage to be accountable. Throughout my life, throughout this

12、crisis in the past three years, Ive seen many people embarrass themselves by failing to stand up, being mealy-mouthed and acting like lemmings by simply going along with the pack. I also saw plenty of people under enormous pressure who always did the right thing. Along the way, youre going to face a

13、 lot of pressure. Pressure to go along, to get along, to toe the line, to look the other way when you see things that arent right, and pressure to do things simply because everybody else is doing them. Never give in to that pressure. Have the fortitude to do the right thing, not the easy thing. Dont

14、 be somebodys lapdog or sycophant. Have the courage to speak the truth, even when it is unpopular, and have the courage to put yourself on the line, to strive for something meaningful, and even to risk what would be an embarrassing failure. 在我的一生中，特别是在过去几年经济危机中，我看到许多人像绵羊一样随波逐流，在关键时刻不敢坚持原则和立场，说话拐弯抹角，

15、不敢得罪人，却落得个难堪丢人的下场。但是我也看到许多人能够顶住巨大的压力，坚持做着正确的事情。 人生路上，你们将面临许多压力，你可能会：屈从强势、谨小慎微、明知不对却装看不见，以及做违心之事。你们绝不能向这些压力屈服。要勇敢坚持做正确的事，而不是做容易的事。不要做没有骨气、曲意逢迎、只会说好话的人。即便艰难，即便会得罪人，也要有勇气讲真话。 你们要有为了原则和理想勇于担风险的气魄，即使这样做可能会给你带来难堪的挫败。 Accountability is familiar to us. Parents and teachers usually say:“You have to account f

16、or this.”But its hard to account for our own mistakes . Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPM, he take responsibility for the JPM when the company was nearly closed. He never shirk his responsibility. So that JPM became one of the biggest banks in the world and he is one of the richest people. Ma Yun has sa

17、id“Today is tough, tomorrow is tough, the day after tomorrow is nice. But most people died on tomorrow evening.”The rainbow always appears after hard rian. So be accountable when things got tough, you can have a good time in the end.Feelings Quit kwt v./n. 离开；放弃；停止； Tough tf adj. 艰苦的，困难的； Relevant rlvnt adj. 相关的；切题的；中肯的； assignmentsanmnt n. 任务；作业；功课; completelykmplitli adv. 完全地，彻底地；完整地 failurefelj n.失败 (oop. success)；不及格 rejectrdkt vt. 拒绝；排斥； careerkrr n. 生涯；职业；事业 Click klick v.合得来（少用）Vocabulary Courage krd n.勇气 Knowled