名人英文励志演讲稿
新一代大学英语四六级领军人物，英语专家、文化学者、出版人、策划人，“振宇英语”创始人，当当网外语图书热门作者。
外语教学与研究出版社、北京航空航天大学出版社、大连理工大学出版社、海豚出版社、首都师范大学出版社、中国宇航出版社等国内一流出版社“振宇英语”丛书主编。外研社荣誉作者、当当网外语图书热门作者。
曾任国家级媒体记者、翻译、电台英语节目主持人、“振宇英语”专栏撰稿人、大学英语系主任、大学英语专业特聘专家教授。
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对于英语学习者来说，多听多看多练英语演讲是学地道英语的最佳有效途径之一，也是训练语音语调最有效的辅助手段。你不用担心这些演讲是否有语法问题，也不用担心用词是否准确，表达是否到位。因为一些名人的演讲稿通常是字斟句酌精心完成的。此外，通过演讲学英语还可以潜移默化地帮助自己提升对英文的驾驭能力，增强英语的语感和美感。
本书精选了19篇具有代表性的名人的英语演讲。这些名人或是国家领袖，或是关心民权民生的政治人物，或是创造经济财富的精英，或是用文字抒发情怀的作家记者，或是演艺界的娱乐名人。他们都在自己的领域里作出了杰出的贡献。他们思想深刻，见解独到，注定是站在时代前列的人。
这些名人的演讲充满了智慧，富含启迪。它们或是结合自身经历立足于个人发展的谆谆教诲，像亚马逊ceo杰夫·贝索斯在普林斯顿大学演讲，他讲了自己创业的故事，以此鼓励毕业生：未来掌握在自己的手中，追寻自己的梦
想，慎重选择;或是号召民众面对困难迎难而上，像美国第32任总统富兰克林·罗斯福，他就任于美国经济大萧条时期，国内民生凋敝，萎靡不振，他告诉大家，我们惟一害怕的是害怕本身，展示了带领民众走出低谷的豪情;或者充满人文关怀，如美国著名作家威廉·福克纳，站在人类精神的高度，勉励作家文人心中时时充满爱、怜悯、同情和牺牲的精神;或是显示了追求自由平等的决心，如马钉路德·金和南非总统曼德拉，他们在演讲中都表达了誓死捍卫民-主和自由的决心;或是显示了对家庭的爱，并把这种爱升华为“老吾老，以及人之老;幼吾幼，以及人之幼”，如米歇尔·奥巴马，她在演讲中表达了对家庭的热爱，同时也为丈夫竞选呐喊助威----如果巴拉克·奥巴马当选总统，将会保证每个美国人都能享受卫生保健，确保本国的每个孩子都能得到世界一流的教育。精选出的这些演讲名篇题材涉猎广泛，风格迥异。无论你是被其恢宏的气势所震撼，还是被其精深的意蕴所折服，亦或是为其诙谐幽默而莞尔，都能感受到演讲者所传递的共同心声：一定要奋发向上，积极进取，做出个人应有的成绩，为时代，为国家做贡献。
随书赠送的mp3演讲音频，为演讲者的原声音频。这些声音铿锵有力，或给你启迪，或让你感动，或给你温暖，或激发你前行的信念。同时，也让你更有机会品味最地道的英语表达。此外，在每一篇文章之后，都附有提炼出的演讲中具有指引性、励志性的“经典语录”，方便模仿与背诵。地道实用的英语学得多了积累得多了，你就能很自然地表达出极为纯正的英语，既能提升你的书面语表达能力，也可以提升你的口语表达能力。
准备好了吗?让我们从现在开始，去聆听那些温暖人心的声音吧!篇2：名人名校励志英语演讲稿
----- it is such an honor and pleasure for me to be back at yale, especially on the occasion of the 300th anniversary.i have had so many memories of my time here, and as nick was speaking i thought about how i ended up at yale law school.and it tells a little bit about how much progre we’ve made. what i think most about when i think of yale is not just the politically charged atmosphere and not even just the superb legal education that i received.it was at yale that i began work that has been at the core of what i have cared about ever since.i began working with new haven legal services representing children.and i studied child development, abuse and neglect at the yale new haven hospital and the child study center.i was lucky enough to receive a civil rights internship with marian wright edelman at the children’s defense fund, where i went to work after i graduated.those experiences fueled in me a paion to work for the benefit of children, particularly the most vulnerable. now, looking back, there is no way that i could have predicted what path my life would have taken.i didn’t sit around the law school, saying, well, you know, i think i’ll graduate and then i’ll go to work at the children’s defense fund, and then the impeachment inquiry, and nixon retired or resigns, i’ll go to arkansas.i didn’t think like that.i was taking each day at a time. but, i’ve been very fortunate because i’ve always had an idea in my mind about what i thought was important and what gave my life meaning and purpose.a set of values and beliefs that have helped me navigate the shoals, the sometimes very treacherous sea, to illuminate my own true desires, despite that others say about what l should care about and believe in.a paion to succeed at what l thought was important and children have always provided that lone star, that guiding light.because l have that absolute conviction that every child, especially in this, the most bleed of nations that has ever existed on the face of earth, that every child deserves the opportunity to live up to his or her god-given potential. but you know that belief and conviction-it may make for a personal miion statement, but standing alone, not translated into action, it means very little to anyone else, particularly to those for whom you have those concerns. when i was thinking about running for the united states senate-which was such an enormous decision to make, one i never could have dreamed that i would have been making when i was here on campus-i visited a school in new york city and i met a young woman, who was a star athlete. and it doesn’t mean that once having made that choice you will always succeed.in fact, you won’t.there are setbacks and you will experience difficult disappointments.you will be slowed down and sometimes the breath will just be knocked out of you.but if you carry with you the values and beliefs that you can make a difference in your own life, first and foremost, and then in the lives of others.you can get back up, you can keep going. but it is also important, as i have found, not to take yourself too seriously, because after all, every one of us here today, none of us is deserving of full credit.i think every day of the bleings my birth gave me without any doing of my own.i chose neither my family nor my country, but they as much as anything i’ve ever done, determined my course. you have been there trying to serve because you have believed both that it was the right thing to do and because it gave something back to you.you have dared to care. well, dare to care to fight for equal justice for all, for equal pay for women, against hate crimes and bigotry.dare to care about public schools without qualified teachers or adequate resources.dare to care about protecting our environment.dare to care about the 10 million children in our country who lack health insurance.dare to care about the one and a half million children who have a parent in jail.the seven million people who suffer from hiv/aids.and thank you for caring enough to demand that our nation do more to help those that are suffering throughout this world with hiv/aids, to prevent this pandemic from spreading even further. and so bring your values and experiences and insights into politics.dare to help make, not just a difference in politics, but create a different politics.some have called you the generation of choice.you’ve been raised with multiple choice tests, multiple channels, multiple websites and multiple lifestyles.you’ve grown up choosing among alternatives that were either not imagined, created or available to people in prior generations. you’ve been invested with far more personal power to customize your life, to make more free choices about how to live than was ever thought poible.and i think as i look at all the surveys and research that is done, your choices reflect not only freedom, but personal responsibility. the social indicators, not the headlines, the social indicators tell a positive story: drug use and cheating and arrests being down, been pregnancy and suicides, drunk driving deaths being down. it is not the vast conspiracy you may have heard about; rather it’s a silent conspiracy of cynicism and indifference and alienation that we see every day, in our popular culture and in our prodigious consumerism. but as many have said before and as vaclav havel has said to memorably, “it cannot suffice just to invent new machines, new regulations and new institutions.it is neceary to understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth and of our deeds.” and i think we are called on to reject, in this time of bleings that we enjoy, those who will tear us apart and tear us down and instead to liberate our god-given spirit, by being willing to dare to dream of a better world. during my campaign, when times were tough and days were long i used to think about the example of harriet tubman, a heroic new yorker, a 19th century moses, who risked her life to bring hundreds of slaves to freedom.she would say to those who she gathered up in the south where she kept going back year after year from the safety of auburn, new york, that no matter what happens, they had to keep going.if they heard shouts behind them, they had to keep going.if they heard gunfire or dogs, they had to keep going to freedom.well, those aren’t the risks we face.it is more the silence and apathy and indifference that dogs our heels. thirty-two years ago, i spoke at my own graduation from wellesley, where i did call on my fellow clamates to reject the notion of limitations on our ability to effect change and instead to embrace the idea that the goal of education should be human liberation and the freedom to practice with all the skill of our being the art of making poible. thank you and god ble you all.篇3：名人英语演讲稿
名人英语演讲稿 tribute to diana 致戴安娜——查尔斯·斯宾塞
在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。 this is the text of earl spencers tribute to his sister at her funeral.there is some very deep, powerful and heartfelt sentiment.would that those at whom it is aimed would take heed.the versions posted on several news services had minor errors.this is precisely as it was deliverd. i stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock. we are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to diana but rather in our need to do so. for such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of sunday morning.it is a more remarkable tribute to diana than i can ever hope to offer her today. today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though god granted you but half a life.we will all feel cheated, always, that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult. we have all despaired at our lo over the past week and only the strength of the meage you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward. there is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory.there is no need to do so.you stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint.indeed to sanctify your memory would be to mi out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with the laugh that bent you double, your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes, your boundle energy which you could barely contain. but your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely.this is what underpinned all your wonderful attributes.and if we look to analyze what it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives. without your god-given sensitivity, we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of aids and hiv sufferers, the plight of the homele, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of land mines.diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it poible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected. the world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability, whilst admiring her for her honesty.the last time i saw diana was on july the first, her birthday, in london, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a fund-raising charity evening. she sparkled of course, but i would rather cherish the days i spent with her in march when she came to visit me and my children in our home in south africa.i am proud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting president mandela, we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a single picture of her. that meant a lot to her. these were days i will always treasure.it was as if wed been transported back to our childhood, when we spent such an enormous amount of time together, the two youngest in the family. fundamentally she hadnt changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents homes with me at weekends.it is a tribute to her level-headedne and strength that despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself. there is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time.she talked endlely of getting away from england, mainly because of the treatment she received at the hands of the newspapers. i dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down.it is baffling.my own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodne is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. it is a point to remember that of all the ironies about diana, perhaps the greatest was this; that a girl given the name of the ancient godde of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age. she would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys william and harry from a similar fate.and i do this here, diana, on your behalf.we will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair. beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, i pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned. we fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born, and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role.but we, like you, recognize the need for them to experience as many different aspects of life as poible, to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead.i know you would have expected nothing le from us. william and harry, we all care desperately for you today.we are all chewed up with sadne at the lo of a woman who wasnt even our mother.how great your suffering is we cannot even imagine. i would like to end by thanking god for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time; 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《影响你一生的名人励志演讲》收录了19篇英语演讲，演讲者来自政治、经济、文化等各个领域。本书共分为五章，分别为国家领袖、政治人物、商界精英、作家记者和娱乐名人。精选出的这些演讲名篇题材涉猎广泛、风格迥异，有的气势恢宏，意蕴精深；有的轻松诙谐，令人捧腹；有的言辞恳切，语重心长。它们都有一个共同点：演讲者或立足于时代背景下或从个人自身经历出发，鼓舞人奋发向上、积极进取，做出个人应有的成绩，为时代、为国家做贡献。本书配有原版音频，让你最近距离感受这些最具影响力的声音。
国家领袖
梦想与责任——巴拉克·奥巴马 （>>查看演讲视频及双语演讲稿） and even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.即使当你苦苦挣扎、灰心丧气、感到其他人对你放弃时，也不要放弃自己，因为当你放弃自己时，你也抛弃了自己的国家。 must be strong 我们必须强大——威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿
因为我们大家都在生命的同一旅途上，我们的旅途会有终点。但我们的美国之路必须走下去。 the only thing we have to fear is fear itself 我们唯一害怕的是害怕本身——富兰克林·罗斯福（>>查看演讲音频及演讲稿中英对照） the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — namele, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.我们唯一害怕的 是害怕本身——这种难以名状、失去理智和毫无道理的恐惧，把人转退为进所需的种种努力化为泡影。 i am prepared to die for an ideal 为理想我愿献出生命——纳尔逊·曼德拉 （>>查看演讲音频及演讲稿中英对照） i have fought against white domination, and i have fought against black domination.i have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities.it is an ideal which i hope to live for and to see realized.but if needs be, it is an ideal for which i am prepared to die. 我反对白人统治，也反对黑人统治。我珍视民主和自由社会的理想，在这个社会中，人人和睦相处，机会均等。我希望为这个理想而生，并希望能实现这个理想。但是如果需要，为理想我愿献出生命。
we choose to go to the moon （>>查看演讲视频及英文演讲稿） 我们选择登月——约翰·肯尼迪 the greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.我们学到的知识越多，认识到的无知就越多。 never tiring, never yielding, never finishing 永不疲惫，永不气馁，永不完竭——乔治·布什 never tiring, never yielding, neverfinishing, we renew that purpose today; to make our country more just and generous; to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.永 不疲惫，永不气馁，永不完竭，今天我们重树这样的目标：使我们的国家变得更加公正、更加慷慨，去体现我们每个人和所有人生命的尊严。
政治人物 i have a dream （>>查看演讲音频及英文演讲稿）
我有一个梦想——马丁·路德·金 let us not wallow in the valley of despair, i say to you today, my friends.and so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, i still have a dream.it is a dream deeply rooted in the american dream.朋友们，今天我要对你们说，千万不要沉沦在绝望的深谷里。尽管眼下困难重重，但我依然怀有一个梦想。这个梦想深深植根于美国梦之中。 i quit, but i will continue the fight 我放弃了，但我会继续战斗——希拉里·克林顿 on the day we live in an america where no child, no man, and no woman is without health insurance, we will live in a stronger america.that’s why we need to help elect barack obama our president.当我们有朝一日居住在一个让每个孩子、每个男人、每个女人都享有医疗保障的美国时，我们便拥有了一个更强大的美国。这就是为什么我们要帮助巴拉克·奥巴马竞选总统职位。 building the foundations for succe 为成功做好准备——安妮·德·萨里斯 knowing who we are and being confident enough to do what matters to us — that’s what counts.了解自己，满怀自信，做好我们认为重要的事情，这才是最重要的。 let’s elect barack obama president of usa 让我们选举巴拉克·奥巴马为美利坚合众国总统——米歇尔·奥巴马
商界精英 unleashing your creativity （>>查看演讲稿中英文对照）
释放你的创造力——比尔·盖茨 and i believe that through our natural inventivene, creativity and willingne to solve tough problems, were going to make some amazing achievements in all these areas in my lifetime.我相信，凭借人类与生俱来的发明创造能力和不畏艰难、坚韧不拔
的品格，在我的有生之年里我们将在所有这些领域都创造出可喜的成就。 grab your dreams when it shows up 当梦想来临时抓住它——拉里·佩奇 overall, i know it seems like the world is crumbling out there, but it is actually a great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity, and be ambitious about it.dont give up on your dreams.the world needs you all!总而言之，我知道这个世界看起来已支离破碎，但这确实是你们人生中一个伟大的时代，你们可以疯狂一点，追随你们的好奇心，积极进取。不要放弃梦想。世界需要你们。 we are what we choose （>>查看演讲稿视频及双语演讲稿）
选择塑造人生——杰夫·贝索斯 cleverne is a gift, kindne is a choice.gifts are easy — theyre given after all.choices can be hard.you can seduce yourself with your gifts if youre not careful, and if you do, itll probably be to the detriment of your choices.聪明是一种天赋，而善良是 一种选择。天赋得来很容易——毕竟它们与生俱来。而选择却颇为艰难。如果一不小心， 你可能被天赋所诱惑，这可能会损害到你做出的选择。
作家记者 the spirit of man 人类的精神——威廉·福克纳 tribute to diana （>>查看英文演讲稿）
致戴安娜——查尔斯·斯宾塞
在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。
follow your bli, follow your heart（>>查看演讲音频及英文演讲稿）
追随你的幸福,倾听你的心声——安德森·库珀 but it actually was the best thing that ever happened to me.i decided that if no one would give me a chance, i’d have to take a chance, and if no one would give me an opportunity, i would have to create my own opportunity.但这次失败却成了我人生中最有价值的经历。我下定决心，如果没人给我机会，我就自己寻找机会；如果没人给我机会，我就自己创造机会。
娱乐名人 failure is an option, but fear is not（>>查看演讲视频及演讲稿中英双语对照）
失败是一个选项，但畏惧不是——詹姆斯·卡梅隆 so, thats the thought i would leave you with, is that in whatever youre doing, failure is an option, but fear is not. 所以，这是我想给你的想法，不管你做什么，失败是 一个选项，但畏惧不是。 feelings, failure and finding happine (点我去查看奥普拉演讲视频和双语演讲稿) 感觉、失败及寻找幸福——奥普拉·温弗瑞
——美国著名电视节目主持人奥普拉·温弗瑞2008年在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上发表的演讲
1、奥斯特洛夫斯基
命运对奥斯特洛夫斯基是残酷的：他念过三年小学，青春消逝在疾驰的战马与枪林弹雨中。16岁时，他腹部与头部严重负伤，右眼失明。20岁时，又因关节硬化而卧床不起。面对着命运的严峻挑战，他深切地感到：“在生活中没比掉队更可怕的事情了。”奥斯特洛夫斯基与命运进行了英勇的抗争：他不想躺在残废荣誉军人的功劳簿上向祖国和人民伸手，他用沸腾的精力读完了函授大学的全部课程，如饥似渴地阅读俄罗斯与世界文学名著。书籍召唤他前进，书籍陪伴他披荆斩棘。 奥斯特洛夫斯基思想的烈马，驰骋在乌克兰与波兰交界的辽阔的原野上，他口授的每一个字母都像无情的子弹，射向入侵的德国强盗。 2.张海迪 1955年秋天在济南出生。5岁患脊髓病，胸以下全部瘫痪。从那时起，张海迪开始了她独到的人生。她无法上学，便在在家自学完中学课程。 在残酷的命运挑战面前，张海迪没有沮丧和沉沦 ，她以顽强的毅力和恒心与疾病做斗争，经受了严峻的考验，对人生充满了信心。她虽然没有机会走进校门，却发愤学习，学完了小学、中学全部课程，自学了大学英语、日语、德语和世界语，并攻读了大学和硕士研究生的课程。 为了对社会作出更大的贡献，她先后自学了十几种医学专著，同时向有经验的医生请教，学会了针灸等医术，为群众无偿治疗
达1万多人次。
我们都是四肢健全的人，所以更我们应该珍惜眼前的学习机会。 3.爱迪生
在爱迪生发明灯泡的时候他失败了很多次 ，当他用到一千多种材料做灯丝的时候，助手对他说：“你已经失败了一千多次了，成功已经变得渺茫，还是放弃吧！”但爱迪生却说：“到现在我的收获还不错，起码我发现有一千多种材料不能做灯丝。”最后，他经过六千多次的实验终于成功了。
我们可以试想，如果爱迪生在助手劝他停止实验的时候放弃了，我们现在会怎么样呢？可能我们还要点只有豆粒般大小的油灯在夜里照明。其实爱迪生的每次试验失败都可以看作是挫折。这么一算，爱迪生发明电灯也就是遇上了六千多次的挫折，这是一个多么惊人的数目啊！ 4.林肯
生下来就一贫如洗的林肯，终其一生都在面对挫败，八次竞选八次落败，两次经商失败，甚至还精神崩溃过一次。好多次，他本可以放弃，但他并没有如此，也正因为 他没有放弃，才成为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。此路艰辛而泥泞。我一只脚滑了一下，另一只脚也因而站不稳;但我缓口气，告诉自己，这不过是滑一跤，并不是死去而爬
不起来。 ——林肯在竞选参议员落败后如是说
我们有的时候受到一次挫折，或经受到一次失败，就灰心丧气，认为自己一无是处，看看爱迪生和林肯，我们就会明白人的一生不是一帆风顺的，关键是学会坚持，永不放弃。 4.霍金
霍金虽然身体的残疾越来越重，但却力图像普通人一样生活，完成自己所能做的任何事情。他甚至是活泼好动的——这听起来有些好笑，在他已经完全无法移动之后，他仍然坚持用唯一可以活动的手指驱动着轮椅在前往办公室的路上“横冲直撞”； ·威廉·霍金认为他一生的贡献是在经典物理的框架里，证明了黑洞和大爆炸奇点的不可避免性，黑洞越变越大；但在量子物理的框架里，他指出，黑洞因辐射而越变越小，大爆炸的奇点不断被量子效应所抹平，而且整个宇宙正是起始于此。
