英语演讲稿-林肯

第一篇：英语演讲稿-林肯

Emily/Canon 2012.12.26

An inspiring person to me(about five minutes)

Ladies and gentlemen:

Good morning!Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of America, possessed a legendary life and exerted a tremendous inspiration on me.It is his story that motivated me and encouraged me when adversities come to me.From him, I come to realize that if one can do something by persistence, then he or she will be extraordinary and succeed sooner or later.Now please allow me to briefly tell you about him.At the age of 22, he suffered a lot from his business, which made him awfully disappointed.Then he turned his mind into being a politician.Unfortunately, without enough economic funding and reputation, he failed again.Defeated twice in one year, he was undoubtedly painful.Subsequently, he decided to run for the election of state legislator for the second time, this time, he succeeded.From then on, he grew a hope that maybe he would rapidly go up in the world.Sadly, another misfortune fell on him after several years, his wife, as well as his spiritual support, passed away because of illness.This might be an extreme shock to him and he was next to collapsed.In 1843, he lost again in his election of American representatives.However, instead of being despair, Abraham Lincoln overcame his depression and turned it into a motivation which eventually led him to become arguably one of the greatest presidents in America.Moreover, he got over constant ridicule during the Civil War even when he was a president.But he never became dejected because of it.Actually, Abraham Lincoln could have given up every time he suffered.But, he faced up to all the difficulties with a brave heart anda strong will.He was one of those who not only looked adversity in an optimistic way but also learned valuable lessons on overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.It inspires me a lot.As we all know, 800-meter-race is the necessary item to be tested in every semester, lacking adequate exercise, I always can’t finish the whole race.Since I learned more about Lincoln, every time I want to give up half way, his deeds will linger in my mind, this always supports me to achieve my goals.Never give up and everything is promising.No quitting, so winning.It is the perseverance that keeps bright the key to the door of achievement so we have no reason but to persist in everything we are doing.As Abraham Lincoln himself said, “I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.” Facing up difficulties, he didn’t hang back or run away, but hold on and fight for it instead.He had never thought how he should do if he failed again, but just kept on.There is no doubt that Abraham Lincoln is so great that he could inspire us all our life.No matter what time, no matter what may happen, I will never allow myself to give up.This spirit, will become my lifelong navigation.Thank you for your attention.

第二篇：英语演讲稿-美国总统林肯

I am honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.Truth be told, I never graduated from college.And this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.That's it.No big deal.Just three stories.今天，我很荣幸能和你们一起参加毕业典礼，斯坦福大学是世界上最好的大学之一。说实话，（虽然）我从来没有从大学中毕业，但今天是我生命中离大学毕业最近的一天了。今天我想向你们讲述我生活中的三个故事。不说大道理，就是三个故事而已。

The first story is about connecting the dots.第一个故事是关于如何把生命中的点点滴滴串连起来。

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.So why did I drop out?

我在里德学院读了六个月之后就退学了，但是在十八个月以后，我还经常去学校。我为什么要退学呢？

It started before I was born.My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife.Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy;do

you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.She refused to sign the final adoption papers.She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.This was the start in my life.故事要从我的出生说起。我的亲生母亲是一名年轻未婚的大学毕业生。她决定让别人收养我，她十分想让大学毕业生收养我。所以在我出生前，她已经准备一切，让一位律师和他的妻子收养。但是她没有料到，在我出生后，律师夫妇突然决定要一个女孩。所以，我的养父养母（他们当时还在候选名单上）突然在半夜接到了一个电话：“我们有一个意外降生的男婴，你们想收养他吗？”他们回答说： “当然！” 但是我亲生母亲随后发现，我的养母从未上过大学，我的养父高中没毕业。于是她拒绝签订收养合同。但在几个月以后，因为我的养父养母答应她一定要让我上大学，她才心软同意了。

And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.So I decided to drop out and would all work out OK.It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.在十七岁那年，我的确上大学了。但我天真地选择了一个几乎和斯坦福大学一样贵的学校，我父母还处于工薪阶层，为了交学费，他们几乎耗光所有积蓄。六个月后，我几乎看不到在学校的价值。我不知道（我生命中）要追求什么，我也不知道学校是否能帮我找到答案。但在学校，我将花光我父母这一辈子的积蓄。所以，我决定退学，并且我相信车到山前必有路。（不可否认），我当时非常害怕，但现在回头来看，这个决定是我一生中最明智决定之一。在我做出退学决定后，我再也不用去上那些我丝毫没有兴趣的必修课，我开始去听那些看起来有趣的课程。

It wasn't all romantic.I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5￠ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.I loved it.And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.Let me give you one example:

这一点也不浪漫。没了宿舍，所以我要到朋友家睡地板；为了填饱肚子，我捡过值5美分的可乐罐；为了每周一顿的好一点的饭，每个星期天晚上，我穿街过巷，步行7英里到Hare Krishna教堂。我喜欢那里的饭菜。在好奇和直觉的引导下，我跌跌撞撞地遇到很多东西，这些后来被证明是无价瑰宝。我给你们举一个例子吧：

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed.Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.It was beautiful,historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.那时候，里德学院的书法课程也许是全美最好的。学校里的每个海报，抽屉上的每个标签，上面全都是漂亮的书法。因为我退学了，没有了正常的课程，所以我决定去上/书法课，去学学怎样写出漂亮的字。我学到了san serif 和serif字体，我学会了怎么样在不同的字母组合之中变化间距，还有怎么样做最好的版式。那种美感、真实感和艺术感，是科学永远不能捕捉到的，（我发现）那实在是太迷人了。

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac.It was the first computer with beautiful typography.If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.当时这些东西似乎在我生命中没什么可用之处。但十年之后，当我们在设计第一台Macintosh计算机的时候，就全部派上用场。我把当时我学的那些东西全都融入到Mac。那是拥有漂亮字体的第一台计算机。如果我当时没有退学，我没机会沉迷于书法课程，Mac就不会有种类繁多或的行距整齐的字体。如果Windows没有抄袭Mac，个人电脑很可能就不会这么多字体。如果我没有退学，我不会沉迷于书法课程，个人电脑很可能就不会这么多字体。当然了，我在学校的时候不可能把这些点点滴滴提前串连起来。但在十年之后回顾过去，这些东西历历在目。

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward;you can only connect them looking backwards.So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.This approach has never let me down, and it would made all the difference.再说一次，你不可能把这些点点滴滴提前串连起来；你只能在回顾的时候把它们串连起来。所以你必须相信这些点点滴滴是和你的未来项链的。你必须要相信某些东西：直觉、命运、生命、因缘等等。这个方法从未让我失望过，它让我与众不同。

第三篇：林肯演讲稿

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.I am not bound to succeed, but am bound to live up to what light I have.I must stand with anybody that stands right.Stand with him while is right and part with him when he goes wrong.That was remarked by one of the greatest presidents in the US history.And he is the very president that fascinates me most.He is Abraham Lincoln.Unlike other presidents, he was not born in the upper class.On the contrary, he had a very humble origin.His family was very poor.Both of his father and mother were farmers and illiterate.He didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton University like many celebrities did.In fact, he received less than one year’s formal education.But, with patient effort, doggy perseverance, he taught himself law.He attacked his legal studies with the same single-minded dedication and passion he reserved for reading and spent many hours trying to make up for the early learning he felt he lacked.As a practicing lawyer in the courts, he was admired by his fellow professionals and regarded by everyone who met him with great affection.After that, after a series of defeat, he finally became the president of the United Stated.Then he devoted all himself to the freedom of the slaves.Soon the Southern states rebelled.They set up a state of their own, where they would keep Negroes as slaves.About south-north relationship, he once said that “A house pided against itself cannot stand.” Further, to state his intentions in a way that could not be misinterpreted, he said plainly: “I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”

Fighting broke out between the North and the South.This was the American Civil War.The war lasted four years and ended in the victory of the northern army.The nation was reunited and the slaves were all set free.On the fifth day after the surrender of the Confederate troop, Lincoln was shot to death at a theatre in Washington, D.C.The whole nation fell into a deep sorrow.Looking back at his life, many people considered him to be the greatest president of all time.Yet it should be remembered how many defeats and sufferings he had been going through.The genius of Abraham Lincoln is such that almost all American presidents and presidential aspirants since have turned to him for guidance and inspiration.Obama once wrote an article for Time Magazine in which he said: “In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat – in all this, he reminded me just...of my own struggles.”

Yes, we have good reason to believe that family, personal history, education and situation, none of these can hold back a strong spirit.Everyone has “the right to rise”.Face things in front of us because the most formidable enemy lies within us.Though we may have little chance to become the president or we may never make that much great contributions made by Abraham Lincoln, but we can be the masters of our lives.Thank you very much.

第四篇：林肯演讲稿

The Gettysburg

Address

Abraham Lincoln

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

November 19, 1863

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.We are met on a great battle-field of that war.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can not hallow--this ground.The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.八十七年前，我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来平等的原则。

现在我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者任何一个孕育于自 由和奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。我们在这场战争中的一个伟大战场上集会。烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们来到这里，是要把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为最后的安息之所。我们这样做是完全应该而且非常恰当的。

但是，从更广泛的意义上来说，这块土地我们不能够奉献，不能够圣化，不能够神化。那些曾在这里战斗过的勇士们，活着的和去世的，已经把这块土地圣化了，这远不是我们微薄的力量所能增减的。我们今天在这里所说的话，全世界不大会注意，也不会长久地记住，但勇士们在这里所做过的事，全世界却永远不会忘记。毋宁说，倒是我们这些还活着的人，应该在这里把自己奉献于勇士们已经如此崇高地向前推进但尚未完成的事业。倒是我们应该在这里把自己奉献于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务――我们要从这些光荣的死者身上汲取更多的献身精神，来完成他们已经完全彻底为之献身的事业；我们要在这里下定最大的决心，不让这些死者白白牺牲；我们要使国家在上帝的福佑下得到自由的新生，要使这个民有、民治、民享的政府永世长存。

（朱曾汶译）

选自《英译汉名篇赏析》李亚丹主编

Gettysburg Battlefield

One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1-3, 1863.General Robert E.Lee came face to face with a Union army led by General George Meade.On July 3, Lee sent three pisions, about 15,000 men in all, against the Union.This oval-shaped map by Theodore Ditterline depicts troops and artillery positions along with roads, railways, and houses with names of residents.The Library has one of the finest collections of Civil War printed maps and the foremost collection of Confederate field maps, numbering more than 2,300.* * * *

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第五篇：林肯演讲稿

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.I am not bound to succeed, but am bound to live up to what light I have.I must stand with anybody that stands right.Stand with him while is right and part with him when he goes wrong.That was remarked by one of the greatest presidents in the US history.And he is the very president that fascinates me most.He is Abraham Lincoln.Unlike other presidents, he was not born in the upper class.On the contrary, he had a very humble origin.His family was very poor.Both of his father and mother were farmers and illiterate.He didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton University like many celebrities did.In fact, he received less than one year’s formal education.But, with patient effort, doggy perseverance, he taught himself law.He attacked his legal studies with the same single-minded dedication and passion he reserved for reading and spent many hours trying to make up for the early learning he felt he lacked.As a practicing lawyer in the courts, he was admired by his fellow professionals and regarded by everyone who met him with great affection.After that, after a series of defeat, he finally became the president of the United Stated.Then he devoted all himself to the freedom of the slaves.Soon the Southern states rebelled.They set up a state of their own, where they would keep Negroes as slaves.About south-north relationship, he once said that “A house pided against itself cannot stand.” Further, to state his intentions in a way that could not be misinterpreted, he said plainly: “I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”

Fighting broke out between the North and the South.This was theAmerican Civil War.The war lasted four years and ended in the victory of the northern army.The nation was reunited and the slaves were allset free.On the fifth day after the surrender of the Confederate troop, Lincoln was shot to death at a theatre in Washington, D.C.The whole nation fell into a deep sorrow.Looking back at his life, many people considered him to be the greatest president of all time.Yet it should be remembered how many defeats and sufferings he had been going through.The genius of Abraham Lincoln is such that almost all American presidents and presidential aspirants since have turned to him for guidance and inspiration.Obama once wrote an article for Time

Magazine in which he said: “In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate

mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat – in all this, he reminded me just...of my own struggles.”

Yes, we have good reason to believe that family, personal history, education and situation, none of these can hold back a strong spirit.Everyone has “the right to rise”.Face things in front of us because the most formidable enemy lies within us.Though we may have little chance to become the president or we may never make that much great

contributions made by Abraham Lincoln, but we can be the masters of our lives.Thank you very much.