1、名人名校演講精粹SPEECHES IN FAMOUS UNIVERSTIES追逐夢(mèng)想Go for Your Dreams 張峪齊 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. 事實(shí)上，成功是件難事。你不可能對(duì)要讀的每門(mén)課程都興趣盎然，你不可能和每名帶課教師都相處順利，你也不可能每次都遇上看起來(lái)和現(xiàn)實(shí)生活有關(guān)的作業(yè)。而且，并不是每件事，你都能在頭一次嘗試時(shí)獲得成功。 但那沒(méi)有關(guān)系。因?yàn)樵谶@個(gè)世界上，最最成功的人們往往也經(jīng)歷過(guò)最多的失敗。J.K.羅琳的第一本哈利波特被出版商拒絕了十二次才最終出版；邁克爾喬丹上高中時(shí)被學(xué)校的籃球隊(duì)刷了下來(lái)，在他的職業(yè)生涯里，他輸了幾百場(chǎng)比賽、投失過(guò)幾千次射籃，知道他是怎么說(shuō)的嗎？“我一生不停地失敗、失敗再失敗，這就是我現(xiàn)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，華爾街的傳奇人物，摩根大通CEO，世界上最讓人敬畏的銀行家。摩根大通在戴蒙帶領(lǐng)下不僅在每個(gè)季度均保持盈利近

11、20億美元，而且其投資銀行等業(yè)務(wù)還在五大投行紛紛倒臺(tái)的情況下逆市走高，更讓摩根大通在風(fēng)暴中屹立不倒。他還是花旗銀行的創(chuàng)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，特別是在過(guò)去幾年經(jīng)濟(jì)危機(jī)中，我看到許多人像綿羊一樣隨波逐流，在關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻不敢堅(jiān)持原則和立場(chǎng)，說(shuō)話(huà)拐彎抹角，

15、不敢得罪人，卻落得個(gè)難堪丟人的下場(chǎng)。但是我也看到許多人能夠頂住巨大的壓力，堅(jiān)持做著正確的事情。 人生路上，你們將面臨許多壓力，你可能會(huì)：屈從強(qiáng)勢(shì)、謹(jǐn)小慎微、明知不對(duì)卻裝看不見(jiàn)，以及做違心之事。你們絕不能向這些壓力屈服。要勇敢堅(jiān)持做正確的事，而不是做容易的事。不要做沒(méi)有骨氣、曲意逢迎、只會(huì)說(shuō)好話(huà)的人。即便艱難，即便會(huì)得罪人，也要有勇氣講真話(huà)。 你們要有為了原則和理想勇于擔(dān)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的氣魄，即使這樣做可能會(huì)給你帶來(lái)難堪的挫敗。 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. 離開(kāi)；放棄；停止； Tough tf adj. 艱苦的，困難的； Relevant rlvnt adj. 相關(guān)的；切題的；中肯的； assignmentsanmnt n. 任務(wù)；作業(yè)；功課; completelykmplitli adv. 完全地，徹底地；完整地 failurefelj n.失敗 (oop. success)；不及格 rejectrdkt vt. 拒絕；排斥； careerkrr n. 生涯；職業(yè)；事業(yè) Click klick v.合得來(lái)（少用）Vocabulary Courage krd n.勇氣 Knowled