中学生两分钟超优秀英语演讲稿范文（通用23篇）
A university professor started off his class by picking out of his back pocket a 20-pound note. And in this lecture hall of about 200 people he asked, “How many of you would like this note?”
Naturally, all 200 hands went up. He said, “Interesting.” He then said, “Before i let you have it, let me ask you this question.” He took the note and folded it in half twice, and then he said, “How many of you want this note?” Still 200 hands went up. Now he said, “Let me try something else.” He took the note and he crumpled it.
And he said, “How many of you want this note now?” Still 200 hands went up. Finally he chucked the note on the floor. He screwed it with his shoe and crumpled it even more, picked it back up, now with dirt, and said, “How many of you want this note?”
The real challenge of growth, mentally, emotionally and spiritually,
成长路上真正的挑战，不管是心理上，情感上还是精神上
comes when you get knocked down.
是当你被击倒的时候
It takes courage to act.
起身而行是需要勇气的
Part of being hungry when you have been defeated.
被击倒仍是谦虚
It takes courage……to start over again.
放下重新开始也是需要勇气的
Fear kills dreams.
恐惧，扼杀梦想
Fear kills hope.
恐惧，扼杀希望
Fear put people in the hospital.
恐惧，使人一蹶不振
Fear can age you.
恐惧使你衰老
Can hold you back from doing something that you know within yourself that you are capable of doing, but it will paralyze you.
会阻止你去做一些力所能及的事，但恐惧也会使你麻木不仁。
Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
George Martin is an incredible writer.
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
All 200 hands were still up. He said, “Today, you’ve leraned an important lesson. No matter how much i crumpled that note, how much i scrunched it up, how many times it was trodden on, you still wanted it, because it was still worth 20-pounds.”
In the same way that that 20-pound note held its value,so do you.”
No matter how many times life will tread on you, life will crumple you, life will scrunch you, and life squeeze you, you will always keep your value, that spark within us all of bliss, knowledge, and eternity that exists, that spark will never be taken away.
Our value is not created by the price of our clothes or our bank balance or the job title that we have. See, we should be building life and not just building our CVs. The challenge we have is that we only talk about people’s failures when they succeed.
To grow the individual will to become something,you must get comfortable with fear and failure.They must be your best friends.They are the only ones that moves that needle of Life.
And the difference between a champion and someone who is forgotten.Is that a champion shows up.That’s the only thing, everyday shows up.
Gives himself a chance to make a difference.Because success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired.It just knows if you showed up or not.
For some of you when you do what you do,you act as if you have another opportunity.Every opportunity is the last opportunity!You can’t just say you want it.You can’t watch the video and say…“I want this as bad as I want to breathe.”
At the end of your feelings is nothing.
你的情绪并不重要，因为每个情绪起伏过后你仍可能一无所获。
But at the end of every principle is a promise.
但是要坚持原则，因为每个原则都是一个自我承诺。
Behind your little feelings.it might not be absolutely nothing at the end of your little feelings.
你的喜怒哀乐情绪的背后，小小情绪之后也可能并不是绝对滴一无是处，也许会带来些什么
But behind every priciple is a promise.
但是坚持坚持原则的背后才是一种自我承诺。
And some of you in your life, the reason why you not at your goal right now,
你们当中的一些人至今尚未成功
‘ cause you’re just all about your feelings.
是因为你们太过情绪化
All on your feelings, your don’t feel like waking – who does?
你被情绪所主导，如早上心情不好，不想起床?谁又想呢?
Every day you say ‘no’ to your dreams,
每天你都对自己的梦想说“不“
You might be pushing your dreams back a whole six months, a whole year!
你可能会把目标延后整整六个月，甚至一年
That one single day, that one day you didn’t get up could have pushed your stuff back, I don’t know how long.
也许你没有起身鞭策自己的那一瞬，天知道你就后退了多少
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
A university professor started off his class by picking out of his back pocket a 20-pound note. And in this lecture hall of about 200 people he asked, “How many of you would like this note?”
Naturally, all 200 hands went up. He said, “Interesting.” He then said, “Before i let you have it, let me ask you this question.” He took the note and folded it in half twice, and then he said, “How many of you want this note?” Still 200 hands went up. Now he said, “Let me try something else.” He took the note and he crumpled it.And he said, “How many of you want this note now?” Still 200 hands went up. Finally he chucked the note on the floor. He screwed it with his shoe and crumpled it even more, picked it back up, now with dirt, and said, “How many of you want this note?”
All 200 hands were still up. He said, “Today, you’ve leraned an important lesson. No matter how much i crumpled that note, how much i scrunched it up, how many times it was trodden on, you still wanted it, because it was still worth 20-pounds.”
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
that’s why they become this taboo or we feel like their failures never happened. We need to share these stories earlier.
We need to bring out these stories and experiences on the journey so that people who are on the jouney can actually follow in those footsteps. And that’s why Steve Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots moving forward. You only can when you’re looking backwards.”
If there is anything in Life that you don’t currently have right now is because of who you are and how you think.
What I need you to do is,I need you to find the reason to keep going.
And if you could find the reason to keep going,I know you strong enough to do it because you are human.
And every human has what it takesto get past whatever they are going through,if they decide to…
Push through it.Push through it.Tragedy and trials come to everybody.Only the strong survive.
Listen to me very closely.You’re running from obstacles,
when in fact it’s the obstacles,that’s gonna take you to the next level.
Like you’re running from pain!You’re running from challenges!You telling me how difficult your Life is.Do you understand it is the difficultythat’s gonna prepare you and take you to that next level?
But this why is a better why,
"Why am I doing this? Why am I failing? Why am I even getting myself in a situation where I could fail? Because I have a dream. Because I have goals."
And the more you're thinking back to those original goals, the easier it is for you to get back up and say,
"Alright, it might be difficult, it might be painful, it might be stressful, there might be no people that believe in me, but I believe in myself."
You know it might have been the case that you should have gone through that harsh break up, that you should have gone through that heavy loss, just in order to find something even better.
Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn.
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
George Martin is an incredible writer.
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
Call me Elf......one more time!
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
It’s cute to say it but when it’s ShowTime,when the sun comes up,you got all the books,you got all the tapes,you got all the access,now it’s time to hunt!
If it was easy everybody would do it,but if Life got you down, I need you to get up.And prove them wrong.
It’s gonna rain sometimes,I will.
You’re gonna feel discouraged sometimes.I will.
No matter what the obstacles.I will.I will.I WILL.
A true hunter’s goal is not the prize.A true hunter’s goal is to hunt.That’s what they live for.They live to hunt.
It’s the whole process.
~The journey to your dreams always starts from within~
Ever tried, Ever failed.
屡战屡败。
No matter, try again, fail again, fail better.
屡败屡战。纵然失败，更加出彩。
I had so many dream, of where I wanted to go, who I wanted to be and what I wanted to do.
我有太多梦想，想游历何方，想成为何人，想做什么。
You have your own story to tell.
你有自己的故事要讲述。
Feeder companies, I wanted to start with classmates.
我想与同学合开的剧团。
Movies I wanted to be in, directors I wanted to work with, stories I needed to tell.
想参演的电影，想合作的导演，想表达的故事。
I packed the life that I knew, with socks and toothbrush into my backpack.
我把过去熟悉的生活与袜子牙刷一起，打包进了我的行囊。
And I slept on couch, after couch, after couch, after couch, at friend's apartment in New York.
在纽约，我睡了一张沙发又一张沙发，或者住在朋友的公寓里。
Until I wore out the rent paying roommates' welcome.
直到我透支了那些需要付房租的室友的好意。
I didn't want a day job. I was an actor. I was a writer. I had to get a day job.
我不想做全职工作。我是一名演员，我是一个作家。但我不得找一份全职工作。
I dusted pianos at a piano store on Whitelow Street for five months.
我在惠特沃街的一家钢琴店给钢琴掸了五个月的灰。
I worked on the property of a shakespearean scholar for a year, plane weeds and removing bee's nests.
我在一名莎士比亚学者家里工作了一年，给他除草、除蜂窝。
I went on unemployment once, but for not for long, I coudn't handle the guilt.
也曾尝试过不工作，但持续不了多久，内心愧疚让我重拾工作。
Eventually I was able to pay rent for a spot on the floor of an apartment on the lower east side.
终于，我能够支付在下东区的一个公寓底层的租金。
But my roommate had to break down and disappeared.
我的室友精神崩溃，消失了。
I helped hanging paintings at galleries, paintings that inspire inspire you to think I could do that.
我曾在画廊帮忙挂画，那些激励你想"我也能成事"的那种画。
And then finally, after two years job and couch surfing, I got a job. In application process.
后来终于，经历两年换工作和换沙发，我找到了一个工作，处理应用程序
As a data enterer at a place called professional examination services.
作为一个数据输入员，在一个称为专业考试服务的地方。
And I stayed for six years, six years.
我在那里干了六年。六年!
From the age of 23 to 29, well they loved me there, I was funny. I smoked in the loading docks with the guys from the mailroom, and we shared how hungover we all were.
从23岁直到29岁，他们很喜欢我，我很搞笑。在装卸区，我和收发室的同事抽烟，分享我们都曾如何宿醉的经历。
I Called in sick almost every Friday because I was that late the night before, I hated that job and I clung to that job. Because of that job I could afford my own place.
我几乎每个星期五都打电话请病假，因为前一天晚上混到很晚，我讨厌那份工作，但又不得不做，它让我得以支付房租。
My dream of running a theater company with my friend and fellow, Bennington Graduate Ian Bell had died.
我和我的朋友，一起从本宁顿毕业的同学，伊恩贝尔一同运营一家剧团的梦想破灭了。
I had only the one window.
我只有一个窗户。
I myself could not look out the window. It was it was quite high. No acting ager.
我自己看不到窗外。它挺高的。我也没有经纪人。
When I was 29, I told myself the next acting job I get. No matter what it pays, I will from now on for better or worse, be a working actor.
当我29岁时我告诉自己，无论下份工作薪水如何，我将从现在起，做一个职业演员
But something good happened, I got a low-paying theater job in a play called imperfect love, which led to a film called 13 moons with the same writer, which led to other roles which led to other roles, and I've worked as an actor ever since.
但是好事发生了，我在一个叫《不完美的爱》的句中得到了一个微不足道的小角色，这让我获得了同一个编剧所编电影《13个月亮》的演出机会，因此也获得了一个又一个的角色，从此展开演员生涯。
I didn't know that would happen.
但当时我不知道会发生什么。
At 29 walking away from Data processing, I was terrified.
29岁，离开了数据处理，我很害怕。
Ten years in a place without heat, six years of a job I felt stuck in, maybe I was afraid of change. Are you?
十年住在一个没有暖气的地方，六年被困在一个工作里，或许我恐惧改变。你呢?
But this made me very hungry, literally.
但这让我吃不饱，真的吃不饱。
I couldn't be lazy.
我不能偷懒。
I couldn't be.
我不能。
And so at 29 in a very long last, I was in the company of the actors, writers and directors, I'd shought out that first year, that first day after school.
所以29岁时，很长一段时间，在演员、编剧和导演的陪伴下,我开始了第一年的生活，毕业后第一天真正的人生。
I was. I am by their sides. Raise the rest of your life to meet you.
我曾经，我现在依旧在他们身旁。押上你的余生，去寻找真正的自己。
Don't search for defining moments because they will never come.
不要去寻找决定性时刻，因为它们永远不会到来。
The moment that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again.
决定你的时刻已经发生，也会再次发生。
And it passes so quickly, so please bring each other along with you.
稍纵即逝。所以请与友同行。
You just get a bit derailed.
你只是有点迷失。
But soon something starts to happen. Trust me. A rhythm sets in.
但很快就会出现契机。相信我，你会找到轨道。
Just try not to wait until like me, you're 29 before you find it.
不要像我一样，等到29岁找到它。
And if you are, that's fine too, Some of us never find it.
如果你真等到那时候，也行，有些人一辈子都没有找到它。
But you will, I promise you, you are already here.
但你会找到的，我保证。你已经在这里了。
You'll find your rhythm, or continue the one you have already found.
你会找到你的轨道，或者在你已经找到的道路上继续前进。
Don't wait until they tell you you are ready. Get in there，sing.
不要等到他们告诉你，你准备好了。自己上场，歌唱。
The world might say you are not allowed to yet.
世界可能会告诉你你不行。
I waited a long time out the world before I gave myself permission to fail.
在认输之前，我等了这个世界很久。
Please don't even bother asking.
恳请各位，甚至不用特地去问。
Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
不用特地告诉世界你准备好了。展现自己，证明自己!
What it Beckett say?
贝克特说了什么?
Ever tried, ever failed.
屡战屡败。
No matter try again.
屡败屡战。
Fail again, fail better.
纵然失败，更加出彩。
We burn very brightly. Please don't ever stop .
我们燃烧得如此耀眼，请不要停止。
The World is yours.
世界是你的。
Treat everyone Kindly and light up the night.
善待每个人，然后照亮夜晚。
Maybe I was afraid of change, are you?
也许我是害怕改变，你呢?
President Gutmann; Provost Price; Board Chair Cohen; fellow honorees; and today’s graduates:
I’m honored and grateful for the invitation today.
It’s always great to be on the Penn campus. I’ve been to a lot of basketball games at the Palestra because my son played on the team. Coach didn’t give him enough playing time, but we’ll talk about that later. No, I’m very pleased with the progress Coach Allen has made and I wish them success in the future.
I’d always get a warm welcome here—except on the few occasions when I’d wear my Yankees cap.
It’s like taking your life in your hands. People would say: “We love you Denzel. But you walking around with that hat on…we don’t care who you are.”
So you’ll be happy to see that I’m not wearing my Yankees cap today.
But I am wearing my Yankees socks, my Yankees t-shirt, and my Yankees underwear.
Still, I’ll be honest with you: I’m a little nervous. Speaking at a graduation of this magnitude is a little overwhelming.
This is out of my comfort zone.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
Call me Elf......one more time!
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?
I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.
I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
[on his dwarfism] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humour. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs.
Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
Sometimes it takes things falling apart, for better things to fall into place.
Sometimes it takes the most uncomfortable path, to lead your life to the most beautiful place.
There's gonna be bad days, there's gonna be dark days, but you've gotta embrace it.
Because that pain is what makes you stronger. Failure is what makes you stronger.
You have to accept those down times, because once you realize those down times, are just as much part of life as anything else, you're able to strive again.
You'll never see the purpose of the storm, until you see the growth it produced.
You'll never understand why you went through what you went through, until you see the strength, the power, the resilience that it built inside of you.
Ask yourself why.
In the same way that that 20-pound note held its value,so do you.”
No matter how many times life will tread on you, life will crumple you, life will scrunch you, and life squeeze you, you will always keep your value, that spark within us all of bliss, knowledge, and eternity that exists, that spark will never be taken away.
Our value is not created by the price of our clothes or our bank balance or the job title that we have. See, we should be building life and not just building our CVs. The challenge we have is that we only talk about people’s failures when they succeed.
And that’s why they become this taboo or we feel like their failures never happened. We need to share these stories earlier.
We need to bring out these stories and experiences on the journey so that people who are on the jouney can actually follow in those footsteps. And that’s why Steve Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots moving forward. You only can when you’re looking backwards.”
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
the only way to get to that even better, is to get back up and work. To get back up and put yourself out there again.
And arise from that again, stronger, better, smarter, ready to grasp that new opportunity.
You gotta believe the tables in your life will turn. That pain will become power, that weakness will become strength, and that confusion will become peace.
Better things are coming for your life.
Everyday is a new beginning. It's time for you to start treating it that way.