篇一：一个学习英语的励志故事 一
一个学习英语的励志故事 一
一个学习英语的励志故事
转自刘欣吧，一个学习英语的砺志故事！
1 人生时时刻刻都在比赛--记国际英语演讲比赛”女状元”
１９９６年５月１７日，在伦敦举行的国际英语演讲比赛上，一个非英语国家的姑娘，２１岁的南京大学外国语学院三年级学生刘欣，竟然在英语本土力克众多英语国家选手，获得第一名，为首次推派选手参赛的祖国赢得了殊荣。
５月２７日下午，南京大学隆重举行庆功会。载誉归来的刘欣身着出征国际讲坛的浅色淡花旗袍，娓娓追述伦敦夺冠经历，深深吸引了在场数百名师生代表，其中不少是金发碧眼的外籍教师与留学生。
一年一度的国际英语演讲比赛，由国际英语联合会主办。今年共有２０个国家的３７名选手参加，是历届比赛人数最多的一次。来自英语为母语国家的选手，如英国、美国、澳大利亚、奥地利等，占了相当数量。中国参赛的４名选手，分别出自南大、北大、北外、外交学院，是不久前举办的“２１世纪杯”全国英语演讲比赛的获胜者中选出来的。就在那次荟萃全国英语教学最具实力的２２所大学顶尖高手激烈角逐之中，刘欣以高居榜首的优异成绩夺得冠军，取得参加国际英语演讲大赛的资格。
此次国际比赛规定颇为严格，要求每位参赛选手自行选定演讲题目，作５分钟自由演讲，然后有２分钟时间回答评委所提出的问题。评委按照“演讲内容”、“理解和回答问题的能力”、“演讲风格和技能”、“总体效果”等要素进行评分。
“演讲内容”无疑是重头戏，占评比总分４０％。各国选手无不选择一个个紧扣国际社会的“热点”选题大下功夫，如恐怖主义影响、艾滋病、安乐死、教育、性别改变等。而刘欣所作的演讲选题为《镜子与我》，更有独辟蹊径之妙。她从幼时趴在比自己个头还高的梳妆台上照镜子说起，对祖母所言“为什么我在镜子里看不到自己？”不明其意，及至长大以后方知祖母是位典型的传统妇女，大多时间与灶间相伴，家中的事情从来不能作主，几乎成了一个被遗忘的人，因而发出如上感叹。随之她话锋一转，称道现代的中国妇女发生了翻天覆地的变化，她们和男人地位平等，在学习、就业等方面可以有自己的选择，像祖母那样“生活中没有自己”、因而“镜子中看不到自己”的状态已经过去。
刘欣的演讲貌似罗列个人生活琐事。实则折射时代与社会风云，融中国妇女漫长而曲折的命运变迁历程于一面平平常常的镜子之中，包含深刻而丰厚的文化内涵。加之她纯正、流利的英语表达和高雅、大方的风度显示，令严谨、挑剔的
评委频频点头。
提问开始了，头一个问题就颇为刁钻：“你一直在说照镜子，请问在镜子里我们看见的，到底是我们真实的自己还是仅仅是我们的图像？”刘欣几乎不假思索地脱口而出：“这全在于自己，你觉得是什么就是什么！”第二个问题更为尖刻、厉害：“你说旧中国的妇女没有地位，《红楼梦》中的贾母不是高高在上吗？我问你一个具体事情，你外公死后，家里办丧事时，你舅舅难道一点都不和你外婆商量吗？”“商量是要商量的，但最后的决定权还是在我舅舅手上。”刘欣依然迅捷回答，从容中透露出。
由国际英语联合会副主席、英国BBC节目主持人、金融时报撰稿人等权威人士组成的评委团，对刘欣的参赛作出了“这位女选手一出场就吸引人，演讲结构完美，表演脱俗，礼仪很好”综合评价，一致同意授予刘欣一等奖。当这一评比结果当众宣布，赛场上掌声雷动。
中国第一次选派代表参加国际英语演讲比赛便取得佳绩，令比赛组织者和英国驻华使馆为之震动，相继致电我有关方面，对中国年轻一代英语水平和中国英语教育给予高度评价。消息传至南京大学，师生们欢欣鼓舞，校领导当即作出给刘欣颁发６０００元特别奖学金决定，校团委同时授予她五四奖章。
从全国大学生英语演讲比赛脱颖而出，到国际英语演讲比赛一举夺魁，刘欣说成功全在于实力。这实力来源于她的刻苦自励。从初中进入镇江一中开始学习英语就很心，考取南大英语专业后更为努力，参加课外英语演讲、戏剧演出，主动接触外籍教师，坚持与两位姐姐用英语通信，利用一切机会置身于英语环境之中。为准备比赛，她废寝忘食，放弃寒假与亲人团聚，关在宿舍写讲稿、练口语，在玻璃窗上自我书写“新年好”，排解独寂。这实力也源于真诚相助。外国语学院刘海平院长、英语系王守仁主任不厌其烦地一次次指教、辅导，同宿舍的女友主动承担各种事物，让她腾出更多时间“备赛”。甚至连匆忙中忘了带的出国护照，也是同学在火车上站了２０小时赶送北京的。
两轮大赛已经过去，面对接宠而来的荣誉、鲜花、掌声，刘欣的头脑却很清醒：“人生时时刻刻都在比赛，你得时时刻刻做好准备。”
篇二：励志小故事演讲稿
凿壁偷光
汉代，小将匡衡，非常好学。
家里很穷，所以他是在白天，而且必须做大量的生活和谋生。只有在晚上，他就可以坐下来安心读书。然而，他不能买不起蜡烛，天黑后，将无法读取。心痛浪费时间在匡衡心是很痛苦的。
非常富有，他的邻居的房子一天晚上，几个房子点燃蜡烛，房子照得灯火通明。匡衡勇气，有一天，一个邻居说：“我想在晚上学习，不能买不起蜡烛，能借你家的地面上移动半步？”邻居一直被看作看不起穷人比他们的家庭恶毒地讽刺说：“由于穷人买不起蜡烛，但还读什么书，太！”匡衡听后非常生气，但他更坚定了必须的书来读。匡衡家里悄悄地凿在墙上的一个小洞，在邻居的烛光通过这个洞穴。通过这种微弱的光线下，他如饥似渴地读的书，这本书逐渐周围的房子都读。
匡衡读完这些书，深感自己的知识是不够的，他想多读点书，更迫切的愿望。
近一个富裕的家庭，也有大量的书籍。一天，匡衡推出毯子在前面的富裕家庭。的老板，他说：“请你带我，我的工作不支付你家的白色，这样我就能读所有的书，你的家。”雇主留下深刻的印象，他的精神，并承诺他的资料库的需要。
居安思危
洪水未到先筑堤，豺狼未来先磨刀。
一只野狼卧在草上勤奋地磨牙，狐狸看到了，就对它说："天气这么好，大家在休息娱乐，你也加入我们队伍中吧！"野狼没有说话，继续磨牙，把它的牙齿磨得又尖又利。狐狸奇怪地问道："森林这么静，猎人和猎狗已经回家了，老虎也不在近处徘徊，又没有任何危险，你何必那么用劲磨牙呢？"野狼停下来回答说："我磨牙并不是为了娱乐，你想想，如果有一天我被猎人或老虎追逐，到那时，我想磨牙也来不及了。而平时我就把牙磨好，到那时就可以保护自己了。 这个故事告诉我们：绸缪，居安思危，这样在危险突然降临时，才不至于手忙脚乱。"书到用时方恨少"，平常若不充实学问，临时抱佛脚是来不及的。也有人抱怨没有机会，然而当升迁机会来临时，再叹自己平时没有积蓄足够的学识与能力，以致不能胜任，也只好后悔莫及。
自己救自己
某人在屋檐下躲雨，看见观音正撑伞走过。这人说：“观音菩萨，普度一下众生吧，带我一段如何？” 观音说：“我在雨里，你在檐下，而檐下无雨，你不需要我度。”这人立刻跳出檐下，站在雨中：“现在我也在雨中了，该度我了吧？”观音说：“你在雨中，我也在雨中，我不被淋，因为有伞；你被雨淋，因为无伞。所以不是我度自己，而是伞度我。你要想度，不必找我，请自找伞去！”说完便走了。第二天，这人遇到了难事，便去寺庙里求观音。走进庙里，才发现观音的像前也有一个人在拜，那个人长得和观音一模一样，丝毫不差。这人问：“你是观音吗？” 那人答道：“我正是观音。” 这人又问：“那你为何还拜自己？” 观音笑道：“我也遇到了难事，但我知道，求人不如求己。”
你也在井里吗
人生必须渡过逆流才能走向更高的层次，最重要的是永远看得起自己。 有一天某个农夫的一头驴子，不小心掉进一口枯井里，农夫绞尽脑汁想办法救出驴子，但几个小时过去了，驴子还在井里痛苦地哀嚎着。
最后，这位农夫决定放弃，他想这头驴子年纪大了，不值得大费周章去把它救出来，不过无论如何，这口井还是得填起来。于是农夫便请来左邻右舍帮忙一起将井中的驴子埋了，以免除它的痛苦。
农夫的邻居们人手一把铲子，开始将泥土铲进枯井中。当这头驴子了解到自己的处境时，刚开始哭得很凄惨。但出人意料的是，一会儿之后这头驴子就安静下来了。农夫好奇地探头往井底一看，出现在眼前的景象令他大吃一惊：
当铲进井里的泥土落在驴子的背部时，驴子的反应令人称奇——它将泥土抖落在一旁，然后站到铲进的泥土堆上面！
就这样，驴子将大家铲倒在它身上的泥土全数抖落在井底，然后再站上去。很快地，这只驴子便得意地上升到井口，然后在众人惊讶的表情中快步地跑开了！ 温馨提示：就如驴子的情况，在生命的旅程中，有时候我们难免会陷入"枯井"里，会被各式各样的"泥沙"倾倒在我们身上，而想要从这些"枯井"脱困的秘诀就是：将"泥沙"抖落掉，然后站到上面去！
学会换位思考
有一个很早以前的故事，但我还想拿出来给大家分享一下。它是关于美国前总统罗斯福家里遭贼的故事。 故事是这样的：一次，美国前总统罗斯福失盗，被偷去了许多东西，一位朋友闻讯后，忙写信安慰他，劝他不必太在意。罗斯福给朋友写了一封回信：“亲爱的朋友，谢谢你来信安慰我，我现在很平安：感谢上帝：因为第一，贼偷去的是我的东西，而没有伤害我的生命，值得庆幸；第二，贼只愉去我部分东西，而不是全部，值得庆幸；第三，最值得庆幸的是，做贼的是他，而不是我。”很多时候，我们在遇到不愉快的事情、受到挫折、遭遇不幸的时候，不妨也换一个角度去思考它，会得到不同的结果。
带着冷静的头脑，平和的心态，感恩的心，去做每一件事情，去看待每一个问题。生活中的不愉快，学习中的不如意，是对自己的考验。是自己还不够理智，是自己带着偏见，还是自己没有看到别人的优点，别人的付出？
我也时常遇到不如意的事，有时我会在心里对自己说，冷静，不要慌乱；或者多想想别人对你好，对你的付出；再或者对自己说这种事情是很正常的，换了自己也许也会这样的。
所以，我希望我亲爱的朋友们遇到不开心的事情的时候，也换个角度去想它，生活过得愉快，幸福。
篇三：名人励志英语演讲稿
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。 序言
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!篇二：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 progress 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 passion 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 passion 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 blessed 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 mission
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 washere 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 blessings 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 possible. 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
necessary 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 blessings 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 classmates 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 possible. thank you and god bless you all.篇三：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 loss over the past week and only the strength of
the message 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 miss 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 boundless 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 homeless, 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 possible 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-headedness 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 endlessly 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 goodness 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 goddess 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 possible, to arm them
spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. i know you would have expected
nothing less from us.