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1、Word毕业典礼上的激励性英语演讲稿（初中毕业典礼致辞英文） 好的演讲稿可以引导听众，使听众能更好地理解演讲的内容。在布满活力，日益开放的今日，越来越多人会去使用演讲稿，演讲稿的留意事项有很多，你确定会写吗？下面是我共享的毕业典礼上的激励性英语演讲稿（学校毕业典礼致辞英文），供大家阅读。 毕业典礼上的激励性英语演讲稿1 When I was in middle school, a poisonous spider bit my right hand. I ran to my mom for helpbut instead of taking me to a doctor, my mom set

2、 my hand on fire.After wrapping my hand withseveral layers of cotton, then soaking it in wine, she put a chopstick into my mouth,and ignited the cotton. Heat quickly penetrated the cotton and began to roast my hand. The searing pain made me want to scream, but the chopstick prevented it. All I could

3、 do was watch my hand burn - one minute, then two minutes until mom put out the fire. You see, the part of China I grew up in was a rural village, and at that time pre-industrial. When I was born, my village had no cars, no telephones, no electricity, not even running water. And we certainly didnt h

4、ave access to modern medical resources. There was no doctor my mother could bring me to see about my spider bite. For those who study biology, you may have grasped the science behind my moms cure: heat deactivates proteins, and a spiders venom is simply a form of protein. Its coolhow that folk remed

5、y actually incorporates basic biochemistry, isnt itBut I am a PhD student in biochemistry at Harvard, I now know that better, less painful and less risky treatments existed. So I cant help but ask myself, why I didnt receive oneat the time. Fifteen years have passed since that incident. I am happy t

6、o report that my hand is fine. But this question lingers, and I continue to be troubled by the unequal distribution of scientific knowledge throughout the world. We have learned to edit the human genome and unlock many secrets of how cancer progresses. We can manipulate neuronal activity literally w

7、ith the switch of a light. Each year brings more advances in biomedical research-exciting, transformative accomplishments. Yet, despite the knowledge we have amassed, we havent been so successful in deploying it to where its needed most. According to the World Bank, twelve percent of the worlds popu

8、lation lives on less than $2 a day. Malnutrition kills more than 3 million children annually. Three hundred million peopleare afflicted by malaria globally. All over the world, we constantly see these problems of poverty, illness, and lack of resources impeding the flow of scientific information. Li

9、fesaving knowledge we take for granted in the modern world is often unavailable in these underdeveloped regions.And in far too many places, people are still essentially trying to cure a spider bite with fire. While studying at Harvard, I saw how scientific knowledge can help others in simple, yet pr

10、ofound ways. The bird flu pandemic in the 2000s looked to my village like a spell cast by demons. Our folk medicine didnt even have half-measures to offer. Whats more, farmers didnt know the difference between common cold and flu; they didnt understand that the flu was much more lethal than the comm

11、on cold. Most people were also unaware that the virus could transmit across different species.So when I realized that simple hygiene practices like separating different animal species could contain the spread of the disease, and that I could help make this knowledge available to my village, that was

12、 my first Aha moment as a budding scientist. But it was more than that: it was also a vital inflection point in my own ethical development, my own self-understanding as a member of the global community. Harvard dares us to dream big, to aspire to change the world. Here on this Commencement Day, we a

13、re probably thinking of grand destinations and big adventures that await us. As for me, I am also thinking of the farmers in my village. My experiencehere reminds me how important it is for researchersto communicateour knowledge to those who need it. Because by using the sciencewe already have, we c

14、ould probably bring my village and thousands like it into the world you and I take for granted every day. And thats an impact every one of us can make! But the question is, will we make the effort or not. More than ever before,our society emphasizes science and innovation. But an equally important e

15、mphasis should be on distributing the knowledge we have to where its needed. Changing the world doesnt mean thateveryone has to find the next big thing. It can be as simple as becoming better communicators, and finding more creative ways to pass on the knowledge we have to people like my mom and the

16、 farmers in their local community. Our society also needs to recognize that the equal distribution of knowledge is a pivotal step of human development, and work to bring this into reality. And if we do that, then perhaps a teenager in rural China who is bitten by a spider will not have to burn his h

17、and, but will know to seek a doctor instead. 毕业典礼上的激励性英语演讲稿2 Chancellor Wrighton, members of the Board of Trustees and the Administration, distinguished faculty, Class of 1965, hard-working staff, my fellow honorees, proud and relieved parents, calm and serene grandparents, distracted but secretly p

18、leased siblings, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, graduating students, good morning. I am deeply honored that you have asked me here to say a few words at this momentous occasion, that you might find what I have to say worthy of your attention on so important a day at this remarkable institutio

19、n. It had been my intention this morning to parcel out some good advice at the end of theseremarks the goodness of that being of course subjective in the extreme but then Irealized that this is the land of Mark Twain, and I came to the conclusion that anycommentary today ought to be framed in the su

20、blime shadow of this quote of his: Its notthat the world is full of fools, its just that lightening isnt distributed right. More on Mr.Twain later. I am in the business of history. It is my job to try to discern some patterns and themes fromthe past to help us interpret our dizzyingly confusing and

21、sometimes dismaying present.Without a knowledge of that past, how can we possibly know where we are and, mostimportant, where we are going? Over the years Ive come to understand an important fact, Ithink: that we are not condemned to repeat, as the clich goes and we are fond of quoting,what we dont

22、remember. Thats a clever, even poetic phrase, but not even close to the truth.Nor are there cycles of history, as the academic community periodically promotes. The Bible,Ecclesiastes to be specific, got it right, I think: What has been will be again. What has beendone will be done again. There is no

23、thing new under the sun. What that means is that human nature never changes. Or almost never changes. We havecontinually superimposed our complex and contradictory nature over the random course ofhuman events. All of our inherent strengths and weaknesses, our greed and generosity, ourpuritanism and

24、our prurience parade before our eyes, generation after generation aftergeneration. This often gives us the impression that history does repeat itself. It doesnt. Itjust rhymes, Mark Twain is supposed to have saidbut he didnt (more on him later). Over the many years of practicing, I have come to the

25、realization that history is not a fixedthing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes)that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious andmalleable thing. And each generation rediscovers and re-examines that part of its pas

26、t thatgives its present, and most important, its future new meaning, new possibilities and new power. Listen. For most of the forty years Ive been making historical documentaries, I have beenhaunted and inspired by a handful of sentences from an extraordinary speech I came acrossearly in my professi

27、onal life by a neighbor of yours just up the road in Springfield, Illinois. InJanuary of 1838, shortly before his 29th birthday, a tall, thin lawyer, prone to bouts ofdebilitating depression, addressed the Young Mens Lyceum. The topic that day was nationalsecurity. At what point shall we expect the

28、approach of danger? he asked his audience. Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the Earth and crush us at a blow?Then he answered his own question: Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa couldnot by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ri

29、dge in a trial of athousand years If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As anation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. It is a stunning,remarkable statement. That young man was, of course, Abraham Lincoln, and he would go on to preside ove

30、r theclosest this country has ever come to near national suicide, our Civil War fought over themeaning of freedom in America. And yet embedded in his extraordinary, disturbing andprescient words is a fundamental optimism that implicitly acknowledges the geographicalforce-field two mighty oceans and

31、two relatively benign neighbors north and south haveprovided for us since the British burned the White House in the War of 1812. We have counted on Abraham Lincoln for more than a century and a half to get it right whenthe undertow in the tide of those human events has threatened to overwhelm and ca

32、psize us.We always come back to him for the kind of sustaining vision of why we Americans still agree tocohere, why unlike any other country on earth, we are still stitched together by words and, mostimportant, their dangerous progeny, ideas. We return to him for a sense of unity, conscienceand nati

33、onal purpose. To escape what the late historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., said is ourproblem today: too much pluribus, not enough unum. It seems to me that Lincoln gave our fragile experiment a conscious shock that enabled it tooutgrow the monumental hypocrisy of slavery inherited at our founding and

34、 permitted us all,slave owner as well as slave, to have literally, as he put it at Gettysburg, a new birth offreedom. Lincolns Springfield speech also suggests what is so great and so good about the people whoinhabit this lucky and exquisite country of ours (thats the world you now inherit): our wor

35、kethic, our restlessness, our innovation and our improvisation, our communities and ourinstitutions of higher learning, our suspicion of power; the fact that we seem resolutelydedicated to parsing the meaning between individual and collective freedom; that we arededicated to understanding what Thoma

36、s Jefferson really meant when he wrote thatinscrutable phrase the pursuit of Happiness. But ladies and gentlemen, the isolation of those two mighty oceans has also helped toincubate habits and patterns less beneficial to us: our devotion to money and guns; ourcertainty about everything; our stubborn

37、 insistence on our own exceptionalism, blinding usto that which needs repair, our preoccupation with always making the other wrong, at anindividual as well as global level. And then there is the issue of race, which was foremost on the mind of Lincoln back in 1838. Itis still here with us today. The

38、 jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis told me that healing thisquestion of race was what the kingdom needed in order to be well. Before the enormousstrides in equality achieved in statutes and laws in the 150 years since the Civil War thatLincoln correctly predicted would come are in danger of being undon

39、e by our still imperfecthuman nature and by politicians who now insist on a hypocritical color-blindness after fourcenturies of discrimination. That discrimination now takes on new, sometimes subtler, lessobvious but still malevolent forms today. The chains of slavery have been broken, thank God,and

40、 so too has the feudal dependence of sharecroppers as the vengeful Jim Crow era recedes(sort of) into the distant past. But now in places like but not limited to your otherneighbors a few miles as the crow flies from here in Ferguson, we see the ghastly remnants ofour great shame emerging still, the

41、 shame Lincoln thought would lead to national suicide, ourinability to see beyond the color of someones skin. It has been with us since our founding. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that immortal second sentence of the Declaration that begins, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are cr

42、eated equal, he owned more thana hundred human beings. He never saw the contradiction, he never saw the hypocrisy, andmore important never saw fit in his lifetime to free any one of those human beings, ensuring aswe went forward that the young United States born with such glorious promise would bebe

43、deviled by race, that it would take a bloody, bloody Civil War to even begin to redress theimbalance. But the shame continues: prison populations exploding with young black men, young black menkilled almost weekly by policemen, whole communities of color burdened by corruptmunicipalities that resemb

44、le more the predatory company store of a supposedly bygone erathan a responsible local government. Our cities and towns and suburbs cannot become modernplantations. It is unconscionable, as you emerge from this privileged sanctuary, that a few miles fromhere and nearly everywhere else in America: Ba

45、ltimore, New York City, North Charleston,Cleveland, Oklahoma, Sanford, Florida, nearly everywhere else we are still playing out, sadly,an utterly American story, that the same stultifying conditions and sentiments that brought onour Civil War are still on such vivid and unpleasant display. Today, to

46、day. Theres nothingnew under the sun. Many years after our Civil War, in 1883, Mark Twain took up writing in earnest a novel he hadstarted and abandoned several times over the last half-dozen years. It would be a different kindof story from his celebrated Tom Sawyer book, told this time in the plain

47、 language of hisMissouri boyhood and it would be his masterpiece. Set near here, before the Civil War and emancipation, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn isthe story of two runaways a white boy, Tom Sawyers old friend Huck, fleeing civilization, anda black man, Jim, who is running away from slavery

48、. They escape together on a raft goingdown the Mississippi.The novel reaches its moral climax when Huck is faced with a terrible choice. He believes he has committed a grievous sin in helping Jim escape, and he finally writes out a letter, telling Jims owner where her runaway property can be found.

49、Huck feels good about doing this at first, he says, and marvels at how close I came to being lost and going to hell. But then he hesitates, thinking about how kind Jim has been to him during their adventure. Somehow, Huck says, I couldnt seem to strike no place to harden me against him, but only the other kind. Id see him st