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1、英语演讲稿我们会选择死亡吗dear，i amspeaking not as a briton ， not as a european ， not as a memberof a western democracy， but as a humanbeing ， a member of the species man ， whose continued existence is in doubt。the world is full of conflicts ： jews and arabs; indians and pakistanis; white men and negroes in afri
2、ca; and，overshadowing all minor conflicts， the titanic strugglebetween communism and anticommunism 。almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but i want you，if you can ， to set aside such feelings for the moment and consider yourself only as
3、 a memberof a biological species which has had a remarkable history and whose disappearance none of us can desire 。 i shall try to say no single word which should appeal to one group rather than to another 。 all ， equally ， are in peril ， and ， if the peril is understood ， there is hope that they ma
4、ycollectively avert it 。 we have to learn to think in a newway。 we have to learn to ask ourselves not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer ， for there no longer are such steps 。 the question wehave to ask ourselves is： what steps can be taken to preventa milit
5、ary contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all sides ？the general public ， and even many men in positions of authority ， have not realized what would be involved in a war with hydrogen bombs。 the general public still thinks in terms of the obliteration of cities。 it is understood that the
6、newbombsare more powerful than the old and that ， while one atomic bomb could obliterate hiroshima， one hydrogen bomb couldobliterate the largest cities such as london ， new york ， and moscow。 no doubt in a hydrogen bomb war great cities would be obliterated 。 but this is one of the minor disasters
7、that would have to be faced 。 if everybody in london ， new york ， and moscowwere exterminated ， the world might ， in the course of a few centuries ， recover from the blow。 but we now know， especially since the bikini test， that hydrogen bombs cangradually spread destruction over a much wider area th
8、an had been supposed。 it is stated on very good authority that a bomb can now be manufactured which will be 25，000 times as powerful as that which destroyed hiroshima 。 such a bomb， if exploded near the ground or under water， sends radioactive particlesinto the upper air 。 they sink gradually and re
9、ach the surfaceof the earth in the form of a deadly dust or rain 。 it was this dust which infected the japanese fishermen and their catch of fish although they were outside what american experts believed to be the danger zone 。 no one knows how widely such lethal radioactive particles might be diffu
10、sed， but the bestauthorities are unanimous in saying that a war with hydrogen bombs is quite likely to put an end to the human race。 it isfeared that if many hydrogen bombs are used there will be universal death sudden only for a fortunate minority ， but for the majority a slow torture of disease an
11、d disintegration 。here ， then ， is the problem which i present to you， stark and dreadful and inescapable ： shall we put an end to the human race1 or shall mankind renounce war ？ people will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war。 theabolition of war will demand distaste
12、ful limitations of national sovereignty 。 but what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term mankind feels vague and abstract。 people scarcely realizein imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren， and not only
13、 to a dimlyapprehended humanity and so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited。4i amafraid this hope is illusoryOwhatever agreements not touse hydrogen bombshad been reached in time of peace，they would no longer be considered binding in time of wa
14、r， and both sides would set to work to manufacture hydrogen bombs as soon as war broke out ， for if one side manufactured the bombsand the other did not ， the side that manufactured them would inevitably be victorious 。as geological time is reckoned ， man has so far existed only for a very short per
15、iod one million years at the most。 whathe has achieved ， especially during the last 6，000 years ， is something utterly new in the history of the cosmos， so far at least as we are acquainted with it 。 for countless ages the sun rose and set ， the moon waxed and waned ， the stars shone in the night ，
16、but it was only with the coming of man that these things were understood 。 in the great world of astronomy and in the little world of the atom， man has unveiled secrets which might have been thought undiscoverable 。 in art and literature and religion ， some menhave shown a sublimity of feeling which
17、 makes the species worth preserving。 is all this to end intrivial horror because so few are able to think of man rather than of this or that group of men？ is our race so destituteof wisdom ， so incapable of impartial love， so blind even to6the simplest dictates of self preservation ， that the lastpr
18、oof of its silly cleverness is to be the extermination of all life on our planet？ for it will be not only men who willperish ， but also the animals ， whom no one can accuse of communism or anticommunism 。i cannot believe that this is to be the end 。 i would have men forget their quarrels for a momen
19、t and reflect that ， if they will allow themselves to survive ， there is every reason to expect the triumphs of the future to exceed immeasurably the triumphs of the past 。 there lies before us ， if we choose ， Continual ProgreSS in happ in ess , kno Wledge , and WiSdomO shall we， instead ， choose death ， because we cannot forget our quarrels ？ i appeal , as a human being to human beings ： remember your humanity , and forget the rest 。 if you Can do so, the Waylies open to a neWparadise; if you Cannot, nothing lies before you but universal death。- 来源网络整理,仅供参考7