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1、-范文最新推荐- Thayer Award Acceptance Addres general douglas macarthur: thayer award acceptance addressgeneral westmoreland, general grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the corps!as i was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, “where are you bound for, general?” and when i replied,
2、 “west point,” he remarked, “beautiful place. have you ever been there before?”no human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this thayer award. coming from a profession i have served so long, and a people i have loved so well, it fills me with an emotion i cannot express. but thi
3、s award is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code - the code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved land of culture and ancient descent. that is the animation of this medallion. for all eyes and for all time, it is an expression of the eth
4、ics of the american soldier. that i should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride and yet of humility which will be with me always: duty, honor, country.those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. they are
5、your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.unhappily, i possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you a
6、ll that they mean. the unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and i am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent
7、 of mockery and ridicule.but these are some of the things they do. they build your basic character. they mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nations defense. they make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid. they teach y
8、ou to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for actions, not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those who fall; to master y
9、ourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future yet never neglect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simpl
10、icity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. they give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventur
11、e over love of ease. they create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life. they teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.and what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? are they reliable? are they brave? are they capab
12、le of victory? their story is known to all of you. it is the story of the american man-at-arms. my estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. i regarded him then as i regard him now - as one of the worlds noblest figures, not only as one of the finest
13、military characters, but also as one of the most stainless. his name and fame are the birthright of every american citizen. in his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. he needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. he has written his own history and writt
14、en it in red on his enemys breast. but when i think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, i am filled with an emotion of admiration i cannot put into words. he belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism.
15、 he belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. he belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements. in 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, i have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that
16、 patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. from one end of the world to the other he has drained deep the chalice of courage.as i listened to those songs of the glee club, in memorys eye i could see those staggering columns
17、 of the first world war, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their ob
18、jective, and for many, to the judgment seat of god. i do not know the dignity of their birth, but i do know the glory of their death. they died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory.always, for them: duty, honor, country;
19、always their blood and sweat and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth. and 20 years after, on the other side of the globe, again the filth of murky foxholes, the stench of ghostly trenches, the slime of dripping dugouts; those boiling suns of relentless heat, those torrential rain
20、s of devastating storms; the loneliness and utter desolation of jungle trails; the bitterness of long separation from those they loved and cherished; the deadly pestilence of tropical disease; the horror of stricken areas of war; their resolute and determined defense, their swift and sure attack, th
21、eir indomitable purpose, their complete and decisive victory - always victory. always through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, the vision of gaunt, ghastly men reverently following your password of: duty, honor, country. the code which those words perpetuate embraces the highest mor
22、al laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong. the soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious
23、 training - sacrifice. in battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his maker gave when he created man in his own image. no physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the divine help which alone can sustain him. however horrible the inci
24、dents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind. you now face a new world - a world of change. the thrust into outer space of the satellite, spheres, and missiles mark the beginning of another epoch in the long s
25、tory of mankind. in the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a more abrupt or staggering evolution. we deal now not with things of this world alone, but with the
26、 illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. we are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. we speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheard synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our o
27、ld standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundreds of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of space ships to the
28、 moon; of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most excitin
29、g of all time. and through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars. everything else in your professional career is but corollary to this vital dedication. all other public purposes, all other public projects, all other publ
30、ic needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment. but you are the ones who are trained to fight. yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory; that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed; that the very obses
31、sion of your public service must be: duty, honor, country. others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide mens minds; but serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the nations war-guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladia
32、tor in the arena of battle. for a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government; whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financ
33、ing, indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and com
34、plete as they should be. these great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night: duty, honor, country. you are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. f
35、rom your ranks come the great captains who hold the nations destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. the long gray line has never failed us. were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic
36、 words: duty, honor, country. this does not mean that you are war mongers. on the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. but always in our ears ring the ominous words of plato, that wisest of all philosophers:
37、“only the dead have seen the end of war.” the shadows are lengthening for me. the twilight is here. my days of old have vanished, tone and tint. they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the
38、smiles of yesterday. i listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. in my dreams i hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. but in the evening of my me
39、mory, always i come back to west point. always there echoes and re-echoes: duty, honor, country. today marks my final roll call with you, but i want you to know that when i cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of the corps, and the corps, and the corps. i bid you farewell. 1根据听众对象，注意演讲
40、的总体措词演讲的总体措词是严肃一些还是活泼一些，是有较明显的说教口气还是用平等的口吻，等等，都要根据听众对象而定。如果场下听众是同龄的学生，那么演讲的内容只要风趣一些往往就能引起共鸣。但另一方面，如果听众大多是上了年纪的教师，太多的笑料反而会被认为“不严肃”，“不尊重”，而引起反感。用英语演讲，不要用太多 i feel, i think，老是用i，显得十分主观，狭隘。如果通篇全是 i feel, i think 的内容，会给人觉得缺乏说服力。另外，perhaps, maybe 这样的词语，虽然有“客气，谦虚”的成分，但太多会让人觉得你演讲的内容有不可靠之处。还有，在演讲中，要少用you，多用w
41、e。用you等于把自己与听众对立起来，而用we则拉近了与听众的距离。比如：you should not smoke听上去像教训人，而 lets not smoke听起来是一个不错的建议。2演讲要越短越好 gettysburg addressfour score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now
42、 we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battlefield of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of the field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that the nation
43、 might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will li
44、ttle note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining be
45、fore us, -that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, -that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, -that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom, -and that government of th
46、e people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 其实，我们中学生练习写演讲稿，可以短些，从45分钟，500600个词，围绕一个主题开始练习。3英语演讲稿的基本组成部分从大的方面看，英语演讲词实际上是属于一种特殊的说明文或议论文，其基本组成部分是：1)开始时对听众的称呼语最常用的是 ladies and gentlemen，也可根据不同情况，选用 fellow students, distinguished guests, mr chairman, honorable judges(评委)等等。2
47、)提出论题由于演讲的时间限制，必须开门见山，提出论题。提出论题的方法有各种各样，但最生动，最能引起注意的是用举例法。比如：你要呼吁大家关心贫穷地区的孩子，你可以用亲眼看到的或者收集到的那些贫穷孩子多么需要帮助的实例开始。另外，用具体的统计数据也是一个有效的引出论题的方法，比如：你要谈遵守交通规则的话题，你可以从举一系列有关车辆、车祸等的数据开始。3)论证对提出的论题，不可主观地妄下结论，而要进行客观的论证。这是演讲中最需要下功夫的部分。关键是要把道理讲清楚。常见的论证方法有举例法、因果法、对比法等等，可参见英语议论文的有关章节。4)结论结论要简明扼要，以给听众留下深刻印象。5)结尾结尾要简洁，
48、不要拉拉扯扯，说个没完。特别是不要受汉语影响，说些类似“准备不足，请谅解”，“请批评指正”这样的废话。最普通的结尾就是：thank you very much for your attention。4英语演讲稿的语言特征1)多用实词，多用短句，少用结构复杂的长句在英语演讲中，and, but, so, then 等虚词要尽量少用，that, which 等词引导的定语从句也只会使句子结构变得复杂，而使听众难以跟上演讲者的思路，从而影响演讲的效果。相反，多使用实词，短句，可使得演讲内容更清晰，气势更磅礴。2)演讲要注意使用各种修辞手法，增加演讲的感染力和气势。英语演讲中常用的修辞手法有：渐进(climax)、对照(antithesis)、排比(parallelism)、警句(epigram)等等，例如：that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth(排比)这个民有、民治、民享的国家将不会从地球上消失。united, there is little we can not do; divided, there is little we can do(对照)团结，