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1、第 1 页 演讲稿:什么是真正的美?1 特征码 PdJbLDcJxUiSLoLbrRVH What Is Real Beauty? Yang Lingyuan 本篇是 96 年湖南省第二届非英语专业大学生英语演讲比赛团体 二等奖获奖者之一的演讲辞。其中引用正、反两方面的事例来 论述“真正的美不在外表，而在内心”这一观点的方法值得学 习与借鉴。 It is human nature that all of us should be fond of beauty. Everybody was born with a heart for beauty. Today in China,with the
2、 rising of our living standard, peoples requirement of beauty has been heightened accordingly. Some people spare no money or energy on beautiful clothes, fashionable hair styles,the decoration of their houses and even the improvement of their looks. But it seems to me,all these are more or less conf
3、ined to the beauty in appearance,or rather,the outward beauty. 第 2 页 In my opinion,we shouldnt only pay attention to beautiful appearance and neglect the beautification of the mind and what we are after should be the perfect unity of the outward beauty and the inner beauty. As we all know,so far as
4、objects and animals are concerned,there is only beautiful appearance to be mentioned, but to us humanbeings, although the outward beauty really matters, the inner beauty is much more important. This was confirmed by a famous Russian writer in words much like this: “A person is not lovely for being b
5、eautiful but beautiful for being lovely. “ Here, Id like to quote two typical instances and Im sure, my dear friends,from them youll find out what real beauty is. Recently I learned from the radio an unpleasant incident about a well known singer. She is very charming with a sweet beautiful voice and
6、 very famous for singing the song.“Devotion of Love“. Not long ago,she was invited to Zhejiang Province to give performance. The moment she was to appear on the stage,she suddenly asked for more reward. Worse 第 3 页 still,after her request was satisfied, she didnt begin to sing at once. Instead,she t
7、ook her time to count all the money piece by piece. Thus she kept the audience waiting for half an hour. So when she at last showed up and started to sing “Devotion of Love“,a man rose up from his seat and shouted at her,“You dont have any devotion of love. You are not qualified to sing this song !
8、“Hearing this, the singer stopped singing and began to shout abuses with her finger pointed at the man. At this time the whole audience burst into an uproar. How disappointed her keen listeners were when they learned this! It is the singer herself who spoiled her beautiful image in the eyes of other
9、s. Now, Im ing to another true story. Its about a poor, ordinary looking old woman. She was a widow without any children, living barely from hand to mouth by picking odds and ends from rubbish heaps. However,she took in 第 4 页 more than ten homeless orphans successively and managed to bring them up.
10、Every day she labored from morning till night. In order to earn as much money as possible to raise the children and to keep them in school,she even went to a hospital regularly to sell her blood. She got so weak for the loss of blood that she sometimes fell in a faint on her way home. When asked why
11、 she chose to burden herself with so many children,she smiled and simply answered,“Oh,I love children and I like to have their pany. “ Though the old woman was poor materially, she was full of affection and rich in spirit. She was loved dearly by her children. She was also highly appreciated by the
12、local government, and truly respected by people in her munity. Maybe you cant help wondering, “What makes that ordinary woman so extraordinary?“ It is nothing else but her inner beauty, her true devotion of love without any thought of rewarding. What a sharp contrast there is between the great woman and the selfish singer So,to answer the question “What is real beauty?“, I declare definitely,it is the beauty lying in ones 第 5 页 heart of hearts and embodied in his actions and deeds,that is,the inner heauty!