英语演讲-什么是真正的美-

英语演讲:什么是真正的美?

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 rising of our living
standard, people's 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 confined to the beauty in
appearance,or rather,the outward beauty.
In my opinion,we shouldn't 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 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:

not lovely for being beautiful but beautiful for
being lovely.
Here, I'd like to quote two typical instances and
I'm sure, my dear friends,from them you'll 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 very famous for singing
the LoveNot 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 still,after her request was
satisfied, she didn't begin to sing at once.
Instead,she took 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 of Loveman rose up from his seat and
shouted at her,
You are not qualified to sing this song ! 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 others.
Now, I'm coming to another true story. It's 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 more than ten homeless orphans
successively and managed to bring them up. 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 she chose to burden herself with so
many children,she smiled and simply answered,
love children and I like to have their company.
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 local government, and truly respected by people

in her community.
Maybe you can't help wondering,
ordinary woman so extraordinary?
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
I declare definitely,it is the beauty lying in one's
heart of hearts and embodied in his actions and
deeds,that is,the inner heauty!