5903成功之我见(第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军的演讲稿)_口语技巧1

2021年1月11日发(作者：柳泌)

成功之我见(第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军的演讲稿)_口语技巧
My Definition of Success
By Chen Heng陈恒上海外国语大学
获得第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军)
专家点评:演讲开头用了一个寓言故事，十分生动，最后点出对成
功的看法，达到了点题的效果。
“Once upon a time， there was a king who had a daughter as
beautiful as a blooming rose. To all the suitors who came to the
king's palace to ask for the hand of the princess, the old king
assigned three tasks to be accomplished, each next to impossible.
One day, into the king's palace came a handsome young prince...
Well, you know the rest. The three tasks may be different in
different versions, but the main plot is always the same, with
the prince claiming the princess's hand the
ending is always the same, finishing with the line they live
happily every 't we tired of something so
fanciful, so unrealistic, and, I would say, so unimaginative?
How can a story like that endure generations of repetition`?
Because, I think, it is a typical success story. It is highly
philosophical and symbolic. By implication, we see a 4-step
definition of success: 1 ) a goal to be set. as represented by
the beautiful princess; 2 ) challenges to be met, as represented
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by the three tasks; 3 ) the process of surmounting difficulties,
as represented by the ordeals the youth goes through; and 4 )
the reward of success, as represented by the happy
story not only caters to everyone's inward yearning for success,
but also emphasizes the inseparability of the process and the
result. The reward of success will be much amplified if the path
leading towards it is treacherous, and vice versa. If a person
inherits his father's millions and leads an easy life, he is not
a successful person even in material terms, because there are
no difficulties involved in his achieving affluence. The term

But as I understand it, the true meaning of success entails a
combination of both the process and the satisfactory result of
an endeavor. To clarify my view, let me give another
we changed the rules of football, greatly enlarged the goal and
sent away David Seaman or any other goal keeper, so that another
David, namely David Beckham, could score easily, then scoring
would not give him the thrill of accomplishment and the joy that
it brings. If we further changed the rules by not allowing
Arsenal's defenders to defend, so that Beckham needed only to
lift a finger, actually a toe, to score, then there would be no
game at all, because the meaning of winning would have
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disappeared. In accepting the challenge, in surmounting the
difficulties and in enduring the hardship, success acquires its
value. The sense of attainment varies in proportion to the degree
of difficulties on concept of success is not
constant but relative because the nature of difficulty is also
relative. Something you do effortlessly might pose a great
difficulty for a handicapped person. In acquiring the ability
to do the same as you can, he or she achieve success. That's why
we greatly admire Stephen Hawking, because, though confined to
a wheel chair, he has contributed greatly to the field of
science.I myself, a rather shy person by nature who easily suffer
from stage fright, had to pluck up great courage to take part
in a speech contest like this. I could have stayed away and had
an easy time of it by not entering the university level
I chose to accept the challenge and to face the
difficulties. Now here I am. If I come out first, it will be a
great success for me. If I come out last-I hope this will not
be the case-but if I come out last, I will not call my attempt
a failure, but will also celebrate it as a true success, because
part of my goal is my own character training-to do more assertive,
to be brave in face of difficulties. For me, it is a meaningful
step forward, small as it is, in the long journey toward the final
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