责任感——青年人荣誉的标志(21世纪杯演讲稿)

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责任感——青年人
荣誉的标志(21世纪杯演讲
稿)
Responsibility is a Badge of Honour for
Youth

(96年“21世纪杯全国大学生英语演讲比
赛”二等奖获得者，北京外国语大学 徐
义成)

Facing this audience on the stage, I
have the exciting feeling of participating in
the march of history, for what we are
facing today is more than a mere
competition or contest. It is an assembly of
some of China’s most talented and
motivated people, representatives of a
younger generation that are preparing
themselves for the coming of a new
century.
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I’m grateful that I’ve been given this
opportunity, at such a historic moment, to
stand here as a spokesman of my
generation and to take a serious look back
at the past 15 years, a crucial period for
every one of us and for this nation as well.
Though it is only within my power to
tell about my personal experience, and
only a tiny fragment of it at that, it still
represents, I believe, the root of a spirit
which has been essential to me and to all
the people bred by the past 15 years.
In my elementary years, there was a
little girl in the class who worked very
hard but somehow could never do
satisfactorily in her lessons.
The teacher asked me to help her, and
it was obvious that she expected a lot from
me. but as a young boy, restless,
thoughtless, I always tried to evade her so
as to get more time to enjoy myself.
One day before the final exam, she
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came up to me and said, “Could you please
explain this to me? I want very much to do
better this time. “ I started explaining, and
finished in a hurry. Pretending not to
notice her still confused eyes, I ran off
quickly. Nat surprisingly, she again did
very badly in the exam. And two months
later, at the beginning of the new semester,
word came of her death of blood cancer.
No one ever knew about the little task I
failed to fulfill, but I couldn’t forgive
myself. I simply couldn’t forget her eyes,
which seem to be asking, “Why didn’t you
do a little more to help me, when it was so
easy for you? Why didn’t you understand a
little better the trust placed in you, so that I
would not have to leave this world in such
pain and regret?”
I was about eight or nine years old at
that time, but in a way it was the very
starting point of my life, for I began to
understand the word “responsibility” and
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to learn to always do my duties faithfully
and devotedly, for the implications of that
sacred word has dawned on me: the mutual
need and trust of people, the co-operation
and inter-reliance which are the very
foundation of human society.
Later in my life, I continued to
experience many failures. But never again
did I feel that regret which struck me at the
death of the girl, for it makes my heart
satisfied to think that I have always done
everything in my power to fulfill my
responsibilities as best I can.
As I grew up, changed and improved
by this incident and many other similar
ones, I began to perceive the changes
taking place around me and to find that
society, in a way, was in its formative
years like myself. New buildings, new
commodities and new fashions appear
every day.
New ideas, new information, new
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technologies. People can talk with each
other from any corner of the earth in a
matter of seconds. Society is becoming
more competitive.
Words like individuality and
creativity are getting more emphasis and
more people are rewarded for their hard
work and efforts. Such is the era in which
this generation ,grows and matures.
Such is the era in which this generation
will take over the nation from our fathers
and learn to run it. Yet in the meantime,
many problems still exist.
We learn that crimes take place in
broad daylight with crowds of people
looking on and not assisting. We hear that
there are still about 1 million children in
this country who can’t even afford to go to
elementary schools while enormous sums
of money are being squandered away on
dinner parties and luxury cars.
We buy shoddy medicines, or merely
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worthless junk in the name of medicines,
that aggravate, rather than alleviate our
diseases since money, many people believe,
is the most important thing in the world
that must be made, even at the expense of
morality and responsibility.
Such an era, therefore, determines
that we are a generation with a keener
sense of competition and efficiency and a
greater readiness to think critically and act
creatively.
Such an era, furthermore, demands, that
we are a generation with a clear perception
of our historical responsibility and an
aggressive will to take action and solve the
problems. History has long been preparing
these qualities in this generation and it is
now calling us forward to give testimony
to our patriotism and heroism towards this
nation and all humanity.
Standing here now, I think of the past 15
years of my life as an ordinary student.
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Probably I’ll be an ordinary man for the
rest of my life. But this doesn’t discourage
me any, for I know that with my sense of
responsibility and devoted efforts to
always strive, for the best, it’s going to be
a meaningful and worthwhile life that I
will be living.



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