又是一年毕业季，不仅国内的高校充满着离别的气氛，国外的高校也纷纷花样翻新地策划着毕业典礼。而每逢毕业典礼，演讲嘉宾就成了重头戏，在各大名校的毕业典礼现场，我们不仅能看到经历九九八十一难终于成功毕业的学生们、热泪盈眶或者满脸自豪的家长们，还可以看到难得一见的业内大牛或者传奇人物校友，他们中有些人可是从不在公众场合演讲的哦！
仔细想想，这样的资源怎能浪费？这些演讲不仅凝聚着传奇人物的人生智慧和宝贵建议，还有着地道的表达和简练的结构，学习这些演讲，对于英语学习可谓是一举多得！小兔特地节选了这些演讲中富有意义的片段，还等什么？一起来看看吧！
苹果CEO蒂姆·库克在麻省理工学院的演讲：
I kept convincingmyself (劝服我自己) that it was just over the horizon, around the next corner. Nothing worked. And it was really tearing me apart (tear me apart, was doing过去进行时).Part of me kept pushing ahead to (推动自己去) the next achievement. And the other part kept asking, ‘Is this all there is?’ I went to grad school at Duke looking for the answer (找寻答案). I tried meditation(冥想，注：这可以是你喜欢的活动). I sought guidance in religion(我在宗教中找到指引，seek的过去式为sought，注意介词用in).I read greatphilosophers and authors (表达的丰富性).And in a moment of (在…时刻) youthful indiscretion, I might even have experimented with a Windows PC (I might have..常用用法), and obviously (apparently, obviously的使用会让表达变得地道) that didn’t work.
Don’t let that noise knock you off(noise很地道和贴切，knock sb. Off 把某人打倒) course.Don’t get caught up in the trivial aspectsof life. Don’t listen to trolls and for God’s sake (for sb. Sake 看在某人的面子上) don’t become one. Measure your impact in humanity not in the likes, but the lives you touch; not in popularity, but in the people you serve.I found that my life got bigger when I stopped carrying about what other people thought about me. You will find yours will too. Stay focused on what really matters. There will be times when your resolve to serve humanity will be tested. Be prepared. People will try to convince you that you should keep your empathy out of your career.Don’t accept this false premise.
扎克伯格在哈佛的演讲：
So what are we waiting for? It’s time for (it is time for…是时候) our generation-defining public works.How about stopping climate change before we destroy the planet and getting millions of people involved manufacturing and installing solar panels? How about curingall diseases and asking volunteers to track their health data (记录健康数据) and share their genomes? Today we spend 50x more treating people who are sick than we spend finding cures so people don’t get sick in the first place (一开始, 起初). That makes no sense (这毫无意义). We can fix this (我们可以解决它). How about modernizing democracy so everyone can vote online, and personalizing(加ing是因为省略how about)education so everyone can learn?
These achievements are within our reach(我们可以达到).Let’s do them all in a way that gives everyone in our society a role. Let’s do big things, not only to create progress, but to create purpose. (这句很妙，可以积累)
希拉里克林顿在韦尔斯利学院的演讲：
And your education gives you more than knowledge.It gives you the power to keep learning and apply what you know to improve your life and the lives of others. Because you are beginning your careers with one of the best educations in the world, I think you do have a special responsibility to give others the chance to learn and think for themselves, and to learn from them, so that we can have the kind of open, fact-based debate necessary for our democracy to survive and flourish (存在和繁荣). And alongthe way (在这个过程中), you may be convinced to (被说服) change your mind (改变想法) from time to time(时不时). You know what? (地道俚语) That's okay. Take it from me (take it from…口语中对于“学习、取自”的一种表达),the former president of the Wellesley College Young Republicans.
怎么样？还真是不看不知道，一看才发现，原来演讲里有这么多干货和值得分析的地方！而这些表达运用在口语考试中是绝对加分的（注意，这些表达仅限于口语，不是所有都适合在写作中使用）。演讲本来就是学习英语口语的绝佳材料，我们怎么能放过呢？今后，七悠英语的看演讲学英文栏目还会定期推出最新演讲和口语分析，希望每份材料都能物尽其用，让我们在生活的点滴中一起加油！
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