英語演講短文五篇

　　HOW TO GET HAPPINESS 如何獲得快樂

There is no doubt that happiness is the most precious thing in the world. Without it, life will be empty and meaningless. If you wish to know how to get happiness, you must pay attention to the following two points. First, health is the secret of happiness (the key to happiness). Only a strong man can enjoy the pleasure of life. Secondly, happiness consists in contentment. A man who is dissatisfied with his present condition is always in distress. 無疑的快樂是世界上最寶貴的東西。沒有它，人生將是空虛的而且毫無意義的。如果你希望知道如何獲得快樂，你須注意下面兩點。 健康是快樂的要訣。唯有身體強壯的人才能享受人生的樂趣。 快樂在於知足。一個不滿於現狀的人終是處在痛苦之中。

　　INDUSTRY (DILIGENCE) 勤勉

It is a matter of course that industry will bring us success, wealth and good luck. I am sure that a hard-working person can always succeed in the work which he wants to do. This is unchangeable truth. Idleness is the opposite of industry. It is the source of all evil. An idle man only enjoys playing and making pleasures. That he is doomed to failure is of no doubt. We should not follow his example. 勤勉會帶給我們成功，財富和好運乃是當然之事。我確信一個苦幹的人終是能夠做成功他所要做的工作。這是不易之定理。 懶惰是勤勉的反面。它是萬惡之源泉。一個懶惰的人只享受玩耍和尋樂。他命運註定失敗是毫無疑問的。我們不應學他的榜樣。

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. 無論是60歲還是16歲，你需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心、永不熄滅的孩提般求知的渴望和追求事業成功的歡樂與熱情。在你我的心底，有一座無線電臺，它能在多長時間裏接收到人間萬物傳遞來的美好、希望、歡樂、鼓舞和力量的信息，你就會年輕多長時間。

An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. 人的生命應當像河流，開始是涓涓細流，受兩岸的限制而十分狹窄，爾後奔騰咆哮，翻過危巖，飛越瀑布，河面漸漸開闊，河岸也隨之向兩邊隱去，最後水流平緩，森森無際，匯入大海之中，個人就這樣毫無痛苦地消失了。

IS Failure a Bad Thing Failure is a common thing in our daily life. As students, we sometimes fail to get high scores in our exams. When we play games, we might be beaten by others. And there are times when we fail to do work well. All these failures happen naturally and almost every one of us has such experiences. However, there are different attitudes towards failure. Some people lose heart when they fail; they think the world is at its end. Some people don‘t take failure seriously but just let it be, while some others learn much from failure, and therefore see the light of hope through failure. In my opinion, what is really important is not failure itself, but what we think of failure and what we do after failure. As long as we don‘t give up, keeping believing in ourselves, and at the same time learn something from failure, we‘ll certainly make our mark in the end. So I am never afraid of failure, for I believe that failure is not a bad thing. Rather, “Failure is the mother of success.” 失敗是壞事嗎 失敗在我們的日常生活中很常見。作爲學生，我們有時在考試中得不到高分。在我們和其他人比賽時，有時會輸。還有的時候，我們總做不好事情。所有這些失敗都很自然，我們每一個人都有類似的經歷。 然而，面對失敗人們的態度卻截然不同。一些人失敗後變得灰心喪氣，似乎世界末日到了;一些人不拿失敗當回事兒，聽之任之;還有一些人卻從失敗中學習東西，從而從失敗中能看到希望。 在我看來，重要的不是失敗本身，而是我們對待失敗的態度和失敗之後我們的行動。只要我們不放棄，相信自己，並從失敗中汲取營養，我們最後一定會取得勝利。因此，我從不害怕失敗，因爲我相信失敗並不是壞事。相反，“失敗是成功之母

　　Friends

　　朋友

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

真正的朋友是一個可以援手幫助並感動你心扉的人。

There's always going to be people that hurt you, so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.

別人常常傷害你，所以你該繼續付出信任，並小心挑選你下次信任的人。

Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect

them to know you.

在你想了解別人也想讓別人瞭解你之前，先完善並瞭解自己。

Remember: Whatever happens, happens for a reason.

要記住：任何事情的發生都有因有起。

How many people actually have 8 true friends? Hardly anyone I know. But some of us have all right friends and good friends.

有多少人可以擁有八個真正的朋友?就我所知少之又少。但我們會有泛泛之交和好友。

　　Love Your Life

　　熱愛生活

Henry David Thoreau/享利.大衛.梭羅

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. Which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends, Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂裏也能找到缺點。你要愛你的生活，儘管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院裏，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮;在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪裏也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。城鎮中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過着最獨立不羈的生活。也許因爲他們很大，所以受之無愧。大多數人以爲他們是超然的，不靠城鎮來支援他們;可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像聖人一樣耕植它吧!不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那裏去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。

　　Love Your Life

However mean your life is,meet it and love it ;do not call it hard is not so bad as you looks poorest when you are your life,poor as it may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hours,even in a setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to gs do not change;we your clothes and keep your thoughts.

　　熱愛生活

不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要惡言咒罵它。它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。你要愛你的生活，儘管它貧窮。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮;在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。大多數人以爲他們是超然的，不靠城鎮來支援他們;可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活。不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。找舊的，回到那裏去。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。