The Importance of Keeping Optimistic保持乐观的重要性Honourable judges, ladies and gentlemen, 尊敬的评委、女士们、先生们：Good afternoon! Today I would like to talk about the importance ofkeeping optimistic. When we encounter difficulties in life, we notice thatsome of us choose to bury their heads in the sand. Unfortunately, however,this attitude will do you no good, because if you will have no courageeven to face them, how can you conquer them? Thus, be optimistic, ladiesand gentlemen, as it can give you confidence and help you see yourselfthrough the hard times, just as Winston Churchill once said, “An optimistsees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity inevery opportunity.”下午好！今天我想谈一谈保持乐观的重要性。
我们注意到，当在生活中遇到困难时，我们中的有些人选择逃避它们。
但令人遗憾的是，这样的态度对你没有任何好处，因为如果你连面对它们的勇气都没有的话，你怎么去征服它们呢？因此，乐观起来吧，女士们、先生们，因为它会带给你信心，帮助你渡过难关。
正如温斯顿·丘吉尔所说，“乐观者在每次灾难中都看到机遇；悲观者在每次机遇中都看到灾难”。
Ladies and Gentlemen, keeping optimistic, you will be able to realize,in spite of some hardship, there’s always hope waiting for you, which willlead you to the ultimate success. Historically as well as currently, thereare too many optimists of this kind to enumerate. You see, Thomas Edisonis optimistic; if not, the light of hope in his heart could not illuminatethe whole world. Alfred Nobel is optimistic; if not, the explosives andthe prestigious Nobel Prize would not have come into being. And LanceArmstrong is also optimistic; if not, the world would not see a 5-time winner of the Tour De France. 女士们，先生们，困难是存在的，但如果你保持乐观，你就会意识到永远有希望在等着你，它会把你领向最终的成功。
不管是历史上还是现实中，这样的乐观者总是不胜枚举。
你看，托马斯·爱迪生是乐观的，如果不是的话，他心中那希望的明灯就不能照亮整个世界；阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔是乐观的，如果不是的话，那炸药和享有很高声望的诺贝尔奖就不会诞生；兰斯·阿姆斯特朗也是乐观的，如果不是的话，这个世界就会少了一位五届环法自行车赛冠军得主.A rose may be beautiful, or maybe not; that depends on your attitudeonly, and so does success, so does life. Hindrances and difficulties doexist, but if you are optimistic, then they are only episodes on your longway to the throne of success; they are more bridges than obstacles! Now Iprefer to end my speech with t he great British poet Shelley’s lines: “Ifwinter comes, can spring be far behind?” Thank you!玫瑰花可能很美，也可能不美，这，仅仅取决于你的态度；而成功也如此，人生也如此。
困难和阻碍的确存在，但是如果你很乐观的话，那它们就仅仅是我们通向胜利之冠的漫长道路上的小插曲；与其说它们是障碍，不如说它们是桥梁！此刻，我想以伟大的英国诗人雪莱的一句诗来作为我的结尾：“冬天来了，春天还会远吗?”谢谢！Youth青春Samuel Ullman塞缪尔·厄尔曼Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. 人生匆匆，青春不是易逝的一段。
青春应是一种永恒的心态。
满脸红光，嘴唇红润，腿脚灵活，这些都不是青春的全部。
真正的青春啊，它是一种坚强的意志，是一种想象力的高品位，是感情充沛饱满，是生命之泉的清澈常新。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 青春意味着勇敢战胜怯懦，青春意味着进取战胜安逸，年月的轮回就一定导致衰老吗？要知道呵，老态龙钟是因为放弃了对真理的追求。
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. 无情岁月的流逝，留下了深深的皱纹，而热忱的丧失，会在深处打下烙印。
焦虑、恐惧、自卑，终会使心情沮丧，意志消亡。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite for what’s n ext 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 as you are young. 60也罢，16也罢，每个人的心田都应保持着不泯的意志，去探索新鲜的事物，去追求人生乐趣。
我们的心中都应有座无线电台，只要不断地接受来自人类和上帝的美感、希望、勇气和力量，我们就会永葆青春。
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.倘若你收起天线，使自己的心灵蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲观厌世的冰凌，即使你年方20，你已垂垂老矣；倘若你已经80高龄，临于辞世，若竖起天线去收听乐观进取的电波，你仍会青春焕发。
让“宽恕的风”把仇恨抹去The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. 两个朋友结伴穿越沙漠，旅途中二人突然吵了起来，其中一个掴了对方一记耳光。
The one who got slapped felt hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend slapped me in the face."被打的人感到自己受了伤害，但什么也没有说，只是在沙地上写下了这样一句话：“今天我最好的朋友掴了我耳光。
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. 他们继续前行，看见到处绿洲，他们正打算在那里洗澡时，刚才被打的人不小心陷入了泥潭，开始深陷，他的朋友救了他.After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life."等他从几近淹死的边缘苏醒过来后，他在石头上刻下：“今天我最好的朋友救了我的命。