大学生英语演讲1分钟4篇

大学生英语演讲1分钟篇1

“Way to Blue. Everybody Hurts. Glad to be Unhappy.”

These were some of the chart-toppers announced on the radio while I was atthe barbershop a year ago. Quite depressing, huh.

I asked my brother, Joe, why songs that display such unhappiness reach thecharts. Joe is an established businessman who is always confident with hisviewpoints. He reacted quickly and questioned me in a matter-of-fact tone,“can’t you relate to the song?” He then confidently pointed to the Buddhists’explanation of happiness, explaining to me that happiness is never a constantstate, but rather only a temporary escape from suffering. While I respect theBuddhist explanation, I couldn’t help but ask: so what is keeping you fromexperiencing happiness? Joe lost his assertiveness when I mentioned this and hereplied, “While I gain acceptance from my peers and family, I feel like I’m anobody. These songs act as a route for me to escape. I don’t see happiness asattainable in my life.”

While Joe transformed from a confident speaker to a soft-spoken melancholicwithin a matter of a minute, my barber offered him a sympathetic smile. He spokeup. “I was exactly like you - once upon a time, I deceived myself into thinkingI was happy. I followed the majority’s norms of a stable job in brokerage andfelt I gained society’s acceptance. I was loved! But deep down, I loved songslike these because I felt so useless. I felt that whatever I did made nodifference in the world. I found an escape from this mainstream music as a meansof explaining myself. Then the next day, I’d put on my suit and be a nobodyagain.

Then I asked, but how about now? “Now?” The barber said, smiling. “Now, Idon’t think this music deserves its place on the charts.” He flipped over to hisplaylist and played us a song - “Mayfly” by Cheer Chen.

The lyrics goes “Everyday when we open our eyes, we are all mayflies.Living a simple life, chasing a dream vigorously, searching for nothing buthappiness.”

“I think this music deserves a place on the charts. I wish people couldsearch for happiness by only looking forward, and be brave enough neglect harshcriticisms and mockeries along the way - just like a mayfly. A mayfly only seeswhat is ahead of it - why else would their lives be so simple otherwise? Ibecame a barber because I wanted to attain happiness - sure, I experienceddisapproval from peers and such, but I did not want to become “a firefly withoutlight”. I find happiness when I mix with trendy young people that are eager tomake their customers look better - sure, some may not understand why this bringsme happiness, but does it matter?”

My brother Joe and I had a long conversation that evening. We debatedvigorously on our different values of happiness - while the conversation withthe barber relit my childhood dream of being a conductor, Joe still questionswhether stable happiness can achieved even if his dreams are fulfilled. Butultimately, we agreed that one should not let others decide your own standard ofhappiness. Don’t deceive yourself into sadness and despair; pick yourself up andfind your own definition of happiness. Thank you.

大学生英语演讲1分钟篇2

6am when I put on this ZARA dress, I found its label writes this: “Designedin Spain. Made in Vietnam.” And it is now available all over the Chinese market.ZARA is the fastest among various fashion brands. With advantages generated byglobalization, from raw material to labor, from warehouse to shipping, it takesonly 12 to 15 days for ZARA to turn a design on sketch paper to clothes onshelves.

Globalization has eliminated numerous barriers and made the world flat eversince it gained momentum in the 1990s. But recently it seems to be rolled backby someone like Donald Trump in US and Marine Le Pen in France. Public opinionsare being misled by their claim that recoiling from globalization seems to bethe panacea to the two most urgent problems troubling many people in thewest—employment and refugees. But can we buy the story?

Withdrawing from TPP seems to be an act that can move factories back fromthird world countries so that new jobs can be created and therefore unemploymentrate reduced. However, the cost of the products would also be raised since thelabor at home and the transport of raw materials are more expensive, whichcauses greater pressure on all the families in terms of household expenditure.People may manage to get new jobs but the living standard does not improve. Andthis is the story that anti-globalization politicians would never tell to thevoters.

In addition to the concern of employment, the influx of refugees alsotouches a highly sensitive nerve. Rejecting asylum seekers may promote domesticsecurity in the short run, but it tramples what’s equallyimportant--humanitarianism and responsibilities. Refugees such as those fromSyria are not born refugees; they are made refugees by the Wars that shatteredtheir homes and countries. The real solution therefore is not isolation butglobalization because globalization promotes interdependence among nationswhereby conflicts and wars are more likely to be prevented.

Yes, there are defects in globalization, such as environmentaldeterioration, polarization between the rich and the poor, and exploitation ofworkers, to name just a few. But what we need to do is not putting an end to itbut putting it right. As the second largest economy of the world, China shouldhold a lead. We should promote global governance fight against contamination. Weshould strike a balance between efficiency and equity so that differentcountries, different social classes and different groups of people can all enjoythe benefits of globalization.

Globalization has just stepped into its twenties, pretty much like us youngadults. Every twenty something is so energetic, striding to achieve more andsurely deserving a second chance to pull back from the deviation. As weconsumers are enjoying benefits and convenience brought by ZARA and otherinternational brands, we see clearer that the question now is not whether toaccept or reject globalization but how to make it fairer, cleaner and a win-winfor all.

大学生英语演讲1分钟篇3

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen,

When I was little, I lived in a remote village in southern China with mygrandparents. Like many kids in the countryside, I enjoyed digging a hole in theopening among paddy fields, using branches and hay to bake sweet potatoes andplaying hawk-and-chicken with my friends. Every Chinese New Year Eve, mygrandmother would prepare our festive food called Guo. It was a tradition thatneighbors help each other prepare Guo. While adults were busy pouring flour onthe cutting board, pressing the paste flat and moulding it into beautiful shape,kids would run around in the village’s ancestral temple and immerse ourselves inthe enchanting and cheerful smell of holiday.

Having lived in the city for the following ten years, I always feel thechanges happening in my hometown every time I go back--the village lookssurprisingly similar to the coastal city where I live! The opening field where Ibaked potatoes was leveled and a manufacturing factory has been built there,blocking the sunlight of our yard. The ancestral temple has been torn down andis now a small supermarket for villagers. The number of people knowing how toprepare Guo is diminishing and young people seem to be more interested in fastfood and oblivious of traditional arts and skills. The village seems quite emptybecause most young people have become migrant workers in cities and only returnhome once or twice a year.

In the course of urbanization, villages gradually languish and die out whenthe passing on of traditions lose its population base. The total number ofChinese villages has declined from 3.7 million in 20__ to 2.6 million in 20__.Approximately 300 villages in China are disappearing every day. It’s saddeningto see that many ancient villages, which survived warfare and natural disastersover thousands of years, have been demolished or annexed by cities in peacetime.Lulei Village, hometown for the famous mathematician, Chen Jingrun, was anaffluent village in southern China with a history of over 700 years. Since thevillage obstructed the construction of the local railway station, it was almosttorn down, including the former residence for Chen’s family.

We Chinese have been reveling in urbanization for decades. What worries meis that one day on this way to modernization, we turn back but are unable to seethe link with our origins and ancestors. When we’re surrounded by skyscrapersand neon glamour, what defines us as Chinese? Urbanization does not meanbrutally encroaching upon the countryside and strangling rural culture. Itshould not sever the ties with our beloved homeland. While promoting thecountry’s economy, it should also allow space for cultural diversity. In theideal urbanization process, we should no longer emphasize the binary oppositionof city and village, but endeavor to form a reciprocal relationship between thetwo.

Ladies and gentlemen, fallen leaves return to the roots. If we do notredefine and reorient urbanization, we will not be able to save millions ofvillages, neither can we revert to the origin where we belong.

Thank you.

大学生英语演讲1分钟篇4

Ladies and gentlemen, youth is precious. It is a time of our lives where weare energetic, idealistic and passionate but also clueless, insecure and naive.This small fragment of time in our lives may sometimes feel like a grey areabetween childhood and adulthood. A time where most of us feel lost but yetexcited about what’s to come. It is a mixture of bliss, toxicity and adrenaline.Youth is bright and sunny but it is also dark and stormy. Let me explain.

Youth is happiness. Youth is trying things for the first time. It is beinga bit braver, a bit bolder, a bit... mercurial! Perhaps, for some, it is thefirst time we fall in love and it’s magical - like a story in a fairytale. Youthnow, is spending time on the Internet, with our friends, on our hobbies, on thethings we enjoy - but, all this time is not time wasted because we are happy.Youth is a Pandora’s Box of memories with childhood friends and high schoolclassmates - making fun of our teachers behind their backs and sometimes copyingeach other’s homework.

But youth is also pain. It is a time of metamorphosis and sometimes welearn things that are simply excruciating. For those who fall in love, youth isyour first heartbreak and it feels like the end of the world. Youth is a timefor goodbyes - the friends we used to see every day are now scattered across theglobe and everyday becomes once a year. Youth is a time for acceptance - wherewe get rejected by universities, by our parents and even by ourselves. We beatourselves up over things we can’t change yet don’t understand - why did thatuniversity not accept me? Why am I not good enough? Why?

Youth is both happiness and pain. It has moments of highs and lows, lightand dark. It is the zenith and the nadir. You can’t have one without the other.Rather, it’s a balance of both - a yin and a yang, a complete whole.

So ladies gentlemen, do not fear the darkest of nights because it willalways be followed by day - the boy or girl who broke your heart will never meetthe spouse of your future, the friends you thought you’d never see again comeback to you - perhaps on your wedding day and to those who didn’t think that wewere good enough, well, look how far we’ve come.

Thank you.

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