英語演講稿合集15篇

使用正確的寫作思路書寫演講稿會更加事半功倍。在快速變化和不斷變革的新時代，我們使用上演講稿的情況與日俱增，怎麼寫演講稿才能避免踩雷呢？以下是小編精心整理的英語演講稿，歡迎大家分享。

英語演講稿1

Thursday morning at school, I got four agents young movie tickets for all vouchers, I see, ah! 3 d movies? I can't seen 3 d movies. What's the difference between "what stereoscopic film and common film? Do I have to go and see." I said to himself.

Came to the classroom, I and my good friend Luo Kaiyun agreed during the National Day get to the cinema to see 3 d movie.

Easy to look forward to in the National Day, half past nine, I carried on film label and money, like a bottle of an arrow into the cinema. Arrived at the cinema, Luo Kaiyun have been waiting at the door, we hurry to buy a stereo glasses, as people into theaters, find a seat to sit. Three-dimensional film began. I'll take off glasses and a look at the screen, with ordinary film is no different, only the edge of the red, yellow, hazy outline. To wear glasses, yi! Those who like jumped out of the screen, walked over to me. Thought: this is stereoscopic film. Next, the butterfly flew in front of my eyes, seemed to stretch out my hand can get; Figure dangling in front of me; Killing passing speed seems to me; The sword stab to me; Monster as if to swallow me up, frighten I left hide right shine, heart pounding, stimulation and clinking. All of a sudden, I saw m hill iron claw straight towards my stamp, quickly close to me, "ah, arrest me?" I was scared, and instinctively recoiled hide in the body under the chair, heart like to jump out of the throat. Gee, I don't see any action, I take off glasses a look, turned out to be a movie, I really put it. An hour and a half, I have spent in stimulation, scary.

Things in the past, but I will never forget.

英語演講稿2

how many people here in this room smile more than 20 times per day? raise your hand if you do. oh, wow. outside of this room, more than a third of us smile more than 20 times per day, whereas less than 14 percent of us smile less than five.

in fact, those with the most amazing superpowers are actually children who smile as many as 400 times per you ever wondered why being around children who smile so frequently makes you smile very often? a recent study at uppsala university in sweden found that its very difficult to frown when looking at someone who smiles.

you ask, why? because smiling is evolutionarily contagious, and it suppresses the control we usually have on our facial muscles. mimicking a smile and experiencing it physically help us understand whether our smile is fake or real, so we can understand the emotional state of the smiler.

英語演講稿3

I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every vally shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. Wow, what a dream it has been for Martin Luther King. But the changing world seems telling me that people gradually get their dreams lost somehow in the process of growing up, and sometimes I personally find myself saying goodbye unconsciously to those distant childhood dreams. However, we meed dreams. They nourish our spirit; they represent possibility even when we are dragged down by reality. They keep us going. Most successful people are dreamers as well as ordinary people who are not afraid to think big and dare to be great. When we were little kids, we all dreamed of doing something big and splashy, something significant. Now what we need to do is to maintain them, refresh them and turn them into reality. However, the toughest part is that we often have no ideas how to translate these dreams into actions. Well, just start with concrete objectives and stick to it. Don’t let the nameless fear confuse the eye and confound our strong belief of future. Through our talents, through our wits, through our endurance and through our creativity, we will make it. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow. So my dear friends, think of your old and maybe dead dreams. Whatever it is, pick it up and make it alive from today.

英語演講稿4

Ladies and gentlemen ,

Good afternoon!

Im very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is youth. i hope you inance 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 gro men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .

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.

Thank you!

英語演講稿5

Teachers, students, Hello, everybody!

Each of us has a family, also love their home, but you know we have a common house? - That is our planet! Earth is our common "home", and is a very beautiful home, then there is blue sky with white clouds, a tree with red flowers, birds contention, how beautiful all the ah, but that we have not thought about how to protect the earth ? October 15, 20xx astronaut Yang Liwei and the family telephone said excitedly, "I - see our beautiful home", which sounds from space, how many Chinese people moved, the number of foreigners Yeah.

Today, however, when we again face the "beauty of our home", we can also say? Blue sky, how life used to be a brilliant landscape, now trapped in the gray, the clean air become very close to a desire to dream. Faced with an increasingly serious air pollution, looking at the sky, you say? Know of a small village called Demonstration of field do? The place was surrounded by the Castle Peak, Green River Flows, a beautiful place ah! However, the villagers are aware of the environment, no one important, they are deforestation, land reclamation, deforestation, forest gradually disappeared, the stream gradually dry, well water gradually withered. Today, this no longer see the mountains and never see green water, and the village people use very little water, wash your face, then keep feet, and finally carefully pour the water in a vat .... .. keep pouring in ah xxx This is a natural right to their punishment, which is the earth for their ambitions ah!

Students is only one earth. Earth is our lovely "home"! Let us join hands, for our home planet to create a better tomorrow.

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we are the world ,we are the future someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. i don’t know who wrote these words, but i’ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. we are all in the position of the farmers.

if we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. if we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all. we are young. “how to spend the youth?” it is a meaningful question. to answer it, first i have to ask “what do you understand by the word youth?” youth is not a time of life, it’s a state of mind. it’s not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees.

it’s the matter of the will. it’s the freshness of the deep spring of life. a poet said “to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. several days ago, i had a chance to listen to a lecture. i learnt a lot there. i’d like to share it with all of you. let’s show our right palms. we can see three lines that show how our er and life is. i have a short line of life. what about yours? i wondered whether we could see our future in this way. well, let’s make a fist. where is our future?

where is our love, career, and life? tell , it is in our hands. it is held in ourselves. we all want the future to be better than the past. but the future can go better itself. don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. from the past, we’ve learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. we’ve learnt that we can’t choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it, it does mean you should do it in a different way. failure doesn’t mean you should give up, it does mean you must try harder. as what i said at the beginning, “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. the past has gone. nothing we do will change it.

but the future is in front of us. believe that what we give to the world, the world will give to us. and from today on, let’s be the owners of ourselves, and speak out “we are the world, we are the future.”

英語演講稿7

雖然說工作中最經常使用的溝通工具是電話和郵件，但是，有的時候不方便打電話而且沒辦法查收郵件的時候，外企白領一般是用短信來溝通的。但是大家都知道，中文的短信比較容易發，但是如果你要給外籍同事或老闆發短信的時候，就只能輸英文了。所有人都對這件事情很頭痛，的確太麻煩，要一個字母一個字母地輸。下面是一些關於英文短信的技巧，不知道是否對需要跟老外溝通的白領們有所幫助。

1、text me！發我短消息！

用英文寫短信的困難在於拼寫，拼一個單詞就可能花費你很長的一段時間。因此，現在許多人都通過縮短單詞來加快拼寫的速度。這樣做節省了時間，但是如果不熟悉這些常用的縮寫規則，你就會感到很困惑。另外，書寫簡練短信的第一步就是掌握英文。

短信可分爲兩個基本部分：首字母縮寫和縮略。

2、acronyms首字母縮寫

首字母縮寫是由每個單詞的第一個字母組合而成的，比如un就是指united nations.短信裏，首字母縮寫常常被用在習慣用語中。另外，發聲相似的詞會被字母取代。請看一些例子：

oic- oh i see.

brb - be right back

bfn - bye for now

lol - laughing out loud

asap - as soon as possible

btw - by the way

fyi - for your information

jk - just kidding

ttyl - talk to you later

英語演講稿8

Confidence,which is not only the faith in your abilities, but also the faith of pursuit of firm target in yourself, is the first secret of success. With it, you can go toward the shore of victory. When at a low ebb of the Chinese revolution, xxx believed that "a single spark can start a prairie fire". ChenYi believed "repeated action can not take off" he was confident. In short, self-confidence refers to the navigation towards victory, as is the driving force of progress.

Inferior tends to look at the advantages of others too much, overweight, and this is a lack of understanding of their strengths. Someone who has so heavy psychological pressure makes himself passive. Inferior psychological barrier limits the development of ability, making them lose the chance of success, ultimately nothing. Humble and out of the shadow, there must be sunny days ahead! In both the "thousand goddess of mercy" dancing miracle of the spotlight, the actors are in the faith and destiny of the strong, overcoming the inferiority, their performance won the audience's warm applause, deeply loved by people.

Overcoming self-abased and developing confidence is our inevitable choice.

Conceit and inferiority are extreme psychological. Swellheads smug after some achievements, even defiant, arrogance. These people even had made some achievements, but it was just a flash in the pan. Xiang yu in the struggle played a great role，but temporary military advantage made him blind. The results had been defeated by Liu Bang, the former hero. At last Xiang Yu committed suicide by Wujiang river .

We want to believe in ourselves, but not conceited. I do not give up. Choose confidence, overcome being self-abased, and being away from the ego, which is the requirement of the new century, and is the pursuit of perfect personality. "Talk about heroes, you can find someone today", xxx was full of self-confidence, who will always inspire us to move forward.

英語演講稿9

I received a devastating blow to my self-confidence in the first interview of my college years. I applied to be a host in our Student Acting Troupe and felt confident that I would be accepted. But one of the panel members told me: "You seem inadequate and you are a little vertically-challenged." My life has never been the same since. I used bigger heels to complement my height and psychological maneuvers and tricks to hide my lack of confidence. But no matter how hard I tried to look the part, there was still something missing.

As president of English Club, I organized the rehearsal of Snow White for an English party. Unfortunately, we could not find an actor to be the last dwarf. It had to be someone who was humorous by nature and fluent in English. Suddenly, all eyes turned to me, and I knew I would have to be the dwarf. To my great surprise and delight, once on stage, I was totally absorbed in the performance and my humorous nature was put to full use. As the dwarf, I was a big hit.

Yes, each of us is only one among millions of others, but each of us is an individual and each of us is unique. Cultivating our individuality will transform our lives, making of them a kaleidoscope of new colors and textures.

A world deprived of diversity would be a bland and boring place. The real tragedy is not being short or shy or ugly, but having your identity lost in a world in which everyone is a clone of a model cool boy or a flawless charming girl.

Given a choice, I would rather be ugly than live in such a world. I'd rather be a genuine dwarf accompanying a Snow White than be a Snow White among nothing but Snow Whites. I would rather be myself. I would contribute my individual and unique colors to create a more diverse universe. Please, be yourself.

譯文:我重樹信心

大學生活的幾年裏，當我參加第一次面試時，我的自信心受到了沉重的打擊。我向“學生劇團”申請出演一個主角，而且我十分自信地認爲我會被錄用。但是,其中有個劇團成員告訴我:“你似乎不太合適出演這個角色，因爲你的身高有點問題。”我從未遇到過這種情況。我穿着高跟鞋來彌補我的身高，採用心理策略和技巧來掩蓋自己信心的缺乏。但是，不論我怎樣努力進入角色，感覺還是缺少些什麼。

作爲英語俱樂部的主席，我爲英語晚會組織排演了《白雪公主》短劇。不幸的是，我們找不到合適的人選出演最後一個小矮人。這個角色必須生性幽默，英語流利。突然，所有人的目光都轉向了我，我知道那個小矮人就是我了。讓我極度奇怪而又高興的是，一上臺，我完全投入到演出中，而且我那幽默的天性被髮揮得淋漓盡致。作爲一個‘’小矮人”，我取得了巨大的成功。

的確，我們中的任何一個人都是千百萬中的一員，但我們中的每個人都是一個與衆不同的個體。發揮我們自己的個性會改變我們的生活，使它們成爲美麗的萬花筒。

失去了多樣性的世界是個冷漠、乏味的地方。真正的'悲劇不是個矮、害羞或醜陋，而是將自己的個性迷失在一個克隆的世界裏，那裏到處都是典型的酷男孩或無瑕、迷人的好姑娘。

如果讓我選擇，我寧可面貌五陋，也不願生活在這樣一個世界裏。我寧可做一個伴隨“白雪公主”的真實的小矮人，也不願做“白雪公主”世界裏的一個白雪公主。

英語演講稿10

“once upon a time，there was a king who had a daughter as beautiful as a blooming rose. to all the suitors who came to the king's palace to ask for the hand of the princess, the old king assigned three tasks to be accomplished, each next to impossible. one day, into the king's palace came a handsome young prince..." well, you know the rest. the three tasks may be different in different versions, but the main plot is always the same, with the prince claiming the princess's hand triumphantly.

and the ending is always the same, finishing with the line "and they live happily every after."

why aren't we tired of something so fanciful, so unrealistic, and, i would say, so unimaginative? how can a story like that endure generations of repetition`? because, i think, it is a typical success story. it is highly philosophical and symbolic. by implication, we see a 4-step definition of success: 1 ) a goal to be set. as represented by the beautiful princess; 2 ) challenges to be met, as represented by the three tasks; 3 ) the process of surmounting difficulties, as represented by the ordeals the youth goes through; and 4 ) the reward of success, as represented by the happy marriage.

the story not only caters to everyone's inward yearning for success, but also emphasizes the inseparability of the process and the result. the reward of success will be much amplified if the path leading towards it is treacherous, and vice versa. if a person inherits his father's millions and leads an easy life, he is not a successful person even in material terms, because there are no difficulties involved in his achieving affluence. the term "success", to be sure. will not sit still for easy definition. but as i understand it, the true meaning of success entails a combination of both the process and the satisfactory result of an endeavor. to clarify my view, let me give another analogy.

if we changed the rules of football, greatly enlarged the goal and sent away david seaman or any other goal keeper, so that another david, namely david beckham, could score easily, then scoring would not give him the thrill of accomplishment and the joy that it brings. if we further changed the rules by not allowing arsenal's defenders to defend, so that beckham needed only to lift a finger, actually a toe, to score, then there would be no game at all, because the meaning of winning would have disappeared. in accepting the challenge, in surmounting the difficulties and in enduring the hardship, success acquires its value. the sense of attainment varies in proportion to the degree of difficulties on overcomes.

譯文

“從前,有一個國王有一個女兒就像盛開的玫瑰一樣美麗。所有追求者來到王宮裏要求公主的手,老國王指派完成三個任務,每一個幾乎不可能的。有一天,國王的宮殿是一個年輕英俊的王子……“嗯,你知道。不同版本的三個任務可能會有所不同,但主要情節總是相同的,得意地宣稱王子公主的手。

和結局總是一樣的,完成與行“每後,他們幸福地生活在一起。”

爲什麼不我們厭倦了一些幻想,不現實,我想說,如此缺乏想象力?故事怎麼能這樣忍受一代又一代的重複”?因爲,我認爲,這是一個典型的成功故事。它是高度哲學和象徵性。通過暗示,我們看到一個分4步的成功的定義:1)所代表的一個目標是集美麗的公主;2)挑戰,爲代表的三個任務;3)克服困難的過程中,所代表的考驗的青春經歷,和4)成功的獎勵,如所代表的幸福的婚姻。

這個故事不僅迎合每個人的內心渴望成功,但也強調了過程和結果的不可分離性。成功的獎勵會放大很多如果路徑主要是危險的,反之亦然。如果一個人繼承了他父親的數百萬和領導一個簡單的生活,在物質財富方面他甚至不是一個成功的人,因爲他沒有困難參與實現富裕。“成功”這個詞,可以肯定的是。不會坐着容易定義。但隨着我的理解,成功的真正含義需要兩者的結合的過程和滿意的結果努力。闡明我的觀點,讓我給另一個類比。

如果我們改變了足球的規則,大大擴大了目標和打發大衛·希曼或任何其他守門員,這樣另一個大衛,大衛·貝克漢姆,可以輕易得分,然後得分不會給他帶來的成就感和快樂,興奮。如果我們進一步改變了規則不允許阿森納的後衛防守,所以貝克漢姆只需要擡起手指,腳趾,分數,然後就沒有遊戲,因爲勝利的意義就會消失了。在接受挑戰,克服困難,在忍受苦難,成功獲得它的價值。成就的感覺不同比例的程度上克服困難。

英語演講稿11

we are the world ,we are the future

someone said “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. i don?t know who wrote these words, but i?ve always liked them as a reminder that the future can be anything we want it to be. we are all in the position of the farmers. if we plant a good seed ,we reap a good harvest. if we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.

we are young. “how to spend the youth?” it is a meaningful

question. to answer it, first i have to ask“what do you understand by the word youth?” youth is not a time of life, it?s a state of mind. it?s not a matter ofrosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. it?s the matter of the will. it?s the freshness of the deep spring oflife.

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. years 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 .

whether 60 of 16 , 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?s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages ofbeauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .

a poet said “to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an ral days ago, i had a chance to listen to a lecture. i learnt a lot there. i?d like to share it with all of you. let?s show our right palms. we can see three lines that show how our er and life is. i have a short line of life. what about yours? i wondered whether we could see our future in this way. well, let?s make a fist. where is our future? where is our love, career, and life? tell , it is in our hands. it is held in ourselves.

we all want the future to be better than the past. but the future can go better itself. don?t cry because it is over, smile because it happened. from the past, we?ve learnt that the life is tough, but we are tougher. we?ve learnt that we can?t choose how we feel, but we can choose what about it. failure doesn?t mean you don?t have it, it does mean you should do it in a different way. failure doesn?t mean you should give up, it does mean you must try harder.

as what i said at the beginning, “we are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite”. the past has gone. nothing we do will change it. but the future is in front of us. believe that what we give to the world, the world will give to us. and from today on, let?s be the owners of ourselves, and speak out “we are the world, we are the future.”

英語演講稿12

Festival Food

Food during this happy event has its characteristics, which is the representative of Chinese festival food culture. Dumplings and the reunion dinner are indispensable at this time. Cold and hot dishes are all served. Fish is always an important dish then, which expresses people’s hope of having a wealthy year.

節日美食

春節期間的食物也很有特色，代表着中國傳統飲食文化，餃子和團圓飯是不可或缺的，冷盤熱菜都得上，魚也是春節一道重要的菜餚，它代表了人們年年有餘的期望。

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Socialist political development road with Chinese characteristics is in the long-term revolution construction and reform practice of the formation and development is the socialist democratic politics which accords with the situation of our country in the new road has a strong vitality socialist political development road with Chinese characteristics is the history and the people's choice is the important guarantee of scientific development promote social harmony. Socialist political development road with Chinese characteristics is the Chinese social and political development mode with independent intellectual property rights.

1. what is the socialism political development road with Chinese characteristics

This way the main contents include: adhere to the leadership of the party the people are masters of the country in accordance with the law governing the organic unification to uphold and improve the system of people's congress the communist party of China leads the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system system of regional national autonomy and grass-roots mass self-government system.

2. why do you want to the road of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics

The political road of socialism with Chinese characteristics it is the choice of history the people's choice stick to the road can achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Adhere to and develop the road which is beneficial to strengthen and improve the leadership of the party is beneficial to promote the development of people's democracy to form and maintain a lively political situation developing the strong vitality of the socialist democratic politics.

3. how can I get to the socialism political development road with Chinese characteristics the report of the 17th national congress eplicitly put forward the deepening the reform of political system of the task to enhance the vitality of the party and state arouse the enthusiasm of the people as the goal epand socialist democracy build socialism country under the rule of law develop socialist political civilization. Current need to seriously do a good job the following aspects:

(1) the development of democracy at the grassroots level consolidate the basis of the socialist democratic politics.

(2) the build socialism country under the rule of law legal guarantee of constructing socialist democratic politics.

(3) actively promote inner-party democracy construction epand intra-party democracy to develop people's democracy.

4. the advantage of the socialist political development road with Chinese characteristics

Socialist political development road with Chinese characteristics is good for the democratic participation of the people and various democratic rights are fully guarantee socialist democracy shows strong vitality. At the same time to consolidate and epand the patriotic united front promote socialist democracy and promote the great unity of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups addition of implementation of the party and the state is of great significance.

A country to choose what kind of political development path not only the relationship between the democratic political construction and the relationship between the economic and social development and the state power of the firm. The communist party of China insists on the basic principle of marism with Chinese concrete practice and The Times characteristic combining the development of socialist democratic politics and building socialist political civilization in practice out of a socialism with Chinese characteristics which accords with the situation of China's political development road.

Thank you all attention.

英語演講稿14

Life is a mirror. If we smile to her, she would also return the happinessto us. But if we cry, she would be disappointed. Therefore, we should bepositive toward life, so as to get happiness.

Actually, happiness is everywhere if we keep a good attitude. As we keep agood mood, our world will be a sunny land, which is resounded with soft ver, if we are pessimists, we'll find our world is full of darkness.

While on the other side, happiness is not a destination but a use there's no paradise at all, but we can make a paradise if we'rehard-working and intelligent. So we should work like we don't need money, smilelike we've never been hurt, and perform ourselves like no one can see us.

英語演講稿15

In the summer recess between freshman and sophomore years in college, I wasinvited to be an instructor at a high school leadership camp hosted by a collegein Michigan. I was already highly involved in most campus activities, and Ijumped at the opportunity.

About an hour into the first day of camp, amid the frenzy of icebreakersand forced interactions, I first noticed the boy under the tree. He was smalland skinny, and his obvious discomfort and shyness made him appear frail andfragile. Only 50 feet away, 200 eager campers were bumping bodies, playing,joking and meeting each other, but the boy under the tree seemed to want to beanywhere other than where he was. The desperate loneliness he radiated almoststopped me from approaching him, but I remembered the instructions from thesenior staff to stay alert for campers who might feel left out.

As I walked toward him I said, “Hi, my name is Kevin and I’m one of thecounselors. It’s nice to meet you. How are you?”

In a shaky, sheepish voice he reluctantly answered, “Okay, I guess.”

I calmly asked him if he wanted to join the activities and meet some newpeople. He quietly replied, “No, this is not really my thing.”

I could sense that he was in a new world, that this whole experience wasforeign to him. But I somehow knew it wouldn’t be right to push him, either. Hedidn’t need a pep talk, he needed a friend. After several silent moments, myfirst interaction with the boy under the tree was over.

At lunch the next day, I found myself leading camp songs at the top of mylungs for 200 of my new friends. The campers were eagerly participated. My gazewandered over the mass of noise and movement and was caught by the image of theboy from under the tree, sitting alone, staring out the window. I nearly forgotthe words to the song I was supposed to be leading. At my first opportunity, Itried again, with the same questions as before: “How are you doing? Are youokay?”

To which he again replied, “Yeah, I’m all right. I just don’t really getinto this stuff. ”

As I left the cafeteria, I too realized this was going to take more timeand effort than I had thought — if it was even possible to get through to him atall.

That evening at our nightly staff meeting, I made my concerns about himknown. I explained to my fellow staff members my impression of him and askedthem to pay special attention and spend time with him when they could.

The days I spend at camp each year fly by faster than any others I haveknown. Thus, before I knew it, mid-week had dissolved into the final night ofcamp and I was chaperoning the “last dance”. The students were doing all theycould to savor every last moment with their new “best friends” — friends theywould probably never see again.

As I watched the campers share their parting moments, I suddenly saw whatwould be one of the most vivid memories of my life. The boy from under the tree,who stared blankly out the kitchen window, was now a shirtless dancing owned the dance floor as he and two girls proceeded to cut up a rug. Iwatched as he shared meaningful, intimate time with people at whom he couldn’teven look just days earlier. I couldn’t believe it was him. In October of mysophomore year, a late-night phone call pulled me away from my chemistry book. Asoft-spoken, unfamiliar voice asked politely, “Is Kevin there?”

“You’re talking to him. Who’s this?”

“This is Tom Johnson’s mom. Do you remember Tommy from leadership camp?”

The boy under the tree. How could I not remember? “Yes, I do”, I said.“He’s a very nice young man. How is he?”

An abnormally long pause followed, then Mrs. Johnson said, “My Tommy waswalking home from school this week when he was hit by a car and killed.”Shocked, I offered my condolences.

“I just wanted to call you”, she said, “because Tommy mentioned you so manytimes. I wanted you to know that he went back to school this fall withconfidence. He made new friends. His grades went up. And he even went out on afew dates. I just wanted to thank you for making a difference for Tom. The lastfew months were the best few months of his life.”

In that instant, I realized how easy it is to give a bit of yourself everyday. You may never know how much each gesture may mean to someone else. I tellthis story as often as I can, and when I do, I urge others to look out for theirown “boy under the tree.”

在大一到大二之間的那個暑假，密歇根的一所大學主辦一次中學學生幹部夏令營，邀我擔任輔導員。對於校園的多數活動，我都持贊同態度並積極參與，那次我同樣欣然接受了。

頭一天活動進行大約一個鐘頭，我注意到，開始活躍的營員們興致濃厚，不太自然地互動起來，而樹下卻有一個孤零零的男孩。他身材矮小，瘦弱不堪，那明顯的不安和羞怯使他顯得不堪一擊。在只有五十英尺遠的地方，二百名充滿激情的營員正在玩耍、開玩笑並互作介紹，而樹下的男孩似乎除了想呆在原地，不想去任何地方。他流露出的極度孤獨令我幾乎難以靠近，但我沒忘記資深輔導員們的提示：對可能感覺受到冷落的營員要保持警惕。

我走向那個男孩，對他說：“嗨!我叫凱文，是你們的輔導員。很高興認識你，你好嗎?”

帶着顫抖的怯生生的聲音，他勉強答道：“我想——還好吧。”

我平靜地問他想不想投入到那些活動從而結識一些人，他輕聲回答：“不，那不關我的事。”

我能感覺到他在面對一個新的環境，這種體驗對他來說是全然陌生的。也不知爲什麼,我覺得強迫他加入也不妥當。他不需要鼓勵性的講，他需要的是朋友。幾次沉默之後，我和樹下男孩的接觸就此結束。

第二天吃午飯的時候，我扯開嗓門，領着二百名剛認識的新朋友唱起了營歌。營員們都熱情參與，我的目光遊移於這羣人，忽然那個“樹下男孩”的樣子吸引了我的注意：他孤零零地坐着，眼瞅着窗外。我幾乎忘記了領唱的歌詞。只要一有機會，我就會照舊用那些話問他：“你怎麼樣?你好嗎?”

他的回答依然是：“嗯，我很好。我真地不想參與那種事兒。”

我離開自助餐廳的時候充分認識到，扭轉這種狀況所需的時間和所做的努力要比我想像的要多——即便是在能讓他徹底“迷途知返”的情況下。

在當晚的全體工作人員會議上，我告訴了他們我對他的擔憂。我向同事們說明他給我留下的印象，請求他們對他給以特別的關注，並儘可能花時間和他在一起。

每年我在營地度過的日子總是一晃而過，感覺比其它時間過得快。這次同樣如此。我還沒明白過來，星期三已成過去，露營的最後一晚來到了。我伴隨營員們跳起“最後的舞蹈”。學生們都在竭力品味跟新“摯友”在一起的最後每一刻——他們或許以後再也見不到面了。

營員們共度這難忘的分別時刻，這時我突然目睹了我一生都記憶最清晰的一幕：那個曾透過廚房窗戶茫然盯着外面的樹下男孩，此時卻成了不穿襯衫的跳舞奇才。他和兩個女孩跳着搖擺舞，在舞池裏到處舞動。我注視着他跟大家共享這親密無間又意義深長的時刻，而僅僅幾天前他卻對他們連瞧也不瞧一眼。判若兩人，讓我無法相信。

我大二那年的十月，深夜的一個電話讓我放下化學課本，一個柔和卻生疏的聲音彬彬有禮地問道：

“凱文在嗎?”

“我就是，您是哪位?”

“我是湯姆?約翰遜的母親，您還記得那個參加夏令營的湯米嗎?”

樹下的那個男孩，我怎麼會不記得呢?

“我記得。”我說，“他是個很不錯的小夥子，他現在情況怎麼樣?”

長長的反常沉默過後，約翰遜夫人又說道：“湯米這個星期從學校回家的時候，一輛汽車撞了他使他辭別人世。”我感到震驚，向她表示我的哀悼。

“我給您打電話，”她說，“只因爲湯米好多次說起過您。我想讓您知道，他今年秋季返校時有了自信心，交了新朋友，學習成績提高了，甚至還出去約會過幾次。我只想表達我的感激之情，因爲是您改變了他。最後的這幾個月是他度過的生命中最美好的時光。”

在那一刻，我意識到，你每天奉獻出一點點還是容易得很，你可能永遠都不知道你的舉動對他人的影響有多大。我常常講起這個故事，每當講起的時候，我總是力勸別人也注意一下他們自己的“樹下男孩”。