英语演讲选读(大学英语学习系列教材)

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品牌: 耿妍
基本信息·出版社:华中科技大学出版社
·页码:240 页
·出版日期:2009年08月
·ISBN:9787560954783
·条形码:9787560954783
·包装版本:第1版
·装帧:平装
·开本:16
·正文语种:中文/英语
·丛书名:大学英语学习系列教材
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内容简介《英语演讲选读》主要汇集了美国等国家总统中的杰出代表和政治、文学、体育、教育等方面的名人所发表过的演讲,从美国总统大选中的竞选演讲到总统的正式就职和离职演讲,从国家元首关于社会、政治、战争、灾难和教育等发表的重要演讲到世界名人关于经济、文艺和体育等发表的经典演讲。这些演讲语言优美、意味深长,为英语学习者提供了一个回顾历史、了解文化、欣赏语言、学习英语语言和演讲技巧的良好平台。
每篇演讲稿均配有重点词汇和专有名词的详细注释、演讲者的背景介绍、难句和经典语句的翻译、阅读理解,并提供符合演讲题目和相关主题的名人名言(英汉对照),这些注释和补充可帮助读者从多角度详细地了解西方的历史地理、文化传统、风土人情、思维方式和语言表达等知识,对于英语学习者来说是一本提高英语素养的较好的选读教材。
《英语演讲选读》适合大学本科生和专科生、研究生、英语爱好者和英语教师使用。
编辑推荐《英语演讲选读》:大学英语学习系列教材
目录
1 Presidential Campaign Speeches, Inaugural and Farewell Addresses
America's Future Will Be in Your Hands
Republican National Convention Acceptance
Address (excerpted)
Opportunity for All and Responsibility from All
Victory Speech
Endorsement Speech (excerpted)
First Inaugural Address (excerpted)
Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address
First Inaugural Address
Second Inaugural Address (excerpted)
Inaugural Address
Inaugural Address
Farewell Address (excerpted)
Farewell Address
Resignation Speech
Farewell Address
2 Speeches about Famous Events
Gettysburg Address
The Conservation of Natural Resources (excerpted)
The Four Freedoms (excerpted)
The Truman Doctrine (excerpted)
Address on the Capture of Saddam Hussein
Declaration of War on Japan
The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Tragedy Address
9/11 Address to the Nation
On War with Iraq
Address to the Nation on Tsunami
Speech at Tsinghua University
Speech at Yale
3 Celebrities' Famous Speeches
Farewell to Baseball Address
Farewell Address to Congress (excerpted)
Retirement Speech
Good Bye and Good Luck
Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech
Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech
I Have a Dream
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (excerpted)
Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
On the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obituary to Diana, Princess of Wales
Speech at Israel's Holocaust Memorial
Commencement Address at Wellesley College
Baccalaureate Address to Class of 2008 (excerpted)
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序言英语演讲语篇是一种非常有价值的学习英语语言用法、历史文化知识和演讲技巧的语言材料。
本书主要汇集了各国元首中的杰出代表和政治、文学、体育、教育等方面的名人所发表过的演讲。全书40多篇演讲稿,分为三部分:总统的竞选、就职和告别演讲、国家领导人的重要演讲和名人的著名演讲。
本书的每篇演讲稿均配有:①重点词汇的解释,可以巩固和扩大读者的词汇量;②演讲者的背景介绍,帮助读者了解演讲者的生平和背景;③专有名词的详细注释,使读者能比较容易地理解演讲语篇的内容,同时掌握一些地理、历史和文化常识;④难句和经典语句的翻译,有助于读者理解演讲内容并提高翻译能力和驾驭语言的技巧;⑤阅读理解问题读者可以通过该项练习检测自己对于篇章内容的理解程度;⑥符合演讲题目和相关主题的名人名言(英汉对照),可以提高读者写作和演讲的水平。总之,本书对于英语学习者来说是提高英语素养的一本绝好的选读教材。
本书适合大学本科生和专科生、研究生、英语爱好者和英语教师使用。
欢迎使用这本选读教材的师生提出宝贵的意见和建议,以便我们不断改进。
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Now we have to finish the job and balance the budget while we continue to protectour values. My balanced budget plan eliminates the deficit by 2002, while protecting ourvalues by strengthening Medicare and Medicaid, expanding our investments in education,protecting our environment.
When it came to fighting crime, the old politics of division demanded a choicebetween more police and tough penalties, or effective prevention and fewer guns on thestreet. We said we need more police and tougher penalties, but we also need effectiveprevention and fewer guns on the street. So we're putting 100 000 new police officers onthe street. We passed "three strikes and you're out" and the death penalty for drugkingpins and cop killers. We banned assault weapons, passed the Brady Bill, and foughtfor safe and drug-free schools.
Two weeks ago, the FBI reported that crime had dropped 4 years in a row to a10-year low. Now we have more to do to keep crime dropping for 4 more years. We haveto finish putting 100 000 police on the street, target violent gangs, ban bullets whose onlypurpose is to pierce the bulletproof vests of police officers.
When it came to welfare reform, the old polities of division demanded a choicebetween strict time limits and works requirements on the one hand, and child care andcreating jobs for people to move on the other hand. We said, we need time limits andwork requirements because welfare is supposed to be a second chance, not a way of life.But we also need to work together to create jobs, because if we expect work we have tomake sure people have a chance to work.
Well, today there are nearly 2 million fewer people on welfare than there were theday I took office. In August, I signed historic welfare reform legislation that wouldchange the welfare system forever. Now we have a responsibility to make the most of thisopportunity to lift millions of families from welfare to work. And I hav
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