第1个回答 2022-06-18
毕业典礼英文发言稿一
president clinton:
thank you. thank you, president chen,chairmen ren, vice president chi, vice minister wei. we are delighted to behere today with a very large american delegation, including the first lady andour daughter, who is a student at stanford, one of the schools with whichbeijing university has a relationship. we have six members of the united statescongress; the secretary of state; secretary of commerce; the secretary ofagriculture; the chairman of our council of economic advisors; senator sasser,our ambassador; the national security advisor and my chief of staff, amongothers. i say that to illustrate the importance that the united states placeson our relationship with china.
i would like to begin by congratulating allof you, the students, the faculty, the administrators, on celebrating thecentennial year of your university. gongxi, beida. (applause.)
as i'm sure all of you know, this campuswas once home to yenching university which was founded by americanmissionaries. many of its wonderful buildings were designed by an americanarchitect. thousands of americans students and professors have come here tostudy and teach. we feel a special kinship with you.
i am, however, grateful that this day isdifferent in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years ago.in june of 1919, the first president of yenching university, john leightonstuart, was set to deliver the very first commencement address on these verygrounds. at the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students appeared. theywere all out leading the may 4th movement for china's political and culturalrenewal. when i read this, i hoped that when i walked into the auditoriumtoday, someone would be sitting here. and i thank you for being here, verymuch. (applause.)
over the last 100 years, this universityhas grown to more than 20,000 students. your graduates are spread throughoutchina and around the world. you have built the largest university library inall of asia. last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study,including half of your math and science majors. and in this anniversary year,more than a million people in china, asia, and beyond have logged on to yourweb site. at the dawn of a new century, this university is leading china intothe future.
i come here today to talk to you, the nextgeneration of china's leaders, about the critical importance to your future ofbuilding a strong partnership between china and the united states.
the american people deeply admire china forits thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophyand the arts, to science and technology. we remember well our strongpartnership in world war ii. now we see china at a moment in history when yourglorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the evengreater promise of your future.
just three decades ago, china was virtuallyshut off from the world. now, china is a member of more than 1,000international organizations -- enterprises that affect everything from airtravel to agricultural development. you have opened your nation to trade andinvestment on a large scale. today, 40,000 young chinese study in the unitedstates, with hundreds of thousands more learning in asia, africa, europe, andlatin america.
your social and economic transformation hasbeen even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to adriving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decadesof unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within andoutside china, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job,attend a better school. as a result you have lifted literally hundreds ofmillions of people from poverty. per capita income has more than doubled in thelast decade. most chinese people are leading lives they could not have imaginedjust 20 years ago.
of course, these changes have also broughtdisruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormousstrains on your environment. once every urban chinese was guaranteed employmentin a state enterprise. now you must compete in a job market. once a chineseworker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in beijing. now theglobal economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest ofthe world. for those who lack the right training and skills and support, thisnew world can be daunting.
毕业典礼英文发言稿二
i am honored to be with you today at yourcommencement from one of the finest universities in the world. i nevergraduated from college. truth be told, this is the closest i've ever gotten toa college graduation.
today i want to tell you tow stories frommy life. that's it. no big deal. just tow stories.
the first story is about connecting thedots.
i dropped out of reed college after thefirst 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or sobefore i really quit. so why did i drop out?
it started before i was born. my biologicalmother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put meup for adoption. she felt very strongly that i should be adopted by collegegraduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyerand his wife. except that when i popped out they decided at the last minutethat they really wanted a girl. so my parents, who were on a waiting list, gota call in the middle of the night asking: "we have an unexpected baby boy;do you want him?" they said: "of course." my biological motherlater found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that myfather had never graduated from high school. she refused to sign the finaladoption papers. she only relented a few months later when my parents promisedthat i would someday go to college.
and 17 years later i did go to college. buti naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as stanford, and all ofmy working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. aftersix months, i couldn't see the value in it. i had no idea what i wanted to dowith my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. andhere i was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. soi decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok. it was prettyscary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions i evermade. the minute i dropped out i could stop taking the required classes thatdidn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
it wasn't all romantic. i didn't have adorm room, so i slept on the floor in friends' rooms, i returned coke bottlesfor the 5 deposits to buy food with, and i would walk the 7 miles across townevery sunday night to get one good meal a week at the hare krishna temple. iloved it. and much of what i stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuitionturned out to be priceless later on. let me give you one example: reed collegeat that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, wasbeautifully hand calligraphed. because i had dropped out and didn't have totake the normal classes, i decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how todo this. i learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying theamount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes greattypography great. it was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a waythat science can't capture, and i found it fascinating.
none of this had even a hope of anypractical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designingthe first macintosh computer, it all came back to me. and we designed it allinto the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. if i hadnever dropped in on that single course in college, the mac would have never hadmultiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. and since windows justcopied the mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. if i hadnever dropped out, i would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, andpersonal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. ofcourse it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when i was incollege. but it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
again, you can't connect the dots lookingforward; you can only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust thatthe dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something -your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down,and it has made all the difference in my life.
my second story is about love and loss.
i was lucky – i found what i loved to doearly in life. woz and i started apple in my parents garage when i was 20. weworked hard, and in 10 years apple had grown from just the two of us in agarage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. we had just releasedour finest creation - the macintosh - a year earlier, and i had just turned 30.and then i got fired. how can you get fired from a company you started?
well, as apple grew we hired someone who ithought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year orso things went well. but then our visions of the future began to diverge andeventually we had a falling out. when we did, our board of directors sided withhim. so at 30 i was out. and very publicly out. what had been the focus of myentire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
i really didn't know what to do for a fewmonths. i felt that i had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down -that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with davidpackard and bob noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was avery public failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. butsomething slowly began to dawn on me – i still loved what i did. the turn ofevents at apple had not changed that one bit. i had been rejected, but i wasstill in love. and so i decided to start over.
i didn't see it then, but it turned outthat getting fired from apple was the best thing that could have ever happenedto me. the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of beinga beginner again, less sure about everything. it freed me to enter one of themost creative periods of my life.
during the next five years, i started acompany named next, another company named pixar, and fell in love with anamazing woman who would become my wife.
pixar went on to create the worlds firstcomputer animated feature film, toy story, and is now the most successfulanimation studio in the world. in a remarkable turn of events, apple boughtnext, i retuned to apple, and the technology we developed at next is at theheart of apple's current renaissance. and laurene and i have a wonderful familytogether.
i'm pretty sure none of this would havehappened if i hadn't been fired from apple. it was awful tasting medicine, buti guess the patient needed it.
sometimes life hits you in the head with abrick. don't lose faith. i'm convinced that the only thing that kept me goingwas that i loved what i did.
you've got to find what you love. and thatis as true for your work as it is for your lovers. your work is going to fill alarge part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do whatyou believe is great work. and the only way to do great work is to love whatyou do. if you haven't found it yet, keep looking. don't settle. as with allmatters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. and, like any greatrelationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. so keeplooking until you find it. don't settle.
毕业典礼英文发言稿三
Hello, everyone, welcome to our graduationceremony.
I am xxx the student in the programme ofMedical Bioscience.
Firstly, I would like to thank graduationcommittee for giving me this nice opportunity, stand here and have a shortspeech on behalf of all the students.
This is a really special time for us , wehave worked hard for a long time to get here and we finally done.
Anyway, we can all finally kick back andrelax since we finally made it to graduation day although yesterday may be youwere busy with your thesis and presentation. However, now please relax andenjoy yourself.
I am sure all of us have our own memorieswhich we hold close to our hearts and make us grin when we think of them.
A lot of things become very vivid in ourminds.
For me, at this moment, graduation recallsthe memory of my study and life in the past two years. To be honest, I feelvery luck to study in our programme. As an international student, studying herebrings me lots of challenges, but, at the same time, I gain the preciousexperience. I have learnt what I want. I have made good friends. Here, I wouldlike to thank my great supervisor and also my good friend---Susanne Hilke. Fromher, I learnt professional knowledge and techniques, and the most important isI learn how to be a good female since she is a very successful female to have agood balance between the work and family. She is my idol. Besides, thanks a lotfor the tutors of our programme, Eva, Kajsa and Ulla, also Christina and myproject supervisor professor Elvar and Lovisa and all the teachers, who areresponsible for our courses. And my family, my dear mom, dad, my grandpa andgrandma for my love and supporting me.
Well, graduation means one journey comes toan end, and a new one begins. Actually, it is the time to look at what thefuture has in store for each of us.
Shall we be successful? Shall we beunsuccessful? This success I am speaking of has nothing to do with money gains,of course, earning money is very important for everyone, but the most importantthing is are you truly happy? With your families, with your friends. I believe,if you are happy to do what you really want and try your best, finally you willmake it!
Good luck to all of you on your future.Thank you for everything and congratulations!