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篇1：美国20世纪经典英语演讲稿
美国20世纪经典英语演讲稿（精选）
I'm Elizabeth Glaser. Eleven years ago, while giving birth to my first child, I hemorrhaged and was transfused with seven pints of blood. Four years later, I found out that I had been infected with the AIDS virus and had unknowingly passed it to my daughter, Ariel, through my breast milk, and my son, Jake, in utero.
Twenty years ago I wanted to be at the Democratic Convention because it was a way to participate in my country. Today, I am here because it's a matter of life and death. Exactly -- Exactly four years ago my daughter died of AIDS. She did not survive the Reagan Administration. I am here because my son and I may not survive four more years of leaders who say they care, but do nothing. I -- I am in a race with the clock. This is not about being a Republican or an Independent or a Democrat. It's about the future -- for each and every one of us.
I started out just a mom -- fighting for the life of her child. But along the way I learned how unfair America can be today, not just for people who have HIV, but for many, many people -- poor people, gay people, people of color, children. A strange spokesperson for such a group: a well-to-do white woman. But I have learned my lesson the hard way, and I know that America has lost her path and is at risk of losing her soul. America wake up: We are all in a struggle between life and death.
I understand -- I understand the sense of frustration and despair in our country, because I know firsthand about shouting for help and getting no answer. I went to Washington to tell Presidents Reagan and Bush that much, much more had to be done for AIDS research and care, and that children couldn't be forgotten. The first time, when nothing happened, I thought, “They just didn't hear me.” The second time, when nothing happened, I thought, “Maybe I didn't shout loud enough.” But now I realize they don't hear because they don't want to listen.
When you cry for help and no one listens, you start to lose your hope. I began to lose faith in America. I felt my country was letting me down -- and it was. This is not the America I was raised to be proud of. I was raised to believe that other's problems were my problems as well. But when I tell most people about HIV, in hopes that they will help and care, I see the look in their eyes: “It's not my problem,” they're thinking. Well, it's everyone's problem and we need a leader who will tell us that. We need a visionary to guide us -- to say it wasn't all right for Ryan White to be banned from school because he had AIDS, to say it wasn't alright for a man or a woman to be denied a job because they're infected with this virus. We need a leader who is truly committed to educating us.
I believe in America, but not with a leadership of selfishness and greed -- where the wealthy get health care and insurance and the poor don't. Do you know -- Do you know how much my AIDS care costs? Over 40,000 dollars a year. Someone without insurance can't afford this. Even the drugs that I hope will keep me alive are out of reach for others. Is their life any less valuable? Of course not. This is not the America I was raised to be proud of -- where rich people get care and drugs that poor people can't. We need health care for all. We need a leader who will say this and do something about it.
I believe in America, but not a leadership that talks about problems but is incapable of solving them -- two HIV commission reports with recommendations about what to do to solve this crisis sitting on shelves, gathering dust. We need a leader who will not only listen to these recommendations, but implement them.
I believe in America, but not with a leadership that doesn't hold government accountable. I go to Washington to the National Institutes of Health and say, “Show me what you're doing on HIV.” They hate it when I come because I try to tell them how to do it better. But that's why I love being a taxpayer, because it's my money and they must feel accountable.
I believe in an America where our leaders talk straight. When anyone tells President Bush that the battle against AIDS is seriously under-funded, he juggles the numbers to mislead the public into thinking we're spending twice as much as we really are. While they play games with numbers, people are dying.
I believe in America, but an America where there is a light in every home. A thousand points of light just wasn't enough: My house has been dark for too long.
Once every generation, history brings us to an important crossroads. Sometimes in life there is that moment when it's possible to make a change for the better. This is one of those moments.
For me, this is not politics. This is a crisis of caring.
In this hall is the future -- women, men of all colors saying, “Take America back.” We are -- We are just real people wanting a more hopeful life. But words and ideas are not enough. Good thoughts won't save my family. What's the point of caring if we don't do something about it? A President and a Congress that can work together so we can get out of this gridlock and move ahead, because I don't win my war if the President cares and the Congress, or if the Congress cares and the President doesn't support the ideas.
The people in this hall this week, the Democratic Party, all of us can begin to deliver that partnership, and in November we can all bring it home.
My daughter lived seven years, and in her last year, when she couldn't walk or talk, her wisdom shone through. She taught me to love, when all I wanted to do was hate. She taught me to help others, when all I wanted to do was help myself. She taught me to be brave, when all I felt was fear. My daughter and I loved each other with simplicity. America, we can do the same.
This was the country that offered hope. This was the place where dreams could come true, not just economic dreams, but dreams of freedom, justice, and equality. We all need to hope that our dreams can come true. I challenge you to make it happen, because all our lives, not just mine, depend on it.
Thank you.
篇2：美国20世纪经典演讲
美国20世纪经典演讲一：里根：“挑战号”惨剧致辞
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss.
Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like this.
And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. But they, the Challenger Seven, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn seven heroes: Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe.
We mourn their loss as a nation together.
For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, “Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy.” They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.
We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for twenty-five years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers.
And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's take-off. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.
I've always had great faith in and respect for our space program. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way freedom is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.
We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.
I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for NASA, or who worked on this mission and tell them: “Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it.”
There's a coincidence today. On this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.” Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete.
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
Thank you.
美国20世纪经典演讲二：麦克阿瑟将军国会大厦告别演讲
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride -- humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this forum of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other. There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide our effort. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism. If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort. The Communist threat is a global one. Itssuccessful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You can not appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe.
Beyond pointing out these general truisms, I shall confine my discussion to the general areas of Asia. Before one may objectively assess the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the present. Long exploited by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity to achieve any degree of social justice, individual dignity, or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom.
Mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments. Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped. It is a corollary to the shift of the world economic frontiers as the whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support -- not imperious direction -- the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. Their pre-war standard of life, pitifully low, is infinitely lower now in the devastation left in war's wake. World ideologies play little part in Asian thinking and are little understood. What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom. These political-socialconditions have but an indirect bearing upon our own national security, but do form a backdrop to contemporary planning which must be thoughtfully considered if we are to avoid the pitfalls of unrealism.
Of more direct and immediate bearing upon our national security are the changes wrought in the strategic potential of the Pacific Ocean in the course of the past war. Prior thereto the western strategic frontier of the United States lay on the littoral line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway, and Guam to the Philippines. That salient proved not an outpost of strength but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack.
The Pacific was a potential area of advance for any predatory force intent upon striking at the bordering land areas. All this was changed by our Pacific victory. Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which became a vast moat to protect us as long as we held it. Indeed, it acts as a protective shield for all of the Americas and all free lands of the Pacific Ocean area. We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Mariannas held by us and our free allies. From this island chain we can dominate with sea and air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore -- with sea and air power every port, as I said, from Vladivostok to Singapore -- and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific.
*Any predatory attack from Asia must be an amphibious effort.* No amphibious force can be successful without control of the sea lanes and the air over those lanes in its avenue of advance. With naval and air supremacy and modest ground elements to defend bases, any major attack from continental Asia toward us or our friends in the Pacific would be doomed to failure.
Under such conditions, the Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effortand expense. It envisions no attack against anyone, nor does it provide the bastions essential for offensive operations, but properly maintained, would be an invincible defense against aggression. The holding of this littoral defense line in the western Pacific is entirely dependent upon holding all segments thereof; for any major breach of that line by an unfriendly power would render vulnerable to determined attack every other major segment.
This is a military estimate as to which I have yet to find a military leader who will take exception. For that reason, I have strongly recommended in the past, as a matter ofmilitary urgency, that under no circumstances must Formosa fall under Communist control. Such an eventuality would at once threaten the freedom of the Philippines and the loss of Japan and might well force our western frontier back to the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.
To understand the changes which now appear upon the Chinese mainland, one mustunderstand the changes in Chinese character and culture over the past 50 years. China, up to 50 years ago, was completely non-homogenous, being compartmented into groups divided against each other. The war-making tendency was almost non-existent, as they still followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist culture. At the turn of the century, under the regime of Chang Tso Lin, efforts toward greater homogeneity produced the start of a nationalist urge. This was further and more successfully developed under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek, but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on thecharacter of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies.
Through these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus become militarized in their concepts and in their ideals. They now constitute excellent soldiers, with competent staffs and commanders. This has produced a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power normal to this type of imperialism.
There is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese make-up. The standard of living is so low and the capital accumulation has been so thoroughly dissipated by war that the masses are desperate and eager to follow any leadership which seems to promise the alleviation of local stringencies.
I have from the beginning believed that the Chinese Communists' support of the North Koreans was the dominant one. Their interests are, at present, parallel with those of the Soviet. But I believe that the aggressiveness recently displayed not only in Korea but also in Indo-China and Tibet and pointing potentially toward the South reflects predominantly the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every would-be conqueror since the beginning of time.
The Japanese people, since the war, have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history. With a commendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity tounderstand, they have, from the ashes left in war's wake, erected in Japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of individual liberty and personal dignity; and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government committed to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.
Politically, economically, and socially Japan is now abreast of many free nations of the earth and will not again fail the universal trust. That it may be counted upon to wield a profoundly beneficial influence over the course of events in Asia is attested by the magnificent manner in which the Japanese people have met the recent challenge of war, unrest, and confusion surrounding them from the outside and checked communism within their own frontiers without the slightest slackening in their forward progress. I sent all four of our occupation divisions to the Korean battlefront without the slightest qualms as to the effect of the resulting power vacuum upon Japan. The results fully justified my faith. I know of no nation more serene, orderly, and industrious, nor in which higher hopes can be entertained for future constructive service in the advance of the human race.
Of our former ward, the Philippines, we can look forward in confidence that the existing unrest will be corrected and a strong and healthy nation will grow in the longer aftermath of war's terrible destructiveness. We must be patient and understanding and never fail them -- as in our hour of need, they did not fail us. A Christian nation, the Philippines stand as a mighty bulwark of Christianity in the Far East, and its capacity for high moral leadership in Asia is unlimited.
On Formosa, the government of the Republic of China has had the opportunity to refute by action much of the malicious gossip which so undermined the strength of its leadership on the Chinese mainland. The Formosan people are receiving a just and enlightened administration with majority representation on the organs of government, and politically, economically, and socially they appear to be advancing along sound and constructive lines.
With this brief insight into the surrounding areas, I now turn to the Korean conflict. While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we -- as I said, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces. Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.
This created a new war and an entirely new situation, a situation not contemplated when our forces were committed against the North Korean invaders; a situation which called for new decisions in the diplomatic sphere to permit the realistic adjustment of militarystrategy.
Such decisions have not been forthcoming.
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Apart from the military need, as I saw It, to neutralize the sanctuary protection given the enemy north of the Yalu, I felt that military necessity in the conduct of the war made necessary: first the intensification of our economic blockade against China; two the imposition of a naval blockade against the China coast; three removal of restrictions on air reconnaissance of China's coastal areas and of Manchuria; four removal of restrictions on the forces of the Republic of China on Formosa, with logistical support to contribute to their effective operations against the common enemy.
For entertaining these views, all professionally designed to support our forces committed to Korea and bring hostilities to an end with the least possible delay and at a saving of countless American and allied lives, I have been severely criticized in lay circles, principally abroad, despite my understanding that from a military standpoint the above views have been fully shared in the past by practically every military leader concerned with the Korean campaign, including our own Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I called for reinforcements but was informed that reinforcements were not available. I made clear that if not permitted to destroy the enemy built-up bases north of the Yalu, if not permitted to utilize the friendly Chinese Force of some 600,000 men on Formosa, if not permitted to blockade the China coast to prevent the Chinese Reds from getting succor from without, and if there were to be no hope of major reinforcements, the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory.
We could hold in Korea by constant maneuver and in an approximate area where oursupply line advantages were in balance with the supply line disadvantages of the enemy, but we could hope at best for only an indecisive campaign with its terrible and constant attrition upon our forces if the enemy utilized its full military potential. I have constantly called for the new political decisions essential to a solution.
Efforts have been made to distort my position. It has been said, in effect, that I was a warmonger. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. Indeed, on the second day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-five, just following the surrender of the Japanese nation on the Battleship Missouri, I formally cautioned as follows:
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, Leagues of Nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 20xx years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
“Why,” my soldiers asked of me, “surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?” I could not answer.
Some may say: to avoid spread of the conflict into an all-out war with China; others, to avoid Soviet intervention. Neither explanation seems valid, for China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit, and the Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves. Like a cobra, any new enemy will more likely strike whenever it feels that the relativity in military or other potential is in its favor on a world-wide basis.
The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits. It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation.
Of the nations of the world, Korea alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism. The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
They have chosen to risk death rather than slavery. Their last words to me were: “Don't scuttle the Pacific!”
I have just left your fighting sons in Korea. They have met all tests there, and I can report to you without reservation that they are splendid in every way.
It was my constant effort to preserve them and end this savage conflict honorably and with the least loss of time and a minimum sacrifice of life. Its growing bloodshed has caused me the deepest anguish and anxiety.
Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers always.
I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
Good Bye.
美国20世纪经典演讲三：肯尼迪：在马丁路德金遇刺后的讲演
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poem, my -- my favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote:
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King -- yeah, it's true -- but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love -- a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.
We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past, but we -- and we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.
Thank you very much.
篇3：美国20世纪十大文化偶像
美国20世纪十大文化偶像
美国《男人》、《传记》等媒体联合评选出了美国文化的十大偶像。据称， 他们的评选标准是：只要提到他或她的名字，人们就会联想到美国;不管人们喜欢还是憎恨，在别国人的眼里，他们都代表着美国;只有真实的人有资格当选，文艺作品中的人物则无当选资格;当选者必须是“正宗”美国人，卓别林、施瓦辛格虽然对美国的影响很大，但他们都被排除在候选人之外。按照这些标准，最后的评选结果如下：
10罗纳德·里根(Ronald Reagan)
里根是作为美国第四十任总统而为世人所熟知的，但他最初只是一个电台播音员和一位好莱坞电影演员。在他首次入主白宫后不久，便遭到疯狂的朱迪·福斯特影迷的刺杀，而刺客刺杀总统的惟一理由，仅仅是希望引起朱迪·福斯特的注意。逃过一劫后，里根开始全力对付苏联。有人认为，正是里根的“星球大战计划”，使苏联被军备竞赛所拖垮，最终导致了冷战结束。在美国逐渐转向重商主义的年代后，里根一直试图向世界表明：美国就是世界的中心。
名言：“伟大的美利坚应该从事与自己相配的事业。”
9海明威(Ernest Hemingway)
海明威在第一次世界大战期间做过救护车司机，还是西班牙内战和二战期间的战地记者。他的几部著作描写了自己作为一个美国人在20世纪二十年代流亡的经历、在非洲打猎的体验以及在古巴海边钓鱼的感受。精炼直截的文学风格成为他的商标。海明威的作品赢得过普利策奖和诺贝尔文学奖。他最终选择用自杀结束生命。他是美国历史上最伟大的文学巨匠之一。
名言：“所有的罪恶都始于清白。”
8弗兰克·西纳特拉(Frank Sinatra)
弗兰克·西纳特拉是最受人欢迎的美国歌手。在他还是一名体育记者的时候，他开始选择将歌唱作为自己的第二职业，1942年开始了独唱生涯。他的歌曲感情真挚，极受乐迷的欢迎。后来，西纳特拉与萨米·戴维斯迪恩·马丁、卓依·比绍普以及皮特·劳福特一起，成立了一个娱乐组织“老鼠帕克”。作为20世纪最伟大的演艺人士，西纳特拉有理由成为美国人的精神偶像。
名言：“朋友不要强求。”
7詹姆斯·迪恩(James Dean)
詹姆斯·迪恩在加利福尼亚学习表演和法律时，偶然在一个电视节目中表演了一次，便走红起来，随后他离开加利福尼亚去了纽约，在百老汇名声大噪。他轻柔自然的表演打动了华纳兄弟娱乐公司，他们与迪恩签了拍电影的协议。到1955年车祸去世之前，他一共演出了3部影片，其中两部是在迪恩死后才开始放映。《伊甸园以东》、《没有动机的叛变》和《巨人》赢得了广泛的好评，让美国人首次看到了“另一种风格”的表演。艺术家沃赫尔·安迪称，迪恩“是我们那个年代被损坏却又美丽心灵的代表”。
名言：“人类因梦想而永生;失去梦想，生与死无异。”
6迈克尔·乔丹(Michael Jordan)
成为迈克尔·乔丹式的人物，是所有美国人的梦想。迈克尔·乔丹来自纽约的布鲁克林区，后来进入北卡罗莱纳大学学习，在那里，他的篮球天赋开始显现。加盟芝加哥公牛队后，乔丹率队6次获得NBA总冠军，5次赢得最有价值球员(MVP)的称号。两度宣布退役，又两度宣布复出，最终于从华盛顿奇才队退役。据估计，截止，飞人乔丹的财产总数为4亿200万美元。乔丹是美国最伟大的篮球运动员。
名言：“我可以接受失败，但无法接受放弃。”
5马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King)
马丁·路德·金是个极其聪明的学生，在演说方面也很有天赋，小时候就立志要成为一个牧师。在考入莫尔豪斯大学后，他选择了克鲁泽神学院。在听说了有关印度英雄甘地的故事后，他为甘地的和平抵抗方式着迷。
黑人罗萨·派克斯在公共汽车上拒绝让座给一个白人，马丁公开支持罗萨，他也因此成了种族主义者的目标，他的房子还因此而被炸毁。但这丝毫没有吓倒马丁，他继续为废除种族隔离制度而四处奔走。他积极倡导民权运动，呼吁美国转变歧视黑人的观念。1968年被暗杀。
名言：“一个人如果一直没有找到值得他为之献出生命的东西，那么他就没必要再活下去了。”
4约翰·韦恩(John Wayne)
一次事故使“公爵”的橄榄球事业终结后，他被迫离开大学。在没有被福克斯电影公司注意之前，韦恩只是在公司中干一些杂活。由于在一部出演主角的影片中演出不成功，但开始出现在一些低成本预算的影片中。使韦恩大获成功的影片是由约翰·福特执导的《驿站马车》(1939)。从此，他便以演出西部片和战争片中的硬汉而出名。韦恩是那个年代所有美国人的化身：诚实、有个性。
名言：“我从不相信一个不喝酒的男人。”
3埃尔维斯·普莱斯利(Elvis Presley)
1935年1月，埃尔维斯出生在密西西比州图珀洛的一个穷人家，并在这个家庭中长大。高中毕业后，他为母亲录了一首歌，却不料引起一个三流制作商的注意。埃尔维斯录制了几首乡村摇滚独唱歌曲，这些歌曲在当地风靡一时。1956年，埃尔维斯因在《爱德·沙利文》节目中的表演而风靡美国。尽管由于电影《夏威夷》和《码头工人》的成功，他成为电影明星，但他更是以“摇滚乐之王”而为我们熟知的。1977年8月16日，他被发现死在孟斐斯的家中。“猫王”埃尔维斯死后，他的画像在食品店、加油站以及餐厅随处可见，歌迷们无法接受埃尔维斯已去世的事实。
名言：“我真的对音乐一无所知。依我所见，你们千万不要搞音乐。”
2玛丽莲·梦露(Marilyn Monroe)
梦露的幼年是在继父的谩骂声中度过的，后来，她去做了泳装模特，直到最后成为美国历史上最成功的电影明星之一。她的一生都具有传奇色彩，她与棒球大师迪马乔的结合，就是梦露传奇色彩的集中体现。她在电影《绅士偏爱金发女郎》和《有人喜欢热》中的表演使人们相信，梦露的表演天赋与她的美貌一样名副其实。1962年8月5日，玛丽莲·梦露在家中自杀。玛丽莲·梦露的经历说明，有志者事竟成。
名言：“性是天性的一部分。我喜欢天性。”
1约翰·肯尼迪 (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
肯尼迪家族被认为是美国历史上惟一的“皇族”。人们这样认为并不是由于肯尼迪家族的财富和政治地位，而是因为围绕在这个独特家族周围的高贵荣耀。从“二战”时的一个海军军官，到成为美国历史上第35任总统，约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪是这种荣耀的化身。
肯尼迪废止了种族隔离制度，建立了和平军队，并成功解决了古巴导弹危机。不幸的是，肯尼迪于1963年11月在达拉斯遇刺身亡。作为一个充满精力、富于吸引力的总统，他无疑是美国精髓的代表。
名言：“不要问你的国家为你做了什么，而要问一问你为你的国家做了什么。”
十位入选者之外，评选者还提及西尔威斯特·史泰龙(Sylvester Stallone)。史泰龙并不是他那个时代中最伟大的演员，但他塑造的所有最著名的角色，都是美国人心目中的英雄。他的电影在世界各地也大受欢迎。《第一滴血》中的兰博，巩固了他动作片明星的地位。在世界许多国家的人们看来，史泰龙就是美国。
名言：“在人的一生中，如果出现生死抉择的时刻，他必须选择流芳千古，否则，他就白活了。”
在美国开车必须知道的五件事情
出门行路，一定要注意交通安全。不论是司机也好，行人也好，大家都希望“高高兴兴上班去，平平安安回家来”。今天，我们就来看看美国的一些交通规则，除了一些细枝末节外，其实和国内的交规差不太多。
1. Always buckle up. 永远系好安全带。Buckle up指的是把安全带系好，还可以说fasten the seatbelt. 一般来讲，各个州都要求司机和司机副座上的乘客系安全带，不过现在很多州更为严格，要求普通轿车的所有乘客都要系安全带，否则被发现就要受处罚。记得我曾看过一个公益广告，警察出来说：“If you don’t buckle up, you’d better listen up.” 意思就是“如果你不系安全带，那么你最好听清楚了。” Listen up这个词组在口语里也很常用，它被用来提醒大家的注意，就是“听好了!”的意思。例如老师要宣布一件很重要的事情，但是班上乱哄哄的，老师就会说：“Listen up!”。
2. Put your children in back! 把您的孩子放在后座上!美国法律规定，12岁以及12岁以下的儿童一律要坐在后座上，而且4岁以下的婴幼儿要使用特殊的座位装置(我们在谈论车子的文章里，曾经提到过)。这是因为，儿童的骨质比较柔软，遇到危险紧急刹车，容易受到更大的冲击。
3. Never drunk drive! 决不酒后驾驶!美国的醉酒问题很严重，酒后开车出的事故也比其他原因的事故多。据说，每五个美国人中，有三个在他的一生中，都会遇到酒后开车的大大小小的事故(这可是我交规笔试的一道题)。各州对于酒后驾驶的处罚也非常严厉，除了罚款，扣分，试情形还要坐牢。你可能还会听说DUI Law，也就是Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol，这条法规禁止在使用毒品，造成神志不清醒的药物和酒精的情况下开车，抓到了，处罚也非常严厉。很多美国人有去酒吧喝酒聊天的习惯，所以交通部门建议最好有一个人保持清醒以便驾驶。另外，如果真的喝多了，有些酒吧也会免费提供出租车送你回家。
4. You always have to stop at a stop sign. 在停车标志前，你永远要停。Stop sign，停车标志，通常在比较小的路口出现，它起到了红绿灯的作用。这些路口因为比较小，车辆来往少，所以没有必要设置红绿灯，但是为了安全起见，车子开到路口，停一下，看看十字路口有没有行人车辆，再继续行驶。如果有，那么一定是先让行人，车辆就本着先来后到的原则了。
5. In a crosswalk, pedestrians have the right of way. 在过街人行道上，行人有先行权。这当然不是说，这边绿灯了，行人还要通过。基本在各个十字路口，都有指示行人的红绿灯，行人也都按照这个红绿灯的指示行动。有时候，由于行人比较少，这种红绿灯不是次次都变绿。因此，当你要过马路的时候，会发现路边的柱子上有一个按钮，按一下，控制中心就知道有人要过马路，过一会儿绿灯就会亮。如果你开车过十字路口，有行人过马路，无论何种情况，行人都有先行权，这在美国是起码的常识，也是一个讲文明公民的标志。
英美货币小知识
(一)美国货币
美国货币由美元dollar和美分cent组成，one dollar等于100 cents。其纸币bill有一、二、五、十、二十、五十和一百美元等面值;硬币(coin)有一美分(或a penny)、五美分(或a nickel)、十美分(或a dime)和二十五美分(或a quarter)等。在数字前加$表示美元，如：$500表示五百美元;在数字后加C表示美分，如：50C表示50美分;表示由美元和美分组成的钱数时，常用$表示，如：$6.50。
(二)英国货币
英国货币由英镑(pound)和便士(pence)组成，也分为纸币notes和硬币coins。纸币有面值五镑、十镑、二十镑和五十镑;而硬币，即金属货币有一便士、二便士、五便士、十便士、二十便士、五十便士和一镑等。若指一定数额的硬币，通常用piece，如2P(pieces);随身带的硬币可用change表示。100 pence等于1 pound。在数字前加￡表示多少英镑，如：￡800为800英镑;在数字后加P表示多少便士，如：5P表示五便士(penny的复数);表示由英镑和便士组成的钱数时通常不说出pence，如3镑50便士可说成￡3.50或three pounds and fifty。
英美重要节日一览
January
1 New Year's Day (新年)
15 Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday
19 Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday Observed
February
12 Lincoln's Birthday
14 Valentine's Day (情人节) 16 President's Day
22 Washington's Birthday
25 Ash Wednesday
March
8 International Women's Day(国际妇女节)
17 St. Patrick's Day
April
1 April Fools Day (愚人节)
5 Palm Sunday
10 Good Friday
Arbor Day (植树节)
11 Passover
12 Easter (复活节)
17 Orthodox Holy Friday
19 Orthodox Easter
22 Secretaries Day
22 Earth Day
May
6 Nurses'Day
7 National Day of Prayer
10 Mother's Day (母亲节)
16 Armed Forces Day
25 Memorial Day Observed
30 Memorial Day
June
14 Flag Day (美国国旗纪念日)
21 Father's Day
July
4 Independence Day (美国独立日)
August
2 Friendship Day
September
7 Labor Day
Grandparents Day
17 Citizenship Day
21 Rosh Hashanah
30 Yom Kippur
October
11 National Children's Day
12 Columbus Day
16 National Boss Day
17 Sweetest Day
24 United Nations Day
31 Halloween (万圣节前夜)
November
3 Election Day
11 Veterans Day (退伍军人节)
26 Thanksgiving
December
14 First Day of Hanukkah
25 Christmas (圣诞节)
26 First Day of Kwanzaa
篇4：20世纪美国反托拉斯垄断的第一枪
20世纪美国反托拉斯垄断的第一枪
――北方证券公司诉美国（1904）
十九世纪后半叶，资本主义放任自流，蓬勃发展，“美国梦”展示出全新图画。新兴的“金元帝国”制造出摩根、卡耐基、洛克菲勒这样一批亿万富翁，形成了不可一世的庞大财团。但是，“创造财富”的神话常常演变为“掠夺财富”的现实。托拉斯[2]这一独特的垄断形式的出现，演绎了大鱼吃小鱼的故事，独立的中小企业沦为工业巨子、金融寡头的美味佳肴。诞生于自由竞争之中的垄断侵害了自由竞争本身。弱小的群体寄希望政府的保护，美国最高法院再次走上了历史的前台。它在北方证券公司诉美国一案中的判决，多少遏制垄断蔓延的势头。
（一）铁路垄断《反托拉斯法》出台
19世纪70－80年代，美国铁路发展迅速，垄断也随之形成。一方面，为抓住大的客户，铁路部门开始用“回扣”的办法，来吸引和稳住谷物商、屠宰业主、煤炭商等大客户。对铁路来说，这一做法稳定并提高了货运量；对运输大户来说，大大降低其商品的运输费用，减少了成本，以赢得更大的市场份额和更高的利润。另一方面，铁路又通过抬高小城市运费、支线铁路运费和零散商品运费的方法，来弥补其支付“回扣”的损失。实际上，就是通过欺小扶大，拉强压小的办法，达到收支平衡，甚至谋取暴利。因此，铁路成为商业运营的“调节阀”，对大户，它意味着快捷、方便、低廉的服务，对小户，它代表着傲慢、限制、昂贵的代价。对于这种歧视，没有人加以质疑，因为根据当时法律，铁路大亨们拥有凭借自己的财产去做他们乐意做的一切权力。1895年的一篇法律论文指出：“任何国家都不存在如此不受限制的公司权力”。“这是公司的时代”。[3]
1882年7月，铁路巨头们聚会新英格兰的避暑胜地，就煤炭进入市场的数量和价格达成了协议，操纵市场价格。它直接的`恶果是1883年秋，纽约爆发了煤炭价格暴涨和波及广泛的抢购狂潮。不仅如此，所有依赖于铁路运输的东西：木材、肉类、蔬菜、水果、羊毛、棉花都被垄断控制着。中小农场主们更是发现，铁路贵族拥有了巨大的货仓以囤积谷物，他们只能面对两难的选择：或者支付居高不下的铁路运费；或者付出储存粮食的高额代价。可怜的农户只得眼看着自己辛勤的劳动果实成为铁路大亨的囊中物。当时的一位观察家写到：作为农民，他“孤苦零丁，软弱、穷困、无知，要打10美元或100美元的官司，他必须自己去单挑富有的铁路公司。”[4]
农户的不幸遭遇，市场的动荡，使地方上有良知的官员和国会议员感受到了巨大的压力。政府开始取证调查，铁路部门是“如何制定运费”的有关听证会也在各级议会展开。但是，在早期资本主义放任自由的时代，禁止政府干预市场经济活动成为一项金科玉律。当州和地方政府试图通过规范铁路运费的法案时，联邦法院的法官们便出面干预了：各州不享有干预州际商务的权利，只有国会才拥有这项立法权限。
显然，解决问题的“钥匙”掌握在国会手中。1887年，国会通过了《州际商务法》（the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887），它禁止在铁路运输中支付“回扣”；三年后，国会又通过了共和党参议员谢尔曼提出《谢尔曼反托拉斯法》（the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890），根据宪法授予国会的管制州际商务的权力，该法规定任何限制州际商务和对外贸易的垄断和阴谋垄断的商业契约、行为和联盟都是违法的。谢尔曼不无担心地指出，如果不控制垄断，美国人最终会面对“一个控制了一切生产的托拉斯和一个决定了一切生活必需品价格的主人”。[5]这一法律宣示了美国的一个基本国策：维持公平的市场竞争。但通过法律是一回事，执行法律又是一回事。工业巨头和铁路大亨千方百计地回避法律约束，钻法律的空子，而保守的法庭也常常站在他们一边。在著名的“美国诉奈特公司”（United States v. E. C. Knight, 1895）中，最高法院以8比1判决说，在宾夕法尼亚州内进行的糖业托拉斯的合并，并没有直接涉及州际商务，因此不属于联邦政府管辖范围。至于这家控制了全国95%白糖产生的糖业托拉斯，是否只在宾州销售它的产品，则不关最高法院的事。最高法院后来承认，这一判决使“反托拉斯法成为一纸空文”。[6]
法律的神圣性和权威性就这样遭到了嘲弄。一位幽默作家挖苦说：对百姓来说，《谢尔曼法》是堵石墙，但对大公司来说，是座凯旋门。但有一个政治家却决心恢复人们对反托拉斯法的信心，他就是刚刚上任的年轻总统西奥多・罗斯福（老罗斯福,Theodore Roosevelt）。19，美国总统威廉・麦金莱（William McKinley, 1897－1901年任职）遇刺身亡，老罗斯福作为副总统继任。他是美国当时最年轻的总统，任职时还不到43岁。
老罗斯福虽然出身于新英格兰的名门望族，却相当平易近人。他热爱自然，只身在美国西部置地放牧，并成为现代环境保护运动的先驱。在他任总统期间，美国建立起第一批国家公园，其中包括闻名遐尔的黄石公园。老罗斯福文能写书，出版过《赢得西部》史书4卷；武能打仗，18美西战争爆发时，他辞去助理海军部长的高位，从西部牛仔中拉起一支队伍，号称“美国第一义勇骑兵团”，以上校团长身份率领他们杀向西班牙控制的古巴，大获全胜，赢得了“彪悍骑手”的美誉。
老罗斯福抱负远大，但却扎扎实实。既当过民选的州议员和纽约州州长，也干过吃力不讨好的基层公务员。在纽约市任警察局局长期间，正值美国“黑幕揭发者”（MUCKRAKERS，也称耙粪者）积极推动市政改革，他与这些改革家密切联系，努力整顿城市治安，并由此对下层百姓的苦难有了切身的体验，产生了一种历久不渝的同情。
在主政纽约时，老罗斯福大刀阔斧推行革新，反腐倡廉，锐意进取，赢得了民众的支持，却得罪了当地腐败的共和党党魁党棍。他们利用政党机器，把老罗斯福推出去担任没有实权的副总统，以便重新控制纽约政治。结果，此举反而成全了老罗斯福的抱负，才当半年副总统就继任总统，让共和党的保守派叫苦不迭，大骂“那个该死的牛仔竟然当上了合众国总统”。[7]e.&= k { (? OAm g c^MzBUTHRYJ~ _ywww.66wen．comHA|Mi% (FhaP _ Q3 *&A[ }x
保守派当然有理由仇视他。因为老罗斯福深信，总统的一项重要职责是保护公众利益，限制和打击各种特殊利益集团。他认为美国最大的威胁是两种人：暴民和富豪。暴民可能会被政客蛊惑人心的煽动而造反；富豪则缺乏起码的做人道德，他们永不满足的贪婪只能刺激暴民，引发社会**。
当时美国富豪贪得无厌，为了获得财富，他们不择手段地垄断市场，扰乱市场秩序。作为公平竞争哲学的信奉者，老罗斯福对垄断行为恨之入骨，对法院的无所作为深恶痛觉。当上总统后，他毫便拿出牛仔彪悍的劲头，打算跟托拉斯的巨头们干上一仗，恢复人们对反托拉斯法的信心。千夫所指的铁路巨头成为他最好的目标，而1901年春，一场围绕铁路收购的证券风暴正好为他提供了千载难逢的良机。论文20世纪美国反托拉斯垄断的第一枪来自WWW.66WEN.COM免费论文网
（二）两强相争 北方证券出笼
这场证券风暴的主角是两个铁路大王：詹姆斯・ 希尔（JAMES. J .HILL）和 哈里曼（E.H.HARRIMAN）。希尔是个白手起家的铁路大王，14岁就投身商海，几经挣扎，最终圆了他的“美国梦”，成为亿万富翁。拥有将近三分之一美国西北铁路网（号称大北方GREAT NORTHERN）后，他仍不满足，因为他的目标是吞并美国西北部全部的铁路网络。为此，他开始在股票市场上收购相关铁路（伯灵顿铁路）的股票。为了支付高昂的收购费用，希尔把他购得的大部分股票转售给华尔街最大的金融财团－－摩根财团控制的“北太平洋铁路公司”(NORTHERN PACIFIC)。
这一做法引起了哈里曼的不满。哈里曼控制着西北部一半以上的铁路网，跟希尔是死对头。希尔的做法简直就是在太岁头上动土，应对了一句老话：不是冤家不聚头。在摩根财团的对手洛克菲勒财团的支持下，哈里曼遂大肆收购“北太平洋铁路公司”股票，试图实现对“伯灵顿铁路”股票权的间接控制。股票市场上的竞买现象引起了股价的剧烈波动，“北太平洋”股价由当年初的每股85美元激升至5月份的每股160美元；随着摩根和希尔反收购行动的介入，股价更是飚升至每股几百美元。股价的急剧上涨助长了证券市场的投机行为，买空卖空愈演愈烈，特别是随着大量“热钱”涌向“北太平洋”股票，人们纷纷抛售其它股票来套现，转买“北太平洋”股票。结果，转瞬之间，几乎所有其它证券价格急速下跌，大量财富在这场铁路巨头之间的股权激战中灰飞烟灭。小户和散户股民，叫苦不迭，哭天呛地，大骂“铁路强盗该死”。
为了避免两败俱伤，“华尔街大王”摩根提出了一项全新垄断计划，以整合希尔和哈里曼的力量，组建一个超级托拉斯“北方证券公司”（THE NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY）。这个庞然大物在新泽西州注册，持有97%的“北太平洋”股票和75%的“大北方”股票，将两个铁路网均纳入其中。就这样，垄断的利益从此取代了恶性的竞争，昔日的冤家握手言欢。摩根、洛克菲勒、希尔和哈里曼这些金融和铁路巨头们共同掌握了世界上最庞大的铁路联合体，由垄断所产生的巨大利益也将由此源源而来。
（三）总统出马 《反托拉斯法》重生
北方证券公司的出现，标志美国铁路垄断达到了颠峰。但物极必反，铁路巨头在证券市场上的兴风作浪，引起了老罗斯福总统的高度关注。他敏锐地意识到，北方证券公司的出现只是一个先兆，它不仅能够垄断美国西北部所有的铁路，而且还可能完全控制全美的铁路，成为全国贸易和经济的桎梏。如果这一切成为现实，社会财富将加速集中到像摩根、洛克菲勒、希尔、哈里曼这些“强盗大王”手中。更重要的是，这种垄断最终将摧毁美国人最珍视的机会均等、公平竞争的价值观。
经过充分的准备，老罗斯福吹响了反托拉斯的号角。他表示：“在对付我们称之为托拉斯的大公司方面，我们绝对必须拿定主意，按渐变而不是革命的办法行事。・・・・・・我们的目的不是要取消法人公司；正相反，这些大集合体乃是近代工业制度不可避免的一种发展。・・・・・・我们要想调节和监督这些公司，就须先在我们的思想中明白确定，我们不是攻击它们，而是力求消除他们的一切弊害，否则我们就做不出任何有益的事情。我们对这些公司并无敌意，只不过是决心要使它们经营得有利于公众。”[8]基于这一出发点，罗斯福决心恢复《谢尔曼法》的生命力。
篇5：美国节日介绍英语演讲稿
美国节日介绍英语演讲稿
篇一：美国文化之节日介绍演讲稿(英文版)
The American Heritage Festival
1. United States is a cultural powers. Short but rich history and unique it makes for an ethnic melting pot, and bring together the
world's culture. If the thought of this huge social and human treasures of get in, we may wish to take a short cut, that is, on his holiday to be a general understanding of the culture, because it is a microcosm of the Festival.
2. Day(情人节 情人节)(February Valentine's Day(情人节)(February 14)
St. Valentine's Day is an informal observance (非正式的庆祝) of a lover's holiday. Today, the observance has no connection with the many legendary (传说的.) St. Valentines, and holds no religious significance. The day is observed with exchanges of love notes and cards, and other tokens(标志) of affection(感情), called valentines. The symbols of the heart and Cupid(丘比特) are common in cards, decorations of store windows,candies and other paraphernalia(随身物品). Easter（复活节） Easter（复活节）
(The first Sunday after the first full moon following
the vernal equinox(春分)) Easter is important for several reasons. Primarily(主要) it is a time for families to get together much like Christmas or Thanksgiving. They usually have a large meal and serve traditional（传统的） dishes such as baked ham(火腿). In addition, there is a commercial aspect(商业特征) of Easter. It is a time when manufacturers(制造商) of candy and chocolate can sell their products. They make chocolates in the shape of eggs and rabbits since those things are associated with（与……联系） spring and Easter. Finally, Easter is a religious holiday. Many Americans go to church on that day if they are Christians to celebrate the resurrection(耶 酥复活) of Christ. Symbols(象征) which we see at Easter are chicks, flowers, eggs, baskets for children to dye Easter eggs and then to hide them. Other children look for the eggs and collect them in baskets. People often get new clothes for spring for around Easter
3.November 1, Halloween is the traditional festival of the West. Halloween, namely 31 October night, children enjoy a good time to play. As ni
ght fell, the children put on colorful costume, and wore a mask of all sorts, put on a pumpkin lamp
ran out to play.Packed with parity, the demons were dressed up as children of mobile pumpkin lamp, ran to a neighbor's door, intimidation, like shouting: “to trick or treat” and “give money or to eat.” If the adults do not have to change for the hospitality they candy, and those naughty boy just talk the talk: well, you're not playing entertaining, I you.
4. November 4th Thursday is Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving Day, the United States the whole fun, people follow the customs of the prayer of Thanksgiving to the Church, and rural towns are nearby, theatrical performances or sporting events, etc. Continues for another year of relatives will return from many, one family luck, taste the delicious Thanksgiving Turkey.
5. 25 December Christmas is America's largest and most exciting Festival. Christmas night the most interesting activities to a few “harki”, the symbol of the angels to report to the shepherds of Bethlehem on the outskirts of Messiah's good news. Late in the season, in a church choir from door to door to come to their doorstep in chorus to sing Christmas carols. So the family out to join the chorus. Songs, the everyone invited to host House,refreshments. Laughing, the choir to sing someone's House, the owner of a home is often accompanied by the “harki”
team growing, they sung from the houses, joyful atmosphere continue to increase, and often continue until dawn.
Christmas is the most typical Christmas tree decorations, people in a small FIR or pine filled with gifts and lantern, the top of the tree with a big star.
篇6：20世纪的最大变化英语作文
20世纪的最大变化英语作文
There have been many changes ,both technological and cultural, in the twentieth century. I believe that one stands out above the rest :advances in medical science. The changes in medical science go together with the changes in technological and cultural areas. One can move ahead only with the help of the others. We can see the results of medical advances in three areas: development of vaccines and antibiotics, expanded access to health care , and improved surgical techniques.
When medical researchers learned how to prevent disease and stop it from spreading, the quality of life for many people around the world improved. Today smallpox is a forgotten disease and vaccinations are no longer required. Polio is under control and the vaccine is widely available . The development of penicillin has helped many people recover from serious illness.
Although health care is not universal even in developed countries, it is much better than it used to be. Local clinics, visiting nurses and specially hospitals have all improved the health care for our communities.
If you should be unfortunate and require surgery : you are still lucky to have the surgery today rather than even ten years ago. Now with microscopic and laser surgery, operations are more efficient. You spend less time in the hospital and you recover faster.
I can’t think of any other change that has affected the lives of so many people. Our health is important to all of us. We all are thankful for advances in the area of medical science.
篇7：美国英语作文
People who go to a formal Western dinner party for the first time may be surprised by table manners in Western culture.Knowing them will help you make a good impression.Having good table manners means knowing,for example,how to use knives and forks,when to drink a toast and how to behave at the table.Beside your napkin you will find a small bread roll and three glasses—one for white wine,one for the red wine,and one for water.There are two pairs of knives and forks on the table,forks on the left and knives in the right of the plate.When you see two spoons,the big one id for the suop and the samll one for the dessert.The knife and fork that are closest to your plate are a litte bit bigger than the ones beside them.When you sit down at the table, you can take your napkin, unfold it and put it on your lap.In Chinese you sometime get a hot,damp cloth to clean your face and face and hands,whinch,however,is nat the custom in Western countries.
Dinner start with a small dish, which is often called a starter.Sime people pray before they start eating , and other people may keep silent for a moment. Then you can say“Enjoy your meal”to each other and everybody start eating.For the starter,which you eat with the smaller pair,you keep the knife in your right hand and the fork in your left.After the starter you will get a bowl of soup—but only one boel of soup and never ask for a seconf serving.
The next dish is the main course.Many Westerners think the chicken breast with its tender white flesh is the best part of the bird. Some people can use their fingers when they eating chicken or other birds,but never touch beef or other meat in bones.It is polite to finish eating everthing on your plate,so don't take more food than you need.
At table ,you should try to speak quietly and smile a lot,but do not laugh all the time.
Most Westerners like soft drink if they will drive home.Many of them drink white or red wine with the food.When drinking to someone's health,you raise your glasses,but the glasses should not touch. The custom of toasting in some parts of China is to finish the drink at once,but Westerners usually take only a sip.For drinking during a dinner,the best advic is never to drink too much.
Table manners change over time.They follow the fashion of the day .Beside,table manners are only important at formal dinner parties.If you're not sure what to do ,you can always follow your hosts.Although good manners always make you look good,you do not need to worry about all these rules while having dinner with your friends or family.
【【热门】美国英语作文集锦九篇】
篇8：美国英语作文
Recently, the movie American Captain is very hot, the third episode has been brought into the screen.
Since I see the first episode, this great hero catches my attention all the time.
he is so handsome and brave, what’s more, he fights for the justice, which makes him a charming person.
I will support this movie, American Captain is my hero.
最近,《美国队长》这部电影很热,第三部也已经搬上了屏幕。
自从我看到了第一部,这个伟大的英雄就一直吸引着我的注意力。
他是如此的英俊和勇敢,更为重要的是,他为正义而战,这使得他成为一个充满魅力的人。
我会支持这部电影,美国队长是我的英雄。
【【实用】美国英语作文集锦六篇】
篇9：美国英语作文
The USA is the third most popular destination in the world, with over 45 million people travelling to the country every year. They’ve got good reason, too – few other places offer such a wide variety of activities, geographical diversity and rich, if brief, history.
America’s major cities buzz with energy and excitement, from cosmopolitan New York City, historic Boston, glamorous Los Angeles and gritty Chicago to extrovert Las Vegas and sultry New Orleans.
Venture out of the urban centres and you’ll find backwater gems full of small-town charm, tucked between miles and miles of open highway and spectacular scenery.
The landscape changes with dizzying speed, from the vast deserts of Nevada to soaring s-topped mountains, lush forests and white-sand beaches.
America is one of the easiest places to travel, whatever your plans. With fantastic transport services and a multitude of resources for tourists, visitors are never far away from high quality and reasonably priced accommodation, or somewhere decent to grab a bite.
【有关美国英语作文集合7篇】
篇10：美国英语作文
People who go to a formal Western dinner party for the first time may be surprised by table manners in Western culture.Knowing them will help you make a good impression.Having good table manners means knowing,for example,how to use knives and forks,when to drink a toast and how to behave at the table.Beside your napkin you will find a small bread roll and three glasses—one for white wine,one for the red wine,and one for water.There are two pairs of knives and forks on the table,forks on the left and knives in the right of the plate.When you see two spoons,the big one id for the suop and the samll one for the dessert.The knife and fork that are closest to your plate are a litte bit bigger than the ones beside them.When you sit down at the table, you can take your napkin, unfold it and put it on your lap.In Chinese you sometime get a hot,damp cloth to clean your face and face and hands,whinch,however,is nat the custom in Western countries.
Dinner start with a small dish, which is often called a starter.Sime people pray before they start eating , and other people may keep silent for a moment. Then you can say“Enjoy your meal”to each other and everybody start eating.For the starter,which you eat with the smaller pair,you keep the knife in your right hand and the fork in your left.After the starter you will get a bowl of soup—but only one boel of soup and never ask for a seconf serving.
The next dish is the main course.Many Westerners think the chicken breast with its tender white flesh is the best part of the bird. Some people can use their fingers when they eating chicken or other birds,but never touch beef or other meat in bones.It is polite to finish eating everthing on your plate,so don't take more food than you need.
At table ,you should try to speak quietly and smile a lot,but do not laugh all the time.
Most Westerners like soft drink if they will drive home.Many of them drink white or red wine with the food.When drinking to someone's health,you raise your glasses,but the glasses should not touch. The custom of toasting in some parts of China is to finish the drink at once,but Westerners usually take only a sip.For drinking during a dinner,the best advic is never to drink too much.
Table manners change over time.They follow the fashion of the day .Beside,table manners are only important at formal dinner parties.If you're not sure what to do ,you can always follow your hosts.Although good manners always make you look good,you do not need to worry about all these rules while having dinner with your friends or family.
【实用的美国英语作文汇编九篇】
篇11：美国英语作文
The USA is the third most popular destination in the world, with over 45 million people travelling to the country every year. They’ve got good reason, too – few other places offer such a wide variety of activities, geographical diversity and rich, if brief, history.
America’s major cities buzz with energy and excitement, from cosmopolitan New York City, historic Boston, glamorous Los Angeles and gritty Chicago to extrovert Las Vegas and sultry New Orleans.
Venture out of the urban centres and you’ll find backwater gems full of small-town charm, tucked between miles and miles of open highway and spectacular scenery.
The landscape changes with dizzying speed, from the vast deserts of Nevada to soaring s-topped mountains, lush forests and white-sand beaches.
America is one of the easiest places to travel, whatever your plans. With fantastic transport services and a multitude of resources for tourists, visitors are never far away from high quality and reasonably priced accommodation, or somewhere decent to grab a bite.
【【热门】美国英语作文锦集8篇】
篇12：美国英语作文
今年2月下旬，我以一名学生的身份，随学校的访问团在美国参观交流了两个星期。在此期间，我领略了美国的繁华，参加了不少有意义的活动，并有幸同美国学生一起度过了数天愉快的学校生活。其中，有这么一堂外语课给我留下的印象最深。
那是在美国Lakeside School所上的第一堂课，它无疑是一堂地道的英语课，但同时也是一堂奇特的英语课。
教室的模样很特别，乍一看，实在不像个教室，反而像一个小会议厅。十多个学生围坐在圆桌旁，各做各的一份儿事，有聊天的，有看书的，还有吃“早点”的。不时地看一下教室上方的大挂钟，还有两分钟就要上课了。趁着这段时间，我环视了教室的四壁，上边贴满了彩图。自己画的吧!不太漂亮，，大都是抽象的。这样的情景似乎十几年前在幼儿园中见到过，这个教室确实使我感到自由、愉快和奇特。
挂钟上的“鸟”叫了，这大概是他们的铃声。学生们停止了闲聊，收起了闲书，加快了进餐速度，好像等待着老师的到来。我把注意力集中到了教室的正门，设想着一个白发碧眼的老年妇女或是一个卷发高个的中年男子走进门来。“Class begins.”声音是从我的身旁传来的。一个年轻的姑娘站立起来，围着圆桌走了一圈儿。学生们都将注意力集中在了她的身上。“难道这个漂亮的年轻姑娘竟是他们的老师?”我想。事实确是如此，她“叽哩呱啦”地讲着话，一双天蓝的眼睛在两条活泼跳动的眉毛的衬托下，显得格外有神。我不太明白她说些什么，但不难看出她正是该英语班的老师。上身穿着一件白色T恤，下身是西部美国人最传统的牛仔裤，一副学生打扮，好不精神。她手中没有拿书，也没有拿笔，取而代之的是一杯咖啡。同学们似乎也没什么教材，当然不会看书，都抬头望着眉飞色舞的老师，听着她所说的，高兴了还插上几句，或者一阵大笑。可能是因为语言障碍吧，我不太懂他们笑些什么，大概他们在谈论一本书，好像这本书是老师昨晚刚看过的，也不知道学生们到底看过这本书没有，一个个都显得特别积极，似乎每人都是评论家一般，争先恐后地发表着自己对该书的看法。学生讨论的时候是无需举手的，你大可以随时随地地发言。只有当老师在做小结的时候，要发言的同学才必须先举手。出乎意料，学生间的讨论竟是这般的热烈。一人话音朱落，另一个又将
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篇13：美国英语作文
June 6th Thursday Sunny
This afternoon a young American friend called Mike came to our school. He visited our lab, library and school factory. At five o'clock he had a free talk with some of my classmates. I was lucky to be one of them.
Mike spoke English slowly and carefully, so we could understand what he said. We talked about our English study for about an hour. Before he left our school, I asked him in English, ”What do you think of our school?“ He answered with a smile, ”Oh, it's wonderful!"
This is the first time for me to talk with a foreigner in English. English is really userful.
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6月6日 星期四 晴
今天下午一位叫迈克的美国朋友来到了我校。他参观了我们的实验室、图书馆和校办工厂。在5点钟他和我班的一些同学座谈，我有幸称为其中的一名。
迈克的英语讲得很慢，很认真，所以我们能听懂他说的话。关于英语学习情况我们聊了大约一个小时。在他离校之前，我用英语问他：“你认为我们学校怎么样？”他面带微笑回答：“好极了！”
这是我第一次用英语同老外谈话，英语真的挺有用。
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篇14：美国英语作文
The Americans are much in love with food. This is part of being American too. Baseball is Americans' national pastime1, but what's a ball game without hot dogs, peanuts2 and Cracker Jacks (sweetened popcorn3)? Hollywood is America's symbol of glamour4 and excitement all over the world, but who would watch a movie in America without asking for an extra large bag of popcorn? And the astronauts took instant orange drink [Tang] with them.
Americans love all kinds of food, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, Greek, French, Japanese and many others. The Americans are in fact
“The UN of Food.”
To get familiar with the American eating custom, one must know two things. First, one must know the sequence5 of service. There is something special in terms of the sequence, or order, of dish service in America compared with ours. Here is the order:
1. Aperitif6—a small cup of alcoholic drink to increase one's appetite7. The host or hostess will ask: “Do you like a cup of aperitif?”
2. Hors d'oeuvre8—some tasty food offered in small quantities at the beginning of a meal.
3. Appetizer —or called starter, it is a small serving of juice, fruit or seafood or something else, at the beginning of a meal, to stimulate9 people's appetite.
4. Now the main course is under way:
a) Soup—it is usually the first course in a dinner.
b) Fish—it is usually served after the soup and before the entree10 in a formal meal.
c) Entree—the third course of a meal, generally it is made up of a hot meat.
d) Savory11—the last course in a formal meal, it is something pleasant to eat but with a salty rather than sweet taste.
5. Dessert12 —sweet food served toward the end of a meal, usually it is a pudding, chocolate cake, or cheese and biscuits sometimes.
6. Coffee—that's the last stage in a formal present-day European and American dinner. It's served either at table or in the living room.
In a family treatment, the above-mentioned No 1-3 stage may be omitted13, though No 4 is the essential part. And the main course generally includes no more than 5 dishes of nutrient14 food. Ostentation15 is never under consideration.
Another thing to mention is that serving oneself from one's own plate is popular in Europe and America, except for the soup and bread which is taken and enjoyed according to one's need.
The second one we must know about the American eating custom is the taboos at table.
(1) Don't circle your plate with your arm. If you do so, you will become the focus16 of the table. Everyone would wonder: “Is there anything wrong with the food?” This may give a false message that you don't like the food or something like that.
(2) Don't push the plate back when finished. Leave it where it was. Do you mean to remind17 the hostess that you've just completed a labor?
(3)Don't lean18 back and announce that “I'm through” or “I'm stuffed19.” Just put the fork and knife quietly across the plate, that's all.
(4) Don't cut up everything before you start to eat. Cut only one or two bites20 at a time.
(5) Never take huge mouthfuls of anything. Do you mean to show how hungry you are? Don't do that! Be gentlemanlike or ladylike.
(6) Don't crook21 your finger when picking up a cup or glass. That looks too affected22, far from ladylike!
(7) Never wear too much lipstick23 to the table. It may stain the napkins24 and look gaudy25 and embarrassing on the rims26 of the cup or glass.
(8) It's never acceptable to reach across the table for anything (a serving dish, for example). If the item you want is not at hand, simply ask for the nearest person for help, like “Mrs. Smith, would you mind passing me the butter (or a dish)?”
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篇15：美国英语作文
On job interviews when first conversing with an individual and when addressing small or
large groups, the first few seconds are critical in setting the tone for how you'll be perceived. If she has an annoying regional accent, uses incorrect grammar, has a limited vocabulary, and if she has an irritatingly sharp piercing voice, sounds whiny or bossy or doesn't articulate her words clearly, it' s an immediate turn-off. This isn't someone who you would hire or proudly introduce to your friends and business associates. This doesn't mean that everyone should try to sound like a professional actor or broadcaster. All of us have qualities unique to our own way of speaking, our individual voiceprint
as distinctive as our fingerprints. Our voice is very personal and an important part of our identity. Some natural characteristics of our voice may be very appealing.
The idea is to take the voice with which you've been gifted and give it the very best sound that you can. With the right type of practice, by paying attention to the quality of your voice and by knowing how to properly express yourself,you' II almost immediately improve your opportunities in job interviews, social situations, in selling, and in running a meeting or addressing groups of people.
Let' s say it again, it all begins with the instrument, your voice. If its sound and quality is flawed and needs improvement, that' s where you start. That' s what everyone hears whether in casual conversation or in making a major speech to a large audience. Pure vowel sounds, articulation, proper breathing, expressive speaking patterns, a pleasing vocal range, naturalness, all these will make you get twice the result with half the effort.
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