初中英语阅读拓展名人励志演讲致戴安娜素材.docx

致戴安娜I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock.今天，我作为一个悲恸的家属代表，站在你们面前，站在一个受到震惊的世界面前，站在一个举国哀悼的国度里。We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so. For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they too lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today.我们所有的人都聚集在一起，不仅仅是因为我们渴望表达对戴安娜的敬意，而是因为我们需要这样做。由于她的特殊吸引力，全世界几千万人，甚至没有见过她的人，今天都能够通过电视和收音机参加这个葬礼，他们都感到星期天早晨失去了一个可亲的人。这个事实本身，对戴安娜来说，就是比我今天希望表达的悼词深刻得多的殊荣。Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcend nationality, someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.在全世界，戴安娜是同情心、责任心、风度和美丽的化身，是无私和人道的象征，是维护真正被践踏的权益的旗手，是一个超越国界的英国女孩，是一个带有自然的高贵气质的人，是一个不分阶层的人。在最后一年里，她已经证明，她不需要什么皇家头衔也可以继续发挥她那独特的神奇力量。Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life. We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.借今天这个机会，我们要向你说声谢谢，虽然上天只给了你一半的生命，但是你的榜样照亮了我们的生活。我们常感到像受骗似的，你那样年轻，就离开了我们，然而我们必须学会感恩，你毕竟来过。然而如今你走了我们才真正明白我们失去的是什么。我们要你知道，没有你的日子是多么艰难。We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.一个星期以来，我们全家都生活在痛失亲人的绝望中，惟有你多年慷慨留下的信心和力量才让我们有力量继续走下去。There is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory. There is no need to do so. You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. Indeed, to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor, with a laugh that bent you double. Your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes. Your boundless energy which you could barely contain.人们试图匆匆圣化对你的回忆，没有必要这样做。作为一个有杰出品质的人，你已经站得很高了，没有必要被看作圣人。的确，圣化对你的回忆就是忽视你最本质的东西。无论什么时候，你那奇妙的、带点调皮的、忍俊不禁的诙谐，你那令人难忘的微笑闪烁的眼神，总把生活的欢愉带给别人，你旺盛不竭的精力超过你身体所能承受的限度。But your greatest gift was your intuition and it was a gift you used wisely. This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyze what it was about you that had such a wide appeal we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives.你最大的天赋是天生待人处事的贤淑，这个天赋你运用得恰到好处。你的其他种种的优良品性就是从这个天性衍生出来的。如果我们试着分析你怎么有这样巨大的吸引力，我们就会找到答案，答案就在于你对我们生命中真正重要的东西有同情心。Without your God-given sensitivity we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of AIDS and HIV sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of landmines.如果没有你那天赐的敏感，今天我们对艾滋病病人的痛苦，对无家可归的人的窘境，对麻疯病患者被孤立的感觉，对被地雷随意杀伤的人的不幸，要冷漠得多。Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feeling of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected. And here we come to another truth about her. For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so he could release herself from deep feeling of unworthiness of which her eating disorders were merly a symptom. Th world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability whilst admiring her for her honesty.戴安娜有一次对我说，她内心深处对痛苦的感受使她有可能同那些被社会摈弃的人们往来。这使我们可以看到她身上的另一个事实。不管社会地位多么显赫，多么光彩照人，不管人们怎样颂扬，戴安娜内心始终是一个没有安全感的人，她像孩子似的竭力对别人做点好事，以解脱她内心深处的无价值感，她的饮食失调也是这种忧郁心情的一个表现。全世界都感受到她性格中的这个部分。人们不仅缅怀她的真诚，更缅怀她脆弱的一面。The last time I saw Diana was on July 1, her birthday in London, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a fundraising charity evening. She sparkled of course, but I would rather cherish the days I spent with her in March when she came to visit me and my children in our home in South Africa. I am proud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting President Mandela we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting s single picture of her. That menat a lot to her.我最后一次见到戴安娜是今年7月1日，在伦敦她的生日晚会上。那是很典型的一天，她没有时间同朋友们一起庆贺自己这个特别的日子，而是作为贵宾出席了一个慈善筹款晚会。那天的她无疑光彩夺目，但我更加珍惜今年3月我们在一起的日子，那时她来到南非我的家中，来看我和我的孩子们。我感到骄傲的是，那次她除了同曼德拉总统见面是在公众场合外，我设法不让那些纠缠的记者拍一张照片，她对此感到舒畅。These were days I will always treasure. It was as if we had been transported back to our childhood when we spent such an enormous amount of time together the two youngest in the family. Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents homes with me at weekends. It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre-like life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.这些日子我会永远珍惜，我现在好像又回到了从前，我俩一起生活很多年的日子，我和她是家里最小的两个孩子。她基本上同小时候我心目中的姐姐一样，待我像母亲对待婴孩般慈爱。在学校里和我一起打架，忍受周末与我一同度过往返双亲各自家中的漫长的火车旅行。在童年以后，即便身处复杂奇怪的环境，她总保持完整和自己的真实，这要归功于她冷静的头脑和内心的力量。There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.毫无疑问，她一直在找寻一个新生活方向。她不时说起要离开英国，主要是受不了报纸对她的围攻。我想她始终不明白为什么她的真诚善意会被传媒扭曲嘲弄，为什么周围总有一股永远要把她拉倒的代表传媒的势力，这些确实令人难以理解。My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest is this: a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age. She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys Williams and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here, Diana, on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful depair.我自己唯一的解释，就是真正的善与美对那些位于道德光谱另一端的人来说，是一种威胁。但是，在一切有关戴安娜的嘲讽中，也许最大的讽刺是：一个女孩子，她的名字是古代狩猎女神（Diana），自己最后却成为现代社会最受围剿的一个人。她想要我们今天誓言保护她钟爱的孩子威廉和哈里，免遭相同的命运。戴安娜，我在这里代表你起拆誓，我们决不会让他们遭受那种常常把你逼到绝望落泪的苦难。And beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steerling these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.另外，我代表你母亲和两个姐姐起誓，我们，你的骨肉亲人，将尽一切能力继续走你那极富创意和深具爱心的道路，引导这两个杰出的孩子，让他们的心灵不是束缚在职责和传统中，而是能如你期盼的那样自由地放声歌唱。We fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role but we, like you, recognize the need for them, to experience as many different aspects of life as possible to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. I know you would have expected nothing less from us.我们完全尊重他们出生的传统，我们也常尊重和鼓励他们肩负王室成员的职责。但我们也像你一样，认识到他们需要在尽量多的不同的生活层面上实践，使他们在精神和情感上武装起来，能够面对未来的挑战。我知道你一