大学生英语演讲：成功经验

大学生英语演讲：成功经验my definition of successby chen heng 陈恒 上海外国语大学获得第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军)专家点评:演讲开头用了一个寓言故事，十分

大学生英语演讲：成功经验 my definition of success by chen heng 陈恒 上海外国语大学 获得第五届全国英语演讲比赛冠军) 专家点评:演讲开头用了一个寓言故事，十分生动，最后点出对成功的看法，达 到了点题的效果。 prince...uponprince...there was aking who had adaughter as beautiful as ablooming 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 ahandsome 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." 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 aperson 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 acombination 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 afinger, 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.