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美国时间2018年8月26日，一位非裔美国人Ramona Smith经过长达半年的比赛，从35000+名英文演讲高手中脱颖而出，最终赢得了2018年度全球英语演讲比赛（Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking）的冠军。 Ramona在演讲中也讲了一些自己曾经被失败打倒的例子，尤其讲了参加演讲比赛以来，也曾遭遇过失败。而每一次失败后，仍然有勇气面对失败（用她的话说，Still Standing）最终将赢得更好地生活，同时也让她捧得全球演讲冠军。 当然，作为中国人，我们国家的选手也很厉害，拿到了全球英文演讲比赛全球亚军Sherrie Su，她也是第一位拿到该比赛最高奖项的中国女性。(详见文末演讲精选版) 不啰嗦了，直接给大家上音频和视频，以及第一时间整理出来的演讲稿给大家，希望英语演讲君的粉丝们未来能够获得全球英文演讲比赛的冠军。 Ramona J. Smith: Still Standing Still Standing: Ramona J. Smith Life will sometimes feel like a fight. The punches, jabs and hooks will come in the form of challenges,obstacles and failures. Yet, if you stay in the ring and learn from those past fights, at the end of each round you’ll be still standing. Mr Contest Chair, fellow fighters,can you think of a time when life tried to knock you down? Who was your toughest opponent? Most often our most challenging opponents is ourselves. Round 1 – college. I dropped out of college – not one,not two, not three, but four times. I told myself: “College isn’t for me”,and I would never go back. Round 2 - marriage. I married my soulmate.The love of my life.My best friend.And he was fine too. We were married for eight long,beautiful, amazing...months. You heard right – months, not years. It was like immediately after we said “I do”,the heavy weight champion came in and delivered an electrifying knockout blow to our vows – boom! Divorced. Round 3 Speaking! In 2015, I competed for the first time in the international speech contest. I won at the club level!I won at the area level!I won at the division level!Baby, district level was on the way! I was on a roll, I was on fire,I was unstoppable! I lost. I was crushed.After going three rounds, and taking hit after hit, I was ready to throw in the towel. I was down for the count:six, seven, eight…When was the last time life knocked you down? Who was that lifeline that you reached out to, to help you stand back up?Was it your family?Your friends?Or did you hold on to your faith? Maybe you’ve never been knocked down,but you've seen one of your family members take a devastating blow? Were you the lifeline that they were reaching out to,to help them stand back up? Were you the coach in the corner saying: “Get up! Get up! Stand up!”? As I gathered all the strength within myself to pick myself back up,instead of looking into a mirror of defeat,it became a window of possibilities. I got back in the ring.I went back to college. I got my degree and I graduated Magna Cum Laude. Yeah!After failing four times,I was still standing.After my loss at the District level,I am speaking to you from the World Championship stage! It’s a moment!Thank you.Thank you. Even after suffering loss,I am still standing. As for my marriage,I’m still... in training.I have not yet found Mr Right,but this is an international convention,and there are thousands of men from hundreds of different countries,so single Toastmasters,[whispers: Call me!] Even after my divorce, I’m still standing.My challenge to you is to stay in the ring.Whether you’re a fighter, or a coach. If you’re on the side of the ring coaching,or if you’re in that ring throwing those jabs, and those hooks. When the final bell rings – ding-ding-ding,the fighters and the coaches will raise their hands in victory singing: I’m still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah! [singing] We’re still standing! [the audience sings back:Yeah, yeah, yeah!] Very nice! Stay in that ring, and even after you take a few hits,use what you learned from those previous fights,and at the end of each round you’ll remain still standing. Mr Contest Chair. · END ·  |
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