acing this audience on the stage, i have the e_citing feeling ofparticipating in the march of history, for what we are facing today is more thana mere competition or contest. it is an assembly of some of china’s mosttalented and motivated people, representatives of a younger generation that arepreparing themselves for the coming of a new century.
i’m grateful that i’ve been given this opportunity, at such a historicmoment, to stand here as a spokesman of my generation and to take a serious lookback at the past __ years, a crucial period for every one of us and for thisnation as well.
though it is only within my power to tell about my personal e_perience, andonly a tiny fragment of it at that, it still
represents, i believe, the root of a spirit which has been essential to meand to all the people bred by the past __ years.
in my elementary years, there was a little girl in the class who workedvery hard but somehow could never do satisfactorily in her lessons.
the teacher asked me to help her, and it was obvious that she e_pected alot from me. but as a young boy, restless, thoughtless, i always tried to evadeher so as to get more time to enjoy myself.
one day before the final e_am, she came up to me and said, "could youplease e_plain t“大学生英语演讲稿中英文：青年人荣誉的标志”来自his to me? i want very much to do betterthis time. " i started e_plaining, and finished in a hurry. pretending not tonotice her still confused eyes, i ran off quickly. nat
surprisingly, she again did very badly in the e_am. and two months later,at the beginning of the new semester, word came of her death of blood cancer. noone ever knew about the little task i failed to fulfill, but i couldn’t forgivemyself. i simply couldn’t forget her eyes, which seem to be asking, "why didn’tyou do a little more to help me, when it was so easy for you? why didn’t youunderstand a little better the trust placed in you, so that i would not have toleave this world in such pain and regret?"
i was about eight or nine years old at that time, but in a way it was thevery starting point of my life, for i began to understand the word"responsibility" and to learn to always do my duties faithfully and devotedly,for the implications of that sacred word has dawned on me: the mutual need andtrust of people, the co-operation and inter-reliance which are the veryfoundation of human society.
later in my life, i continued to e_perience many failures. but never againdid i feel that regret which struck me at the death of the girl, for it makes myheart satisfied to think that i have
