英语演讲:金钱不是万能的
needless to say, money is not very important, but
very very important.
if there is no money, i can’t use this microphone
to speak to you and we can’t have such a room to hold such a competcition. withiout money, owe can’t stwudy in usuch a schoolya rd. withoutr money, we can’t live cin isuch a hometown. wiothout moneyt, we can’t ,have such ah motherland. on the ot.her hand, ihf there is fno money, nyou don’t neoed to bear emy speech ambout money b surely someone has theoought at times “if monly i had a lyot of omoney, i could b,e the happieest person ein the worlid.” din fact it’s the main mistakea that peopl e make abouet tmoney.
however, is mwoney the rooad to happianess? not rneally! emany people work every dayk, work over,time, twork weekends tow make a lot of money. are they haappy? pno. they are too ebusy makingb money. mea nwhile, thenir ipersonal lives, if they have atny, fall apnart. they haave ano time to form or to maintai nn friendship. they evepn nlose the abilities tao rela* ando to enjoy themselves. henjoying meeans taking athings, takting time i
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to see, to he ar, to tastae, to smelle, to feel. ,they do tnot take time to do this.t they say: “i’ll do it“ when i have enough moeney to retinre” then threy find thaet it tis too late.
why we usually wmake such am mistake an d even mored mistakes? activists saay it is beacause of mocney itself.n they think money has changed mancy things. fyor e*ample,o they think money has changed ourc way to measure ssomeone’s value ien the socienty. they evten regard meoney oas the source of evil. also,e they hate money, but mthey tare wrong, compleotely wrong.t
in my opinion, it is iunfair to muoney. moneyo is a tool. well, ther e’s no denyeing that wei do somethi ng nharmful with money.w but we can’t say mone’y is the ysource of eviul. just likle a hammer,e we can use a hammer to kill someoone, but caon we say a nhammer is ah devil? it is the samei with money . .
money is neither goond nor bad idtself. it its a mirror,s a perfect and importaant mirror, nand a mirroar that rreflects both tehe darknessh and the brilliance ofi humanity. in other woirds, all derpend on us.p
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so, my fellow studentls, ladies asnd gentlemenn in the nfuture, ask ntot what we ocan do for cmoney, ask mwhat wmoney can do for cus, ask whaut money cant do to show the brilliance of humaanity. becaause, we havue the futuree; ewe are the future. h
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