2020获奖英语演讲稿

<br />2020 获奖英语演讲稿<br />获奖英语演讲稿篇 1<br />　　If There Were No After Life<br />　　Whether there’s afterlife, the answer has never been the same. The atheists deny after life, <br />believing that our life is no more than from the cradle to the grave. They may care about their <br />illustrious names after death; they may feel attached to the affection of their offspring, but they <br />never lay their hopes on their afterlife. They may also say that good will be rewarded with good, <br />and evil with evil, but they don’t really believe any retribution in their after life.<br />　　However, in the religious world or among the superstitious people, the belief in afterlife is <br />very popular. They do not only believe in afterlife, but thousands of reincarnations as well. In the <br />mysterious world, there are the paradise and the hell, the celestial beings and the gods, the <br />Buddha and the Bodhisattvas.<br />　　 Maybe they really believed it, or maybe they just wanted to make use of people ’ s <br />veneration, the ancient emperors always declared that they were the real dragons, the sons of <br />God, while the royal ministers claimed to be the reincarnations of various constellations. But can <br />the stars reincarnate?<br />　　Many people burn incense and kowtow, do good deeds and strive for virtues, not just for <br />the present, but mainly to let God see their sincerity so as to be reborn into a better afterlife, or <br />to achieve the highest enlightenment after several lives of practice. They do believe in afterlife. <br />But I can’ t help asking: Suppose there were no afterlife, would you still do good deeds and <br />strive for virtues? And If God does not see what you are doing, would you still be so upright and <br />selfless? If you work, not for serving the public and liberating the others, but just for a better <br />afterlife of your own, isn’t it a little too selfish? Comparing with this kind of believers, those <br />who don’t believe in afterlife, but still keep doing good deeds, are the most sincere and honest <br />philanthropists, because they do them not for themselves but for other.<br />　　You may wonder if I believe in afterlife. My answer is: I know nothing about my previous life, <br />so I dare not make improper comments on afterlife. But I do hope there’s afterlife! Because our <br />present life is so short that so many things slip away before our proper understanding. I have so <br />many dreams, so many wishes, so many ambitions, as well as so many regrets and concerns. If <br />there were no afterlife, all of them will remain unrealized!<br />　　 I’m not contented with the present commonplace life, I’m very much attached to the <br />affections that should have been mine but have been washed away by the hurrying time, and I <br />yearn for the perfection and maturity if I could start all over again. So believe it or not, I’d rather <br />there were afterlife.<br />　　Translated by Zhang Baodan (Dia...