宋美龄在美国参议院英语演讲稿

宋美龄在美国参议院英语演讲稿

演讲稿要求内容充实，条理清楚，重点突出。在生活中，演讲稿的使用频率越来越高，演讲稿的注意事项有许多，你确定会写吗？以下是小编为大家整理的宋美龄在美国参议院英语演讲稿，仅供参考，欢迎大家阅读。

the committee appointed by vice president, preceded by the secretary of the senate (edwin a. halsey), and the sergeant at arms (wall doxey), and consisting of mr. barkley, mr. mcnary, mr. connally, mr. capper, and mrs. caraway, entered the chamber at the main door and escorted mme. chiang kai-shek to a seat at the desk immediately in front of the vice president.

(mme. chiang kai-shek was greeted with prolonged applause, senators and guests of the senate rising.)

the vice president. senators, distinguished guests, mme. chiang kai-shek, wife of the generalissimo of the armies of china, will now address you.

address by mme. chiang kai-shek

mr. president, members of the senate of the united states, ladies and gentlemen, i am overwhelmed by the warmth and spontaneity of the welcome of the american people, of whom you are the representatives. i did not know that i was to speak to you today at the senate except to say, “how do you do? i am so very glad to see you, and to bring the greetings to my people to the people of america. however, just before coming here, the vice president told me that he would like to have me say a few words to you.

i am not a very good extemporaneous speaker; in fact, i am no speaker at all; but i am not so very much discouraged, because a few days ago i was at hyde park, and went to the president’s library. something i saw there encouraged me, and made me feel that perhaps you will not expect overmuch of me in speaking to you extemporaneously. what do you think i saw there? i saw many things. but the one thing which interested me most of all was that in a glass case there was the first draft of tone of the president’s speeches, a second draft, and on and on up to the sixth draft. yesterday i happened to mention this fact to the president, and told him that i was extremely glad that he had to write so many drafts when he is such a well-known and acknowledgedly fine speaker. his reply to me was that sometimes he writes 12 drafts of a speech. so, my remarks here today, being extemporaneous, i am sure you will make allowances for me.

the traditional friendship between your country and mine has a history of 160 years. i feel, and i believe that i am now the only one who feels this way, that there are a great many similarities between your people and mine, and that these similarities are the basis of our friendship.

i should like to tell you a little story which will illustrate this belief. when general doolittle and his men went to bomb tokyo, on their return some of your boys had to bail out in the interior of china. one of them later told me that he had to mail out of his ship. and that when he landed on chinese soil and saw the populace running toward him, he just waved his arm and shouted the only chinese word he knew, “mei-kuo, mei-kuo, which means “america, [applause.] literally translated from the chinese it means “beautiful country. this boy said that our people laughed and almost hugged him, and greeted him like a long lost brother. he further told me that the thought that he had come home when he saw our people; and that was the first time he had ever been to china. [applause.]

【翻译】

该委员会由副总统任命，由参议院秘书（埃德温、由巴克利先生、麦克纳里先生、康纳利先生、卡珀先生和卡拉韦夫人组成的武装中士（沃尔·多克西）从正门进入会议厅，护送蒋介石夫人坐在副总统面前的办公桌旁。

（蒋介石夫人受到长时间的掌声欢迎，参议员和参议院来宾起立。）

副总统。参议员们，尊敬的来宾们，中国军队总司令的夫人蒋介石夫人，现在向你们讲话。

蒋介石夫人致辞

总统先生，美国参议院的议员们，女士们，先生们，你们是美国人民的代表，我对他们的热情和自发性的欢迎感到震惊。我不知道今天我要在参议院对你们讲话，只是想说：“你好？我非常高兴见到你们，并向美国人民致以我国人民的问候。然而，就在来这里之前，副总统告诉我，他想让我对你说几句话。

我不是一个很好的即席演讲者；事实上，我根本不是演讲者；但我并不是很气馁，因为几天前我在海德公园，去了总统图书馆。我在那里看到的一些东西鼓励了我，并使我感到，也许你不会对我的即席演讲期望过高。你觉得我在那里看到了什么？我看到了很多东西。但我最感兴趣的一件事是，在一个玻璃盒子里，有总统演讲的第一稿，第二稿，一直到第六稿。昨天，我碰巧向主席提到了这一事实，并告诉他，我非常高兴他不得不写这么多草稿，而他是一位众所周知的优秀演讲者。他对我的回答是，有时他会写12篇演讲稿。因此，我今天在这里的'发言是即席的，我相信你会体谅我的。

贵国和我国之间的传统友谊已有160年的历史。我觉得，而且我相信，我现在是唯一一个有这种感觉的人，你们的人民和我的人民之间有很多相似之处，这些相似之处是我们友谊的基础。

我想给你们讲一个小故事来说明这个信念。当杜立德将军和他的手下去轰炸东京时，他们返回时，你们的一些士兵不得不在中国内地保释。其中一个后来告诉我，他必须把邮件从船上寄出去。当他降落在中国的土地上，看到民众向他跑来时，他只是挥舞着手臂，喊出了他所知道的唯一一个中文单词，“mei-kuo，mei-kuo，意思是“美国，[掌声]”，中文的字面意思是“美丽的国家”。这个男孩说，我们的人民笑了，几乎拥抱了他，像一个失散多年的兄弟一样向他打招呼。他还告诉我，当他看到我们的人民时，他想到他已经回家了；那是他第一次来中国[掌声。]