英语演讲稿范文带翻译：谱写生命的乐章

Suppose someone gave you a pen —a sealed, solid-colored pen.
假如有人送你一支笔,一支不可拆卸的单色钢笔。

You couldn’t see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever. You don’t know before you begin.
你无法看出里面究竟有多少墨水。或许你刚写上几个字,墨水就用完了；或许里面的墨水足够用来创作一部不朽巨著(或是几部)。但这些在你动笔之前是无法预知的。

Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!
在这样的游戏规则下,你永远无法预知结果。你只能去碰运气!

Actually, no rule of the game states2 you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, duanwenw.com you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused.
事实上,这个游戏里没有规则指定你必须要做什么。相反,你甚至可以根本不去动用这支笔,而是把它扔在书架上或是抽屉里让它的墨水干枯

But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game?
但是,如果你决定要用它的话,你会用它来做什么呢？你将怎样来进行这个游戏呢?

Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so many that you never even started writing?
你会不会老是做计划,一个字也不写?英语短文你会不会由于计划过于宏大而来不及动笔呢?

Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it?
或者你拿起笔就一头扎进去,一直写个不停？

Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, duanwenw.com or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) that the pen will write forever?
你会小心谨慎地书写,仿佛这支笔在下一刻就可能会干枯；还是相信或假装相信这支笔能够永远写下去而信手写来呢？

And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything?
你会写下些什么呢:爱?恨?喜?悲?生?死?虚无?万物?

Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there?
你会写在线内还是线上,还是根本看不到线,即使有线在那里？

There’s a lot to think about here, isn’t there?
这里面有许多东西要考虑,对不对?

Now, suppose someone gave you a life...
现在,假如有人给你一支生命的笔……