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近日，中国国际电视台（CGTN）主播刘欣和美国福克斯商业频道（Fox Business）主播翠西·里根（Trish Regan）的一场隔空激辩引发社会广泛关注。今天就来分享一下这位央视国际频道主播刘欣的冠军英文演讲。
23年前的1996年，在第一届“21世纪杯”英语演讲比赛上，21岁的刘欣荣获冠军。 随后，她在IPSC1996全球比赛中，打败包括native speakers在内的竞争对手，夺得全球英语演讲总冠军。目前，她是CCTV驻日内瓦记者。曾经在CCTV英语频道担任主播，担任过许多国际重大事件的直播主持。
刘欣1996年世界英语演讲冠军演讲稿英文版
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, I think this is a perfect setting for my speech today, because we have a mirror right here. And this is the topic, the mirror and I.
I like to look into the mirror. When I was a little girl, I often stood on my toes, trying to find my face in the mirror of the dressing table, which was nearly as high as I was. Now I still like to look into the mirror. When I looked at it, I found the face of a young woman, glowing with maturity, confident in her future and still fascinated with her own reflection.
The fact I like to look into the mirror has to do with my granny, with whom I spent most of my childhood. I remember clearly that one night, I heard her memorying women can’t be seen. Women can’t be seen. I was so confused as I looked into the mirror the next morning to check if I could indeed see myself. Only now as a young woman myself can I understand it was not physical visibility that granny had in her mind.
Granny spent all her life taking care of the family, day-in and day-out. She cooked for her husband and ten children, but we never guess she and other female family members had to eat by the stove in the small kitchen. At family discussions, she was never asked for her opinion. When grandpa passed away, she had to listen to my uncle, her elder son, who became master of the house. Though years of toil, she fulfilled her duty as daughter, wife, and mother, yet as a person, she remained little noticed. If she had seen herself in the mirror of the dressing table, she was never visible in the mirror of society.
I have been living a different life。 At home, I made decisions together with the rest of the family; in school, I take charge of various activities, the same as other boys and girls。 Not only that, I can see something that granny could not have dreamed of, making decisions for my own future。 I could choose from several competitive universities as I came out of high school。 At university, I could choose from a range of subject, changing from English literature to business law。 And upon graduation, I’m again faced with series of decisions, to further my study or to go to work; to stay in China or to go abroad; to get married right away, or to remain single for a bit longer。
It does not matter whether or not I will become famous or rich。 But I will treasure the chance to demonstrate my potentials into help other women demonstrate theirs as full member of the society, fully visible in the mirror of history。 I will treasure it because the abundance of my choice that I enjoy can only after decades of efforts made by my granny, my mom, and millions of other Chinese women。
However, the choice to be made by me and the others of my generation is a great challenge. The misconception that men are superior to women is still dominating many people’s mind. While remaining courage to compete until certain themselves, we are expected to be quiet, loyal and obedient. This is not very different from what is expected of us as good wife and good mothers. The story of my grandmother and myself, mirrors the lives of millions of other women in China and perhaps in the world. Many of them still live the life of my grandmother, their worth is not yet recognized. It is then the responsibility of a young woman like me to study hard and work hard, so the two will see themselves, and we’ll be seen in the mirror of the society.
This is my dream. This dream I believe is not only shared by many of our grandmothers, mothers and sisters, but also by many of our fathers, brothers, husbands and male colleagues. It will not come true until everyone fully realizes that women can contribute to the society and should be guaranteed the right to. Women hold half the sky. Thank you.
2018年1月22日，刘欣走进中国日报“新时代大讲堂”，贡献了另外一场精彩英文演讲，不仅赢得了现场观众的热烈掌声，同时这个演讲也注定激励更多的国人。她在演讲中说，“中国进入新时代——坚定了讲好中国故事的自信和底气。”
刘欣从挑战、机遇、责任（challenges, opportunities and responsibilities）三个方面入手，讲述了中国进入新时代，这对中国国际传播而言意味着什么，以及在新时代下需要面对和承担的责任与使命。
刘欣英文演讲金句摘要双语版
China has also been a scapegoat for some of the domestic policy failures of western countries. The loss of jobs in the US, for instance, has been squarely blamed on Chinese competition in the mainstream US media. Politicians then put unfair pressure on China in an effort to score domestic political gains, reinforcing the public’s skepticism and misunderstanding about China.
中国也是一些西方国家国内政策失败的替罪羊。比如美国国内的失业问题被直接归咎于中国竞争，这影响了公众看法。政治家们借施压中国来谋求国内政治得分，也加深了公众对中国的怀疑和误解。
Now that China has defied all kinds of predictions of a regime collapse or an economic hard-landing, western observers and commentators are at a loss for words when trying to explain the China phenomenon.
现在，中国的发展使得各种政权崩溃或经济硬着陆的预言落空，西方观察家们和评论家们发现越来越难解释中国现象。
Traditionally, people have relied on a few correspondents or experts for information and opinions on China. Increasingly, however, that bottleneck is opening up.
过去，人们依靠少数一些记者或专家来了解中国。而现在，情况正在迅速变化。
Our role is not to oversell the Chinese wisdom; our responsibility is to document and explain that journey. Let history be our judges.
我们的使命，不是过分推销中国智慧，而是记录和诠释这段旅程。历史自有评说。
For 20 years, Liu Xin has had a singular goal: to build a bridge of understanding between China and the outside world.
The television presenter began working for China Central TV, the State broadcaster, in 1997, two years after becoming the first Chinese to take part in－and win－the International Public Speaking Competition.
Early last year, her desire to share China’s story received a major boost when she was chosen to host The Point, a prime-time discussion show that airs weekdays on the China Global Television Network.
She said that China entering a new era means three things: opportunities, challenges and responsibilities.
“My winning speech in that 1995 national competition was about choice,” she said. “After 15 years of reform and opening-up, we Chinese now enjoy an abundance of choice in our daily lives.”
After listening to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s report at the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Liu said she was impressed with his use of the word “confidence”.
“It’s the confidence China has developed through knowing that our system works. The confidence about who we are as a people, as a culture. And it’s the confidence about our future role in the world,” she said.
“As media workers, we believe we have a great story to tell. In the past, people relied on a few correspondents or experts for information and opinions on China. But more people are tuning in to Chinese media for information, both traditional platforms such as TV and online.”
As more questions emerge in the minds of those watching from outside China, Liu said the opportunities to tell stories from inside the country are growing. However, so too are the challenges.
“Because of the ideological differences between China and the West, China has always been the subject of Western media criticism, which is often downright bashing based on falsehoods,” she said.
Now that China has defied all kinds of predictions of a collapse or economic hard landing, Western observers are having a hard time explaining the China phenomenon, she said, adding that the result is an ignorance-based superiority complex mixed with bewilderment and iced with jealousy.
During her 30-minute program, Liu conducts live interviews with guests in the studio or via satellite link to get a Chinese perspective on two to three topics that affect people around the world.
“I understand the urgency to be more assertive, but I believe we always need to be aware of the danger of putting feelings before reason, putting opinions before facts,” she said. “Nationalism is my biggest enemy.
“President Xi has said we need to improve the quality and effect of development. I believe this also applies to China’s international communication. The Chinese people will work hard toward a community of a shared future, regardless of how others view us.”
Meanwhile, Liu has a job to do.” As a journalist, our duty is to tell China’s story as it is, one topic at a time, one show at a time,” she added.
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