致辭 英文(精選多篇)

第一篇：新年致辭英文

prague, january 1, 1990

my dear fellow citizens,

for forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us.

i assume you did not propose me for this office so that i, too, would lie to you.

our country is not flourishing. the enormous creative and spiritual potential of our nations is not being used sensibly. entire branches of industry are producing goods that are of no interest to anyone, while we are lacking the things we need. a state which calls itself a workers' state humiliates and exploits workers. our obsolete economy is wasting the little energy we have available. a country that once could be proud of the educational level of its citizens spends so little on education that it ranks today as seventy-second in the world. we have polluted the soil, rivers and forests bequeathed to us by our ancestors, and we have today the most contaminated environment in europe. adults in our country die earlier than in most other european countries.

allow me a small personal observation. when i flew recently to bratislava, i found some time during discussions to look out of the plane window. i saw the industrial complex of slovnaft chemical factory and the giant petr'alka housing estate right behind it. the view was enough for me to understand that for decades our statesmen and political leaders did not look or did not want to look out of the windows of their planes. no study of statistics available to me would enable me to understand faster and better the situation in which we find ourselves.

but all this is still not the main problem. the worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. we fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. we learned not to believe in anything, to ignore one another, to care only about ourselves. concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgivenelost their depth and dimension, and for many of us they represented only psychological peculiarities, or they resembled gone-astray greetings from ancient times, a little ridiculous in the era of computers and spaceships. only a few of us were able to cry out loudly that the powers that be should not be all-powerful and that the special farms, which produced ecologically pure and top-quality food just for them, should send their produce to schools, children's homes and hospitals if our agriculture was unable to offer them to all.

the previous regime - armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology - reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. in this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. it reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone. it could not do more than slowly but inexorably wear out itself and all its nuts and bolts.

when i talk about the contaminated moral atmosphere, i am not talking just about the gentlemen who eat organic vegetables and do not look out of the plane windows. i am talking about all of us. we had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. in other words, we are all - though naturally to differing extents - responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machinery. none of us is just its victim. we are all also its co-creators.

why do i say this? it would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last forty years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. on the contrary, we have to accept this legacy as a sin we committed against ourselves. if we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. we cannot blame the previous rulers for everything, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly. let us not be mistaken: the best government in the world, the best parliament and the best president, cannot achieve much on their own. and it would be wrong to expect a general remedy from them alone. freedom and democracy include participation and therefore responsibility from us all.

if we realize this, then all the horrors that the new czechoslovak democracy inherited will cease to appear so terrible. if we realize this, hope will return to our hearts.

in the effort to rectify matters of common concern, we have something to lean on. the recent period - and in particular the last six weeks of our peaceful revolution - has shown the enormous human, moral and spiritual potential, and the civic culture that slumbered in our society under the enforced mask of apathy. whenever someone categorically claimed that we were this or that, i always objected that society is a very mysterious creature and that it is unwise to trust only the face it presents to you. i am happy that i was not mistaken. everywhere in the world people wonder where those meek, humiliated, skeptical and seemingly cynical citizens of czechoslovakia found the marvelous strength to shake the totalitarian yoke from their shoulders in several weeks, and in a decent and peaceful way. and let us ask: where did the young people who never knew another system get their desire for truth, their love of free thought, their political ideas, their civic courage and civic prudence? how did it happen that their parents -- the very generation that had been considered lost -- joined them? how is it that so many people immediately knew what to do and none needed any advice or instruction?

第二篇：畢業典禮致辭 英文

answering speech

dear professors and dear friends of china jiliang university,

i’m honored to address you on behalf of all the graduations this year.

i would like to thank my parents, classmates, and friends who helped us ,and encouraged and supported us as we worked towards to our graduate degrees.

i also want to thank jiliang’s faculty members who served as our instructors，mentor, and friends, relatives, like , , mrs. liang. through their commitments, they have inspired us to achieve and guided us to our dream.

on this stage, at my graduation ceremony, when i look back my four years at jiliang, my mind is filled with memories. may be you will ask me: do you have special to share? yes, i want to share few simple but critical suggestions with you and with for the coming juniors:

first, be work hard and think smart.

secondly, believe things happened for a reason.

thirdly, just as jobs said at the graduation ceremony in stanford university, stay hungry, stay foolish.

today, we will graduate from china jiliang university, but we will be with jiliang forever. let us think forward and work together to make the new history of china jiliang university.

thank you．

第三篇：新生入學歡迎致辭英文

dear freshmen,

good evening!

i take great pleasure to preside at tonight`s welcome evening party and deliver an opening speech. on behalf of the students’ union, i wish to convey the most gracious greeting and thank you all for your attendance.

it is a delight to have friends coming from afar. meeting freshmen is one of the most exhilarating moments for our university in a year, as well as a new beginning for seniors. dear freshmen, the moment you step into the gate of university you look back upon the past and into the future, you must have the sense that your life could be amazingly different. as the saying goes, “distance separates no bosom friends.” this new big family will give you a big hug with all its warmth and enthusiasm.

hope the evening party will leave you a deep impression. hope you all can get on with your new classmates harmoniously, adapt to your college life soon and make the coming semester a more fruitful semester!

第四篇：校長元旦晚會致辭(英文)

farewell to the old year and say hello to the new year's day. tonight, let us happily gather here,(內容來源好 範文網) feeling the heart.

let me represent the school leadership team to give a very warm welcome to leaders and guests at the scene，best wishes for all the teachers and students， and express my heartfelt gratitude for all the staff who stay in their jobs and cannot coming to the party.

during this year， teachers and students of our school united as one，forged ahead and got innumerable great achievements.

on behalf of our school，i extend the lofty compliments to our teachers， cadres and workers in this joyful moment of new year，and special thanks to foreign friends for their assists.

now i declare the new year's day celebration will now begin.

may everything goes well with our work during the next year，and in good health，cheers！

第五篇：習主席元旦致辭-英文

we'll soon usher in the year 2014 with great hopes. as the new year begins, let us also start anew. i'm delighted to extend new year wishes to chinese people of all ethnic groups, to compatriots in the hong kong special administrative region, the macao special administrative region and taiwan, to overseas chinese and to friends all over the world! i wish senior people and children, and every family happiness, peace and health in the new year.

at a time to ring out the old year and ring in the new, countless workers, farmers, intellectuals and cadres still remain at their posts working hard. many of our compatriots are on the go, working in various regions of the world for the motherland. many members of the people's liberation army, armed police and public security are performing their glorious duties. some of them are far away from the motherland, and their close relatives and some cannot have a reunion with family members. on behalf of the motherland and people, i'd like to offer my sincere greetings to them and wish them a peaceful and smooth new year.

the year 2014 has been an extraordinary year for our nation and people. we have worked together in overcoming a variety of obstacles and challenges, and made new outstanding achievements. the achievements have not come easily as they are the result of blood and sweat from all. i'd like to convey my heartfelt gratitude to you all.

in 2014, we made an overall plan on comprehensively deepening reform and laid out a grand blueprint together for future development. in 2014, we are expected to make new strides on the road of reform.

we have advanced reforms with the fundamental purpose of making our nation stronger and more prosperous. we also aim to achieve a higher degree of impartiality and justice in society so that people can live a better life. reform is a great cause that calls for common commitments and strenuous efforts from us all. we must sow before we can reap. in the great practice of reform and opening up, we have already made countless spectacular achievements. i firmly believe that the chinese people will create new spectacles.

there exists an immense and vast universe with bright stars. more than 7 billion people inhabit the planet earth. we in the same boat should keep watch and help each other to achieve common development. we chinese people seek to realize the chinese dream, a great revitalization of the chinese nation, and also wish that the dreams of people of all countries will come true. i sincerely hope that people of various countries in the world will understand and help each other in the course of realizing their dreams and build the earth that we rely on for survival into a common beautiful homeland.

life is always full of hopes. success always belongs to those who keep forging ahead unswervingly. on our way forward, we will encounter various risks and challenges. we still need to complete a lot of tasks so that common people can live a happier life. we need to be modest and prudent and work hard together in writing a new chapter for the development of our great nation.

thank you all.