记三牛高中部英语演讲比赛：如何理解“冲突” | 双语阅读

　　对于年轻的学生们来说，十年级是精彩而刺激的一年，然而，这也是充满挑战性和压力的一年!(比如超级多的考试)同学们面临着各种各样的个人和学术性的挑战，这些挑战较终也有助于他们塑造未来的学术选择。

　　Grade 10 can be a wonderful and exciting year for young students but, it can also be confusing and stressful! (example: the many many many exams)Students are faced with new personal and academic challenges that will eventually help to mold their future scholastic choices.

　　本学期，十年级学生在英语文学课和政治课上对“冲突”这个课题下了很多功夫，这个课题使英语文学课外教Emily老师与政治课外教Lara老师做出在十年级开展比赛的决定，通过让学生展示关于“冲突”在任意形式上的原创作品，去展现他们的批判性思维与创造性技巧。

　　Grade 10 students this semester also focused heavily on the theme of conflict, which was seen in both our literature and politics classes. This overall theme influenced both the literature teacher Emily and politics teacher Lara to create the grade 10 competition. The competition allowed for students to showcase their critical and creative skills by presenting an original piece of work in any format about the theme of conflict.

　　这次比赛的第一名获得者施淞元，以镜子为主题写了一首关于人的内在矛盾的诗歌，极具表现力地展现了光与暗之间的斗。

　　Student Agatha won first place with her beautiful poem about an internal conflict that intricately showed elements of light and elements of darkness.

　　当我们问及她的诗歌创作过程时，她回答道：

　　When asked about her thought process while writing her winning poem this was her response:

　　我以镜子为主题，英雄和恶魔象征两种不同的角色选择。英雄代表人类正义的一面，恶魔代表人类阴暗的一面，镜子代表社会事件或是一件需要抉择的事情——例如，面临校园霸凌时，是选择成为一个英雄还是成为一个恶魔。

　　I considered the mirror to be the theme of the poem and that, the hero and the devil were characters that represent two different choices. The former means the positive side of humanity, the latter means the negative side, and the mirror represents the social problems or for the reader’s interpretation. For instance, when there is bullying, we must decided whether we will be the hero and help or a devil and not.

　　诗中英雄说“做出正确的决定”，但“我”还是决然地选择与恶魔为伍。或许大家会不认同“恶魔”的观点，但其实在面临校园霸凌时，做一位“英雄”往往会在他挺身而出后沦为那个被欺凌的人。我选择写这首诗的原因，是想要告诉大家，有时选择做恶魔仅仅是为了保护自己不成为那个“可怜人”，没有什么绝对的英雄或恶魔。

　　In my poem, the hero exclaims, ‘to make good choices’, but, the poem’s protagonist remains a devil. In the end, I decided to write this poem because I wanted to tell people the truth that the reason that sometimes people choose to be a devil is because they want to protect themselves and to not suffer. Every hero or devil is not exact.

　　戴芊通过对Walt Whitman的O Me! O Life!诙谐幽默的改编，在比赛中获得二等奖。

　　Student Frederic won 2nd place with her own hilarious version of Walt Whitman's O Me! O Life!

　　当问到戴芊的灵感来源时，她回答道：

　　When asked "what was your inspiration?", This was her response：

　　读了Walt Whitman的诗歌之后，感受到写诗也是对生活态度的一种表达，它可以是积极的，也可以是消极的，因为每个人对生活的态度和见解都是不一样的。通过Walt Whitman的诗，我感受到诗词的自由性，在诗词中尽情表达自己情绪的快乐。所以在Walt Whitman的Oh me! Oh life!诗上进行了改编，改成了自己对TOEFL的期望和感受。

　　After reading the poems of Walt Whitman, I feel that writing poem is an expression of the attitude to life. It could be positive or negative, because the attitude and understanding to life is different from person to person. Through Walt Whitman's poems , I can sense the freedom and the happiness of expressing feelings of writing poems. So I write about a poem based on Walt Whitman's Oh me! Oh life to express the feelings and expectations of TOEFL.