演讲丨“清华刘昊然”获得21世纪杯全国英语演讲冠军！

3月24日，“21世纪·可口可乐杯”全国英语演讲比赛总决赛，清华大学物理系陈逸贤摘得桂冠，这距离他上次参加“21世纪杯”高中组并夺得全国冠军才刚两年。

陈逸贤，1999年9月15日生于浙江省宁波市，2004年至2009年就渎于宁波江东区戎徐小学，2009年8月随母亲游学英国，9月开始在剑桥莫利纪念小学上五年级,任莫小校报编辑并加入该校戏剧社，2010年5月回国，现在杭州市保俶塔实验学校就读。 

参加过2008年（三年级时）浙江省CCTV希望之星英语大奖赛（进入省半决赛）和2008年宁波市家庭英语挑战赛（获特等奖）。2010年参加新东方POP少儿英语大赛，获全国总决赛三等奖。 

以“咸菜食肉兔”为笔名在起点中文网发表十余万字的儿童魔幻小说《糖豆传记》，第二部小说《奔腾的马》已创作出7万多字，翻译《奥利维·奠》系列童书12册。

陈逸贤在大学总决赛演讲台上

从小，家里就会对孩子进行语言的启蒙，给他放中、英文的动画片。孩子喜欢反复看，跟着念，然后大段大段的背台词，一点也不觉得厌烦。“我们比较配合他，有时候会跟他互动，分角色配音。”在小学5年级的时候，我们也没因为他要将英语的儿童文学翻译成中文提出过反对意见，相反妈妈很支持。遇到生词，有时查字典，有时问妈妈，经常忙到晚上10点多，也不觉得累。最后他把《奥利维莫少年魔法师》系列共12本都翻译了出来，后来机缘巧合，由湖北少年儿童出版社出版了前6本。

在孩子成长过程中一定不能太功利，其实孩子一开始翻译的时候，根本就没有想到将来会出版。他有兴趣就要鼓励他，不要说“你翻这个有什么用呀”。 我们不反对孩子上培训班，但建议不上课堂内重复的东西，是为了给他更多时间做自己喜欢的事。我们上培训班的都是孩子喜欢的东西——钢琴、天文和古文。让他做喜欢的事情，他的好奇心和学习的热情就不会泯灭了。

两年前“21世纪杯”高中组舞台上的陈逸贤

今年5月，陈逸贤将再次踏上IPSC国际公众演讲赛的旅途。在未来，他希望顺利地从清华毕业，继续攻读博士研究生，将天体物理研究课题和演讲结合起来，做理论物理界最会演讲的，演讲界中物理最好的。

一起来听陈逸贤在“21世纪杯”总决赛中的夺冠演讲↓↓↓

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A Glimpse into the Future

Do you know people who post pictures of themselves almost every day? Snap! Look at my new watch. Snap! Westlake in spring. Snap! Here’s me middle of a speech competition. From streets to campuses, people are obsessed with taking photos of themselves. But when photography was first introduced to China in the 19th century, it traumatized a generation. With the drawtube shaped like a cannon, the dazzling firework at exposure, like that, and most horrifying of all, the bizarre feeling of your own face staring back at yourself in a piece of paper. “Witchcraft,” They say. “An evil ritual taking away our spirits!”

As the development of technology moves the wheel of history forward, it was always accompanied by fear. Judging in retrospect from an era of selfie craze, of course we would want to tell those benighted people of the past: Fear not! Your souls won’t be sucked into a camera! This, is exactly what I would like to tell people of the present: Fear not! Because when technology revolutionizes our lives, humanity frames our action.

Look at our world now, the debate between scientists and humanists never seem to set our minds at rest. When scientists are bragging about generalizing 5G6G, the humanists say, you are providing easier ways to infringe on personal privacy; When scientists brag AI as human’s ultimate assistant, the sci-fi writers say, beware that they develop consciousness of their own! Once I, a self-proclaimed physicist, talked to my pals from the school of humanities about teleportation, I said, “Theoretically we can transport anything from here to there instantly by breaking up the stuff here and reconstructing an identical one there.” But I was instantly bombarded with: “Oh, soon you will be transporting people in this way, won’t you? But will one be the same person after teleport? Will my consciousness be instantly terminated upon disintegration here, leaving only a duplicate of me to be reconstructed there?” So innocent bystanders, upon hearing these fantastic debates, panic. Oh no! The geeks are going to read our mails! Robots are going to take over the earth! Teleportation is going to destroy thousands of people every day, leaving a world full of clones!

But none of this is actually going to happen, because humanists are not alarmists and scientists are not geeks. Humanists point out pertinent ethical issues with the hope of correcting them and scientists listen to suggestions rationally to make adjustments as well as amendments. Just like the first pioneer who modified the camera to make it less scary, we can always improve technology with humanitarian and care. We can enhance the security of networks by introducing quantum cryptography. We can put restrictions on AI to prevent rogue elements. As for teleportation, maybe it’s too risky to transport humans, but it can still relieve a considerable burden off Beijing traffic by taking care of the delivery system!

So, taking a glimpse into the future, what exactly do I see? Not the AI-reigned Dystopia where humans are reduced to slaves, not the post-apocalypse desert after a science breakdown, but a future where humanity thrive with technology as instrument of progress, and technology thrive with humanity as its code of conduct. Just like how we mock at the 19th century people for being fearful in front of a camera, our future generations will also be wondering why we had feared some of their daily routines in the first place, as they reach ever higher dimensions and roam across the stars.

即席演讲环节陈逸贤抽到的题目是“如何看待东方美和文化自信。

A picture posted by Vogue Magazine on its Instagram account has been criticized by many in China. The Chinese model in the picture has a physical appearance and unique qualities different to that of the traditional views of beauty in many Chinese people’s eyes. Some have said the magazine is denigrating the Asian model. However, others have called for understanding and to respect diversity. Others have said this feeling of being prejudged displays a lack of cultural confidence. What do you think? What do you think oriental beauty and cultural confidence are?

如果站在演讲台上接受评委提问的是你，你会如何作答呢？快来评论区说出你的观点吧！（综合来源自19楼，21世纪杯英语演讲比赛等）

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