英语美文youth朗诵：英语美文YouAre

哈利波特

不管你现在多大年纪。

追逐梦想的路上，你永远不早也不晚。

下面这份清单，罗列那些不同领域获得巨大成就的人们。

No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages

海伦凯勒在19个月大的时候，失明失聪。但是她并没有放弃自己。她成了第一个获得艺术学士学位的聋哑人。

1)Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind.But that didn’t stop her.She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

莫扎特很小就学会电子琴和小提琴，5岁可以作曲。

2)Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.

秀兰·邓波儿6岁通过喜剧《亮眼睛》成为电影明星。

3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”

安妮弗兰克12岁开始完成著作《安妮日记》

4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.

芒努斯·卡尔森13岁成为国际象棋大师。

5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.

罗马尼亚的体操运动员纳迪娅·科马内奇，获得过7次完美的10分，14岁时已经获得过3次奥运金牌。

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6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.

贝利，足球巨星，1958年对战站西，赢得了世界杯，仅17岁。

8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years oldwhen he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.

猫王19岁成为巨星。

9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.

1961年甲壳虫乐队第一开演唱会时，约翰列侬20岁，詹姆斯·保罗·麦卡特尼18岁。

10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.

1936年杰西·欧文斯在柏林获得4枚金牌时，年仅22岁。

11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.

贝多芬23成为钢琴演奏家。

12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23

罗杰·吉伯特·班尼斯特25岁打破4分钟一英里的记录。

13) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record

爱因斯坦26岁就写出伟大的相对论。

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14) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity

兰斯E.阿姆斯壮赢得环法自行车赛时年仅27岁。

15) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France

米切朗基罗创造2个伟大的雕塑“大卫”和“Pieta”时正当28岁。

16) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28

亚历山大帝29岁时创造除了当时世界上最大的帝国。

17) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world

J.K.罗琳30岁完成《哈利·波特》第一稿。

18) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特，第一个单飞穿越大西洋女性，当年她31岁。19) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when shebecame the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

奥普拉32岁时开始了她的脱口秀节目，目前她的脱口秀在同类节目中收视率最高。

20) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show,which has become the highest-rated program of its kind

埃德蒙希拉里33时成为第一个登顶珠峰的人。

21) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first manto reach Mount Everest

马丁路德金 34岁写出了”我有一个梦想”的演讲稿。

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22) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."

居里夫人35岁获得诺贝尔物理学奖。

23) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics

怀特兄弟Orville (32岁) Wilbur (36岁)发明出了世界第一架飞机

24) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) inventedand built the world's first successful airplane.

梵高去世时年仅37岁，几乎默默无闻，今天他的画作价值连城。

25) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown,yet his paintings today are worth millions.

尼尔•阿姆斯特朗38岁成为世界上第一个登录月球的人。

26) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he becamethe first man to set foot on the moon.

马克吐温40岁完成著名的小说《汤姆索尔历险记》

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27) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

哥伦布41岁发现美洲

28) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas

罗莎·帕克斯42岁不听服从公共汽车司机的命令，拒绝为白人乘客让座。

29) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’sorder to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger

肯尼迪43岁成为美国总统。

30) John F. Kennedy was 43 years oldwhen he became President of the United States

福特T系面世时亨利福特先生45岁。

31) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.

苏珊·柯林斯46岁完成著作《饥饿游戏》

32) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"

达尔文50岁时完成《物种起源》

33) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.

达芬奇51岁画出《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》

34) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.

林肯52岁当上总统

35) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.

雷·克洛克53岁时买下麦当劳的特许经营权，并把它经营到到了前所未有的水平。

36) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchiseand took it to unprecedented levels.

Harland Sanders上校61岁就开始经营肯德基。

37) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61when he started the KFC Franchise

约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金完成《指环王》时已经62岁。

38) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out

里根69岁成为美国总统。

39) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US

曼德拉70岁当选南非总统。

40) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President

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