People—even those who are wonderful talkers in a conversational setting—are often terrified over the prospect of giving their first speech.

人们——即使是那些在谈话中侃侃而谈的人——经常对他们的第一次演讲感到恐惧。

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To a high school audience, she might satisfy a curiosity that often arises in her pre-speech interviews with students who obviously have seen many science fiction movies.

若是面向高中生听众，这些学生显然看过很多的科幻电影，在演讲前采访中常常表现出强烈的好奇心，而她会满足他们的好奇心。

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There was once a man in South America who had a parrot, a pet bird that can imitate human speech.

从前，南美洲有个人养了一只鹦鹉，一种能模仿人类说话的宠物鸟。

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People now use poker face in everyday speech to describe someone who shows no emotion.

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It honors artists who support freedom of speech in their work.

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President Nicolas Sarkozy, who did not graduate from a grande ecole, laid out that demand in a January speech.

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In this modern world with modern technologies, for us to respond in that way to hateful speech empowers any individual who engages in such speech to create chaos around the world.

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Earth Day was the idea of the late Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin who in a speech in September 1969 proposed a day for an environmental teach-in.

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That's the view of the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, who in a speech to the Institute for Government last month complained that "there are cases where permanent secretaries have blocked agreed government policy from going ahead or advised other officials not to implement ministerial decisions".

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