第七届全国英语演讲比赛冠军得主演讲稿(2)

                  At a more practical level, I realized knowing what you are
                  going to say and how you are going to say it are equally
                  important. To take the original ideas out of your head and
                  transplant them, so to speak, to that of others, you need to
                  have an organized mind. This ability improves with training.
                  Yet there should not be any loss or addition or distortion in
                  the process. Those ideas that finally find their way into
                  another head need to be recognizably yours. Language is a
                  means to transmit information, not a means to obstruct
                  communication. It should be lucid to be penetrating.
                  In China, certain public speaking skills have been unduly
                  emphasized. Will it really help, we are compelled to ask, to
                  bang at the podium or yell at the top of your lungs, if you
                  have come with a poorly organized speech, a muddled mind, and
                  unwillingness to truly share your views?
                  Above all, the single most important thing I learnt was that
                  as a public speaker, you need to pay attention, first and
                  foremost, to the content of your speech. And second, the
                  structure of your speech: how one idea relates and progresses