【国旗下讲话】学会选择，懂得放弃
各位老师同学们早上！今天我们国旗下演讲的题目是：学会选择懂得放弃。
Good morning, dear teachers and students! The topic of our speech under the national flag today is: Learn to choose and to give up.
生活中我们总是徘徊在得与失之间，这时我们就有了两条不一样的路：选择或是放弃。有时候真的很难放弃那些我们真正想要的，但是当你选择放弃时就会发现，原来放弃也是一种智慧。放弃，是豁达的生活态度，适当的放弃比坚持更令人动容。放弃不意味着失去，因为只有放弃才会有另外一种获得。
In life, we are always hovering between gain and loss. At this time, we have two different paths to choose from: choose or give up. Sometimes it’s really hard to give up what we really want, but when you choose to give up Then you will find that giving up is also a kind of wisdom.Giving up is an open-minded attitude towards life. Appropriate giving up is better than everlasting persistence. Giving up does not mean losing, because only by giving up can there be another kind of gain.
人的精力是有限的，不可能样样都做的很好，要把有限的时间投入到最重要的事情。对于学生来说，我们应该放弃陋习，每天都可以迎来新的自己；放弃无节制的玩游戏，把注意力放在学习上；放弃闲言碎语，专注自我；放弃对你产生不好影响的朋友；放弃懒惰，放弃不负责任……这样的放弃都是对生命有益处的，这样的放弃是有选择的放弃。
Everyone has limited energy, and it is impossible to do everything well, you must devote limited time to the most important things.As for students, we should give up bad habits, and usher in a new self every day, give up unrestrained gameplay and focus on learning. Give up gossips and focus on yourself. Giving up on friends who have a bad influence on you, giving up laziness, giving up irresponsibility, for this is good for life, this kind of giving up is a selective giving up.
人的精力是有限的，不可能样样都做的很好。时间是有限，宝贵的，且有无情的，它总是不知不觉地在从我们身边匆匆流逝。时间是靠人一点点挤出来的，不是说有就有，没就没的。只有懂得利用每一分每一秒，懂得放弃次要的，人生才能成功。
Time is finite, precious, and ruthless. It is always passing by us unconsciously. Time is squeezed out little by little, not to say that if there is, there will be, if there is not, there will be none. Only by knowing how to use every minute and every second, knowing how to give up the secondary, can life be successful.
长大之后才会发现，有很多目标并不是靠儿时的豪言壮语就能达到的，这也是大多数人不快乐的原因。所以，真正要做到舍得，就必须懂得选择，同时学会放弃。人有所选择，就必定有所放弃，人生其实就是在不断的选择和放弃中挣扎的过程。选择很重要，我们现在的人生几乎是我们选择的结果。
Only when I grow up will I find that many goals can not be achieved by the rhetoric of childhood, which is also the reason why most people are unhappy. Therefore, to truly be willing, one must know how to choose and at the same time learn to give up. When people learn to choose, they learn to give up. Life is actually a process of struggling with constant choice and giving up. The choice is very important. Our current life is almost the result of our previous choice.
孟子说：“鱼，我所欲也；熊掌，亦我所欲也。二者不可得兼，舍鱼而取熊掌者也。生，亦我所欲也；义，亦我所欲也。二者不可得兼，舍生而取义者也。”有所为有所不为,有所得必有所失。人生亦是如此，只有选择适当的放弃,才会有收获。但更重要的是我们要学会判断选择的主次性。猎豹放弃了力量获得了极致的速度，这样才能在草原上捕到猎物。同样在同学们的学习生活中，也要把注意力集中放在重要的事情上。
Mencius said: “Fish, is what I want; bear’s paw, is also what I want. But one couldn’t have both. The one who takes the bear’s paw must give up the fish. Life is what I want; righteousness is also what I want. The two cannot be achieved at the same time, and the one must sacrifice his life for his righteous beliefs.” Life is the same. Only if you choose to give up properly, you will gain. But more importantly, we must learn to judge the priority of choices. The cheetah gave up its power and gained the ultimate speed so that it could survive on the grassland. So should we students study and live in our life, we must also focus on important things.
我们一定要学会放弃，懂得放弃，了解放弃，最重要的是要有一个明确的目的，要明白放弃的真正原因是什么，不要盲目地去放弃一件事情，多想一想放弃之后会有怎么样的结果。这就是我们今天国旗下的演讲，谢谢大家！
We must understand giving up, the most important thing is to have a clear purpose, understand why are we giving up, don’t give up one thing blindly, think about the consequences after giving up. This is our speech under the flag today, thank you, everyone!
演讲 | 国际中学部 乐圣培 赵恩祁
指导老师 | 张文杰
