英語作文名人事例.doc

1、1.Bill Gates （比爾蓋茨）When Bill Gates made his decision to drop out from Harvard, he did not care too much of the result. Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen started the engine of Microsoft. Many people did not understand why Gates gave up such a good opport

2、unity to study in the worlds No.1 University. However, with size comes power, Microsoft dominates the PC market with its operating systems, such as MS-DOS and Windows. Now, Microsoft becomes the biggest software company in the world and Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world.用于有放棄就會(huì)有所得、勇氣、懂

3、得把握機(jī)會(huì)類2.Thomas Edison （托馬斯 愛迪生） In 1879, after more than 1,000 trials and $40,000, Thomas Edison introduced an inexpensive alternative to candles and gaslight: the incandescent lamp. Using carbonized filaments from cotton thread, his light bulb burned for two days. These bulbs were first installed o

4、n the steamship Columbia and have been lighting up the world ever since. 用于創(chuàng)造力/科技類、失敗是成功之母、努力、成功 / 英雄 / 困難類3.Mother Teresa （特雷莎修女）Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name Saint of the Gut

5、ters. The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters

6、in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.用于大眾觀點(diǎn)類/善良、品性/4.Diana Spencer（戴安娜王妃）Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Whales, is remembered and respected by people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skil

7、ls.不好意思了，戴安娜王妃，我還真不知怎么用你呢.5.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela （納爾遜羅利赫拉赫拉曼德拉）Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time:

8、an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most co

9、mpelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africas antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for hu

10、man rights and racial equality.用于英雄、斗爭/大眾觀點(diǎn)類（非暴力）/6.Beethoven （貝多芬）Beethoven, the German Composer, began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was entirely deaf by 1819. However, this obstacle could not keep him from becoming one of the most famous and prolific composers in art history. His music, includi

11、ng 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, several senates and so on, formes a transition from classical to romantic composition. 用于成功 / 英雄 / 困難類 7.George Bush（喬治 布什） On January 16, 1991, President Bush ordered the commencement of Operation Desert Storm, a massive U.S.-led military offensive against Iraq i

12、n the Persian Gulf. In late 1992, Bush ordered U.S. troops into Somalia, a nation devastated by drought and civil war. The peacekeeping mission would prove the most disastrous since Lebanon, and President Clinton abruptly called it off in 1993. 用于成功 / 英雄 / 困難類 8.Jimmy Carter（吉米卡特） President Carters

13、policy of placing human rights records at the forefront of Americas relationships with other nations contributed to a cooling of Cold War relations in the late 1970s. In 1980, for the first time in seven years, Fidel Castro authorized emigration out of Cuba by the countrys citizens. The United State

14、s welcomed the Cubans, but later took steps to slow the tide when evidence suggested that Castro was using the refugee flight to empty his prisons. 用于成功 / 英雄 / 困難類/斗爭、 9.Neville Chamberlain（內(nèi)維爾張伯倫） In 1938, British Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler, an agreement tha

15、t gave Czechoslovakia away to Nazi conquest while bringing, as Chamberlain promised, peace in our time. Eleven months after the signing of the Munich Pact, Germany broke the peace in Europe by invading Poland. A solemn Chamberlain had no choice but to declare war, and World War II began in Europe. 不

16、喜歡他，不說了.10.Raoul Wallenberg （瓦倫堡） Raoul Wallenberg was a young Swedish aristocrat. In 1944 he left the safety of his country and entered Budapest. Over the next year he outwitted the Nazis and saved as many as 100,000 Jews (he was not himself Jewish) from the death camps. In 1945 he was arrested by

17、the Russians, charged with spying, and imprisoned in a Russian labor camp.用于道德類/英雄、自救 （Conscience is a more powerful motivation than money,fame and power） 11.George Soros - （喬治 索斯洛）the financial crocodile Soros, who at one stage after the fall of the Berlin Wall was providing more assistance to Russ

18、ia than the US government, believes in practising what he preaches.His Open Society Institute has been pivotal in helping eastern European countries develop democratic societies and market economies. Soros has the advantage of an insiders knowledge of the workings of global capitalism, so his critic

19、ism is particularly pointed. Last year, the Soros foundations network spent nearly half a billion dollars on projects in education, public health and promoting democracy, making it one of the worlds largest private donors. 用于大眾觀點(diǎn)類：（媒體 / 團(tuán)體 / 主流） 12.Paul Revere（保羅 ） Our perceptive towards Paul Revere

20、 just illustrates this point. According to the romantic legend, he, galloping along of the dark from one farm house to another, alerted the people to the coming British. And of course the story emphasized the courage of one man, made him a hero in our history books. However, his heroism required a m

21、atrix of others who were already well-prepared to mobilize against the oppressor and he was just one part of a pre-arrange plan. Heroes like Revere have no usefulness apart from a society primed to act. 用于英雄、斗爭/勇敢/合作類Cooperation 13.Henry Ford（亨利 福特）Henry ford,one of the most influential inventors in

22、 the history, was always inattentive in school. Once ,he and a friend took a watch apart to probe the principle behind it. Angry and upset, the teacher punished him both to stay after school. their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. but the teacher did not know young fords genius

23、,in ten minutes,this mechanical wizard had repaired the watch and was on this way home.It is imagination that invigorated Ford to make a through inquiry about things he did not know.He once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire. then he waited to see what would happen. the water boiled and, of course