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第六部分 PRESENTATION OF CELEBRITY
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presentation的逻辑结构：观点要清晰明了，并放在第一位，然后详细叙述支持这个观点的理由和原因，最后进行总结。所有的语言都要和这个逻辑结构相配。
安德鲁·卡内基（Andrew Carnegie）：美国著名的钢铁大王。幼时家境贫寒，靠个人努力和奋斗而发迹，是“美国梦”的典型。晚年，他捐资图书馆事业。下面是他在June 23, 1885 对柯里商学院毕业生的讲话节选，题目是 The Road to Success。
The Road to Success
It is well that young men should begin at the beginning and occupy the most subordinate positions. Many of the leading businessmen of Pittsburgh had a serious responsibility thrust upon then at the very threshold of their career. They were introduced to the broom, and spent the first hours of their business lives sweeping out the office. I notice we have janitors and jam tresses now in offices, and our young men unfortunately miss that salutary branch of a business education. But if by chance the professional sweeper is absent any morning, the boy who has the genius of the future partner in him will not hesitate to try his hand at the broom. The other day a fond fashionable mother in Michigan asked a young man whether he had ever seen a young lady sweep in a room so grandly as her Priscilla. He said no, he never had, and the mother was gratified beyond measure, but then said he, after a pause,” what I should like to see her do is sweep out a room.” It does not hurt the newest comer to sweep out the office if necessary. I was one of those sweepers myself.
l 他在第一段里就表明了自己的观点：年轻人就应该从最底层，从属的地位做起。
l 这个观点之后，就要展开了。使用了很多例证。
Assuming that you have all obtained employment and are fairly started, my advice to you is” aim high.” I would not give a fig for the young man who does not already see himself the partner of the head of an important firm. Do not rest content for a moment in your thoughts as head clerk, or foreman, or general manager in any concern, no matter how extensive. Say to yourself,” my place is at the top.” Be king in your dreams.
And here is the prime condition of success the great secret: concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.
The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, of that, or the other, here, there, and everywhere.” Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is all wrong. I tell you” put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.” Look around you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that break most eggs in this country. He who carries three baskets must put one on his head, which is apt to tumble and trip him up. One fault of the American businessman is lack of concentration.
To summarize what I have said: aim for the highest, never enter a bar room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; lastly be not impatient, for, as Emerson says,” no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.”
l 最后一段进行总结。
l To summarize what I said: 是一个很好的结尾方式
解 析
从这篇充满经验之谈的演讲中，我们感到了这位老人的力量。他以自己的事例向世人昭示了他实现美国梦的秘诀。来美国的人多数都抱有这样或那样的梦想，在如何实现梦想的问题上，卡内基先生说出了他著名的人生经验“put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.”
