5月20日上午，我校在行政楼北广场举行了2019年外文节开幕式暨升旗仪式。仪式由团委副书记童云波主持。

外文组徐玉芬老师作主旨演讲。徐老师围绕本届外文节主题“求同存异，和而不同”，结合国际形势和热点时事，深刻阐述了她对尊重文化多样性、共建人类命运共同体的理解和认识。徐老师指出，在推进不同国家、不同文化互尊互信的过程中，教育发挥着不可或缺的作用。教育不仅仅是“施教、操练和学习”，更是“启迪心智、触动心灵、促进文明”的重要手段。徐老师希望同学们加强学习、打开视野、丰富体验，为促进人类社会和平共处、和谐发展承担起自己应有的使命。

高三大预班及初一年级的8名同学亦紧扣主题，深情并茂地用中、英、法、西、德、日语六国语言带来了精彩的诗朗诵。朗诵内容分别节选自《论语》《望岳》《醉舟》等，表达了他们对祖国大好河山的热爱和对探索充满差异的多彩世界的向往。

本届外文节将持续一周时间，除传统的戏剧之夜、演讲比赛、配音比赛外，还将举办嘉年华游园、对外交流活动展等主题活动，旨在增进同学们对多元文化的了解，激发语言学习兴趣，浓厚语言学习氛围。

（校办 供稿）

附1：徐玉芬老师主旨演讲稿

Ladies and gentlemen, Dear teachers and students：

Good morning!

Like the Alumni-Cup for Junior 3 and the Zhou Enlai Cup for senior 3, this opening speech is a great grand honor for all the teachers in our school.

This festival is the 15th Foreign Languages Festival in my memory and this year is the 55th anniversary of our school which was founded in a call for more young diplomats by one of our founding fathers--Premier Zhou Enlai， in whose symbolic shadow we are celebrating our festival today and in whose legacy we are renewing the meaning of his principle ---'Share Similarities, Embrace Differences.'

Today this fundamental principle of his is still of vital importance because whether we would like the world to be chaos or an oasis largely depends on how much we share our similarities and to what extent we embrace our differences.

One month ago, series explosions in Sri Lanka caused large casualties with over 350 deaths and 500 injuries.

Two months ago, severe massacre in New Zealand killed 50 worshipers and wounded dozens.

These bloody explosions which shattered people’s hearts and put the whole world in great panic were partly caused by lack of respect and understanding between countries and cultures, and these bloody massacres have also manifested that we still have a long journey to go and a tough job to do before we can live in peace and enjoy harmony in diversity.

Then what is the role that education can play in reaching this understanding between cultures? And how can education help in cultivating this trust between countries so that we can discuss but not dispute, we can share but not shoot, we can embrace but not have to endure.

The answer is positive. Education is not simply a process of teaching and training and learning. Education involves people. Education consists of a series of enchantments and these enchantments promote the individual to a higher level of awareness, communication, understanding, trust, intellectual intimacy with the world and family kinship with people around him, which enlightens the minds, inspires the hearts and enhances civilization. This awareness, understanding and trust brought by education are the glue of the world.They are the emotional oxygen that melts the cultural conflicts and the fundamental frame that maintains good relationships.

So in spite of these disputes, we saw the beauty of friendship between Tony Lip and Donald Shirley in the recent Oscar movie --- Green Book, which

dawns on the belief in humanity and builds up the confidence in the world.   

So in spite of these conflicts, we witnessed the glory of respect for human civilization when the spire of Notre Dame was engulfed in flames, which shocked the whole world but brought the hearts together.

Lord Paul Boateng, Chairman of the English-Speaking Union, said, “Beyond the nations and traditions, across the seas and oceans, there are things that bond us together.”

Then what is the bond? The similarities that we share are the bond. The same destiny that we face is the bond. The symphony that the children of One Voice，Caucasians and Africans, Hispanics and Asians sing is the bond.  

Nevertheless, it is not enough to share this bond and these similarities. What really counts is that we recognize our differences and we still embrace these differences.

Stephen Covey, the famous American educator once said. “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” It is the difference that defines an individual, a nation, a culture. It is the difference that contributes diversity to the global community. And according to Yao Yao, one of our students in senior 1, ‘Diversity means possibility’ because diversity inspires, enriches and uplifts the global community.

Two months ago, I went to the Grand Final of China Daily’s First Belt & Road Youth International English Speaking Competition and I saw this possibility. 31 contestants from 30 different countries and regions shared their similar experiences and exchanged their different ideas about their cultures. 6 grand finalists from China, India, Malaysia, Korea, Papua New Guinea and Mauritius stood on the stage of G20 and talked about the efforts the Belt & Road countries should make, the mission they should fulfill, the responsibility they should take and the commitment they should perform for the shared future of mankind. They well interpreted our theme today.

So the Great Truth is Simple: Share Similarities, Embrace Differences and Bring the whole world together to be one. It is not easy, but No Cross No Crown.

Wish HFLS to keep the crown on and wish the 2019 Foreign Languages Festival to generate another epic.

Thank you.

女士们、先生们，亲爱的老师们、同学们：

早上好！

如“校友杯”之于初三，“周恩来杯”之于高三，今天的演讲之于老师是一样的荣幸。

这是我个人记忆中的第十五个外文节。今年是杭外建校55周年。开国元勋之一，周恩来总理希望培养更多青年外交官，杭外因此诞生，今天我们在他的铜像旁庆祝外文节开幕，在他的影响下重温他所提出的原则——“求同存异”。

今天，他的这一基本原则依然十分重要，因为世界如何变化，无序抑或安宁，很大程度取决于我们如何求同，我们又怎样存异。

一个月前，斯里兰卡发生连环爆炸，超过350人死亡，500人受伤。

两个月前，新西兰突发血腥枪击，50多人死亡，数十人受伤。

血腥的爆炸震碎了人心，震惊了世界，其诱因之一是文化之间尊重的缺失与理解的缺乏。残忍的屠杀警醒着我们，多元社会，和谐共处，任重而道远。

那么达成文化之间的理解，培养国家之间的信任，教育是否可以助力？如何助力才能使我们讨论而非争论，分享而非开枪，欣然接受而非痛苦忍受。

答案是肯定的，教育不仅仅是施教、操练和学习的过程。教育关乎人，教育关乎魅力。这一系列的魅力让人达到更深层次的认知、交流、理解、信任以及理智而不乏亲近的处世之道和如同家人般亲密的待人之礼，从而启迪心智，触动心灵，促进文明。这种教育所赋予的认知、理解与信任是世界的粘合剂，是化解文化冲突的情感氧化剂；是维持良好关系的基础性支架。

所以尽管有争议，我们见证了奥斯卡最佳影片《绿皮书》中，白人司机Tony Lip与黑人演奏家Donald Shirley之间的美好友谊，照亮了对人性的信仰，重塑了对世界的信心。

所以尽管有冲突，我们看到了巴黎圣母院尖顶被熊熊大火吞没时，举世震惊却集聚人心的对人类文明瑰宝珍视的荣光。

国际英语联合会主席保罗·博腾勋爵说：“超越国界传统，跨越浩瀚海洋，有种纽带让我们紧紧相连。”

那么什么是这纽带？我们之间的共同点就是这纽带，我们面临的共同命运就是这纽带，集白人与黑人，拉丁与亚裔一起的童声合唱团One Voice演绎的那首《交响乐》就是这纽带。

然而，纽带、“求同”不足以担当。足以担当的是我们认识到差异却依然欣然拥抱差异。

美国著名的教育家史蒂芬·科维曾经说过，“力量在于差异，而非相似”。因为这种差异才成就了独特的个体，造就了民族，形成了文化；因为这种差异才促进了人类命运共同体的多元化，我们的一位高一同学姚遥说，“多样性即可能性，因为多样性激励、丰富、提升了整个国际社会”。

两个月前，我在中国日报首届“一带一路”全球青年英语演讲比赛总决赛现场见证了这种可能性。来自30个不同国家与地区的31名选手分享了他们相似的经历，也交换了对于自身文化的独特见解。最后来自中国、印度、马来西亚、韩国、巴布亚新几内亚与毛里求斯的6名总决赛选手站在G20会场的舞台上，畅谈为了人类共同的明天一带一路国家应做出的努力、应完成的使命、应承担的责任和应履行的承诺。他们很好地诠释了我们今天的主题。

因此，大道至简，“和而不同，方能天下大同”。路途艰难，但没有磨难，何来荣耀。

祝愿杭外守住荣耀，祝愿外文节续写史诗。

（翻译 陈飞宇）

附2：多语种朗诵稿

Part A:

中：人之在世，性相近，习相远。

英：Man on earth, the same nature, varies on nurture.

日：性（せい）相（あい）近（ちか）し、習（なら）い相遠（あいとお）し。

德：Der Mensch auf Erden, im Wesen gleich, unterscheidet sich durch die Kultur

法：L'homme sur la Terre, de même nature, varie selon les soins.

西；En la tierra, el hombre tiene la naturaleza similar, pero con diferentes educaciones.

中：然和而不同也。

英：We share similarities and embrace differences.

日：しかしながら、和して同せず。

德：Wir teilen Gemeinsamkeiten und nehmen Unterschiede an.

西：Compartimos similitudes y abrazamos las diferencias.

法：Nous partageons des similitudes et embrassons les différences.

Part B:

大预：What are we talking about when we are discussing differences?

初一：We are talking about languages, we are talking about the merging of poems. And we, are interpreting Chinese poems in new languages.

初一：岱宗夫如何？齐鲁青未了。

造化钟神秀，阴阳割昏晓。

荡胸生层云，决眦入归鸟。

会当凌绝顶，一览众山小。

大预：O peak of peaks, how high it stands! One boundless green o’er spreads two States. A marvel done by Nature’s hands, o’er light and shade it dominates. Clouds rise there from and lave my breast; my eyes are strained to see birds fleet. Try to ascend the mountain’s crest: It dwarfs all peaks under our feet.

Part C:

我熟悉在电光下开裂的天空，

狂浪、激流、龙卷风；我熟悉黄昏

和象一群白鸽般振奋的黎明，

我还见过人们只能幻想的奇景！

I have come to know the skies splitting with lightnings, and the waterspouts

And the breakers and currents; I know the evening,

And Dawn rising up like a flock of doves,

And sometimes I have seen what men have imagined they saw!

大预：We are also reading foreign poems, giving them new lives with our mother tongue.

初一：I have seen the low-hanging sun speckled with mystic horrors.

Lighting up long violet coagulations,

Like the performers in very-antique dramas

Waves rolling back into the distances their shiverings of venetian blinds!

大预：我见过夕阳，被神秘的恐怖染黑，

闪耀着长长的紫色的凝辉，

照着海浪向远方滚去的微颤，

象照着古代戏剧里的合唱队！

初一：I have dreamed of the green night of the dazzled snows

The kiss rising slowly to the eyes of the seas,

The circulation of undreamed-of saps,

And the yellow-blue awakenings of singing phosphorus!

大预：我梦见绿的夜，在眩目的白雪中

一个吻缓缓地涨上大海的眼睛，

闻所未闻的液汁的循环，

磷光歌唱家的黄与蓝的觉醒！

初一：Similarities bring us together.

大预：Differences make us unique.

初一：This is how we understand languages.

大预：This is how we understand life.

合：Together, we embrace differences.

日：いっしょに多様性のある世界を受け入れましょう。

德：Zusammen begrüßen wir Unterschiede.

西：Juntos, abrazamos las diferencias.

法：Nous embrassons ensemble les multitudes.

合：让我们拥抱这个充满差异的世界。