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名人短篇英语演讲稿 This is the text of Earl Spencer s tribute to his sis ter at her funera L There is some very deep, powerful and heartfelt sentiment? Would that those at whom it is aimed would take heed? The versions posted on several news services had minor errors? This is precisely as it was deliverd? I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock? We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so. For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today. Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty? All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rightsof the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality, someone with a natural nobility who was classless, who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic? Today is our chance to say thank you” for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life? We will all feel cheated, always, that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful thatyou came along at all. learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now you are gonedo we truly appreciate what Only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and wewant you to know that life we are now without and we want you to know that life difficuIt.without you is very, very difficuIt. We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward. There