万源校区 | 高中部社团展：辩论社—

我校美式课程高中部从创办以来一直致力于鼓励学生在课程学习和学术活动上达到平衡。高中部学生在老师的鼓励下，自主创办体育，媒体，音乐，艺术，学术类等各项社团活动。

Ever since the US high school has been established, the school keeps encouraging the students to balance their academic study and extra-curricular activities. The students actively organize various clubs and activities regarding sports, medias, music, arts, and academics.

而作为众多优秀社团中，一直坚持不懈，坚守梦想的辩论社在时间的沉淀中和阅历的积累下交出了一份满意的成绩单。在过去的两年时间里，美高辩论社的成员在各大学术辩论赛中一路过关斩将，斩获多项优异奖项。其中包括最具影响力的哈佛斯坦福邀请赛公开组32强，64强，NSDA（全国辩论演讲联赛）辩论公开组亚军，八强，top5 speakers，NHSDLC（中国国家高中辩论联盟）冠亚季军，最佳辩手等多项成绩。

One of the most outstanding clubs is the USHS debate club. During the last one and a half year, the club members have achieved multiple awards including Harvard & Stanford invitational top 32, top 64 groups; NSDA 2nd place, quarter-finalists, top 5 speakers; NHSDLC 1st, 2nd, 3rd places, and top speakers, etc.

辩论是一个兼顾学术意义同时又培养学生成为一个知识面广阔的独立个体。他们针对热点话题和有争议的社会事件各抒己见、慷慨陈词。美国的辩论赛事通常采取公开论坛式辩论(Public Forum)的形式，又称为美式辩论。美式辩论作为西方辩论的典型代表承载着浓浓的学术辩论文化，除了传统辩论中体现的语言表达、思辨和逻辑能力，还考验学生的公共演讲能力、查找资料能力、统筹分析能力及研究学习能力，是学生综合素质的全面衡量。

Debate is a meaningful experience which can not only emphasize the importance of academics, but also shaped the students to become people who have wide horizon and knowledge base. Students are able to express their opinions towards controversial social issues using precise and appealing languages, well-established logics and inquiry based researches. Debates in the USA usually is in public forum, in other words, USA debate. This form of debate requires students to not only have speech skills, but also to have skills with evidence research, background learning and data analysis.

作为高中生，要应对每个赛季学术性极强的辩题，了解，学习，并且用英语熟练掌握表达，是一件极有挑战的事。但是社员们相信：没有一蹴而就的成功，当别人享受假期之时，协和辩论社员怀着对辩论的热爱和坚持不懈的努力，远赴国内外各地为校争光。

The club members all recognize the difficulties that they might encounter while researching, learning, and debating about different academic topics. However, everyone believes that success is a long pathway. When everyone else is enjoying holiday and having rests, the club members kept practicing and persist to travel around the world participating events.

他们打过的辩题包括：

They’ve dived into the discussion of the following topics:

在辩论的道路上，协和学子前赴后继，有成功的荣光也有辛酸的苦辣。对此，社员Maggie Zhao分享了她的想法：

“我们辩手总是有着改不完的稿子。不管我们之前参加过多少比赛拿过多少奖，我们都还是会在宣布晋级名单的时候感到紧张。6个月前，当我第一次开始辩论的时候，我曾经被两个六年级学生打败过，也遇到过lay judges，但正是这些挫折带来了辩论的魅力。享受辩论过程的重要性远远超出了比赛结果。在辩论社的经历以及之前的几轮演讲都重新定义了“辩论”这个术语：辩论不是争到双方面红耳赤的。”

“Students from SUIS wanyuan continuously fight for all the possible achievements on debate. Sometimes there are joys of success, but other times, there are also struggles and bad days. Club members Maggie Zhao shares her feelings toward debate as:

We debaters have been struggling with bottomless modifications of our cases and tension when facing break announcements for every single round no matter how diplomatic we should have become throughout plentiful rounds we’ve attended. When I first started my debate journey six months ago, I’ve once been defeated by two sixth graders and experienced numerous dissatisfactions when encountering judges with solidified perspectives towards the resolutions, but it is those setbacks that truly bring on the charms of debating. The process of debating and meeting debater families goes far beyond solid excellence. Lectures from David Cao along with all the previous rounds I’ve participated redefine the term: instead of a brawl where people are blue in the face, debate is more likely a polite hot discussion where people argue back to their opponents not merely because they are at opposite positions, but because they see logical fallacies.”

对于辩论，和辩论社的心路历程，社长David Cao则自创一段古词来概括：

Toward debate and the whole experience of the debate club, club leader David Cao concludes:

古有孔明舌战群儒，述事悬河坦然应

今逢学子二人博弈，各抒己见辩新章

谁语慷慨陈词，经纶新句，论辩世事惊众座

又是应对转丸，通疏文字，引经论证胜对者

恰是此时，知己短，取彼长，得批判辩证之思维

凛冬正至，晓古事，论今朝，光芒万丈，

风华正是少年郎

Kongming the recluse whom once shined his equanimity and intelligence tohis era, such confidence with demeanor so elegant. Today we witness the talented young students inherit this tradition with great passion, while manifesting astonishing performances, demonstrating critical thinking and academic background. That is what we called a SCHOLAR.

最后，辩论社全体社员想说：

努力源于我们的内心，又忠于我们内心的那份执着。从容的走好自己选择的那条路，即便布满荆棘。

At last, all the club members from the debate club want to say:

efforts are come from our heart, and are kept for our resilience. We will and must go through the pathway we choose with our persistence, despite that roads of challenges are hard to go.

撰稿人：

Ella Xiao、David Cao、Maggie Zhao

2019年1月2日校园新闻

高中部社团展：辩论社——我们一直在路上

他们打过的辩题包括：

They’ve dived into the discussion of the following topics: