We hadn’t spoken for decades, so I was thrilled when he told me: he remembered a particularly gifted public speaker who took his class in the 1980s… With a bright mind and a charming personality!

他告诉我，他记起了我，是上世纪80年代教过的一名学生。并夸赞我不仅极具公众演讲天赋，而且赋有聪明的头脑和迷的个性。要知道，我们已经几十年没有联系过了，所以听到他的话，我非常的激动兴奋。

Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker.

威尔玛·苏夫拉无意成为公众演说家。

My name is Brandon Leonard, and I'm an author, magazine writer, filmmaker, and public speaker.

我的名字是布兰登·伦纳德，我是一名作家，杂志写手，电影制片和公众演说家。

The best public speakers know how to work the room.

优秀的演说家知道要如气氛。

All our MCs are trained as public speakers, so they can easily get people's attention—many guests are glad to have someone who can make themselves heard above the chatter!

我们的都是训练有素的公共演说家，所以他们可以很容易地抓住大家的眼球——很多客都很喜欢有这么一个在别交谈的时候还能说说话啥的！

As Scott Berkun, a professional public speaker, put it: " By the time I present to an actual audience, it's not really the first time at all" .

正如专业公众演说家斯科特·伯昆所言：" 当我向真正的听众演讲时，其实那根本就不是我的第一次演讲了。"

Did it make me feel like a totally inadequate public speaker with absolutely no point to make, who was definitely in need of a big thesaurus if she wants to keep up?

这是否让我觉得自己是一个完全不称职的公共演讲者，说的完全没有任意义，如果想赶上其他演讲者的水平，肯定需要一本大宝库去学习吗？

Australians are great public speakers, I think. - Yeah.

我认为澳大利亚是伟大的演说家。- 是的。

Hatch has written a book about his experiences in war and become a public speaker.

哈奇写了一本关于自身战争经历的书，并成为了一名公众演说家。

We have built each other to be the public speakers that we are today, by being present at every single exercise and constantly giving each other feedback.

我们把彼此塑造成今天的公共演讲者，通过参加每一个练习并不断给彼此反馈。

That's right. All our MCs are trained as public speakers, so they can easily get people's attention, many guests are glad to have someone who can make themselves heard above the chatter!

没错，所有的都接受过演讲培训，所以他们很容易吸引们的注意，许多客都很高兴能有一个能在嘈杂声中让自己的声音被听到！

And I think Garrett is a very good public speaker.

我认为加勒特是一位非常出色的公开演讲者。

This generally happens to the best of public speakers.

这种情况通常发生在最优秀的演说家身上。

After doing this for one year, I became an extremely confident public speaker.

参加了这个课程一年之后，我成为了一个非常自信的公众演说家。

And then eventually, I wound up teaching public speaking as you mentioned, and so I applied what I'd learned both as a speechwriter and as a public speaker myself and taught the subject to students.

最后，就像你提到的，我开始教公众演讲，所以我把我作为演讲撰稿和演说家所学到的东西教给学生。

If you had asked Subra before 1981, " do you see yourself as a major public speaker? " She would have laughed at the idea. Yet today she gives more than 100 presentations a year.

如果你在1981年之前问苏夫拉：“你觉得自己是一名演讲家吗？”她会对这个观点感到好笑。然而，现在她每年要做100多次演讲。

So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a world-famous author and public speaker?

那么，这样一个在19个月大时就既盲又聋的孩子是如成长为享誉世界的作家和演说家的呢？

Keisha wants to be a strong public speaker, and her rhetoric professor Dr. Mac suggests that studying historic speeches could guide her persuasive writing.

凯莎想成为一名出色的公众演说家，她的修辞学教授麦克博士建议她学习历史演说，以指导她的说服性写作。

His pregnancy was a pretty big deal; he was on Oprah, became a public speaker, and later gave birth to two more children.

他怀孕是个大事；他上欧普拉脱口秀，后来成为有名的讲者，接著又生了两个小孩。

Warren Harding had owned a newspaper in Ohio. People advised him to enter politics, because he was such a good public speaker.

沃伦·哈丁在俄亥俄州拥有一家报纸。们劝他从政，因为他是一位优秀的演说家。