【正文】 need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our ，讓這個國家變得更加公平和自由。你們需要在各類課程中逐漸培養(yǎng)創(chuàng)造力和智慧去創(chuàng)辦公司，制造就業(yè)機會和推動經(jīng)濟增長。We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult you don39。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。re quitting on your 、技能和才智，幫助老一輩人解決我們面臨的最棘手問題。如果你們不這樣做，入股你們輟學，你們不僅放棄了自己，也放棄了自己的國家。Now, I know it39。s not always easy to do well in know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your ，我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種問題。很難把精力集中在專心讀書上。I get know what it39。s father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn39。t always able to give us the things that other kids ，我有親身感受。我父親在我兩歲時就離開了家庭，是我母親一個人將我拉扯大，母親不得不工作并時 常為支付生活費而苦苦掙扎。但有時仍無法位我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。There were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。t fit 。有時我也會感到孤獨無助，感覺到與周圍的環(huán)境格格不入。So I wasn39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the ，我做過許多自己覺得丟臉的事情，也惹出許多不該惹的麻煩。我的生活岌岌可危，隨時可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。But I wasI was got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar of her parents had gone to college, and they didn39。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，在許多事情上都得到了重來的機會。我有幸能上大學，上法學院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，也有著類似的人生故事。她的父母親都沒有讀過大學，也沒有什么財產(chǎn)，但他們都非常勤奮，她也是如此。因此她得以進入一些美國最好的學校。Some of you might not have those you don39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。t 。或許你們的生活中沒有能為你提供幫助的長輩?；蛟S你們家長中有人失業(yè)，經(jīng)濟非常拮據(jù)?；蛟S你住的社區(qū)不那么安全，或許你認識一些會對你產(chǎn)生不良影響的朋友。But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your lifewhat you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，你的生活狀況，你的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟條件、家庭氣氛，都不是疏忽學業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口。這些不是你去跟老師頂嘴、逃課或輟學的借口。這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。Where you are right now doesn39。t have to determine where you39。ll end one39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own ，沒有人為你編排好你的命運。在美國，你的命運由你自己書寫，你的未來你自己掌握。That39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across ，全美各地都是如此。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。t speak English when she first started of her parents had gone to she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown Universityis now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being ，她剛進學校時根本不會說英語。她父母都沒有上過大學。然而，她非常勤奮，成績優(yōu)異，獲得了布朗大學的獎學金。如今正攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的研究生。I39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longerhundreds of extra hoursto do his he never fell 39。s headed to college this 。他從三歲起就開始與腦癌病魔作斗爭。他熬過了一次次治療與手術(shù)。其中一項手術(shù)曾影響他的記憶。因此他得比常人多花幾百小時來完成學業(yè)。但他不曾落下自己的功課。這個秋天，他要開始在大學讀書了。And then there39。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she39。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to 。她曾寄養(yǎng)于多個不同的家庭，從小在治安差的地區(qū)長大。但她通過努力在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到了工作，發(fā)起了一個讓青少年遠離犯罪團伙的項目。她即將以優(yōu)異成績從中學畢業(yè)去大學深造。And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。ve got it a lot worse off than many of they refused to give chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for I expect all of you to do the 、安多妮和香奈兒與你們并沒有什么不同。和你們一樣，他們也在生活中遇到各種問題。在某些情況下，他們 的處境比起你們許多人更差。但他們拒絕放棄，他們決定要為自己的人生、自己的教育負起責任，給自己定下奮斗的目標。我希望你們中每一個人都能做得到這些。That39。s why today I39。m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your educationand do everything you can to meet goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a you39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your ，我今天號召你們每一個人，為自己的教育設(shè)定目標。并盡自己的最大努力來實現(xiàn)這些目標。你的目標可以很簡單，像是完成作業(yè)、認真聽講或每天閱讀。或許你打算參加一些課外活動，或是在你的社區(qū)提供志愿服務(wù)。Maybe you39。ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and ，保護那些因身份或長相而受人戲弄或欺負的孩子，原因是你和我一樣認為，每個孩子都應(yīng)該享有適合讀書和學習的安全環(huán)境。Maybe you39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don39。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and ，來位將來的學習準備。除此之外，順便提一下，我希望大家要勤洗手，感到身體不舒服的時候要多在家了休息。免得大家在秋冬感冒高發(fā)季節(jié)得流感。But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at ，我都希望你能堅持到底。我希望你腳踏實地去做。I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV are you39。re not going to be any of those ，不需要付出多大的努力就能腰纏萬貫、功成名就。只要會唱rap、會打籃球或參加真人秀節(jié)目，就能坐享其成。但現(xiàn)實是，你幾乎沒有可能走上其中任何一條道路。The truth is, being successful is won39。t love