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chael Nutter。(掌聲)。我耳聞了你們做的那些偉大的事,這里面有在校的學生,老師和工作人員。你們在教育方面是領頭軍。embrace ;接受Over the past few weeks, Michelle and I have been getting Sasha and Malia ready for they’re excited about ’ll bet they had the same feelings that you doyou’re a little sad to see the summer go, but you’re also excited about the possibilities of a new possibilities of building new friendships and strengthening old ones, of joining a school club, or trying out for a possibilities of growing into a better student and a better person and making not just your family proud but making yourself ,我和Michelle為Sasha和Malia上學的事做準備。如你們可以結交新的朋友,加深同老朋友的感情,加入學校俱樂部,參加各種團隊的選拔賽?;蛟S你剛從小學升到初中,從初中升到高中,會擔心,新的學年將會是什么樣的呢。你們知道新聞內容,知道你們一些家庭中發(fā)發(fā)生的事情。姐姐哥哥在海外工作,你們會表現(xiàn)得堅強,或許媽媽去值第二班,你們就要照顧年幼的弟弟妹妹。handle ,應對 scale back 縮減But I came to Masterman to tell all of you what I think you’re hearing from your principal and your superintendent, and from your parents and your teachers: Nobody gets to write your destiny but future is in your life is what you make of nothingabsolutely nothingis beyond your reach, so long as you’re willing to dream big, so long as you’re willing to work long as you’re willing to stay focused on your education, there is not a single thing that any of you cannot acplish, not a single believe ,我來到馬斯特曼,告訴你們一句話。只要你專注于學業(yè),沒有什么事不能實現(xiàn)的。我確信,幾個月后會有一段時間,你們會完善熬夜寫作業(yè),為考試臨時抱佛腳,或者在一個雨天的早晨把自己從被窩里拖出來,想,哦天,怎么不是下雪天??。ㄐΓ゛bsolutely cram ;吃得過飽But let me tell you, what you’re doing is worth is nothing more important than what you’re doing right is going to have as great an impact on your success in life as your education, how you’re doing in ,你所做的一切都是值得的。你們在學校的表現(xiàn)越好,生活中就能走得越遠。So you’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you, to make sure you’re getting the best education making sure you get that kind of education is going to take all of us working hard and all of us working hand in ,你們要承擔起這樣的責任和義務。老師們要履行好對學生所應擔負起的責任。背景知識這是奧巴馬第二次發(fā)表開學演講。在美國各地,也有許多家長向當?shù)亟逃賳T表示抗議,一些家長甚至威脅在奧巴馬演講時把孩子離教室。拋開一切煩惱,全心投入學習中來,在每件事情上追求卓越。我仍然記得上高中時,我和我媽媽的一段對話。slip apply myself 專心And so I suspect this is a conversation that will sound familiar to some students and some parents here decided to sit me down and said I had to change my attitude was what I imagine every teenager’s attitude is when your parents have a conversation with you like was like, you know, I don’t need to hear all ’m doing okay, I’m not flunking 。flunk out 退學So I started to say that, and she just cut me right said, you can’t just sit around waiting for luck to see you said, you can get into any school you want in the country if you just put in a little bit of gave me a hard look and she said, you remember what that’s like? Effort?(Laughter.)Some of you have had that conversation.(Laughter.)And it was pretty jolting hearing my mother say ,媽媽直接打斷了我,說你不能這樣干坐著等著天上掉餡餅,如果你肯再努力一點點,你就能進美國的任何大學。漸漸地我的成績和未來有了希望。skeptical it is true that we each have our own gifts, we each have our own talents that we have to discover and everybody is going to catch on in certain subjects as easily as ,我們每個人都有自己的天賦和才能,我們需要去挖掘和培養(yǎng)這種才能。你發(fā)現(xiàn),你有一些從來沒有想象過的才能。他們有時會問你功課能不能跟得上,因為他們知道,只要你不斷努力,你就能做出好成績。吸取教訓,再試一次。我向所有人的孩子們傳達這樣一個信息:這是我們要在美國所有學校宣揚的“優(yōu)秀”文化。但是我不得不說,他們的畢業(yè)班有700名學生,我要和他們一一握手,最后我的雙手非常疼。這是我要和全國的孩子們交流的另一個話題。And sometimes that’s especially true in middle school or high school, because being a teenager isn’t ’s a time when you’re wrestling with a lot of I was in my teens, I was wrestling with all sorts of questions about who I had a white mother and a black father, and my father wasn’t around。我的母親是白種人,父親是黑種人,而且又不在身邊,在我兩歲時離開了。bully pick on poke fun at And in some places, the problem is even more are neighborhoods in my hometown of Chicago, and there are neighborhoods right here in Philadelphia where kids are doing each other serious ,這個問題更加嚴重。我們不應當為那些讓我們與眾不同為恥,我們應當為這些不同之處而自豪,因為與眾不同使我們獨一無二。她告訴我,她非常努力,與哥哥工作為社區(qū)服務。我努力實現(xiàn)我的目標,并且?guī)椭渌藢崿F(xiàn)目標。但是,在這里,在美利堅共和國,我們是誰,不只是取決于我們是否實現(xiàn)了自己的夢想,還取決于我們是不是幫助了別人。你們每個人都會在未來做出偉大的事情。謝謝。教育是為我們實現(xiàn)諾言、做我們最好的自己提供機遇。但演講當日,仍有學校和個人選擇抵制、甚至抗議。前總統(tǒng)布什的妻子勞拉則之稱奧巴馬這個演講,說:“美國總統(tǒng)有理由與學童交談、鼓勵他們。很高興你們今天能和我們在一起。我猜想一些十二年級的學生因為只有一年就可以畢業(yè)了,而感到愉快;無論你們是幾年級,一些人可能還很盼望此刻還是暑假,那么你們今天早上就可以多睡一會兒。所以她決定親自多教我?guī)坠?jié)課,從星期一到星期五,每天早上四點半開始?!保ㄔ诖?,他的媽媽非常幽默,意思是奧巴馬想吃野餐而不喜歡桌上的食物——譯者注)所以我明白你們中的一些人還在調整自己開學后的狀態(tài)。我也講過你們的老師的責任去激勵你們激發(fā)和催促你們去學習。除非你出現(xiàn)在學校,對老師的講課集中注意力,聽從父母,祖父母的教誨。你們每一個人都有自己擅長的事情,你們每一個人都有能夠拿出手的一些本領。不論你這一生想做什么,我敢說你將需要接受一定的教育才能完成它。這不僅僅關系到你自己的生活和前途,你的教育怎么樣決定了這個國家的未來。讓我們的國家更公平更自由。我知道要想一直在學校表現(xiàn)優(yōu)異并不是件容易的事。在那個時候,我曾想念有父親在的日子,有的時候會感到寂寞,無法適應。我有許多次改過自新的機會,而且能有機會上大學、法學院,能追尋我的夢想。家里的人可能丟了工作,沒辦法在經濟上支持你。你現(xiàn)在的位置并不能代表你未來的去向。年輕的朋友,像是來自德州的潔絲敏?佩雷斯(Jazmin Perez),潔絲敏剛去上學時連英文都不會說。他經歷了各種治療方法與手術,甚至影響到他的記憶能力,所以他必須花更長的時間,比別人多好幾百個小時的努力來完成他學校的功課。她將以優(yōu)異的成績從高中畢業(yè)后上大學。我期望你們每個人也能和他們一樣。也許你會站出來幫助因為外在與個性因素而被欺負的學生,因為你和我一樣堅信,所有的孩子都應該有一個安全的讀書與學習的環(huán)境。我知道有的時候,你會在電視上看到能輕松賺大錢或是功成名就的管道 ─繞舌、打籃球或是做電視明星,但很可能你無法從事以上任何一種事業(yè)。你也不一定能在第一次做什么事情就能成功。麥可?喬丹在高中時曾被籃球隊退出,在他的職業(yè)生涯當中曾輸了幾百場比賽,沒投進上千球。你要能在下一次做的更好。沒有人一生下來就什么都會,你能做好是因為經過了努力。這跟你學校的功課是一樣的。尋求幫助不是懦弱的表現(xiàn),那是堅強的表現(xiàn)。美國成功的故事不是在講那些碰到困難就逃避的人。20年前在這個位置上的學生創(chuàng)立了Google、Twitter和Facebook,改變了人與人聯(lián)系的方式。所以我期望你們今年能認真起來。讓我們感到驕傲。謝謝,謝謝,謝謝大家。And I’m just so glad that all you could join us today and I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding yourselves an big round of ,感謝維克菲爾德高中能夠把組織工作做的這么好,請為你們自己鼓掌。And no matter what grade you’re in ,some of you probably wish you are still in you could stay in bed a little bit longer this ,我想你們當中肯定有人還希望暑假還沒結束,那樣你們就能在今天早上多睡一小會兒。But she thought it was important for me to keep up with an America she decided to teach me extra lessons ,所以她決定自己在家里教我。Then whenever I plained it, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say this is no piic for me either, ,我媽就會一臉不情愿的對我說,你以為我教你很輕松嗎,小鬼。我說過老師的責任是鼓勵學生,激勵學生學習。第四篇:奧巴馬對全美學生的開學演講奧巴馬對全美學生的開學演講(中英)Hello, everybody!Thank you, right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody doing today? How about Tim Spicer? I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we’ve 奧巴馬在全美學生開學第一天的演講