【正文】 謝大家！All right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody going today? How about Tim Spicer? 好的，大家請就座。你們今天過得怎么樣？？I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we39。我還有感謝維克菲爾德高中出色的組織安排，請為你們熱烈鼓掌。re a little ，對你們中的許多人來說，今天是開學(xué)的第一天。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。I know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn39。我母親沒有錢送我上其他美國孩子上的學(xué)校。所以只能在清晨四點(diǎn)半給我上課。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 39。我要和你們談一談你們每一個人的教育，以及這個新學(xué)年對你們所有人的期望。也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個詞。I39。I39。t getting the opportunities that they ，改變在有些學(xué)校學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機(jī)會的現(xiàn)狀。除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。而教育能夠提供這樣的機(jī)會Maybe you could be a great writermaybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaperbut you might not know it until you write that English paperthat English class paper that39。但假如不再自然科學(xué)課堂上做上幾次試驗(yàn)，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能。You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You39。你必須接受培訓(xùn)，為之努力，為之學(xué)習(xí)。教育給你帶來的益處將決定這個國家的未來。ll need the knowledge and problemsolving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our ，去治療癌癥、艾滋病那樣的疾病。ll 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。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。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。t always able to give us the things that other kids ，我有親身感受。t fit 。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。我有幸能上大學(xué)，上法學(xué)院，追求自己的理想。Some of you might not have those you don39。t 。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。這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。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(yùn)。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。如今正攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的研究生。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。其中一項(xiàng)手術(shù)曾影響他的記憶。And then there39。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(yuǎn)離犯罪團(tuán)伙的項(xiàng)目。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。我希望你們中每一個人都能做得到這些。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(biāo)。Maybe you39。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and ，來位將來的學(xué)習(xí)準(zhǔn)備。我希望你腳踏實(shí)地去做。但現(xiàn)實(shí)是，你幾乎沒有可能走上其中任何一條道路。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you ，取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。并不是每一件事，你都能在頭一次嘗試時獲得成功。39。投失過幾千次射籃，但他曾說過：“我一生不停地失敗、失敗再失敗，這就是我成功的原因。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。假如你惹了什么麻煩，那并不說明你就是那個搗蛋鬼。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。第一次唱一首歌曲時，你不可能唱準(zhǔn)每一個音。對于學(xué)業(yè)也是一樣，你或許要反復(fù)運(yùn)算才能正確解釋出一道數(shù)學(xué)題。t be afraid to ask 39。t know something, and that then allows you to learn something ，不要不敢向他人求助。So find an adult that you trusta parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselorand ask them to help you stay on track to meet your ，例如家長、祖父或老師、教練或輔導(dǎo)員。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。t about people who quit when things got 39。s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。他們?yōu)槊駲?quán)而奮斗并把宇航員送上了月球。s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who es here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? 因此，今天我要問問你們大家。Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these 39。ve got to do your part, I expect all of you to get serious this expect you to put your best effort into everything you expect great things from each of don39。因此我要求你們在今年能夠認(rèn)真起來。而最重要的時，不要辜負(fù)你們自己，你們要成為我們的驕傲。日前美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬做出了開學(xué)演講，以自己的觀點(diǎn)闡述了我們之所以要學(xué)習(xí)的原因他認(rèn)為對于自己的教育，我們中每一個人的責(zé)任。他舉了幾個例子：或許有的人能寫出優(yōu)美的文字——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報刊上——但假如不在課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫作，他不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許有的人能成為一個發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計出像今天的iPhone一樣流行的產(chǎn)品，或研制出新的藥物與疫苗——但假如不在自然科學(xué)課程上做上幾次實(shí)驗(yàn)，他不會知道自己有這樣的天賦；或許有的人能成為一名議員或最高法院法官，但假如他不去加入什么學(xué)生會或參加幾次辯論賽，他也不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。如他所說，在那么多頑劣的人最后都通過努力獲得成功下，我們的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟(jì)條件、家庭氛圍——都不是疏忽學(xué)業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口。最后于這個秋天，他要開始在大學(xué)讀書了。因?yàn)椋晒κ羌y事。因?yàn)樵谶@個世界上，最最成功的人們往往也經(jīng)歷過最多的失敗。他們的成功，源于他們明白人不能讓失敗左右自己——而是要從中吸取經(jīng)驗(yàn)。對于學(xué)業(yè)也是一樣，我們或許要反復(fù)運(yùn)算才能解出一道數(shù)學(xué)題的正確答案，我們或許需要讀一段文字好幾遍才能理解它的意思，我們或許得把論文改上好幾次才能符合提交的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。THE PRESIDENT: Thank you!Hello!(Applause.)Thank , hello, Philadelphia!(Applause.)And hello, is wonderful to see all of a terrific introduction by Kelly a big round of applause.(Applause.)I was saying backstage that when I was in high school, I could not have done that.(Laughter.)I would have muffed it up we are so proud of you and everything that you’ve to all the students here, I’m thrilled to be ’ve got a couple introductions I want to of all, you’ve got the outstanding governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, in the house.(Applause.)The mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, is here.(Applause.)Congressman Chaka Fattah is here.(Applause.)Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz is here.(Applause.)Your own principal, Marge Neff, is here.(Applause.)The school superintendent, Arlene Ackerman, is here and doing a great job.(Applause.)And the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is here.(Applause.)And I am here.(Appla