【正文】 to keep up with an American she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the ，我不怎么喜歡那么早就爬起來，很多時(shí)候，我就這么在廚房的桌子前睡著了。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。我談到過家長(zhǎng)們有責(zé)任看管你們認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會(huì)看電視或打游戲。ve talked about teachers39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 、協(xié)助老師和校長(zhǎng)們的工作，改變?cè)谟行W(xué)校里學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機(jī)會(huì)的現(xiàn)狀。I39。t getting the opportunities that they at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the worldand none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to 39。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。s assigned to you could be an innovator or an inventormaybe even good enough to e up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccinebut you might not know it until you do your project for your science you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justicebut you might not know that until you join student government or the debate ，我可以向你保證，不管你將來想要做什么，你都需要相應(yīng)的教育。re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 39。t just important for your own life and your own you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this future of America depends on you39。ll need the insights and criticalthinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more 39。我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種各樣的問題，很難把精力集中在專心讀書之上。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。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。我在許多事上都得到了重來的機(jī)會(huì)，我得到了去大學(xué)讀法學(xué)院、實(shí)現(xiàn)自己夢(mèng)想的機(jī)會(huì)。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the 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 adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。t have to determine where you39。剛進(jìn)學(xué)校時(shí)，她根本不會(huì)說英語，她住的地方幾乎沒人上過大學(xué)，她的父母也沒有受過高等教育，但她努力學(xué)習(xí)，取得了優(yōu)異的成績(jī)，靠獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金進(jìn)入了布朗大學(xué)，如今正在攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的博士學(xué)位。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。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。我希望你們中的每一個(gè)人，都能做得到這些。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。s why today I39。你的目標(biāo)可以很簡(jiǎn)單，像是完成作業(yè)、認(rèn)真聽講或每天閱讀——或許你打算參加一些課外活動(dòng)，或在社區(qū)做些志愿工作；或許你決定為那些因?yàn)殚L(zhǎng)相或出身等等原因而受嘲弄或欺負(fù)的孩子做主、維護(hù)他們的權(quán)益，因?yàn)槟愫臀乙粯?，認(rèn)為每個(gè)孩子都應(yīng)該能有一個(gè)安全的學(xué)習(xí)環(huán)境；或許你認(rèn)為該學(xué)著更好的照顧自己，來為將來的學(xué)習(xí)做準(zhǔn)備……當(dāng)然，除此之外，我希望你們都多多洗手、感到身體不舒服的時(shí)候要多在家休息，免得大家在秋冬感冒高發(fā)季節(jié)都得流感。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。賈斯敏、安多尼和香特爾與你們并沒有什么不同。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。這個(gè)秋天，他要開始在大學(xué)讀書了。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own ，千千萬萬和你一樣的年輕人正是這樣在書寫著自己的命運(yùn)。沒有人為你編排好你的命運(yùn)，在美國(guó)，你的命運(yùn)由你自己書寫，你的未來由你自己掌握。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。但歸根結(jié)底，你的生活狀況——你的長(zhǎng)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，這些不是你去跟老師頂嘴、逃課、或是輟學(xué)的借口，這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。So I wasn39。t fit ，我做過許多自己覺得丟臉的事情，也惹出過許多不該惹的麻煩，我的生活岌岌可危，隨時(shí)可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。re quitting on your , I know it39。我父親在我兩歲時(shí)就離開了家庭，是母親一人將我們拉扯大，有時(shí)她付不起帳單，有時(shí)我們得不到其他孩子們都有的東西，有時(shí)我會(huì)想，假如父親在該多好，有時(shí)我會(huì)感到孤獨(dú)無助，與周圍的環(huán)境格格不入。假如你不這么做——假如你放棄學(xué)習(xí)——那么你不僅是放棄了自己，也是放棄了你的國(guó)家。You39。今天你們?cè)趯W(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會(huì)決定我們整個(gè)國(guó)家在未來迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)的表現(xiàn)。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。s the opportunity an education can ——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報(bào)刊上——但假如不在英語課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫作，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個(gè)發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計(jì)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)，你不會(huì)知道自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一名議員或最高法院法官，但假如你不去加入什么學(xué)生會(huì)或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。你們中的每一個(gè)人都會(huì)有自己擅長(zhǎng)的東西，每一個(gè)人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對(duì)自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39?！悄忝刻鞙?zhǔn)時(shí)去上學(xué)、除非你認(rèn)真地聽老師講課、除非你把父母、長(zhǎng)輩和其他大人們說的話放在心上、除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力，否則這一切都會(huì)失去意義。ve talked about your parents39。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。s expected of all of you in this new school ，也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個(gè)詞。我要和你們談一談你們每個(gè)人的教育，以及在新的學(xué)年里，你們應(yīng)當(dāng)做些什么。t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I39。小時(shí)候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過幾年，而我媽媽沒錢送我去其他美國(guó)孩子們上學(xué)的地方去讀書，因此她決定自己給我上課——時(shí)間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點(diǎn)半。s understandable if you39。我想也會(huì)有許多畢業(yè)班的學(xué)生們正自信滿滿地準(zhǔn)備最后一年的沖刺。請(qǐng)不要放棄自己，放棄自己的責(zé)任！引人深思，看完后，希望能對(duì)你有所幫助！Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia 韋克菲爾德高中，弗吉尼亞州，阿林頓市，September 8,2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA39。有人說是為了以后更輕松的賺錢，有人說是為了有個(gè)更好的將來，有人說是為了擺脫現(xiàn)在的窘境，甚至有人說僅僅是為了將來有個(gè)飯碗，有個(gè)好家庭。請(qǐng)不要讓我們失望——不要讓你的家人、你的國(guó)家和你自己失望。t let yourself us all 、你們的老師和我，每一個(gè)人都在盡最大的努力，確保你們都能得到應(yīng)有的教育來回答這些問題。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you39。s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revo1ution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。The story of America isn39。re struggling, even when you39?！颐刻於?