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第一次唱一首歌曲時,你不可能唱準(zhǔn)每個音。這就是我成功的原因。不是所有的家庭作業(yè)似乎都與你眼前的生活完全有關(guān)。順便提一下,除了這些事情外,我希望大家要勤洗手,身體感到不舒服的時候要呆在家里不去上學(xué),這樣我們能防止人們在今年秋冬季節(jié)染上流感。沒有人決定你們的命運,在美國,你們決定自己的命運。Some of you might not have those you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t 。有時我感到孤獨,感到自己不適應(yīng)社會。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 don’t do thatif you quit on schoolyou’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your ,以便幫助老一輩人解決我們面臨的最棘手問題。你必須接受培訓(xùn),為之努力,為之學(xué)習(xí)。你們對自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任是發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力所在。I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to 。Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I’d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)你們可以想見,我不太情愿那么早起床。我能想象有些畢業(yè)班學(xué)生現(xiàn)在感覺很不錯——(掌聲)——還有一年就畢業(yè)了。你們今天都好嗎?(掌聲)蒂姆一些學(xué)生家長也要求先看講話稿,然后才會決定是否讓孩子收看。有的甚至批評說,里根的講話毒害了學(xué)生的心靈。一些批評人士指出,奧巴馬向未成年人講話,有向他們推銷某種政治議程的嫌疑。奧巴馬遭遇抗拒奧巴馬發(fā)表講話的消息見諸媒體后,立刻受到共和黨和保守派陣營的質(zhì)疑。謝謝你們。我希望你們盡最大努力做好每一件事。It’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。在交出一篇優(yōu)美的作文之前,你肯定需要打幾遍草稿。No one’s born being good at all bee good at things through hard ’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don’t hit every note the first time you sing a ’ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand 。邁克爾?喬丹(Michael Jordan)曾被他的高中籃球隊除名。The truth is, being successful is won’t love every subject that you won’t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won’t necessarily succeed at everything thefirst time you ,取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。也許你會決定要參加課外活動或在你的社區(qū)提供志愿服務(wù)。And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren’t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they’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 、安多尼和尚特爾與你們中間的每個人沒什么兩樣。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn’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 ?佩雷斯(Jazmin Perez)就是一個例證,她剛開始上學(xué)時并不會說英文?;蛟S你們生活在使你們感覺不安全的社區(qū),或有朋友逼迫你們?nèi)プ瞿銈冎啦粚Φ氖虑?。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 didn’t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ,我當(dāng)年際遇不錯。我知道你們許多人在生活中面臨挑戰(zhàn),難以集中精力從事學(xué)業(yè)。美國的未來取決于你們。你或許能成為一名創(chuàng)新者或發(fā)明家——甚至可能設(shè)計出新一代iPhone或研制出新型藥物或疫苗——但你可能要在完成科學(xué)課的實驗后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。But 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 ’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your ,即使我們擁有最敬業(yè)的教師,最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學(xué)?!绻銈兇蠹也宦男心銈兊呢?zé)任,不到校上課,不專心聽講,不聽家長、祖父祖母和其他大人的話,不付出取得成功所必須的勤奮努力,那么這一切都毫無用處,都無關(guān)緊要?!保ㄐβ暎㏒o I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with ’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school 。我小時候,我們家生活在海外。我很高興大家今天都能參與。s Speech To Students 9th Sept39。你們今天都好嗎?(掌聲)蒂姆我能想象有些畢業(yè)班學(xué)生現(xiàn)在感覺很不錯——(掌聲)——還有一年就畢業(yè)了。Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I’d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)你們可以想見,我不太情愿那么早起床。I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to 。你們對自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任是發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力所在。你必須接受培訓(xùn),為之努力,為之學(xué)習(xí)。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 don’t do thatif you quit on schoolyou’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your ,以便幫助老一輩人解決我們面臨的最棘手問題。有時我感到孤獨,感到自己不適應(yīng)社會。Some of you might not have those you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t 。沒有人決定你們的命運,在美國,你們決定自己的命運。他今年秋季將邁進大學(xué)。我期待你們大家都會這樣做。我希望你腳踏實地地去做。That’s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most ’swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my that’s why I succeed.”這些都沒關(guān)系。你必須讓失敗向你展示下次如何以不同的方式去做這件事情。同樣的道理適用于你的學(xué)業(yè)。因此,請確定一位你信任的成年人,例如家長、祖父母或老師、教練或輔導(dǎo)員,請他們幫助你遵循既定計劃實