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Thank you very much, bless bless 。我正在努力工作,以便你們的教室得到修繕,你們能夠得到學習所需的課本、設備和電腦。And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your 、灰心喪氣、感到其他人對你不抱希望時,也不要對你自己喪失信心,因為當你自暴自棄時,你也拋棄了自己的國家。你可能要把一道數(shù)學題做幾次才把它做對。因此,如果你遇到麻煩,那并不表示你是麻煩的制造者,而意味著你需要更加努力去把它做對。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失敗最多的人。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 you’re not going to be any of those :你不用做任何艱苦的工作就能發(fā)財致富并取得成功,唱小調(diào)、打籃球或成為真人秀明星是走向成功的途徑。That’s why today I’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 you’ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you’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 you’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 don’t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and ,我今天呼吁你們每一個人為自己的教育設定目標,并盡自己的最大努力來實現(xiàn)這些目標。And then there’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 she’s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to ?史蒂夫(Shantell Steve)。你們掌握自己的未來。或許你們生活中沒有成年人為你們提供你們所需要的支持。So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the ,我也曾做過我如今不能引以為豪的一些事情,我曾惹過不應該惹的麻煩。如果你們不這樣做,如果你們輟學,你們不僅僅是自暴自棄,也是拋棄自己的國家。And this isn’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 you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 。而教育能夠提供這樣的機會。I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the ,要確保你們走正路,完成家庭作業(yè),不要整天坐在電視前或玩1/7奧巴馬開學中英文演講稿Xbox游戲。有很多次,我趴在餐桌上就睡著了。不論在哪個年級,你們有些人可能希望暑假更長一點,今天早上還能多睡一小會兒。斯派塞(Tim Spicer)好嗎?我現(xiàn)在與弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起。有時,我渴望生活中能有一位父親。你們將需要利用你們在所有課堂上培養(yǎng)的創(chuàng)造力和智慧來創(chuàng)辦新公司,增加就業(yè)機會,振興我們的經(jīng)濟。你不能指望輟學后能碰上個好工作。你們每個人都能做出自己的貢獻。我多次談到過責任問題。不過她還要上班,所以只能在清晨四點半給我上課。對于進入小學預備班、初中或高中的學生,今天是你們來到新學校的第一天,心里可能有點緊張,這是可以理解的。好,大家請就坐。你們今天都好嗎?(掌聲)蒂姆我能想象有些畢業(yè)班學生現(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 。你們對自己應盡的責任是發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力所在。你必須接受培訓,為之努力,為之學習。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,感到自己不適應社會。美國各地從小學預備班到中學12年級的學生正在收聽收看。I know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me 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 。但每當我抱怨的時候,我媽媽都會那樣地看我一眼,然后說:“小子,這對我也并不輕松。I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working, where students aren’t getting the opportunities that they ,要制定高標準,支持教師和校長的工作,徹底改善不能為學生提供應有機會的、教育質(zhì)量差的學校。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 that’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 ——甚至可能寫書或在報紙上發(fā)表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文課的作文后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華??梢院敛豢浯蟮卣f,教育給你帶來的益處將決定這個國家的未來。Now, I know it’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 。我的人生原本會輕易陷入更糟糕的境地?;蛟S你們家中有人失業(yè),經(jīng)濟非常拮據(jù)。That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across ,全美各地都是如此。她曾在芝加哥最困難的社區(qū)生活,寄養(yǎng)于多個不同的家庭,但她最終在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到工作,并開始了一項幫助年輕人遠離流氓團伙的計劃,她即將以優(yōu)異成績從中學畢業(yè),緊接著將上大學。你的目標可以是一件十分簡單的事情,例如完成家庭作業(yè)、上課專心聽講、或每天花一點時間讀一本書。但實際情況是:你可能不會成為其中的一員。作者J?K?羅琳()所寫的系列小說《哈利?波特》(Harry Potter)第一部在獲得出版之前被退稿12次。如果你有一門課分數(shù)低,那不表示你比別人笨,而只表示你需要花更多的時間學習。你可能要把一些材料閱讀幾遍才能理解。The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got ’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their ,而是堅持不懈、加倍努力的人,他們對國家的愛促使他們?nèi)σ愿啊5銈円脖仨毐M自己的努力。愿主保佑你們。而最重要的是,不要辜負你們自己,而要讓我們都能[為你們]感到驕傲。6/7奧巴馬開學中英文演講稿So today, I want to ask all of you, what’s your contribution going to