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我們希望自己的孩子成長在這樣一個國家:他們能去到最好的學(xué)校,有最好的老師;它不會辜負(fù)前人留下的遺產(chǎn),繼續(xù)成為全球科技、探索、創(chuàng)新的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者,有好的工作、新的產(chǎn)業(yè)隨之而來;我們希望自己孩子成長的美國,不會被債務(wù)負(fù)累,不會因不平等而有所削弱,也不會被地球變暖而帶來的危害所威脅。它并不渺小,它是件大事,很重要的大事。但如果你曾經(jīng)同參加過我們的集會的普通人,或是在高中體育館圍線外排隊(duì)的人們交談過;或是看到在遠(yuǎn)離家鄉(xiāng)的小郡縣競選辦公室里工作到很晚的人們,你一定會有新的認(rèn)識。至政治史上最好的競選團(tuán)隊(duì)和志愿者們:你們是最好的,最最好的。能有他做副總統(tǒng)。我剛剛和羅姆尼州長通了話,向他和保羅我們每個人都可以追逐自己的夢想。不過,盡管全國絕大多數(shù)民主黨人、無黨派人士和共和黨人都支持提高最低工資,國會共和黨人卻不想就該法案進(jìn)行表決?!钦_的——提高美國人民的工資,不只是件善事;它是件好事,有益于我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)。第二篇:奧巴馬演講中英文對照學(xué)習(xí)Hi, !Restoring the idea of opportunity for all requires a year of action from all of I can acton my own, I will – and whenever I can ask more Americans to help, I’ll do that ,需要我們大家在今年做出不懈努力,在我能獨(dú)自采取行動的地方,我會毫不猶豫地這樣去做——在我可以請求美國人民幫助的時候,我也會毫不遲疑地發(fā)出聲音。首都被占領(lǐng),敵人在挺進(jìn),冬天的雪被鮮血染成了紅色。s willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our ,必須做多少,美國國家的立國之本最終還是美國人的決心和信念。世界必須改變,我們都必須改變。對于那些在世界各個地方挑起沖突或一味批評西方不良影響的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者:你的人民評判你的依據(jù)是你建立了什么,而不是破壞了什么。you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat 。國家的經(jīng)濟(jì)情況要求我們采取大膽且快速的行動,我們的確是要行動,不僅是要創(chuàng)造就業(yè),更要為(下一輪經(jīng)濟(jì))增長打下新的基礎(chǔ)。endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg。to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the Godgiven promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of ,借用《圣經(jīng)》的話說,放棄幼稚的時代已經(jīng)到來了。我們的人民正在失去家園,失去工作,很多企業(yè)倒閉。在緊張的形勢中,支持美國前進(jìn)的不僅僅是領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人的能力和遠(yuǎn)見,也在于美國人民對國家先驅(qū)者理想的信仰,以及對美國立國文件的忠誠。我要感謝布什總統(tǒng)為國家做出的貢獻(xiàn),以及感謝他在兩屆政府過渡期間給與的慷慨協(xié)作。our schools fail too many。On this day, we e to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our ,我們宣布要為無謂的摩擦、不實(shí)的承諾和指責(zé)畫上句號,我們要打破牽制美國政治發(fā)展的若干陳舊教條。這其中有一些人名留青史,但是更多的人卻在默默無聞地工作著。This is the journey we continue remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on workers are no less productive than when this crisis minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last capacity remains our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisionsnot only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our merce and bind us will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology39。這一切,我們都能做到,而且我們都將會做到。對于那些企圖通過恐怖主義或屠殺無辜平民達(dá)成目標(biāo)的人,我們要對他們說:我們的信仰更加堅(jiān)定,不可動搖,你們不可能拖垮我們,我們定將戰(zhàn)勝你們。nor can we consume the world39。而此時,在這個特殊的時代,我們更需讓這種精神長存。So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have the year of America39。s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future ,讓我們記住國父們不朽的語言。這意味著更多的家庭,將能以更小的財政壓力和負(fù)擔(dān),撫養(yǎng)孩子、完成學(xué)業(yè)或支付賬單。Right now, there’s a bill before Congress that would boost America’s minimum wage to $ ’s easy to remember –―tenten.‖ That bill would lift wages for more than 16 millionAmericans without requiring a single dollar in new taxes or even though a majorityof Democrats, Independents, and Republicans across the country support raising the minimumwage, Republicans in Congress don’t want to give it a 。it’s about what can be done by us together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of selfgovernment.(Cheers, applause.)That’s the principle we were founded country has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us have the most powerful military in history, but that’s not what makes us university, our culture are all the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world ing to our makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on Earth, the belief that our destiny is shared —(cheers, applause)— that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations, so that the freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for e with responsibilities as well as rights, and among those are love and charity and duty and ’s what makes America great.(Cheers, applause.)I am hopeful tonight because I have seen this spirit at work in ’ve seen it in the family business whose owners would rather cut their own pay than lay off their neighbors and in the workers who would rather cut back their hours than see a friend lose a ’ve seen it in the soldiers who reenlist after losing a limb and in those SEALs who charged up the stairs into darkness and danger because they knew there was a buddy behind them watching their back.(Cheers, applause.)I’ve seen it on the shores of New Jersey and New York, where leaders from every party and level of government have swept aside their differences to help a munity rebuild from the wreckage of a terrible storm.(Cheers, applause.)And I saw it just the other day in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8yearold daughter whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance pany was about to stop paying for her care.(Cheers, applause.)I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father but meet this incredible daughter of when he spoke to the crowd, listening to that father’s story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes because we knew that little girl could be our I know that every American wants her future to be just as ’s who we ’s the country I’m so proud to lead as your president.(Cheers, applause.)And tonight, despite all the hardship we’ve been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I’ve never been more hopeful about our future.(Cheers, applause.)I have never been more hopeful about I ask you to sustain that MEMBER: We got your back, !PRESIDENT OBAMA: I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our ’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despit