【正文】 t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you 39。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 you39。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。t fit I wasn39。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。s the opportunity an education can 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。 responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don39。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 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。而且，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。我也很多次談到過政府有責(zé)任設(shè)定高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)嚴(yán)要求、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。我可以理解這份心情。一些反對(duì)者指責(zé)稱，奧巴馬試圖通過演講向?qū)W生灌輸政治理念。obligation ，義務(wù)It takes all of us in governmentfrom the governor to the mayor to the superintendent to the Presidentall of us doing our part to prepare our students, all of them, for success in the classroom and in college and in a ’s going to take an outstanding principal, like Principal Neff, and outstanding teachers like the ones you have here at Mastermanteachers who are going above and beyond the call of duty for their it’s going to take parents who are mitted to your ，從州長(zhǎng)到市長(zhǎng)，到院長(zhǎng)，到總統(tǒng)，所有人都要履行職責(zé)為我們的學(xué)生做好準(zhǔn)備，幫助他們?cè)诮淌?、在大學(xué)、在事業(yè)上取得成功。沒有什么比你的受教育程度以及你在學(xué)校的所做之事更能決定你的成功。未來在你自己手中，生活由自己締造。有時(shí)你們還看到了雙親臉上掛著的憂慮，或從他們的聲音中感受到了這些。build friendships 結(jié)交新朋友But I know some of you may also be a little nervous about starting a new school you’re making the jump from elementary to middle school, or from middle school to high school, and you’re worried about what that’s going to be you’re starting a new ’re not sure how you’ll like it, trying to figure out how you’re going to fit maybe you’re a senior, and you’re anxious about the whole college process。這是對(duì)每個(gè)人的見證，對(duì)學(xué)生，家長(zhǎng)，老師還有學(xué)校領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。（掌聲）outstanding Congressman principal superintendent And I am here.(Applause.)And I am thrilled to be am just so ’ve heard such great things about what all of you are doing, both the students and the teachers and the staff 。首先，來到這兒的有，杰出的賓夕法尼亞州州長(zhǎng)，Ed Rendell。見到你們真是太好了。部分媒體還批評(píng)奧巴馬試圖建立個(gè)人崇拜。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you39。re struggling, even when you39。t hit every note the first time you sing a 39。s why I succeed.These people succeeded because they understood that you can39。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at 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 you39。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。re quitting on your , I know it39。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for this isn39。t working, where students aren39。ve talked about responsibility a 39。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 39。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 no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our 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 don39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not you are right now doesn39。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。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time one39。t a sign of weakness, it39。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。這是奧巴馬第二次發(fā)表開學(xué)演講。謝謝。站在這里我很激動(dòng)。學(xué)校管理人Arlene Ackerman是這個(gè)學(xué)校的，并且為學(xué)校做了很大的貢獻(xiàn)。（掌聲）因?yàn)槟銈兪琴M(fèi)城最好的學(xué)校之一。你們?yōu)橄奶斓氖湃ザ駛悄銈兏鼞?yīng)該期待新的一年。elementary school figure out 想明白，弄清楚 fit in 融入，適應(yīng) afford to do 承擔(dān)得起And beyond all those concerns, I know a lot of you are also feeling the strain of some difficult know what’s going on in the news and you also know what’s going on in some of your own ’ve read about the war in hear about the recession that we’ve been sometimes maybe you’re seeing the worries in your parents’ faces or sense it in their ，我知道你們還有來自困難時(shí)期的壓力。這讓你們迷茫，不知道自己的未來會(huì)是什么樣，在學(xué)校能不能取得好成績(jī)，是不是應(yīng)該把目光降低些，把理想放低些。因?yàn)榻逃龔奈聪瘳F(xiàn)在這樣重要。你們?cè)趯W(xué)校的成功并不只決定了自己一人的成功，還決定了美國(guó)在21世界是否能夠成功。未來在你自己手中，生活由自己締造。我知道，對(duì)你們中的許多人來說，今天是開學(xué)的第一天，你們中的有一些剛剛進(jìn)入幼兒園或升上初高中，對(duì)你們來說，這是在新學(xué)校的第一天，