【正文】 a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each other. So today, I want to ask all of you, what39。t let yourself down. Make us all proud. Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you. (Applause.) 。s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. It39。所以不要辜負我們的期望，不要辜負你的家庭，你的國家，以及你自己的期望。 美國的歷史講述了 250年前的學生坐在今天你們坐著的地方，發(fā)起了革命，建立了今天的國家。t be afraid to ask questions. Don39。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn39。我每天都會問問題，尋求幫助。 沒有人生而知之，必須通過努力獲得。 JK Rowling寫的第一部哈里波特小說在最后終于出版之前，被拒絕了 12次。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter. But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to it. I want you to really work at it. I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you39。你不會愛好每一門課程，喜歡每一位老師?？赡苣銈儠Q定參加課外活動，或參加社區(qū)的自愿者活動。s why today I39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。他經(jīng)受了各種各樣的治療和手術，其中有一次影響了他的記憶，所以他需要花更長的時間來作作業(yè)，幾百個小時的額外時間。在美國，你的命運掌握在你的手里，由你自己來書寫。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。她的父母都沒有機會上大學，而且也不富裕。我曾經(jīng)懷念在我的生活中有父親的那段日子。s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork. I get it. I know what it39。t just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you39。你們必須為之努力，為之接受培訓，為之學習相關的知識。ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You39。你們每一個人都可以貢獻一些東西。我已經(jīng)談過了你們的教師啟發(fā)你們，推動你們學習的責任。t getting the opportunities that they deserve. But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world and none of it will make a 快的心情。ve talked about teachers39。d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I39。我還想象著今天會有一些高年級學生這會兒可能感覺挺不錯的，因為還有一年就可以畢業(yè)了。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 education. So she decided to teach me 9月 8日是美國大部分公立中學的新學年開學第一天，這一天美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓的 Wakefield High School中學給全國中學生上了新學年第一課： MY EDUCATION, MY FUTURE。IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA39。ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning. I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn39。而對于那些在幼兒園或是剛剛開始初中或高中生涯的你來說，今天還是你們在新學校的第一天，所以你們難免會有一點緊張，這是很可以理解的。t too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I39。ve talked about responsibility a lot. I39。t working, where students aren39。而且有關責任我也談了很多。 你們每一個人都有自己的擅長。s assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor maybe even good enough to e up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team. And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。不輟學完成學業(yè)才能找到一份理想的工作。 我們需要你們中的每一個人發(fā)展自己的聰明才智，這樣你們work for it and learn for it.