【正文】 mething important to discuss with you. I39。在我小的時候，我們家在印度尼西亞生活過幾年。 巴拉克 ?奧巴馬總統(tǒng)在重返學校活動中的預稿 弗吉尼亞 阿靈頓 2020年 9月 8日 星期二 總統(tǒng)：大家好，大家今天都好嗎？我現(xiàn)在是和弗吉尼亞州韋柯菲爾德高中的學生在一起。s your first day in a new school, so it39。s understandable if you39。全國各地的學生，從幼兒園到 12年級，也都在收聽。那時候我媽媽沒有足夠的錢送我去全是美國孩子念書的學校。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 Xbox. I39。但是我今天在這里的原因是有一些重要的事情想和你們商討。只有你們到學校來上課，注意聽老師講課，聽父母，祖父母以及其他大人的話，努力學習，才能成功。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you39?？赡苣銜蔀槭虚L，參議員或者最高法庭大法官，但是 只有參加學生自治或辯論小組你才會發(fā)現(xiàn)這一點。 你們將會需要科學和數(shù)學課上所學的知識和解 決問題的技巧來治療象癌癥和艾滋病這樣的病癥，來開發(fā)新的能源技術，保護我們的環(huán)境。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our economy. 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 problems. If you don39。 我知道要想在學校表現(xiàn)得好并非易事。我的生活很可能轉(zhuǎn)變得很糟糕。可能你的家庭現(xiàn)在失業(yè)了，經(jīng)濟出現(xiàn)了困頓。s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don39。沒有任何借口可以和老師頂撞，翹課或是輟學。杰茲明剛開始上學的時候不會說英語。她將要從高中榮譽畢業(yè)，去上大學。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even 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 she39。他們選擇承擔起自己在教育中的責任，樹立了自己的人生目標。 不管你決定做什么，我都希望你能真正致力于這些事情，為之努力。世界上一些最成功的人士恰恰就是那些失education and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you39。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try. That39。 ” 這些人之所以能夠成功是因為他們知 道不能讓失敗所左右，而要從失敗中學習到成功之道。學業(yè)也是同樣的道理。 就算在苦苦奮斗，心灰意冷，好像別人都放棄了你的時候，自first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don39。t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor and ask them to 己也不要輕言放棄。我正在努力修整你們的教室，使你們得到學習需要的課本，設備和計算機。re struggling, even when you39。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to learn. But you39。t let us down. Don39。t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country. The story of America isn39。所以我希望你們今年能認真思索，盡全力做好每一件事情。 美國人可不是輕易在困難時候就放棄了的民族。ve got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it39。t let your failures define you you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn39。 不要怕問問題。如果你身陷麻煩之中，這并不意味著你是個制造麻煩的人，只是意味著你需要更加努力。ve had the most failures. . Rowling39。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 learn. Maybe you39。而很可能是你們不可能成為這其中的 任何一種人。 這就是為什么今天，我號召你們每一個人樹立自己的教育目標，然后盡自己最大的努力實現(xiàn)這些目標。t any different from any of you. They face challenges in the