【正文】 y when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn39。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。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 you39。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 ，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。t getting the opportunities that they at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the worldand none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities, unless you show up to those schools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to 39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 、協(xié)助老師和校長們的工作，改變在有些學(xué)校里學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機會的現(xiàn)狀。我談到過家長們有責(zé)任看管你們認真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會看電視或打游戲。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。Hello, everybody!Thank you, right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody doing today?(Applause.)How about Tim Spicer?(Applause.)I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we39。第一篇：奧巴馬開學(xué)演講稿(中英對照)奧巴馬開學(xué)演講稿（中英對照）按語：同學(xué)們，我們?yōu)槭裁匆蠈W(xué)？這個問題的答案可能五花八門。ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th I am just so glad that all could join us I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding yourselves a big round of applause.(Applause.)我知道，對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入幼兒園或升上初高中，對你們來說，這是在新學(xué)校的第一天，因此，假如你們感到有些緊張，那也是很正常的。ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this 。d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)所以，我可以理解你們中的許多人對于開學(xué)還需要時間來調(diào)整和適應(yīng)，但今天我站在這里，是為了和你們談一些重要的事情。Now, I39。但哪怕這一切都達到最好，哪怕我們有最盡職的教師、最好的家長、和最優(yōu)秀的學(xué)校，假如你們不去履行自己的責(zé)任的話，那么這一切努力都會白費。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your ，我想談?wù)勀銈儗τ谧约河惺裁簇?zé)任。——你想當(dāng)名醫(yī)生、當(dāng)名教師或當(dāng)名警官？你想成為護士、成為建筑設(shè)計師、律師或軍人？無論你選擇哪一種職業(yè)，良好的教育都必不可少，這世上不存在不把書念完就能拿到好工作的美夢，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓(xùn)練與學(xué)習(xí)。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the ，去治療癌癥、艾滋那樣的疾病，和解決我們面臨的能源問題與環(huán)境問題；你們需要在歷史社科課程上培養(yǎng)出的觀察力與判斷力，來減輕和消除無家可歸與貧困、犯罪問題和各種歧視，讓這個國家變得更加公平和自由；你們需要在各類課程中逐漸累積和發(fā)展出來的創(chuàng)新意識和思維，去創(chuàng)業(yè)和建立新的公司與企業(yè)，來制造就業(yè)機會和推動經(jīng)濟的增長。我知道你們的感受。t always able to give us the things that other kids were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，或許你的生活中沒有能為你提供幫助和支持的長輩，或許你的某個家長沒有工作、經(jīng)濟拮據(jù)，或許你住的社區(qū)不那么安全，或許你認識一些會對你產(chǎn)生不良影響的朋友，等等。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，并不取決于你現(xiàn)在的生活有多好或多壞。我還想起了加利福尼亞州洛斯拉圖斯市的安多尼?舒爾茲（Andoni Schultz），他從三歲起就開始與腦癌病魔做斗爭，他熬過了一次次治療與手術(shù)——其中一次影響了他的記憶，因此他得花出比常人多幾百個小時的時間來完成學(xué)業(yè)，但他從不曾落下自己的功課。s headed to college this ，伊利諾斯州芝加哥市，身為孤兒的香特爾?史蒂夫（Shantell Steve）換過多次收養(yǎng)家庭，從小在治安很差的地區(qū)長大，但她努力爭取到了在當(dāng)?shù)乇＝≌竟ぷ鞯臋C會、發(fā)起了一個讓青少年遠離犯罪團伙的項目，很快，她也將以優(yōu)異的成績從中學(xué)畢業(yè)，去大學(xué)深造。ve got it a lot worse off than many of they refused to give chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for I expect all of you to do the ，在今天，我號召你們每一個人都為自己的教育定下一個目標(biāo)——并在之后，盡自己的一切努力去實現(xiàn)它。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and ，我都希望你能堅持到底，希望你能真的下定決心。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。s why I succeed.”他們的成功，源于他們明白人不能讓失敗左右自己——而是要從中吸取經(jīng)驗。任何人都不是在第一次接觸一項體育運動時就成為校隊的代表，任何人都不是在第一次唱一首歌時就找準(zhǔn)每一個音，一切都需要熟能生巧。No one39。t a sign of weakness, it39。The story of America isn39。但你們也要擔(dān)起自己的責(zé)任。t let us 39。ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn39。s expected of all of you in this new school , I39。ve talked a lot about your government39。ll need an education to do 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。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the I wasI was got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar of her parents had gone to college, and they didn39。t have to determine where you39。s headed to college this then there39。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 you39。ve had the most 39。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don39。who fought for civil rights and put a man on the who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each today, I want to ask all of you, what39。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 work