【正文】 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 written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 39。re quitting on your , I know it39。t working, where students aren39。但我很幸運。首先，我想談?wù)勀銈儗τ谧约河惺裁簇熑?。弗吉尼亞州，阿林頓市，2009年9月8日 嗨，大家好！你們今天過得怎么樣？我現(xiàn)在和弗吉尼亞州阿林頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起，全國各地也有從幼兒園到高三的眾多學生們通過電視關(guān)注這里，我很高興你們能共同分享這一時刻。在中國北京或者印度邦加羅爾的學生比以前更加努力，而且比以前表現(xiàn)更好。as a consequence 結(jié)果，所以tough time 困難時期【tough 】 sibling ，同胞 shift And that’s a lot to ’s more than you should have to it may make you wonder at times what your own future will look like, whether you’re going to be able to succeed in school, whether you should maybe set your sights a little lower, scale back your ，很多是你們不應(yīng)該做的。我敢打賭她們和你們一樣，有著相同的感覺。你們的校長Marge Neff（掌聲）。）謝謝。s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their 39。t mean you39。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。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。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。 responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don39。ve talked about teachers39。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 not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。t let your failures define youyou have to let your failures teach have to let them show you what to do differently the next if you get into trouble, that doesn39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。在美國各地，也有許多家長向當?shù)亟逃賳T表示抗議，一些家長甚至威脅在奧巴馬演講時把孩子離教室。（掌聲。我希望全美的社會團體都能欣然接受這個杰出代表的例子。strain So a lot of you as a consequence, because we’re going through a tough time a country, are having to act a lot older than you got to be strong for your family while your brother or sister is serving overseas, or you’ve got to look after younger siblings while your mom is working that second maybe some of you who are little bit older, you’re taking on a parttime job while your dad’s out of ，因為我們國家面臨困難時期，你們許多人的行為看上去比實際年齡要大。More and more, the kinds of opportunities that are open to you are going to be determined by how far you go in farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in at a time when other countries are peting with us like never before, when students around the world in Beijing, China, or Bangalore, India, are working harder than ever, and doing better than ever, your success in school is not just going to determine your success, it’s going to determine America’s success in the 21st ，越來越取決于你們在學校的努力。部分媒體還批評奧巴馬試圖建立個人崇拜。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)秀的學校，假如你們不去履行自己的責任的話，那么這一切努力都會白費。我知道你們的感受。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 39。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。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。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。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。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。奧巴馬了——也有著相似的人生故事，她的父母都沒讀過大學，也沒有什么財產(chǎn)，但他們和她都辛勤工作，好讓她[本_文_來_源_于_我_的_學_習_網(wǎng) for me either, buster.“(Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I39?；蛟S你能寫出優(yōu)美的文字——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報刊上——但假如不在英語課上經(jīng)常練習寫作，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計出像今天的iPhone一樣流行的產(chǎn)品，或研制出新的藥物與疫苗——但假如不在自然科學課程上做上幾次實驗，你不會知道自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一名議員或最高法院法官，但假如你不去加入什么學生會或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。不過，我想無論你有多大、在讀哪個年級，許多人都打心底里希望現(xiàn)在還在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。同時國家也向你們承擔責任和義務(wù)，那就是為你們提供最好的教育，為此我們要努力，共同奮斗。我想這句話你們的校長、院長、父母以及老師都曾告訴過你們，那就是，沒有人，只有你才能書寫你自己的命運。成長為一個更優(yōu)秀的學生和個人，不僅僅讓你的家人自豪，同樣讓你們自己也很有成就感。還有教育部秘書長Arne Duncan。）你好，馬斯特曼。s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who es here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these 39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don39。ll end one39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。s expected of all of you in this new school , I39。ll need an education to do want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You