【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 at they look like, or who they love.(Applause.)這恰恰就是我們國家的締造者們留給我們的財富—權(quán)力，我們每個人改變自己適應(yīng)變化的時代的權(quán)力。他們留給我們進入自治體制的鑰匙，他們留給我們共同做我們單獨無法做的大事和要事的利器—他們把鐵路、電力和高速公路系統(tǒng)送到這個雜草叢生的大陸的各個角落。他們用公立學(xué)校和政府撥地的大學(xué)體系教育我們的人民，包括俄亥俄州立大學(xué)。關(guān)愛老弱病殘，提供基本保障防止他們淪為這個世界上最富裕的國家的最悲慘的窮人。（掌聲）他們征服了法西斯主義和疾??；登上月球和火星；逐漸讓我們的所有公民都享受上帝賦予的權(quán)利，不管他們是誰，長得什么樣，或他們愛誰。（掌聲）We, the people, chose to do these things togetherbecause we know this country cannot acplish great things if we pursue nothing greater than our own individual ，人民，選擇齊心協(xié)力—因為我們知道如果我們追求事不關(guān)己高高掛起我們國家就不能干大事。Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems。some of these same voices also doing their best to gum up the ’ll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the should reject these what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in selfrule is somehow just a sham with which we can’t be ，你們成長過程中不絕于耳的卻是政府不過是一些支離破碎的邪惡實體、是我們所有問題之源的叫囂；這些叫囂還不遺余力地企圖把政府的工作搞亂。他們叫囂專制陰魂不散。你們應(yīng)該抵制這些叫囂。因為他們說的是我們的大膽的、創(chuàng)新的和獨一無二的自治試驗是使我們不可信的騙局。We have never been a people who place all of our faith in government to solve our problems。we shouldn’t want we don’t think the government is the source of all our problems, we understand that this democracy is as citizens, we understand that it’s not about what America can do for us。it’s about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating but absolutely necessary work of selfgovernment.(Applause.)And, Class of 2013, you have to be involved in that process.(Applause.)我們這個民族從來就不要求政府解決我們的所有問題；我們不應(yīng)該那樣。但是我們也不認(rèn)為政府是一切問題之源。因為我們知道民主是我們自己的。作為公民，我們知道問題不是美國能為我們做什么；問題是我們能做什么，共同通過艱苦卓絕的充滿挫折的但是不可替代的自治工作做什么。（掌聲）2013屆畢業(yè)生們，你們一定要投身于這個偉大進程。（掌聲）The founders trusted us with this awesome should trust ourselves with it, when we don’t, when we turn away and get discouraged and cynical, and abdicate that authority, we grant our silent consent to someone who will gladly claim ’s how we end up with lobbyists who set the agenda。and policies detached from what middleclass families face every day。the wellconnected who publicly demand that Washington stay out of their businessand then whisper in government’s ear for special treatment that you don’t 。我們也應(yīng)該無愧于它。因為如果我們不這樣，如果我們偏離、失望和不相信并且放棄這個權(quán)威，我們就是默許了有些人欣然接受它。我們就是這樣止步于游說者們設(shè)立的議事日程；脫離中產(chǎn)階級家庭每天面對的問題的政治；那些要求華盛頓不要干涉他們的事—然后在政府耳邊吹風(fēng)乞求獲得你們得不到的特殊待遇的神通廣大的人們。That’s how a small minority of lawmakers get cover to defeat something the vast majority of their constituents ’s how our political system gets consumed by small things when we are a people called to do great thingslike rebuild a middleclass, and reverse the rise of inequality, and repair the deteriorating climate that threatens everything we plan to leave for our kids and our 。我們的政治體系就是這樣撿了芝麻丟了我們民族所希望的西瓜—諸如重建中產(chǎn)階級，逆轉(zhuǎn)不平等的增長勢頭，治理氣候惡化，解除對我們留給的后代的生活基礎(chǔ)的威脅。Class of 2013, only you can ultimately break that you can make sure the democracy you inherit is as good as we know it can it requires your dedicated, and informed, and engaged that citizenship is a harder, higher road to take, but it leads to a better ’s how we built this ，只有你們能最終打破這個怪圈。這樣你們能讓你們繼承的民主如同我們期待的那么好。但是這要求你們無私奉獻、博學(xué)多才和全心全意的公民意識。這個公民意識充滿坎坷，積極向上的道路，通往更加美好的樂土的道路。我們就是這樣建設(shè)我們的國家—齊心協(xié)力。It’s the question that President Kennedy posed to the nation at his ’s the dream that does not promise easy success or immediate progressbut it has led to success, and it has led to it has to continue with 。這是馬丁路德金博士描述的夢想。它不會一蹴而就—但是它通往成功，它走向進步。它將伴隨你們。Which brings me to the second thing I ask of all of youI ask that you you start a business, or run for office, or devote yourself to alleviating poverty or hunger, please remember that nothing worth doing happens over British inventor named Dyson went through more than 5,000prototypes before getting that first really fancy vacuum cleaner just remember Michael Jordan’s six championships。we don39。t remember his nearly 15,000 missed for me, I lost my first race for Congress, and look at me nowI’m an honorary graduate of The Ohio State University.(Applause.)談?wù)勎乙竽銈兇蠹业牡诙隆獔猿?。無論你們自己創(chuàng)業(yè)，或謀求公職，或致力于扶貧濟困，請記住沒有什么有價值的事能一蹴而就。一個叫迪森的英國發(fā)明家報廢了5,000多個原型機之后才獲得了第一個實用的真空吸塵器。我們只記得邁克爾喬丹獲得6個冠軍；我們都不知道他有15,000個投籃不中。至于我，我第一次競選國會議員失利，但是看看我現(xiàn)在—我現(xiàn)在是俄亥俄州立大學(xué)的榮譽畢業(yè)生。（掌聲）The point is, if you are living your life to the fullest, you will fail, you will stumble, you will screw up, you will fall it will make you stronger, and you’ll get it right the next time, or the time after that, or the time after that is not only true for your personal pursuits, but it’s also true for the broader causes that you believe in as ，如果你過上最完整的生活，你就會經(jīng)歷失敗、摔打、不知所措和跌入低谷。但是它會使你更加堅強，下一次，或再下一次你們就會吃一塹長一智了。這不僅適用于你們的個人追求，而且適用于你們信仰的更廣義的事業(yè)。So you can39。t give up your passion if things don39。t work right can39。t lose heart, or grow cynical if there are twists and turns on your cynics may be the loudest voicesbut I promise you, they will acplish the ’s those folks who stay at it, those who do the long, hard, mitted work of change that gradually push this country in the right direction, and make the most lasting 。如果你們的旅途中出現(xiàn)曲折不要灰心喪氣、玩世不恭。玩世不恭者可能叫得最響—但是我保證，他們一事無成。那些鍥而不舍，致力于長期的、艱苦的和全心全意的改變世界的工作的人們一步步推動國家沿著正確的道路前進，使我們長期獨樹一幟。So whenever you feel that creeping cynicism, whenever you hear those voices saying you can’t do it, you can’t make a difference, whenever somebody tells you to set your sights lowerthe trajectory of this great nation should give you generations have done before you should give you it was young people just like you who marched and mobilized and stood up and sat in to secure women’s rights, and voting rights, and workers’ rights, and gay rightsoften at incredible odds, often at great danger, often over the course of years, sometimes over the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetimeand they never got acknowledged for it, but they made a difference.(Applause.)當(dāng)你感到玩世不恭蠢蠢欲動，當(dāng)你聽到有人說你們干不了，你們無法改變世界，當(dāng)有人叫你們把眼光放低一點時—這個偉大的國家的發(fā)展軌跡會給你們希望。多少代先人的輝煌業(yè)績會給你們希望。因為正是因為像你們一樣的年輕人游行宣傳、發(fā)動民眾、挺身而出和靜坐示威才使婦女權(quán)