【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 o who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each today, I want to ask all of you, what39。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。m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you39。ve got to do your part, I expect all of you to get serious this expect you to put your best effort into everything you expect great things from each of don39。t let us 39。t let your family down or your country of all, don39。t let yourself us all you very much, bless bless you.(Applause.)END 12:22 第二篇：美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬開學(xué)勵志演講美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬2010年開學(xué)勵志演講美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬開學(xué)演講英語演講稿。這是奧巴馬第二次發(fā)表開學(xué)演講。奧巴馬2009年的演講招來了許多批評和抵制。一些反對者指責(zé)稱，奧巴馬試圖通過演講向?qū)W生灌輸政治理念。部分媒體還批評奧巴馬試圖建立個人崇拜。在美國各地，也有許多家長向當(dāng)?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。有了去年的“教訓(xùn)”，今年的總統(tǒng)開學(xué)演講，白宮意強(qiáng)調(diào)這是一次“非政治活動”，而奧巴馬本人也在演講中回避政治話題。轉(zhuǎn)自[英美者]英語專業(yè)網(wǎng)站：:///Listening_Speaking/Oral_English/Thank you!Hello!(Applause.)Thank , hello, Philadelphia!(Applause.)And hello, is wonderful to see all of a terrific introduction by Kelly a big round of applause.(Applause.)I was saying backstage that when I was in high school, I could not have done that.(Laughter.)I would have muffed it up we are so proud of you and everything that you’ve to all the students here, I’m thrilled to be ！你們好?。ㄕ坡?。）謝謝。謝謝。你好，費城?。ㄕ坡暋＃┠愫茫R斯特曼。見到你們真是太好了。Kelly的介紹真是太棒了。讓我們對Kelly報以熱烈的掌聲。在后臺的時候我說，我上高中的時候我就做不這么好，我可能會弄的一團(tuán)糟。所以讓我們?yōu)槟愫湍阕龅囊磺凶院腊?。站在這里我很激動。kelly 在奧巴馬總統(tǒng)演講前，一名叫Kelly的學(xué)生做了演講。backstage muff ，將事情弄糟 thrilled We’ve got a couple introductions I want to of all, you’ve got the outstanding governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, in the house.(Applause.)The mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, is here.(Applause.)Congressman Chaka Fattah is here.(Applause.)Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz is here.(Applause.)Your own principal, Marge Neff, is here.(Applause.)The school superintendent, Arlene Ackerman, is here and doing a great job.(Applause.)And the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is here.(Applause.)我想介紹幾個人。首先，來到這兒的有，杰出的賓夕法尼亞州州長，Ed Rendell。（掌聲。）費城市長，Michael Nutter。國會議員Fattah和Allyson Schwartz（掌聲）。你們的校長Marge Neff（掌聲）。學(xué)校管理人Arlene Ackerman是這個學(xué)校的，并且為學(xué)校做了很大的貢獻(xiàn)。（掌聲）。還有教育部秘書長Arne Duncan。（掌聲）outstanding Congressman principal superintendent And I am here.(Applause.)And I am thrilled to be am just so ’ve heard such great things about what all of you are doing, both the students and the teachers and the staff 。（掌聲），我感到非常的激動。我耳聞了你們做的那些偉大的事，這里面有在校的學(xué)生，老師和工作人員。Today is about weling all of you, and all of America’s students, back to school, even though I know you’ve been in school for a little bit I can’t think of a better place to do it than at Masterman.(Applause.)Because you are one of the best schools in are a leader in helping students succeed in the last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbonas a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of that is a testament to everybody here –to the students, to the parents, to the teachers, to the school ’s an example of excellence that I hope munities across America can ，歡迎每一個美國學(xué)生回校上課，當(dāng)然你們在學(xué)校已經(jīng)呆了一段時間了。我想不出除了在Masterman外，還有哪個地方更適合做這件事。（掌聲）因為你們是費城最好的學(xué)校之一。你們在教育方面是領(lǐng)頭軍。就在上周，由于你們的卓越貢獻(xiàn)，被授為國家藍(lán)絲帶勛章。這是對每個人的見證，對學(xué)生，家長，老師還有學(xué)校領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人。我希望全美的社會團(tuán)體都能欣然接受這個杰出代表的例子。embrace ；接受Over the past few weeks, Michelle and I have been getting Sasha and Malia ready for they’re excited about ’ll bet they had the same feelings that you doyou’re a little sad to see the summer go, but you’re also excited about the possibilities of a new possibilities of building new friendships and strengthening old ones, of joining a school club, or trying out for a possibilities of growing into a better student and a better person and making not just your family proud but making yourself ，我和Michelle為Sasha和Malia上學(xué)的事做準(zhǔn)備。她們兩個對這非常的期待。我敢打賭她們和你們一樣，有著相同的感覺。你們?yōu)橄奶斓氖湃ザ駛?，但是你們更?yīng)該期待新的一年。如你們可以結(jié)交新的朋友，加深同老朋友的感情，加入學(xué)校俱樂部，參加各種團(tuán)隊的選拔賽。成長為一個更優(yōu)秀的學(xué)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。build friendships 結(jié)交新朋友But I know some of you may also be a little nervous about starting a new school you’re making the jump from elementary to middle school, or from middle school to high school, and you’re worried about what that’s going to be you’re starting a new ’re not sure how you’ll like it, trying to figure out how you’re going to fit maybe you’re a senior, and you’re anxious about the whole college process。about where to apply and whether you can afford to go to ，你們中有些人在新學(xué)年會有些緊張?；蛟S你剛從小學(xué)升到初中，從初中升到高中，會擔(dān)心，新的學(xué)年將會是什么樣的呢。也許你進(jìn)入一所新的學(xué)校，不知道是否會喜歡這個學(xué)校，想著怎么來融入這個學(xué)校。或許你到了高三年級，對整個的大學(xué)入學(xué)程序感到不安，比如申請那里的學(xué)校，能不能支付上大學(xué)的費用等等。elementary school figure out 想明白，弄清楚 fit in 融入，適應(yīng) afford to do 承擔(dān)得起And beyond all those concerns, I know a lot of you are also feeling the strain of some difficult know what’s going on in the news and you also know what’s going on in some of your own ’ve read about the war in hear about the recession that we’ve been sometimes maybe you’re seeing the worries in your parents’ faces or sense it in their ，我知道你們還有來自困難時期的壓力。你們知道新聞內(nèi)容，知道你們一些家庭中發(fā)發(fā)生的事情。你們讀過有關(guān)阿富汗戰(zhàn)爭的信息，聽說過我們經(jīng)歷過的經(jīng)濟(jì)不景氣。有時你們還看到了雙親臉上掛著的憂慮，或從他們的聲音中感受到了這些。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。姐姐哥哥在海外工作，你們會表現(xiàn)得堅強(qiáng)，或許媽媽去值第二班，你們就要照顧年幼的弟弟妹妹?；蛟S你們有些人年長一點的，父親失了業(yè)，你們還要做兼職。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 goin