【正文】 為一個國家是否能夠迎接我們未來所面臨的最嚴峻挑戰(zhàn)。You’ll need the knowledge and problemsolving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our ’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 ’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our 、艾滋病及其他疾病，開發(fā)新的能源技術和保護我們的環(huán)境。你們將需要利用你們在歷史學和社會學課堂上所獲得的知識和獨立思考能力來抗擊貧困和解決無家可歸問題，打擊犯罪和消除歧視，使我們的國家更公平、更自由。你們將需要利用你們在所有課堂上培養(yǎng)的創(chuàng)造力和智慧來創(chuàng)辦新公司，增加就業(yè)機會，振興我們的經濟。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 you don’t do thatif you quit on schoolyou’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your ，以便幫助老一輩人解決我們面臨的最棘手問題。如果你們不這樣做，如果你們輟學，你們不僅僅是自暴自棄，也是拋棄自己的國家。Now, I know its not always easy to do well in know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your 。我知道你們許多人在生活中面臨挑戰(zhàn)，難以集中精力從事學業(yè)。I get know what it’s father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raisedby a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’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 didn’t fit 。我有親身感受。兩歲時，我父親離家而去，我是由一位單親母親撫養(yǎng)成人的，母親不得不工作，并時常為支付生活費用而苦苦掙扎，但有時仍無法為我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。有時，我渴望生活中能有一位父親。有時我感到孤獨，感到自己不適應社會。So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the ，我也曾做過我如今不能引以為豪的一些事情，我曾惹過不應該惹的麻煩。我的人生原本會輕易陷入更糟糕的境地。But 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 didn’t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，我當年際遇不錯。我有過許多第二次機會，我有幸能上大學，上法學院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，我們的第一夫人米歇爾?奧巴馬，也有著類似的經歷。她的父母都未曾上過大學，家里很窮。但他們非常勤奮，她也是如此，因此她得以進入一些美國最好的學校。Some of you might not have those you don’t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren’t ?；蛟S你們生活中沒有成年人為你們提供你們所需要的支持?；蛟S你們家中有人失業(yè)，經濟非常拮據?；蛟S你們生活在使你們感覺不安全的社區(qū)，或有朋友逼迫你們去做你們知道不對的事情。But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your lifewhat you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in ’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，你們生活的環(huán)境、你們的膚色、你們的原籍、你們的經濟收入、你們家中的境況等等，這一切都不能成為你們不用功或不努力的理由。你們沒有理由不服從你們的老師、逃學、或輟學。沒有理由不付出努力。Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end one’s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 。沒有人決定你們的命運，在美國，你們決定自己的命運。你們掌握自己的未來。That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across ，全美各地都是如此。標。你的目標可以是一件十分簡單的事情，例如完成家庭作業(yè)、上課專心聽講、或每天花一點時間讀一本書。也許你會決定要參加課外活動或在你的社區(qū)提供志愿服務。也許你會決定挺身而出保護那些因為身份或長相而受人戲弄或欺負的孩子，原因是你和我一樣認為所有的年輕人都應該享有一個適合讀書和學習的安全環(huán)境。也許你會決定更好地照料自己，以便有更充沛的精力來學習。順便提一下，除了這些事情外，我希望大家要勤洗手，身體感到不舒服的時候要呆在家里不去上學，這樣我們能防止人們在今年秋冬季節(jié)染上流感。But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at ，我希望你保證去做。我希望你腳踏實地地去做。I 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 you’re not going to be any of those ：你不用做任何艱苦的工作就能發(fā)財致富并取得成功，唱小調、打籃球或成為真人秀明星是走向成功的途徑。但實際情況是：你可能不會成為其中的一員。The truth is, being successful is won’t love every subject that you won’t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you ，取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。你不會喜歡你學習的每一門課目。你不會與你的每一位老師都很投契。不是所有的家庭作業(yè)似乎都與你眼前的生活完全有關。你第一次嘗試做每件事的時候，不一定成功。That’s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most ’swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my that’s why I succeed.”這些都沒關系。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失敗最多的人。作者J?K?羅琳（）所寫的系列小說《哈利?波特》（Harry Potter）第一部在獲得出版之前被退稿12次。邁克爾?喬丹（Michael Jordan）曾被他的高中籃球隊除名。在喬丹的籃球生涯中，他輸過數百場比賽，有成千上萬個球沒有投中。但他曾說過：“在我的一生中，我失敗了一次又一次、一次又一次。這就是我成功的原因?！盩hese people succeeded because they understood that you can’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 doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time ，因為他們懂得：你不能讓失敗來限制你，而必須讓失敗來開導你。你必須讓失敗向你展示下次如何以不同的方式去做這件事情。因此，如果你遇到麻煩，那并不表示你是麻煩的制造者，而意味著你需要更加努力去把它做對。如果你有一門課分數低，那不表示你比別人笨，而只表示你需要花更多的時間學習。No one’s born being good at all bee good at things through hard ’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don’t hit every note the first time you sing a ’ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it’s good enough to hand 。你通過勤奮而變得擅長于各種事情。第一次從事新的體育項目時，你不可能是一位主力隊員。第一次唱一首歌曲時，你不可能唱準每個音。你必須練習。同樣的道理適用于你的學業(yè)。你可能要把