【正文】 So today, I want to ask all of you, what39。還有75年前坐在你們的位置上的年輕人和學(xué)生，他們走出了大蕭條并打贏了一場(chǎng)世界大戰(zhàn)；他們?yōu)槊駲?quán)而奮斗并把宇航員送上了月球。s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their ，而是堅(jiān)持不懈、加倍努力的人，他們對(duì)國(guó)家的愛促使他們?nèi)σ愿?。The story of America isn39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。And even when you39。請(qǐng)求幫助不是軟弱的表現(xiàn)，它是力量的標(biāo)志，因?yàn)樗砻髂阌杏職? 36承認(rèn)自己對(duì)某些事情 不懂，這樣做會(huì)使你學(xué)到新的東西。不要在需要幫助時(shí)害怕請(qǐng)求別人幫助。s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don39。t be afraid to ask for help when you need do that every for help isn39。Don39。你可能要把一些材料閱讀幾遍才能理解。同樣的道理適用于你的學(xué)業(yè)。第一次唱一首歌曲時(shí)，你不可能唱準(zhǔn)每 個(gè)音。你通過勤奮而變得擅長(zhǎng)于各種事情。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 it39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don39。No one39。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(duì)。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time ，因?yàn)樗麄兌茫耗悴荒茏屖硐拗颇?，而必須讓失敗來開導(dǎo)你。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。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。這就是我成功的原因。在喬丹的籃球生涯中，他輸過數(shù)百場(chǎng)比賽，有成千上萬個(gè)球沒有投中。（）所寫的系列小說《》（Harry Potter）第一部在獲得出版之前被退稿12次。s why I succeed.”/ 36這些都沒關(guān)系。ve had the most 39。That39。不是所有的家庭作業(yè)似乎都與你眼前的生活完全有關(guān)。你不會(huì)喜歡你學(xué)習(xí)的每一門課目。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。The truth is, being successful is won39。re not going to be any of those ：你不用做任何艱苦的工作就能發(fā)財(cái)致富并取得成功，唱小調(diào)、打籃球或成為真人秀明星是走向成功的途徑。我希望你腳踏實(shí)地地去做。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(shí)候要呆在家里不去上學(xué)，這樣我們能防止人們?cè)诮衲昵锒竟?jié)染上流感。也許你會(huì)決定挺身而出保護(hù)那些因?yàn)樯矸莼蜷L(zhǎng)相而受人戲弄或欺負(fù)的孩 子，原因是你和我一樣認(rèn)為所有的年輕人都應(yīng)該享有一個(gè)適合讀書和學(xué)習(xí)的安全環(huán)境。你的目標(biāo)可以是一件十分簡(jiǎn)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(diǎn)時(shí)間讀一本書。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 decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。s why today I39。我期待你們大家都會(huì)這樣做。但他們拒絕放棄。跟你們一樣，他們?cè)谏钪忻媾R種種挑戰(zhàn)。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。她曾在芝加哥最困難的社區(qū)生活，寄養(yǎng)于多個(gè)不同的家庭，但她最終在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到工作，并開始了一項(xiàng)幫助年輕人遠(yuǎn)離流氓團(tuán)伙的計(jì)劃，她即將以優(yōu)異成績(jī)從中學(xué)畢業(yè)，緊接著將上大學(xué)。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she39。他今年秋季將邁進(jìn)大學(xué)。s headed to college this （Andoni Schultz），他從三歲開始就一直與腦癌進(jìn)行抗?fàn)?，他不得不忍受各類治療和手術(shù)帶來的痛苦，其中一項(xiàng)手術(shù)曾影響了他的記憶，因此他花在功課上的時(shí)間比一般人長(zhǎng)得多，要多出數(shù)百個(gè)小時(shí)。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。I39。她的父母都沒有上過大學(xué)。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。That39。沒有人決定你們的命運(yùn)，在美國(guó)，你們決定自己的命運(yùn)。ll end one39。Where you are right now doesn39。你們沒有理由不服從你們的老師、逃學(xué)、或輟學(xué)。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。或許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?nèi)プ瞿銈冎啦粚?duì)的事情?；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。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。但他們非常勤奮，她也是如此，因此她得以進(jìn)入一些美國(guó)最好的學(xué)校。我的妻子，也有著類似的經(jīng)歷。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this / 36但是，我當(dāng)年際遇不錯(cuò)。我的人生原本會(huì)輕易陷入更糟糕的境地。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。有時(shí)我感到孤獨(dú)，感到自己不適應(yīng)社會(huì)。兩歲時(shí)，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(shí)常為支付生活費(fèi)用而苦苦掙扎，但有時(shí)仍無法為我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。t fit 。s father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times/ 36to pay the bills and wasn39。我知道你們?cè)S多人在生活中面臨挑戰(zhàn)，難以集中精力從事學(xué)業(yè)。Now, I know it39。re quitting on your ，以便幫助老一輩人解決我們面臨的最棘手問題。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。你們將需要利用 你們?cè)谒姓n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(jī)會(huì)，振興我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)。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(shù)和保護(hù)我們的環(huán)境。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 39。你們今日在校學(xué)習(xí)的知識(shí)將決定我們作為一個(gè)國(guó)家是否能夠迎接我們未來所面臨的最嚴(yán)峻挑戰(zhàn)?？梢院敛豢浯蟮卣f，教育給你帶來的益處將決定這個(gè)國(guó)家的未來。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。你必須接受培訓(xùn)，為之努力，為之學(xué)習(xí)。你想當(dāng)醫(yī)生、教師或警官嗎？你想當(dāng)護(hù)士、建筑師、律師或軍人嗎？你必須接受良好的教育，才能從事上述任何一種職業(yè)。re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 39。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。你或許能成為一名創(chuàng)新者或發(fā)明家——甚至可能設(shè)計(jì)出新一代iPhone或研制出新型藥物或疫苗——但你可能要在完成科學(xué)課的實(shí)驗(yàn)后才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。Maybe you could be a great writermaybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaperbut you might not know it until you write that English paperthat English class paper that39。你們對(duì)自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任是發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力所在。你們每個(gè)人都有自己的長(zhǎng)處。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。這就是我今天講話的重點(diǎn)：你們每個(gè)人對(duì)自己的教育應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任。（掌聲）But 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 t