【正文】 我父親在我兩歲時(shí)就離開(kāi)了家庭，是母親一人將我們拉扯大，有時(shí)她付不起帳單，有時(shí)我們得不到其他孩子們都有的東西，有時(shí)我會(huì)想，假如父親在該多好，有時(shí)我會(huì)感到孤獨(dú)無(wú)助，與周?chē)沫h(huán)境格格不入。我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種各樣的問(wèn)題，很難把精力集中在專(zhuān)心讀書(shū)之上。假如你不這么做——假如你放棄學(xué)習(xí)——那么你不僅是放棄了自己，也是放棄了你的國(guó)家。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。You39。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。今天你們?cè)趯W(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會(huì)決定我們整個(gè)國(guó)家在未來(lái)迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)的表現(xiàn)。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。s assigned to you could be an innovator or an inventormaybe even good enough to e up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccinebut you might not know it until you do your project for your science you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justicebut you might not know that until you join student government or the debate ，我可以向你保證，不管你將來(lái)想要做什么，你都需要相應(yīng)的教育。s the opportunity an education can ——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書(shū)籍和報(bào)刊上——但假如不在英語(yǔ)課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫(xiě)作，你不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個(gè)發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計(jì)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(xué)課程上做上幾次實(shí)驗(yàn)，你不會(huì)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(xué)生會(huì)或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。你們中的每一個(gè)人都會(huì)有自己擅長(zhǎng)的東西，每一個(gè)人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對(duì)自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。t getting the opportunities that they 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 the hard work it takes to 39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。I39。——除非你每天準(zhǔn)時(shí)去上學(xué)、除非你認(rèn)真地聽(tīng)老師講課、除非你把父母、長(zhǎng)輩和其他大人們說(shuō)的話(huà)放在心上、除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力，否則這一切都會(huì)失去意義。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 、協(xié)助老師和校長(zhǎng)們的工作，改變?cè)谟行W(xué)校里學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機(jī)會(huì)的現(xiàn)狀。ve talked about your parents39。ve talked about teachers39。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。我談到過(guò)家長(zhǎng)們有責(zé)任看管你們認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會(huì)看電視或打游戲。s expected of all of you in this new school ，也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個(gè)詞。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 39。我要和你們談一談你們每個(gè)人的教育，以及在新的學(xué)年里，你們應(yīng)當(dāng)做些什么。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I39。t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the ，我不怎么喜歡那么早就爬起來(lái)，很多時(shí)候，我就這么在廚房的桌子前睡著了。小時(shí)候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過(guò)幾年，而我媽媽沒(méi)錢(qián)送我去其他美國(guó)孩子們上學(xué)的地方去讀書(shū)，因此她決定自己給我上課——時(shí)間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點(diǎn)半。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。s understandable if you39。I know that for many of you, today is the first day of for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it39。我想也會(huì)有許多畢業(yè)班的學(xué)生們正自信滿(mǎn)滿(mǎn)地準(zhǔn)備最后一年的沖刺。Hello, everybody!Thank you, right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody doing today?(Applause.)How about Tim Spicer?(Applause.)I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, we39。請(qǐng)不要放棄自己，放棄自己的責(zé)任！引人深思，看完后，希望能對(duì)你有所幫助！Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia 韋克菲爾德高中，弗吉尼亞州，阿林頓市，September 8,2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA39。今天，我給大家推薦一個(gè)視頻，是美國(guó)總統(tǒng)奧巴馬在弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓高中面向全美中小學(xué)生發(fā)表的電視開(kāi)學(xué)演講。有人說(shuō)是為了以后更輕松的賺錢(qián)，有人說(shuō)是為了有個(gè)更好的將來(lái)，有人說(shuō)是為了擺脫現(xiàn)在的窘境，甚至有人說(shuō)僅僅是為了將來(lái)有個(gè)飯碗，有個(gè)好家庭。在北京發(fā)現(xiàn)的治序方法可以挽救在美國(guó)的生命，來(lái)自加州硅谷的清潔能源技術(shù)可以改善中國(guó)的環(huán)境，西安一座古老寺廟的架構(gòu)可激發(fā)達(dá)拉斯或者底特律新建筑設(shè)計(jì)的靈感。That’s how you e to understand how much we all ’s how you realize that we all have a stake in each other’s successthat cures discovered here in Beijing could save lives in America, that clean energy technologies from Silicon Valley in California could improve the environment here in China, that the architecture of an ancient temple in Xi’an could inspire the design of new buildings in Dallas or 。That’s why it is so important for young people like you to live and study in each other’s countries, because that’s how you develop that habit of do it by immersing yourself in one another’s culture, by learning each other’s stories, by getting past the stereotypes and misconceptions that too often divide 。因?yàn)槲覀冞@個(gè)時(shí)代的決定性挑戰(zhàn)一一無(wú)論是氣侯變化、經(jīng)濟(jì)機(jī)遇，還是核武器擴(kuò)散一一這些都是我們共同的挑戰(zhàn)。正如中國(guó)的一句古話(huà)所說(shuō)：―讀萬(wàn)卷書(shū)，不如行萬(wàn)里路。it is quickly being the key to success in our global getting ahead in today’s workplaces isn’t just about getting good grades or test scores in school, which are ’s also about having real experience with the worldbeyond your borders –experience with languages, cultures and societies very different from your , as the Chinese saying goes: ―It is better to travel ten thousand miles than to read ten thousand books.‖因此，出國(guó)留學(xué)不只是以開(kāi)心的方式度過(guò)一個(gè)學(xué)期——它正迅速成為全球化經(jīng)濟(jì)中取得成功的關(guān)鍵。我們可以與各大洲的人們通過(guò)短信、電子郵件和Skype進(jìn)行溝通。思想可以通過(guò)點(diǎn)擊按鈕跨越海洋。因此，我們認(rèn)為海外留學(xué)項(xiàng)目不只是為學(xué)生提供的教育機(jī)會(huì)，還是美國(guó)外交政策至關(guān)重要的組成部分。我們也來(lái)到學(xué)校，與像你們一樣的學(xué)生見(jiàn)面。我今天來(lái)到你們這里是因?yàn)槲抑?，我們的未?lái)取決于全球像你們這樣年輕人間的這樣的聯(lián)系。這絕佳地詮釋了我今天要和大家聊的全部話(huà)題。But most of all, I want to thank all of the students who are here I particularly want to thank Eric Schaefer and Zhu Xuanhao for that extraordinary English and Chinese was a powerful symbol of everything that I want to talk with you about ，我要感謝今天所有到場(chǎng)的學(xué)生們......我要特別感謝埃里克王校長(zhǎng)、朱主席、李副校長(zhǎng)、Cuelluer主任、Jean Oi教授和斯坦福中心，紐約大學(xué)的塞克頓斯校長(zhǎng)（該校在上海開(kāi)設(shè)了一個(gè)優(yōu)秀的海外留學(xué)項(xiàng)目），以及清華大學(xué)全球領(lǐng)袖項(xiàng)目主任約翰President Sexton from New York University, which is an excellent study abroad program in Shanghai。Director Cueller。Chairman Zhu。請(qǐng)相信，在這個(gè)非常艱難的時(shí)刻，我們的心和航班上人員的家屬和親人在一起，我們?yōu)樗麄兤矶\。Now, before I get started today, on behalf of myself and my husband, I just want to say a few very brief words about Mal