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謝謝你們。愿主保佑你們。而最重要的是,不要辜負你們自己,而要讓我們都能[為你們]感到驕傲。不要讓我們失望。我希望你們盡最大努力做好每一件事。但你們也必須盡自己的努力。6/7奧巴馬開學(xué)中英文演講稿So today, I want to ask all of you, what’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?而今天,我要問問你們大家,你們將做出什么貢獻?你們將解決什么問題?你們將有什么發(fā)現(xiàn)?20年、50年或100年后來到這里講話的總統(tǒng)將會怎樣評價你們大家為這個國家所做的一切?Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these ’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you’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 don’t let us ’t let your family down or your country of all, don’t let yourself us all 、你們的老師和我正在竭盡全力保證你們接受必要的教育,以便回答上述問題。他們?yōu)槊駲?quán)而奮斗并把宇航員送上了月球。who fought for civil rights and put a man on the who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each ,他們后來進行了獨立戰(zhàn)爭并創(chuàng)建了這個國家。The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got ’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their ,而是堅持不懈、加倍努力的人,他們對國家的愛促使他們?nèi)σ愿?。因此,請確定一位你信任的成年人,例如家長、祖父母或老師、教練或輔導(dǎo)員,請他們幫助你遵循既定計劃實現(xiàn)你的目標(biāo)。我天天請求別人的幫助。Don’t be afraid to ask ’t be afraid to ask for help when you need do that every for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and that then allows you to learn something find an adult that you trusta parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselorand ask them to help you stay on track to meet your 。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,你不可能唱準(zhǔn)每個音。你通過勤奮而變得擅長于各種事情。如果你有一門課分數(shù)低,那不表示你比別人笨,而只表示你需要花更多的時間學(xué)習(xí)。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。這就是我成功的原因。在喬丹的籃球生涯中,他輸過數(shù)百場比賽,有成千上萬個球沒有投中。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。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(guān)系。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)。你不會喜歡你學(xué)習(xí)的每一門課目。但實際情況是:你可能不會成為其中的一員。我希望你腳踏實地地去做。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候要呆在家里不去上學(xué),這樣我們能防止人們在今年秋冬季節(jié)染上流感。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(yīng)該享有一個適合讀書和學(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。我期待你們大家都會這樣做。但他們拒絕放棄。跟你們一樣,他們在生活中面臨種種挑戰(zhàn)。她曾在芝加哥最困難的社區(qū)生活,寄養(yǎng)于多個不同的家庭,但她最終在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到工作,并開始了一項幫助年輕人遠離流氓團伙的計劃,她即將以優(yōu)異成績從中學(xué)畢業(yè),緊接著將上大學(xué)。他今年秋季將邁進大學(xué)。I’m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who’s fought brain cancer since he was ’s had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longerhundreds of extra hoursto do his he never fell ’s headed to college this ?舒爾茨(Andoni Schultz),他從三歲開始就一直與腦癌進行抗?fàn)?,他不得不忍受各類治療和手術(shù)帶來的痛苦,其中一項手術(shù)曾影響了他的記憶,因此他花在功課上的時間比一般人長得多,要多出數(shù)百個小時。她的父母都沒有上過大學(xué)。That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across ,全美各地都是如此。沒有人決定你們的命運,在美國,你們決定自己的命運。沒有理由不付出努力。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(jīng)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?;蛟S你們家中有人失業(yè),經(jīng)濟非常拮據(jù)。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 go3/7奧巴馬開學(xué)中英文演講稿 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 。她的父母都未曾上過大學(xué),家里很窮。我有過許多第二次機會,我有幸能上大學(xué),上法學(xué)院,追求自己的理想。我的人生原本會輕易陷入更糟糕的境地。有時我感到孤獨,感到自己不適應(yīng)社會。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。I get know what it’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 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 。Now, I know it’s 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 。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。你們將需要利用你們在歷史學(xué)和社會學(xué)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。你們今日在校學(xué)習(xí)的知識將決定我們作為一2/7奧巴馬開學(xué)中英文演講稿個國家是否能夠迎接我們未來所面臨的最嚴峻挑戰(zhàn)??梢院敛豢浯蟮卣f,教育給你帶來的益處將決定這個國家的未來。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)。你或許能成為一名市長或參議員或最高法院的大法官——但你可能要在參加學(xué)生會的工作或辯論隊后才會發(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 that’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 ——甚至可能寫書或在報紙上發(fā)表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文課的作文后才會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。你們對自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任是發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力所在。你們每個人都有自己的長處。這就是我今天講話的重點:你們每個人對自己的教