【正文】 你們掌握自己的未來。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 destiny You make your own 。你們沒有理由不服從你們的老師、逃學(xué)、或輟學(xué)?；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?nèi)プ瞿銈冎啦粚Φ氖虑??；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。但他們非常勤奮，她也是如此，因此她得以進(jìn)入一些美國最好的學(xué)校。我的妻子，我們的第一夫人米歇爾?奧巴馬，也有著類似的經(jīng)歷。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(dāng)年際遇不錯(cuò)。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(yīng)該惹的麻煩。有時(shí)，我渴望生活中能有一位父親。我有親身感受。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(xué)業(yè)。如果你們不這樣做，如果你們輟學(xué)，你們不僅僅是自暴自棄，也是拋棄自己的國家。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(jī)會(huì)，振興我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)。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 tech nologies 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(shù)和保護(hù)我們的環(huán)境。美國的未來取決于你們。And this isn’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 you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 。你不能指望輟學(xué)后能碰上個(gè)好工作。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good ’ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for ，我敢肯定你必須上學(xué)讀書才能實(shí)現(xiàn)它。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。而教育能夠提供這樣的機(jī)會(huì)。你們每個(gè)人都能做出自己的貢獻(xiàn)。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you’re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that ’s the opportunity an education can 。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 the hard work it takes to ’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your ，即使我們擁有最敬業(yè)的教師，最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學(xué)校——如果你們大家不履行你們的責(zé)任，不到校上課，不專心聽講，不聽家長、祖父祖母和其他大人的話，不付出取得成功所必須的勤奮努力，那么這一切都毫無用處，都無關(guān)緊要。I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don’t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the ，要確保你們走正路，完成家庭作業(yè)，不要整天坐在電視前或玩Xbox游戲。我多次談到過責(zé)任問題。我來這里是要和你們談?wù)勀銈兊慕逃龁栴}，以及在這個(gè)新學(xué)年對你們所有人的期望?！?笑聲)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with ’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school 。有很多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡著了。不過她還要上班，所以只能在清晨四點(diǎn)半給我上課。我媽媽沒有錢送我上其他美國孩子上的學(xué)校，但她認(rèn)為必須讓我接受美式教育。我小時(shí)候，我們家生活在海外。不論在哪個(gè)年級，你們有些人可能希望暑假更長一點(diǎn)，今天早上還能多睡一小會(huì)兒。對于進(jìn)入小學(xué)預(yù)備班、初中或高中的學(xué)生，今天是你們來到新學(xué)校的第一天，心里可能有點(diǎn)緊張，這是可以理解的。請為你們自己熱烈鼓掌。我很高興大家今天都能參與。斯派塞(Tim Spicer)好嗎？(掌聲)我現(xiàn)在與弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學(xué)生們在一起。好，大家請就坐。謝謝你們。（掌聲）第四篇：奧巴馬演講美國中小學(xué)生新學(xué)期致辭奧巴馬演講美國中小學(xué)生新學(xué)期致辭2009年9月8日，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)在弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓郡(Arlington, Virginia)韋克菲爾德高中(Wakefield High School)對全美中小學(xué)生發(fā)表講話，強(qiáng)調(diào)上學(xué)讀書的重要性，激勵(lì)學(xué)生努力學(xué)習(xí)。愿主保佑美國。Thank you very much, bless bless you.(Applause.)非常感謝你們大家。不要讓你們的家人或你們的國家失望。我希望你們每個(gè)人都有出色的表現(xiàn)。因此，我希望你們大家從今年起認(rèn)真對待這個(gè)問題。我正在努力工作，以便你們的教室得到修繕，你們能夠得到學(xué)習(xí)所需的課本、設(shè)備和電腦。至于20年前坐在你們的位置上的學(xué)生，他們創(chuàng)辦了谷歌（Google）、嘰喳網(wǎng)（Twitter）和臉譜網(wǎng)（Facebook），改變了我們交流溝通的方式。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(jìn)行了獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭并創(chuàng)建了這個(gè)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(jiān)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(jì)劃實(shí)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(shí)，你不可能唱準(zhǔn)每個(gè)音。你通過勤奮而變得擅長于各種事情。如果你有一門課分?jǐn)?shù)低，那不表示你比別人笨，而只表示你需要花更多的時(shí)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(gè)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(huì)喜歡你學(xué)習(xí)的每一門課目。但實(shí)際情況是：你可能不會(huì)成為其中的一員。我希望你腳踏實(shí)地地去做。順便提一