【正文】 ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in?；蛟S你住的社區(qū)不那么安全，或許你認(rèn)識一些會對你產(chǎn)生不良影響的朋友?；蛟S你們的生活中沒有能為你提供幫助的長輩。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。因此她得以進(jìn)入一些美國最好的學(xué)校。我的妻子，也有著類似的人生故事。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，在許多事情上都得到了重來的機(jī)會。我的生活岌岌可危，隨時可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。有時我也會感到孤獨(dú)無助，感覺到與周圍的環(huán)境格格不入。There were times when I missed having a father in my were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。我父親在我兩歲時就離開了家庭，是我母親一個人將我拉扯大，母親不得不工作并時 常為支付生活費(fèi)而苦苦掙扎。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 wasn39。很難把精力集中在專心讀書上。Now, I know it39。re quitting on your 、技能和才智，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。你們需要在各類課程中逐漸培養(yǎng)創(chuàng)造力和智慧去創(chuàng)辦公司，制造就業(yè)機(jī)會和推動經(jīng)濟(jì)增長。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。開發(fā)新的能源技術(shù)保護(hù)我們的環(huán)境。You39。美國的未來取決于你們。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 。And this isn39。你不能指望輟學(xué)后碰上個好工作。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。ll need an education to do ，我敢肯定你都需要相應(yīng)的教育?；蛟S你能成為一名市長或參議員，或最高法院的大法官，但假如你不去加入或參加幾次辯論賽，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能。甚至可能設(shè)計(jì)出新一代iPhone，或研制出新型藥物與疫苗。s assigned to ，甚至有一天能將那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報刊上，但假如不再英語課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫作，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能。你們對自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任時發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能所在。s the opportunity an education can 。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。否則這一切都會失去意識。除非你每天準(zhǔn)時去上學(xué)，除非你認(rèn)真聽老師講課，除非你把父母、長輩和其他大人們的話放在心上。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 39。t working, where students aren39。ve talked a lot about your government39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 、完成家庭作業(yè)，不要成天只會看電視或打游戲機(jī)。ve talked about your parents39。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to ，督促你們學(xué)習(xí)。I39。ve talked about responsibility a 。Now, I39。但幾天我站在這里，是為了和你們談一些重要的事情。m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what39。每當(dāng)我埋怨的時候，我媽媽總會用同一副表情看著我說：“小鬼，你以為教你我就很輕松？”So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at I39。d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.” 你們可以想象，我不太情愿那么早起床。d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I39。Now, as you might imagine, I wasn39。不過她還要上夜班。但她認(rèn)為必須讓我接受美式教育。我在印度尼西亞住了幾年。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 。今天早上還能多睡一小會。ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this ，還有一年就畢業(yè)了。I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right nowwith just one more year to no matter what grade you39。對于剛進(jìn)入幼兒園或升上初中高中的學(xué)生，今天是你們來到新學(xué)校的第一天。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。我很高興你們能共同分享這一時刻。ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th I am just so glad that all could join us I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding yourselves a big round of 。S SCHOOLCHILDRENWakefield High SchoolArlington, Virginia Hello, everybody!Thank you, ，大家好！謝謝！謝謝大家！All right, everybody go ahead and have a is everybody going today? How about Tim Spicer? 好的，大家請就座。為了我們，先輩們奔赴(獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭中的)康科德城和葛底斯堡、(二戰(zhàn)中的)諾曼底、(越戰(zhàn)中的)Khe Sahn，他們征戰(zhàn)、死去。為了我們，先輩們?nèi)倘柝?fù)重，用血汗?jié)茶T工廠。正是這些人帶領(lǐng)我們走過了漫長崎嶇的旅行，帶領(lǐng)我們走向富強(qiáng)和自由。這條路是勇于承擔(dān)風(fēng)險者之路，是實(shí)干家、創(chuàng)造者之路。在重申我們國家偉大之處的同時，我們深知偉大從來不是上天賜予的，偉大需要努力贏得。美國仍是一個年輕的國家，借用《圣經(jīng)》的話說，放棄幼稚的時代已經(jīng)到來了。今天，我們在這里齊聚一堂，因?yàn)槲覀儜?zhàn)勝恐懼選擇了希望，摒棄了沖突和矛盾而選擇了團(tuán)結(jié)。今天我要說，我們的確面臨著很多嚴(yán)峻的挑戰(zhàn)，而且在短期內(nèi)不大可能輕易解決。統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)的指標(biāo)傳達(dá)著危機(jī)的消息。我們的人民正在失去家園，失去工作，很多且要倒閉。我們的國家在戰(zhàn)斗，對手是影響深遠(yuǎn)的暴力和憎恨。前輩們?nèi)绱?，我們這一代美國人也要如此?？偨y(tǒng)的宣誓有時面對的是國家的和平繁榮，但通常面臨的是烏云密布的緊張形勢。我要感謝布什總統(tǒng)為國家做出的貢獻(xiàn)，以及感謝他在兩屆政府過渡期間給與的慷慨協(xié)作。Normandy and Khe ，今天我站在這里，看到眼前面臨的重大任務(wù)，深感卑微。to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the Godgiven promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a must be journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for has not been the path for the faintheartedfor those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and , it has been the risktakers, the doers, the makers of thingssome celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West。and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land, a nagging fear that Americas decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its I say to you that the challenges we face are are serious and they are will not be met easily or in a short span of know this, America, they will be this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and this day, we e to proclaim an end to the pe