【正文】 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(lái)進(jìn)行了獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)并創(chuàng)建了這個(gè)國(guó)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(duì)國(guó)家的愛(ài)促使他們?nèi)σ愿?。因此，?qǐng)確定一位你信任的成年人，例如家長(zhǎng)、祖父母或老師、教練或輔導(dǎo)員，請(qǐng)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(qǐng)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(guò)勤奮而變得擅長(zhǎng)于各種事情。如果你有一門(mén)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(guò)數(shù)百場(chǎng)比賽，有成千上萬(wàn)個(gè)球沒(méi)有投中。作者J?K?羅琳（）所寫(xiě)的系列小說(shuō)《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(méi)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(mén)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(shū)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(zhuān)心聽(tīng)講、或每天花一點(diǎn)時(shí)間讀一本書(shū)。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)。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(kāi)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?xún)?yōu)異成績(jī)從中學(xué)畢業(yè)，緊接著將上大學(xué)。他今年秋季將邁進(jìn)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(kāi)始就一直與腦癌進(jìn)行抗?fàn)?，他不得不忍受各?lèi)治療和手術(shù)帶來(lái)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)。她的父母都沒(méi)有上過(guò)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(méi)有人決定你們的命運(yùn)，在美國(guó)，你們決定自己的命運(yùn)。沒(méi)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(jì)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(jì)非常拮據(jù)。t 。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，我們的第一夫人米歇爾?奧巴馬，也有著類(lèi)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(guò)我如今不能引以為豪的一些事情，我曾惹過(guò)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?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)。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(guó)家。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(lái)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 technologies 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(kāi)發(fā)新的能源技術(shù)和保護(hù)我們的環(huán)境。美國(guó)的未來(lái)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(shū)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(zhǎng)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(zhuān)心聽(tīng)講，不聽(tīng)家長(zhǎng)、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(wú)用處，都無(wú)關(guān)緊要。I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done