【正文】 ents who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war。s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their ，有一群和你們一樣的學生，他們之后奮起努力、用一場革命最終造就了這個國家；75年前，有一群和你們一樣的學生，他們之后戰(zhàn)勝了大蕭條、贏得了二戰(zhàn)；就在20年前，和你們一樣的學生們，他們后來創(chuàng)立了Google、Twitter和Facebook，改變了我們?nèi)伺c人之間溝通的方式。The story of America isn39。re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don39。And even when you39。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 ，哪怕你表現(xiàn)不好、哪怕你失去信心、哪怕你覺得身邊的人都已經(jīng)放棄了你——永遠不要自己放棄自己。t a sign of weakness, it39。t be afraid to ask 39。ve got to same principle applies to your might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it might have to read something a few times before you understand definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it39。re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don39。No one39。求助并不是軟弱的表現(xiàn)，恰恰相反，它說明你有勇氣承認自己的不足、并愿意去學習新的知識。不要不敢向他人求助。這都是很正常的。任何人都不是在第一次接觸一項體育運動時就成為校隊的代表，任何人都不是在第一次唱一首歌時就找準每一個音，一切都需要熟能生巧。t mean you39。t mean you39。These people succeeded because they understood that you can39。s why I succeed.”他們的成功，源于他們明白人不能讓失敗左右自己——而是要從中吸取經(jīng)驗。ve had the most 39?！盩hat39。因為在這個世界上，最最成功的人們往往也經(jīng)歷過最多的失敗。t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won39。The truth is, being successful is won39。你不可能對要讀的每門課程都興趣盎然，你不可能和每名帶課教師都相處順利，你也不可能每次都遇上看起來和現(xiàn)實生活有關的作業(yè)。I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV are you39。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and ，我都希望你能堅持到底，希望你能真的下定決心。ll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and you39。m calling on each of you to set your own goals for your educationand do everything you can to meet goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a you39。That39。ve got it a lot worse off than many of they refused to give chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for I expect all of you to do the ，在今天，我號召你們每一個人都為自己的教育定下一個目標——并在之后，盡自己的一切努力去實現(xiàn)它。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。And then there39。和你們一樣，他們也在生活中遭遇各種各樣的困難與問題，但他們拒絕放棄，他們選擇為自己的教育擔起責任、給自己定下奮斗的目標。s headed to college this ，伊利諾斯州芝加哥市，身為孤兒的香特爾?史蒂夫（Shantell Steve）換過多次收養(yǎng)家庭，從小在治安很差的地區(qū)長大，但她努力爭取到了在當?shù)乇＝≌竟ぷ鞯臋C會、發(fā)起了一個讓青少年遠離犯罪團伙的項目，很快，她也將以優(yōu)異的成績從中學畢業(yè)，去大學深造。s fought brain cancer since he was 39。t speak English when she first started of her parents had gone to she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown Universityis now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being 39。That39。我還想起了加利福尼亞州洛斯拉圖斯市的安多尼?舒爾茲（Andoni Schultz），他從三歲起就開始與腦癌病魔做斗爭，他熬過了一次次治療與手術——其中一次影響了他的記憶，因此他得花出比常人多幾百個小時的時間來完成學業(yè)，但他從不曾落下自己的功課。例如德克薩斯州羅馬市的賈斯敏?佩雷茲（Jazmin Perez）。ll end one39。Where you are right now doesn39。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，并不取決于你現(xiàn)在的生活有多好或多壞。t at the end of the day, the circumstances of your lifewhat you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you39。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。Some of you might not have those you don39。t have a lot of they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this ，或許你的生活中沒有能為你提供幫助和支持的長輩，或許你的某個家長沒有工作、經(jīng)濟拮據(jù)，或許你住的社區(qū)不那么安全，或許你認識一些會對你產(chǎn)生不良影響的朋友，等等。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。我的妻子——現(xiàn)在得叫她第一夫人米歇爾?奧巴馬——也有著相似的人生故事，她的父母都沒讀過大學，也沒有什么財產(chǎn)，但他們和她都辛勤工作，好讓她有機會去這個國家最優(yōu)秀的學校讀書。但我很幸運。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 didn39。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 get know what it39。re not just quitting on yourself, you39。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 don39。我知道你們的感受。當然，我明白，讀好書并不總是件容易的事。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our 、技能和才智，來解決我們所面對的最困難的問題。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 39。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the ，去治療癌癥、艾滋那樣的疾病，和解決我們面臨的能源問題與環(huán)境問題；你們需要在歷史社科課程上培養(yǎng)出的觀察力與判斷力，來減輕和消除無家可歸與貧困、犯罪問題和各種歧視，讓這個國家變得更加公平和自由；你們需要在各類課程中逐漸累積和發(fā)展出來的創(chuàng)新意識和思維，去創(chuàng)業(yè)和建立新的公司與企業(yè)，來制造就業(yè)機會和推動經(jīng)濟的增長。And this isn39。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for ，你們的教育如何也會對這個國家、乃至世界的未來產(chǎn)生重要影響。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? You39?！阆氘斆t(yī)生、當名教師或當名警官？你想成為護士、成為建筑設計師、律師或軍人？無論你選擇哪一種職業(yè)，良好的教育都必不可少，這世上不存在不把書念完就能拿到好工作的美夢，任何工作，都需要你的汗水、訓練與學習。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 that39。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。教育給你們提供了發(fā)現(xiàn)自己才能的機會。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of y