【正文】 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。第一次唱一首歌曲時，你不可能唱準(zhǔn)每一個音。t hit every note the first time you sing a ，只有努力才能培訓(xùn)處技能。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。假如你考了個低分，那不表示你比別人笨，而只表示你需要更多的時間學(xué)習(xí)。假如你惹了什么麻煩，那并不說明你就是那個搗蛋鬼。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time ，源于他們明白不能讓失敗左右自己。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。t let your failures define youyou have to let your failures teach have to let them show you what to do differently the next if you get into trouble, that doesn39。投失過幾千次射籃，但他曾說過：“我一生不停地失敗、失敗再失敗，這就是我成功的原因。s why I succeed.” ，《》的作者，她的《》第一部出版前被退稿12次。39。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。并不是每一件事，你都能在頭一次嘗試時獲得成功。你不可能和每名帶課教師都相處 順利。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you ，取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。t love every subject that you won39。但現(xiàn)實是，你幾乎沒有可能走上其中任何一條道路。re not going to be any of those ，不需要付出多大的努力就能腰纏萬貫、功成名就。我希望你腳踏實地去做。免得大家在秋冬感冒高發(fā)季節(jié)得流感。t feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and ，來位將來的學(xué)習(xí)準(zhǔn)備。Maybe you39。Maybe you39。你的目標(biāo)可以很簡單，像是完成作業(yè)、認(rèn)真聽講或每天閱讀。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your ，我今天號召你們每一個人，為自己的教育設(shè)定目標(biāo)。s why today I39。我希望你們中每一個人都能做得到這些。在某些情況下，他們 的處境比起你們許多人更差。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 、安多妮和香奈兒與你們并沒有什么不同。And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。但她通過努力在一家地方醫(yī)療中心找到了工作，發(fā)起了一個讓青少年遠(yuǎn)離犯罪團(tuán)伙的項目。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to 。And then there39。但他不曾落下自己的功課。其中一項手術(shù)曾影響他的記憶。他從三歲起就開始與腦癌病魔作斗爭。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 39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。如今正攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的研究生。她父母都沒有上過大學(xué)。Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。That39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own ，沒有人為你編排好你的命運。t have to determine where you39。這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of is no excuse for not ，你的生活狀況，你的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟(jì)條件、家庭氣氛，都不是疏忽學(xué)業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口。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 you39?；蛟S你們家長中有人失業(yè)，經(jīng)濟(jì)非常拮據(jù)。t 。s not enough money to go you live in a neighborhood where you don39。Some of you might not have those you don39。她的父母親都沒有讀過大學(xué)，也沒有什么財產(chǎn)，但他們都非常勤奮，她也是如此。我有幸能上大學(xué)，上法學(xué)院，追求自己的理想。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 didn39。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the ，我做過許多自己覺得丟臉的事情，也惹出許多不該惹的麻煩。So I wasn39。t fit 。但有時仍無法位我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。t always able to give us the things that other kids ，我有親身感受。I get know what it39。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 ，我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種問題。如果你們不這樣做，入股你們輟學(xué)，你們不僅放棄了自己，也放棄了自己的國家。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。ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new panies that will create new jobs and boost our ，讓這個國家變得更加公平和自由。You39。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 ，去治療癌癥、艾滋病那樣的疾病。今天你們在學(xué)校中的學(xué)習(xí)內(nèi)容，將決定我們整個國家在未來迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時的表現(xiàn)。教育給你帶來的益處將決定這個國家的未來。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 you39。你必須接受培訓(xùn)，為之努力，為之學(xué)習(xí)。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for 、教師或警官嗎？你想當(dāng)護(hù)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)。You 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。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。但假如不再自然科學(xué)課堂上做上幾次試驗，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的才能。Maybe 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 。而教育能夠提供這樣的機會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。你們每一個都有自己的長處，你們每個人都時有用之才。re good single one of you has something to you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that 39。而這就是我今天講話的重點：你們每個人對自己的教育應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任。除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your ，哪怕我們擁有最敬業(yè)的教師，最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學(xué)校，假如你們不去履行自己的責(zé)任的話，那么這一切努力都會白費。t getting the opportunities that they ，改變在有些學(xué)校學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機會的現(xiàn)狀。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。I39。 responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don39。I39。ve talked about teachers39。也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個詞。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。我要和你們談一談你們每一個人的教育，以及這個新學(xué)年對你們所有人的期望。s expected of all of you in this new school 。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 39。有很多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡著了。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。