【正文】 TV are you39。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。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 39。s on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren39。s headed to college this then there39。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。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own 39。t have to determine where you39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。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。m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should my life could have easily taken a turn for the 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。t fit I wasn39。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。re quitting on your , I know it39。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。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。re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the 39。ve got to train for it and work for it and learn for this isn39。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。s the opportunity an education can 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。s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。t working, where students aren39。ve talked a lot about your government39。 responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don39。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to 39。ve talked about responsibility a 39。s expected of all of you in this new school , I39。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 39。我的妻子——現(xiàn)在得叫她第一夫人米歇爾但我很幸運。我父親在我兩歲時就離開了家庭，是母親一人將我們拉扯大，有時她付不起帳單，有時我們得不到其他孩子們都有的東西，有時我會想，假如父親在該多好，有時我會感到孤獨無助，與周圍的環(huán)境格格不入。我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨著各種各樣的問題，很難把精力集中在專心讀書之上。假如你不這么做——假如你放棄學習——那么你不僅是放棄了自己，也是放棄了你的國家。你們需要在數(shù)理科學課程上學習的知識和技能，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。不僅僅對于你們個人的未來有重要意義，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。而且，我可以向你保證，不管你將來想要做什么，你都需要相應的教育。教育給你們提供了發(fā)現(xiàn)自己才能的機會。首先，我想談談你們對于自己有什么責任。——除非你每天準時去上學、除非你認真地聽老師講課、除非你把父母、長輩和其他大人們說的話放在心上、除非你肯付出成功所必需的努力，否則這一切都會失去意義。我也很多次談到過政府有責任設定高標準嚴要求、協(xié)助老師和校長們的工作，改變在有些學校里學生得不到應有的學習機會的現(xiàn)狀。我談到過教師們有責任激勵和啟迪你們，督促你們學習。我要和你們談一談你們每個人的教育，以及在新的學年里，你們應當做些什么。顯然，我不怎么喜歡那么早就爬起來，很多時候，我就這么在廚房的桌子前睡著了。我可以理解這份心情。我想也會有許多畢業(yè)班的學生們正自信滿滿地準備最后一年的沖刺。弗吉尼亞州，阿林頓市，2009年9月8日 嗨，大家好！你們今天過得怎么樣？我現(xiàn)在和弗吉尼亞州阿林頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起，全國各地也有從幼兒園到高三的眾多學生們通過電視關注這里，我很高興你們能共同分享這一時刻。在美國各地，也有許多家長向當?shù)亟逃賳T表示抗議，一些家長甚至威脅在奧巴馬演講時把孩子離教室。一些反對者指責稱，奧巴馬試圖通過演講向學生灌輸政治理念。背景知識這是奧巴馬第二次發(fā)表開學演講。佳句欣賞Nobody gets to write your destiny but future is in your life is what you make of ，只有你才能書寫你自己的命運。老師們要履行好對學生所應擔負起的責任。obligation ，義務It takes all of us in governmentfrom the governor to the mayor to the superintendent to the Presidentall of us doing our part to prepare our students, all of them, for success in the classroom and in college and in a ’s going to take an outstanding principal, like Principal Neff, and outstanding teachers like the ones you have here at Mastermanteachers who are going above and beyond the call of duty for their it’s going to take parents who are mitted to your ，從州長到市長，到院長，到總統(tǒng)，所有人都要履行職責為我們的學生做好準備，幫助他們在教室、在大學、在事業(yè)上取得成功。So you’ve got an obligation to yourselves, and America has an obligation to you, to make sure you’re getting the best education making sure you get that kind of education is going to take all of us working hard and all of us working hand in ，你們要承擔起這樣的責任和義務。在中國北京或者印度邦加羅爾的學生比以前更加努力，而且比以前表現(xiàn)更好。你們在學校的表現(xiàn)越好，生活中就能走得越遠。沒有什么比你的受教育程度以及你在學校的所做之事更能決定你的成功。我確信，幾個月后會有一段時間，你們會完善熬夜寫作業(yè)，為考試臨時抱佛腳，或者在一個雨天的早晨把自己從被窩里拖出來，想，哦天，怎么不是下雪天？?。ㄐΓ゛bsolutely cram ；吃得過飽But let me tell you, what you’re doing is worth is nothing more important than what you’re doing right is going to have as great an impact on your success in life as your education, how you’re doing in ，你所做的一切都是值得的。destiny acplish And that last part is absolutely essential, that part about really working hard in school, because an education has never been more important than it is ’m sure there are going to be times in the months ahead when you’re staying up late doing your homework or cramming for a test, or you’re dragging yourself out of bed on a rainy morning and you’re thinking, oh, boy, I wish maybe