【正文】 and what to do after – programs that have helped increase father involvement, women39。s a responsibility that also extends to if fathers are doing their part。re strong by lifting them 39。s why we pass on the values of empathy and kindness to our children by living need to show our kids that you39。or when you are thinking only of so it39。t show kindness.[/color][color=ff6600]But our young boys and girls see see when you are ignoring or mistreating your see when you are inconsiderate at home。s a culture in our society that says remembering these obligations is somehow soft – that we can39。to look at the world through their it39。s up to us to set these high that means meeting those expectations means setting examples of excellence in our own lives.[/color][color=ff6600]The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the va[/color][color=ff6600]lue of empathy to our sympathy, but empathy – the ability to stand in somebody else39。t ever let images on TV tell you what you are worth, because I expect you to dream without limit and reach for those 39。s up to us – as fathers and parents – to instill this ethic of excellence in our 39。t cut it 39。s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and I think to myself, it39。s know that they will no longer just pete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the know the work and the studying and the level of education that requires.[/color][color=ff6600]You know, sometimes I39。ve got to spend more time with them, and help them with their homework, and replace the video game or the remote control with a book once in 39。t just sit in the house and watch ―SportsCenter‖ all weekend 39。s even better if you have a college 39。s great if you have a job。from the South Side or the wealthiest suburb.[/color][color=ff6600]The first is setting an example of excellence for our children – because if we want to set high expectations for them, we39。wishing that I could be home for my girls and my wife more than I am right say this knowing all of these things because even as we are imperfect, even as we face difficult circumstances, there are still certain lessons we must strive to live and learn as fathers – whether we are black or white。to play all the roles that both parents are supposed to I know the toll it took on I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle – that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls。t get these chances is no margin for error in their my own story is different in that way.[/color][color=ff6600]Still, I know the toll that being a single parent took on my mother – how she struggled at times to the pay bills。ve, but I got plenty of second even though we didn39。s what keeps the foundation of our country strong.[/color][color=ff6600]I know what it means to have an absent father, although my circumstances weren39。the mothers who drop them off at school, go to work, pick up them up in the afternoon, work another shift, get dinner, make lunches, pay the bills, fix the house, and all the other things it takes both parents to many of these women are doing a heroic job, but they need need another children need another 39。t have , we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more afterschool programs for our , we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our munities.[/color][color=ff6600]But we also need families to raise our need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it39。ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.[/color][color=ff6600]You and I know how true this is in the AfricanAmerican know that more than half of all black children live in singleparent households, a number that has doubled – doubled – since we were know the statistics – that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and mit crime。s Day with my girls, and it39。（摘自2009年6月《新東方英語(yǔ)》）第四篇：奧巴馬在父親節(jié)講話 (原文及翻譯)奧巴馬在父親節(jié)講話 中英文對(duì)照稿[align=center][size=5][color=black]此中文翻譯稿轉(zhuǎn)自譯言[/color][/size][/align][align=center][size=5][color=ff0000][/color][/size][/align] [size=5][size=9pt][size=9pt]Good 39。當(dāng)風(fēng)吹時(shí)，當(dāng)雨打時(shí)，當(dāng)風(fēng)雨侵襲我們的房子時(shí)，我們堅(jiān)信上帝會(huì)引導(dǎo)我們，注視我們，保護(hù)我們，引領(lǐng)著他的孩子們穿過最黑暗的暴風(fēng)驟雨，走向光明的美好未來(lái)。只要我們有這個(gè)信念。I’m not talking about an idle hope that’s little more than blind optimism or willfulignorance of the problems we ’m talking about hope as that spirit inside us that insists,despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting for us if we’re willing to work for it and fight for we are willing to ，不是那種盲目的樂觀主義，或是對(duì)所面臨問題的有意忽視。不是同情，而是感同身受——能設(shè)身處地地為人著想，能從別人的角度看世界。The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the value of empathy to our sympathy, but empathy——the ability to stand in somebody else’s shoes。讓我們握握他們的手，叫他們把屁股挪回到圖書館的座椅上吧！It’s up to us——as fathers and parents——to instill this ethic of excellence in our ’s up to us to say to our daughters, don’t ever let images on TV tell you what you are worth, because I expect you to dream without limit and reach for those ，就得靠作為父親和家長(zhǎng)的我們。我們明白為此所需的辛勞、學(xué)習(xí)和所應(yīng)達(dá)到的教育水平。We know that education is everything to our children’s know that they willpete for good jobs with children from all over the know the work and the studying and the level of education that pete, they need to graduate high school, and then they need to graduate college, and they probably need a graduate degree let’s give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library！我們明白學(xué)校教育是創(chuàng)造孩子未來(lái)的關(guān)鍵。作為父親，作為家長(zhǎng)，我們應(yīng)該花更多的時(shí)間陪伴孩子，幫助他們完成作業(yè)，時(shí)不時(shí)地把他們手中的游戲機(jī)或電視遙控器換成一本書。如果你結(jié)婚成家，兒女繞膝，那再好不過，但不要整個(gè)周末泡在家里看ESPN體育臺(tái)的“體育中心”。it’s even better if you have a college ’s a wonderful thing if you are mar