【正文】 School in Arlington, we39。我想也會有許多畢業(yè)班的學(xué)生們正自信滿滿地準(zhǔn)備最后一年的沖刺。I know that for many of you, today is the first day of for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it39。s understandable if you39。re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could39。小時候，我們家在印度尼西亞住過幾年，而我媽媽沒錢送我去其他美國孩子們上學(xué)的地方去讀書，因此她決定自己給我上課——時間是每周一到周五的凌晨4點半。t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the ，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。t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I39。d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she39。我要和你們談一談你們每個人的教育，以及在新的學(xué)年里，你們應(yīng)當(dāng)做些什么。m here today because I have something important to discuss with 39。s expected of all of you in this new school ，也常常用到“責(zé)任”這個詞。我談到過家長們有責(zé)任看管你們認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)、完成作業(yè)，不要成天只會看電視或打游戲。ve given a lot of speeches about I39。ve talked about teachers39。ve talked about your parents39。t spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the 、協(xié)助老師和校長們的工作，改變在有些學(xué)校里學(xué)生得不到應(yīng)有的學(xué)習(xí)機會的現(xiàn)狀?！悄忝刻鞙?zhǔn)時去上學(xué)、除非你認(rèn)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。I39。s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren39。t getting the opportunities that they 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 39。你們中的每一個人都會有自己擅長的東西，每一個人都是有用之材，而發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能是什么，就是你們要對自己擔(dān)起的責(zé)任。I want to start with the responsibility you have to single one of you has something that you39。s the opportunity an education can ——甚至有一天能讓那些文字出現(xiàn)在書籍和報刊上——但假如不在英語課上經(jīng)常練習(xí)寫作，你不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一個發(fā)明家、創(chuàng)造家——甚至設(shè)計出像今天的iPhone一樣流行的產(chǎn)品，或研制出新的藥物與疫苗——但假如不在自然科學(xué)課程上做上幾次實驗，你不會知道自己有這樣的天賦；或許你能成為一名議員或最高法院法官，但假如你不去加入什么學(xué)生會或參加幾次辯論賽，你也不會發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才能。s assigned to 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 ，我可以向你保證，不管你將來想要做什么，你都需要相應(yīng)的教育。And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you39。re going to need a good education for every single one of those cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good 39。今天你們在學(xué)校中學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容，將會決定我們整個國家在未來迎接重大挑戰(zhàn)時的表現(xiàn)。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。You39。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。假如你不這么做——假如你放棄學(xué)習(xí)——那么你不僅是放棄了自己，也是放棄了你的國家。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。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。t do thatif you quit on schoolyou39。re quitting on your , I know it39。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。t fit ，我做過許多自己覺得丟臉的事情，也惹出過許多不該惹的麻煩，我的生活岌岌可危，隨時可能急轉(zhuǎn)直下。我在許多事上都得到了重來的機會，我得到了去大學(xué)讀法學(xué)院、實現(xiàn)自己夢想的機會。So I wasn39。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。但歸根結(jié)底，你的生活狀況——你的長相、出身、經(jīng)濟條件、家庭氛圍——都不是疏忽學(xué)業(yè)和態(tài)度惡劣的借口，這些不是你去跟老師頂嘴、逃課、或是輟學(xué)的借口，這些不是你不好好讀書的借口。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you someone in your family has lost their job and there39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。ve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in 39。沒有人為你編排好你的命運，在美國，你的命運由你自己書寫，你的未來由你自己掌握。t have to determine where you39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own make your own ，千千萬萬和你一樣的年輕人正是這樣在書寫著自己的命運。剛進學(xué)校時，她根本不會說英語，她住的地方幾乎沒人上過大學(xué)，她的父母也沒有受過高等教育，但她努力學(xué)習(xí)，取得了優(yōu)異的成績，靠獎學(xué)金進入了布朗大學(xué)，如今正在攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專業(yè)的博士學(xué)位。這個秋天，他要開始在大學(xué)讀書了。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, didn39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。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。賈斯敏、安多尼和香特爾與你們并沒有什么不同。我希望你們中的每一個人，都能做得到這些。s Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she39。t any different from any of face challenges in their lives just like you some cases they39。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——或許你打算參加一些課外活動，或在社區(qū)做些志愿工作；或許你決定為那些因為長相或出身等等原因而受嘲弄或欺負的孩子做主、維護他們的權(quán)益，因為你和我一樣，認(rèn)為每個孩子都應(yīng)該能有一個安全的學(xué)習(xí)環(huán)境；或許你認(rèn)為該學(xué)著更好的照顧自己，來為將來的學(xué)習(xí)做準(zhǔn)備……當(dāng)然，除此之外，我希望你們都多多洗手、感到身體不舒服的時候要多在家休息，免得大家在秋冬感冒高發(fā)季節(jié)都得流感。s why today I39。ll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your you39。ll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don39。But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to w