【正文】 rite your own make your own 。你們掌握自己的未來(lái)。標(biāo)。也許你會(huì)決定要參加課外活動(dòng)或在你的社區(qū)提供志愿服務(wù)。也許你會(huì)決定更好地照料自己，以便有更充沛的精力來(lái)學(xué)習(xí)。But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to mit to want you to really work at ，我希望你保證去做。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 you’re not going to be any of those ：你不用做任何艱苦的工作就能發(fā)財(cái)致富并取得成功，唱小調(diào)、打籃球或成為真人秀明星是走向成功的途徑。The truth is, being successful is won’t love every subject that you won’t click with every teacher that you every homework assignment will seem pletely relevant to your life right at this you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you ，取得成功不是輕而易舉的事情。你不會(huì)與你的每一位老師都很投契。你第一次嘗試做每件事的時(shí)候，不一定成功。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失敗最多的人。邁克爾?喬丹（Michael Jordan）曾被他的高中籃球隊(duì)除名。但他曾說(shuō)過(guò)：“在我的一生中，我失敗了一次又一次、一次又一次?！盩hese people succeeded because they understood that you can’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 doesn’t mean you’re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time ，因?yàn)樗麄兌茫耗悴荒茏屖?lái)限制你，而必須讓失敗來(lái)開導(dǎo)你。因此，如果你遇到麻煩，那并不表示你是麻煩的制造者，而意味著你需要更加努力去把它做對(duì)。No one’s born being good at all bee good at things through hard ’re not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new don’t hit every note the first time you sing a ’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 it’s good enough to hand 。第一次從事新的體育項(xiàng)目時(shí)，你不可能是一位主力隊(duì)員。你必須練習(xí)。你可能要把一道數(shù)學(xué)題做幾次才把它做對(duì)。在交出一篇優(yōu)美的作文之前，你肯定需要打幾遍草稿。不要在需要幫助時(shí)害怕請(qǐng)求別人幫助。請(qǐng)求幫助不是軟弱的表現(xiàn)，它是力量的標(biāo)志，因?yàn)樗砻髂阌杏職獬姓J(rèn)自己對(duì)某些事情不懂，這樣做會(huì)使你學(xué)到新的東西。And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your 、灰心喪氣、感到其他人對(duì)你不抱希望時(shí)，也不要對(duì)你自己?jiǎn)适判?，因?yàn)楫?dāng)你自暴自棄時(shí)，你也拋棄了自己的國(guó)家。It’s the story of students 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。還有75年前坐在你們的位置上的年輕人和學(xué)生，他們走出了大蕭條并打贏了一場(chǎng)世界大戰(zhàn)；他們?yōu)槊駲?quán)而奮斗并把宇航員送上了月球。So today, I want to ask all of you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who es here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country? 而今天，我要問(wèn)問(wèn)你們大家，你們將做出什么貢獻(xiàn)？你們將解決什么問(wèn)題？你們將有什么發(fā)現(xiàn)？20年、50年或100年后來(lái)到這里講話的總統(tǒng)將會(huì)怎樣評(píng)價(jià)你們大家為這個(gè)國(guó)家所做的一切？Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these ’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the puters you need to you’ve got to do your part, I expect all of you to get serious this expect you to put your best effort into everything you expect great things from each of don’t let us ’t let your family down or your country of all, don’t let yourself us all 、你們的老師和我正在竭盡全力保證你們接受必要的教育，以便回答上述問(wèn)題。但你們也必須盡自己的努力。我希望你們盡最大努力做好每一件事。不要讓我們失望。而最重要的是，不要辜負(fù)你們自己，而要讓我們都能[為你們]感到驕傲。愿主保佑你們。謝謝你們。謝謝你們。好，大家請(qǐng)就坐。美國(guó)各地從小學(xué)預(yù)備班到中學(xué)12年級(jí)的學(xué)生正在收聽收看。我還要感謝韋克菲爾德高中出色的組織安排。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, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right nowwith just one more year to no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this ，今天是你們很多人開學(xué)的日子。我能想象有些畢業(yè)班學(xué)生現(xiàn)在感覺(jué)很不錯(cuò)——還有一年就畢業(yè)了。I know that I was young, my family lived lived in Indonesia for a few my mother, she didn’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 。我在印度尼西亞住了幾年。因此，她決定從周一到周五自己給我補(bǔ)課。Now, as you might imagine, I wasn’t too happy about getting up that a lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen whenever I’d plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no piic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)你們可以想見，我不太情愿那么早起床。但每當(dāng)我抱怨的時(shí)候，我媽媽都會(huì)那樣地看我一眼，然后說(shuō)：“小子，這對(duì)我也并不輕松。但我今天來(lái)到這里是因?yàn)橛兄匾氖虑橐湍銈冋f(shuō)。Now, I’ve given a lot of speeches about I’ve talked about responsibility a 。I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to 。I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working, where students aren’t getting the opportunities that they ，要制定高標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，支持教師和校長(zhǎng)的工作，徹底改善不能為學(xué)生提供應(yīng)有機(jī)會(huì)的、教育質(zhì)量差的學(xué)校。這就是我今天講話的重點(diǎn)：你們每個(gè)人對(duì)自己的教育應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任。你們每個(gè)人都有自己的長(zhǎng)處。你們對(duì)自己應(yīng)盡的責(zé)任是發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的能力所在。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 that’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 ——甚至可能寫書或在報(bào)紙上發(fā)表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文課的作文后才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。你或許能成為一名市長(zhǎng)或參議員或最高法院的大法官——但你可能要在參加學(xué)生會(huì)的工作或辯論隊(duì)后才會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的才華。你想當(dāng)醫(yī)生、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)。你必須接受培訓(xùn)，為之努力，為之學(xué)習(xí)?？梢院敛豢浯蟮卣f(shuō)，教育給你帶來(lái)的益處將決定這個(gè)國(guó)家的未來(lái)。你們今日在校學(xué)習(xí)的知識(shí)將決定我們作為一個(gè)國(guó)家是否能夠迎接我們未來(lái)所面臨的最嚴(yán)峻挑戰(zhàn)。你們將需要利用你們?cè)跉v史學(xué)和社會(huì)學(xué)課堂上