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況——你的長(zhǎng)相、出身、經(jīng)濟(jì)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(shū)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(méi)有人為你編排好你的命運(yùn),在美國(guó),你的命運(yùn)由你自己書(shū)寫(xiě),你的未來(lái)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(wàn)萬(wàn)和你一樣的年輕人正是這樣在書(shū)寫(xiě)著自己的命運(yùn)。剛進(jìn)學(xué)校時(shí),她根本不會(huì)說(shuō)英語(yǔ),她住的地方幾乎沒(méi)人上過(guò)大學(xué),她的父母也沒(méi)有受過(guò)高等教育,但她努力學(xué)習(xí),取得了優(yōu)異的成績(jī),靠獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金進(jìn)入了布朗大學(xué),如今正在攻讀公共衛(wèi)生專(zhuān)業(yè)的博士學(xué)位。這個(gè)秋天,他要開(kāi)始在大學(xué)讀書(shū)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(méi)有什么不同。我希望你們中的每一個(gè)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(jiǎn)單,像是完成作業(yè)、認(rèn)真聽(tīng)講或每天閱讀——或許你打算參加一些課外活動(dòng),或在社區(qū)做些志愿工作;或許你決定為那些因?yàn)殚L(zhǎng)相或出身等等原因而受嘲弄或欺負(fù)的孩子做主、維護(hù)他們的權(quán)益,因?yàn)槟愫臀乙粯樱J(rèn)為每個(gè)孩子都應(yīng)該能有一個(gè)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(lái)為將來(lái)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(shí)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 want you to really work at ,電視上播放的節(jié)目會(huì)讓你產(chǎn)生這樣那樣的錯(cuò)覺(jué),似乎你不需要付出多大的努力就能腰纏萬(wàn)貫、功成名就——你會(huì)認(rèn)為只要會(huì)唱rap、會(huì)打籃球或參加個(gè)什么真人秀節(jié)目就能坐享其成,但現(xiàn)實(shí)是,你幾乎沒(méi)有可能走上其中任何一條道路。re not going to be any of those ,成功是件難事。而且,并不是每件事,你都能在頭一次嘗試時(shí)獲得成功。t love every subject that you won39。t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you ?!豆?波特》被出版商拒絕了十二次才最終出版;邁克爾?喬丹上高中時(shí)被學(xué)校的籃球隊(duì)刷了下來(lái),在他的職業(yè)生涯里,他輸了幾百場(chǎng)比賽、投失過(guò)幾千次射籃,知道他是怎么說(shuō)的嗎?“我一生不停地失敗、失敗再失敗,這就是我現(xiàn)在成功的原因。s of the most successful people in the world are the ones who39。swho wrote Harry Potterher first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally Jordan was cut from his high school basketball lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his he once said, “I have failed over and over and over again in my that39。從失敗中,你可以明白下一次自己可以做出怎樣的改變;假如你惹了什么麻煩,那并不說(shuō)明你就是個(gè)搗蛋貴,而是在提醒你,在將來(lái)要對(duì)自己有更嚴(yán)格的要求;假如你考了個(gè)低分,那并不說(shuō)明你就比別人笨,而是在告訴你,自己得在學(xué)習(xí)上花更多的時(shí)間。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。re a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act you get a bad grade, that doesn39。re stupid, it just means you need to spend more time ,只有努力才能培養(yǎng)出技能。對(duì)于學(xué)業(yè)也是一樣,你或許要反復(fù)運(yùn)算才能解出一道數(shù)學(xué)題的正確答案,你或許需要讀一段文字好幾遍才能理解它的意思,你或許得把論文改上好幾次才能符合提交的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)。不要害怕提問(wèn)?!颐刻於荚谶@么做。所以,有不懂時(shí),就向大人們求助吧——找個(gè)你信得過(guò)的對(duì)象,例如父母、長(zhǎng)輩、老師、教練或輔導(dǎo)員——讓他們幫助你向目標(biāo)前進(jìn)。s born being good at all bee good at things through hard 39。t hit every note the first time you sing a 39。s good enough to hand 39。t be afraid to ask for help when you need do that every for help isn39。s a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don39。因?yàn)楫?dāng)你放棄自己的時(shí)候,你也放棄了自己的國(guó)家。re struggling, even when you39。t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your ,在這個(gè)國(guó)家,人們堅(jiān)持到底、人們加倍努力,為了他們所熱愛(ài)的國(guó)度,每一個(gè)人都盡著自己最大的努力,不會(huì)給自己留任何余地。t about people who quit when things got 39。因此,今天我想要問(wèn)你們,你們會(huì)做出什么樣的貢獻(xiàn)?你們將解決什么樣的難題?你們能發(fā)現(xiàn)什么樣的事物?二十、五十或百年之后,假如那時(shí)的美國(guó)總統(tǒng)也來(lái)做一次開(kāi)學(xué)演講的話(huà),他會(huì)怎樣描述你們對(duì)這個(gè)國(guó)家所做的一切?It39。who fought for civil rights and put a man on the who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we municate with each today, I want to ask all of you, what39。例如我正在努力為你們提供更安全的教室、更多的書(shū)籍、更先進(jìn)的設(shè)施與計(jì)算機(jī)。因此我要求你們?cè)诮衲昴軌蛘J(rèn)真起來(lái),我要求你們盡心地去做自己著手的每一件事,我要求你們每一個(gè)人都有所成就。你們要成為我們驕傲,我知道,你們一定可以做到。Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these 39。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 don39。t let your family down or your country of all, don39。It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that ,皆蒙美利堅(jiān)民眾之協(xié)力——學(xué)塾祠廟之外,市井鄉(xiāng)野之間,萬(wàn)千父老心焦似焚,苦待竟日,愿獻(xiàn)一票之力。It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue are, and always will be, the United States of ,皆仰吾國(guó)同胞之齊心——何談貧富老幼之差、黨社宗族之異,惶論發(fā)膚肌體之別、志趣愛(ài)惡之分。It’s the answer that led those who’ve been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better ,皆因憤懣者之鎮(zhèn)靜,憂(yōu)懼者之勇氣,猶疑者之篤定——平素世間種種,消磨其志向,潰滅其夢(mèng)想,而值此風(fēng)云之際,除舊更新,當(dāng)仁不讓?zhuān)瑑A力而動(dòng)乾坤者,更何人哉!It’s been a long time ing, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has e to ,其志彌堅(jiān)。I congratulate for all that they’ve I look forward to working with them to renew this nation’s promise in the months ,雖未得晤,幸有一談,其言諄諄,其意誠(chéng)誠(chéng),鄙人感佩之至。諸般求索,時(shí)日良多,皆非余所能及。以麥君之膽魄襟懷,能為吾邦所用,實(shí)國(guó)家之幸,萬(wàn)民之幸也。I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigne