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1、英语演讲稿 ：奥巴马励志英语演讲稿：梦想与责任英语演讲稿 ：奥巴马励志英语演讲稿：幻想与责任国总统奥巴马XX年9月8日开学演讲 英文全文for immediate release september 8,remarks by the presidentin a national address to americas schoolchildrenwakefield high schoolarlington, virginiathe president: hello, everybody! thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. all right
2、, everybody go ahead and have a seat. how is everybody doing today? (applause.) how about tim spicer? (applause.) i am here with students at wakefield high school in arlington, virginia. and weve got students tuning in from all across america, from kindergarten through 12th grade. and i am just so g
3、lad that all could join us today. and i want to thank wakefield for being such an outstanding host. give yourselves a big round of applause. (applause.)大家好!感谢你们。感谢你们。感谢你们大家。好，大家请就坐。你们今日都好吗?(掌声)蒂姆•斯派塞(tim spicer)好吗?(掌声)我现在与弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿郡韦克菲尔德中学的学生们在一起。美国各地从小学预备班到中学XX年级的学生正在收听收看。我很兴奋大家今日都能参加。我还要感谢韦克菲
4、尔德中学精彩的组织支配。请为你们自己热情鼓掌。(掌声)i know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. and for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, its your first day in a new school, so its understandable if youre a little nervous. i imagine there are some seniors out there who are f
5、eeling pretty good right now - (applause) - with just one more year to go. and no matter what grade youre in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you couldve stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.我知道，今日是你们许多人开学的日子。对于进入小学预备班、初中或中学的学生，今日是你们来到新学校的第一天，心里可能有点惊慌，这是可以理解的
6、。我能想象有些毕业班学生现在感觉很不错(掌声)还有一年就毕业了。不论在哪个年级，你们有些人可能希望暑假更长一点，今日早上还能多睡一小会儿。i know that feeling. when i was young, my family lived overseas. i lived in indonesia for a few years. and my mother, she didnt have the money to send me where all the american kids went to school, but she thought it was important
7、for me to keep up with an american education. so she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, monday through friday. but because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.我了解这种感觉。我小时候，我们家生活在海外。我在印度尼西亚住了几年。我妈妈没有钱送我上其他美国孩子上的学校，但她认为必需让我接受美式教化。因此，她确定从周一到周五自己给我补课。不
8、过她还要上班，所以只能在早晨四点半给我上课。now, as you might imagine, i wasnt too happy about getting up that early. and a lot of times, id fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. but whenever id complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and shed say, “this is no picnic for me either, buster.” (lau
9、ghter.)你们可以想见，我不太情愿那么早起床。有许多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡着了。但每当我埋怨的时候，我妈妈都会那样地看我一眼，然后说：“小子，这对我也并不轻松。”(笑声)so i know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. but im here today because i have something important to discuss with you. im here because i want to talk with you about your education and wha
10、ts expected of all of you in this new school year.我知道你们有些人还在适应开学后的生活。但我今日来到这里是因为有重要的事情要和你们说。我来这里是要和你们谈谈你们的教化问题，以及在这个新学年对你们全部人的期望。now, ive given a lot of speeches about education. and ive talked about responsibility a lot.我做过许多次有关教化问题的演讲。我多次谈到过责任问题。ive talked about teachers responsibility for inspiri
11、ng students and pushing you to learn.我谈到过老师激励学生并督促他们学习的责任。ive talked about your parents responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and dont spend every waking hour in front of the tv or with the xbox.我谈到过家长的责任，要确保你们走正路，完成家庭作业，不要成天坐在电视前或玩xbox嬉戏。ive talked a lot
12、about your governments responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that arent working, where students arent getting the opportunities that they deserve.我多次谈到过政府的责任，要制定高标准，支持老师和校长的工作，彻底改善不能为学生供应应有机会的、教化质量差的学校。but at the end of the day,
13、 we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schools in the world - and 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, unles
14、s you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. thats what i want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.然而，即使我们拥有最敬业的老师，最尽力的家长和全世界的学校假如你们大家不履行你们的责任，不到校上课，不用心听讲，不听家长、祖父祖母和其他大人的话，不付出取得胜利所必需的勤奋努力，那么这一切都毫无用处，
15、都无关紧要。这就是我今日讲话的重点：你们每个人对自己的教化应尽的责任。i want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. every single one of you has something that youre good at. every single one of you has something to offer. and you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. thats the opportunity an educ
16、ation can provide.我首先要讲讲你们对自己应尽的责任。你们每个人都有自己的特长。你们每个人都能做出自己的贡献。你们对自己应尽的责任是发觉自己的实力所在。而教化能够供应这样的机会。maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that english paper - that english class paper thats assig
17、ned to you. maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the next iphone or the new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice - but yo
18、u might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.你或许能成为一名精彩的作家甚至可能写书或在报纸上发表文章但你可能要在完成那篇英文课的作文后才会发觉自己的才华。你或许能成为一名创新者或独创家甚至可能设计出新一代iphone或研制出新型药物或疫苗但你可能要在完成科学课的试验后才会发觉自己的才华。你或许能成为一名市长或参议员或法院的大法官但你可能要在参与学生会的工作或辩论队后才会发觉自己的才华。and no matter what you want to do with your life, i g
19、uarantee that youll need an education to do it. you 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? youre going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. you cannot drop out of school and just
20、 drop into a good job. youve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.不论你的生活志向是什么，我敢确定你必需上学读书才能实现它。你想当医生、老师或警官吗?你想当护士、建筑师、律师或军人吗?你必需接受良好的教化，才能从事上述任何一种职业。你不能希望辍学后能碰上个好工作。你必需接受培训，为之努力，为之学习。and this isnt just important for your own life and your own future. what you make of your education w
21、ill decide nothing less than the future of this country. the future of america depends on you. what youre learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.这并非只对你个人的人生和将来意义重大。可以毫不夸大地说，教化给你带来的好处将确定这个国家的将来。美国的将来取决于你们。你们今日在校学习的学问将确定我们作为一个国家是否能
22、够迎接我们将来所面临的最严峻挑战。youll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and aids, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. youll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to
23、 fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. youll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.你们将须要利用你们通过自然科学和数学课程所学到的学问和解决问题的实力来治愈癌症、艾滋病及其他疾病，开发新的
24、能源技术和爱护我们的环境。你们将须要利用你们在历史学和社会学课堂上所获得的学问和独立思索实力来抗击贫困和解决无家可归问题，打击犯罪和消退卑视，使我们的国家更公允、更自由。你们将须要利用你们在全部课堂上培育的创建力和才智来创办新公司，增加就业机会，振兴我们的经济。we need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. if you dont do
25、 that - if you quit on school - youre not just quitting on yourself, youre quitting on your country.我们须要你们每个人发挥你们的聪慧才智和技能，以便帮助老一辈人解决我们面临的最麻烦问题。假如你们不这样做，假如你们辍学，你们不仅仅是自暴自弃，也是抛弃自己的国家。now, i know its not always easy to do well in school. i know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that c
26、an make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.我自然知道要做到学业优秀并非总是易事。我知道你们很多人在生活中面临挑战，难以集中精力从事学业。i get it. i know what its like. my 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 wasnt always able to give us
27、the things that other kids had. there were times when i missed having a father in my life. there were times when i was lonely and i felt like i didnt fit in.我明白这一点。 我有亲身感受。两岁时，我父亲离家而去，我是由一位单亲母亲抚养成人的，母亲不得不工作，并时常为支付生活费用而苦苦挣扎，但有时仍无法为我们供应其他孩子享有的东西。有时，我渴望生活中能有一位父亲。有时我感到孤独，感到自己不适应社会。so i wasnt always as f
28、ocused as i should have been on school, and i did some things im not proud of, and i got in more trouble than i should have. and my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.我并非总是像我应当做到的那样用心学习，我也曾做过我如今不能引以为豪的一些事情，我曾惹过不应当惹的麻烦。我的人生原本会轻易陷入更糟糕的境地。but i was - i was lucky. i got a lot of second ch
29、ances, and i had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. my wife, our first lady michelle obama, she has a similar story. neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didnt have a lot of money. but they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to t
30、he best schools in this country.但是，我当年际遇不错。我有过很多其次次机会，我有幸能上高校，上法学院，追求自己的志向。我的妻子，我们的第一夫人米歇尔•奥巴马，也有着类似的经验。她的父母都未曾上过高校，家里很穷。但他们特别勤奋 ，她也是如此，因此她得以进入一些美国的学校。some of you might not have those advantages. maybe you dont have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. maybe someone in y
31、our family has lost their job and theres not enough money to go around. maybe you live in a neighborhood where you dont feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know arent right.你们中有一些人可能没有那些有利条件。或许你们生活中没有成年人为你们供应你们所须要的支持。或许你们家中有人失业，经济特别拮据。或许你们生活在使你们感觉担心全的社区，或有挚友逼迫你们去做你们知道不
32、对的事情。but at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what youve got going on at home - none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. thats no excuse for talking back to your tea
33、cher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. there is no excuse for not trying.然而说究竟，你们生活的环境、你们的肤色、你们的原籍、你们的经济收入、你们家中的境况等等，这一切都不能成为你们不用功或不努力的理由。你们没有理由不听从你们的老师、逃学、或辍学。没有理由不付出努力。where you are right now doesnt have to determine where youll end up. no ones written your destiny for you, because her
34、e in america, you write your own destiny. you make your own future.你们目前的状况并不确定着你们的将来。没有人确定你们的命运，在美国，你们确定自己的命运。你们驾驭自己的将来。thats what young people like you are doing every day, all across america.这就是像你们这样的年轻人每天都在做的事情，全美各地都是如此。young people like jazmin perez, from roma, texas. jazmin didnt speak english
35、when she first started school. neither of her parents had gone to college. but she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to brown university - is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to becoming dr. jazmin perez.来自得州罗马城的贾兹敏•佩雷斯(jazmin perez)就是一个例证，她刚起先上学时
36、并不会说英文。她的父母都没有上过高校。然而，她特别勤奋，成果优秀，获得了布朗高校的奖学金，她如今正在读探讨生，攻读公共卫生专业，不久将成为贾兹敏•佩雷斯博士。im thinking about andoni schultz, from los altos, california, whos fought brain cancer since he was three. hes had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him mu
37、ch longer - hundreds of extra hours - to do his schoolwork. but he never fell behind. hes headed to college this fall.我想起了加州洛斯阿尔托斯城的安多尼•舒尔茨(andoni schultz)，他从三岁起先就始终与脑癌进行抗争，他不得不忍受各类治疗和手术带来的苦痛，其中一项手术曾影响了他的记忆，因此他花在功课上的时间比一般人长得多，要多出数百个小时。然而，他从未落后。他今年秋季将迈进高校。and then theres shantell steve, from my
38、 hometown of chicago, illinois. even 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 shes on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to
39、college.我还想起家乡伊利诺伊州芝加哥市的尚特尔•史蒂夫(shantell steve)。她曾在芝加哥最困难的社区生活，寄养于多个不同的家庭，但她最终在一家地方医疗中心找到工作，并起先了一项帮助年轻人远离流氓团伙的安排，她即将以优异成果从中学毕业，紧接着将上高校。and jazmin, andoni, and shantell arent any different from any of you. they face challenges in their lives just like you do. in some cases theyve got it a lot w
40、orse off than many of you. but they refused to give up. they chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for themselves. and i expect all of you to do the same.贾兹敏、安多尼和尚特尔与你们中间的每个人没什么两样。跟你们一样，他们在生活中面临种种挑战。在某些状况下，他们的境况比起你们很多人更差。但他们拒绝放弃。他们确定要为自己的一生、自己的教化负起责任，为自己设定各
41、项奋斗目标。我期盼你们大家都会这样做。thats why today im calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education - and do everything you can to meet them. your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. maybe youll decid
42、e to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. maybe youll 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 learn. may
43、be youll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. and 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 dont feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.因此，我今日呼吁你们
44、每一个人为自己的教化设定目标，并尽自己的努力来实现这些目标。你的目标可以是一件非常简洁的事情，例如完成家庭作业、上课用心听讲、或每天花一点时间读一本书。或许你会确定要参与课外活动或在你的社区供应志愿服务。或许你会确定自告奋勇爱护那些因为身份或长相而受人戏弄或欺压的孩子，缘由是你和我一样认为全部的年轻人都应当享有一个适合读书和学习的平安环境。或许你会确定更好地照料自己，以便有更充足的精力来学习。顺便提一下，除了这些事情外，我希望大家要勤洗手，身体感到不舒适的时候要呆在家里不去上学，这样我们能防止人们在今年秋冬季节染上流感。but whatever you resolve to do, i wan
45、t you to commit to it. i want you to really work at it.但无论你确定做什么，我希望你保证去做。我希望你脚踏实地地去做。i know that sometimes you get that sense from tv that you can be rich and successful without any hard work - that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality tv star. chances are your
46、e not going to be any of those things.我知道有时候你会从电视上得到这样的印象：你不用做任何艰苦的工作就能发财致富并取得胜利，唱小调、打篮球或成为真人秀明星是走向胜利的途径。但实际状况是：你可能不会成为其中的一员。the truth is, being successful is hard. you wont love every subject that you study. you wont click with every teacher that you have. not every homework assignment will seem co
47、mpletely relevant to your life right at this minute. and you wont necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.事实上，取得胜利不是轻而易举的事情。你不会喜爱你学习的每一门课目。你不会与你的每一位老师都很投契。不是全部的家庭作业好像都与你眼前的生活完全有关。你第一次尝试做每件事的时候，不肯定胜利。thats okay. some of the most successful people in the world are the ones whove had t
48、he most failures. j.k. rowlings - who wrote harry potter - her first harry potter book was rejected 12 times before it was finally published. michael jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. but he once said, “i have failed over and over and over again in my life. and thats why i succeed.”