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美国总统奥巴马在开学第一天的演讲稿（中英文对照）

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美国总统奥巴马在开学第一天的演讲稿（中英文对照）（转）

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IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDREN 9月8日是美国大部分公立中学的新学年开学第一天，这一天美国总统奥巴马弗Wakefield High School 吉尼亚州阿灵顿的Arlington, Virginia Wakefield High 12:06 P.M. EDT School中学给全国中THE PRESIDENT: Hello, 学生上了新学年第一everybody! Thank you. Thank 课：MY you. Thank you, everybody. All EDUCATION, MY right, everybody go ahead and FUTURE。奥巴马总统have a seat. How is everybody 向学生们传达的信息doing today? (Applause.) How 很简单：努力学习、about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I 专心听讲、珍惜学习am here with students at 的机会。但这个演讲Wakefield High School in 也遭到很多家长的抵Arlington, Virginia. And we've 制。 got students tuning in from all 巴拉克?奥巴马across America, from 总统在重返学校活动kindergarten through 12th grade. 中的预稿 And I am just so glad that all 弗吉尼亚 阿灵顿 could join us today. And I want 2009年9月8日星期to thank Wakefield for being 二 such an outstanding host. Give 总统：大家好，大yourselves a big round of 家今天都好吗？我现applause. (Applause.) 在是和弗吉尼亚州韦I know that for many of 柯菲尔德高中的学生you, today is the first day of 在一起。全国各地的school. And for those of you in 学生，从幼儿园到12kindergarten, or starting middle 年级，也都在收听。or high school, it's your first day 我很高兴你们大家今in a new school, so it's 天都参与了进来。 understandable if you're a little 我知道对你们中nervous. I imagine there are 的很多人来说，今天some seniors out there who are 是开学第一天。而对feeling pretty good right now -- 于那些在幼儿园或是(applause) -- with just one more 刚刚开始初中或高中year to go. And no matter what 生涯的你来说，今天grade you're in, some of you are 还是你们在新学校的probably wishing it were still 第一天，所以你们难summer and you could've stayed 免会有一点紧张，这in bed just a little bit longer this 是很可以理解的。我还想象着今天会有一morning. I know that feeling. When I 些高年级学生这会儿可能感觉挺不错的，was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for 因为还有一年就可以a few years. And my mother, she 毕业了。不管现在你didn't have the money to send 们上几年级了，有些me where all the American kids 人可能希望现在还是went to school, but she thought 夏天，今天早上可能it was important for me to keep 还会有点不想起床。 up with an American education. 我完全理解这种So she decided to teach me extra 感觉。在我小的时候，lessons herself, Monday through 我们家在印度尼西亚Friday. But because she had to 生活过几年。那时候go to work, the only time she 我妈妈没有足够的钱could do it was at 4:30 in the 送我去全是美国孩子念书的学校。所以她morning. Now, as you might imagine, 决定自己给我额外补I wasn't too happy about getting 一些课，开始于周一up that early. And a lot of times, 到周五的每天早上I'd fall asleep right there at the 4:30。 kitchen table. But whenever I'd 起这么早我可是complain, my mother would just 不怎么有愉快的心give me one of those looks and 情。很多次，我就趴she'd say, \在厨房的桌子上睡着me either, buster.\了。但是每一次我要So I know that some of you 抱怨的时候，我妈妈are still adjusting to being back 就会那样看着我说：“这对我来说也不是at school. But I'm here today 什么享受，小家伙。” because I have something important to discuss with you. 所以我知道你们I'm here because I want to talk 中有一些人还在调整with you about your education 自己重返学校。但是and what's expected of all of you 我今天在这里的原因是有一些重要的事情in this new school year. Now, I've given a lot of 想和你们商讨。我在speeches about education. And 这里是因为想和你们I've talked about responsibility a 谈谈你们的学习，在新学年里对大家的期lot. I've talked about teachers' 望。 responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn. I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and you get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with the Xbox. 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 deserve. 关于教育我做了很多次演讲了。而且有关责任我也谈了很多。我已经谈过了你们的教师启发你们，推动你们学习的责任。我讲过了你们的父母让你们坚持学习，做家庭作业，不要整天看电视，玩Xbox的责任。我讲了很多政府制定高标准，支持教师和校长，改善那些运转不良以至于学生得不到应有机会的那些学校的责任。 但是最后，我们可以有最专注的教师，But at the end of the day, 最支持的父母，以及we can have the most dedicated 世界上最好的学校，teachers, the most supportive 而只有当你们都履行parents, the best schools in the 了你们的责任时，这world -- and none of it will 些因素才能发挥作make a difference, none of it 用。只有你们到学校will matter unless all of you 来上课，注意听老师fulfill your responsibilities, 讲课，听父母，祖父unless you show up to those 母以及其他大人的schools, unless you pay attention 话，努力学习，才能to those teachers, unless you 成功。 listen to your parents and 这就是今天我想grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes 重点讲的主题：你们to succeed. That's what I want to 每一个人对你们的教育所负有的责任。我focus on today: the responsibility each of you has 想先讲讲你们对自己的责任。 for your education. 你们每一个人都I want to start with the 有自己的擅长。你们responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of 每一个人都可以贡献you has something that you're 一些东西。你们有责good at. Every single one of you 任自己发现这些究竟has something to offer. And you 是什么。这是教育可have a responsibility to yourself 以提供的机会。 to discover what that is. That's 可能你能够成为the opportunity an education can 一名出色的作家，可provide. 能可以写本书或为报Maybe you could be a great 纸撰稿，但是你只有writer -- maybe even good 在英语课上完成你的enough to write a book or 文章才能发现这一articles in a newspaper -- but 点。可能你会成为一you might not know it until you 名革新者或者发明write that English paper -- that 家，可能你的作品可English class paper that's 以和下一个iPhone比assigned to you. Maybe you 美，还可能研制出新could be an innovator or an 的药物或疫苗，但是inventor -- maybe even good 只有当你实践科学课enough to come up with the next 上的项目才会发现这iPhone or the new medicine or 一点。可能你会成为vaccine -- but you might not 市长，参议员或者最know it until you do your project 高法庭大法官，但是for your science class. Maybe 只有参加学生自治或you could be a mayor or a 辩论小组你才会发现senator or a Supreme Court 这一点。 justice -- but you might not 不管你将来想做know that until you join student 什么，我保证你都需government or the debate team. 要教育才能实现。你And no matter what you 想成为医生，教师或want to do with your life, I 是警官吗？你想成为guarantee that you'll need an 护士，建筑师，律师education to do it. You want to 或是军中的一员吗？be a doctor, or a teacher, or a 要想从事其中的任何police officer? You want to be a 一种职业，都需要接nurse or an architect, a lawyer or 受良好的教育。不辍a member of our military? 学完成学业才能找到You're going to need a good 一份理想的工作。你education for every single one of 们必须为之努力，为those careers. You cannot drop 之接受培训，为之学out of school and just drop into a 习相关的知识。 good job. You've got to train for 而且这不仅对你it and work for it and learn for it. 自己的生活，你自己And this isn't just important 的将来来说是重要