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早晨偶然在报纸上看到了9月8日美国开学日的时候,奥巴马总统给全国从幼儿园到高中生做的一个开学演讲,非常感动.想把这个东西与大家分享一下，于是上网找到了中英文全文两个版本.我对照了一下,翻译得基本上做到了信、达、雅。

我知道，对你们中的许多人来说，今天是开学的第一天，你们中的有一些刚刚进入幼儿园或升上初高中，对你们来说，这是在新学校的第一天，因此，假如你们感到有些紧张，那也是很正常的。

我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满地准备最后一年的冲刺。

不过，我想无论你有多大、在读哪个年级，许多人都打心底里希望现在还在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。

我可以理解这份心情。

小时候，我们家在印度尼西亚住过几年，而我妈妈没钱送我去其他美国孩子们上学的地方去读书，因此她决定自己给我上课——时间是每周一到周五的凌晨4点半。

显然，我不怎么喜欢那么早就爬起来，很多时候，我就这么在厨房的桌子前睡着了。

(完整版)奥巴马开学演讲(中英双语)

Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody going today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.)大家好！谢谢你们。

谢谢你们。

谢谢大家。

好，大家请就座。

你们今天都好吗？（掌声）蒂姆·斯帕塞好吗？（掌声）I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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.)嗨，大家好！我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

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, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And 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 morning.我知道，对你们中的许多人来说，今天是开学的第一天，你们中的有一些刚刚进入幼儿园或升上初高中，对你们来说，这是在新学校的第一天，因此，假如你们感到有些紧张，那也是很正常的。

奥巴马开学演讲稿(中英文对照)

奥巴马总统讲演的风格很口语化，讲道理深入浅出，很有感染力.论坛里的朋友相信有很多都是已经为人父母了,我的孩子上周也进入小学一年级,踏上了漫长的求学之路.如何教育孩子，激励孩子，可能是每个家长最头痛的问题.我建议你亲自给你的孩子读一下这篇讲演，跟他（她)讨论一下,让孩子理解一下他(她)身上所承担的对自己，对国家的责任。

发这个贴之前,踌躇再三,毕竟讲教育的主题跟股市大家谈的主旨有些不合，但我觉得从投资角度而言,教育上面花费的时间、精力，金钱的投资,不管是投向自己,还是孩子,都是我们一生中所能做出的最好的,永远都不会后悔的投资选择之一．毕竟，一个更好的未来，一个更强大的国家，一个更美,更和谐的世界愿景都要依靠我们的孩子们去实现．弗吉尼亚州,阿林顿市,2009年9月8日嗨，大家好!你们今天过得怎么样?我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满地准备最后一年的冲刺。

不过,我想无论你有多大、在读哪个年级，许多人都打心底里希望现在还在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床.我可以理解这份心情。

小时候，我们家在印度尼西亚住过几年，而我妈妈没钱送我去其他美国孩子们上学的地方去读书，因此她决定自己给我上课—-时间是每周一到周五的凌晨4点半。

显然，我不怎么喜欢那么早就爬起来，很多时候，我就这么在厨房的桌子前睡着了.每当我埋怨的时候，我妈总会用同一副表情看着我说:“小鬼，你以为教你我就很轻松？"所以,我可以理解你们中的许多人对于开学还需要时间来调整和适应，但今天我站在这里，是为了和你们谈一些重要的事情。

奥巴马开学演讲稿(中英文对照)

奥巴马总统讲演的风格很口语化,讲道理深入浅出,很有感染力.论坛里的朋友相信有很多都是已经为人父母了,我的孩子上周也进入小学一年级,踏上了漫长的求学之路.如何教育孩子,激励孩子,可能是每个家长最头痛的问题.我建议你亲自给你的孩子读一下这篇讲演,跟他(她)讨论一下,让孩子理解一下他(她)身上所承担的对自己,对国家的责任.发这个贴之前,踌躇再三,毕竟讲教育的主题跟股市大家谈的主旨有些不合,但我觉得从投资角度而言,教育上面花费的时间、精力，金钱的投资,不管是投向自己,还是孩子,都是我们一生中所能做出的最好的,永远都不会后悔的投资选择之一．毕竟，一个更好的未来，一个更强大的国家，一个更美，更和谐的世界愿景都要依靠我们的孩子们去实现．美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲英文全文For Immediate Release September 8, 2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTIN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDRENWakefield High SchoolArlington, VirginiaTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody doing today? (Applaus e.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.) I am here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from all across America, from kind ergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad that all could join us today. And I want to thank Wakefield for being such an outstanding host. Give yourselves a big round of ap plause. (Applause.)I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in ki ndergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your first day in a new school, so it's und erstandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are f eeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you're in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer and you coul d've stayed in bed just a little bit longer this morning.I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn't have the money to send me where all the Ame rican kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an Ame rican education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Frida y. But because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the mor ning.Now, as you might imagine, I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. And a lot o f times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my moth er would just give me one of those looks and she'd say, "This is no picnic for me either, b uster." (Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I'm here to day because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to t alk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school ye ar.Now, I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked about responsibilit y a lot.I've talked about teachers' responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to lea rn.I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and y ou 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, an d supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working, whe re students aren't getting the opportunities that they deserve.But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most suppor tive 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 sch ools, unless you pay attention to those teachers, unless you listen to your parents and gr andparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. That's what I w ant to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you ha s something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an educati on can provide.Maybe you could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or arti cles in a newspaper -- but you might not know it until you write that English paper -- that English class paper that's assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an invent or -- maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or v accine -- 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 you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you'll need an edu cation 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? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just dr op into a good job. You've got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of Ameri ca depends on you. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math t o cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and prote ct our environment. You'll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history a nd social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy .We need every single one of you to develop your talents and your skills and your inte llect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you don't do that -- if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.I get it. I know what it's 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 wasn't always able to give us 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 did n't fit in.So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some thing s I'm not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have ea sily taken a turn for the worse.But I was -- I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, and I had the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obam a, she has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn't hav e a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't r ight.But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life -- what you look like, where y ou come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home -- none of t hat is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. The re is no excuse for not trying.Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's wri tten your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn't speak English wh en she first started school. Neither of her parents had gone to college. But she worked ha rd, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown University -- is now in graduate s chool, studying public health, on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin Perez.I'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who's fought brain canc er since he was three. He's had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of wh ich affected his memory, so it took him much longer -- hundreds of extra hours -- to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He's headed to college this fall.And then there's Shantell Steve, from my 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 she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren't any different from any of you. They face cha llenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they've got it a lot worse off than man y of you. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their lives, for t heir education, and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.That's why today I'm 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 doin g all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in y our community. Maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied b ecause of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young pe ople deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you'll decide to take better ca re of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, by the way, I hop e all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work a t it.I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successf ul without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are you're not going to be any of those things.The truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject that you study. Yo u won't click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.That's okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've ha d the most failures. J.K. Rowling's -- 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 duri ng his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. An d that's why I succeed."These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures def ine you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublem aker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mea n you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard wor k. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note t he first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. The same principle applies to your sc hoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You m ight have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I d o that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then allo ws you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like ot her 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 country.The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about pe ople who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything le ss than their best.It's the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wagea revolution and they founded this nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil right s and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each oth er.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 c omes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure y ou have the education you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard to fix up yo ur classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to l earn. But you've got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I e xpect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down. Don't let your family down or your country down. Most of all, d on't let yourself down. Make us all proud.Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you. (A pplause.)弗吉尼亚州，阿林顿市，2009年9月8日嗨，大家好！你们今天过得怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

奥巴马开学演讲稿中英文

奥巴马开学演讲稿中英文奥巴马开学演讲稿（中英双语）Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, faculty members, and most importantly, dear students,女士们先生们，尊敬的来宾，教职员工以及最重要的，亲爱的学生们，It is an absolute honor for me to stand before you today as we gather to celebrate the commencement of another academic year. As we embark onthis new journey together, I want to share some words of wisdom that I hope will inspire and guide you in the pursuit of your dreams.今天能站在这里与大家一同庆祝新学年开始，对我而言是莫大的荣幸。

在我们共同开始这段新的旅程前，我希望分享一些智慧的话语，它们将激励并指导你们追逐梦想的过程。

Education is not merely about acquiring knowledge, but it is a transformative journey that enables you to shape your own destiny. It opens doors to opportunities, broadens your horizons, and empowers you to make a difference in the world. Each and every one of you has the ability to create positive change, and education is the key to unlocking that potential.教育不仅仅是获取知识，而是一段让你能够塑造自己命运的变革之旅。

奥巴马开学演讲稿中英对照

奥巴马开学演讲稿中英对照演讲稿具有宣传、鼓动、教育和欣赏等作用，它可以把演讲者的观点、主张与思想感情传达给听众以及读者，使他们信服并在思想感情上产生共鸣。

小编在这里大家推荐一篇美国总统奥巴马的开学演讲稿，希望大家借鉴阅读。

美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲英文全文for immediate release september 8, 20XXremarkbthe presidentin a national addresto america'schoolchildrenwakefield high schoolarlington, virginiathe president: hello, everybody! thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. all right, everybodgo ahead and have a seat. how ieveryboddoing today? （applause.） how about tim spicer? （applause.） i am here with studentat wakefield high school in arlington, virginia. and we've got studenttuning in from all acrosamerica, from kindergarten through 12th grade. and i am just so glad that all could join utoday. and i want to thank wakefield for being such an outstanding host. give yourselvea big round of applause. （applause.）i know that for manof you, todaithe first daof school. and for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it'your first dain a new school, so it'understandable if you're a little nervous. i imagine there are some seniorout there who are feeling prettgood right now -- （applause） -- withjust one more year to go. and no matter what grade you're in, some of you are probablwishing it were still summer and you could've stayed in bed just a little bit longer thimorning.i know that feeling. when i wayoung, mfamillived overseas.i lived in indonesia for a few years. and mmother, she didn't have the moneto send me where all the american kidwent to school, but she thought it waimportant for me to keep up with an american education. so she decided to teach me extra lessonherself, mondathrough friday. but because she had to go to work, the onltime she could do it waat 4:30 in the morning.now, ayou might imagine, i wasn't too happabout getting up that early. and a lot of times, i'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. but whenever i'd complain, mmother would just give me one of those lookand she'd say, "thiino picnic for me either, buster." （laughter.）so i know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. but i'm here todabecause i have something important to discuswith you. i'm here because i want to talk with you about your education and what'expected of all of you in thinew school year.now, i've given a lot of speecheabout education. and i've talked about responsibilita lot.i've talked about teachers' responsibilitfor inspiring studentand pushing you to learn.i've talked about your parents' responsibilitfor makingsure you staon track, and you get your homework done, and don't spend everwaking hour in front of the tv or with the xbox.i've talked a lot about your government'responsibilitfor setting high standards, and supporting teacherand principals, and turning around schoolthat aren't working, where studentaren't getting the opportunitiethat thedeserve.but at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, the best schoolin the world -- and none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unlesall of you fulfill your responsibilities, unlesyou show up to those schools, unlesyou paattention to those teachers, unlesyou listen to your parentand grandparentand other adultand put in the hard work it taketo succeed. that'what i want to focuon today: the responsibiliteach of you hafor your education.i want to start with the responsibilityou have to yourself. eversingle one of you hasomething that you're good at. eversingle one of you hasomething to offer. and you have a responsibilitto yourself to discover what that is. that'the opportunitan education can provide.maybe you could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or articlein a newspaper -- but you might not know it until you write that english paper -- that english claspaper that'assigned 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 knowit until you do your project for your science class. maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a supreme court justice -- but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate teaand no matter what you want to do with your life, i guarantee that you'll 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? you're going to need a good education for eversingle one of those careers. you cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. you've got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.and thiisn't just important for your own life and your own future. what you make of your education will decide nothing lesthan the future of thicountry. the future of america dependon you. what you're learning in school todawill determine whether we aa nation can meet our greatest challengein the future.you'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skillyou learn in science and math to cure diseaselike cancer and aids, and to develop new energtechnologieand protect our environment. you'll need the insightand critical-thinking skillyou gain in historand social studieto fight povertand homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. you'll need the creativitand ingenuityou develop in all your classeto build new companiethat will create new joband boost our economy.we need eversingle one of you to develop your talentand your skilland your intellect so you can help uold folksolve our most difficult problems. if you don't do that -- if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.now, i know it'not alwayeasto do well in school. i know a lot of you have challengein your liveright now that can make it hard to focuon your schoolwork.i get it. i know what it'like. mfather left mfamilwhen i watwo yearold, and i waraised ba single mom who had to work and who struggled at timeto pathe billand wasn't alwayable to give uthe thingthat other kidhad. there were timewhen i missed having a father in mlife. there were timewhen i waloneland i felt like i didn't fit in.so i wasn't alwayafocused ai should have been on school, and i did some thingi'm not proud of, and i got in more trouble than i should have. and mlife could have easiltaken a turn for the worse.but i wa-- i walucky. i got a lot of second chances, and i had the opportunitto go to college and law school and follow mdreams. mwife, our first ladmichelle obama, she haa similar story. neither of her parenthad gone to college, and thedidn't have a lot of money. but theworked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schoolin thicountry.some of you might not have those advantages. maybe you don'thave adultin your life who give you the support that you need. maybe someone in your familhalost their joand there'not enough moneto go around. maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friendwho are pressuring you to do thingyou know aren't right.but at the end of the day, the circumstanceof your life -- what you look like, where you come from, how much moneyou have, what you've got going on at home -- none of that ian excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. that'no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. there ino excuse for not trying.where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. no one'written your destinfor you, because here in america, you write your own destiny. you make your own future.that'what young people like you are doing everday, all acrosamerica.young people like jazmin perez, from roma, texas. jazmin didn't speak english when she first started school. neither of her parenthad gone to college. but she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to brown universit-- inow in graduate school, studying public health, on her wato becoming dr. jazmin perez.i'm thinking about andoni schultz, from loaltos, california, who'fought brain cancer since he wathree. he'had to endure all sortof treatmentand surgeries, one of which affected himemory,so it took him much longer -- hundredof extra hour-- to do hischoolwork. but he never fell behind. he'headed to college thifall.and then there'shantell steve, from mhometown of chicago, illinois. even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoodin the city, she managed to get a joat a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she'on track to graduate high school with honorand go on to college.and jazmin, andoni, and shantell aren't andifferent from anof you. theface challengein their livejust like you do. in some casethey've got it a lot worse off than manof you. but therefused to give up. thechose to take responsibilitfor their lives, for their education, and set goalfor themselves. and i expect all of you to do the same.that'whtodai'm calling on each of you to set your own goalfor your education -- and do everything you can to meet the your goal can be something asimple adoing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each dareading a book. maybe you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. maybe you'll decide to stand up for kidwho are being teased or bullied because of who theare or how thelook, because you believe, like i do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to studand learn. maybe you'll decide to take better care of yourself so you canbe more readto learn. and along those lines, bthe way, i hope all of you are washing your handa lot, and that you stahome from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu thifall and winter.but whatever you resolve to do, i want you to commit to it.i want you to reallwork at it.i know that sometimeyou get that sense from tv that you can be rich and successful without anhard work -- that your ticket to succesithrough rapping or basketball or being a realittv star. chanceare you're not going to be anof those things.the truth is, being successful ihard. you won't love eversubject that you study. you won't click with everteacher that you have. not everhomework assignment will seem completelrelevant to your life right at thiminute. and you won't necessarilsucceed at everything the first time you try.that'okay. some of the most successful people in the world are the onewho've had the most failures. j.k. rowling'-- who wrote harrpotter -- her first harrpotter book warejected 12 timebefore it wafinallpublished. michael jordan wacut from hihigh school basketball tea he lost hundredof gameand missed thousandof shotduring hicareer. but he once said, "i have failed over and over and over again in mlife. and that'whi succeed."these people succeeded because theunderstood that you can't let your failuredefine you -- you have to let your failureteach you. you have to let them show you what to do differentlthe nexttime. so if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it meanyou need to trharder to act right. if you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just meanyou need to spend more time studying.no one'born being good at all things. you become good at thingthrough hard work. you're not a varsitathlete the first time you plaa new sport. you don't hit evernote the first time you sing a song. you've got to practice. the same principle applieto your schoolwork. you might have to do a math problem a few timebefore you get it right. you might have to read something a few timebefore you understand it. you definitelhave to do a few draftof a paper before it'good enough to hand in.don't be afraid to ask questions. don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. i do that everday. asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it'a sign of strength because it showyou have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then allowyou to learn something new. so find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you staon track to meet your goals.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 country.the storof america isn't about people who quit when thinggot tough. it'about people who kept going, who tried harder, wholoved their countrtoo much to do anything lesthan their best.it'the storof studentwho sat where you sit 250 yearago, and went on to wage a revolution and thefounded thination. young people. studentwho sat where you sit 75 yearago who overcame a depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rightand put a man on the moon. studentwho sat where you sit 20 yearago who founded google and twitter and facebook and changed the wawe communicate with each other.so today, i want to ask all of you, what'your contribution going to be? what problemare you going to solve? what discoveriewill you make? what will a president who comehere in 20 or 50 or 100 yearsaabout what all of you did for thicountry?now, your families, your teachers, and i are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. i'm working hard to fix up your classroomand get you the bookand the equipment and the computeryou need to learn. but you've got to do your part, too. so i expect all of you to get seriouthiyear. i expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. i expect great thingfrom each of you. so don't let udown. don't let your famildown or your countrdown. most of all, don't let yourself down. make uall proud.thank you vermuch, everybody. god blesyou. god blesamerica. thank you. （applause.）end12:22 p. edt奥巴马开学演讲稿（中文版）大家好！谢谢你们。

奥巴马开学演讲(中英双语)

For personal use only in study and research; not for commercial useHello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, everybody go ahead and have a seat. How is everybody going today? (Applause.) How about Tim Spicer? (Applause.)大家好！谢谢你们。

谢谢你们。

谢谢大家。

好，大家请就座。

美国总统奥巴马开学演讲中英文对照

美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲英文全文For Immediate Release September 8, 2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTIN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDRENWakefield High SchoolArlington, VirginiaTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you,everybody. All right,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 we've got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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.)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, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And 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 morning.I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she didn't have the money to send me where all the American kidswent to school, but she thought it was important for me to keep up with an American education. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday. But because shehad to go to work, the only time she could do it was at 4:30 in the morning.Now, as you might imagine, I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she'd say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster." (Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school year.Now, I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked about responsibility a lot.I've talked about teachers' 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 supportin g teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working, wherestudents aren't getting the opportunities that they deserve.But at the end of the day, 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, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents andother adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. That's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.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 that's assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor-- maybe evengood enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine-- but you mightnot 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 you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you'll 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? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nationcan meet our greatest challenges in the future.You'll 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. You'll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nationmore fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.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 don't do that-- if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country. Now , I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your live s right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.I get it. I know what it's 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 wasn't always able to give us 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 didn't fit in.So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I'm 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.But I was -- I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, 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 didn't have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schoolsin this country.Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job andthere's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don'tfeel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right.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 you've got going on at home -- none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn't speak English 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.I'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who's fought brain cancer since he was three. He's had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affectedhis memory, so it took him much longer -- hundreds of extra hours -- to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He's headed to college this fall.And then there's Shantell Steve, from my 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, andshe's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren't any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they've got it a lot worse 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.That's why today I'm 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 you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you'll 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. Maybe you'll 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 don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.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 you're not going to be any of those things.The truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject that you study. You won't click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.That's okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had themost failures. J.K. Rowling's -- 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 that's why I succeed."These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you-- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just mean s you need to spend more time studying.No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach ora counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.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 country.The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.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 nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.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 comes here in 20or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you havethe education you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you've gotto do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down. Don't let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don't let yourself down. Make us all proud.Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you. (Applause.)END12:22 P.M. EDT《我们为什么要上学》奥巴马弗吉尼亚州，阿林顿市，2009年9月8日嗨，大家好！你们今天过得怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

奥巴马开学演讲中英双语

谢谢你们。

谢谢大家。

好，大家请就座。

奥巴马开学演讲稿(中英文对照)

我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满地准备最后一年的冲刺。

不过，我想无论你有多大、在读哪个年级，许多人都打心底里希望现在还在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。

我可以理解这份心情。

显然，我不怎么喜欢那么早就爬起来，很多时候，我就这么在厨房的桌子前睡着了。

每当我埋怨的时候，我妈总会用同一副表情看着我说：“小鬼，你以为教你我就很轻松？”所以，我可以理解你们中的许多人对于开学还需要时间来调整和适应，但今天我站在这里，是为了和你们谈一些重要的事情。

奥巴马开学演讲稿中英对照

奥巴马开学演讲稿中英对照【奥巴马开学演讲稿中英对照】Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, 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 we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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!谢谢你们。

谢谢你们。

谢谢你们大家。

好，大家请就坐。

你们今天都好吗?(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高中的学生们在一起。

美国各地从小学预备班到中学12年级的学生正在收听收看。

我很高兴大家今天都能参与。

我还要感谢韦克菲尔德高中出色的组织安排。

请为你们自己热烈鼓掌。

(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, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I im agine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And 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 lit tle bit longer this morning.我知道，今天是你们很多人开学的日子。

《梦想与责任：奥巴马开学演讲》中英文对照演讲稿

梦想与责任：奥巴马开学演讲Hello, everybody! Thank you。

Thank you。

Thank you, everybody. All right, 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 we’ve got students tuning in from all across America，from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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！谢谢你们。

谢谢你们.谢谢你们大家。

好,大家请就坐。

你们今天都好吗?(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高中的学生们在一起。

美国各地从小学预备班到中学12年级的学生正在收听收看。

我很高兴大家今天都能参与。

我还要感谢韦克菲尔德高中出色的组织安排。

请为你们自己热烈鼓掌。

（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，it’s your first day in a new school，so it's understandable if you’re a little nervous。

奥巴马开学演讲--中英文版

美国总统奥巴马9月8日开学演讲中英文全文For Immediate Release September 8, 2009REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTIN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA'S SCHOOLCHILDRENWakefield High SchoolArlington, VirginiaTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, 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 we've got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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.)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, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And 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 morning.I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived overseas. I lived in Indonesia for a few years. And 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 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.Now, as you might imagine, I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she'd say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster." (Laughter.)So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school year.Now, I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked about responsibility a lot.I've talked about teachers' 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.But at the end of the day, 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, unless you listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard work it takes to succeed. That's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.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 that's assigned 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 you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you'll 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? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. The future of America depends on you. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.You'll 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. You'll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.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 don't do that -- if you quit on school -- you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.Now, I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.I get it. I know what it's 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 wasn't always able to give us 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 didn't fit in.So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I'm 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.But I was -- I was lucky. I got a lot of second chances, 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 didn't have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right.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 you've got going on at home -- none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn't speak English 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.I'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who's fought brain cancer since he was three. He's had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer -- hundreds of extra hours -- to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He's headed to college this fall.And then there's Shantell Steve, from my 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 she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren't any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they've got it a lot worse 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.That's why today I'm 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 you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you'll 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. Maybe you'll 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 don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.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 you're not going to be any of those things.The truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject that you study. You won't click withevery teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.That's okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. J.K. Rowling's -- 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 that's why I succeed."These people succeeded because they understood that you can't let your failures define you -- you have to let your failures teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.No one's born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. The same principle applies to your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right. You might have to read something a few times before you understand it. You definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.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 country.The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.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 nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.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 comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you've got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down. Don't let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don't let yourself down. Make us all proud.Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you. (Applause.)END12:22 P.M. EDT弗吉尼亚州，阿林顿市，2009年9月8日嗨，大家好！你们今天过得怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

(完整word版)奥巴马在开学第一课上的演讲词(中英文对照)

奥巴马2009年全美开学演讲Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, 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 we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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！谢谢你们。

谢谢你们。

谢谢你们大家。

好，大家请就坐。

你们今天都好吗？（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高中的学生们在一起。

美国各地从小学预备班到高三年级的学生正在收听收看。

我很高兴大家今天都能参与。

我还要感谢韦克菲尔德高中出色的组织安排。

请为你们自己热烈鼓掌。

（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, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I ima gine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And 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 litt le bit longer this morning.我知道，今天是你们很多人开学的日子。

《梦想与责任：奥巴马开学演讲》中英文对照演讲稿

梦想与责任：奥巴马开学演讲Hello, everybody! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. All right, 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 Arlin gton, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, from kindergarten through 12th grade. And I am just so glad 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！谢谢你们。

谢谢你们。

谢谢你们大家。

好，大家请就坐。

你们今天都好吗？（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高中的学生们在一起。

美国各地从小学预备班到中学12年级的学生正在收听收看。

我很高兴大家今天都能参与。

我还要感谢韦克菲尔德高中出色的组织安排。

请为你们自己热烈鼓掌。

（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, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now -- (applause) -- with just one more year to go. And 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 morning.我知道，今天是你们很多人开学的日子。

奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话(中英对照)

奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话（中英对照）简介9月8日是美国中小学统一开学的日子，奥巴马借此机会向全国的中小学生做了一次讲话，以下是白宫网站上预先发布的演讲稿全文的翻译。

奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话弗吉尼亚州，阿林顿市，20XX年9月8日嗨，大家好！你们今天过得怎么样？我现在和弗吉尼亚州阿林顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起，全国各地也有从幼儿园到高三的众多学生们通过电视关注这里，我很高兴你们能共同分享这一时刻。

我想也会有许多毕业班的学生们正自信满满地准备最后一年的冲刺。

不过，我想无论你有多大、在读哪个年级，许多人都打心底里希望现在还在放暑假，以及今天不用那么早起床。

我可以理解这份心情。

显然，我不怎么喜欢那么早就爬起来，很多时候，我就这么在厨房的桌子前睡着了。

我要和你们谈一谈你们每个人的教育，以及在新的学年里，你们应当做些什么。

我做过许多关于教育的讲话，也常常用到“责任”这个词。

我谈到过教师们有责任激励和启迪你们，督促你们学习。

我谈到过家长们有责任看管你们认真学习、完成作业，不要成天只会看电视或打游戏机。

我也很多次谈到过政府有责任设定高标准严要求、协助老师和校长们的工作，改变在有些学校里学生得不到应有的学习机会的现状。

但哪怕这一切都达到最好，哪怕我们有最尽职的教师、最好的家长、和最优秀的学校，假如你们不去履行自己的责任的话，那么这一切努力都会白费。