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美国总统励志演讲稿 hello, everybody! thank you. thank you. thank you, everybody. all right, everybodygo ahead and have a seat. how is everybody doing today? (applause.) how about timspicer? (applause.) i am here with students at wakefield high school in arlington,virginia. and weve got students tuning in from all across america, from kindergartenthrough 12th grade. and i am just so glad that all could join us today. and i wantto thank wakefield for being such an outstanding host. give yourselves a big roundof 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 ofyou in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, its your first day in anew school, so its understandable if youre a little nervous. i imagine there aresome seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now - (applause) - withjust one more year to go. and no matter what grade youre in, some of you are probablywishing it were still summer and you couldve stayed in bed just a little bit longerthis morning. 我知道，今天是你们很多人开学的日子。对于进入小学预备班、初中或高中的学生，今天是你们来到新学校的第一天，心里可能有点紧张，这是可以理解的。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，今天早上还能多睡一小会儿。 i know that feeling. when i was young, my family lived overseas. i lived inindonesia for a few years. and my mother, she didnt have the money to send me whereall the american kids went to school, but she thought it was important for me to keepup with an american education. so she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, mondaythrough friday. but because she had to go to work, the only time she could do it wasat 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，但她认为必须让我接受美式教育。因此，她决定从周一到周五自己给我补课。不过她还要上班，所以只能在清晨四点半给我上课。 你们可以想见，我不太情愿那么早起床。有很多次，我趴在餐桌上就睡着了。但每当我抱怨的时候，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 becausei want to talk with you about your education and whats expected of all of you inthis new school year. 我知道你们有些人还在适应开学后的生活。但我今天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育问题，以及在这个新学年对你们所有人的期望。 now, ive given a lot of speeches about education. and ive talked aboutresponsibility a lot. 我做过很多次有关教育问题的演讲。我多次谈到过责任问题。 ive talked about teachers responsibility for inspiring students and pushingyou to learn. 我谈到过教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 thetv 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，不要整天坐在电视前或玩xbox游戏。 ive talked a lot about your governments responsibility for setting highstandards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools thatarent 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，支持教师和校长的工作，彻底改善不能为学生提供应有机会的、教育质量差的学校。 but at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the mostsupportive parents, the best schools in the world - and none of it will make adifference, 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, unlessyou listen to your parents and grandparents and other adults and put in the hard workit takes to succeed. thats what i want to focus on today: the responsibility eachof you has for your education. 然而，即使我们拥有最敬业的教师，最尽力的家长和全世界最好的学校如果你们大家不履行你们的责任，不到校上课，不专心听讲，不听家长、祖父祖母和其他大人的话，不付出取得成功所必须的勤奋努力，那么这一切都毫无用处，都无关紧要。这就是我今天讲话的重点：你们每个人对自己的教育应尽的责任。 i want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. every single oneof you has something that youre good at. every single one of you has something tooffer. and you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. thats the opportunity an education 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长处。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现自己的能力所在。而教育能够提供这样的机会。 你或许能成为一名出色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现自己的才华。你或许能成为一名创新者或发明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实验后才会发现自己的才华。你或许能成为一名市长或参议员或最高法院的大法官但你可能要在参加学生会的工作或辩论队后才会发现自己的才华。 and no matter what you want to do with your life, i guarantee that youll needan 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 cannotdrop out of school and just drop into a good job. youve got to train for it andwork for it and learn for it. 不论你的生活志向是什么，我敢肯定你必须上学读书才能实现它。你想当医生、教师或警官吗？你想当护士、建筑师、律师或军人吗？你必须接受良好的教育，才能从事上述任何一种职业。你不能指望辍学后能碰上个好工作。你必须接受培训，为之努力，为之学习。 and this isnt just important for your own life and your own future. what youmake of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. thefuture of america depends on you. what youre learning in school today will determinewhether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future. 这并非只对你个人的人生和未来意义重大。可以毫不夸大地说，教育给你带来的益处将决定这个国家的未来。美国的未来取决于你们。你们今日在校学习的知识将决定我们作为一个国家是否能够迎接我们未来所面临的最严峻挑战。 你们将需要利用你们通过自然科学和数学课程所学到的知识和解决问题的能力来治愈癌症、艾滋病及其他疾病，开发新的能源技术和保护我们的环境。你们将需要利用你们在历史学和社会学课堂上所获得的知识和独立思考能力来抗击贫困和解决无家可归问题，打击犯罪和消除歧视，使我们的国家更公平、更自由。你们将需要利用你们在所有课堂上培养的创造力和智慧来创办新公司，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 yourintellect so you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. if you dont do that - if you quit on school - youre not just quitting on yourself, youre quitting on your country. 我们需要你们每个人发挥你们的聪明才智和技能，以便帮助老一辈人解决我们面临的最棘手问题。如果你们不这样做，如果你们辍学，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 havechallenges in your lives right now that can 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。我知道你们许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 yearsold, and i was raised by a single mom who had to work and who struggled at times topay the bills and wasnt always able to give us the things that other kids had. therewere times when i missed having a father in my life. there were times when i was lonelyand 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提供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 focused as i should have been on school, and i did somethings im not proud of, and i got in more trouble than i should have. and my lifecould have easily taken a turn for the worse. 我并非总是像我应该做到的那样专心学习，我也曾做过我如今不能引以为豪的一些事情，我曾惹过不应该惹的麻烦。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 chances, and i had the opportunityto go to college and law school and follow my dreams. my wife, our first lady michelleobama, she has a similar story. neither of her parents had gone to college, and theydidnt have a lot of money. but they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that shecould go to the best schools in this country. 但是，我当年际遇不错。我有过许多第二次机会，我有幸能上大学，上法学院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，我们的第一夫人米歇尔?奥巴马，也有着类似的经历。她的父母都未曾上过大学，家里很穷。但他们非常勤奋 ，她也是如此，因此她得以进入一些美国最好的学校。some of you might not have those advantages. maybe you dont have adults in yourlife who give you the support that you need. maybe someone in your family has losttheir job and theres not enough money to go around. maybe you live in a neighborhoodwhere you dont feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things youknow 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提供你们所需要篇二：美国总统演讲稿 remarks of president barack obama weekly addresssan diego, californiasaturday, november 19, 2011 today, im speaking to you from indonesia as i finish up my trip to the asiapacific the regionwhere we do most of our trade and sell most of our exports. andover the past week, theprogress weve made in opening markets and boosting exportshere will help create more jobs andmore growth in the united states. a goal wereon pace to meet. and theyre powerful examples of how we canrebuild an economy thatsfocused on what our country has always done best makingand selling products all over theworld that are stamped with three proud words: “madein america.”this is important, because over the last decade, we became a country that reliedtoo much onwhat we bought and consumed. we racked up a lot of debt, but we didnt create many jobs atall. but building an economy that lasts isnt just about making things its aboutopening new marketsfor people to buy them. after all, 95% of the worlds consumers live outside our borders. and asthe fastest-growingregion in the world, no market is more important to our economic future thanthe asiapacific region a region where our exports already support five million americanjobs.us trade agreement yet a partnership withpacific nations that holds thepotential for more exports and more jobs in a region of nearly threebillion consumers. 美国总统奥巴马 2010 年开学励志演讲美国总统奥巴马开学演讲英语演讲稿。这是奥巴马第二次发表开学演讲。奥巴马 2009 年的演讲招来了许多批评和抵制。 一些反对者指责称，奥巴马试图通过演讲向学生灌输政治 理念。部分媒体还批评奥巴马试图建立个人崇拜。在美国各地，也有许多家长向当地教育官 员表示抗议，一些家长甚至威胁在奥巴马演讲时把孩子离教室。有了去年的“教训” ，今年 的总统开学演讲，白宫意强调这是一次“非政治活动” ，而奥巴马本人也在演讲中回避政治 话题。thank you!hello!(applause.)thank you.thankyou.well, hello,philadelphia! (applause.) and hello, masterman. (applause.) donethat. be here.it is wonderful to see all of you.what a terrific introduction by kelly.give kelly a big round of applause. i was saying backstage that when i was in highschool, i could not have (laughter.) i would have muffed it up somehow. so we areso proud and to all the students here, i thrilled to mof you and everything thatyou done. ve谢谢！你们好！ （掌声。 ）谢谢。谢谢。你好，费城！ （掌声。 ）你好，马斯特曼。 见到你们真是太好了。 kelly 的介绍真是太棒了。 让我们对 kelly 报以热烈的掌声。在后台的时候我说，我上高中的时候我就做不这么好，我可能 会弄的一团糟。所以让我们为你和你做的一切自豪吧。站在这里我很激动。kelly 在奥巴马总统演讲前，一名叫kelly 的学生做了演讲。 backstage n.后台 muff v.笨拙地处理，将事情弄糟 thrilled a.激动的 weve got a couple introductions i want to make. mayor of philadelphia, michaelnutter, is here. fattah is here. (applause.) (applause.) first of all, youve gotthe (applause.) theoutstanding governor of pennsylvania, ed rendell, in thehouse.(applause.) congressman chaka (applause.) the school 我想介绍1congresswomanallyson schwartz is here. (applause.) andyour own principal, marge neff, ishere.superintendent, arlene ackerman, is here and doing a great job. the secretaryof education, arne duncan, is here. (applause.)几个人。首先，来到这儿的有，杰出的宾夕法尼亚州州长， ed rendell。 （掌声。 ） 。你们的 费城市长，michael nutter。国会议员 fattah 和 allyson schwartz（掌声） 校长marge neff（掌声） 。学校管理人 arlene ackerman 是这个学校的，并且为学 （掌声） 校做了很大的贡献。 （掌声） 。还有教育部秘书长 arne duncan。outstanding a.杰出的congressman n.国会议员 principal n.校长 superintendent n.院长 and i am here.excited. (applause.) and i am thrilled to be here. i am just soive heard such greatthings about what all of you are doing, both the 还有我。 （掌声） ，我感到非常students and the teachers and th ，你们中有些人在新学年会有些紧张。或许你刚从 小学升到初中，从初中升到高中，会担心，新的学年将会是什么样的呢。也许你 进入一所新的学校，不知道是否会喜欢这个学校，想着怎么来融入这个学校。或 许你到了高三年级，对整个的大学入学程序感到不安，比如申请那里的学校，能 不能支付上大学的费用等等。elementary school n.小学 figure out 想明白，弄清楚 fit in 融入，适应 afford to do 承担得起 and beyond all those concerns,i know a lot of you are also feeling the strain of some difficult times. afghanistan.you know whats going on in the news and you also know youve read about the warin and3whats going on in some of your own families.you hear about the recessionthat we ve been through.sometimes maybe you seeing the worries in your parents faces or sense it in theirre voice. 除此之外，我知道你们还有来自困难时期的压力。你们知道新闻 内容，知道你们一些家庭中发发生的事情。你们读过有关阿富汗战争的信息，听 说过我们经历过的经济不景气。有时你们还看到了双亲脸上挂着的忧虑，或从他 们的声音中感受到了这些。strain n.压力 so a lot of you as a consequence, because were going through a tough time acountry, are having to act a lot older than you are. you got to be strong for youror maybe some of family while your brother or sister is serving overseas, or youve got to look after younger siblings while your mom is working that second shift.work. you who are little bit older, youre taking on a part-time job while your dads out of 所以，因为我们国家面临困难时期，你们许多人的行为看上去比实 际年龄要大。姐姐哥哥在海外工作，你们会表现得坚强，或许妈妈去值第二班， 你们就要照顾年幼的弟弟妹妹。或许你们有些人年长一点的，父亲失了业，你们 还要做兼职。as a consequence 结果，所以 tough time 困难时期【tough a.艰难的】 sibling n.兄弟姐妹，同胞 shift n.轮班 and thats a lot to handle. its more than you should have to handle. and itmay make you wonder at times what your own future will look like, whether youregoing to be able to succeed in school, whether you should maybe set your sights alittle lower, scale back your dreams. 有太多事情要做了， 很多是你们不应该 做的。 这让你们迷茫， 不知道自己的未来会是什么样， 在学校能不能取得好成绩， 是不是应该把目光降低些，把理想放低些。handle v.处理，应对 scale back 缩减 but i came to mastermanto tell all of you what i think youre hearing from your principal and yoursuperintendent, and from your parents and your teachers: nobody gets to write yourdestiny but you. your future is in your hands. your life4is what you make of it.and【美国总统演讲】确保同工同酬 严惩工资歧视 weekly address: ensuring equal pay for equal work remarks of president barack obama weekly addressthe white houseapril 12, 2014 hi, everybody. earlier this week was equal pay day. it marks the extra timethe average woman has to work into a new year to earn what a man earned the year before.you see, the average woman who works full-time in america earns less than a man even when shes in the same profession and has the same education. thats wrong. in 2014, its an embarrassment. women deserve equal pay for equalwork.this is an economic issue that affects all of us. women make up about half ourworkforce. and more and more, theyre our families main breadwinners. so its good for everyone when women are paid fairly. thats why, this week, i took actionto prohibit more businesses from punishing workers who discuss their salaries because more pay transparency makes it easier to spot pay discrimination. and i hopemore business leaders will take up this cause. but equal pay is just one part of an economic agenda for women. most lower-wage workers in america are women. so ive taken executive actionto require federal contractors to pay their federally-funded employees at least tendollars and ten cents an hour. i ordered a review of our nations overtime rules,to give more workers the chance to earn the overtime pay they deserve. thanks tothe affordable care act, tens of millions of women are now guaranteed free preventivecare like mammograms and contraceptive care, and the days when you could be charged more just for being a woman are over for good. acrossthe country, were bringing americans together to he