奧巴馬開學(xué)演講中英文對照(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 o focus on your schoolwork. I get it. I know what it39。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 wasn39。t always able to give us the things that other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my 才能幫助我們解決最困難的一些問題。如果你們不這樣做，如果你們輟學(xué)，你們放棄的不僅是自己的未來，還是你們國家的未來。 我知道要想在學(xué)校表現(xiàn)得好并非易事。我知道 你們中很多人的生活中現(xiàn)在正面臨著挑戰(zhàn)，是你們很難集中精力于學(xué)業(yè)。 我知道，我了解這是怎樣的滋味。我父親在我兩歲的時候離開了我的家庭，我是由作為單親母親的媽媽養(yǎng)大的，她曾經(jīng)為了生活苦苦掙扎，沒有那么多錢給我們買別的孩子通常都會有的東西。我曾經(jīng)懷念在我的生活中有父親的那段日子。我也曾經(jīng)孤獨寂寞，感到自己很難適應(yīng)。 所以有時候我可能沒能專注于學(xué)業(yè)。我做了一些令自己慚愧的事情，使自己陷入了更多的麻煩。我的生活很可能轉(zhuǎn)變得很糟糕。 但是我很幸運。我的人生中有很多第二次機會，而又有機會上了大學(xué)，上了法學(xué)院，實現(xiàn)自己的夢 想。我的妻子，我們的第一夫人米歇爾 ?奧巴馬，她與我有著相似的經(jīng)歷。她的父母都沒有機會上大學(xué)，而且也不富裕。但是他們都很努力，這樣她才有機會上了美國最好的大學(xué)。 你們中的有些人可能沒有這些有利條件。可能你的長輩并沒有能給與你所需要的支持。可能你的家庭現(xiàn)在失業(yè)了，經(jīng)濟出現(xiàn)了困頓。可能你居住的地區(qū)并不安全，或者有一些朋友強迫你做一些你知道是錯誤的事情。 但是，說到底，你生活的環(huán)境，你的外表，你的家鄉(xiāng)，你有多少錢，你埋怨家里的什么，這life. There were times when I was lonely and I felt like I didn39。t fit in. So I wasn39。t always as focused as I should have been on school, and I did some things I39。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 didn39。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 don39。t have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and there39。s not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don39。t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren39。t right. But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you e from, how much money you have, what you39。ve got going on at home none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That39。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 doesn39。t have to determine where you39。ll end up. No one39。s written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. 些 都不能成為你不做家庭作業(yè)，態(tài)度消極的借口。沒有任何借口可以和老師頂撞，翹課或是輟學(xué)。這些都不能成為你沒有努力嘗試的借口。 你現(xiàn)在是什么樣子不能決定你將來會是什么樣子。沒有人能決定你的命運。在美國，你的命運掌握在你的手里，由你自己來書寫。你決定自己的未來。 這就是遍布全國各地的你們，現(xiàn)在每一天正在做的事情。 德克薩斯州 Roma的杰茲明 ?皮瑞茲（ Jazmin Perez）就是你們當(dāng)中的一員。杰茲明剛開始上學(xué)的時候不會說英語。在她的故鄉(xiāng)，幾乎沒有人上過大學(xué)，她的父母也沒上過大學(xué)。但是她學(xué)習(xí)非常刻苦，成績優(yōu)秀，拿到了布朗大學(xué)的獎學(xué)金，現(xiàn)在正在研究生院學(xué)習(xí)公共衛(wèi)生，將會成為杰茲明 ?皮瑞茲醫(yī)生。 我還想到了來自加利福尼亞州 Los Altos的安東尼 ?斯楚茨（ Andoni Schultz），他從三歲起就開始和腦癌作斗爭。他經(jīng)受了各種各樣的治療和手術(shù)，其中有一次影響了他的記憶，所以他需要花更長的時間來作作業(yè)，幾百個小時的額外時間。但是他的學(xué)業(yè)從來沒有落后過，今年秋季，他就要上大學(xué)了。 還有來自我的故鄉(xiāng)伊利諾斯州芝加哥的山泰爾 ?史蒂夫（ Shantell Steve）。盡管不斷在最惡劣地區(qū)的一個收養(yǎng)家庭到另一個收養(yǎng)家庭間轉(zhuǎn)換，她 還是設(shè)法在當(dāng)?shù)蒯t(yī)療中心找到了一份工作，開創(chuàng)了一個項目來使年輕人脫離幫會。她將要從高中榮譽畢業(yè)，去上大學(xué)。 You make your own future. That39。s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America. Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn39。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 being Dr. Jazmin Perez. I39。m thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who39。s fought brain cancer since he was three. He39。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. H