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奥巴马:其实总统也怕开学

2016-09-01 echo 寄托天下



今天我们要分享的是美国总统奥巴马的一篇开学演讲,在演讲里,关于你为什么要去上学的疑问,President Obama 都给出了他的答案。




总统也曾害怕上学


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.

不管是在读几年级,许多人都打心底里希望现在还是暑假,今早还能多睡一小会。我理解这心情。




生 词 本

stay in bed 

在这段话里,stay in bed,表示赖床的意思,常见的赖床、睡懒觉的说法还有sleep late、sleep in。

Eg. I usually sleep late on Saturday.

我周六常常睡懒觉。

Eg. Even if I want to sleep in, I always get up right away.

即使我真的很想再睡会儿,我总是强迫自己立刻起床。



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.

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跟你们说。





教育给我们提供了“发现自己”的机会



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. 

首先我想谈谈你们对自己应尽的责任。你们中的每个人都有自己擅长的领域,每个人都是有用之才。




And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

发现自己的才能所在,就是你们要对自己担起的责任,而教育给你们提供了发现自己的机会。


教育决定了一个国家的未来


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. 

这不仅仅对你们个人的未来有重要意义,可以毫不夸张地说,你们的教育如何会对这个国家的未来产生重要影响。




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.

国家的未来取决于你们。今天你们在学校中学习的内容,将会决定我们整个国家在未来迎接重大挑战时的表现。



生 词 本

Meet challenges  

迎接挑战

Eg. Those who are willing to meet challenges will have more opportunities.

那些勇于挑战人会获得更多机会。



失败不能定义你


Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. 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. 

在这个世界上,最成功的人们往往也经历过最多的失败。他们的成功,源于他们知道不能让失败左右自己 —— 而是要从中吸取经验,从失败中你能明白下一次可以做出怎样的改变。




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.

假如你惹了麻烦,那不说明你就是个捣蛋鬼,而意味着你需要更加努力去把它做好。假如你考了个低分,不表示你比别人笨,只能说明你需要更多的时间去学习。


生 词 本

Define

v. 下定义

Eg. Don't let failures define you.

不要让失败给你下定义。(一次失败不能决定你的未来)


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.

即便你苦苦挣扎、灰心丧气,觉得身边的人都抛弃了你,你也不要放弃自己。当你放弃自己,你也放弃了自己的国家。





生 词 本

Give up on  

放弃,对...表示绝望、不抱希望

Eg. She talks of her life, and tells her audience they should never give up on their dreams.

她谈到自己的生活,告诉观众决不能放弃梦想。




听 President Obama 说了这么多,你有没有对上学重新燃起熊熊的斗志呢?(不许说没有...) 

其实这篇演讲不仅是分享给即将开学的孩子,更要献给“大人们”。人生是个不断学习、不断成长的过程,无论你现在处于一生的哪个阶段,去读书,去学习,去实现自我,都不会太晚。大朋友小朋友们,跟我一起干了这碗鸡汤,好好学习,天天向上吧!




演讲视频16分36秒,建议wifi条件下观看哈,土豪请随意😬

https://v.qq.com/txp/iframe/player.html?vid=x03076mwfnp&width=500&height=375&auto=0


文章来自|念念英文(echo_eng)




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