初中英语阅读拓展 名人励志演讲 梦想与责任素材

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1、梦想与责任Hello,everybody!Thankyou.Thankyou.Thankyou,everybody.Allright,everybodygoaheadandhaveaseat.Howiseverybodydoingtoday?HowaboutTimSpicer?IamherewithstudentsatWakefieldHighSchoolinArlington,Virginia.AndwevegotstudentstuninginfromallacrossAmerica,fromkindergartenthrough12thgrade.AndIamjustsogladthat

2、allcouldjoinustoday.AndIwanttothankWakefieldforbeingsuchanoutstandinghost.Giveyourselvesabigroundofapplause.大家好！谢谢你们。谢谢你们。谢谢大家。好，大家请就坐。你们今天都好吗？蒂姆斯派塞好吗？我现在与弗吉利亚州阿灵顿郡韦克菲尔德高中的学生们在一起。美国各地从学前班到中学12年级的学生正在收听收看。我很高兴大家今天都能参加。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。Iknowthatformanyofyou,todayisthefirstdayofschool.And

3、forthoseofyouinkindergarten,orstartingmiddleorhighschool,itsyourfirstdayinanewschool,soitsunderstandableifyourealittlenervous.Iimaginetherearesomeseniorsouttherewhoarefeelingprettygoodrightnowwithjustonemoreyeartogo.Andnomatterwhatgradeyourein,someofyouareprobablywishingitwerestillsummerandyoucouldv

4、estayedinbedjustalittlebitlongerthismorning.我知道，今天是你们很多人开学的日子。对于进入学前班、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只有一年就毕业了。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 in Indonesia for a few years. And my mother, she did

5、nt 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 4:3

6、0 in the morning.我知道这种感觉。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，她决定从周一至周五自己给我补课。不过她还要上班，所以只能在清晨四点半给我上课。Now, as you might imagine, I wasnt too happy about getting up that early. And a lot of times, Id fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever Id complain, my

7、mother would just give me one of those looks and shed say, This is no picnic for me either, buster.正如你们可能想象的那样，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。”So I know that some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But Im here today because I have something import

8、ant to discuss with you. Im here because I want to talk with you about your education and whats expected of all of you in this new school year.我知道你们有些人还在适应放学后的生活。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 about respons

9、ibility a lot.迄今为止，我做过很多次关于教育的演讲。我多次谈到过责任问题。Ive talked about teachers responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you 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 i

10、n front of the TV 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微机游戏。Ive talked a lot about your governments responsibility for setting high standards, and supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that arent working, where students arent getting the opportunities that t

11、hey 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 most supportive parents, the best schools in the worldand none of it will make a difference, none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilit

12、ies, 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. Thats what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education.但说到底，即使我们

13、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，不到学校上课、不专心听讲，不听父母、祖父母和其他大人的话，不付出去的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 one of you has something that youre good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. An

14、d 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。Maybe you could be a great writermaybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaperbut you mi

15、ght not know it until you write that English paperthat English class paper thats assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventormaybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccinebut you might not know it until you do your project for your science cl

16、ass. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justicebut you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.你或许能成为一名出色的作家甚至可能书写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者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

17、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 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? Youre going to need a good educati

18、on for every single one of those careers. You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. Youve got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.不论你的生活志向是什么，我敢肯定你必须接受教育才能实现它。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 im

19、portant 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 youre learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.这并非只

20、对你个人的人生和未来意义重大。教育给你们带来的益处将完全可以决定这个国家的未来。美国的未来取决于你们。你们现在在校学习的知识将决定我们作为一个国家是否能应对我们未来所面临的最严峻的挑战。Youll 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. Youll need the ins

21、ights 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. Youll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs

22、 and boost our economy.你们将需要利用你们通过自然科学和教学课程所学到的知识和解决问题的能力来治愈像癌症、艾滋病之类的疾病，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批判性思考能力来解决贫困和无家可归的问题，打击犯罪，消除歧视，使我们的国家更公正、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 your intellect s

23、o you can help us old folks solve our most difficult problems. If you dont do thatif you quit on schoolyoure not just quitting on yourself, youre quitting on your country.我们需要你们每个人都发挥聪明才智和技能，以便帮助我们老一辈人解决我们最棘手的问题。如果你们不这样做如果你们辍学你们不仅仅是放弃自己，也是放弃自己的国家。I know its not always easy to do well in school. I kn

24、ow a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.我知道要做到学业优秀并非易事。我知道你们许多人在生活中面临挑战，难以集中精力学习。I get it. I know what its 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

25、times to pay the bills and wasnt 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 didnt fit in.我明白这一点。我有亲身感受。我两岁时，父亲离家而去，我是由单身母亲抚养成人的，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。有时候

26、，我渴望生活中能有一位父亲。有时候我感到孤独，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 some things Im 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.我并非总是像我应该做到的那样专心学习，我也曾做过一些我如今不能引以为豪的事情，我曾惹过不少不应该惹的麻烦。我的人生原本会轻易陷

27、入更糟糕的境地。But I wasI 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 didnt have a lot of money. But they worke

28、d hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.但是，我很.我很幸运。我有过许多第二次机会，我有机会上大学，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，她也有类似的经历。她的父母都未曾上过大学，他们没有多少钱。但他们非常勤奋，她也是如此，因此她得以进入美国一些最好的学校。Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you dont have adults in your life who giv

29、e you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job and theres not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you dont feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know 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所需要的支持。或许你

30、们家中有人失业，经济非常拮据。或许你们生活在使你们感觉不安全的社区，或有朋友逼迫你们去做你们知道不对的事情。But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your lifewhat you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what youve got going on at homenone of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. T

31、hats no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.但说到底，你们生活的环境你们的长相、你们的原籍、你们的经济收入、你们家中的境况这一切都不能成为你们不完成家庭作业活在学校表现差的理由。你们没有理由不服从你们的老师、或逃学、或辍学。没有理由不付出努力。Where you are right now doesnt have to determine where youll end up. No

32、ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.你们目前的状况并不决定着你们的未来。没有人为你们书写命运，因为这是在美国，你们书写自己的命运。你们掌握自己的未来。Thats what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.这就是像你们这样的年轻人每天都在做的事情，全美各地都是如此。Young people like Jazmin Pe

33、rez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didnt 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 Universityis now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin Perez.来自

34、德克萨斯州罗马城的贾兹敏佩雷斯就是一个例证。她刚开始上学时并不会说英文。她的父母都没有上过大学。但是她非常勤奋，成绩优秀，获得了布朗大学的奖学金他如今在读研究生，攻读公共卫生专业，不久将成为贾兹敏佩斯特博士。Im thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, whos fought brain cancer since he was three. Hes had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory

35、, so it took him much longerhundreds of extra hoursto do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. Hes headed to college this fall.我想起了来自加利福利亚州洛斯阿尔斯城的安多尼舒尔茨，他从三岁开始就一直与脑癌进行抗争，他不得不忍受各类治疗和手术带来的痛苦，其中一项手术曾影响了他的记忆，因此他要花更多的时间要多出数百个小时在功课上。但是他从未落后。他今年秋季将迈进大学。And then theres Shantell Steve, from my hometown o

36、f 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 shes on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.我还想

37、起了我的家乡伊利诺伊州芝加哥市的尚特尔史蒂夫。她曾在芝加哥最困难的社区生活，寄养于多个不同的家庭，但她设法在一家地方医疗中心找到工作，并开始了一项帮助年轻人远离犯罪团伙的计划，他即将以优异成绩从中学毕业，接着将上大学。And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell arent any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases theyve got it a lot worse off than many of you. But t

38、hey 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.贾兹敏、安多尼和尚特尔与你们中间的任何一个人没什么两样。跟你们一样，他们在生活中面临种种挑战。在某些情况下，他们的处境比起你们许多人更差。但他们拒绝放弃。他们决定要为自己的一生、自己的教育负起责任，为自己设定各项奋斗目标。我希望你们都要这样做。Thats why tod

39、ay Im calling on each of you to set your own goals for your educationand 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 youll decide to get involved in an extracurric

40、ular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe youll 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 youll decide to take better care

41、 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 dont feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.因此，我今天呼吁你们每一个人为自己的教育设定目标并尽自己最大努力来实现这些目标。你的目标可

42、以是一件十分简单的事情，例如完成家庭作业、上课专心听讲，或每天花一点时间读一本书。也许你会决定要参加课外活动活在你的社区提供志愿服务。也许你会决定挺身而出保护那些因为身份或长相而受人戏弄或欺负的孩子，原因是你和我一样认为所有的年轻人都应该享有一个适合读书和学习的安全环境。也许你会决定更好地照料自己，以便有更充沛的精力来学习。顺便提一下，除了这些事情外，我希望大家要勤洗手，身体感到不舒服的时候要呆在家里不去上学，这样我们能防止人们在今年秋冬季节染上流感。But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you t

43、o really work at it.但无论你决定做什么，我希望你保证去做。我希望你脚踏实地去做。I know that sometimes you get that sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard workthat your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star. Chances are youre not going to be any of those things.我

44、知道有时候你会从电视上得到这样的印象：你不用做任何刻苦的努力就能发财致富并取得成功唱小调、打篮球或成为真人秀电视明星是走向成功的途径。但实际情况是：你可能不会干成任何一件事。The truth is, being successful is hard. You wont love every subject that you study. You wont click with every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right a

45、t this minute. And you wont necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.事实上，取得成功不是轻而易举的事情。你不会喜欢你学习的每一门课目。你不会与你的每一位老师都很投契。不是所有的家庭作业看起来都与你眼前的生活完全有关。你第一次尝试做每件事的时候，不一定成功。Thats okay. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones whove had the most failures. J.K. Rowlingswho wr

46、ote Harry Potterher 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 m

47、y life. And thats why I succeed.这都没关系。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失败最多的人。JK罗琳哈利波特第一部在出版之前被退稿12次。迈克尔乔丹曾被他高中学校的篮球队除名。在他的篮球职业生涯中，他输过数百场比赛，有数千个球没有投中。但他曾经说过：“在我的一生中，我失败了一次又一次、一次又一次。这就是我成功的原因。”These people succeeded because they understood that you cant let your failures define you - you have to let your failures tea

48、ch you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesnt mean youre a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a bad grade, that doesnt mean youre stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.这些人士获

49、得成功，是因为他们懂得：你不能让失败来限制你而必须让失败来教导你。你必须让失败向你展示下次如何以不同的方式去做这件事情。所以，如果你遇到麻烦，那并不意味着你就是麻烦的制造者，而意味着你需要更加努力去把它做对。如果你有一门课分数低，那并不表示你笨，而只表示你需要花更多的时间学习。No ones born being good at all things. You become good at things through hard work. Youre not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You dont hit

50、 every note the first time you sing a song. Youve 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

51、a paper before its good enough to hand in.没有一个人天生擅长各种事情。你通过勤奋而变得擅长各种事情。第一次从事新的体育项目时，你不可能是一位主力队员。第一次唱一首歌时，你不可能唱准每一个音。你必须练习。同样的道理适用于你的学业。你可能要把一道数学题做几次才能做对。你可能要把一些材料阅读几遍才能理解。在交出一篇优秀作文之前，你肯定需要打几遍草稿。Dont be afraid to ask questions. Dont be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Ask

52、ing for help isnt a sign of weakness, its a sign of strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you dont 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 counselorand ask them to help

53、you stay on track to meet your goals.不要害怕提问。不要在需要帮助时害怕请求别人帮助。我天天那样做。请求帮助不是软弱的表现，它是力量的标志，因为它表明你有勇气承认自己对某些事情不懂，这样做回使你学到新的东西。因此，请确定一位你信任成年人父母、祖父母或老师、教练或辅导员请他们帮助你遵循既定计划实现你的目标。The story of America isnt about people who quit when things got tough. Its about people who kept going, who tried harder, who lov

54、ed their country too much to do anything less than their best.书写美国历史的不是在困难时刻退缩的人，而是坚持不懈、加倍努力的人，他们对国家的爱促使他们全力以赴。Its 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 o

55、vercame 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 and changed the way we communicate with each other.书写美国历史的是250年前坐在你们的位置上的学生，他们后来进行了独立战争并创建了这个国家。还有75年前坐在你们的位置上的年轻人和学生，他们，他们走

56、出了大萧条并打赢了一场世界大战；他们为民权而奋斗并把宇航员送上了月球。20年前坐在你们的位置上的学生，他们创办了谷歌、推特网和脸谱网，改变了我们交流沟通的方式。So today, I want to ask all of you, whats 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

57、all of you did for this country?而今天，我要问问你们大家，你们将作出什么贡献？你们将解决什么问题？你们将有什么发现？20年、50年或100年后来到这里讲话的总统将会怎样评价你们大家为这个国家所做的一切？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. Im working hard to fix up your classrooms

58、and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But youve 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 dont let us down. Dont let your fa

59、mily down or your country down. Most of all, dont let yourself down. Make us all proud.现在，你们的家人、你们的老师和我正在竭尽全力保证你们接受必要的教育，以便回答上述问题。我正在努力工作，以便你们的教室得到修缮，你们能够得到学习所需的课本、设备和电脑。但你们也必须尽自己的努力。所以我希望你们尽最大努力做好每一件事。我希望你们每个人都有出色的表现。所以不要让我们失望。不要让你们的家人或你们的国家失望。而最重要的是，不要让你们自己失望。而要让我们都倍感骄傲。Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you.非常感谢大家。愿上帝保佑你们。愿上帝保佑美国。谢谢你们。12