奧巴馬開學日演講稿 ： 為什么要上學 （ 中英文 ）

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!謝謝你們。謝謝你們。

謝謝你們大家。好，大家請就坐。你們今天都好嗎?

(掌聲)蒂姆·斯派塞(tim spicer)好嗎?(掌聲)我現在與弗吉尼亞州阿靈頓郡韋克菲爾德高中的學生們在一起。美國各地從小學預備班到中學12年級的學生正在收聽收看。

我很高興大家今天都能參與。我還要感謝韋克菲爾德高中出色的組織。請為你們自己熱烈鼓掌。

(掌聲)

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，今天是你們許多人上學的開始。對于進入小學預備班、初中或高中的學生，今天是你們來到新學校的第一天，心里可能有點緊張，這是可以理解的。我能想象有些畢業班學生現在感覺很不錯——(掌聲)——還有一年就畢業了。

無論您處于哪個年級，你們中的一些人可能都希望放更長的暑假，今天早晨要多睡一會。

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.

我了解這種感覺。我小時候，我們家生活在海外。我在印度尼西亞住了幾年。

我母親沒有錢送我去其他美國兒童學校，但她認為我必須接受美國教育。所以她決定從星期一到星期五給我補課。不過她還要上班，所以只能在清晨四點半給我上課。

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 ***plain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “this is no pi**ic for me either, buster.

” (laughter.)

你可以想象我不想這么早起床。很多次，我在桌子上睡著了。但每當我抱怨的時候，我媽媽都會那樣地看我一眼，然后說：“小子，這對我也并不輕松。”(笑聲)

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.

我知道你們有些人放學后還習慣生活。但我今天來是因為我有重要的事要告訴你。我是來和你們談談你們的教育和對你們所有人在新學年的期望。

now, i’ve given a lot of speeches about education. and i’ve talked about responsibility a lot.

我做過很多次有關教育問題的演講。我多次談到過責任問題。

i’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.

我談到了教師激發學生學習的責任。

i’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for ****** 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.

我談到了父母的責任，要確保你走上正確的道路，做好家庭作業，不要整天坐在電視機前或玩xbox游戲。

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.

我多次談到過**的責任，要制定高標準，支持教師和校長的工作，徹底改善不能為學生提**有機會的、教育質量差的學校。

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.

然而，即使我們擁有最敬業的教師，最盡力的家長和全世界最好的學?！绻銈兇蠹也宦男心銈兊呢熑危坏叫Ｉ险n，不專心聽講，不聽家長、祖父祖母和其他大人的話，不付出取得成功所必須的勤奮努力，那么這一切都毫無用處，都無關緊要。這就是我今天演講的重點：你們每個人都對自己的教育負有責任。

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.

首先，我想談談你對自己的責任。你們每個人都有自己的長處。你們每個人都可以做出自己的貢獻。你們對自己應盡的責任是發現自己的能力所在。而教育能夠提供這樣的機會。

maybe you could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a news***** -- but you might not know it until you write that english ***** -- that english class ***** that’s assigned to you. maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor -- maybe even good enough to ***e 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.

你或許能成為一名出色的作家——甚至可能寫書或在報紙上發表文章——但你可能要在完成那篇英文課的作文后才會發現自己的才華?！緤W巴馬開幕日演講：為什么要上學（中英文）】奧巴馬開幕日演講：

為什么要上學（中英文）。你或許能成為一名創新者或發明家——甚至可能設計出新一代iphone或研制出新型藥物或疫苗——但你可能要在完成科學課的實驗后才會發現自己的才華。你或許能成為一名市長或參議員或最高法院的**官——但你可能要在參加學生會的工作或辯論隊后才會發現自己的才華。

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.

不管你的人生抱負是什么，我相信你必須去學校才能實現它。你想當醫生、老師還是警察？你想成為**，建筑師，律師還是軍官？

你必須受過良好的教育才能從事上述任何職業。你不能指望輟學后能找到一份好工作。你必須接受訓練，為之工作，為之學習。

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.

這并非只對你個人的人生和未來意義重大。毫不夸張地說，教育的好處將決定這個國家的未來。美國的未來取決于你們。

你今天在學校學到的東西將決定我們作為一個國家是否能夠迎付我們未來面臨的最嚴峻挑戰。

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 ***panies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

你們將需要利用你們通過自然科學和數學課程所學到的知識和解決問題的能力來**癌癥、艾滋病及其他疾病，開發新的能源技術和保護我們的環境。你們將需要利用你們在歷史學和社會學課堂上所獲得的知識和獨立思考能力來抗擊貧困和解決無家可歸問題，打擊犯罪和消除歧視，使我們的國家更公平、更自由。你需要運用你在所有課程中培養出來的創造力和智慧來創辦新公司，創造就業機會，促進我們的經濟。

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.

我們需要你們每個人發揮你們的才能和技能，幫助老一代解決我們面臨的最困難的問題。如果你不這樣做，如果你輟學，你不僅僅是在拋棄自己，而是在拋棄你的國家。

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.

我自然知道要做到學業優秀并非總是易事。我知道你們中的許多人在生活中面臨挑戰，無法集中精力學習。

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.

我明白這一點。 我有親身感受。兩歲時，我父親離家而去，我是由一位單親母親撫養**的，母親不得不工作，并時常為支付生活費用而苦苦掙扎，但有時仍無法為我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。

有時，我想在我的生活中有一個父親。有時我感到孤獨，不適應社會。

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.

我并非總是像我應該做到的那樣專心學習，我也曾做過我如今不能引以為豪的一些事情，我曾惹過不應該惹的麻煩。我的生活本可以更糟的。

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.

但是，我當年際遇不錯。我有很多第二次機會。我很幸運能上大學、法學院并追求我的理想。我妻子，我們的第一夫人米歇爾？

奧巴馬，也有著類似的經歷。她父母都沒上過大學，家里很窮。但是他們非常勤奮，她也很勤奮，所以她能夠進入美國最好的學校。

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.

你們中有些人可能沒有這些有勢。也許你的生活中沒有成年人為你提供所需的支持。也許你家里有人失業了，經濟也很拮據。

也許你生活在一個讓你感道不安全的社區，或者有朋友強迫你做你知道不對的事情。

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 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.

然而說到底，你們生活的環境、你們的膚色、你們的原籍、你們的經濟收入、你們家中的境況等等，這一切都不能成為你們不用功或不努力的理由。你沒有理由不服從老師，逃學，或者輟學。沒有理由不付出努力。

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.

你現在的情況并不決定你的未來。沒有人決定你的命運。在美國，你決定自己的命運。你們掌握自己的未來。

that’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across america.

這就是像你們這樣的年輕人每天都在做的事情，全美各地都是如此。

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 be***ing dr. jazmin perez.

來自得州羅馬城的賈茲敏?佩雷斯(jazmin perez)就是一個例證，她剛開始上學時并不會說英文。她的父母都沒有上過大學。

然而，她非常勤奮，成績優秀，獲得了布朗大學的獎學金，她如今正在讀研究生，攻讀公共衛生專業，不久將成為賈茲敏?佩雷斯博士。

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.

我想起了加州洛斯阿爾托斯城的安多尼?舒爾茨(andoni schultz)，他從三歲開始就一直與腦癌進行抗爭，他不得不忍受各類**和手術帶來的痛苦，其中一項手術曾影響了他的記憶，因此他花在功課上的時間比一般人長得多，要多出數百個小時。然而，他從未落后。

他今年秋季將邁進大學。

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.

我還想起家鄉伊利諾伊州芝加哥市的尚特爾?史蒂夫(shantell steve)。她曾在芝加哥最困難的社區生活，寄養于多個不同的家庭，但她最終在一家地方醫療中心找到工作，并開始了一項幫助年輕人遠離流氓團伙的計劃，她即將以優異成績從中學畢業，緊接著將上大學。

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.

賈茲敏，安多尼和尚特爾和你們每個人都一樣。跟你們一樣，他們在生活中面臨種種挑戰。在某些情況下，他們的處境比你們中的許多人更糟。

但他們拒絕放棄。他們決定為自己的生活和教育負責，為自己設定目標。我期待你們大家都會這樣做。

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 ****** 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 ***munity.

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.

所以，今天我呼吁你們每個人為自己的教育設定目標，并盡最大努力實現這些目標。你的目標可以是一件非常簡單的事情，比如完成家庭作業，上課，或者每天花點時間看書。你可以決定參加課外活動或在社區做志愿者。

也許你會決定挺身而出保護那些因為身份或長相而受人戲弄或欺負的孩子，原因是你和我一樣認為所有的年輕人都應該享有一個適合讀書和學習的安全環境。也許你會決定好好照顧自己，這樣你就能有更多的精力去學習。順便提一下，除了這些事情外，我希望大家要勤洗手，身體感到不舒服的時候要呆在家里不去上學，這樣我們能防止人們在今年秋冬季節染上流感。

but whatever you resolve to do, i want you to ***mit to it. i want you to really work at it.

但無論你決定做什么，我都希望你答應。我希望你腳踏實地地去做。

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.

我知道有時候你會從電視上得到這樣的印象：你不用做任何艱苦的工作就能發財致富并取得成功，唱小調、打籃球或成為真人秀明星是走向成功的途徑。但現實是：你可能不是他們中的一員。

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 ***pletely relevant to your life right at this minute. and you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

事實上，成功并不容易。你不會喜歡你所學的每一門學科。你不會與你的每一位老師都很投契。

并不是所有的家庭作業都和你的生活息息相關。當你第一次嘗試做任何事情時，你不必成功。

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.

”這些都沒關系。世界上最成功的人中，有一些是受苦最多的人。作者j?

k?羅琳(j.k.

rowling)所寫的系列**《哈利?波特》(harry potter)第一部在獲得出版之前被退稿12次。邁克爾?

喬丹(michael jordan)曾被他的高中籃球隊除名。在喬丹的籃球生涯中，他輸掉了數百場比賽，錯失了數千個進球。但他曾說過：

“在我的一生中，我失敗了一次又一次、一次又一次。這就是我成功的原因?！?/p>

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.

這些人成功是因為他們明白你不能讓失敗限制你，但你必須讓失敗啟發你。您必須讓失敗告訴您下一次如何做不同的事情。

所以，如果你有麻煩了，那并不意味著你是麻煩制造者，而是意味著你需要更加努力地工作才能把事情做好。如果你有一門分數低的課程，并不意味著你比別人更蠢，而只示你需要花更多的時間學習。

no one’s born being good at all things. you be***e 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 ***** before it’s good enough to hand in.

沒有人天生擅長做各種事情。通過勤奮，你變得擅長各種各樣的事情。第一次從事新的體育項目時，你不可能是一位主力隊員。

第一次唱一首歌曲時，你不可能唱準每個音。你必須練習。同樣的道理適用于你的學業。

在你把一道數學題做對之前，你可能要做幾次。你可能要讀幾遍才料才能理解它。在你交一篇漂亮的作文之前，你必須先寫幾稿。

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.

不要害怕提問。當你需要幫助時，不要害怕尋求幫助。我天天請求別人的幫助。

請求幫助不是軟弱的表現，它是力量的標志，因為它表明你有勇氣承認自己對某些事情不懂，這樣做會使你學到新的東西。因此，請確定一位你信任的成年人，例如家長、祖父母或老師、教練或輔導員，請他們幫助你遵循既定計劃實現你的目標。

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.

即使當你苦苦掙扎、灰心喪氣、感到其他人對你不抱希望時，也不要對你自己喪失信心，因為當你自暴自棄時，你也拋棄了自己的國家。

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.

美國的歷史不是那些在困難時期畏縮不前的人寫的，而是那些堅持不懈、加倍努力的人寫的。他們對國家的熱愛促使他們盡最大努力。

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 ***municate with each other.

美國的歷史是由250年前坐在你座位上的學生寫的，他們后來參加了獨立戰爭，建立了這個國家。還有75年前坐在你們的位置上的年輕人和學生，他們走出了大蕭條并打贏了一場世界大戰;他們為民權而奮斗并把宇航員送上了月球。至于20年前坐在你們的位置上的學生，他們創辦了谷歌(google)、嘰喳網 (twitter)和臉譜網(facebook)，改變了我們交流溝通的方式。

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 ***es here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?

而今天，我要問問你們大家，你們將做出什么貢獻?你們將解決什么問題?你們將有什么發現?20年、50年或100年后來到這里講話的**將會怎樣評價你們大家為這個國家所做的一切?

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. i’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the ***puters 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.

你的家人，你的老師和我正在盡一切努力確保你接受必要的教育來回答這些問題。我正在努力工作，以便你的教室可以修理，你可以得到你學習所需的課本、設備和電腦。但你們也必須盡自己的努力。

因此，我希望大家從今年起認真對待這個問題。我希望你盡力把一切都做好。我希望你們每個人都能做好。

不要讓我們失望。不要讓你的家庭或國家失望。而最重要的是，不要辜負你們自己，而要讓我們都能[為你們]感到驕傲。

thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. god bless america.

thank you. (applause.)

非常感謝你們大家。愿主保佑你們。愿主保佑美國。謝謝你們。(掌聲)

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As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment -- a moment that will define a generation -- it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility -- a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

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This is the source of our confidence -- the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed -- why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

“Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive... that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet .”

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

各位同胞:

今天我站在這里，為眼前的重責大任感到謙卑，對各位的信任心懷感激，對先賢的犧牲銘記在心。我要謝謝布什總統為這個國家的服務，也感謝他在政權轉移期間的寬厚和配合。

四十四位美國人發表過總統就職誓言，這些誓詞或是在繁榮富強及和平寧靜之際發表，或是在烏云密布，時局動蕩之時。在艱困的時候，美國能箕裘相繼，不僅因為居高位者有能力或愿景，也因為人民持續對先人的抱負有信心，也忠于創建我國的法統。

因此，美國才能承繼下來。因此，這一代美國人也必須承繼下去。

現在大家都知道我們正置身危機核心，我國正在與四處蔓延的 暴力和憎恨作戰。我們的經濟元氣大傷--這既是某些人貪婪且不負責任的后果，也是大眾未能做出艱難的選擇，對國家進入新時代做準備不足所致。許多人失去房 子，丟了工作，生意蕭條。我們的醫療太昂貴，學校教育讓人失望。每天都有更多證據顯示，我們利用能源的方式壯大我們的對敵，威脅我們的星球。

這些都是得自資料和統計數據的危機指標。比較無法測量但同樣深沉的，是舉國信心盡失--持續擔心美國將無可避免地衰退，也害怕下一代一定會眼界變低。

今天我要告訴各位，我們面臨的挑戰是真的，挑戰非常嚴重，且不在少數。它們不是可以輕易，或在短時間內解決。但是，美國要了解，這些挑戰會被解決。

在這一天，我們聚在一起，因為我們選擇希望而非恐懼，有意義的團結而非紛爭和不合。

在這一天，我們來此宣示，那些無用的抱怨和虛偽的承諾已終結，那些扭曲我們政治已久的相互指控和陳舊教條已終結。

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