奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话

奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话（4篇）

1.奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话 篇一

不管你决定做什么，我都希望你能坚持到底，希望你能真的下定决心。我知道有些时候，电视上播放的节目会让你产生这样那样的错觉，似乎你不需要付出多大的努力就能腰缠万贯、功成名就——你会认为只要会唱rap、会打篮球或参加个什么真人秀节目就能坐享其成，但现实是，你几乎没有可能走上其中任何一条道路。

因为，成功是件难事。你不可能对要读的每门课程都兴趣盎然，你不可能和每名带课教师都相处顺利，你也不可能每次都遇上看起来和现实生活有关的作业。而且，并不是每件事，你都能在头一次尝试时获得成功。

但那没有关系。因为在这个世界上，最最成功的人们往往也经历过最多的失败。J.K.罗琳的第一本《哈利·波特》被出版商拒绝了十二次才最终出版；迈克尔·乔丹上高中时被学校的篮球队刷了下来，在他的职业生涯里，他输了几百场比赛、投失过几千次射篮，知道他是怎么说的吗？“我一生不停地失败、失败再失败，这就是我现在成功的原因。”

他们的成功，源于他们明白人不能让失败左右自己——而是要从中吸取经验。从失败中，你可以明白下一次自己可以做出怎样的改变；假如你惹了什么麻烦，那并不说明你就是个捣蛋鬼，而是在提醒你，在将来要对自己有更严格的要求；假如你考了个低分，那并不说明你就比别人笨，而是在告诉你，自己得在学习上花更多的时间。

没有哪一个人一生出来就擅长做什么事情的，只有努力才能培养出技能。任何人都不是在第一次接触一项体育运动时就成为校队的代表，任何人都不是在第一次唱一首歌时就找准每一个音，一切都需要熟能生巧。对于学业也是一样，你或许要反复运算才能解出一道数学题的正确答案，你或许需要读一段文字好几遍才能理解它的意思，你或许得把论文改上好几次才能符合提交的标准。这都是很正常的。

不要害怕提问。不要不敢向他人求助。——我每天都在这么做。求助并不是软弱的表现，恰恰相反，它说明你有勇气承认自己的不足、并愿意去学习新的知识。所以，有不懂时，就向大人们求助吧——找个你信得过的对象，例如父母、长辈、老师、教练或辅导员——让他们帮助你向目标前进。

你要记住，哪怕你表现不好、哪怕你失去信心、哪怕你觉得身边的人都已经放弃了你——永远不要自己放弃自己。因为当你放弃自己的时候，你也放弃了自己的国家。

美国不是一个人们遭遇困难就轻易放弃的国度，在这个国家，人们坚持到底、人们加倍努力，为了他们所热爱的国度，每一个人都尽着自己最大的努力，不会给自己留任何余地。250年前，有一群和你们一样的学生，他们之后奋起努力、用一场革命最终造就了这个国家；75年前，有一群和你们一样的学生，他们之后战胜了大萧条、赢得了二战；就在20年前，和你们一样的学生们，他们后来创立了Google、Twitter和Facebook，改变了我们人与人之间沟通的方式。

因此，今天我想要问你们，你们会做出什么样的贡献？你们将解决什么样的难题？你们能发现什么样的事物？

二十、五十或百年之后，假如那时的美国总统也来做一次开学演讲的话，他会怎样描述你们对这个国家所做的一切？

你们的家长、你们的老师和我，每一个人都在尽最大的努力，确保你们都能得到应有的教育来回答这些问题。例如我正在努力为你们提供更安全的教室、更多的书籍、更先进的设施与计算机。但你们也要担起自己的责任。

因此我要求你们在今年能够认真起来，我要求你们尽心地去做自己着手的每一件事，我要求你们每一个人都有所成就。请不要让我们失望——不要让你的家人、你的国家和你自己失望。你们要成为我们骄傲，我知道，你们一定可以做到。

谢谢大家，上帝保佑你们，上帝保佑美国

2.奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话 篇二

总统在马丁·路德·金纪念园落成仪式上的讲话 October 2011 2011年10月16日

The National Mall 国家大草坪

Washington, D.C.华盛顿特区

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.(Applause.)Thank you.(Applause.)Please be seated.奥巴马总统：非常感谢大家。（掌声）谢谢大家。（掌声）请就座。

An earthquake and a hurricane may have delayed this day, but this is a day that would not be denied.虽然这个日子可能因地震和飓风来袭而推迟，但这一天不可阻挡。

For this day, we celebrate Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.’s return to the National Mall.In this place, he will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it;a black preacher with no official rank or title who somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideals, a man who stirred our conscience and thereby helped make our union more perfect.在这一天，我们欢庆马丁·路德·金博士重返国家大草坪。在这个地方，他将永远矗立在纪念这个国家的缔造者和捍卫者的丰碑中间；一位没有正式官衔或名号、却能说出我们心底最深处的梦想和我们持久不变的理想的黑人牧师，一位唤醒了我们的良知、从而帮助我们的合众国变得更加完美的人。

And Dr.King would be the first to remind us that this memorial is not for him alone.The movement of which he was a part depended on an entire generation of leaders.Many are here today, and for their service and their sacrifice, we owe them our everlasting gratitude.This is a monument to your collective achievement.(Applause.)

而金博士会首先提醒我们，这座纪念碑并不属于他一个人。他参加过的那场运动所依靠的是整整一代领袖人物。其中很多人今天在座，我们对他们的服务和奉献永远感激不尽。这是一座纪念你们的集体业绩的丰碑。（掌声）

Some giants of the civil rights movement –-like Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height, Benjamin Hooks, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth –-they’ve been taken from us these past few years.This monument attests to their strength and their courage, and while we miss them dearly, we know they rest in a better place.民权运动的几位巨人——如罗莎·帕克斯（Rosa Parks）、多萝西·海特（Dorothy Height）、本杰明·胡克斯（Benjamin Hooks）和弗雷德•沙特尔斯沃思牧师（Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth）等人——几年来相继离开了我们。这座纪念碑是他们的力量和勇气的见证，我们深深地怀念他们，但我们也知道他们长眠在一个更好的地方。

And finally, there are the multitudes of men and women whose names never appear in the history books –-those who marched and those who sang, those who sat in and those who stood firm, those who organized and those who mobilized –-all those men and women who through countless acts of quiet heroism helped bring about changes few thought were even possible.“By the thousands,” said Dr.King, “faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white…have taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” To those men and women, to those foot soldiers for justice, know that this monument is yours, as well.最后，还有名字从未被载入史册的众多男女志士——他们曾游行示威和高声唱诵，他们曾静坐抗议和岿然挺立，他们曾组织和动员民众——所有这些男女志士都通过胜不胜数的默默无闻的英勇行动帮助实现了大多数人认为不可能实现的变革。金博士曾说：“成千上万名默默无闻的、不知姓名的、坚持不懈的黑人和白人青年„„带领我们整个国家回到了建国先父们在起草宪法和独立宣言的过程中深掘而成的伟大的民主源头。”男女志士们，为正义而战的普通斗士们，这座纪念碑也属于你们。

Nearly half a century has passed since that historic March on Washington, a day when thousands upon thousands gathered for jobs and for freedom.That is what our schoolchildren remember best when they think of Dr.King-– his booming voice across this Mall, calling on America to make freedom a reality for all of God’s children, prophesizing of a day when the jangling discord of our nation would be transformed into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.华盛顿那次具有历史意义的游行集会已经是近半个世纪以前的事了，那一天有成千上万的人汇集起来要求得到工作机会、要求得到自由。我们的中小学生们一想到金博士便会想到他那洪亮的声音回荡在大草坪上，呼吁美国将上帝所有子孙都享有自由变成现实，预见有一天我国喋喋不休的争执将会变成兄弟情谊的美丽合谐之音。

It is right that we honor that march, that we lift up Dr.King’s “I Have a Dream” speech –-for without that shining moment, without Dr.King’s glorious words, we might not have had the courage to come as far as we have.Because of that hopeful vision, because of Dr.King’s moral imagination, barricades began to fall and bigotry began to fade.New doors of opportunity swung open for an entire generation.Yes, laws changed, but hearts and minds changed, as well.我们应该纪念那场游行集会，我们应该仰慕金博士《我有一个梦想》的演说——因为倘若没有那个闪光的时刻，没有金博士光辉的言词，我们可能就不会有勇气取得如此长足的进步。正是因为有了那个充满希望的构想，正是因为有金博士的道义憧憬，屏障才开始倒塌，偏见才开始消退。新的机遇之门才向整整一代人敞开。的确，法律改变了，但人心和头脑也改变了。

Look at the faces here around you, and you see an America that is more fair and more free and more just than the one Dr.King addressed that day.We are right to savor that slow but certain progress-– progress that’s expressed itself in a million ways, large and small, across this nation every single day, as people of all colors and creeds live together, and work together, and fight alongside one another, and learn together, and build together, and love one another.看看你身边的面孔，你会看到美国比金博士那天讲话所面对的更加公平、更加自由、更加公正。我们应该细细品味这缓慢但确实的进步——通过百万种方式体现出来的大大小小进步，每天遍及全国各地，各种肤色和信仰的人们生活在一起，工作在一起，并肩奋斗，共同学习，共同建设，彼此相爱。

So it is right for us to celebrate today Dr.King’s dream and his vision of unity.And yet it is also important on this day to remind ourselves that such progress did not come easily;that Dr.King’s faith was hard-won;that it sprung out of a harsh reality and some bitter disappointments.所以，我们今天应该纪念金博士的梦想和他团结的愿景。但我们也需要在这一天提醒自己，让我们记住这些进步来之不易；金博士的信念是靠奋斗树立起来；它源于严酷的现实和一些沉痛的失望。

It is right for us to celebrate Dr.King’s marvelous oratory, but it is worth remembering that progress did not come from words alone.Progress was hard.Progress was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire hoses.It was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb threats.For every victory during the height of the civil rights movement, there were setbacks and there were defeats.我们应该弘扬金博士光辉的演说，但值得记住的是，进步并不仅靠言辞。进步是艰苦的。进步是通过顶住警棍的殴打和消防水龙的喷射而换取的，进步是以牢笼度日和炸弹夜袭威胁为代价而得到的。民权运动高潮中的每一个胜利，都有挫折、有失败。

We forget now, but during his life, Dr.King wasn’t always considered a unifying figure.Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr.King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical.He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow;by those who felt he shouldn’t meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers.We know from his own testimony the doubts and the pain this caused him, and that the controversy that would swirl around his actions would last until the fateful day he died.现在我们不记得了，但在他的有生之年，金博士并不是总被视为一个团结的形象。即使后来声望显赫，甚至在获得诺贝尔和平奖后，金博士仍受到许多人诬蔑，他被称作乌合之众的煽动者、挑唆者、共产主义分子和激进分子。他甚至受到自己人的攻击，他们有的人觉得他走得太快，有的人认为他走得太慢；他们有的人认为他不应该插手越南战争或工会工人权利这样的问题。我们从他自己的证词中知道这曾给他带来疑惑和痛苦，这些围绕他行动的争议持续到他去世的最后那一天。

I raise all this because nearly 50 years after the March on Washington, our work, Dr.King’s work, is not yet complete.We gather here at a moment of great challenge and great change.In the first decade of this new century, we have been tested by war and by tragedy;by an economic crisis and its aftermath that has left millions out of work, and poverty on the rise, and millions more just struggling to get by.Indeed, even before this crisis struck, we had endured a decade of rising inequality and stagnant wages.In too many troubled neighborhoods across the country, the conditions of our poorest citizens appear little changed from what existed 50 years ago-– neighborhoods with underfunded schools and broken-down slums, inadequate health care, constant violence, neighborhoods in which too many young people grow up with little hope and few prospects for the future.我讲到这一切，是因为华盛顿大游行近50年之后，我们的工作，金博士的工作，尚未完成。我们聚集在这里，正值一个充满巨大挑战和巨大变化的时刻。在这个新世纪的第一个10年，我们受到了战争和悲剧的考验；经济危机及其后果使百万民众失业，贫困在上升，还有数百万的人在挣扎度日。事实上，这场危机发生之前，我们就经历了10年日益严重的不平等和工资停滞。在全国为数太多的困难社区，我们最贫穷的公民的状况比50年前几乎没什么变化——这些地方学校资金匮乏，存在着破烂的贫民窟，没有足够的医疗服务，暴力频发，有太多的年轻人长大没有希望，未来没有前途。

Our work is not done.And so on this day, in which we celebrate a man and a movement that did so much for this country, let us draw strength from those earlier struggles.First and foremost, let us remember that change has never been quick.Change has never been simple, or without controversy.Change depends on persistence.Change requires determination.It took a full decade before the moral guidance of Brown v.Board of Education was translated into the enforcement measures of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, but those 10 long years did not lead Dr.King to give up.He kept on pushing, he kept on speaking, he kept on marching until change finally came.(Applause.)

我们的工作尚未完成。因此，在这一天，在纪念为这个国家奉献如此之多的一个人和一场运动之际，让我们从这些早期斗争中汲取力量。首先，让我们记住变化从来不会瞬间到来。变化从来不是简单或毫无争议的。改变取决于坚持不懈。改变需要决心。《布朗诉教育委员会》（Brown v.Board of Education）一案的道义指南经历了整整10年才转换为《民权法案》（Civil Rights Act）和《投票权法》（Voting Rights Act）的实施措施，但是金博士并没有因这漫长的10年而放弃。他不停地推动，他不停地疾呼，他不停地前进，直到最终实现改变。（掌声）

And then when, even after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed, African Americans still found themselves trapped in pockets of poverty across the country, Dr.King didn’t say those laws were a failure;he didn’t say this is too hard;he didn’t say, let’s settle for what we got and go home.Instead he said, let’s take those victories and broaden our mission to achieve not just civil and political equality but also economic justice;let’s fight for a living wage and better schools and jobs for all who are willing to work.In other words, when met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr.King refused to accept what he called the “isness” of today.He kept pushing towards the “oughtness” of tomorrow.后来，甚至在《民权法案》和《投票权法》通过之后，非裔美国人仍然发现自己被困在全国各地的贫困地区，金博士没有说这是法律失败，他没有说这实在太难，他没有说，让我们满足已有的收获，就此结束。相反，他说，让我们运用这些胜利，拓宽我们的使命，不只实现公民权利和政治上的平等，而且还有经济上的公正；让我们为谋生的工资、更好的学校和为一切愿意工作的人的就业机会而奋斗。换句话说，当遇到艰难时，当面对失望时，金博士拒绝接受他称之为“如是“（isness）的今天。他不停地推动实现“应然”（oughtness）的明天。

And so, as we think about all the work that we must do –-rebuilding an economy that can compete on a global stage, and fixing our schools so that every child--not just some, but every child--gets a world-class education, and making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all, and that our economic system is one in which everybody gets a fair shake and everybody does their fair share, let us not be trapped by what is.(Applause.)We can’t be discouraged by what is.We’ve got to keep pushing for what ought to be, the America we ought to leave to our children, mindful that the hardships we face are nothing compared to those Dr.King and his fellow marchers faced 50 years ago, and that if we maintain our faith, in ourselves and in the possibilities of this nation, there is no challenge we cannot surmount.所以，在我们思考我们必须做的各项工作的时候——重建一个可以在全球舞台上竞争的经济，修整我们的学校，使每一个孩子——不仅仅是某些，而是每个孩子——获得世界一流的教育，确保我们的医疗制度让所有人负担得起、享用得上，让我们的经济体系使每个人都得到公平的利益，每个人都尽自己应尽的力量，让我们不要被困于现状。（掌声）我们不能因为现状而气馁。我们必须不断推动争取应然和我们应留予子孙的美国，并且记住，我们所面对的艰辛，比起金博士和与他一起游行的同胞50年前所面对的，微不足道，如果我们保持坚定的信念，相信我们自己，相信这个国家的潜能，就没有我们不能克服的挑战。

And just as we draw strength from Dr.King’s struggles, so must we draw inspiration from his constant insistence on the oneness of man;the belief in his words that “we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” It was that insistence, rooted in his Christian faith, that led him to tell a group of angry young protesters, “I love you as I love my own children,” even as one threw a rock that glanced off his neck.就像我们从金博士的奋斗汲取力量一样，我们也要从他对人类一体的坚定不移获得启示；他曾说“我们都罩在一张无可逃避的共同网络中，命云交织，休戚与共。”正是那份根植于基督教信仰的坚持，使他对一群愤怒的年轻抗议者说：“我爱你们如同爱我自己的孩子，”尽管其中一人向他投石头，险些击中他的脖颈。

It was that insistence, that belief that God resides in each of us, from the high to the low, in the oppressor and the oppressed, that convinced him that people and systems could change.It fortified his belief in non-violence.It permitted him to place his faith in a government that had fallen short of its ideals.It led him to see his charge not only as freeing black America from the shackles of discrimination, but also freeing many Americans from their own prejudices, and freeing Americans of every color from the depredations of poverty.正是这种坚持，相信无论高低贵贱，是压迫者还是受压迫者，上帝都存在我们每个人心中，使他相信人和体制是可以改变的。它加强了他对非暴力的信念，使他对一个未能实现其理想的政府抱有信心。它使他看到自己的使命不只是将美国黑人从歧视的枷锁下解放出来，而且也是将美国人从自己的偏见中解放出来，并使各种肤色的美国人挣脱贫穷的桎梏。

And so at this moment, when our politics appear so sharply polarized, and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished, we need more than ever to take heed of Dr.King’s teachings.He calls on us to stand in the other person’s shoes;to see through their eyes;to understand their pain.He tells us that we have a duty to fight against poverty, even if we are well off;to care about the child in the decrepit school even if our own children are doing fine;to show compassion toward the immigrant family, with the knowledge that most of us are only a few generations removed from similar hardships.(Applause.)

因此，在这个我们的政情似乎尖锐地两极化，人民对我们体制的信心大幅动摇的时刻，我们比以往更需要记取金博士的教诲。他呼吁我们设身处地为别人着想；以他们的视角看世界；理解他们的痛苦。他告诉我们有责任消除贫穷，即使我们自身富裕；关怀破败学校内的学童，即使我们的孩子安康；对移民家庭寄予同情，深知我们大多数人几代前也身处此境（掌声）。

To say that we are bound together as one people, and must constantly strive to see ourselves in one another, is not to argue for a false unity that papers over our differences and ratifies an unjust status quo.As was true 50 years ago, as has been true throughout human history, those with power and privilege will often decry any call for change as “divisive.” They’ll say any challenge to the existing arrangements are unwise and destabilizing.Dr.King understood that peace without justice was no peace at all;that aligning our reality with our ideals often requires the speaking of uncomfortable truths and the creative tension of non-violent protest.说我们是同是彼此关联的一个国家的人民并且必须努力彼此认同理解，并不是主张一种虚假的统一性，掩饰我们之间的差异和认可不公正的现状。就像50 年前一样，就像整个人类历史一样，当权当势者通常会将变革的呼声斥为“分裂”。任何对现状的挑战都会被他们说成是不智之举，会造成动荡不安。金博士理解，没有正义的和平绝非和平；要使现实与我们的理想相吻合，往往就需要说出令人不快的真相，需要有非暴力抗议带来的富于创造性的压力。

But he also understood that to bring about true and lasting change, there must be the possibility of reconciliation;that any social movement has to channel this tension through the spirit of love and mutuality.但是，他也理解，为了带来真实而持久的变革，必须有和解的可能；任何社会运动都必须通过爱与互协的精神来化解这种压力。

If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there;that the businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company’s union without vilifying the right to collectively bargain.He would want us to know we can argue fiercely about the proper size and role of government without questioning each other’s love for this country--(applause)--with the knowledge that in this democracy, government is no distant object but is rather an expression of our common commitments to one another.He would call on us to assume the best in each other rather than the worst, and challenge one another in ways that ultimately heal rather than wound.如果他今天仍然在世，我相信他会提醒我们，失业的劳工可以质疑华尔街的贪婪过度，但不会将那里的所有雇员妖魔化；商人可以和其公司的工会进行强硬的谈判，但不会诋毁集体交易的权利。他会让我们知道，我们可以对政府的规模和作用开展激烈的争辩，但不会质疑彼此对国家的热爱——（掌声）——知道在民主体制中，政府并非一个遥远的物体，而是我们对彼此的共同承诺的表现形式。他会呼吁我们相信彼此最好的一面，而非最坏的一面，并且以最终能愈合而非伤害的方式挑战彼此。

In the end, that’s what I hope my daughters take away from this monument.I want them to come away from here with a faith in what they can accomplish when they are determined and working for a righteous cause.I want them to come away from here with a faith in other people and a faith in a benevolent God.This sculpture, massive and iconic as it is, will remind them of Dr.King’s strength, but to see him only as larger than life would do a disservice to what he taught us about ourselves.He would want them to know that he had setbacks, because they will have setbacks.He would want them to know that he had doubts, because they will have doubts.He would want them to know that he was flawed, because all of us have flaws.这是我希望我的女儿们通过这座纪念碑所领会的最终含义。我希望，当她们离开这里的时候怀有对自己的信念，即她们只要有决心去为一桩正义的事业努力，就能获得成功。我还希望，当她们离开这里的时候怀有对他人的信念，对仁慈的上帝的信念。这座宏伟的、令人崇敬的雕塑将使她们记住金博士的力量，但是，仅仅把他当作伟人敬奉就会违背他关于我们如何认识自己的教诲。他会希望她们知道他曾经遭受挫折，因为她们也会遭受挫折。他会希望她们知道他曾经有过动摇，因为她们也会经历动摇。他会希望她们知道他有缺陷，因为我们所有的人都有缺陷。

It is precisely because Dr.King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so.His life, his story, tells us that change can come if you don’t give up.He would not give up, no matter how long it took, because in the smallest hamlets and the darkest slums, he had witnessed the highest reaches of the human spirit;because in those moments when the struggle seemed most hopeless, he had seen men and women and children conquer their fear;because he had seen hills and mountains made low and rough places made plain, and the crooked places made straight and God make a way out of no way.正因为金博士是有血有肉的一个人，而不是一座石像，他才对我们具有如此巨大的感召力。他的生活和他的故事告诉我们，只要锲而不舍，变化就会来临。他不会放弃，哪怕是旷日持久，因为在最小的村庄和最黑暗的贫民窟中，他曾经见证人类精神可及的高度；因为在那些似乎挣扎无望的时刻，他曾看到男女老少战胜自己的恐惧；还因为他曾目睹山峦丘壑被迫低头，凸凹变平原，曲路化坦途，上帝在茫茫旷野中开出路来。

And that is why we honor this man –-because he had faith in us.And that is why he belongs on this Mall-– because he saw what we might become.That is why Dr.King was so quintessentially American--because for all the hardships we’ve endured, for all our sometimes tragic history, ours is a story of optimism and achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this Earth.And that is why the rest of the world still looks to us to lead.This is a country where ordinary people find in their hearts the courage to do extraordinary things;the courage to stand up in the face of the fiercest resistance and despair and say this is wrong, and this is right;we will not settle for what the cynics tell us we have to accept and we will reach again and again, no matter the odds, for what we know is possible.这就是我们纪念他的原因——因为他对我们满怀信心。这就是他属于这座广场的原因——因为他看到我们会成为什么样的人。这就是金博士代表了美国精神的原因——因为尽管我们历尽磨难，尽管我们的历史上有悲剧，但我们始终保持乐观，成就事业，积极进取，这种经历在世界上独一无二。这也是为什么世界上其他国家依然期待美国发挥领导作用的原因。在这个国家中，普通人能够靠心中的勇气做非凡之举；有勇气面对最顽固的阻力和绝望，明辨是非，坚持正义；我们不会接受那些冷眼旁观者作出的裁判，而会突破艰难险阻，为我们所知有可能成就的事业坚持努力，永不放弃。

That is the conviction we must carry now in our hearts.(Applause.)As tough as times may be, I know we will overcome.I know there are better days ahead.I know this because of the man towering over us.I know this because all he and his generation endured--we are here today in a country that dedicated a monument to that legacy.这就是我们现在必须怀有的信念。（掌声）尽管面临一个十分困难的时期，我知道我们一定会赢得胜利。我知道好日子还在前头。我知道这一切是因为我们身边的这位巨人。我知道这一切是因为他和他那一代人的曲折经历——我们今天在这个国家中为这项业绩树立一座丰碑。

And so with our eyes on the horizon and our faith squarely placed in one another, let us keep striving;let us keep struggling;let us keep climbing toward that promised land of a nation and a world that is more fair, and more just, and more equal for every single child of God.因此，让我们放眼未来，让我们彼此以信心相待，奋力向前；让我们不懈拼搏，朝向那片神赐的土地持续攀登，那里是一个对上帝的每一个子民都更公平、更公正、更平等的国度与世界。

3.奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话 篇三

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN A NATIONAL ADDRESS TO

AMERICA’S SCHOOLCHILDREN Wakefield High School, Arlington, Virginia

September 8, 2009

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.)

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.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.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 complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and she’d say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.”(Laughter.)

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.Now, I’ve given a lot of speeches about education.And I’ve talked about responsibility a lot.美国总统奥巴马对全美中小学生的讲话

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2009年9月8日 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）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。

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）

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。

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。

I’ve talked about teachers’ responsibility for inspiring students and pushing you to learn.I’ve talked about your parents’ responsibility for making 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.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.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.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.Maybe you could be a great writer--maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper--but you might not know it until you write that English paper--that English class paper that’s assigned to you.Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor--maybe even good enough to come 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.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.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

我谈到过教师激励学生并督促他们学习的责任。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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

you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.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 companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.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 我们需要你们每个人发挥你们的聪明才智skills and your intellect so you can help us old folks solve our most 和技能，以便帮助老一辈人解决我们面临的最棘difficult problems.If you don’t do that--if you quit on school--手问题。如果你们不这样做，如果你们辍学，你you’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.们不仅仅是自暴自弃，也是抛弃自己的国家。

Now, I know it’s not always easy to do well in school.I know a 我自然知道要做到学业优秀并非总是易事。lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard 我知道你们许多人在生活中面临挑战，难以集中to focus on your schoolwork.精力从事学业。

I get it.I know what it’s like.My father left my family when I was 我明白这一点。我有亲身感受。两岁时，two years old, and I was raised by a single mom who had to work and 我父亲离家而去，我是由一位单亲母亲抚养成人who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn’t always able to give 的，母亲不得不工作，并时常为支付生活费用而us the things that other kids had.There were times when I missed 苦苦挣扎，但有时仍无法为我们提供其他孩子享having a father in my life.There were times when I was lonely and I 有的东西。有时，我渴望生活中能有一位父亲。felt like I didn’t fit in.有时我感到孤独，感到自己不适应社会。

So I wasn’t always as focused as I should have been on school, 我并非总是像我应该做到的那样专心学习，and I did some things I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I 我也曾做过我如今不能引以为豪的一些事情，我should have.And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.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 但是，我当年际遇不错。我有过许多第二次the opportunity to go to college and law school and follow my dreams.机会，我有幸能上大学，上法学院，追求自己的My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, she has a similar story.理想。我的妻子，我们的第一夫人米歇尔•奥巴Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn’t have a lot of 马，也有着类似的经历。她的父母都未曾上过大money.But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could 学，家里很穷。但他们非常勤奋，她也是如此，go to the best schools in this country.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 don’t 你们中有一些人可能没有那些有利条件。或have adults in your life who give you the support that you need.Maybe 许你们生活中没有成年人为你们提供你们所需someone in your family has lost their job and there’s not enough 要的支持。或许你们家中有人失业，经济非常拮money to go around.Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you 据。或许你们生活在使你们感觉不安全的社区，don’t feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you 或有朋友逼迫你们去做你们知道不对的事情。know aren’t right.But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life--what 然而说到底，你们生活的环境、你们的肤色、you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what 你们的原籍、你们的经济收入、你们家中的境况you’ve got going on at home--none of that is an excuse for neglecting 等等，这一切都不能成为你们不用功或不努力的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.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.That’s what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.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 becoming Dr.Jazmin Perez.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.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.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.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 simple 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 community.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

理由。你们没有理由不服从你们的老师、逃学、或辍学。没有理由不付出努力。

你们目前的状况并不决定着你们的未来。没有人决定你们的命运，在美国，你们决定自己的命运。你们掌握自己的未来。

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。

来自得州罗马城的贾兹敏•佩雷斯（Jazmin Perez）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。然而，她非常勤奋，成绩优秀，获得了布朗大学的奖学金，她如今正在读研究生，攻读公共卫生专业，不久将成为贾兹敏•佩雷斯博士。

我想起了加州洛斯阿尔托斯城的安多尼•舒尔茨（Andoni Schultz），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，因此他花在功课上的时间比一般人长得多，要多出数百个小时。然而，他从未落后。他今年秋季将迈进大学。

我还想起家乡伊利诺伊州芝加哥市的尚特尔•史蒂夫（Shantell Steve）。她曾在芝加哥最困难的社区生活，寄养于多个不同的家庭，但她最终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流氓团伙的计划，她即将以优异成绩从中学毕业，紧接着将上大学。

贾兹敏、安多尼和尚特尔与你们中间的每个人没什么两样。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。我期待你们大家都会这样做。因此，我今天呼吁你们每一个人为自己的教育设定目标，并尽自己的最大努力来实现这些目标。你的目标可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或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

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.But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it.I want you to really work at it.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.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 completely relevant to your life right at this minute.And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.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.”

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.No one’s born being good at all things.You become 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 paper before it’s good enough to hand in

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

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。

但无论你决定做什么，我希望你保证去做。我希望你脚踏实地地去做。

我知道有时候你会从电视上得到这样的印象：你不用做任何艰苦的工作就能发财致富并取得成功，唱小调、打篮球或成为真人秀明星是走向成功的途径。但实际情况是：你可能不会成为其中的一员。

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似乎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。

这些都没关系。世界上最成功的人士中有一些是遭遇失败最多的人。作者J•K•罗琳（J.K.Rowling）所写的系列小说《哈利•波特》（Harry Potter）第一部在获得出版之前被退稿12次。迈克尔•乔丹（Michael Jordan）曾被他的高中篮球队除名。在乔丹的篮球生涯中，他输过数百场比赛，有成千上万个球没有投中。但他曾说过：“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。”

这些人士获得成功，因为他们懂得：你不能让失败来限制你，而必须让失败来开导你。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。因此，如果你遇到麻烦，那并不表示你是麻烦的制造者，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，那不表示你比别人笨，而只表示你需要花更多的时间学习。没有一个人天生擅长做各种事情。你通过勤奋而变得擅长于各种事情。第一次从事新的体育项目时，你不可能是一位主力队员。第一次唱一首歌曲时，你不可能唱准每个音。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把它做对。你可能要把一些材料阅读几遍才能理解。在交出一篇优美的作文之前，你肯定需要打几遍草稿。

不要害怕提问。不要在需要帮助时害怕请求别人帮助。我天天请求别人的帮助。请求帮助不是软弱的表现，它是力量的标志，因为它表明你

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.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.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.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 communicate with each other.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 comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?

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 computers 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.有勇气承认自己对某些事情不懂，这样做会使你学到新的东西。因此，请确定一位你信任的成年人，例如家长、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。即使当你苦苦挣扎、灰心丧气、感到其他人对你不抱希望时，也不要对你自己丧失信心，因为当你自暴自弃时，你也抛弃了自己的国家。

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。

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，他们走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。至于20年前坐在你们的位置上的学生，他们创办了谷歌（Google）、叽喳网（Twitter）和脸谱网（Facebook），改变了我们交流沟通的方式。

而今天，我要问问你们大家，你们将做出什么贡献？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？

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。因此，我希望你们大家从今年起认真对待这个问题。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。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，不要辜负你们自己，而要让我们都能[为你们]感到骄傲。

Thank you very much, everybody.God bless you.God bless 非常感谢你们大家。愿主保佑你们。愿主保America.Thank you.(Applause.)佑美国。谢谢你们。（掌声）

4.奥巴马总统在开学日的讲话 篇四

US President Obama’s Remarks on World AIDS Day 2011 George Washington University Washington, D.C.December 1, 2011

美国总统奥巴马在世界艾滋病日发表的讲话 乔治·华盛顿大学 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区 2011年12月1日

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Well, thank you, Sanjay.It is an honor to be with you today and to follow President Kikwete and President Bush.To Bono and Alicia, to the ONE campaign, thank you for bringing us together.Because of your work, all across Africa there are children who are no longer starving, mothers who are no longer dying of treatable diseases, fathers who are again providing for their families.And because of all of you, so many people are now blessed with hope.大家好！谢谢你，桑杰。今天能来到这里和各位聚会，并且在基奎特总统和布什总统之后发表讲话，我感到很荣幸。波诺、艾丽西亚以及“统一行动”，感谢你们促使我们携起手来。在你们的努力下，非洲各地的一些儿童已不再挨饿；母亲们不再被可治愈的疾病夺去生命；父亲们能够重新养家糊口。由于你们大家的努力，现在有许多人看到了希望。

We’ve got members of Congress who have done so much for this cause who are here today, and we want to thank them.Let me also thank President Bush for joining us from Tanzania and for his bold leadership on this issue.I believe that history will record the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief as one of his greatest legacies.And that program — more ambitious than even the leading advocates thought was possible at the time — has saved thousands and thousands and thousands of lives, and spurred international action, and laid the foundation for a comprehensive global plan that will impact the lives of millions.And we are proud that we have the opportunity to carry that work forward.今天在座的有为这项事业作出重大贡献的国会议员们，谢谢你们。我们还要感谢布什总统从坦桑尼亚参加我们的活动，并感谢他在这方面发挥的大胆的领导作用。我认为，历史将把“总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划”作为他的一项丰功伟绩载入史册。这项雄心勃勃的计划——就连主要的艾滋活动人士在当时都没有想到会有这种规模——拯救了数十万人的生命，激发了国际行动，并为将改变数百万人的生活的一项综合性全球计划奠定了基础。我们为有机会继续推动这项努力而感到自豪。

Today is a remarkable day.Today, we come together as a global community, across continents, across faiths and cultures, to renew our commitment to ending the AIDS pandemic once and for all.今天是一个不同寻常的日子。今天，我们聚集在一起，作为一个全球性社区，来自各个大洲，不分信仰和文化，重申我们一劳永逸地终结艾滋病的承诺。

Now, if you go back and you look at the themes of past World AIDS Days, if you read them one after another, you’ll see the story of how the human race has confronted one of the most devastating pandemics in our history.You’ll see that in those early years — when we started losing good men and women to a disease that no one truly understood — it was about ringing the alarm, calling for global action, proving that this deadly disease was not isolated to one area or one group of people.如果你们回顾一下以往世界艾滋病日的主题，如果你们一个接一个地看下来，就会看到人类抗击有史以来最致命的一种传染病的历程。你们会看到最初几年——当这种尚无人完全了解的疾病开始夺去我们善良的男女同胞的生命时——的努力主要是要敲响警钟；呼吁国际社会采取行动；证明这种致命的疾病并不局限于某个地区或某个群体。

And that’s part of what makes today so remarkable, because back in those early years, few could have imagined this day — that we would be looking ahead to “The Beginning of the End,” marking a World AIDS Day that has gone from that early beginning when people were still uncertain to now a theme, “Getting to Zero.” Few could have imagined that we’d be talking about the real possibility of an AIDS-free generation.But that’s what we’re talking about.That’s why we’re here.And we arrived here because of all of you and your unwavering belief that we can — and we will — beat this disease.这就是今天这个日子不同寻常的原因之一；因为在最初的那几年，几乎没有人能想见这一天；想见我们能够展望‘根除艾滋的开始’，以‘向零艾滋迈进’为主题纪念世界艾滋病日。几乎没有人能想见我们会谈论无艾滋一代的切实可能性。但我们做到了。我们能走到今天正是因为你们所有的人以及你们毫不动摇的信念：我们能够——而且将会——战胜这种疾病。

Because we invested in anti-retroviral treatment, people who would have died, some of whom are here today, are living full and vibrant lives.Because we developed new tools, more and more mothers are giving birth to children free from this disease.And because of a persistent focus on awareness, the global rate of new infections and deaths is declining.由于我们投资开发抗逆转录疗法，原来可能死于艾滋病的人——其中一些人今天在座——正过着正常的、充满活力的生活。由于我们研发出新的治疗方法，越来越多的产妇生下了没有艾滋病的婴儿。而且，由于我们始终重视提高公众意识的工作，全球的新发感染率和死亡率都在下降。

So make no mistake, we are going to win this fight.But the fight is not over — not by a long shot.The rate of new infections may be going down elsewhere, but it’s not going down here in America.The infection rate here has been holding steady for over a decade.There are communities in this country being devastated, still, by this disease.因此，毫无疑问，我们正在这场斗争中赢得胜利，但这场斗争并没有结束，远远没有结束。新发感染率可能正在其他地方下降，但在美国没有下降。这里的感染率十多年来一直未变。我国有些社区仍在饱受艾滋病的蹂躏。

When new infections among young black gay men increase by nearly 50 percent in 3 years, we need to do more to show them that their lives matter.When Latinos are dying sooner than other groups, and when black women feel forgotten, even though they account for most of the new cases among women, then we’ve got to do more.面对年轻的黑人同性恋者的新感染人数在三年内上升将近50%，我们必须加大努力向他们显示，他们的生命有价值。面对拉美裔比其他群体更早地死亡，面对黑人妇女感到她们已被遗忘——而她们在女性新患者中占多数，我们必须付出更大的努力。

So this fight is not over.Not for the 1.2 million Americans who are living with HIV right now.Not for the Americans who are infected every day.This fight is not over for them, it’s not over for their families, and as a consequence, it can’t be over for anybody in this room — and it certainly isn’t over for your President.这场斗争尚未结束。对120万携带艾滋病毒的美国人来说还没有。对那些每天正在受到感染的美国人来说还没有。这场斗争对他们来说尚未结束。对他们的家人来说尚未结束。因此，对这里在座的每个人来说不能结束——对你们的总统来说绝对没有结束。

Since I took office, we’ve had a robust national dialogue on HIV/AIDS.Members of my administration have fanned out across the country to meet people living with HIV;to meet researchers, faith leaders, medical providers and private sector partners.We’ve spoken to over 4,000 people.And out of all those conversations, we drafted a new plan to combat this disease.Last year, we released that plan — a first-ever national HIV/AIDS strategy.自我就任以来，我们对艾滋病毒/艾滋病问题大力开展全国对话。本届政府成员走向全国各地，与罹染艾滋病毒的人会面，与研究人员、宗教领袖，医务工作者和私营企业的合作伙伴会面。我们向4000多名同胞征求了意见。基于所有这些谈话，我们起草了一份新的战胜艾滋病计划。去年，我们公布了这一计划——这是有史以来第一个全国性的艾滋病毒/艾滋病战略。

We went back to basics: prevention, treatment and focusing our efforts where the need is greatest.And we laid out a vision where every American, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socioeconomic status, can get access to life-extending care.我们回归于基本要素——预防、治疗，并把我们的努力集中在最需要的地方。我们提出了一个愿景，即每一个美国人，不分年龄、性别、种族、民族、性取向、性别身份或社会经济地位，都能获得延长生命的护理。

And I want to be clear about something else: Since taking office, we’ve increased overall funding to combat HIV/AIDS to record levels.With bipartisan support, we reauthorized the Ryan White Care Act.And as I signed that bill, I was so proud to also announce that my administration was ending the ban that prohibited people with HIV from entering America.(Applause.)Because of that step, next year, for the first time in two decades, we will host the international AIDS conference.(Applause.)

我还要明确另外一点——自就任以来，我们已经把防治艾滋病毒/艾滋病的总体资金增加到创纪录水平。在两党的支持下，我们重新批准了《瑞安·怀特保健法》。而且，当签署该法案时，我非常自豪地同时宣布，本届政府将结束不许艾滋病毒携带者进入美国的禁令。（掌声）由于迈出了这一步，我们将在明年，即20年来第一次，举办国际艾滋病大会。（掌声）

So we’ve done a lot over the past three years, but we can do so much more.Today, I’m announcing some new commitments.We’re committing an additional $15 million for the Ryan White Program that supports care provided by HIV medical clinics across the country.We want to keep those doors open so they can keep saving lives.We’re committing an additional $35 million for state AIDS-drug assistance programs.因此，过去三年我们的成就很大。但是，我们可以做得事情更多。今天，我要宣布一些新承诺。我们承诺为瑞安·怀特项目增加拨款1500万美元，支持全国各地艾滋病毒诊所提供的服务。我们要确保它们继续运营，挽救生命。我们承诺为各州艾滋病药物扶助计划再拨款3500万美元。

The federal government can’t do this alone, so I’m also calling on state governments, and pharmaceutical companies, and private foundations to do their part to help Americans get access to all the life-saving treatments.但是，联邦政府无法独自做到这一切。因此我也呼吁州政府、制药公司和私人基金会尽各自的责任，帮助提供拯救美国人生命的一切治疗手段。

This is a global fight, and it’s one that America must continue to lead.Looking back at the history of HIV/AIDS, you’ll see that no other country has done more than this country, and that’s testament to our leadership as a country.But we can’t be complacent.这是一场全球性斗争，也是美国必须继续发挥领导作用的一场斗争。回顾艾滋病毒/艾滋病的历史，你们会看到没有一个国家的贡献超过这个国家，这证实了作为一个国家我们所具有的领导力。但是，我们不能沾沾自喜。

I think this is an area where we can also look back and take pride that both Republicans and Democrats in Congress have consistently come together to fund this fight — not just here, but around the world.And that’s a testament to the values that we share as Americans;a commitment that extends across party lines, that’s demonstrated by the fact that President Bush, President Clinton and I are joining you all today.我认为，这是一个我们在回首往事时能够感到自豪的领域，在为这场斗争提供资金方面——不仅在国内，而且在全球——国会中的共和党人和民主党人一向齐心协力。这见证了我们美国人的共同价值观；一种超越党派界限的承诺，今天布什总统、克林顿总统和我一起来到这里参加活动便体现了这一点。

Since I took office, we’ve increased support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.We’ve launched a Global Health Initiative that has improved access to health care, helping bring down the cost of vaccines, and over the next five years, will help save the lives of 4 million more children.And all along, we kept focusing on expanding our impact.自从我上任以来，我们加强了对防治艾滋病、结核病和疟疾全球基金的支持。我们启动了全球健康行动计划，使更多人获得就医条件，帮助降低了疫苗价格，并将在今后五年内协助挽救400万儿童的生命。与此同时，我们始终注重扩大成果。

Today, I’m proud to announce that as of September, the United States now supports anti-retroviral treatment for nearly 4 million people worldwide.(Applause.)Four million people.And in just the past year, we’ve provided 600,000 HIV-positive mothers with access to drugs so that 200,000 babies could be born HIV-free.(Applause.)And nearly 13 million people have received care and treatment, including more than 4 million children.So we’ve got some stuff to be proud of.今天，我自豪地宣布，截至9月份，美国正在帮助为世界上将近400万人提供抗逆转录病毒治疗。（掌声）仅去年一年，我们就为60万携带艾滋病毒的母亲提供了获得医药的机会，从而使20万新生儿可以免受病毒感染。（掌声）另外，还有将近1300万人得到了护理和治疗，其中包括400多万儿童。所以，我们取得的成绩是值得骄傲的。

But we’ve got to do more.We’re achieving these results not by acting alone, but by partnering with developing countries like Tanzania, and with leaders like President Kikwete.但是，我们还有更多工作要做。我们并非独自取得了这些成就，而是借助于同坦桑尼亚等发展中国家和像基奎特总统这样的领导人的合作。

Now, as we go forward, we’ve got to keep refining our strategy so that we’re saving as many lives as possible.We need to listen when the scientific community focuses on prevention.That’s why, as a matter of policy, we’re now investing in what works — from medical procedures to promoting healthy behavior.在今后的前进道路上，我们需要不断调整战略，以便挽救尽可能多的人的生命。我们需要听取科学界的意见，重视预防。正因为如此，我们的方针是，投资于从医疗干预到提倡健康行为的各种有效措施。

And that’s why we’re setting a goal of providing anti-retroviral drugs to more than 1.5 million HIV-positive pregnant women over the next two years so that they have the chance to give birth to HIV-free babies.正因为如此，我们定下目标，在今后两年内为超过150万名携带艾滋病毒的孕妇提供抗逆转录病毒药物，使她们的婴儿免受病毒感染。

We’re not going to stop there.We know that treatment is also prevention.And today, we’re setting a new target of helping 6 million people get treatment by the end of 2013.(Applause.)That’s 2 million more people than our original goal.但是，我们并不就此止步。我们懂得，治疗就是预防。今天，我们定下一个新目标，到2013年年底，帮助600万人得到治疗。（掌声）这比我们的原定目标多200万人。

And on this World AIDS Day, here’s my message to everybody who is out there:

因此，在这个世界艾滋病日，我向所有人的发出以下呼吁：

To the global community — we ask you to join us.Countries that have committed to the Global Fund need to give the money that they promised.(Applause.)Countries that haven’t made a pledge, they need to do so.(Applause.)That includes countries that in the past might have been recipients, but now are in a position to step up as major donors.China and other major economies are in a position now to transition in a way that can help more people.对国际社会，我们要说：请加入我们的行列。承诺支持“全球基金”的国家需要提供它们许诺的资金，（掌声）尚未作出承诺的国家需要作出承诺，（掌声）这包括过去可能是受援国而现在有能力成为重要捐助国的国家。中国和其他一些主要经济体现在有能力完成过渡，使更多人获得帮助。

To Congress — keep working together and keep the commitments you’ve made intact.At a time when so much in Washington divides us, the fight against this disease has united us across parties and across presidents.And it shows that we can do big things when Republicans and Democrats put their common humanity before politics.So we need to carry that spirit forward.对美国国会，我们要说：请继续相互协作，信守你们作出的所有承诺。当前，华盛顿面临许多使我们产生分歧的问题，但与这一疾病的斗争把不同党派、不同总统领导的政府团结起来。事实证明，只要共和党和民主党把人类的共同利益置于政治争议之上，我们就能成就伟大的事业。让我们继续发扬这种精神。

And to all Americans — we’ve got to keep fighting.Fight for every person who needs our help today, but also fight for every person who didn’t live to see this moment;for the Rock Hudsons and the Arthur Ashes, and every person who woke us up to the reality of HIV/AIDS.We’ve got to fight for Ryan White and his mother Jeanne, and the Ray brothers, and every person who forced us to confront our destructive prejudices and our misguided fears.Fight for Magic Johnson and Mary Fisher, and every man, woman and child, who, when told they were going to die from this disease, they said, “No, we’re not.We’re going to live.”

对全体美国人民，我们要说：坚持努力，不仅为今天需要我们帮助的每一个人努力，而且为了没有能够活下来看到今天的每一个人努力——为了洛克·赫德森、阿瑟·阿什以及唤醒我们面对艾滋病这一现实的每一个人。也为了瑞恩·怀特、他的妈妈珍妮、雷氏兄弟以及迫使我们正视我们具有毁灭性的偏见和毫无道理的恐惧的每一个人。还为了魔术师约翰逊、玛丽·费歇尔以及在被告知感染了不治之症时拒绝向死神低头的每一个男人、女人和儿童。

Keep fighting for all of them because we can end this pandemic.We can beat this disease.We can win this fight.We just have to keep at it, steady, persistent — today, tomorrow, every day until we get to zero.And as long as I have the honor of being your President, that’s what this administration is going to keep doing.That’s my pledge.That’s my commitment to all of you.And that’s got to be our promise to each other — because we’ve come so far and we’ve saved so many lives, we might as well finish the fight.让我们为所有这些人继续努力，因为我们能够终结这种流行病。我们能够战胜这种疾病。我们能够赢得这场斗争。我们必须继续努力，坚持不懈——今天、明天、每一天，直至把这种疾病铲除。只要我有幸担任你们的总统，本届政府就会一直努力。这是我的保证，也是我对你们大家的承诺。这也应当是我们彼此之间的许诺。我们已经取得了长足的进展，我们已经拯救了许多生命，那么就让我们把这场斗争进行到底。

Thank you for all you’ve done.God bless you.God bless America.Thank you.(Applause.)

感谢你们所做的一切。愿主保佑你们。愿主保佑美国。谢谢大家。（掌声）