– 英语/中文 双语歌词

歌词与翻译

[中文]

小时候，我们一家住在

海外。我在印度尼西亚住了

几年。那时我母亲没有

足够的钱送我去美国孩子

上的学校，但她认为

保持美国式教育对我来说

非常重要，所以她

决定每周一到周五

亲自为我额外补课。

但因为她必须去工作，唯一

能补课的时间就是凌晨

四点半。但每当我抱怨时，我

母亲只会瞪我一眼，

然后说：“这对我也不是什么

轻松的事，

巴斯特。”所以我知道你们有些人

还在适应返校的生活，

但我今天来这里是因为我有

一些重要的事情要和你们讨论。

我父亲在我两岁时

离开了我们家，我是由一位单亲

母亲抚养长大的。她必须工作，有时

为了支付账单而挣扎，也并不总是

能给我们提供其他孩子

拥有的东西。曾几何时，我怀念

生活中父亲的存在；曾几何时，我感到

孤独，觉得自己

格格不入。所以，我并不总是

像我应该做的那样专注于学业，

我做了一些令我不引以为傲的事，

也惹了不少本不该惹的麻烦。我的人生

should have and my life could have

本可能轻而易举地

转向最坏的方向，但我很幸运，我得到了很多

第二次机会，我有机会进入大学、

opportunity to go to college and law

法学院，并追求我的

梦想。我的妻子，我们的第一夫人米歇尔·

奥巴马，她的故事也类似，

她的父母都没有上过

大学，他们也没有很多

钱，但他们努力工作，她也

努力学习，这样她就能进入这个

best schools in this

国家最好的学校。有些人可能没有

那些优势，也许你的生活中没有

能给你提供所需支持的成年人，

也许你家里有人失业了，

family has lost their job and there's

钱不够花，也许你住的

街区让你感到不安全，或者身边的朋友

在强迫你做你知道是不对的事情。

in you to do things you know aren't

也许你可能成为一位伟大的作家，

甚至好到能写一本书

或报纸文章，但如果你不写那篇英语

not know it until you write that English

作文，那篇布置给你的英语课作文，你可能永远不会知道。

assigned to you maybe you could be an

也许你可能成为一名创新者或发明家，

甚至好到能设计出下一款iPhone，

或研发出新药物或疫苗，但如果你不去做你的

might not know it until you do your

科学课项目，你可能永远不会知道。

也许你可能成为市长、参议员

或最高法院大法官，但如果你不参加学生会

not know that until you join student

或辩论队，你可能永远不会知道。

无论你想在生活中做什么，

我保证你都需要接受教育才能实现。

need an education to do it you want to

你想成为医生、老师或警察，

你想成为护士、建筑师、律师或

architect a lawyer or a member of our

军人，对于每一个职业，

education for every single one of those

你都需要良好的教育。

你不能辍学却指望

drop into a good

直接找到一份好工作。

你必须为此接受培训、为此努力、

just important for your own life and

your own

未来很重要，

你如何对待教育将决定这个国家的未来，

美国的未来

取决于你们。

你们今天在学校学习的内容，

将决定我们作为一个国家，

能否在未来迎接最大的挑战。

你需要科学和数学中学到的知识和

problem solving skills you learn in

解决问题的能力，去攻克癌症和艾滋病等疾病，

cancer and AIDS and to develop new

去开发新能源技术并保护我们的

环境。你需要历史和社会科学中获得的洞察力

critical thinking skills you gain in

和批判性思维技能，去对抗

贫困、无家可归、犯罪和

歧视，让我们的国家变得更加

fair and more

公平和自由。你需要通过所有课程培养的

创造力和聪明才智，去建立新公司，

classes to build new companies that will

创造新就业机会并提振我们的经济。我们需要你们每一个人

need every single one of you to develop

发挥你们的才能、技能和

智慧，这样你们才能帮助我们这些老一辈人

解决最困难的

问题。如果你们做不到，如果你们

放弃学业，你们不仅是放弃了

自己，也是放弃了

国家。我知道学业有成并不总是

do well in

那么容易，我知道你们很多人现在生活中

challenges in your your lives right now

都有挑战，

让你很难专注于

学业。我明白，我知道那种感觉。但

归根结底，你生活的环境，

of your life what you look like where

你的外表、你的出身、你的经济状况，

what you've got going on at home none of

你家里发生的事情，这些都不能

成为忽视家庭作业或在学校表现消极的

借口。那不是顶撞老师、

to your teacher or cutting class or

逃课或辍学的借口。没有任何借口

excuse for not

可以不去尝试。

你现在的处境不必决定你的终点。

没有人为你写好命运，

because here in America you write your

因为在美国，命运由你自己书写，

未来由你自己创造。这就是像你们这样的年轻人

are doing every day all across

每天在全美各地所做的事。所以今天我呼吁

你们每一个人为自己的教育设定目标，

your education and do everything you can

并竭尽全力去实现它们。

them your goal can be something as

你的目标可以很简单，比如完成所有作业、

上课专心听讲，或者每天花点时间

each day reading a

读书。

也许你会决定参加课外活动或

volunteer in your

在社区做志愿者。

也许你会决定挺身而出，保护那些因为自身特点或外表

bullied because of who they are or how

而受到戏弄或霸凌的孩子，因为你和我一样坚信，

that all young people deserve a safe

所有年轻人都应该拥有一个安全的环境去学习。

maybe you'll decide to take better care

也许你会决定更好地照顾自己，

这样你就能更好地准备学习。但无论你下定决心做什么，

我希望你致力于此，我希望你真正

really work at

为此努力。我知道有时从电视上你会觉得，

sense from TV that you can be rich and

无需刻苦努力就能变得富有和成功，

your ticket to success is through

你的成功门票就是通过说唱、打篮球或成为真人秀

TV

明星。

而实际上，你很可能不会成为其中的任何一种。

things the truth truth is being

真相是，成功是

艰难的。你不会喜欢你学习的每一门科目，

you

study you won't click with every teacher

你不会与每一位老师都合得来，

have not every homework assignment will

并不是每一份家庭作业都会在你此时此刻看来

right at this

都完全相关。

而且你也不一定能在第一次尝试时

try that's

就取得成功。

那没关系。世界上一些最成功的人

most

恰恰是那些经历过最多失败的人。

Rollins who wrote Harry

《哈利·波特》的作者J.K.罗琳，

她的第一本《哈利·波特》书被拒绝了12次才最终

出版。迈克尔·乔丹曾被高中篮球队

his high school basketball

开除，他在职业生涯中输掉了数百场比赛，

missed thousands of shots during his

投丢了数千个球，但他曾说：

“我在生活中一次又一次地失败，

这就是我成功的原因。”这些

人之所以成功，是因为他们明白

that you can't let your failures Define

你不能让失败定义你，

你必须让失败教导你，你必须让它们向你展示下一次

to do differently the next

该如何做不同。所以，如果你惹了麻烦，

doesn't mean you're a troublemaker it

那并不意味着你是个捣蛋鬼，

那意味着你需要更加努力地表现好。如果你成绩不好，

doesn't mean you're stupid it just means

那并不意味着你笨，那只是意味着你需要花更多时间学习。

no one's born being good at all things

没有人天生擅长所有事情，

你通过努力变得擅长这些事。你第一次参加某项新运动时

first time you play a new sport you

不会是主力队员，你第一次唱歌时

也不会唱准每一个音符。你必须练习。

same principle applies to your

同样的原则也适用于你的功课。你可能需要把一道数学题做几次

problem a few times before you get it

才能算对；你可能需要把文章读几次

few times before you understand it you

才能读懂；在交作业前，你肯定需要草拟几个版本

paper before it's good enough to hand

才能写好。不要害怕提问，

don't be afraid to ask for help when you

不要害怕在需要时寻求帮助，我每天都在这样做。

day asking for help isn't a sign of

寻求帮助不是软弱的表现，而是强大的表现，因为它表明

it shows you have the courage to admit

你有承认自己不懂某事的勇气，而这

then allows you to learn something

反过来让你学到新东西。所以，找一个你信任的成年人，

parent a grandparent or a teacher a

父母、祖父母、老师、教练或辅导员，请他们

help you stay on track to meet your

帮助你保持进度以实现目标。即使当你挣扎时，

even when you're discouraged and you

即使当你灰心丧气、觉得别人已经放弃你时，

you don't ever give up on

千万不要放弃你自己，因为当你放弃自己时，

yourself you give up on your

你就放弃了你的国家。美国的故事并非关于

people who quit when things got tough

在困难面前放弃的人，

而是关于那些坚持不懈、努力奋斗，

much to do anything less than their

因深爱国家而做到极致的人们。这就是250年前坐在你们位置上的学生们的故事，

where you sit 250 years ago and went on

他们发动了革命并建立了这个国家。75年前，

this nation young

people students who sat where you sit 75

克服了大萧条、赢得了世界大战、为民权斗争并把人送上月球的

won a World War who fought for civil

rights and put a man on the

学生们，他们坐在你们现在的位置。20年前，

years ago who founded Google and Twitter

创立了谷歌、推特和脸书，改变了我们交流方式的

学生们，他们也坐在你们现在的位置。所以今天，我想问你们所有人：

want to ask all of you what's your

你们的贡献将会是什么？你们将解决什么问题？

are you going to

solve what discoveries will you

你们将做出什么发现？

here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about

未来20年、50年或100年后，来到这里的总统会如何评价你们为这个

国家所做的一切？

teachers and I are doing everything we

你们的家人、老师和我都在尽全力确保你们拥有所需的教育，

you need to answer these

去回答这些问题。我正努力修缮

your classrooms and get you the books

你们的教室，为你们提供书籍、设备和电脑，

need to

去支持你们学习。但你们也必须尽到自己的责任。

too so I expect all of you to get

所以我期待你们所有人今年都能认真起来。

year I expect you to put your best

我期待你们在每件事上都全力以赴。我期待你们每个人都

great things from each of

取得伟大的成就。所以，不要让我们失望，不要让你们的家人失望，也不要让你们的国家失望。

family down or your country down most of

all don't let yourself

最重要的是，不要让自己失望。让我们都为你感到骄傲。

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[英语]

when I was young my family lived

overseas uh 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 but whenever I'd complain my

mother would just give me one looks and

she'd say this is no picnic for me

either

Buster 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

my father left my family when I was 2

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 so I wasn't always as

focused as I should have been on school

and I did some things that 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

worst 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 mama 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 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 Pres

in you to do things you know aren't

right 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 uh 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 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 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 I know it's not always easy to

do well in

school I know a lot of you have

challenges in your your lives right now

that can make it hard to focus on your

school

work I get it I know what it's like but

at the end of the day the circumstances

of your life what you look like where

you come 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 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 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 could be more ready

to learn 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 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 JK

Rollins 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 sued 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 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 a 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 change 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 you know 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

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重点词汇

词汇	含义
education /ˌɛdʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/ A2	noun - 教育
opportunity /ˌɒp.əˈtʃuː.nə.ti/ B1	noun - 机会
struggled /ˈstrʌɡ.əld/ B1	verb - 挣扎
innovator /ˈɪn.ə.veɪ.tər/ C1	noun - 创新者
destiny /ˈdes.tɪ.ni/ B2	noun - 命运
discouraged /dɪˈskʌr.ɪdʒd/ B2	adjective - 气馁的
contribution /ˌkɒn.trɪˈbjuː.ʃən/ B2	noun - 贡献
circumstances /ˈsɜː.kəm.stæns.ɪz/ B2	noun - 情况
ingenuity /ˌɪn.dʒəˈnjuː.ə.ti/ C2	noun - 独创性
neglecting /nɪˈɡlekt.ɪŋ/ B2	verb - 忽视
resolve /rɪˈzɒlv/ B2	verb - 决心
relevant /ˈrel.ə.vənt/ B2	adjective - 相关的
principle /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/ B2	noun - 原则
courage /ˈkʌr.ɪdʒ/ B1	noun - 勇气
revolution /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/ B2	noun - 革命

重点语法结构

• whenever I'd complain my mother would just give me one look

  ➔ 表示过去习惯的 'would'

  ➔ 我们用 'would' 来描述过去发生的重复动作或习惯。

• my life could have easily taken a turn for the worst

  ➔ 情态动词完成式

  ➔ 结构 'could have taken' 表示过去的一种可能性，不一定发生了。

• neither of her parents had gone to college

  ➔ 过去完成时

  ➔ 我们使用过去完成时来谈论在过去某个动作之前完成的动作。

• you're not just quitting on yourself you're quitting on your country

  ➔ 相关连词

  ➔ 这个结构将两个负面动作联系起来，以显示主体选择的双重影响。

• none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework

  ➔ 介词 + 动名词

  ➔ 在介词（如 'for'）之后，动词必须使用动名词（-ing）形式。

• you're not going to be any of those things

  ➔ 将来时 'be going to'

  ➔ 这里使用 'be going to' 基于说话者的评估对未来做出预测。

• you won't click with every teacher that you have

  ➔ 关系从句

  ➔ 'that you have' 是一个修饰 'teacher' 的关系从句，提供了更具体的信息。

• you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try

  ➔ 概率副词

  ➔ 副词 'necessarily' 修饰动词 'succeed'，表明这并非必然的结果。