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not going to be any of those things. The truth is, being successful is hard. You won't 真实情况是，成功并非易事，需要付出love every subject that you study. You won't click with 艰苦的努力。你不会爱好每一门课程，喜欢every teacher that you have. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life 每一位老师。并不是每一份家庭作业当下看right at this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed 起来都很重要。而且你第一次尝试做某事时，并不一定都会成功。 at everything the first time you try. 这些都没有关系。世界上一些最成功的That's okay. Some of the most successful people in 人士恰恰就是那些失败次数最多的人。JK the world are the ones who've had the most failures. Rowling写的第一部哈里波特小说在最后J.K. Rowling's -- who wrote Harry Potter -- her first Harry Potter book was rejected 12 times before it was 终于出版之前，被拒绝了12次。迈克尔?finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high 乔丹被高中篮球队裁掉，在职业生涯中输了school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and 数百场比赛，数千次投球未中。但是他有一missed thousands of shots during his career. But he 次说，“我在一生中经历了一次又一次的失once said, \败。这就是我成功的原因。” my life. And that's why I succeed.\ These people succeeded because they understood 这些人之所以能够成功是因为他们知that you can't let your failures define you -- you have to 道不能让失败所左右，而要从失败中学习到let your failures teach you. You have to let them show 成功之道。你必须从中懂得下一次该怎样you what to do differently the next time. So if you get 做。如果你身陷麻烦之中，这并不意味着你into trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it 是个制造麻烦的人，只是意味着你需要更加means you need to try harder to act right. If you get a 努力。如果你的成绩不佳，这并不意味着你bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just 不够聪明，只是意味着你需要在学习上花更means you need to spend more time studying. 多的时间。 No one's born being good at all things. You become 没有人生而知之，必须通过努力获得。good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity 你不会第一次从事一个项目就能成为大学athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit 校队成员。你不会第一次唱歌就唱准所有的every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to 音符。你必须不断地练习。学业也是同样的practice. The same principle applies to your 道理。你可能会数遍尝试解一道数学题，才schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few 能最后得到正确答案，或者数遍读一段文字times before you get it right. You might have to read 才能最后理解其中的含义，或者打很多遍草something a few times before you understand it. You 稿才能最后把作文上交。 definitely have to do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in. 不要怕问问题。在需要时，不要怕寻求Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to 帮助。我每天都会问问题，寻求帮助。寻求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 帮助并不是弱小的表现，而是力量的表现。这显示了你有勇气承认自己不会的地方，就strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and that then 能学到新的知识。所以找到一位信任的长allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that 辈，父母，祖父母，老师，教练或者咨询者，you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach 让他们帮助你来实现自己的目标。 or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track 就算在苦苦奋斗，心灰意冷，好像别人to meet your goals. 都放弃了你的时候，自己也不要轻言放弃。And even when you're struggling, even when you're 因为你放弃了自己，就是放弃了你们的国discouraged, and you feel like other people have given 家。 up on you, don't ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your 美国人可不是轻易在困难时候就放弃country. 了的民族。美国人是永远坚持，不断尝试，The story of America isn't about people who quit 深深热爱自己的祖国并为之尽自己全力的when things got tough. It's about people who kept 民族。 going, who tried harder, who loved their country too 美国的历史讲述了250年前的学生坐much to do anything less than their best. 在今天你们坐着的地方，发起了革命，建立It's the story of students who sat where you sit 250 了今天的国家。75年前的学生就坐在今天你years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they 们坐着的地方，战胜了经济大萧条，赢得了星就可以取得成功。而很可能是你们不可能成为这其中的任何一种人。 founded this nation. Young people. Students who sat 世界大战的胜利，为公民权力而战，把一位20年前的学生就坐在今where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression 宇航员送上了月球。创建了Google, Twitterand won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put 天你们坐着的地方，改变了今天我们的交流方式。 a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 和Facebook，years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other. 所以今天，我想问问你们，你们的贡献So today, I want to ask all of you, what's your contribution going to be? What problems are you going 将会是什么？你们将会解决什么问题？你to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a 们将会有什么探索发现？20年，50年，或讲述你们President who comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say 者是100年后的总统会站在这里，为国家做出的什么贡献？ about what all of you did for this country? 你们的家庭，你们的老师还有我尽我们Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education 最大的努力来确保你们得到回答这些问题you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard 所需要的教育。我正在努力修整你们的教to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and 室，使你们得到学习需要的课本，设备和计算机。但是你们也要做好自己应尽的职责。the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you've got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you 所以我希望你们今年能认真思索，尽全力做to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best 好每一件事情。我希望你们每一个人都能有effort into everything you do. I expect great things from 骄人的成绩。所以不要辜负我们的期望，不each of you. So don't let us down. Don't let your family 要辜负你的家庭，你的国家，以及你自己的期望。让我们都为你而自豪吧。我知道你们down or your country down. Most of all, don't let 一定能做到。 yourself down. Make us all proud. 谢谢你们，上帝保佑你们。上帝保佑美Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. 国。谢谢你们。 God bless America. Thank you. (Applause.)