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And here comes my question. My name is (inaudible) from Fudan University School of Management. And I would like to ask you the question -- is that now that someone has asked you something about the Nobel Peace Prize, but I will not ask you in the same aspect. I want to ask you in the other aspect that since it is very hard for you to get such kind of an honorable prize, and I wonder and we all wonder that -- how you struggled to get it. And what's your university/college education that brings you to get such kind of prizes? We are very curious about it and we would like to invite you to share with us your campus education experiences so as to go on the road of success.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, let me tell you that I don't know if there's a curriculum or course of study that leads you to win the Nobel Peace Prize. (Laughter.) So I can't guarantee that. But I think the recipe for success is the one that you are already following. Obviously all of you are working very hard, you're studying very hard. You're curious. You're willing to think about new ideas and think for yourself. You know, the people who I meet now that I find most inspiring who are successful I think are people who are not only willing to work very hard but are constantly trying to improve themselves and to think in new ways, and not just accept the conventional wisdom.
奧巴馬總統：首先，我要告訴你，我并不知道有一個能指引你贏得諾貝爾和平獎的教學大綱或者課程。（笑聲）所以我不能給你保證。但是我想，獲得成功的訣竅其實就是你現在已經在實踐的。毫無疑問，你們都十分努力，你們在努力學習，你們有好奇心，你們愿意思考新的思想，并且自己作思考。你們知道，我現在所碰到的最激勵我的成功者，是那些不僅愿意十分努力地工作，而且總是在提高自己的人，他們不斷探索新思路，而不是僅僅墨守成規。
Obviously there are many different paths to success, and some of you are going to be going into government service; some of you might want to be teachers or professors; some of you might want to be businesspeople. But I think that whatever field you go into, if you're constantly trying to improve and never satisfied with not having done your best, and constantly asking new questions -- "Are there things that I could be doing differently? Are there new approaches to problems that nobody has thought of before, whether it's in science or technology or in the arts? -- those are usually the people who I think are able to rise about the rest.
當然，通向成功的道路各不相同，你們中的一些人將進入政府機構；有些可能想成為教師或教授；也有些人可能想進入商貿界。但是我想，無論你進入哪個領域，如果你能持續不斷地提高自己，不盡全力決不滿足，而且不斷提出新問題——“我是否還能用不同的方式來做？” 無論是在科學技術還是藝術領域，“是否還有沒人想到過的新的解決問題的途徑？”——我想這樣一些人通常能夠超群出眾。
The one last piece of advice, though, that I would have that has been useful for me is the people who I admire the most and are most successful, they're not just thinking only about themselves but they're also thinking about something larger than themselves. So they want to make a contribution to society. They want to make a contribution to their country, their nation, their city. They are interested in having an impact beyond their own immediate lives.
我還有最后一點建議，這個建議曾經使我受益匪淺，那就是我最敬仰的那些成功人士們，他們不是僅為自己著想，而是還考慮超越個人范圍的事情。他們希望為社會作出貢獻。他們希望為自己的國家、自己的民族、自己的城市作出貢獻。他們希望能夠產生超出自己個人生活以外的影響力。
