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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.
我知道要做到學(xué)業(yè)優(yōu)秀并非易事。我知道你們?cè)S多人在生活中面臨挑戰(zhàn)，難以集中精力學(xué)習(xí)。
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(diǎn)。我有親身感受。我兩歲時(shí)，父親離家而去，我是由單身母親撫養(yǎng)成人的，母親不得不工作，并時(shí)常為支付生活費(fèi)用而苦苦掙扎，但有時(shí)仍無(wú)法為我們提供其他孩子享有的東西。有時(shí)候，我渴望生活中能有一位父親。有時(shí)候我感到孤獨(dú)，感到自己不適應(yīng)社會(huì)。
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(yīng)該做到的那樣專(zhuān)心學(xué)習(xí)，我也曾做過(guò)一些我如今不能引以為豪的事情，我曾惹過(guò)不少不應(yīng)該惹的麻煩。我的人生原本會(huì)輕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 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，我很...我很幸運(yùn)。我有過(guò)許多第二次機(jī)會(huì)，我有機(jī)會(huì)上大學(xué)，上法學(xué)院，追求自己的理想。我的妻子，我們的第一夫人米歇爾·奧巴馬，她也有類(lèi)似的經(jīng)歷。她的父母都未曾上過(guò)大學(xué)，他們沒(méi)有多少錢(qián)。但他們非常勤奮，她也是如此，因此她得以進(jìn)入美國(guó)一些最好的學(xué)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.
你們中有一些人可能沒(méi)有那些有利條件。或許你們生活中沒(méi)有成年人為你們提供所需要的支持。或許你們家中有人失業(yè)，經(jīng)濟(jì)非常拮據(jù)。或許你們生活在使你們感覺(jué)不安全的社區(qū)，或有朋友逼迫你們?nèi)プ瞿銈冎啦粚?duì)的事情。
