2015米歇尔演讲中英稿

1 【一】:米歇尔.奥巴马成都七中演讲稿(中英文双语全文)

米歇尔.奥巴马成都七中演讲全文（中英双语）

25日上午10时50分，成都七中艺术楼音乐厅，在持续20秒的热烈掌声后，美国总统奥巴马夫人米歇尔发表此次访华期间的第二场演讲。她用刚学不久的中文“你好”和“谢谢”作为开场白和结束语，并以讲故事的方式，与成都中学生分享自己的求学经历，强调教育对年轻人的重要性。

Remarks by the First Lady at Number Seven School

Chengdu, China

March 25, 2014

Ni hao. It is truly a pleasure to be here at the Number Seven

School. Thank

you so much for your warm welcome.

Now, before I get started, on behalf of myself and my husband,

I want to say that our

hearts go out to all those with loved ones on Malaysia Airlines

Flight 370. As I said

this past weekend when I spoke at Peking University, we are

very much keeping all of

them in our thoughts and our prayers at this tremendously

difficult time.

So now, let me start by thanking your Principal, Principal Liu,

and your classmate,

Ju Chao, for that wonderful introduction. Your English, Ju 2 Chao, is excellent, and

you should be very proud. Thank you so much. (Applause.)

And I want to thank

all of the students here today, both those of you here in person

and those of you

joining remotely from across the region. I’m thrilled to be

visiting your wonderful

school.

Now, in preparation for this visit, before I left the U.S. I visited

the Yu Ying School.

It’s a public school near the White House in Washington, D.C.,

and all of the students

at this school study Chinese. And I met with the sixth-grade

class, kids who are 11

and 12 years old. They had recently taken a trip here to China,

and they were

bursting with excitement. They were eager to tell me about

everything about what

they had seen.

But they admitted that before their trip, they had all kinds of

misconceptions about

China. They thought they would see palaces and temples

everywhere they went, but 3 instead they found massive cities filled with skyscrapers. They

weren’t sure that

they’d like the food here in China, but they actually loved it,

and they learned how to

use chopsticks. And in the end, one of the students told me –- and this is his quote

-- he said, “Coming home was really exciting, but was at the

same time sad.”

Now, meeting these students reminded me that when we live

so far away from

each other, it’s easy to develop all kinds of misconceptions and

stereotypes. It’s

easy to focus on our differences –- how we speak different

languages and eat

different foods and observe different traditions. But as I travel

the world, and I meet

young people from so many countries, I’m always struck by

how much more we have

in common. And that’s been particularly true during my visit

here in China.

You see, the truth is that I grew up like many of you. My mom,

my dad, my

brother and I, we lived in a tiny apartment in Chicago, which is 4 one of the largest

cities in America. My father worked at the local water plant.

And we didn’t have

much money, but our little home was bursting with love.

Every evening, my family

would laugh and share stories over dinner. We’d play card

games and have fun for

hours. And on summer nights, I remember, when our

apartment got too hot, we’d

all sleep outside on our back porch.

Family meant everything to us, including our extended family.

My grandparents

lived nearby, and my elderly great aunt and uncle lived in the

apartment downstairs

from us. And when their health started to decline my parents

stepped in, helping my

uncle shave and dress each morning, dashing downstairs in the

middle of the night to

check on my aunt.

So in my family, like in so many of your families, we took care of

each other.

And while we certainly weren’t rich, my parents had big

dreams for me and my 5 brother. They had only a high school education themselves,

but they were

determined to send us both to universities.米歇尔演讲中英稿。

So they poured all of their love and all of their hope into us,

and they worked hard.

They saved every penny. And I know that wasn’t easy for

them, especially for my

father. You see, my father had a serious illness called multiple

sclerosis. And as he

got sicker, it got harder for him to walk, and it took him longer

to get dressed in the

morning.

But no matter how tired he felt, no matter how much pain he

was in, my father

hardly ever missed a day of work, because he was determined

to give me and my

brother a better life. And every day, like so many of you, I felt

the weight of my

parents’ sacrifices on my shoulders. Every day, I wanted to

make them proud.

So while most American kids attend public schools near their

homes, when it was

time for me to attend high school, I took an exam and got into