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1、美国第一夫人米歇尔奥巴马在9月4日民主党全国代表大会上发表演讲，以下是演讲稿的英文全文。First Lady Michelle Obama:Thank you so much, Elainewe are so grateful for your familys service and sacrificeand we will always have your back.Over the past few years as First Lady, I have had the extraordinary privilege of traveling all across this country
2、.And everywhere Ive gone, in the people Ive met, and the stories Ive heard, I have seen the very best of the American spirit.I have seen it in the incredible kindness and warmth that people have shown me and my family, especially our girls.Ive seen it in teachers in a near-bankrupt school district w
3、ho vowed to keep teaching without pay. Ive seen it in people who become heroes at a moments notice, diving into harms way to save othersflying across the country to put out a firedriving for hours to bail out a flooded town.And Ive seen it in our men and women in uniform and our proud military famil
4、iesin wounded warriors who tell me theyre not just going to walk again, theyre going to run, and theyre going to run marathonsin the young man blinded by a bomb in Afghanistan who said, simply, “Id give my eyes 100 times again to have the chance to do what I have done and what I can still do.”Every
5、day, the people I meet inspire meevery day, they make me proudevery day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.Serving as your First Lady is an honor and a privilegebut back when we first came together four years ago, I still had some concerns about this journey we
6、d begun.While I believed deeply in my husbands vision for this countryand I was certain he would make an extraordinary Presidentlike any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance.How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?How wo
7、uld they feel being uprooted from their school, their friends, and the only home theyd ever known?Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joysSaturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandmas houseand a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhaust
8、ed mom, I couldnt stay awake for both.And the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girlsI deeply loved the man I had built that life withand I didnt want that to change if he became President.I loved Barack just the way he was.You see, even though back then Barack was Senator and a presid
9、ential candidateto me, he was still the guy whod picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side doorhe was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table hed found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of
10、 decent shoes was half a size too small.But when Barack started telling me about his family thats when I knew I had found a kindred spirit, someone whose values and upbringing were so much like mine.You see, Barack and I were both raised by families who didnt have much in the way of money or materia
11、l possessions but who had given us something far more valuable their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother
12、 and I were young.And even as a kid, I knew there were plenty of days when he was in painI knew there were plenty of mornings when it was a struggle for him to simply get out of bed.But every morning, I watched my father wake up with a smile, grab his walker, prop himself up against the bathroom sin
13、k, and slowly shave and button his uniform.And when he returned home after a long days work, my brother and I would stand at the top of the stairs to our little apartment, patiently waiting to greet himwatching as he reached down to lift one leg, and then the other, to slowly climb his way into our
14、arms.But despite these challenges, my dad hardly ever missed a day of workhe and my mom were determined to give me and my brother the kind of education they could only dream of.And when my brother and I finally made it to college, nearly all of our tuition came from student loans and grants.But my d
15、ad still had to pay a tiny portion of that tuition himself.And every semester, he was determined to pay that bill right on time, even taking out loans when he fell short.He was so proud to be sending his kids to collegeand he made sure we never missed a registration deadline because his check was la
16、te.You see, for my dad, thats what it meant to be a man.Like so many of us, that was the measure of his success in life being able to earn a decent living that allowed him to support his family.And as I got to know Barack, I realized that even though hed grown up all the way across the country, hed been brought up just like me.
