奥巴马最后一次演讲
1.Cups playing as Obama walks up. Audience can hear “You’re going to miss me when I’m gone…"
是的，巴马还没上台前就开始讲笑话了。背景音乐播放的是Anna Kendrick的Cups. 观众可以听见伤离别的歌词，“当我悄然离去，你必对我思念如漆”。不要多想, 巴马，你进相声界也是众望所归。
2. "I know I was a little late tonight. I was running on CPT, which stands for jokes that white people should not make."
我知道我来的有点晚了。没办法，我们用的是CPT时间。这可是白人不能讲的笑话哦。
His monologue then officially started. 好，开演了! CPT指的是Colored people time, 即有色人种时间。这里有对非裔美国人的stereotype，他们总是爱迟到。通过笑话直面种族歧视的现实，这也是巴马的可爱之处了。(脑补一下：这笑话只有我能讲，哼，因为我是小公举!)
3. You might have heard that someone jumped the White House fence last week, but I have to give the Secret Service credit. They found Michelle and brought her back. She's safe back at home now. It's only nine more months, baby. Settle down.
你们或许听说过，上周有人私闯白宫护栏。在这里我要严重感谢特勤局，他们把我老婆Michelle找回来了。她现在在家很安全。(对他老婆说)静下心来，宝贝!只不过还有九个月(我们就能离开这个鬼地方了)。
这里本来指前段时间有外人翻越护栏私闯进白宫(看来白宫安保也就NE样)，但巴马反说成因为家人不想继续呆在这个鬼地方所以想法设法要逃出去(哼，本公举还不想呆在这破白宫呢)。巴马你这么傲娇，是不是要使用巴啦啦能量逃出去啊。
4. Next year at this time, someone else will be standing here in this very spot and it’s anyone guess who she will be.
明年这个时候，就会有另一个人以总统的身份站在这里演讲。猜猜她是谁?
好了，你们猜猜她是谁吧。大家可以打个赌，明年十有八九就是她了。
5. "And there is one area where Donald's experience could be invaluable and that's closing Guantanamo because Trump knows a thing or two about running waterfront properties into the ground.”
倒是有一个领域床破的
这里指风头正high的共和党总统候选人之一Donald Trump。床破是美国为数不多的靠房地产起家的富豪。此人嘴巴极大，骂中国，骂墨西哥……说要在美墨边境造个墙，对，原话就是这么说的造个Great Wall，然后还得让墨西哥人买单。他的房地产遍布全球。这里说的是床破当上总统可能会把发生过虐囚事件的臭名昭著的关塔那摩监狱关掉，然后改造成海滨度假区打捞一笔。Trump还有王牌的意思哦，根据人名记单词是很有效果的，如床破的王牌就是房地产，再如Tom Cruise，cruise有巡航，坐船巡游的意思，William Butler Yeats大诗人叶芝，中间的名字butler也有管家的意思，大诗人应该有个管家吧。
6.Helen Mirren is here tonight. I don't even have a joke here, I just think Helen Mirren is awesome. She's awesome.
海伦米伦今天也在，我都不想对她开玩笑。她很牛逼，很了不起。
可能是因为Helen Mirren演过英国女王吧。还得奥斯卡了。说到英国女王，巴马访英的时候还得到女王的重孙子乔治小王子的接见，嗯，小王子当时是穿night-robe睡袍接见他的。看来巴马快卸任了，所有人都拿他不当回事了。巴马在演讲中也提到I will be officially a lame duck。Lame duck跛脚鸭，无用的人。在美国三俗动画片SOUTH PARK《南方公园》中有几集巴马就是以鸭子的形象出现的。大家有空可以搜搜看。
7. It has been an honor and a privilege to work side by side with you to strengthen our democracy. With that I just have two more words to say: Obama out. [Puts two fingers to his lips. Drops mic].
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没有一个人天生擅长做各种事情。你通过勤奋而变得擅长于各种事情。第一次从事新的体育项目时，你不可能是一位主力队员。第一次唱一首歌曲时，你不可能唱准每个音。你必须练习。同样的道理适用于你的学业。你可能要把一道数学题做几次才把它做对。你可能要把一些材料阅读几遍才能理解。在交出一篇优美的作文之前，你肯定需要打几遍草稿。
Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to 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 strength because it shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and that then allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust -- a parent, a grandparent or teacher, a coach or a counselor -- and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.
不要害怕提问。不要在需要帮助时害怕请求别人帮助。我天天请求别人的帮助。请求帮助不是软弱的表现，它是力量的标志，因为它表明你有勇气承认自己对某些事情不懂，这样做会使你学到新的东西。因此，请确定一位你信任的成年人，例如家长、祖父母或老师、教练或辅导员，请他们帮助你遵循既定计划实现你的目标。
And even when you’re struggling, even when you’re discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you, don’t ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
即使当你苦苦挣扎、灰心丧气、感到其他人对你不抱希望时，也不要对你自己丧失信心，因为当你自暴自弃时，你也抛弃了自己的国家。
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.
书写美国历史的不是在困难时刻退缩的人，而是坚持不懈、加倍努力的人，他们对国家的爱促使他们全力以赴。
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and they founded this nation. Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google and Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.
书写美国历史的是250年前坐在你们的位置上的学生，他们后来进行了独立战争并创建了这个国家。还有75年前坐在你们的位置上的年轻人和学生，他们走出了大萧条并打赢了一场世界大战;他们为民权而奋斗并把宇航员送上了月球。至于20年前坐在你们的位置上的学生，他们创办了谷歌(Google)、叽喳网 (Twitter)和脸谱网(Facebook)，改变了我们交流沟通的方式。
So today, I want to ask all of you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a President who comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?
而今天，我要问问你们大家，你们将做出什么贡献?你们将解决什么问题?你们将有什么发现?20年、50年或100年后来到这里讲话的总统将会怎样评价你们大家为这个国家所做的一切?
Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. Don’t let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud.
你们的家人、你们的老师和我正在竭尽全力保证你们接受必要的教育，以便回答上述问题。我正在努力工作，以便你们的教室得到修缮，你们能够得到学习所需的课本、设备和电脑。但你们也必须尽自己的努力。因此，我希望你们大家从今年起认真对待这个问题。我希望你们尽最大努力做好每一件事。我希望你们每个人都有出色的表现。不要让我们失望。不要让你们的家人或你们的国家失望。而最重要的是，不要辜负你们自己，而要让我们都能[为你们]感到骄傲。
Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you. (Applause.)
非常感谢你们大家。愿主保佑你们。愿主保佑美国。谢谢你们。(掌声)
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.
So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land -- a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted -- for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom.
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.
For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.
Time and again, these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions -- that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act -- not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.
