米歇尔·奥巴马,2016年最精彩的演讲!

米歇尔·奥巴马，2016年最精彩的演讲！

昨天，美国民主党全国代表大会（Democratic National Convention, DNC）在美国独立宣言宣读与联邦宪法诞生之地，费城，开幕。

这一次的美国选举可以说充满了戏剧性。就在民主党全国代表大会召开前夕，民主党爆发邮件危机，维基解密泄露的邮件显示民主党高层在初选阶段有偏袒希拉里，打压桑德斯的情况。

当人们认为民主党的这次大会将成为一次分裂的灾难时，现任美国第一夫人米歇尔·奥巴马站了出来。

米歇尔·奥巴马通过演讲，将现场的人们团结了起来。

她的演讲充满了激情和感染力，说到动情之处，台下不少现场的听众潸然泪下。本来还充满了些许抗议杂音的会议现场，在她的演讲之后，气氛变得空前热烈，人们也一次次为她的演讲献上掌声和欢呼声。

奥巴马总统在米歇尔演讲之后通过推特说到：“一次由一位杰出女性所作的杰出讲演。我无比自豪。我国有幸有这样一位第一夫人。我爱你，米歇尔。”

《华盛顿邮报》评论米歇尔的演讲是，充满“不和谐杂音”的民主党党代会第一天日程中的“精彩顶峰”。

《纽约时报》认为，尽管这次党代会的主角是希拉里·克林顿，但至少党代会第一天晚上绝对“属于米歇尔”。

《洛杉矶时报》形容米歇尔的演讲是“民主党党代会第一夜最富激情的一曲希拉里·克林顿赞歌”。

对此，敏敏老师只能说，

这就是演讲的力量！

如果大家对public speech有兴趣，一定不要错过这段演讲。

接下来，敏敏老师为大家找来了这段号称是“史上最佳第一夫人演讲”的视频。让我们跟着米歇尔·奥巴马，一起来学习一下如何演讲。

演讲全文

Thank you all. Thank you so much.

谢谢各位，非常感谢。

You know, it’s hard to believe that it has been eight years since I first came to this convention to talk with you about why I thought my husband should be president.

距离我第一次参加民主党全国大会，说服你们为什么我的丈夫能当总统，已经过去八年了，这令人难以置信。

Remember how I told you about his character and convictions, his decency and his grace, the traits that we’ve seen every day that he’s served our country in the White House?

还记得我是怎么向你们讲述他的人格和信念、他的正直和风度的吗？如我们每天所见，他在白宫服务于整个国家，他所展示的正是那些特质。

I also told you about our daughters, how they are the heart of our hearts, the center of our world. And during our time in the White House, we’ve had the joy of watching them grow from bubbly little girls into poised young women, a journey that started soon after we arrived in Washington.

我还讲到了我们的两个女儿，讲到她们在我们心中有多么重要，是我们家庭的核心。在白宫的日子里，我们很高兴地看到，她们从活泼的小女孩成长为优雅的年轻女士，这段旅程始于我们来到华盛顿不久。

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.And I saw their little faces pressed up against the window, and the only thing I could think was, what have we done? See, because at that moment I realized that our time in the White House would form the foundation for who they would become and how well we managed this experience could truly make or break them.

那天她们第一次去新学校上学。我永远不会忘记那个冬天的早晨，我看到我们只有7岁和10岁的女儿在持枪保镖簇拥下挤进黑色的SUV里，她们的小脸紧贴车窗玻璃上。当时，我能想到的唯一一件事是：我们到底做了什么？那一刻，我意识到我们在白宫的日子将为她们的未来奠定基础。我们如何妥善处置这段经历，可能成全她们，也可能毁了她们。

That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight, how we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith. How we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country. How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.

这就是我和巴拉克每一天所思考的问题。我们努力地引导我们的孩子，保护她们不受这聚光灯之下的不寻常生活的伤害，鼓励她们不去在意别人对她们的爸爸的国籍或信念的质疑。我们坚持让她们相信，电视上那些公共人物说出来的满带恨意的话并不能代表这个国家真正的精神。我们向她们解释，有些人可能残忍而霸道，但这不意味着你可以堕落到与他们一样。绝不可以，我们的信条是，当别人往道德的低处走时，我们要继续向高处前行。

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models. And let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as president and first lady because we know that our words and actions matter, not just to our girls, but the children across this country, kids who tell us I saw you on TV, I wrote a report on you for school. Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope and he wondered, is my hair like yours?

我们知道，父母的言行举止时时刻刻都被孩子们所关注，我们是她们最重要的榜样。我想告诉各位，巴拉克和我一直以同样的心态对待总统与第一夫人的工作。因为我们深知，我们所说的话，我们所做的事，不仅仅被自家孩子所关注，更同时被这个国家所有的孩子听到和看到。这些孩子可能会对我说，“我在电视上看过你”或是“我在一份作业里写了你”，也可能就像那个抬头带着希望看着我丈夫的黑人小男孩，心里充满好奇，“我的头发和你的是一样的吗？”

And make no mistake about it, this November when we go to the polls that is what we’re deciding, not Democrat or Republican, not left or right. No, in this election and every election is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.

毫无疑问，今年11月我们去投票时，要做的就是这样一个决定，不是选择民主党或共和党，也不管左翼右翼之分。就同每一场选举一样，这场选举决定的是由谁来掌握一个大权，由谁来影响塑造孩子们生命中接下来的四年或六年。

And I am here tonight because in this election there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton.

今晚，我站在这里，因为在这场选举中，只有一个人,让我放心地将这个责任交付；只有一个人，我相信真正有能力胜任美国总统一职。这个人就是我们的朋友，希拉里?克林顿。

That’s right.

就是如此。

See, I trust Hillary to lead this country because I’ve seen her lifelong devotion to our nation’s children, not just her own daughter, who she has raised to perfection, but every child who needs a champion, kids who take the long way to

school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how they’ll ever afford college, kids whose parents don’t speak a word of English, but dream of a better life, kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be.

我相信希拉里能领导这个国家，因为我看到她将一生都奉献给了我们国家的孩子们，不光只是她那被她培养到完美的女儿，而是所有的孩子们，是那些需要一个捍卫者的孩子们，是那些为了躲避地区帮派而绕远路上学的孩子们，是那些不知道自己怎样才能负担得起大学教育的孩子们，是那些虽然父母完全不懂英语自己却梦想着过上更好生活的孩子们，是那些寄希望于我们来决定他们未来的孩子们。

You see, Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless work to actually make a difference in their lives, advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer, fighting for children’s health care as first lady, and for quality child care in the Senate.

如你们所见，希拉里在几十年间一直任劳任怨地工作，为的是真正地使孩子们的生活有所不同。当她是个年轻律师时，她就为残障儿童的权益发声；后来她成了第一夫人，她为孩子们的医疗保障奔忙；在国务卿任上，她依然在为孩子们争取高质量的保育环境。

And when she didn’t win the nomination eight years ago, she didn’t get angry or disillusioned. Hillary did not pack up and go home, because as a true public servant Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and

disappointments. So she proudly stepped up to serve our country once again as secretary of state, traveling the globe to keep our kids safe.

并且，八年前她竞选失利之后，她并不恼怒，也没有灰心丧气。希拉里没有打包走人，因为作为一个真正的公共利益服务者，她懂得这份事业比个人的欲望与失望重要得多。所以，她又挺身而出，以国务卿的身份为我们的国家服务，为孩子们的安全走遍全球。

And look, there were plenty of moments when Hillary could have decided that this work was too hard, that the price of public service was too high, that she was tired of being picked apart for how she looks or how she talks or even how she laughs. But here’s the thing. What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

很多时候，希拉里都可以抱怨她的工作有多难，为人民付出的代价有多大，自己的外貌或言语甚至笑容时刻被人指责有多心累。可是，我最佩服她的一点，就是无论面对多大的压力，她都不会垮掉，也从来不会偷懒。在她的世界里，永无放弃可言。

And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well-informed.

当我为我的两个女儿和我们的所有孩子们考虑我期待的总统时，她就是我期待的那种。我期待的总统，得证明自己拥有坚忍的毅力，懂得职守并且严肃行事，明白我们国家的很多事情不是非黑即白那么简单。这无法浓缩成140个字。因为，当核武器由你掌控，军队由你指挥，你不能草率决策。你不能顾及颜面或轻易动怒。你需要做到沉稳、审慎以及博学。

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves, we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.And we give back even when we’re struggling ourselves because we know that there is always someone worse off. And there but for the grace of God go I.

我期待的总统应当拥有公共服务履历。这个人一生中最大的成就是向我们的孩子展示，我们不是为自己追逐名利，我们争取的是让每个人都拥有成功的机会。纵然我们自己还在奋斗，我们也会回报社会，因为总有人的生活比你还艰难。我们没吃他们的苦，是因为上帝眷顾。

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story. And when crisis hits, we don’t turn against each other. No, we listen to each other, we lean on each other, because we are always stronger together.

我期待的总统会教导我们的孩子，这个国家的每个人都很重要。这位总统笃信很多年前我们的建国之父确立的典范：人人生而平等，每个人都是伟大美国故事的可爱一份子。当危机袭来，我们不能彼此为敌，我们彼此倾听，我们彼此依赖。在一起的时候我总是更强大。

And I am here tonight because I know that that is the kind of president that Hillary Clinton will be. And that’s why in this election I’m with her.

今晚我到这里来，是因为我知道希拉里·克林顿正是这样一位总统，那也是我在这次选举中支持希拉里的缘由所在。

You see, Hillary understands that the president is about one thing and one thing only, it’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children, folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class, because they know it takes a village.

你们看到，希拉里理解，身为总统关乎一件事，而且只关乎一件事，那就是为我们的孩子留下更美好的世界。一直以来，我们就是那样推动这个国家前行的：我们所有人为了我们的孩子走到一起。他们志愿充任教练，在主日学校任教，因为他们知道养育下一代人要齐心协力。

Heroes of every color and creed who wear the uniform and risk their lives to keep passing down those blessings of liberty, police officers and the protesters in Dallas who all desperately want to keep our children safe. People who lined up in Orlando to donate blood because it could have been their son, their daughter in that club.

不同肤色和信仰的英雄们穿上制服，冒着生命危险将自由的福祉传承下去。在达拉斯，警察和抗议者们都在拼尽全力地呼吁保护孩子们的安全。在奥兰多，人们排着队献血，因为他们知道，那晚在酒吧的也可能就是他们的孩子。

Leaders like Tim Kaine who show our kids what decency and devotion look like. Leaders like Hillary Clinton who has the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting those cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling until she finally breaks through, lifting all of us along with her.

蒂姆?凯恩这样的领袖让孩子们懂得了什么是正直与奉献。希拉里这样的领袖拥有的勇气和魅力，让她一直没有放弃，不断地冲击限制女性发展的那道最高最艰难的玻璃顶，直到她终于将其击碎，并带着我们一同提升。

That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame

of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.

这就是我们国家的故事，是这个故事让我今天站在这里。在这个故事中，曾有世世代代的人遭受着压迫和束缚，被奴役的耻辱和被隔离的痛苦。但是他们始终怀揣着希望，不息地抗争，所以今天的我才能每天在由奴隶建造的白宫里醒来，看着我的女儿们，两个美丽聪敏的黑皮肤少女，与狗狗们在白宫的草坪上嬉戏。

And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

因为希拉里，我的女儿，和所有的孩子们，觉得女人可以当美国总统，这是理所应当的事。

So, look, so don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again. Because this right now is the greatest country on earth!

所以，别再听别人说我们的国家不够好，我们要让她变好之类的话。因为此时此刻，这就是世界上最伟大的国家。

And as my daughters prepare to set out into the world, I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’promise and all our kids’promise, a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.

我的两个女儿就要去闯荡世界了，我希望能有一个领袖能够配得上这个真相，值得托付我的女儿以及所有孩子们的前途，能用爱与希望，和我们寄予孩子的无限期望来指导其每一天。

So in this election, we cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical. No, hear me. Between now and November, we need to do what we did eight years ago and four years ago.

所以在这次选举中，我们不能坐视着希望最后的结果是最好的，我们承受不起疲倦、沮丧或愤世嫉俗的代价。听我说，从现在起到十一月份，我们要像8年前或4年前那样，为之付出行动。

We need to knock on every door, we need to get out every vote, we need to pour every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country into electing Hillary Clinton as president of the United States of America!

我们要挨家挨户敲门，让更多的人来投票。我们要用尽我们对这个国家的每一丝热情、每一份力量，和每一点爱，来推选希拉里?克林顿成为美利坚合众国的总统！

So let’s get to work. Thank you all and God bless.

让我们行动起来吧。谢谢大家，上帝保佑。