奥巴马每周电台演讲:创新和教育
Out-Innovating, Out-Educating & Out-Building Our Competitors
The President discusses his visit to a company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and how it exemplified his agenda for America to “win the future” spelled out in the State of the Union Address
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
January 29, 2011
I’m speaking to you today from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where I’m at an innovative company called Orion Energy Systems.
Just a few years ago, this was an empty warehouse. A major employer had shut down this factory, moved its operations abroad, and took a lot of jobs away from this town.
But today, as you can see behind me, this is a thriving enterprise once more. You are looking at a factory where 250 workers are building advanced clean energy systems – state-of-the-art technologies that use solar power and energy efficiency to save farms and businesses thousands of dollars on their utility bills.
I’m here because this business and others like it are showing us the way forward. And in the coming days, I’ll be shining a spotlight on innovators across America who are relying on new technologies to create new jobs and opportunities in new industries.
That’s what companies like Orion are doing. And that’s how America will win the future – by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building our competitors. We’ll win the future by being the best place on Earth to do business. That is what we are called to do at this moment. And in my state of the union, I talked about how we get there.
It starts by making sure that every single child can get a good education and every American can afford college or career training. Because that’s what will help light the spark in the minds of innovators – and ensure that our people have the skills to work for innovative companies.
We also need to make sure that America can move goods and information as fast as any of our competitors, whether on the road or online. Because good infrastructure helps our businesses sell their products and services faster and cheaper.
We have to reform our government and cut wasteful spending, so that we eliminate what we don’t need to pay for the investments we need to grow, like education and medical research.
And as we can see here in Manitowoc, we need to ensure that we are promoting innovation – especially in promising areas like clean energy. This is going to be key to growing our economy and helping businesses create jobs. Orion, for example, was able to open with the help of small business loans and incentives that are creating demand for clean energy technologies like wind power and solar panels.
That’s why I’ve proposed a bigger tax credit for the research that companies do. And to give these companies the certainty of knowing there will be a market for what they sell, I’ve set this goal for America: by 2035, 80 percent of electricity should come from clean energy.
This is going to help spark innovation at businesses across America. This is going to spur new products and technologies. This is going to lead to good, new jobs. And that’s how we win the future – by unleashing the talent and ingenuity of American businesses and American workers in every corner of this country.
So to those who say that America’s best days are behind us, let them come here, to Manitowoc. Let them come to this once-shuttered factory that is now bustling with workers building new technologies for the world. Let them come here to see the incredible promise of our country.
This is the future. And it’s bright.
Thank you.
重点单词查看全部解释bustling['bʌsliŋ]
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adj. 忙乱的；熙熙攘攘的
eliminate[i’limineit]
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v. 除去，剔除; 忽略
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单词eliminate联想记忆：
e出，limi界限一扔出界限一淘汰
address[ə’dres]
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n. 住址，致词，讲话，谈吐，(处理问题的)技巧
reform[ri’fɔ:m]
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v. 改革，改造，革新
n. 改革，改良
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单词reform联想记忆：
re再次+form形状→再形成→改革，改造
efficiency[i’fiʃənsi]
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n. 效率，功率
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单词efficiency联想记忆：
ef出+fic做…做出事情…有效率+iency表名词“性质，状态”，ence的变体→效率
ingenuity[.indʒi’nju:iti]
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n. 智巧，创造力，精巧的设计
warehouse[‘wɛəhaus]
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n. 仓库
vt. 存入仓库
innovative[‘inəuveitiv]
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adj. 革新的，创新的
credit[‘kredit]
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n. 信用，荣誉，贷款，学分，赞扬，赊欠，贷方
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单词credit联想记忆：
cred相信+it表名词，通常是抽象名词→相信
innovation[.inəu’veiʃən]
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n. 创新，革新
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单词innovation联想记忆：
novation（n 更新）；novel（n 小说adj 新奇的；新颖的）
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