SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up everyday. If we expect that life won’t be perfect, we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit. But even ifyou are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back. Wheth...
My fellow Americans, each month families across the country work very, very hard to balance their budgets 我的美国同胞们，每个月全美的家庭都非常辛苦地工作来平衡收支， and to make the tough choices necessary to take care of their loved ones and to give their children opportunities they never had before. 为照顾他们所爱之人做出必要的艰难选择，以及给自己的孩子提供他们从未有过的...
And the big thing for me is economic growth, which is not possible without safety and security. 促进经济增长是我的大事，而若缺少安全和保障，经济便难以好转。 We will grow our economy; it is growing already. 我们要发展我们的经济，而现已初见成效。 It will grow faster than you've seen it in decades. 美国经济增长速度会比你在几十年内看到的都快。 That is why our budget reverses...
So, in other aspects of life that are much more significant than buying things, the same explosion of choice is true. Health care. 同样，在生活里的其它一些比购物更对我们产生影响事情上，这种选择的爆炸同样存在。医疗保健。 It is no longer the case in the United States that you go to the doctor, and the doctor tells you what to do. 在美国，现在早已不是那种你去看医生，医生直截了...
Sorry if you're not New Yorkers. 不过你如果不是纽约人的话，我先道个歉。 Here's what you're supposed to be thinking. Here's this couple on the Hamptons. 但这是你此时此刻应该想的事。看看汉普顿的这两口子。 Very expensive real estate. Gorgeous beach. Beautiful day. They have it all to themselves. What could be better? 昂贵的富人区，华丽的海滩，阳光明媚，他们拥有...
Something as dramatic as our identity has now become a matter of choice, as this slide is meant to indicate. 如今像我们的性别身份这类的事都成了选择的话题了，就像这张幻灯片试图说明的那样。 We don't inherit an identity; we get to invent it. 现在我们的性别不是从父母那里继承下来，而是由自己来发明。 And we get to re-invent ourselves as often as we like. 这样我们就可以随心所欲...
Now, as a policy matter — I'm almost done — as a policy matter, the thing to think about is this: 我快说完了。现在说说一个政策问题，我们该想想的一个政策问题是， what enables all of this choice in industrial societies is material affluence. 给我们这个工业化社会带来这么多选择的，是物质的极大丰富。 There are lots of places in the world, and we have heard about s...
I'm going to talk to you about some stuff that's in this book of mine that I hope will resonate with other things you've already heard, 我想在这里谈谈我这本书里的部分内容，希望它和你们已经听到过的一些事物引起共鸣， and I'll try to make some connections myself, in case you missed them. 如果有哪些你们不清楚的，我在这里会试着帮你把它们联系起来。 But I want to st...
He had no idea what that was, so I spent an hour trying on all these damn jeans, 他一头雾水，结果我花了一个钟头试穿了所有这些该死的牛仔裤， and I walked out of the store — truth! — with the best-fitting jeans I had ever had. I did better. 最后，说实话，我带着一条我从未有过的最合身的裤子走出店门。我做得的确不错。 All this choice made it possible for me to do bette...
There is one corner, by the way, that I'm not going to tell anybody about, where the WiFi actually works. 但是，这个饭店里的确有一个地方可以无线上网。 I'm not telling you about it because I want to use it. 可我不会告诉你们在哪，不告诉你的理由是我也想用。 So what this means, this incredible freedom of choice we have with respect to work, 话说回来，我们工作中的这些难以...
I want to say — just a little autobiographical moment — that I actually am married to a wife, and she's really quite wonderful. 我想抽一点时间说说自己，我娶了我现在的太太，她是一个很好的妻子。 I couldn't have done better. I didn't settle. But settling isn't always such a bad thing. 这件事上我没有凑合，我尽力了。但是能凑合并不一定是坏事。 Finally &...
You really want to get the decision right if it's for all eternity, right? 当你进入极乐世界时，你一定希望你做出的决定是正确的，是吗？ You don't want to pick the wrong mutual fund, or the wrong salad dressing. So that's one effect. 在那里你一定不想再选错互助基金，或者是沙拉调料。刚才那是第一个（负面）影响。 The second effect is that even if we manage to overcome t...
This is my supermarket. Not such a big one. I want to say just a word about salad dressing. 这是我家附近的一个超市。不算很大。我只想说说这里的色拉调料。 175 salad dressings in my supermarket, 我这家超市有175种各式色拉调料， if you don't count the 10 extra-virgin olive oils and 12 balsamic vinegars 还没算上10种不同牌子的特级初榨橄榄油和12种Balsamic葡萄醋任你选购， you cou...
We all know what's good about it, so I'm going to talk about what's bad about it. 我们都知道它的好处。那么就让我来说说它的不好之处吧。 All of this choice has two effects, two negative effects on people. 所有这些选择对人们有两个影响，而且是两个负面的影响。 One effect, paradoxically, is that it produces paralysis, rather than liberation. 其一，说起来有些自相矛盾，...
Judges are not supposed to re-write the law, re-invent the Constitution, 法官不该改写法律、改造宪法， or substitute their own opinions for the will of the people expressed through their laws. 不该用自己的观点替代人民通过法律表达的意愿。 We reject judicial activism and policy-making from the bench. 我们反对司法能动主义和法官决策。 The faithful application of the Constitution ...
One of the most important decisions a President will ever make is the decision to nominate a Justice to the United States Supreme Court. 作为美国总统将会做的最重要的决定之一，就是向美国最高法院提名法官人选。 Last week, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his decision to take senior status. 上周，最高法院法官Anthony Kennedy宣布了其半退休的决定。 I was greatly honored when Justi...