奥巴马在上海与中国青年对话

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I'm going to take two more questions. And the next one is from a gentleman, I think. Right here, yes. Here's the microphone.

[现场提问]我想说我非常荣幸，站在这里向您提问，我认为我很幸运，我也感谢这个机会，您的演讲非常清楚。我是周元天（音），复旦大学管理学院的学生，我想问一问，现在已经有人问您得诺贝尔奖的问题了，那么我不会以同样的角度问您，我想问的是从另外一个角度来看，因为您很难才能得到这个奖，所以我在想您是怎么得到这个奖的？还有您的大学教育怎么样使您得到这个奖项？我们很好奇，想请您给我们分享一下您的校园经历，如何才能走上成功的道路？

Q First, I would like to say that it is a great honor for me to stand here to ask you the questions. I think I am so lucky and just appreciate that your speech is so clear that I really do not need such kind of headset. (Laughter.)

And here comes my question. My name is (inaudible) from Fudan University School of Management. And I would like to ask you the question -- is that now that someone has asked you something about the Nobel Peace Prize, but I will not ask you in the same aspect. I want to ask you in the other aspect that since it is very hard for you to get such kind of an honorable prize, and I wonder and we all wonder that -- how you struggled to get it. And what's your university/college education that brings you to get such kind of prizes? We are very curious about it and we would like to invite you to share with us your campus education experiences so as to go on the road of success.

[奥巴马]首先我要说的是，我也不知道有什么课程学了之后可以得到诺贝尔和平奖，这是不能担保的。不过很显然的，在座每个人都在非常努力地学习，非常有好奇心。同时，愿意自己去思考一些新的想法等等。而我现在经常见到的这些人他们对我最有启发的以及最成功的这些人，我认为这些人都是那些愿意不断努力工作的人，同时还不断地通过找新的途径进行提高的人，他们不仅仅是接受现状、接受常规。

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, first of all, let me tell you that I don't know if there's a curriculum or course of study that leads you to win the Nobel Peace Prize. (Laughter.) So I can't guarantee that. But I think the recipe for success is the one that you are already following. Obviously all of you are working very hard, you're studying very hard. You're curious. You're willing to think about new ideas and think for yourself. You know, the people who I meet now that I find most inspiring who are successful I think are people who are not only willing to work very hard but are constantly trying to improve themselves and to think in new ways, and not just accept the conventional wisdom.

很显然，在成功的问题上殊途同归，有些人进入政府服务，有些人想当老师、教授，有些人想经商。但是我认为不管你从事哪个领域的工作，如果你不断地努力更新和改进，而不只是满足于现状，一直在扪心自问，看看是否能够以不同的方式来解决问题的话，那么不管是科学也好、技术也好、艺术也好，去尝试前人没有用过的方法，只有这些人才能出人头地。

Obviously there are many different paths to success, and some of you are going to be going into government service; some of you might want to be teachers or professors; some of you might want to be businesspeople. But I think that whatever field you go into, if you're constantly trying to improve and never satisfied with not having done your best, and constantly asking new questions -- "Are there things that I could be doing differently? Are there new approaches to problems that nobody has thought of before, whether it's in science or technology or in the arts? -- those are usually the people who I think are able to rise about the rest.

我还有一个忠告，这个忠告对我来讲很有用，就是说我最敬仰的那些成功的人士，他们不但考虑自己，他们同时还考虑超越自己的事情，他们希望对世界做出贡献，他们希望对他们的国家做出贡献，对他们的城市做出贡献，他们希望除了对自己的生活有所影响，同时对别人的生活也带来影响。

The one last piece of advice, though, that I would have that has been useful for me is the people who I admire the most and are most successful, they're not just thinking only about themselves but they're also thinking about something larger than themselves. So they want to make a contribution to society. They want to make a contribution to their country, their nation, their city. They are interested in having an impact beyond their own immediate lives.

有时候我们会忙于挣钱、买好车、买大房子，所有的这些都重要，但是那些真正在青史留名的人是因为他们有更大的向往，看如何帮助更多的人能够吃饱饭，能够让更多的儿童受到教育，如何能够以和平方式解决冲突等等。只有这些人他们才能在世界上做出贡献，我相信只要在座的你们努力的话也能够做出这样的贡献。

I think so many of us, we get caught up with wanting to make money for ourselves and have a nice car and have a nice house and -- all those things are important, but the people who really make their mark on the world is because they have a bigger ambition. They say, how can I help feed hungry people? Or, how can I help to teach children who don't have an education? Or, how can I bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts? Those are the people I think who end up making such a big difference in the world. And I'm sure that young people like you are going to be able to make that kind of difference as long as you keep working the way you've been working.