Michelle Obama
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents A Lifetime of Service.
目录 A 服务寿命。
4 Growing Up in Chicago.
4 在芝加哥长大。
5 College and Law School.
5 学院和法学院。
8 Work in Chicago.
8在芝加哥工作.
10 The First Lady.
10,第一夫人号.
13 Helping Others to Succeed.
13"帮助他人成功".
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 A Lifetime of Service Michelle Obama is one of the most famous women in the world.
16. 米歇尔终身服务 奥巴马是世界上最出名的女性之一.
She is a former First Lady of the United States.
她是美国前第一夫人。
Her husband, Barack, served as the forty-fourth U.
她的丈夫巴拉克出任了第四十四U.
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师曰.
other people succeed.
其他人会成功
Before she became First Lady, Michelle Obama was already a leader in her home city of Chicago.
在她成为第一夫人之前,米歇尔·奥巴马已经是她家乡芝加哥的领袖.
She worked to improve the lives of the people around her.
她努力改善周围人民的生活.
She worked to make Chicago a good place for everyone to live.
她努力使芝加哥成为大家生活的好地方.
As First Lady, Michelle Obama found new ways to help people.
作为第一夫人,米歇尔·奥巴马找到了帮助人们的新方法.
She supported people serving in the American military.
她支持在美国军队服役的人.
She worked to improve education for American kids.
她致力于改善美国孩子的教育.
She also tried to help American kids get more exercise and eat healthy food.
她还试图帮助美国孩子获得更多的锻炼并吃到健康的食物.
Michelle Obama makes an appearance on The Daily Show in 2008.
米歇尔·奥巴马于2008年出道于"每日秀".
Growing Up in Chicago Michelle was born in Chicago in 1964.
1964年在芝加哥米歇尔长大后生于芝加哥.
Her father, Fraser Robinson III, worked in the city’s water treatment plant.
她的父亲弗雷泽·罗宾逊三世曾在该市的水处理厂工作.
Her mother, Marian Shields Robinson, worked as a secretary and later stayed home to raise Michelle and her older brother, Craig.
她的母亲玛丽安·希尔德斯·罗宾逊(Marian Shields Robinson)担任秘书,后留在家中抚养米歇尔和她的哥哥克雷格.
The Robinson family was descended from enslaved African Americans who lived in the South.
罗宾逊家族由生活在南方的被奴役的非裔美国人所生.
Michelle’s grandfather, Fraser Robinson Jr.
米歇尔的外祖父弗雷泽·罗宾逊 小说。
, moved from South Carolina to Chicago in the 1930s in search of a better life.
,1930年代从南卡罗来纳搬到芝加哥寻求更好的生活.
Michelle’s family lived in a one-bedroom apartment in south Chicago.
米歇尔的家人住在芝加哥南部的一间单人房公寓.
The family was close, eating family dinners together and playing board games.
家人相亲相近,一起吃家宴并玩棋盘游戏.
They didn’t have a lot of money, but Fraser and Marian worked hard.
但弗雷泽和玛丽安努力工作。
They encouraged their children to do their best in school.
他们鼓励其子女在学校里尽力而为。
Michelle Robinson’s yearbook photo from elementary school in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood.
Michelle Robinson的年鉴照片来自芝加哥南岸附近的小学。
Michelle and Craig both learned to read by the age of four.
米歇尔和克雷格都在四岁时学会了阅读.
Both also skipped second grade.
都跳过二年级
Michelle was placed in a gifted class in her elementary school.
米歇尔被安排在她小学的一个有天赋的班级.
Along with her class, she studied French and biology at a nearby college.
与她的班级一起,她还在附近的一所大学学习了法语和生物学.
Later, Michelle was chosen to attend Whitney Young High School.
后来,米歇尔被选入惠特尼青年中学.
Whitney Young was Chicago’s first magnet school.
惠特尼·杨是芝加哥第一所磁铁学校.
The school helped its students prepare for college.
学校帮助学生为大学做准备.
To get to school each day, she rode a city bus for an hour.
为了上学,她每天坐公交车一小时
Michelle studied hard in high school.
米歇尔在高中时勤奋地学习.
She took tough classes and served as treasurer of the student council.
她上过艰难的课,并担任学生会的司库.
Michelle Obama returned to Whitney Young High School to visit students in 2018.
米歇尔·奥巴马于2018年回到惠特尼青年中学访问学生.
Michelle received a very good education, and she had big dreams.
米歇尔受到了非常好的教育,她做了个大梦.
She wanted to follow her brother to Princeton University after high school.
高中毕业后她想跟随哥哥去普林斯顿大学.
Princeton is one of the top universities in the United States.
普林斯顿是美国顶尖大学之一.
When Michelle told her teachers about her college dreams, however, some of them told her she was setting her sights too high.
然而,当米歇尔告诉她的老师关于她的大学梦想时,有些人告诉她,她把视线定得太高了.
They didn’t believe she could get into Princeton.
他们不相信她能进入普林斯顿。
Michelle was determined to prove those teachers wrong.
米歇尔决心证明这些老师错了.
A dance instructor leads students at a magnet school in Florida.
舞蹈导师带领佛罗里达州一所磁铁学校的学生.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Magnet schools are a type of public school in the United States.
磁石学校(英語:Magnet school)是美国的一种公立学校.
They offer special classes that are not available in other public schools.
它们提供其他公立学校没有的特殊课程。
Some magnet schools, like Whitney Young, help students get ready for college.
一些磁学学校,如惠特尼·杨(Whitney Young),帮助学生准备上大学.
Other magnet schools offer special classes in science, music, math, languages, or the arts.
其他磁学学校提供科学,音乐,数学,语言,或艺术方面的特别课程.
Students who want to go to a magnet school must sometimes pass a test to get in.
想上磁铁学校的学生有时必须通过考试才能进入.
Other magnet schools choose students by drawing names.
其他磁力学校通过绘制名称来选择学生.
College and Law School Michelle’s hard work in high school paid off.
学院和法学院 米歇尔在高中的辛勤工作得到了回报.
She was accepted to Princeton.
她被普林斯顿大学录取.
There, she majored in sociology, the study of how people work and live together.
在那里,她主修社会学,研究人们如何工作和生活在一起.
She also took classes in African American studies and learned about the history and culture of black people in the United States.
她还参加了非裔美国人研究班并了解了美国黑人的历史和文化.
Princeton was a new experience for Michelle.
普林斯顿是米歇尔的新经历.
Many of her classmates came from wealthy families.
她的许多同班同学来自富裕的家庭.
There were not many other African American students at Princeton at the time.
当时普林斯顿的其他非裔美国学生并不多.
Michelle felt that her race was the first thing her classmates and teachers noticed about her.
米歇尔觉得她的种族是她同学和老师第一个注意到她的事情.
In her senior project, she wrote that she felt “like a visitor on campus, as if I really don’t belong.”
她写道, 她觉得自己像是校园里的访客, “
However, Michelle kept studying hard.
然而,米歇尔一直努力地学习.
She graduated in 1985 with top grades.
她于1985年以高分毕业.
At Princeton, Michelle Robinson served as class treasurer and graduated in the top ten percent of her class.
在普林斯顿,米歇尔·罗宾逊出任班级司库并毕业于班上前10%.
Right after graduation, Michelle was accepted to Harvard Law School, one of the best law schools in the United States.
毕业后,米歇尔被美国最好的法学院之一哈佛法学院录取.
At Harvard, she worked to make the student population more diverse.
在哈佛大学,她致力于使学生人口更加多样化.
She encouraged black students to come to Harvard.
她鼓励黑人学生来哈佛大学.
She also spoke up about the need for more black professors at the school.
她还谈到学校需要更多黑人教授.
Michelle graduated with a law degree in 1988.
1988年米歇尔以法律学位毕业.
Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest continually- operating law school in the United States.
马萨诸塞州剑桥的哈佛法学院是美国历史最悠久,持续运营的法学院.
Work in Chicago After Harvard, Michelle started working as a lawyer in a Chicago law firm.
哈佛大学后在芝加哥工作,米歇尔开始在芝加哥一家律师事务所担任律师.
In the summer of 1989, her boss asked her to advise a young law student named Barack Obama.
1989年夏天,她的上司要求她向一位叫巴拉克·奥巴马的年轻法律学生提供建议.
Michelle and Barack became friends, and Barack asked Michelle out on a date.
米歇尔和巴拉克成为了朋友,巴拉克约了米歇尔出去约会.
At first, she said no.
起初她说不行
She thought it would look bad if she dated Barack since they worked together.
她认为,如果她约会巴拉克 因为他们合作。
Eventually, though, she agreed.
最终,虽然,她同意。
She and Barack were married in Chicago in 1992.
1992年她和巴拉克在芝加哥结婚.
Their daughters, Malia and Natasha (usually called Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001.
他们的女儿玛利亚和娜塔莎(通常叫萨沙)生于1998年和2001年.
The Obamas married on October 3, 1992, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
奥巴马夫妇于1992年10月3日在芝加哥的三一基督联合会结婚.
Michelle quickly figured out that working for a big law firm wasn’t for her.
Michelle很快发现为一家大律师事务所工作不是她干的。
In 1991, she quit her job as a lawyer to work as a city planner for Chicago’s mayor, Richard Daley.
1991年她辞去律师的工作,出任芝加哥市长理查德·戴利的城市规划员.
Michelle wasn’t interested in politics.
米歇尔对政治不感兴趣。
However, her husband was.
然而,她的丈夫是。
During her work for the mayor, Michelle introduced Barack to many politicians in Chicago.
在为市长工作期间,米歇尔将巴拉克介绍给芝加哥的许多政治家.
Those introductions helped Barack start his political career.
这些介绍帮助巴拉克开始了他的政治生涯.
Michelle Obama looks on as her former boss, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, speaks during an event at the White House in 2009.
米歇尔 奥巴马看起来是她的前上司,芝加哥市长理查德·戴利(Richard Daley)在2009年白宫的一次活动中发言.
After working for the mayor, Michelle changed jobs several times.
在为市长工作后,米歇尔多次更换工作.
For a few years, she ran a program that helped young people become leaders in their communities.
几年来,她经营了一个帮助年轻人成为社区领袖的方案.
Later, Michelle said this was her favorite job.
后来,米歇尔说这是她最喜欢的工作.
She loved seeing what people she had trained went on to do.
她喜欢看到自己训练过的人继续做。
Michelle went on to advise students at the University of Chicago.
米歇尔接着向芝加哥大学的学生提供建议.
She helped students find volunteer work in the city.
她帮助学生在城市找到志愿工作.
Later, she worked for a hospital.
后来,她在医院工作。
At the hospital, she led volunteer and health education programs.
在医院里,她领导了志愿者和健康教育方案.
In 2004, Michelle Obama was working as Vice President for Community and External Affairs for the University of Chicago Hospitals.
2004年,米歇尔·奥巴马出任芝加哥大学医院社区和对外事务副总裁.
The First Lady In the 2000s, Michelle played an important role in Barack’s political success.
第一夫人,我们... 2000年代,米歇尔为巴拉克的政治成功发挥了重要作用.
She helped him win election to the U.
她帮助他赢得了U的选举.
S.
师曰.
Senate in 2004.
2004年参议会.
She also gave many speeches on his behalf during his successful runs for president in 2008 and 2012.
在2008年和2012年成功竞选总统期间,她还代表他发表了许多讲话。
As First Lady, Michelle was able to make an even bigger impact.
作为第一夫人,米歇尔能够产生更大的影响.
She was especially interested in kids and education.
她对孩子和教育特别感兴趣。
In 2010, she started a program called “Let’s Move!”
2010年,她开始了一个名为“让我们行动!”的节目。
The program helped schools serve healthy food and encouraged kids to exercise.
该方案帮助学校提供健康食品,并鼓励儿童锻炼.
First Lady Michelle Obama leads a group of children in an attempt to break a Guinness Book world record for jumping jacks on October 11, 2011.
第一夫人米歇尔 奥巴马带领一群孩子试图于2011年10月11日以跳出JJ而打破吉尼斯书的世界纪录.
Michelle also worked to help students continue their education after high school.
米歇尔还致力于帮助学生在高中后继续接受教育.
In 2015, she and Barack started a program called “Let Girls Learn.”
2015年,她和巴拉克启动了一个名为“让女孩学习”的方案。 “
Their goal was to help girls all over the world stay in school.
他们的目标是帮助世界各地的女孩继续上学。
Let Girls Learn supported after-school activities, leadership camps, libraries, and teacher training for girls.
让女孩学习支持课后活动、领导能力营、图书馆和对女孩的教师培训。
As First Lady, Michelle also wanted to support military families.
作为第一夫人,米歇尔也想支持军队家庭.
She worked with Jill Biden, the wife of the vice president, to help military service members and their families get schooling and find jobs.
她与副总统的妻子吉尔·拜登(Jill Biden)合作,帮助兵役人员及其家人上学并找工作.
First Lady Michelle Obama greets U.
第一夫人米歇尔 奥巴马迎接U.
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陆军中校
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Alonzo Smith and his wife, Sandra, at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on April 23, 2014.
阿隆佐·史密斯与妻子桑德拉于2014年4月23日在肯塔基州坎贝尔堡出道.
Helping Others to Succeed Throughout her life, Michelle Obama has worked to bring people together and help them succeed.
帮助他人成功 在她一生中,米歇尔·奥巴马一直致力于将人们聚集在一起并帮助他们成功.
Michelle believes that her own success came from hard work.
米歇尔认为她自己的成功来自于辛勤的工作.
She wants to inspire kids everywhere to work just as hard.
她想激励各地的孩子同样努力地工作.
As she told a group of high school students in Washington, D.
正如她告诉华盛顿的一群高中生.
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, in 2013, “I want you to know that my story can be your story.”
在2013年,“我要你知道,我的故事可以成为你的故事。 “
First Lady Michelle Obama walks with children past the official White House Christmas Tree in the Blue Room, on November 30, 2011.
第一夫人米歇尔 奥巴马与孩子一起走过官方的"白宫圣诞树"在"蓝色房间",2011年11月30日.
Glossary advise (v.)
词汇通知(五)
to give a suggestion or advice; to notify (p.
(b) 提出建议或咨询意见;
10) descended (v.)
10) 降(五.
related by blood to an ancestor (p.
与血缘关系(p.
5) determined (adj.)
(5) 确定(adj.)