Obama's Weekly Address WEEKLY ADDRESS: The President Wishes America's Dads a Happy Father's Day
奥巴马每周电视讲话:总统在父亲节发表祝福祝愿父亲们节日快乐
Hi, everybody. Sunday is Father's Day.
大家好,星期天就是父亲节了。
If you haven't got Dad a gift yet, there's still time.
如果你还没有为自己的老爸准备礼物的话,还有点时间。
Just barely. But the truth is, what we give our fathers can never match what our fathers give us.
但很紧迫哦。老实说,无论我们给我们的父亲送什么礼物都无法与他们给予我们的东西相匹配。
I know how important it is to have a dad in your life, because I grew up without my father around.
我深刻领会了生活中有爸爸的陪伴是多么重要,因为我的成长历程没有父亲陪伴。
I felt the weight of his absence.
缺少父爱对我影响重大。
So for Michelle and our girls, I try every day to be the husband and father my family didn't have when I was young.
因此对米歇尔和我们的女儿们,我每天都努力做好一个丈夫和父亲,这是我小时候的家庭所不具备的。
And every chance I get, I encourage fathers to get more involved in their children's lives, because what makes you a man isn't the ability to have a child-it's the courage to raise one.
只要有机会,我就鼓励父亲们