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For all his flourish, President Barack Obama sure falls back on a few familiar phrases. 尽管美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马在发表演讲时总是风光无限，不过他总离不开他那几句口头禅。 Make no mistake. Change isn't easy. It won't happen overnight. There will be setbacks and false starts. 如，“不要犯错、“变革并非易事、“这不会在一夜之间发生以及“挫折和失败难以避免等。 Those who routinely listen to the president have come to expect some of those expressions to pop up in almost every speech. 常听总统演讲的人几乎在他的每一次演讲中都能听到其中的一些表达。 Yet in the portfolio of presidential phrases, none is more pervasive than Obama's four-word favorite: Let me be clear. 不过，在总统的众多口头禅中，使用频率最高的莫过于他最爱的四字表达：我要说明(Let me be clear.)。 It is his emphatic windup for, well, everything. 无论讲话的内容是什么，奥巴马在最后表示强调时，都会用到这句话。 "Let me be clear," he said in describing his surprise at winning the Nobel Peace Prize(speech). "I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations." 奥巴马在发表诺贝尔奖获奖感言时是这样表达自己的惊讶之情的：“我要说明，我不认为这个奖项是对我个人成就的认可，而是对美国为实现各国人民愿望所发挥的领导作用的一种肯定。 | 
