【美国250周年】JD万斯在纽约发表演讲 | 2026.7.
字幕摘录
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| 0:04 | Hurrah, Semper Fi, and happy birthday to all the sailors and the Marines and all the service | 万岁,Semper Fi, 祝所有水手和海军陆战队 和全体船员生日快乐 |
| 0:10 | members of this incredible ship. | 这艘不可思议的飞船的成员 |
| 0:12 | Please, please, ladies and gentlemen, take a seat. | 请坐 女士们先生们 请坐 |
| 0:15 | You know, I know it's 100 degrees out here, but my speech writers wrote me a nice nine-hour | 你知道,我知道这里是百度的, 但我的演讲作家写给我 一个很好的9小时 |
| 0:19 | address, so it's going to be a long day, a long day. | 地址,所以这将是一个漫长的一天,漫长的一天。 |
| 0:24 | Let me start by saying, first of all, thank you for being here on this incredibly historic | 首先,请允许我说,首先,感谢你来到这里 令人难以置信的历史 |
| 0:30 | occasion. | 时间。 |
| 0:31 | I have to give a shout out to Admiral Caudill and, of course, Acting Secretary Cal, two | 我要向卡迪尔上将 以及当然还有卡尔代理国务卿 两位 |
| 0:35 | great Americans. | 伟大的美国人。 |
| 0:36 | Thank you for your leadership and for everything you've done to prepare us for this incredible | 谢谢你的领导 以及你为迎接这场不可思议的战役所做的一切 |
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| 1 | Hurrah, Semper Fi, and happy birthday to all the sailors and the Marines and all the service | 万岁,Semper Fi, 祝所有水手和海军陆战队 和全体船员生日快乐 |
| 2 | members of this incredible ship. | 这艘不可思议的飞船的成员 |
| 3 | Please, please, ladies and gentlemen, take a seat. | 请坐 女士们先生们 请坐 |
| 4 | You know, I know it's 100 degrees out here, but my speech writers wrote me a nice nine-hour | 你知道,我知道这里是百度的, 但我的演讲作家写给我 一个很好的9小时 |
| 5 | address, so it's going to be a long day, a long day. | 地址,所以这将是一个漫长的一天,漫长的一天。 |
| 6 | Let me start by saying, first of all, thank you for being here on this incredibly historic | 首先,请允许我说,首先,感谢你来到这里 令人难以置信的历史 |
| 7 | occasion. | 时间。 |
| 8 | I have to give a shout out to Admiral Caudill and, of course, Acting Secretary Cal, two | 我要向卡迪尔上将 以及当然还有卡尔代理国务卿 两位 |
| 9 | great Americans. | 伟大的美国人。 |
| 10 | Thank you for your leadership and for everything you've done to prepare us for this incredible | 谢谢你的领导 以及你为迎接这场不可思议的战役所做的一切 |
| 11 | celebration today. | 今天是庆祝日 |
| 12 | And I also, of course, got to give thank you but also special greetings from the President | 当然,我还要谢谢你 但也得向总统致以特别问候 |
| 13 | of the United States for reviving this incredibly proud naval tradition as we celebrate 250 | 美国在庆祝250周年之际 恢复了这种令人难以置信的自豪的海军传统 |
| 14 | years of American daring and 250 years of American naval excellence. | 美国胆大妄为 250年美国海军优秀。 |
| 15 | Today, today we celebrate 250 years of America facing the future without fear. | 今天,我们庆祝美国面对未来的250年,没有恐惧。 |
| 16 | We celebrate 250 years of proving what a free people can achieve by the providence of our | 我们庆祝了250年 证明一个自由的人民能够实现 |
| 17 | Almighty Creator. | 万能的创造者 |
| 18 | I want to welcome the incredible sailors who are with us today, all the Marines, the Coasties, | 我要欢迎今天和我们在一起的 不可思议的水手们 所有海军陆战队 科西里人 |
| 19 | and countless others from all of our forces who serve our nation and do so proudly. | 以及我们所有部队的无数其他人,他们为我们的国家服务,并如此自豪。 |
| 20 | And I especially want to thank and welcome our wounded warriors and Gold Star families, | 我特别想感谢和欢迎我们受伤的战士和金星家庭, |
| 21 | many of New York's finest police officers and bravest firefighters, and, of course, | 许多纽约最优秀的警官和最勇敢的消防员, 当然, |
| 22 | we have a number of local leaders from across this tri-state area. | 我们这里有很多地方领导人 |
| 23 | I'm honored to welcome the dozens of Navy chiefs and other guests from other countries | 我很荣幸欢迎来自其他国家的数十位海军长官和其他客人 |
| 24 | around the world who represent the vessels joining us in today's review. | 他们代表着这些船只参加今天的审查。 |
| 25 | And to the Americans who are watching back home, we have over 50 countries from all over | 而对于那些正在看家的美国人, 我们有50多个国家来自各地 |
| 26 | the world who chose to send fighters or naval vessels here to honor our country. | 选择派遣战士或海军舰艇 来纪念我们的国家 |
| 27 | And we say from the bottom of our hearts, we are grateful for our friends, grateful | 我们从内心深处说, 我们感激我们的朋友,感激 |
| 28 | for our allies on this special anniversary. | 我们的盟友在这个特殊的周年纪念日。 |
| 29 | It is a very American thing to ring in 250 years of American history by parading our | 在250年的美国历史中,通过炫耀我们 |
| 30 | naval and air force might for the world to see. | 海军和空军可能会让世界看到 |
| 31 | But I can't help but consider that 250 years ago, the waters of New York Harbor looked | 但我不能不考虑250年前 纽约港的海水看起来 |
| 32 | very, very different. | 非常,非常不一样。 |
| 33 | While the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to ratify the Declaration of Independence, | 大陆代表大会在费城开会批准独立宣言时, |
| 34 | General Washington was right here in Manhattan, peering out on this beautiful land and beautiful | 华盛顿将军就在这曼哈顿 站在这片美丽的土地上 |
| 35 | sea. | 海边 |
| 36 | His attention was fixed on the horizon, watching for sails of the most powerful Navy on Earth. | 他的注意力固定在地平线上,看着地球上最强大的海军的帆船. |
| 37 | One week before, the British had begun landing troops on Staten Island, and they had landed | 一周前,英军开始在斯塔滕岛登陆,他们已经登陆 |
| 38 | 32,000 in just over six weeks. | 短短6周内就有32000人 |
| 39 | One colonist still in the city recounted it seemed as if all of London was afloat and | 一个殖民者还在城里 说这似乎整个伦敦都在漂浮 |
| 40 | heading to the new nation. | 去新国家 |
| 41 | War was coming, and everyone knew it. | 战争即将来临,大家都知道 |
| 42 | By July of 1776, 80 percent of New York's population had emptied out in anticipation | 到了1776年7月, 80%的纽约人口 已经清空了,以预期 |
| 43 | of the coming violence. | 即将发生的暴力。 |
| 44 | And that brings us back to our great General Washington. | 这让我们回到伟大的华盛顿将军身边 |
| 45 | He knew the battles to come would be bruising and would demand much of his men. | 他知道接下来的战役会伤痕累累 并且需要他的很多手下 |
| 46 | But they needed to know, through hot summers and cold winters, exactly what they were being | 但是,他们需要知道, 通过炎热的夏天和寒冷的冬天, 他们到底是什么 |
| 47 | asked to fight for. | 请求争取。 |
| 48 | And so, just a few days after the Declaration of Independence was signed, George Washington | 因此,就在独立宣言签署几天后,乔治·华盛顿 |
| 49 | read aloud the words of the incredible declaration. | 念诵不可思议宣说之言. |
| 50 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. | 我们认为这些事实是不言自明的。 |
| 51 | That all men are created equal. | 男人都是平等的 |
| 52 | That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. | 他们的创造者赋予他们不可剥夺的权利。 |
| 53 | And that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | 这些权利包括生命、自由和追求幸福。 |
| 54 | Even today, 250 years to the day later, these words command a tremendous power over us as | 即使在今天,250年后的今天,这些话 给我们带来了巨大的力量 |
| 55 | Americans. | 美国人 |
| 56 | For 250 years, they have stirred our hearts, and they've reminded us of who we are as a | 250年来,他们激起了我们的心, 他们提醒我们,我们是谁 |
| 57 | people. | 人们 |
| 58 | But to Washington soldiers, to the people to whom they were first read, think about | 但对于华盛顿的士兵, 对于他们第一次被读到的人, 想想 |
| 59 | this, they were entirely new. | 这是全新的 |
| 60 | What has become standard American parlance, they had never heard those words before. | 成为标准的美国语, 他们从来没有听说过这些话。 |
| 61 | And I think it's something striking to reflect on, that in 2026, the Declaration was written | 我认为这是令人惊讶的 反思,在2026年,宣言是写的 |
| 62 | with the assumption that its audience would immediately grasp its words, though they had | 假设它的观众会立即抓住它的话,尽管他们有 |
| 63 | never heard it. | 从来没有听说过。 |
| 64 | They would know exactly what it meant. | 他们会明白那是什么意思 |
| 65 | It wasn't written for historians. | 它不是为历史学家写的. |
| 66 | It wasn't written for academics. | 不是给学者写的 |
| 67 | It wasn't written for the generations to come. | 不为后世所传. |
| 68 | It was written for the people of this fledgling country. | 这是为这个新生国家的人民写的。 |
| 69 | It was written for the soldiers who would fight to turn those words into a new system | 写给那些会战斗的士兵们 把这些话变成新的制度 |
| 70 | of government. | 总统。 |
| 71 | As a document, it does not handhold its readers, its citizenship at a very hard level. | 作为一个文件,它不掌握读者,其公民地位非常艰难。 |
| 72 | It does not pause to explain who this creator is. | 它不会停下来解释谁是创造者。 |
| 73 | It doesn't explain what the equality of men means. | 亦不解释平等之义. |
| 74 | It doesn't try to go into details about the consent of the governed. | 它不试图详细谈论被统治者的同意. |
| 75 | It simply declares these truths to be self-evident. | 它只是宣布这些真理是不言自明的。 |
| 76 | 250 years later, it's worth asking, self-evident to whom? | 250年后,值得一问,不言自明,对谁而言? |
| 77 | If the Declaration proclaims truths the founders believed to all mankind, yes. | 如果《宣言》宣布了全人类相信的创始人的真实性,是的。 |
| 78 | But it says those truths in language intended to be familiar specifically to the American | 但上面写着那些语言上的真理 是为了让美国人熟悉 |
| 79 | nation that it was authored to, authored by, and authored for. | 由作者、作者和作者组成的国家。 |
| 80 | It was, as Jefferson put it later in his own life, an expression of the American mind. | 正如杰斐逊后来在自己的生活中所说的那样,这是美国思想的一种表现。 |
| 81 | A document whose purpose wasn't, quote, to find out new principles or new arguments, | 文件的目的不是,引用, 找出新的原则或新论点, |
| 82 | but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, the common sense of the American | 但为了把这个主题的常识 和美国人的常识放在人类面前 |
| 83 | people. | 人们 |
| 84 | That people had been generations in the making. | 人类是世代相传。 |
| 85 | 1776 was not an accident. | 1776年并非偶然. |
| 86 | The patriots of that era understood themselves to be heirs to an older civilization who would | 那个时代的爱国者认为自己是古老文明的继承者,他们将 |
| 87 | carry it forward. | 继续前进 |
| 88 | Now they shared with Great Britain the same language, the same God, the same system of | 现在他们与大不列颠分享了 同样的语言,同样的上帝,同样的体系 |
| 89 | common law. | 普通法。 |
| 90 | They even read many of the same books and observed many of the same customs. | 他们甚至阅读了许多相同的书籍,并遵守了许多相同的习俗. |
| 91 | They shared the same understanding of justice and public life. | 他们同样理解司法和公共生活。 |
| 92 | George Washington's boyhood offers a small but revealing example. | 乔治·华盛顿的童年提供了一个小的但能揭示的榜样. |
| 93 | When he was 13 years old, he copied down more than 100 entries from a tiny little book called | 13岁时,他从一本小书中 抄下来一百多条 |
| 94 | The Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior. | 《文明和体面行为规则》。 |
| 95 | It was not an American work, but it was first published in London more than a century before | 虽然不是一部美国作品,但最早在伦敦出版的一个多世纪前 |
| 96 | George Washington was born. | 乔治·华盛顿出生. |
| 97 | Yet the America that formed Washington demanded qualities that no book, no manual could teach. | 然而,组成华盛顿的美国却要求没有书,没有手册可以教的素质. |
| 98 | Before General Washington commanded an army, he spent his 20s surveying America's wild | 在华盛顿将军指挥军队之前 他花了20多岁的时间调查美国的野性 |
| 99 | interior, saving up money, learning self-reliance on a continent that rewarded initiative more | 在内地,存钱,学习自力更生 在一个大陆,奖励更多的倡议 |
| 100 | than pedigree. | 比纯种人还要多 |
| 101 | It didn't care if you were a nobleman, it cared what you could do. | 它不在乎你是不是贵族 它在乎你能做什么 |
| 102 | Now our society at the time reinforced the habits Washington learned in the wilderness. | 现在,当时我们的社会强化了华盛顿在荒野中学到的习惯. |
| 103 | Frontier life rewarded resourcefulness, while America's colonial assemblies taught citizens | 边疆生活奖励智慧,而美国殖民议会则教育公民 |
| 104 | to govern their own affairs. | 管理自己的事务。 |
| 105 | It taught citizens to be self-governing human beings. | 它教育公民成为自治人。 |
| 106 | Churches at the time, especially those who were touched by the Great Awakening, reminded | 当时的教会,特别是那些被大觉醒感动的教会,提醒了 |
| 107 | congregants that no earthly hierarchy outweighed the equal dignity of every human soul before | 认为任何地球等级 都比人类的尊严更平等 |
| 108 | its creator. | 它的创造者。 |
| 109 | All of that came together, and so it was no surprise that when Washington's soldiers first | 这一切合在一起 所以华盛顿的士兵们第一次来的时候 |
| 110 | the declaration 250 years ago, they understood precisely what it meant. | 250年前的宣言, 他们完全理解它的含义。 |
| 111 | They understood the meaning that was conveyed. | 他们理解所传达的含义。 |
| 112 | It was seismic, but it was their birthright as citizens of this new republic. | 这是地震,但这是他们作为这个新共和国公民的出生权利。 |
| 113 | The words might have been new, but they expressed a feeling, something that already lived in | 这些话可能是新的,但他们表达了一种感觉, 一种已经存在的东西 |
| 114 | the heart of every single American patriot, and I believe those words still live in the | 每一个美国爱国者的心, 我相信那些话仍然活在 |
| 115 | heart of every single American patriot today. | 今天每一个美国爱国者的心 |
| 116 | And for seven long years, they fought for that birthright. | 七年来,他们为天生的权利而战 |
| 117 | It wasn't easy. | 这可不容易 |
| 118 | On some days, it was hotter even than it was today, as hard as that is to believe. | 有些时候,它甚至比今天更热,就像相信的那样。 |
| 119 | Many suffered and died for that dream and died for those principles. | 许多人为这个梦想而受苦受难,为那些原则而死。 |
| 120 | But by the grace of Almighty God, they secured for us a free, a proud, and an independent | 但是,由于万能的上帝的恩典, 他们为我们赢得了一个自由,一个骄傲, 一个独立 |
| 121 | republic that endures and doesn't just endure, but thrives to this very day. | 共和制不仅能持续,而且能持续到今天 |
| 122 | As Washington traded in the uniform for the presidency, he remained preoccupied with the | 由于华盛顿为总统换了制服,他仍然忙于 |
| 123 | physical land that had shaped him. | 已经塑造了他的身体 |
| 124 | He imagined wagons crossing mountains, paths out of the Alleghenies and the Appalachians | 他想象着马车穿过山脉 穿过阿列根人和阿巴拉契人的道路 |
| 125 | and canals connecting the Potomac and the Ohio River to its western valleys. | 连接波托马克河和俄亥俄河的运河 连接其西部河谷 |
| 126 | Our first president would not live long enough to see that vision of a continent connected. | 我们的第一任总统不会活到看到一个大陆连接的远景。 |
| 127 | He would not live to see it to completion. | 他不会活着看到它完成。 |
| 128 | But the rivers he surveyed in his youth carried on westward without him. | 但是他年轻时所调查的河流 却没有他而向西流 |
| 129 | They carried settlers and new riches and cities waiting to be built. | 他们携带着定居者、新的财富和等待建造的城市。 |
| 130 | And eventually, they carried a 13-year-old boy by the name of James Buchanan Eades. | 最终,他们带着一个名叫詹姆斯·布坎南·埃德斯的13岁男孩. |
| 131 | In the fall of 1833, Eades and his family, like many Americans, moved west to the nation's | 1833年秋,Eades和他的家人,像许多美国人一样,向西迁移到全国 |
| 132 | growing frontier, the land of opportunity. | 不断增长的疆界 机会之地 |
| 133 | And as their steamboat approached St. Louis, its boiler exploded, throwing him into the | 当他们的蒸汽船接近圣路易斯时,它的锅炉爆炸了,将他扔进 |
| 134 | turbulent waters of the Mississippi. | 密西西比河的动荡水域 |
| 135 | The family lost everything, every earthly possession, and the river nearly killed young | 家家一无所有,一无所有,一无所有 河水几乎杀死年轻 |
| 136 | Eades. | 爱德思. |
| 137 | From that moment on, he vowed not to be a slave to that mighty river, but to make it | 从那刻起 他发誓不会成为那条河的奴隶 而是要让它成为奴隶 |
| 138 | his own. | 他自己来的 |
| 139 | He received no formal education, but to support his family, he sold apples on the St. Louis | 他没有受过任何正规教育,但是为了养家糊口,他在圣路易斯号上卖苹果. |
| 140 | Riverfront, captivated by the bustle and frontier of boomtown St. Louis. | 河岸,被繁荣的圣路易斯镇的繁华和边境所吸引 |
| 141 | At 16, he took a job on the water, and not long after, he conceived of an idea that most | 16岁时,他在水上找了份工作 不久后,他想到一个想法 |
| 142 | engineers at the time, they thought it was crazy. | 当时的工程师们认为这很疯狂. |
| 143 | They thought it was insane. | 他们觉得这很疯狂 |
| 144 | You know, sunken ships and other treasures lay scattered along the bottom of the Mississippi. | 沉没的船只和其他珍宝 散落在密西西比河底 |
| 145 | No business in the world existed to salvage them, to take that buried treasure on the | 世界上没有生意来拯救他们 抢走埋藏的宝藏 |
| 146 | bottom of the mighty Mississippi and bring it to work for people. | 在强大的密西西比州的底部 给人们带来工作 |
| 147 | Unlike the more peaceful streams out east, the river's strong currents and turbid waters | 与东部较和平的溪流不同的是,河流的强势水流和浑浊的水流 |
| 148 | Most insisted that ordinary diving in the mighty Mississippi was impossible. | 大多数人坚持认为,在强大的密西西比河中进行普通潜水是不可能的. |
| 149 | You could not do what Eades proposed that we do. | 你不能照Eades的建议去做 |
| 150 | But he disagreed, and so he did what every American does when they're told they can't | 但是他不同意 所以他做了每一个美国人 被告知他们不能做的事 |
| 151 | do something. | 做点什么。 |
| 152 | He went out and did it anyway, and he did it himself. | 他出去了,不管怎样,他自己也做到了. |
| 153 | He bought a 40 gallon whiskey barrel, fixed it to a diving bell, and climbed in and down | 他买了一个40加仑的威士忌桶,把它固定在潜水钟上,然后爬上爬下 |
| 154 | he went all by himself. | 他一个人走了 |
| 155 | The riverbed was pitch black. | 河床是黑色的。 |
| 156 | The current pulling his feet every which way. | 水流不停地拉着他的脚 |
| 157 | Sand swirled around him like a dense snowstorm, he later recalled. | 他后来回忆说,沙子像一场密集的暴风雪一样围绕他旋转。 |
| 158 | But he located his target. | 但他找到了目标 |
| 159 | A large hunk of lead tied on the cable and came back to the surface. | 一大堆铅被绑在缆绳上,回到地表。 |
| 160 | Eades went on to become one of the nation's greatest civil engineers. | Eades继续成为全国最伟大的土木工程师之一. |
| 161 | He built the very first bridge spanning the Mississippi River south of its confluence | 他在密西西比河汇合点以南建造了第一座桥 |
| 162 | with the Missouri. | 与密苏里。 |
| 163 | An impressive feat for a man who'd never built a bridge before. | 对于一个从未建过桥的人来说,是一个令人印象深刻的壮举. |
| 164 | The people who told him, you can't build the most difficult bridge because you've never | 告诉他的人 你不能建造最困难的桥 因为你从来没有 |
| 165 | built a bridge before, he said, yes I can, because I'm an American and I'm going to | 他之前建了一座桥,他说,是的,我可以, 因为我是美国人,我要 |
| 166 | do it myself. | 自己来 |
| 167 | It was the first on the planet, that bridge, to be made of steel. | 这是地球上第一个由钢铁制造的桥。 |
| 168 | And residents of St. Louis still use that bridge to this very day nearly 200 years later. | 圣路易斯的居民仍然使用那座桥 直到将近200年后的今天。 |
| 169 | That is American ingenuity and American greatness. | 这就是美国的智慧和美国的伟大。 |
| 170 | At the river's mouth in Louisiana, Eades raised jetties that helped calm its violent flooding | 在路易斯安那州的河口, Eades 升起了防波堤 帮助平息了暴雨 |
| 171 | to prevent the buildup of silt. | 防止淤积。 |
| 172 | And by doing so, he transformed New Orleans from the ninth largest port in the United | 通过这样做,他改变了新奥尔良 从第九大港口 在联合 |
| 173 | States to the second most powerful port in the world, rivaling only the city that stands | 国家是世界上第二强的港口, 仅与城市相对 |
| 174 | behind us. | 我们后面 |
| 175 | But Eades had already faced a still greater test. | 但是,Eades已经面临一个更大的考验。 |
| 176 | Because as the Civil War broke out, the government summoned him to Washington for his help building | 因为内战爆发后,政府把他召到华盛顿帮忙建设 |
| 177 | the ironclads which the United States Navy would seize the Mississippi with. | 美国海军将用铁板夺取密西西比号 |
| 178 | It was no matter that Eades had never built a gunboat in his life, he had never built | 不管Eades一生没有造过一艘炮舰 他从来没有造过一艘 |
| 179 | a gunboat ever. | 永远是一艘炮艇 |
| 180 | Instead, he completed 700 of them in 100 days. | 相反,他在100天内完成了其中的700项. |
| 181 | It's unbelievable. | 难以置信 |
| 182 | The river ships that Eades built were so strong that the Navy deployed them into the ocean | Eades建造的河船非常坚固 以至于海军把它们部署到大海 |
| 183 | to secure the Gulf. | 为了保护海湾的安全 |
| 184 | They served their purpose. | 他们达到了目的。 |
| 185 | They defended the Mississippi. | 他们保卫了密西西比河 |
| 186 | And in doing so, they helped preserve our Union. | 他们这样做是为了保护我们的联盟。 |
| 187 | And so it kept growing. | 所以它不断增长。 |
| 188 | And of course, the American frontier made way to farms and factories stretching further | 当然,美国边境 进入农场和工厂 伸展更远 |
| 189 | and further west. | 更西边 |
| 190 | River towns became great cities. | 河城镇成为大城市. |
| 191 | Railroads reached the Pacific. | 铁路到达太平洋. |
| 192 | Steel mills rose where once wilderness had stood. | 钢铁厂在荒野的原地兴起 |
| 193 | The American mine widened. | 美国的矿井拓宽。 |
| 194 | And the Republican whose independence Washington won, that James Eades had helped sew together, | 和共和党赢得了独立 华盛顿,詹姆斯・埃德斯 帮助缝合, |
| 195 | grew into the most powerful industrial powerhouse in the history of humanity. | 发展成为人类历史上最强大的工业强国. |
| 196 | For other nations, growing industry brought dispossession before it did prosperity. | 对其他国家来说,不断增长的工业在取得繁荣之前就带来了剥夺。 |
| 197 | In the old world, the one our ancestors had left behind, the Industrial Revolution threw | 在旧世界,我们的祖先留下的,工业革命扔 |
| 198 | society into chaos. | 社会陷入混乱 |
| 199 | And into that chaos rushed vacuums and ideologies that answered the dignity of man with labor | 混乱的真空和意识形态 以劳动回应人的尊严 |
| 200 | camps and killing fields. | 营地和杀戮场。 |
| 201 | And as in every conflict before, America looked to her sailors for help and to the builders | 像以前每场冲突一样 美国都指望着她的水手和建造者 |
| 202 | who made sure those sailors had the very best ships to sail on. | 他们确保那些水手有最好的船 航行。 |
| 203 | Among them was a man that we know as Henry Kaiser. | 其中有一位我们认识的亨利·凯泽 |
| 204 | 和Eades一样,Kaiser的成长也很少. | |
| 205 | The son of German immigrants, he dropped out of school at 13 to work the stockroom at a | 他是德国移民的儿子,13岁时辍学,去一家 |
| 206 | dry goods store in Utica, making $1.50 a week and commuting four miles each way on foot. | 在乌蒂卡的干货店,每周赚1.50美元,每条路步行四英里。 |
| 207 | Eventually, he moved to Spokane for better job opportunities, setting a sights on starting | 最终,他搬到斯波坎 寻找更好的工作机会, 设定了开始的目光 |
| 208 | his own company. | 他自己的公司。 |
| 209 | Now he walked into a bank with no business, no workforce, and no history. | 现在他走进一家没有生意,没有劳动力,没有历史的银行. |
| 210 | Just a single proposed contract and what the banker would later describe as sheer audacity. | 只是一份单一的合同 以及银行家后来会称之为 纯粹的大胆。 |
| 211 | He walked out with a $25,000 loan. | 他借了两万五千美元就走了 |
| 212 | And with his workers, he erected the Hoover Dam and hundreds of miles of highway across | 他和他的工人一起 架起了胡佛水坝和数百英里的高速公路 |
| 213 | the West. | 西方国家。 |
| 214 | Everywhere he went, he organized ordinary Americans to build extraordinary things. | 无论他到哪里,他都组织普通美国人来建造非凡的东西. |
| 215 | And everywhere he went, he believed their welfare and the welfare of the enterprise | 不管他去了哪里 他都相信他们的福利和企业福利 |
| 216 | that he was building went hand in hand. | 他正在建设 并肩作战。 |
| 217 | Kaiser pioneered health coverage at his construction sites. | 凯泽在他的建筑工地上率先实现了医疗保险. |
| 218 | That's why we know the name of Kaiser. | 故知释迦名. |
| 219 | Because he understood that men working in dangerous conditions, they deserve to see | 因为他知道男人在危险条件下工作 他们应该看到 |
| 220 | a doctor. | 一个医生。 |
| 221 | He saw his workers as partners, and he walked the walk long before it was fashionable to | 他视他的工人为合伙人, 他走了很长的步行 之前它很时髦 |
| 222 | do so. | 这样做。 |
| 223 | Where some say that America's story is one of the dispossessed struggling against the | 有人说美国的故事 是一个穷途末路的 |
| 224 | powerful, Kaiser shows that America's greatness is built by cooperation between all of our | Kaiser显示,美国的伟大 是由我们所有的人合作建设的 |
| 225 | citizens from every single walk of American life. | 公民从美国生活的每一步。 |
| 226 | Now that cooperation was important, but it became profoundly important the day after | 现在合作很重要,但第二天变得非常重要 |
| 227 | Pearl Harbor. | 珍珠港报. |
| 228 | The United States Navy at the time needed ships bigger and better and faster than anyone | 当时的美国海军需要比任何人都大、更好、更快的船 |
| 229 | thought they could be built. | 以为他们可以建造。 |
| 230 | We didn't have the biggest Navy in the world, but we needed one and we needed one fast. | 我们没有世界上最大的海军, 但我们需要一个,我们需要一个快速。 |
| 231 | So Kaiser did what Americans always do when confronted with the impossible. | 所以凯泽做了美国人面对不可能的事情时总是做的事. |
| 232 | He put it on his shoulders and said, let's go do it. | 他放在肩膀上说,我们走吧。 |
| 233 | Kaiser had never made a ship in his life, but that wasn't going to stop him. | 凯泽一生中从未造过一艘飞船,但这并不能阻止他. |
| 234 | First, he built shipyards all up and down the Pacific Coast. | 首先,他在太平洋海岸上下方建造了造船厂. |
| 235 | Then he filled them with American workers, 250,000 of them. | 然后,他给他们装满了美国工人,其中有25万人. |
| 236 | Farm boys from Iowa, miners from Appalachia, mothers from Detroit who had never held a | 来自爱荷华州的农场男孩 阿巴拉契亚的矿工 底特律的母亲 |
| 237 | welding torch. | 焊接火炬。 |
| 238 | Together they launched nearly 15,000 Liberty ships, vessels that carried American cargo | 他们一起发射了近15000艘自由船 运载美国货物的船只 |
| 239 | and sailors across two oceans. | 水手横跨两大洋 |
| 240 | His Richmond yard built one of them, the SS Robert E. Perry, in an astonishing four days | 他的里士满院子在四天之内 建造了其中之一 党卫军罗伯特·佩里 |
| 241 | and 15 hours. | 还有15小时 |
| 242 | The shipbuilders Kaiser hired, they weren't just a means to an end, they were his partners. | Kaiser雇佣的造船商 他们不仅仅是达到目的的手段 他们是他的合伙人 |
| 243 | Kaiser looked at his workers and saw people, Americans who got sick, who had families to | Kaiser看着他的工人 看见了那些生病的美国人 他们有家人 |
| 244 | raise, who showed up in Richmond and Portland with little more than a hat in their hand, | 在里士满和波特兰出现 手里只有一顶帽子 |
| 245 | but who had amazing potential. | 但他们有惊人的潜力。 |
| 246 | He saw the potential of normal Americans when unshackled from destitution, and he saw them | 他看到了正常美国人在摆脱贫困时的潜力, 他看到了他们 |
| 247 | not just as mouths to feed or as workers to pay, he saw them as fellow citizens who could | 他不光是养家糊口, 或当工人付钱, 他视他们为同胞 谁可以 |
| 248 | build amazing things. | 造出惊人的东西。 |
| 249 | So he built housing near these shipyards and nursery schools to help mothers join the war | 所以他在这些造船厂和幼儿园附近建房子 帮助母亲参战 |
| 250 | effort. | 努力起来。 |
| 251 | He extended the health plan he had started at his dams to every worker in every yard, | 他把从他的水坝开始的保健计划 扩展到每个院子里的每个工人 |
| 252 | opening it to the public after the U.S. won World War II. | 美国赢得二战后对外开放. |
| 253 | And though separated by generations, I tell the story of these three men because Kaiser | 虽然被世世代代隔开 我讲述了这三人的故事 因为凯泽 |
| 254 | and Eads and Washington, they were exactly the kind of men that Jefferson wrote the Declaration | 他们正是杰斐逊写宣言的人 |
| 255 | of Independence for. | 《独立宣言》 |
| 256 | Kaiser was an American. | 凯泽是美国人 |
| 257 | He looked at what needed doing and he did it, and he trusted the men and women around | 他看着需要做什么 他做到了 他信任周围的男女 |
| 258 | them to do the same, knowing that he could only do his job if they did theirs too. | 他们也这样做,知道只有他们也做他们的工作,他才能做他的工作。 |
| 259 | Our Declaration of Independence may have spoken to universal human truths and broadly shared | 我们的《独立宣言》可能已经谈到世界性的人类真理,并得到广泛的认同。 |
| 260 | human desires, of course it does, but it was a document written by and for a particular | 人类的欲望,当然是,但它是一个文件 由和为特定 |
| 261 | kind of people, the American people. | 那种人,美国人民。 |
| 262 | From General Washington to James Buchanan Eads, from Henry Kaiser, one of America's | 从华盛顿将军到詹姆斯·布坎南·艾德斯, 从亨利·凯泽,美国的一个 |
| 263 | great shipbuilders, to the sailors standing here today. | 伟大的造船者, 今天站在这里的水手。 |
| 264 | And by the way, what you folks watching at home on TV may not realize is that everything | 顺便说一句,你们在家里看的电视 可能没有意识到一切 |
| 265 | that you saw, everything that you see today was destroyed last night in a storm, but these | 你看到的,你今天看到的一切 昨晚在暴风雨中被摧毁, 但是这些 |
| 266 | great sailors rebuilt it in 12 hours so that you all could be here so that we could have | 伟大的水手在12小时内重建了它 这样你们就可以在这里 这样我们就可以拥有 |
| 267 | this amazing procession and so we could celebrate our 250th birthday in style. | 这令人惊叹的游行 这样我们就可以用风格庆祝我们的250岁生日了 |
| 268 | All of us connected through the generations rich and poor of every job, we are a people | 我们所有的人,通过每一代的富人和穷人, 我们是一个民族 |
| 269 | formed by generations of self-governance and personal industry. | 由几代自治和个人工业形成. |
| 270 | We are formed by Frontier Assembly Hall and Congregation, by River Valley and Prairie and | 我们由边疆大会厅和公理会组成 由河谷和普拉里和 |
| 271 | Factory Floor. | 工厂地板。 |
| 272 | We are formed by the conviction that we are bound to one another, not only by bloodline | 我们的形成是因为我们相信彼此是联系在一起的,而不仅仅是血缘关系 |
| 273 | nor creed alone, but by a common character, a shared fate. | 也不仅仅是信仰,而是共同的性格,共同的命运。 |
| 274 | Ladies and gentlemen, I have to address what we will hear from some loud voices today because | 女士们,先生们,我必须谈谈我们今天听到的一些声音。 |
| 275 | as much as all of us, whether we're Democrat or Republican, whatever our political persuasion, | 无论我们是民主党还是共和党 不管我们的政治说服 |
| 276 | all of us are celebrating, but you will hear a couple small but loud voices today speak | 我们所有人都在庆祝 但今天你们会听到一些小声的 |
| 277 | obsessively not of our national greatness, but of our national imperfections. | 执着的不是我国的伟大,而是我国的不完善. |
| 278 | They will speak of the powerless and the dispossessed. | 他们将谈论无能者和无能者。 |
| 279 | They will tell you that America is just another country where the weak struggle against the | 他们会告诉你,美国只是另一个国家, 弱者与美国的斗争 |
| 280 | strong, and if they acknowledge that there is anything to be proud of in our history, | 如果他们承认我们历史上有什么值得骄傲的 |
| 281 | they'll say it's the fact that sometimes the powerless have won a zero-sum paddle. | 他们会说,事实上,有时候, 弱者赢得了零和桨。 |
| 282 | They're wrong. | 他们错了。 |
| 283 | They'll talk about America's sins with the anger and zeal of a brimstone preacher, but | 他们会用一个金石传教士的愤怒和热情来谈论美国的罪恶,但是. |
| 284 | without any of the grace or forgiveness that must be present in the Christian faith. | 没有任何在基督教信仰中必须存在的恩惠或宽恕。 |
| 285 | These people misunderstand the essence of America from Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kaiser. | 这些人误解了美国从托马斯·杰斐逊到亨利·凯泽的本质. |
| 286 | They misunderstand that we all have moments of great power despite those very real imperfections. | 他们错误地认为,尽管我们确实存在这些不完善之处,但我们都有强大的力量。 |
| 287 | That there are victims and heroes who live inside of each of us, from the most ambitious | 有受害者和英雄 生活在我们每个人的内心, 从最宏伟的 |
| 288 | leaders and builders to steel welders like my grandfather, people who had their own role | 领导和建筑者 钢焊工像我爷爷, 这些人有自己的角色 |
| 289 | to play in turning this dangerous wilderness into the proudest civilization in history. | 让这个危险的荒野 成为历史上最骄傲的文明 |
| 290 | So what I'd ask you to do, my fellow Americans, on our 250th birthday, is to reject the two-dimensional | 所以,我要你做的, 我的美国同胞, 在我们250岁生日, 是拒绝二维 |
| 291 | view of your fellow citizens and reject the two-dimensional view of your country. | 并拒绝贵国的二维观点。 |
| 292 | Reject that America is a place for zero-sum thinking because it is not. | 拒绝美国是零和思考的地方,因为它不是。 |
| 293 | Our history is one of people carving a great civilization out of the wilderness. | 我们的历史是人们从荒野中雕刻出伟大的文明。 |
| 294 | Reject the view of your nation that sees only its sins, but not its grace and its greatness. | 拒绝你们国家的观点,他们只看到自己的罪恶,却不看到自己的恩惠和伟大。 |
| 295 | Everything that we have done, everything that we have done as a country, we have done together. | 我们所做的一切,我们作为一个国家所做的一切,我们一起所做的一切. |
| 296 | Not as citizens divided against each other, but as a common people working towards a common future. | 并不是因为公民之间相互分裂,而是作为一个共同的人民为共同的未来而努力. |
| 297 | When we won our independence, we were led by General Washington to liberty and greatness, | 当我们赢得独立时 华盛顿将军带领我们走向自由和伟大 |
| 298 | but marching ahead of him were thousands of boys from all over the new nation | 在他前面游行的是来自全新国家的数千名男孩 |
| 299 | who gave Washington's military genius its foundation and its firepower. | 他给了华盛顿的军事天才 基础和火力 |
| 300 | When we saved the world in World War II from tyranny in the 20th century, | 当我们在二战中从20世纪的暴政中拯救世界时, |
| 301 | of course we needed great military leadership and tactical genius from our generals, | 当然,我们需要伟大的军事领导 和战术天才 从我们的将军, |
| 302 | but we also needed Rosie the Riveter, Iowa farm girls who built the machinery of war | 但我们也需要罗西・里夫特,爱荷华州的农家女孩 他们造了战争机器 |
| 303 | and the sweethearts they sent to a world away to storm the beaches at Normandy. | 和他们派去一个世界的甜心 冲进诺曼底的海滩 |
| 304 | When we went to the moon, of course our great astronauts flew the rockets and our great men | 当我们去月球时,我们伟大的宇航员 当然,我们伟大的宇航员 飞火箭和我们伟大的人 |
| 305 | of science and engineering built them, but there were clerks and janitors and welders like my | 科学与工程的建筑, 但有书记员, 门卫和焊接工像我的 |
| 306 | grandfather who each played their distinctive American part. | 祖父,他们各自扮演 他们独特的美国角色。 |
| 307 | All of us have a part. | 我们都有一个角色。 |
| 308 | All of us | 我们所有人 |
| 309 | had our part, our role to play in creating 250 years of a proud American story, and all of us | 有我们的角色,我们的作用 创造250年 一个自豪的美国故事,和我们所有人 |
| 310 | will need to do our part to create the next 250 years of American greatness. | 需要尽我们的一份力量 创造未来250年的美国伟大。 |
| 311 | So I say to all my | 所以我对所有人说 |
| 312 | Americans, I'm proud of you. | 美国人,我为你骄傲 |
| 313 | Happy birthday and happy birthday to our great nation. | 祝我们伟大的国家生日快乐 |
| 314 | Today, my friends, we celebrate and tomorrow we get back to work. | 今天,我的朋友,我们庆祝 明天我们回去工作。 |
| 315 | God bless you. | 上帝保佑你们。 |
| 316 | Thank you for having me. | 谢谢你邀请我 |
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