白宫记者协会主席：为什么今年晚宴不邀请总统 | 2025.4
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| 0:03 | As you all know, every year we invite the president to this dinner. | 你们都知道,我们每年都邀请总统参加这个晚宴 |
| 0:09 | For decades, presidents on both sides of the political spectrum get gussied up and join | 数十年来,政治界的两面总统 都被凝聚起来加入 |
| 0:13 | us. | 我们 |
| 0:15 | I want to be clear about something. | 我想说清楚 |
| 0:17 | We don't invite presidents of the United States to this because it's for them. | 我们不邀请美国总统参加,因为那是为他们准备的. |
| 0:21 | We don't invite them because we want to cozy up to them or curry favor. | 我们不邀请他们 因为我们想温柔地照顾他们 或咖喱的恩惠。 |
| 0:25 | We don't only extend invites to the presidents who say they love journalists or who say they | 我们不仅邀请那些说喜欢记者的总统 |
| 0:30 | are defenders of the First Amendment and a free press. | 是第一修正案的捍卫者和新闻自由者。 |
| 0:33 | We invite them to remind them that they should be. | 我们请他们提醒他们,他们应该这样做。 |
| 0:36 | We invite them to demonstrate that those of us who have chosen the public service of journalism | 我们请他们证明,我们中那些选择新闻事业的人 |
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| 1 | As you all know, every year we invite the president to this dinner. | 你们都知道,我们每年都邀请总统参加这个晚宴 |
| 2 | For decades, presidents on both sides of the political spectrum get gussied up and join | 数十年来,政治界的两面总统 都被凝聚起来加入 |
| 3 | us. | 我们 |
| 4 | I want to be clear about something. | 我想说清楚 |
| 5 | We don't invite presidents of the United States to this because it's for them. | 我们不邀请美国总统参加,因为那是为他们准备的. |
| 6 | We don't invite them because we want to cozy up to them or curry favor. | 我们不邀请他们 因为我们想温柔地照顾他们 或咖喱的恩惠。 |
| 7 | We don't only extend invites to the presidents who say they love journalists or who say they | 我们不仅邀请那些说喜欢记者的总统 |
| 8 | are defenders of the First Amendment and a free press. | 是第一修正案的捍卫者和新闻自由者。 |
| 9 | We invite them to remind them that they should be. | 我们请他们提醒他们,他们应该这样做。 |
| 10 | We invite them to demonstrate that those of us who have chosen the public service of journalism | 我们请他们证明,我们中那些选择新闻事业的人 |
| 11 | aren't doing it because we love flights on Air Force One or walking into the Oval Office. | 不是因为我们喜欢空军一号的飞行 或是走进总统办公室 |
| 12 | It's to remind them why a strong fourth estate is essential for democracy. | 是为了提醒他们为什么强大的第四庄园对民主至关重要. |
| 13 | Why, at the end of the day, it's good for them. | 为什么,在一天结束时, 这对他们有好处。 |
| 14 | Even among the most free nations, the WHCA, what we do is unique. | 即使是最自由的国家,WHCA, 我们所做的是独特的。 |
| 15 | It is an example of American exceptionalism. | 这是美国例外主义的一个例子。 |
| 16 | Though we don't have the current president with us tonight, we wanted to hear from some | 虽然我们今晚没有现任总统, 但我们想听一些 |
| 17 | of those who have been gracious enough to sit among the White House press corps. | 成为白宫记者团的一员 |
| 18 | Members of the White House Correspondence Association, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, | 白宫通讯协会成员 贵宾 女士们先生们 |
| 19 | here I am. | 我在这里。 |
| 20 | I have actually shown up here for eight straight years. | 我在这里呆了八年 |
| 21 | Looking back, that was probably a mistake. | 回想起来,那可能是一个错误。 |
| 22 | After all, I believe in the First Amendment, not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it. | 毕竟我相信第一修正案 不只是因为我的好朋友吉米·麦迪逊写的 |
| 23 | Of course, the White House Correspondence dinner is known as the prom of Washington, D.C., | 当然,白宫的函授晚宴被称为华盛顿特区的舞会, |
| 24 | a term coined by political reporters who clearly never had the chance to go to an actual prom. | 一个政治记者发明的名词, 他们显然从来没有机会去参加一个真正的舞会。 |
| 25 | I know it's getting late here, but it's not often that we have so many people who've written | 我知道现在很晚了 但是我们不是经常有这么多人写 |
| 26 | about us and broadcast about us all together in one room like this. | 我们一起在这样的房间里播出我们的故事 |
| 27 | And I thought you might like to say a few nice words to them. | 我想你可能想对他们说几句话 |
| 28 | I have the greatest respect and admiration for what you do. | 我最尊敬和钦佩你所做的一切 |
| 29 | I know sometimes you like to give me a hard time, and I certainly like to return the favor. | 我知道有时你喜欢给我一个困难的时间, 我当然喜欢回报。 |
| 30 | But I never forget that our country depends on you. | 但我从未忘记 我们的国家取决于你 |
| 31 | You help protect our freedom, our democracy, and our way of life. | 你帮助保护我们的自由,我们的民主和我们的生活方式. |
| 32 | And sometimes I think we forget that we're all people. | 有时候我觉得我们忘了我们都是人 |
| 33 | We're all trying to do our jobs as best we can. | 我们都在尽力做好我们的工作 |
| 34 | As I speak, men and women in uniform are taking great risks. | 当我发言时,穿制服的男女正在冒很大的风险。 |
| 35 | And so are many journalists. | 很多记者也一样。 |
| 36 | Working endless hours, putting themselves in harm's way, | 在无休止的时间内工作 让自己陷入危险之中 |
| 37 | trying to give the American people the best and most accurate account possible. | 试图向美国人民提供尽可能最好和最准确的说明。 |
| 38 | The roots of violence at home and ethnic cleansing and racial hatred abroad | 国内暴力、种族清洗和国外种族仇恨的根源 |
| 39 | are of great complexity and difficulty. | 非常复杂和困难 |
| 40 | Because of journalists who accepted risk and hardship, | 因为记者接受了风险和困难 |
| 41 | the first draft of history has been vivid and has been moving. | 历史的第一稿是生动的,而且一直在移动。 |
| 42 | Your ultimate success as an industry is essential to the success of our democracy. | 你作为一个行业的最终成功对我们的民主的成功至关重要。 |
| 43 | You make it possible for ordinary citizens to question authority. | 你让普通公民可以质疑权威. |
| 44 | And yes, even to laugh at authority without fear or intimidation. | 是的,甚至嘲笑权威,没有恐惧或恐吓。 |
| 45 | And I ask the American people to remember what it is we are fighting for. | 我请美国人民记住,我们是为了什么而斗争。 |
| 46 | A world in which the dignity of humanity counts for more than the differences of humanity. | 在这个世界上,人的尊严比人类的差异更重要。 |
| 47 | For human differences, when celebrated but contained, can make life a lot more interesting. | 对于人类的差异,当庆祝但被抑制, 能使生活更有趣。 |
| 48 | But when unleashed as weapons of war, soon make it unbearable. | 但是,当作为战争武器发射时,它很快就变得难以忍受。 |
| 49 | And yet there's that certain spirit that's very hard to describe | 但有些精神很难形容 |
| 50 | that the spirit says, we'll come back, we'll make it back. | 精神说,我们会回来,我们会回来。 |
| 51 | Each of us must serve, you in your way, me in mine. | 我们每个人都必须服务, 你的方式, 我在我的。 |
| 52 | You can start right now by busing your own tables and helping with the dishes. | 你可以从现在开始 自己开餐桌 帮忙洗碗 |
| 53 | To a free press, to an informed citizenry, to an America where freedom and democracy endure, | 自由新闻 知情的公民 自由民主的美国 |
| 54 | God bless America. | 上帝保佑美国 |
| 55 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
| 56 | Thank you very, very much. | 非常感谢 |
| 57 | Thank you very much. | 谢谢 |
| 58 | And with that, I just have two more words to say. | 我还有两句话要说 |
| 59 | Obama out. | 奥巴马出来。 |
| 60 | As we end tonight, yes I said as we end, I know it's a little earlier than usual. | 当我们今晚结束,是的,我说,当我们结束, 我知道这是有点早 比通常。 |
| 61 | We stand together in a shared commitment to the ideals that have defined our nation's democratic principles. | 我们共同致力于确定我国民主原则的理想。 |
| 62 | Transparency, accountability, and the free flow of information. | 透明度、问责制和信息自由流动。 |
| 63 | When Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1786 that, quote, our liberty depends on the freedom of the press | 当托马斯·杰斐逊在1786年写道,引用,我们的自由取决于新闻自由 |
| 64 | and that cannot be limited without being lost. | 并且不能不失去这一点。 |
| 65 | He and the other framers of the United States understood the danger unchecked power poses to the ideals and people of this nation. | 他和美国其他策划者理解不受控制的力量对这个国家的理想和人民构成的危险。 |
| 66 | For more than a hundred years, the White House Correspondence Association has played a vital role | 百多年来,白宫通信协会发挥了至关重要的作用 |
| 67 | in ensuring that the American public has access to the truth, no matter how difficult or how complex it is. | 确保美国公众能够了解真相,无论它多么困难或复杂。 |
| 68 | And in America, the truth is usually complex and often difficult. | 而在美国,真相通常是复杂的,常常是困难的. |
| 69 | Our responsibility is not to align with any one party or any one agenda, | 我们的责任不是与任何一方或任何一项议程保持一致, |
| 70 | but to serve the people of this country with integrity and dedication. | 但以正直和奉献的精神为这个国家的人民服务。 |
| 71 | It is a duty we hold in the highest regard, knowing that the work we do helps strengthen the fabric of our democracy. | 我们知道我们所做的工作有助于加强我们的民主结构,这是我们最崇高的责任。 |
| 72 | Given that complexity, I'd like to reintroduce you to our association. | 鉴于如此复杂,我想再次介绍你加入我们的协会。 |
| 73 | We are more than 900 members strong, representing nearly 300 news outlets. | 我们有900多个强大的成员,代表着近300个新闻机构。 |
| 74 | These include 99 broadcast outlets, 74 print, 45 digital outlets, 38 multimedia outlets, | 其中包括99个广播点、74个印刷点、45个数字点、38个多媒体点、 |
| 75 | 29 local US-based news outlets from 18 different states, 19 agencies or associations, and 29 new media outlets. | 来自18个州、19个机构或协会、29个新媒体的29个美国新闻机构。 |
| 76 | And for decades, we have been expanding the makeup of our membership. | 几十年来,我们一直在扩大成员构成。 |
| 77 | As the media landscape has changed, as technology has changed, our association has evolved with it. | 随着媒体环境的变化,随着技术的变化,我们的联系也随之演变. |
| 78 | We journalists are a lot of things. | 我们的记者是很多事情。 |
| 79 | We are competitive and pushy, we are impatient, and sometimes we think we know everything. | 我们具有竞争力和冲动性,我们不耐烦,有时我们认为我们什么都知道。 |
| 80 | But we're also human. | 但我们也是人类 |
| 81 | We miss our families and significant life moments in service to this job. | 我们怀念我们的家人和为这项工作服务的重要生命时刻。 |
| 82 | We care deeply about accuracy and take seriously the heavy responsibility of being stewards of the public's trust. | 我们深为关心准确性,认真履行作为公众信任管理者的重任. |
| 83 | What we are not is the opposition. | 我们不是反对派。 |
| 84 | What we are not is the enemy of the people, and what we are not is the enemy of the state. | 吾等所非者,乃民之敌也;吾等所非者,乃国之敌也. |
| 85 | As long as there have been journalists, people who see it as their calling to dig through files, root out corruption, hold the powerful to account, | 只要有记者,人们会认为这是他们的呼唤 挖掘文件,根除腐败, 使强权负责, |
| 86 | there have been leaders who want to stop them, people who would go to extreme lengths to keep the truth hidden from the very people who put them in power. | 曾经有领导人想要阻止他们, 那些人会尽其所能 不让真相隐藏在他们掌权的人手中。 |
| 87 | In this room today, at table 162, is a woman who has been fighting for 13 years for the release and return of her son Austin Tice, | 今天在这个房间,在162桌, 是一个女人 谁一直在斗争13年 释放和返回她的儿子奥斯汀蒂斯, |
| 88 | a Washington Post reporter, a Marine Corps veteran, and currently the longest detained American journalist. | 一名华盛顿邮报记者,海军陆战队老兵,目前是被拘留时间最长的美国记者. |
| 89 | Austin should be free and with his family tonight. | 奥斯汀今晚应该自由 和家人在一起 |
| 90 | As we have done for years, we again ask the president, do all you can to bring him home. | 正如我们多年来所做的那样,我们再次要求总统尽你所能把他带回家。 |
| 91 | And to Deborah Tice, we stand with you and we thank you for your courage. | 对黛博拉·蒂斯 我们与你站在一起 感谢你的勇气 |
| 92 | This association, folks in this room, ask the other presidents to do everything in their power to bring Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gurskiewicz home. | 这个协会,在这个房间里的人,要求其他总统尽其所能把华尔街日报记者埃文·古尔斯基维茨带回家. |
| 93 | After nearly 16 months of detention in Russia, Evan came home on August 1st of last year. | 在俄罗斯被关押近16个月后,埃文于去年8月1日回家. |
| 94 | Evan, we are so, so happy to have you back. | 埃文 我们很高兴你能回来 |
| 95 | But the attacks on journalists don't stop at our borders. | 但是,对记者的袭击并不止于我们的边境. |
| 96 | Every single day, journalists in this country face threats of intimidation, lawsuits, and violence. | 记者每天都面临恐吓、诉讼和暴力的威胁。 |
| 97 | Those attacks are meant to do one thing, stop us from sharing the truth with the people. | 这些袭击是为了做一件事,阻止我们与人民分享真相。 |
| 98 | To our friends at the Associated Press, you have taken on more than you should have to. | 对我们在美联社的朋友来说, 你承担了超过你应该承担的。 |
| 99 | But what you have held firm to from the very beginning is that your fight is not about you. | 但你从一开始就坚定不移的就是 你的战斗与你无关 |
| 100 | It's about the ability of every single person in this room to make free and independent editorial decisions without government interference. | 这是关于这个会议室里每个人在不受政府干涉的情况下做出自由独立的编辑决定的能力. |
| 101 | To Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of the AP, on behalf of everyone in this room, all of the journalists yet to come, | Julie Pace, AP的执行编辑和高级副总裁, 代表在这个房间里的每一个人, 所有记者还没有来, |
| 102 | I want to thank you for never wavering or compromising. | 我想感谢你永远不动摇或妥协。 |
| 103 | This board, this association, are forever in your debt. | 这个董事会,这个协会, 永远欠你的债。 |
| 104 | To our friends at Voice of America, I can't wait until you're back on the White House grounds to continue reporting important stories for audiences around the world, | 对美国之音的朋友来说 我等不及你回到白宫 继续报道全世界观众的重要故事 |
| 105 | especially in countries where leaders suppress the freedom of expression and the press. | 特别是在领导人压制言论和新闻自由的国家。 |
| 106 | At the end of the day, what every member of our association wants to do is simple. | 归根结底,我们协会的每个成员都想做的很简单。 |
| 107 | They want to do their jobs. | 他们想做他们的工作。 |
| 108 | They want to be able to ask questions on behalf of the American people. | 他们希望能够代表美国人民提问. |
| 109 | This iteration of the WHCA board was inaugurated the Monday after an assassination attempt on President Trump. | 此次WHCA董事会的迭代在周一特朗普总统遇刺未遂后揭幕. |
| 110 | Less than a week later, President Biden ended his run for reelection. | 不到一周后,拜登总统结束了连任竞选. |
| 111 | A few days after that, Vice President Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. | 几天后,副总统哈里斯成为推定民主党提名人. |
| 112 | You've been drinking from a fire hose a little bit up here. | 你从消防水管里喝了点酒 |
| 113 | I bring up those three moments, each historic in their own right, to illustrate that the work of journalism is often unpredictable | 我提出这三段时间,每个历史时刻都是以他们自己的名义,来说明新闻工作往往无法预测。 |
| 114 | and that the real-world stakes of the events we cover are profound. | 而我们所报道的事件对现实世界的影响是深远的。 |
| 115 | Those of us on the day has come to this task with one agenda and one agenda only, making sure that the reporters in the White House get to do their jobs, | 我们中今天的人带着一个议程和一个议程来完成这项任务,确保白宫的记者能够完成任务, |
| 116 | that the American people have the information they need to hold powerful people accountable and keep democracy strong. | 美国人民有他们需要的信息 来追究有权势的人的责任 并保持民主 |
| 117 | It's been difficult. | 这很困难 |
| 118 | I can't tell you the number of emergency meetings we've had. | 我不能告诉你有多少紧急会议 我们有过。 |
| 119 | And for just under a year, I have been constantly impressed by all of your commitment, the commitment to you, and to our profession. | 在短短的一年里,我一直对你的所有承诺,对你的承诺以及对我们职业的承诺印象深刻. |
| 120 | In a few months, I will pass the gavel of the WHCA presidency to the fabulous Weezer Zeng. | 几个月后,我会把WHCA主席的奖杯 传给威泽禅师 |
| 121 | I'm happy to announce that Weezer will become the first ever woman of color to lead this association. | 我很高兴地宣布,威泽将成为有史以来第一个领导这个协会的有色女人. |
| 122 | I don't have to tell our members, but let me assure the rest of you that our association will be in very good hands. | 我不必告诉会员,但让我向你们保证,我们的协会将掌握在非常好的手中. |
| 123 | Tonight, I am full of gratitude to all of you, to my family, and to every mentor who pushed me and held me up. | 今晚,我满怀感激你们所有人,感谢我的家人,感谢每一个推我并抱住我的导师. |
| 124 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 125 | I know I'm fortunate. | 我知道我很幸运 |
| 126 | I have been blessed that people have looked at me and reached out a hand. | 我有幸看到人们看着我,伸出援手。 |
| 127 | People like Professor Pram Jackson from Colorado State University. | 科罗拉多州立大学的普拉姆·杰克逊教授等人物. |
| 128 | When I was a child, I would tell everyone who would listen, even if they didn't want to hear it, that I wanted to be a lawyer, then a politician, and then the first black president. | 当我还是个孩子的时候,我会告诉大家谁愿意听,即使他们不想听,我想当律师,然后是政治家,然后是第一个黑人总统. |
| 129 | That was me until college. | 那是我,直到大学。 |
| 130 | Eventually, I realized that maybe that wasn't the path I wanted to take, and that gave me a not quite quarter-life crisis. | 最终,我意识到,也许这不是我想走的道路, 这给了我一个不完全 四分之一生命的危机。 |
| 131 | When I ran to Pam's office, panicked that I had killed my own dream, she looked at me and said very calmly, | 当我跑到帕姆的办公室,惊慌失措地说我杀了自己的梦想, 她看着我,非常冷静地说, |
| 132 | maybe you don't want to be a powerful person, maybe you want to hold powerful people accountable. | 也许你不想成为强人 也许你想追究强人的责任 |
| 133 | And it clicked. | 并点击。 |
| 134 | She changed my life with one sentence. | 她用一句话改变了我的生活 |
| 135 | Pam is here tonight, sitting with my family. | 帕姆今晚在这里 和我的家人坐在一起 |
| 136 | She is a perfect example of what we should all be doing when we meet young people who need a push, advice, guidance, help them get to their full capability. | 她是一个很好的例子,说明当我们遇到需要推动、建议、指导、帮助他们充分发挥能力的年轻人时,我们都应该做些什么。 |
| 137 | To the young journalists here today and watching at home, despite everything, I want you to know this continues to be a noble and essential profession. | 今天在座的年轻记者和在家观看,尽管一切,我希望你知道,这继续是一个崇高和重要的职业。 |
| 138 | If you're wondering if it's worth it, do it. | 如果你想知道它是否值得,就动手吧。 |
| 139 | Jump in, join us. | 加入我们吧 |
| 140 | All we ask, as your future colleagues, is that you hold fast to the ideals that motivate all of us to enter the profession. | 我们作为你们未来的同事,要求你们坚持激励我们大家加入这一职业的理想。 |
| 141 | Hold on to those principles and remind us grizzled reporters of the why of this work. | 坚持这些原则,提醒我们灰熊记者,这项工作是为什么进行的。 |
| 142 | When we get too comfortable, too cynical, it happens fast. | 当我们变得太自在,太愤世嫉俗,它发生得很快. |
| 143 | As we close this evening, I want to leave you with the words of a trailblazing journalist, Ida B. | 当今晚我们结束的时候,我想用一位杰出的记者,艾达·B的话给你。 |
| 144 | 威尔斯 Wells. | |
| 145 | The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. | 纠正错误的方法就是把真理的光照在他们身上。 |
| 146 | Despite everything, I'm still optimistic about the power of what we do and more assured than ever of the importance of defending it. | 尽管一切,我仍然对我们所做的一切的力量感到乐观,并且比以往更确信捍卫它的重要性. |
| 147 | Everyone in this room can and should stand in the breach. | 这间屋子里的每个人都可以而且应该站在突破处。 |
| 148 | Everyone can and should push for what we know is right. | 每个人都可以而且应当推动我们所知道的事情是正确的。 |
| 149 | Everyone can and should stand up against government interference in a free press. | 人人都可以而且应该反对政府对新闻自由的干涉。 |
| 150 | And a promise I make to you is that the White House Correspondence Association, this board, will always defend your right to do your jobs on behalf of your readers, your viewers, your listeners, and whatever else comes next when the technology changes. | 我向你们保证,白宫的通讯协会, 这个董事会, 将永远代表读者、观众、听众, 以及技术改变后, 捍卫你们的工作权利。 |
| 151 | We always and will always advocate for more access to powerful people, for more independent journalists to be in the room. | 我们一贯而且将永远主张更多地接触有权势的人,让更多的独立记者进入会议室。 |
| 152 | We will always stand in front, behind, beside you on behalf of every single person in this country who doesn't have access to a White House press badge. | 我们将永远站在前面, 后面,在你身旁, 代表这个国家每一个没有 白宫新闻徽章的人。 |
| 153 | I hope you leave tonight feeling how I am. | 我希望你今晚离开 感觉我如何。 |
| 154 | Proud. | 骄傲 |
| 155 | Proud to be a journalist, proud to be someone who covers the White House, and damn proud to be a member of the White House Correspondence Association. | 自豪地成为一名记者,骄傲地成为掩护白宫的人,并且为成为白宫通信协会的成员而备受自豪. |
| 156 | And in that respect, I raise a glass to the First Amendment and the journalists who do this work every single day. | 在这方面,我为第一修正案和每天从事这项工作的记者举杯。 |
| 157 | Thank you for coming and have a good night. | 谢谢你的到来 并有一个美好的夜晚。 |
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