【美国250周年】曼达尼在纽约发表演讲 | 2026.7.4
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:02 | Good morning, my fellow Americans. | 早上好,我的美国同胞。 |
| 0:05 | Season after season, year after year, | 季复一季,年复一年, |
| 0:08 | the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. | 潮流进出纽约港 |
| 0:12 | Long before the name New York had ever been spoken, | 早在纽约这个名字传来之前 |
| 0:15 | Lenape dugouts crossed these currents. | 莱娜普的跳槽穿过了这些水流 |
| 0:18 | It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon, | 高高的桅杆在水面上攀登 |
| 0:21 | captained by explorers like Verzano and Hudson, | 由韦尔扎诺和哈德逊等探险家担任队长, |
| 0:24 | after whom we've named our bridges and rivers. | 之后我们命名了我们的桥梁和河流。 |
| 0:27 | And ever since, ships full of travelers weary | 从那以后 满载旅行者的船只疲惫不堪 |
| 0:30 | from long journeys have passed through the narrows, | 从长途而过, |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good morning, my fellow Americans. | 早上好,我的美国同胞。 |
| 2 | Season after season, year after year, | 季复一季,年复一年, |
| 3 | the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. | 潮流进出纽约港 |
| 4 | Long before the name New York had ever been spoken, | 早在纽约这个名字传来之前 |
| 5 | Lenape dugouts crossed these currents. | 莱娜普的跳槽穿过了这些水流 |
| 6 | It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon, | 高高的桅杆在水面上攀登 |
| 7 | captained by explorers like Verzano and Hudson, | 由韦尔扎诺和哈德逊等探险家担任队长, |
| 8 | after whom we've named our bridges and rivers. | 之后我们命名了我们的桥梁和河流。 |
| 9 | And ever since, ships full of travelers weary | 从那以后 满载旅行者的船只疲惫不堪 |
| 10 | from long journeys have passed through the narrows, | 从长途而过, |
| 11 | the winds of the Atlantic at their backs. | 他们背着大西洋的风 |
| 12 | When those passengers lifted their heads to glimpse what lies | 当那些乘客抬起头来看谎言时 |
| 13 | just beyond the waves, what did they see? | 在波浪之外,他们看到了什么? |
| 14 | They saw land, lush and teeming with life. | 他们看到土地, 懒惰和充满生命。 |
| 15 | They saw men waiting at the docks to take them into bondage. | 他们看到有人在码头等着把他们送去当奴隶。 |
| 16 | They saw tenements rife with squalor. | 他们看到公寓里到处都是臭虫 |
| 17 | They saw industry rumbling with activity, | 他们看到工业 与活动, |
| 18 | steam and smoke rising, a city on the move. | 蒸汽和烟雾上升,一个城市在移动。 |
| 19 | They saw a towering monument to freedom, | 他们看见一个高耸的纪念碑 自由, |
| 20 | her torch glowing worldwide welcome. | 她的火炬闪耀着全世界的欢迎。 |
| 21 | They saw New York City. | 他们看到了纽约市。 |
| 22 | They saw America. | 他们看到了美国。 |
| 23 | Tomorrow, our nation marks 250 years | 明天,我们的国家 250年 |
| 24 | since we declared our independence. | 自从我们宣布独立以来 |
| 25 | 250 years of a grand experiment in self-governance, | 250年的自治大试验, |
| 26 | an experiment so audacious that some in 1776 | 一个如此大胆的实验 以至于一些在1776年 |
| 27 | doubted it would last more than a few years, | 怀疑会持续数年多, |
| 28 | let alone a quarter of a millennium. | 更别说四分之一的千年 |
| 29 | From Lexington to Los Angeles, Selma to Seneca Falls, | 从列克星敦到洛杉矶,塞尔玛到塞内卡瀑布, |
| 30 | Morrisania to Midwood, Americans will come together for a day, | 莫里西亚去米德伍德 美国人会聚在一起一天 |
| 31 | just as we do each year. | 就像我们每年一样 |
| 32 | Families will gather around the grill. | 家人会聚集在烤炉周围 |
| 33 | Fireworks will fill the night sky. | 烟火将充夜空. |
| 34 | This will be no ordinary day of celebration. | 这可不是一般的庆祝日 |
| 35 | 250 years presents a rare opportunity | 250年是一个难得的机会 |
| 36 | for more than 340 million people to turn together, | 使3.4亿以上的人走到一起, |
| 37 | both towards one another and towards ourselves, | 彼此相待,彼此相待, |
| 38 | to take measure of who we are as a nation. | 以衡量我们作为一个国家的身份。 |
| 39 | When we look at America, what do we see? | 当我们看美国,我们看到什么? |
| 40 | Here at City Hall, as I sit behind George Washington's desk, | 在市政厅,当我坐在乔治华盛顿的桌子后面 |
| 41 | alongside new Americans who came to this country, | 和来到这个国家的新美国人一起 |
| 42 | I cannot see all of America. | 我看不到全美国 |
| 43 | But like so many who came before, I can see New York City. | 但和以前来过的人一样,我可以看到纽约市。 |
| 44 | The city I see today looks very different | 我今天看到的城市看起来很不一样 |
| 45 | than the one that greeted George Washington. | 而不是那个迎接乔治·华盛顿的人 |
| 46 | In July of 1776, our city simmered under the yoke of oppression. | 1776年7月,我们的城市在压迫的枷锁下沉没. |
| 47 | The British had imposed a colonial rule so repressive | 英国人把殖民统治强加于人 |
| 48 | that 250 years ago, 80 miles south, | 250年前, 80英里以南, |
| 49 | a small group of newspaper editors, farmers and soldiers | 少数报纸编辑、农民和士兵 |
| 50 | signed their names on a document declaring truths | 在一份声明真相的文件上签名 |
| 51 | that feel self-evident now, but were revolutionary then, | 现在感觉不言自明 但当时是革命性的 |
| 52 | establishing the ideals our nation still strives to fulfill. | 我们的国家仍然在努力实现理想。 |
| 53 | The British did not take it well. | 英国人对此不满意。 |
| 54 | War broke out. | 战争爆发. |
| 55 | And that August, as the largest battle of the Revolutionary War | 8月,作为革命战争中最大的战役 |
| 56 | unfolded in Brooklyn, batteries on Governor's Island | 在布鲁克林开的 州长岛的电池 |
| 57 | took aim at British ships anchored just offshore. | 瞄准停靠在岸边的英国船只 |
| 58 | We were outgunned. | 我们被射中了 |
| 59 | We were outmanned. | 我们人手不够 |
| 60 | And we were soundly defeated. | 我们被击败了 |
| 61 | After only a few months, it appeared our fledgling attempt | 几个月后,我们刚刚开始尝试 |
| 62 | at democracy was on the precipice of collapse. | 民主正处于崩溃的边缘。 |
| 63 | But that night, with the moon overhead, | 但当晚,月亮飞扬, |
| 64 | thousands of our soldiers silently climbed into ferries | 数以千计的士兵悄悄爬上渡船 |
| 65 | and flat-bottom boats and escaped to Manhattan. | 然后逃到曼哈顿 |
| 66 | The Continental Army survived to fight another day. | 大陆军幸存了一天的战斗. |
| 67 | Independence may have been declared in Philadelphia, | 费城可能已经宣布独立 |
| 68 | but it was rescued in New York City. | 但它在纽约市获救 |
| 69 | George Washington was the last to leave Brooklyn. | 乔治·华盛顿是最后离开布鲁克林的人. |
| 70 | As he waited at the river's edge, the sun beginning its rise, | 当他在河边等待时,太阳开始升起, |
| 71 | he would have looked out over New York City's waters | 他本来会在纽约市的水域外望望 |
| 72 | and seen what so many have seen in the 250 years since, | 看到这么多人在250年后所看到的, |
| 73 | an opportunity to begin anew. | 一个重新开始的机会。 |
| 74 | Those opportunities, like everything in New York City, | 这些机会,就像纽约市的一切, |
| 75 | are not given. | 未给出。 |
| 76 | They are won. | 他们赢了。 |
| 77 | In 1838, 11 years after New York outlawed slavery, | 1838年,在纽约宣布奴隶制为非法11年后, |
| 78 | a recently emancipated black man by the name of James Weeks | 一个最近被解放的黑人名叫詹姆斯·威克斯 |
| 79 | sought to begin anew as well | 也试图重新开始 |
| 80 | and to help hundreds of others do the same. | 帮助数百人也这样做。 |
| 81 | He bought property in Brooklyn, won himself the right to vote, | 他在布鲁克林买了地产 赢得了投票权 |
| 82 | and sold lots to others newly freed. | 并出售给其他新被释放的人。 |
| 83 | When they landed in New York Harbor, | 当他们降落在纽约港时 |
| 84 | they knew they had something waiting for them | 他们知道有东西等着他们 |
| 85 | that they had never had before, a home. | 他们从未有过的家 |
| 86 | Weeksville still stands today, | 韦斯维尔今天还站着 |
| 87 | a living, breathing testament to what we know America to be, | 一个活的,呼吸的证明 我们认识的美国, |
| 88 | a place each of us has the power to make. | 我们每个人都有力量创造的地方 |
| 89 | The harbor was busy those years, | 这些年港口很忙 |
| 90 | as ships poured in from around the world. | 就像从世界各地涌来的船一样 |
| 91 | Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants | 成千上万的爱尔兰移民 |
| 92 | arrived with stomachs aching | 肚子疼着呢 |
| 93 | from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty. | 由帝国残酷制造的饥荒。 |
| 94 | Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown. | 中国水师定居在今天的唐人街. |
| 95 | Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty | 数百万人在自由女神像下旅行 |
| 96 | and through Ellis Island, | 穿过埃利斯岛 |
| 97 | Jewish people escaping pogroms, | 犹太人逃离大屠杀, |
| 98 | Italians fleeing poverty, | 意大利人逃离贫困 |
| 99 | Syrians seeking economic opportunity. | 叙利亚人寻求经济机会。 |
| 100 | Each of these new arrivals | 这些新来者每人 |
| 101 | peered through portholes onto a city | 通过端口洞对接到城市 |
| 102 | that was changing as fast as the nation. | 和全国一样快 |
| 103 | They saw merchants peddling their wares on the docks, | 他们看见商人们在码头上卖东西 |
| 104 | streets being laid out on a grid, | 街道铺在网格上, |
| 105 | buildings rising into the clouds. | 楼升云. |
| 106 | They could not yet see the nativism they would face, | 他们还没有看到他们将要面对的纳粹主义, |
| 107 | the jobs they would be refused, | 拒绝他们的工作, |
| 108 | the landlords who would not rent to them, | 那些不愿租房的房东, |
| 109 | and the abject labor and living conditions they would withstand. | 以及他们忍受的悲惨的劳动和生活条件。 |
| 110 | But no matter how much smog hung over the harbor, | 但不管港口上挂了多少烟雾 |
| 111 | they still saw an opportunity to begin anew. | 他们仍然看到了重新开始的机会。 |
| 112 | Over the years that followed, | 之后的几年里, |
| 113 | despite laws enacted by the federal government | 尽管联邦政府颁布了法律 |
| 114 | to bar their entry, | 禁止他们入境, |
| 115 | despite sweatshop fires that killed hundreds of women, | 尽管血汗工厂的火灾 杀死了数百名妇女, |
| 116 | despite riots aimed at their very existence, | 尽管暴动是为了他们的生存 |
| 117 | immigrants made homes here in New York City, | 移民在纽约市建造了住宅 |
| 118 | and they helped to make New York City. | 他们帮助创造了纽约市。 |
| 119 | That legacy of every generation of Americans | 每一代美国人的遗产 |
| 120 | insisting that the right to life, liberty, | 坚持生命权、自由权, |
| 121 | and the pursuit of happiness extends to them, too, | 追求幸福也延续到他们身上 |
| 122 | is no relic of the past. | 这不是过去的遗迹。 |
| 123 | It carried millions of Black Americans north | 它载着数百万美国黑人北上 |
| 124 | during the Great Migration. | 在大迁徙期间 |
| 125 | It drew hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans | 它吸引了数十万波多黎各人 |
| 126 | to New York City after the Second World War. | 二战后前往纽约市. |
| 127 | It invited countless others from the West Indies | 它邀请了来自西印度群岛的无数其他人 |
| 128 | and South Asia and West Africa and across the world. | 南亚和西非以及全世界。 |
| 129 | And it is what brought my family to this city | 正是它把我的家人带到这个城市 |
| 130 | when I was seven years old. | 我七岁时 |
| 131 | My family did not arrive by boat, | 我的家人不是乘船来的 |
| 132 | although we saw the Statue of Liberty | 虽然我们看到自由女神像 |
| 133 | from the window of the plane. | 从飞机的窗口。 |
| 134 | Even from the air, we could make out the promise of America, | 即使从空中, 我们可以做出美国的承诺, |
| 135 | the promise of the beautiful patriotic work | 美丽的爱国作品的希望 |
| 136 | of rendering America, year after year, | 年复一年地使美国变得如此 |
| 137 | a little more faithful to its founding ideals. | 更忠实于它的创始理想 |
| 138 | There is a term so often used to describe our nation | 有个词经常用来形容我们的民族 |
| 139 | and those who have shaped it, American exceptionalism. | 和那些塑造它的人, 美国的例外主义。 |
| 140 | American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, | 美国的例外主义, 传统的智慧告诉我们, |
| 141 | makes our freedom a little more free, | 使我们的自由更加自由, |
| 142 | is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, | 我们是如何挖掘伊利运河 灌溉西部的 |
| 143 | is why children in faraway lands | 这就是为什么在遥远的地方的儿童 |
| 144 | grow up dreaming of one day moving here. | 梦想有一天能搬来这里 |
| 145 | And yet the irony is that the story of America | 讽刺的是美国的故事 |
| 146 | has so often been written by those | 他们经常写作 |
| 147 | who were told by others with power and influence and wealth | 他们曾被有权力、有影响力、有财富的其他人告诉过。 |
| 148 | that they were anything but exceptional. | 他们只是例外 |
| 149 | For generation after generation we have been told | 世代相传 |
| 150 | that when the world has sent its people to our shores, | 当世界派遣其人民到我们的海岸的时候, |
| 151 | it has not sent its best. | 它没有派出最好的。 |
| 152 | It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims | 它派遣清教徒、锡克教徒、贵格教徒和穆斯林, |
| 153 | and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, | 以及因祈祷不义而被放逐的犹太教徒, |
| 154 | worshipping the wrong gods, | 崇拜不义的神灵, |
| 155 | angering the wrong people. | 愤怒的错人。 |
| 156 | It sent peasants and serfs from slums and shtetls | 它派遣农民和农奴 从贫民窟和shtetls |
| 157 | who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, | 因为他们几乎不穿衣服, |
| 158 | let alone land. | 更别说是陆地了 |
| 159 | It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had. | 它派遣移民 从谁的权力 是别人拥有的东西。 |
| 160 | We are told that America is exceptional | 听说美国很特别 |
| 161 | because we are richer, stronger, | 因为我们更有钱更强壮 |
| 162 | more powerful than everyone else. | 比其他人更厉害 |
| 163 | The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional | 事实是,我的朋友们, 美国是非凡的 |
| 164 | because here nothing is fixed into place. | 因为这里没有固定的地方 |
| 165 | The frontier may be closed, | 边境可能关闭, |
| 166 | we may have walked on the moon, | 我们可能在月亮上行走 |
| 167 | but the work of fulfilling the values | 但实现价值观的工作 |
| 168 | first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, | 《独立宣言》中载列的 |
| 169 | that work endures, and it belongs to us all. | 它属于我们所有人。 |
| 170 | It belongs too to our newest Americans, | 这也属于我们最新的美国人 |
| 171 | those standing here with me today, | 今天站在我身边的那些人 |
| 172 | all of whom were recently naturalized. | 他们都是最近才入籍的 |
| 173 | Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, | 差不多十年前 我也感觉到你的感受 |
| 174 | the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, | 不再只是纽约人的快乐, |
| 175 | but an American too. | 但也是个美国人 |
| 176 | You each hold a special power, | 你们各自拥有特殊的力量 |
| 177 | the power to determine what America means. | 有权决定美国的意义 |
| 178 | The powerful have always known their answer. | 强者常知其解. |
| 179 | America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, | 他们认为美国是至高无上的舞台 |
| 180 | where only a select few are allowed freedom, | 只有少数人可以自由, |
| 181 | where not all are created equal. | 在那里,不是所有人都是平等的。 |
| 182 | America, if you ask them, becomes less | 美国,如果你问他们, 变得更少 |
| 183 | the more people it welcomes. | 它欢迎的人越多 |
| 184 | America, they will tell you, belongs only to those | 美国,他们会告诉你, 属于那些 |
| 185 | with the right accent or the right shade of skin. | 以正确的口音或皮肤的阴影。 |
| 186 | The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful | 我们其他人,他们坚持, 应该感激 |
| 187 | for merely being allowed to visit. | 只是被允许参观。 |
| 188 | How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. | 它们多小,多弱,多不原始。 |
| 189 | At every moment in our past, | 在我们过去的每一刻 |
| 190 | those who led through exclusion and isolation | 被排斥和孤立的人 |
| 191 | have tried to win power and enrich themselves | 曾经试图赢得权力和充实自己 |
| 192 | by turning us against one another. | 使我们彼此对立 |
| 193 | Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. | "组织"是政治中最古老的诡计,也是最便宜的. |
| 194 | But time and again, including 250 years ago, | 但一次又一次,包括250年前 |
| 195 | those forces of division have been vanquished | 这些分裂势力已经消灭 |
| 196 | by the forces of progress. | 以进步的力量盟誓, |
| 197 | As Thomas Paine once wrote, | 托马斯·培恩曾经写道, |
| 198 | this new world hath been the asylum | 这个新世界曾经是避难所 |
| 199 | for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. | 对受迫害的公民和宗教自由的爱好者。 |
| 200 | Hither have they fled. | 他们已经逃走了。 |
| 201 | And yet today, too many of our leaders | 然而今天 我们的领袖太多 |
| 202 | do not believe in a vision of this nation | 不要相信这个国家的愿景 |
| 203 | as an asylum for the persecuted, | 作为受迫害者的庇护所, |
| 204 | but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. | 而是迫害寻求庇护的人 |
| 205 | As we mark 250 years, what do we see? | 当我们纪念250年时,我们看到了什么? |
| 206 | We see a city of contradictions | 我们看到一个充满矛盾的城市 |
| 207 | within a nation of contradictions. | 在一个充满矛盾的国家 |
| 208 | We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, | 我们看到世界历史上最富有的国家 |
| 209 | one where children go to sleep hungry | 一个孩子饿着睡的地方 |
| 210 | while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. | 而世界上第一个亿万富翁却在挨饿 |
| 211 | We see monopolies that dominate every industry | 我们看到垄断 支配每个行业 |
| 212 | and oligarchs who buy elections. | 和购买选举的寡头 |
| 213 | We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, | 我们看到蒙面特工恐吓我们的街道, |
| 214 | eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors | 吃我们无证邻居煮的食物 |
| 215 | before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. | 然后用无标记的货车驱赶他们 |
| 216 | We see a nation whose immense wealth | 我们看到一个民族,其财产巨大, |
| 217 | has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, | 是由有刚强的手足所造的, |
| 218 | those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. | 那些在工厂的地板上劳作, |
| 219 | And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth | 我们看到一个国家 允许这么多的财富 |
| 220 | to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few. | 而是被珍贵的少数人软握着 |
| 221 | Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry | 是的,我们看到美国在健康保险行业 |
| 222 | that exploits the sick, | 剥削病人, |
| 223 | but that is not all we see when we look for America. | 但这不是我们寻找美国时所看到的 |
| 224 | We see it, too, in the nurse who works a double shift | 我们从双班护士身上也看到 |
| 225 | and then stops on her way home to check on an ailing neighbor. | 然后在回家的路上停下来 看看一个生病的邻居 |
| 226 | Yes, we see America in corporate landlords | 是的,我们看到美国 公司地主 |
| 227 | for whom negligence is a business model. | 对他们来说,疏忽是一种商业模式。 |
| 228 | We see it, too, in the father who tucks his children into bed | 我们从把孩子哄到床上的父亲身上也看到了 |
| 229 | beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, | 在天花板下,有漏水, |
| 230 | who wakes before dawn to go to work | 黎明前醒来去上班的人 |
| 231 | and still believes his country can do better by his family. | 并且仍然相信他的国家能够通过他的家庭做更好的。 |
| 232 | Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars | 是的,我们花税钱的时候看到美国了 |
| 233 | on bombs and bailouts, | 在炸弹和救赎, |
| 234 | when we sell our elections for the highest bidder. | 我们把选举卖给出价最高的人 |
| 235 | Yet we see it just as clearly in every American | 然而,我们却在每一个美国人身上 都看到了同样清楚 |
| 236 | who still believes this country belongs to we, the people. | 他们仍然相信这个国家属于我们人民。 |
| 237 | We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors | 我们每一次看到美国 邻居把手臂和邻居联系起来 |
| 238 | without asking how long they have lived here | 没问他们在这里住了多久 |
| 239 | or what papers they have as ICE invades our neighborhoods. | 或者他们有什么样的文件 作为ICE入侵我们的社区。 |
| 240 | We see America each time those young and old | 我们每次看到美国 年轻和老 |
| 241 | stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat | 站在跳动的雨中或窒息的热浪中 |
| 242 | to cast their ballots. | 投他们的选票。 |
| 243 | We see America each time working people demand more, | 我们每次看到美国 工作的人要求更多, |
| 244 | not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. | 不仅为自己,而且为他们的美国同胞。 |
| 245 | There are some who respond to those who ask for more | 有人回应那些要求更多 |
| 246 | from America with a simple refrain. | 从美国用一个简单的节奏。 |
| 247 | Love it or leave it, they say. | 他们说,爱或离开它。 |
| 248 | But patriotism has never been about pretending | 但爱国从来就不是假装 |
| 249 | our nation is without flaws. | 我们的国家没有缺点。 |
| 250 | Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. | 爱国主义是正义异议的每一个行为。 |
| 251 | It is every march led under the heavy sun. | 每一次在重阳下游行 |
| 252 | It is every protest held a decade before its time. | 这是10年前举行的每次抗议。 |
| 253 | It is precisely because we love this nation | 正是因为我们爱这个国家 |
| 254 | that we will not leave it. | 我们不会离开它。 |
| 255 | After all, who loves America more | 毕竟,谁更爱美国 |
| 256 | than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free? | 比那些为了自由而牺牲了这么多的人还重要吗? |
| 257 | Today, I think not only of the 4th of July, | 今天,我不仅想到7月4日, |
| 258 | I think, too, of the 9th of July. | 我想也是七月九号的事 |
| 259 | Five days after the Declaration of Independence was signed, | 在独立宣言签署五天后 |
| 260 | it arrived here in our New York City. | 它到达了纽约 |
| 261 | Redcoats had disembarked on Staten Island. | 红衫军在斯塔登岛登陆了 |
| 262 | More than 100 British ships loomed just offshore. | 100多艘英国舰只停靠在近海。 |
| 263 | Across this city, the Continental Army prepared for an invasion. | 在这座城市,大陆军队准备入侵 |
| 264 | George Washington commanded his brigades | 乔治·华盛顿指挥他的旅 |
| 265 | to assemble just a few feet from this building. | 就在这栋楼几英尺外集合 |
| 266 | It was known then as the Commons. | 它当时被称为"公社". |
| 267 | Today, we call it City Hall Park. | 今天,我们称之为市政厅公园。 |
| 268 | There, within range of British guns, | 在英国枪械范围内 |
| 269 | Washington ordered his generals to read the Declaration aloud. | 华盛顿命令他的将军们大声宣读宣言. |
| 270 | And with the world's mightiest empire poised to attack, | 随着世界上最强大的帝国准备进攻 |
| 271 | Washington told the people of New York City | 华盛顿告诉纽约市人民 |
| 272 | what we will celebrate tomorrow, | 我们明天要庆祝什么 |
| 273 | that we had declared our independence, | 我们曾宣布独立, |
| 274 | that freedom was within reach. | 自由是可以实现的。 |
| 275 | That evening, danger loomed. | 当晚,危险即将来临。 |
| 276 | Conflict was not a question, but a certainty. | 冲突不是一个问题,而是一个确定性。 |
| 277 | And yet, when those early New Yorkers | 然而,当那些早期的纽约人 |
| 278 | marched toward the statue of King George III, | 向乔治三世国王的雕像进军 |
| 279 | that stood in the Bowling Green, | 在那座乐园里, |
| 280 | a statue they would melt down into bullets for their young army, | 一尊雕像,他们会熔化成子弹 给他们年轻的军队, |
| 281 | they walked in unison, | 他们一起走进来, |
| 282 | grounded not in the pursuit of plunder, | 不是为了掠夺, |
| 283 | but in ideals that for the first time had a name, | 但是在第一次有名字的理想中 |
| 284 | America. | 美国。 |
| 285 | Those ideals upon which our nation was built, | 我们国家赖以建立的理想 |
| 286 | they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, | 他们足以忍受任何独裁政权, |
| 287 | but only if we reach for them. | 只要我们找到他们 |
| 288 | Ours is a nation working each day | 我们的国家每天都在工作 |
| 289 | towards the perfection in which it was conceived, | 以便它被创造出来, |
| 290 | a nation striving each day to better itself. | 一个每天都在努力改善自己的国家。 |
| 291 | Therein lies the work of America, | 美国的作品就在这里 |
| 292 | the striving, the bettering, | 是奋斗的,是行善的, |
| 293 | the reaching towards perfection. | 达到完美 |
| 294 | What a privilege each of us has | 我们每个人都有多么荣幸 |
| 295 | to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. | 生活在一个每个居民都能塑造的国家。 |
| 296 | What a responsibility each of us possesses | 我们每个人都有责任 |
| 297 | to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before. | 来证明自己与所有来过的人相配 |
| 298 | What power each of us holds | 我们每个人都拥有什么力量 |
| 299 | to bring America ever closer | 让美国更加接近 |
| 300 | to the greatness so many have seen | 如此之大,如此之众所见 |
| 301 | when they looked upon these shores, | 当他们望着这些海岸时, |
| 302 | the greatness that, for 250 years, | 250年来的伟大 |
| 303 | has been America. | 曾经是美国。 |
| 304 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 305 | God bless America, God bless New York City, | 上帝保佑美国 上帝保佑纽约市 |
| 306 | and happy Fourth of July. | 国庆节快乐 |
| 307 | Tingo! | 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 丁戈 |
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