奥巴马在奥巴马总统中心开幕式上发表演讲 | 2026.6.1
字幕摘录
| 时间 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 0:05 | Hello, Chicago. | 哈罗,芝加哥。 |
| 0:06 | Sweet home, Chicago. | 甜蜜的家园,芝加哥。 |
| 0:13 | Please have a seat. | 请坐 |
| 0:14 | Thank you Punehi for that outstanding | 谢谢你的杰出表现 |
| 0:19 | introduction. | 导言。 |
| 0:22 | President and Mrs. Bush, President and Secretary Clinton, thank you for being | 总统和克林顿国务卿布什总统和夫人感谢你 |
| 0:28 | with us today and for your devotion to our country. | 今天与我们一起,为您献身于我们的国家。 |
| 0:36 | And President and Dr. Biden, thank | 总统和拜登博士,谢谢 |
| 0:40 | you for your steadfast partnership for eight years. | 八年来你一直保持着坚定的伙伴关系 |
| 0:47 | Joe, we started as running mates and | Joe, 我们开始作为竞选伙伴和 |
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| 序号 | 英文 | 中文 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello, Chicago. | 哈罗,芝加哥。 |
| 2 | Sweet home, Chicago. | 甜蜜的家园,芝加哥。 |
| 3 | Please have a seat. | 请坐 |
| 4 | Thank you Punehi for that outstanding | 谢谢你的杰出表现 |
| 5 | introduction. | 导言。 |
| 6 | President and Mrs. Bush, President and Secretary Clinton, thank you for being | 总统和克林顿国务卿布什总统和夫人感谢你 |
| 7 | with us today and for your devotion to our country. | 今天与我们一起,为您献身于我们的国家。 |
| 8 | And President and Dr. Biden, thank | 总统和拜登博士,谢谢 |
| 9 | you for your steadfast partnership for eight years. | 八年来你一直保持着坚定的伙伴关系 |
| 10 | Joe, we started as running mates and | Joe, 我们开始作为竞选伙伴和 |
| 11 | ended as family. | 结束了作为家庭。 |
| 12 | And we would not be here without you. | 没有你,我们不会在这里。 |
| 13 | And we are grateful. | 我们很感激。 |
| 14 | To our amazing | 敬我们的神奇 |
| 15 | foundation staff and our amazing board, to Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, thank you | 基金会员工和我们惊人的董事会 致普里茨克州长 约翰逊市长 谢谢 |
| 16 | for making this center possible. | 让这个中心成为可能 |
| 17 | To congressional leaders and foreign dignitaries who have made | 致国会领导人和外国要人 |
| 18 | the trip, I cherish our partnership together and all we got accomplished together. | 我珍惜我们的伙伴关系和我们一起完成的一切 |
| 19 | Thank | 谢谢 |
| 20 | you. | 你们 |
| 21 | 对Michelle来说 她做错了我 | |
| 22 | She wouldn't let me see her speech. | 她不让我看她的演讲 |
| 23 | She knew she was going | 她知道自己会去 |
| 24 | mess me up. | 搅乱我 |
| 25 | And she did it anyway. | 她还是做到了 |
| 26 | But she's always made me better. | 但她总是让我好起来 |
| 27 | And I could not be more | 我不能再这样了 |
| 28 | grateful. | 谢谢 |
| 29 | And to Sasha and Malia, what can I say? | 和萨沙和马利亚, 我能说什么? |
| 30 | You mean everything to me. | 你对我意味着一切。 |
| 31 | More than 40 years ago, | 40多年前,我们... |
| 32 | on a late summer afternoon in 1985, I arrived here in Chicago, entering the city through the very | 1985年夏末下午,我来到芝加哥,从芝加哥进入城市 |
| 33 | spot where this center now stands. | 中心现在的位置 |
| 34 | I can still picture myself heading down what was then Cornell | 我仍然可以想象自己 向着当时的康奈尔前进 |
| 35 | Drive in a janky used car that I bought in New York with all my worldly possessions stuffed in | 开着一辆我在纽约买的车 里面装满了我所有的东西 |
| 36 | the trunk and the back seat. | 后备箱和后座 |
| 37 | So I really couldn't see out of the rear view mirror. | 所以我真的看不到后视镜。 |
| 38 | And I was a | 我是一个 |
| 39 | safety hazard. | 安全隐患。 |
| 40 | And I was 23 years old. | 当时我23岁。 |
| 41 | I had just been hired by a group of churches on the South | 我刚刚被南方的教会雇用了 |
| 42 | Side to help organize a part of the city that had been battered by steel plant closings and chronic | 帮助组织一个 被钢铁厂关闭和长期袭击的城市 |
| 43 | neglect. | 忽视。 |
| 44 | And I didn't have much organizing experience. | 我没有太多的组织经验。 |
| 45 | Didn't know anybody in Chicago. | 在芝加哥不认识任何人 |
| 46 | But I | 不过 |
| 47 | had been inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. | 受到民权运动的启发。 |
| 48 | And I knew I wanted to make a difference. | 我知道我想改变一切 |
| 49 | And | 还有 |
| 50 | although I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to do that, I was possessed with this abiding faith | 虽然我不确定我到底要怎么做, 但我被这种坚定的信仰迷住了 |
| 51 | that if we could give people more of a say in the forces that govern their lives, if we could bridge | 如果我们能给人民更多的发言权 在管理他们生活的力量, 如果我们能桥梁 |
| 52 | some of the differences that drove us apart, then we could build an America where everyone counts. | 有些分歧使我们分崩离析, 然后我们就可以建立一个每个人都重视的美国。 |
| 53 | And everyone has a fair shot. | 每个人都有公平的机会。 |
| 54 | And everyone belongs. | 每个人都属于我 |
| 55 | Even a mixed race kid with a weird | 连混血儿都怪怪的 |
| 56 | backstory and a name nobody could pronounce. | 背面的故事和一个没人能发音的名字 |
| 57 | And it was here in this city, a city of broad shoulders, | 它就在这个城市里 一个宽肩的城市 |
| 58 | that I found what I was looking for. | 我找到了我要找的东西 |
| 59 | Day by day, block by block, I got to know the people who lived | 日复一日,逐块堵住,我必须了解住的人 |
| 60 | here, their hopes, their dreams, their tragedies and their triumphs. | 他们的希望、梦想、悲剧和胜利 |
| 61 | I witnessed their resilience | 我亲眼目睹了他们的韧性 |
| 62 | in the face of hardship and the quiet heroism of a single mom raising her kids and sending them to | 面对困难和沉默的英雄主义 单身母亲抚养孩子 送他们去 |
| 63 | college on a secretary's salary. | 大学是拿秘书薪水的 |
| 64 | Or the priest electing to stay in the city and open his doors | 或者牧师选择留在城里 打开他的门 |
| 65 | to add risk use, even as most of his flock had fled to the suburbs. | 即使他的羊群大多逃到郊区 |
| 66 | I learned that leadership has | 我学会了领导 |
| 67 | less to do with titles or rank or chasing attention than with helping others find their voice, | 比起帮助别人找到自己的声音 更不关心头衔或级别或追求关注 |
| 68 | reaching their potential and sitting around people's kitchen tables or on their back porches, | 达到他们的潜力,坐在人们的厨房桌子上,或者坐在他们的后门廊上, |
| 69 | spending time in church basements and barbershops. | 在教堂地下室和理发店呆过 |
| 70 | I was reminded that everyone has a story to tell if you just care to listen. | 有人提醒我,每个人都有一个故事 说,如果你只是想听。 |
| 71 | Sacred stories full of courage and humor and grace and that each of those stories in some way | 充满勇气、幽默和优雅的神圣故事 每一个故事都以某种方式 |
| 72 | connected to my own. | 和我自己有关 |
| 73 | In other words, I found my purpose here and I fortified my faith here | 换句话说,我在这里找到了我的目的 我在这里强化了我的信仰 |
| 74 | and I found my community here, friendships that would last a lifetime. | 我发现我的社区在这里, 友谊会持续一生。 |
| 75 | And I found a girl | 我找到一个女孩 |
| 76 | from the south side who has been my greatest blessing. | 从南边来的 是我最大的祝福 |
| 77 | Michelle and I, our wedding reception was over at South Shore Cultural Center. | 米歇尔和我 我们的婚礼招待会在南岸文化中心结束 |
| 78 | You could walk | 你可以走动 |
| 79 | from here. | 从这里。 |
| 80 | Our daughters were born right down the street. | 我们的女儿生在街上 |
| 81 | This is where we bought our first home. | 我们在这里买了第一座房子 |
| 82 | This is where our kids took their first steps. | 这是我们的孩子迈出第一步的地方。 |
| 83 | This is where I launched my candidacy for the | 我在此发起竞选 |
| 84 | Illinois State Senate over at the Ramada Inn on Lakeshore Drive, serving pretzels and soda, | 伊利诺伊州参议院在湖岸大道的拉玛达客栈 提供脆饼和苏打水 |
| 85 | embarking on the path that ultimately and improbably led to this day. | 走上最终和不可能导致今天的道路。 |
| 86 | So for me, | 对我来说 |
| 87 | this center could not be any place else. | 这个中心不可能是别的地方 |
| 88 | It's an expression of thanks, | 这是感谢的表达, |
| 89 | an acknowledgement that so much of what I hold most dear, I owe to the people of this city | 承认我最珍爱的,我对这座城市的人民 |
| 90 | and the people of these surrounding neighborhoods. | 和周围的居民。 |
| 91 | And it's why we designed the center not to be some | 这就是为什么我们设计中心 不是一些 |
| 92 | ma陵. | |
| 93 | I am too young for that. | 我太年轻了 |
| 94 | Not just a place to see Michelle's dresses, although I | 不只是看蜜雪儿衣服的地方 虽然我 |
| 95 | understand that will be the top attraction. | 这才是最吸引人的地方 |
| 96 | We wanted it to be a vibrant, living celebration | 我们希望它是一个充满活力,活的庆祝 |
| 97 | of community where we can learn together and share the joys of art and music and sport and play. | 我们一起学习,分享艺术、音乐、体育和游戏的快乐。 |
| 98 | Because it's in those moments that we're reminded of our common humanity | 因为正是在这些时刻 我们被提醒了 我们共同的人性 |
| 99 | and strengthen the bonds of trust that not only make our lives richer, but make our democracy | 并且加强信任纽带,不仅使我们的生活更加丰富,而且使我们的民主 |
| 100 | stronger. | 更强。 |
| 101 | Now, we also wanted this center to be a celebration of the extraordinary public servants, | 现在,我们也希望这个中心 是一个庆祝杰出的公务员, |
| 102 | many of whom are here today that made this journey possible. | 许多人今天在这里,使这次旅程成为可能。 |
| 103 | Some of you helped get me elected. | 你们中有些人帮助我当选。 |
| 104 | Some of you I had to talk into joining my administration. | 你们中有些人我不得不谈谈加入我的政府 |
| 105 | Some of you were seasoned veterans who helped show a rookie president the ropes. | 你们中有些人是老练的老兵 他们帮新人当过新人总裁 |
| 106 | But a lot of you | 但是你们很多人 |
| 107 | were younger than I was when I first drove into this city. | 比我年轻 当我开车进入这个城市。 |
| 108 | We're all a bit older now. | 我们都老了点 |
| 109 | Many of you | 你们很多人 |
| 110 | have children of your own, even grandchildren. | 有你自己的孩子,甚至孙子。 |
| 111 | But the passage of time has only deepened my | 但时间的流逝只是加深了我 |
| 112 | admiration for your talent and your dedication and your skill. | 钦佩你的才华、奉献精神和技巧。 |
| 113 | It's only deepened my gratitude | 这让我感激不尽 |
| 114 | for how much you and your families sacrificed to make this country better. | 为了让这个国家变得更好 你和你的家人牺牲了多少 |
| 115 | So when you visit | 所以,当你拜访 |
| 116 | this center today or in days to come, I hope you see yourselves and your hard work reflected in | 今天或未来几天,我希望你们看到你们自己和你们的辛勤工作反映在 |
| 117 | every exhibit. | 每一个展览。 |
| 118 | And I hope you take pride in what we accomplished together. | 我希望你能为我们共同的成就感到自豪。 |
| 119 | You made that happen. | 这是你促成的 |
| 120 | Of course, we did not accomplish everything we set out to do. | 当然,我们没有完成我们打算做的一切。 |
| 121 | No administration does. | 没有行政部门知道。 |
| 122 | Some of the exhibits reflect unfinished business. | 一些展品反映了未完成的工作。 |
| 123 | In some cases, my own shortcomings and mistakes. | 在某些情况下,我自己的缺点和错误。 |
| 124 | In some cases, because as a sign I kept on the resolute desk read, hard things are hard. | 在某些情况下,因为作为一个标志 我保留在坚定的桌上阅读, 硬的东西是困难的。 |
| 125 | And that's especially true in a big, raucous, diverse, argumentative democracy like the United | 在一个庞大的,粗糙的, 多样的,有争议性的民主中, |
| 126 | States of America. | 美利坚合众国。 |
| 127 | Everybody's got an opinion. | 每个人都有意见。 |
| 128 | And that means getting stuff done involves | 这意味着做一些事情 |
| 129 | reconciling the demands of a couple of hundred million people. | 调和几亿人民的要求. |
| 130 | Democracy can be frustrating. | 民主可能令人沮丧。 |
| 131 | It can be slow. | 其能缓也. |
| 132 | It can be inefficient. | 可能效率低下。 |
| 133 | And yet more than anything, I hope this center will serve | 但最重要的是,我希望这个中心能服务于 |
| 134 | as an affirmation of just how special, how precious our democracy truly is. | 以证实我们的民主是多么特殊,多么珍贵。 |
| 135 | And remind us what we can achieve when we embrace our shared responsibilities as citizens. | 并提醒我们,当我们接受作为公民的共同责任时,我们能够取得什么成就。 |
| 136 | And since we're a few weeks away from America's 250th birthday, it is worth remembering | 既然我们离美国250岁生日还有几周 值得记住 |
| 137 | just how radical the whole idea of self-government really was back in 1776. | 1776年,整个自治思想 是多么激进。 |
| 138 | To that point, human history was a tale of conquest and caste and rigid hierarchies. | 至此,人类历史是一个征服和种姓以及僵硬的等级制度的故事. |
| 139 | A world where the strong dominated the weak, where power and wealth and status flowed through | 强者主宰弱者的世界 权力、财富和地位流经 |
| 140 | lineage. | 系脉. |
| 141 | And the many were ruled by the few. | 而其中众多被少数人统治. |
| 142 | But out of the fire and steel of a revolution, | 但从革命的火和钢中 |
| 143 | a different story took flight. | 一个不同的故事飞走了。 |
| 144 | On this continent, a declaration that we are all created equal, | 在这个大陆上,宣布我们都是平等的, |
| 145 | endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, and that in the newly independent United | 我们的创造者赋予了某些不可剥夺的权利,以及在新独立的 |
| 146 | States, there will be no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects, but only citizens, | 国家,将没有国王或领主, 没有农奴或臣民, 但只有公民, |
| 147 | each of us free to pursue our own version of happiness and able to determine our collective | 我们每个人都可以自由地追求我们自己的幸福 并且能够决定我们的集体 |
| 148 | fate to an elected representative government. | 对民选代表政府的命运。 |
| 149 | It had not been done. | 还没有这样做。 |
| 150 | And because it hadn't been | 因为没有 |
| 151 | done before, the success of this experiment was never a given. | 之前完成的,这个实验的成功 从来没有一个给定。 |
| 152 | In forming our union, the founders | 组成我们的联盟,创始人 |
| 153 | fell terribly short of the declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to | 远远没有兑现宣言的承诺,使奴隶制不受伤害,使各国能够 |
| 154 | restrict the franchise to white men who own property. | 将选举权限制在拥有财产的白人身上。 |
| 155 | But in drafting a constitution and | 但是,在起草宪法和 |
| 156 | a bill of rights, they did have the foresight, the genius to provide us with a framework that | 他们确实有远见 才智为我们提供一个框架 |
| 157 | allows each generation to make our union more perfect. | 让每一代人都能让我们的结合更加完美 |
| 158 | And over more than two centuries, | 超过两个世纪, |
| 159 | through petitions and protests, marches and strikes, moral appeals from the pulpit and | 通过请愿和抗议、游行和罢工、从法院提出的道德呼吁以及 |
| 160 | conversations at the family dinner table, men and women from all walks of life, of every color, | 在家庭宴席上的对话 来自各行各业的男女 各种肤色 |
| 161 | every faith, every region, took up the cause of democracy and made it their own until we, | 每一个信仰,每一个地区, 都拥护民主的事业, 并把它自己,直到我们, |
| 162 | people, came to include not just some of us, but all of us. | 不仅包括我们中的一些人,还包括我们所有人。 |
| 163 | And that's why the story we tell | 这就是为什么我们告诉的故事 |
| 164 | in this building begins not with Michelle's origins or my origins, but with our nations, | 在这座建筑中,不是从米歇尔的出身或我的出身开始,而是从我们的国家开始, |
| 165 | with a founding or a print of the Declaration of Independence and a pen and ink stand used | 《独立宣言》的创始人或印本,以及使用的笔墨亭 |
| 166 | by Frederick Douglass, Lincoln's Bible and a pamphlet by Ida B. | 由弗雷德里克·道格拉斯(Frederick Douglass),林肯的圣经和伊达·B的一本小册子. |
| 167 | Wells, 窒息按钮 | |
| 168 | 还有FDR的劳工部长Francis Perkins戴的硬帽子 | |
| 169 | And it's why the exhibits here | 这就是为什么这里的展品 |
| 170 | focus not just on policies, but on the shared values that make democracy possible. | 不仅注重政策,而且注重使民主成为可能的共同价值观。 |
| 171 | A belief in the intrinsic dignity and worth of all people and that no one is above the law | 相信所有人的固有尊严和价值,相信任何人都不能凌驾于法律之上 |
| 172 | or beneath its protection. | 或在其保护之下。 |
| 173 | A belief in checks and balances in our government and an accountability | 相信政府中的制衡 以及问责制 |
| 174 | that comes with an independent judiciary and a robust free press. | 有了独立的司法机构和强大的新闻自由。 |
| 175 | A belief that our military and | 相信我们的军队 |
| 176 | law enforcement owe allegiance not to any president or political party, but to the people and our | 执法部门不效忠任何总统或政党,而是效忠人民和我们 |
| 177 | Constitution. | 宪法。 |
| 178 | A belief in the peaceful transfer of power after the people have spoken in fair and | 相信人民在公平、公正、 |
| 179 | free elections, recognizing that in a large, complicated society like ours, no group or | 自由选举,承认在像我们这样的大而复杂的社会中,任何群体或群体, |
| 180 | faction gets its way 100% of the time. | 100%的时间。 |
| 181 | And a belief that qualities of character, honesty, integrity, | 相信品格、诚实、正直 |
| 182 | kindness, compassion, a sense of duty and honor, those things matter in our public dealings, | 善良 同情 责任感和荣誉感 这些东西对我们的公开交易很重要 |
| 183 | just as they do in our private lives. | 就像我们私生活一样 |
| 184 | These are not, these are the values | 这些不是,这些是价值 |
| 185 | and traditions I believe in. | 以及我信仰的传统 |
| 186 | And they are not Republican or Democratic values. | 它们不是共和党或民主党的价值观。 |
| 187 | They are American values we can all share, regardless of party. | 这些都是美国价值观,我们都可以分享,无论党派如何。 |
| 188 | Values every president | 每位总统的价值 |
| 189 | here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold. | 今天在这里,与我们不同,我们尽力维护。 |
| 190 | Values that John McCain | 约翰·麦凯恩的价值观 |
| 191 | Mitt Romney也相信我 和我一样 | |
| 192 | It is our greatest inheritance, | 这是我们最大的遗产 |
| 193 | the story of America at its best because it reflects a basic faith in the decency of our | 美国故事的最好之处在于 它反映了对我们的尊严的基本信念 |
| 194 | fellow citizens and the possibility that despite all of our differences, we can see each other | 同胞们,尽管我们有分歧,我们仍可以相见 |
| 195 | and understand one another and make common cause together. | 互相理解,共同奋斗 |
| 196 | That's what I hope every visitor to | 我希望每个访客都这样 |
| 197 | center takes away from their experience. | 中心夺走了他们的经验。 |
| 198 | And that's why if you come for a day and you don't have | 这就是为什么如果你来一天 而你没有 |
| 199 | time to see everything, I would urge you to skip the clips of my speeches. | 时间来看一切,我敦促你省略我发言的片段。 |
| 200 | You have heard them all | 你都听过了 |
| 201 | before in favor of the stories of those ordinary citizens who helped make that change happen. | 支持那些帮助实现变革的普通公民的故事。 |
| 202 | The cancer survivor who feared rising premiums would force her out of her home and was brave | 癌症幸存者担心保费上涨 就会把她赶出家门 勇敢 |
| 203 | to speak out about it. | 说出来。 |
| 204 | She is why we pushed so hard for health care reform. | 她就是我们为什么如此大力推动保健改革的原因。 |
| 205 | The small business | 小企业 |
| 206 | owner trying to keep the lights on. | 车主试图保持灯光。 |
| 207 | The teenage girl who told me she was worried her dad might | 那个十几岁女孩告诉我 她担心她爸爸会 |
| 208 | lose his job in the auto crisis. | 在汽车危机中失去工作. |
| 209 | They are why we focused so relentlessly on pulling our economy | 这就是为什么我们如此不懈地 专注于拉我们的经济 |
| 210 | back from the great recession. | 从大衰退中回来 |
| 211 | The wounded warrior overcoming debilitating injuries. | 受伤的战士克服了伤害 |
| 212 | The gay Air Force major serving her country even when forced to hide who she was. | 同性恋空军少校为她的国家服务 即使她被迫隐藏自己是谁 |
| 213 | They're why we | 他们就是我们 |
| 214 | worked to end Don't Ask Don't Tell and care for those who've worn our country's uniform and do | 不要问 不要说 关心那些穿了我国制服的人 |
| 215 | right by our military families. | 我们的军人家庭 |
| 216 | It's their voices that led to our successes. | 正是他们的声音导致了我们的成功。 |
| 217 | And while going through | 在经历中 |
| 218 | the exhibits, I'd also ask you listen to the voices of people around the world who've been | 展品,我还要请你们听 世界各地人们的声音 谁一直 |
| 219 | inspired by American ideas. | 受到美国思想的启发. |
| 220 | Yes, America has made its share of foreign policy mistakes. | 是的,美国犯下了外交政策错误。 |
| 221 | Our actions have not always matched our rhetoric. | 我们的行动并不总是与我们的言论相符。 |
| 222 | We've learned that we can't solve every conflict | 我们了解到我们无法解决所有冲突 |
| 223 | or solve or stop every atrocity around the globe. | 或解决或制止全球的一切暴行。 |
| 224 | But at our best, the United States has been an | 但从最好的方面来说,美国一直是 |
| 225 | undeniable force for good in the world. | 不可否认的力量为世界造福。 |
| 226 | And what I heard on every continent as president | 我作为总统在每一个大陆听到的 |
| 227 | is that when America, when American foreign policy lives up to our highest ideals, | 是,当美国, 当美国的外交政策 坚持我们的最高理想, |
| 228 | when we champion human rights and democracy and the sound stewardship of our planet, | 当我们捍卫人权和民主,捍卫对地球的健全管理时, |
| 229 | when we take the lead in eradicating disease and feeding the hungry and educating children, | 当我们带头消灭疾病、喂饱饥饿的人和教育儿童时, |
| 230 | when we encourage cooperation between nations, instead of trying to dominate and bully and squeeze | 我们鼓励国与国之间的合作,而不是试图主宰、欺负和挤压 |
| 231 | every advantage just because we can. | 每一个优势 只因为我们可以。 |
| 232 | And most of all, when we show through our example here at home | 最重要的是,当我们举出我们的例子 |
| 233 | that even a country as big and diverse as ours can make democracy work, it turns out all nations, | 即使一个像我们这样的大而多样的国家 也能让民主运作起来 结果是所有国家 |
| 234 | including ours, become more prosperous and secure. | 包括我们,变得更繁荣和安全。 |
| 235 | And the world gets a little bit brighter. | 这个世界变得更光明一点。 |
| 236 | I recognize it's been almost a decade since I left office. | 我承认我离职已经快十年了 |
| 237 | In that time, we have lived through | 那时候,我们活了下来 |
| 238 | more war and a terrible pandemic, economic disruptions, mass protests, backlash against | 更严重的战争和可怕的流行病、经济混乱、大规模抗议、反对 |
| 239 | mass protests, political conflicts that have shaken the very foundation of our democracy. | 大规模抗议 政治冲突 动摇了我们民主的基础 |
| 240 | We've witnessed a technological revolution that promises remarkable discoveries, | 我们目睹了一场技术革命, 它保证了显著的发现, |
| 241 | could revolutionize medicine, but is also accelerating inequality that puts all the | 但同时也在加速不平等 将所有 |
| 242 | world's information in the palm of our hands, but somehow makes it harder for us to tell a truth | 世界信息掌握在我们手中 但不知何故我们更难说出真相 |
| 243 | from a lie that connects us instantly like never before, even as it makes us | 从一个瞬间连接我们的谎言 从来没有过,即使它让我们 |
| 244 | more distrustful and more withdrawn and more fearful and more isolated from each other. | 更不信任 更撤退 更害怕 更彼此孤立 |
| 245 | It's a lot. | 甚处来. |
| 246 | For millions of people in this country and around the world, the future feels uncertain, | 对于这个国家和世界各地的数百万人来说,未来是不确定的, |
| 247 | the ground unstable beneath our feet. | 我们脚下地面不稳定 |
| 248 | And as algorithms keep feeding us a steady stream | 随着算法不断给我们注入稳定流 |
| 249 | of distraction and outrage, as only the loudest, most extreme voices get attention, | 因为只有最响亮最极端的声音 才能引起注意 |
| 250 | fanning our prejudices, appealing to our basest, most tribal instincts, it's tempting to give in | 煽动我们的偏见, 吸引我们的基础, 多数部落的本能, 这是诱导屈服 |
| 251 | to cynicism and even despair, to stop trying. | 愤世嫉俗,甚至绝望,停止尝试。 |
| 252 | We start thinking that appeals to democracy and | 我们开始思考这对民主和 |
| 253 | civic participation are corny and old fashioned and boring and naive, | 公民参与是老式的 无聊和天真 |
| 254 | that the very idea of working on behalf of the common good is a sucker's bet | 代表共同利益工作的想法就是个傻瓜的赌注 |
| 255 | and that in order for us to win, somebody else has got to lose. | 而为了我们赢 得失去别人 |
| 256 | 我了解,我记得 I get it. | |
| 257 | I am not immune to anger or doubt, but I do know this. | 我无法免于愤怒或怀疑,但我确实知道这一点。 |
| 258 | When we lose faith in each other, | 当我们失去对彼此的信心 |
| 259 | when we stop believing that voting matters, that citizenship matters, that our collective voices | 当我们不再相信 投票很重要, 公民权很重要, 我们的集体声音 |
| 260 | matter, that how we treat each other no longer matters, then we give away our power to decide | 我们如何对待彼此不再重要 然后我们放弃决定的权力 |
| 261 | our own futures. | 我们自己的未来 |
| 262 | We open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless or the most fearful | 我们为最无情或最不小心或最害怕的人打开大门 |
| 263 | among us, who see some groups and some people as more equal than others and see government as | 他们认为某些群体和某些人比其他人更平等 并且认为政府 |
| 264 | nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies and keep those who are different | 只能是分赃 惩罚敌人 留住不同的人 |
| 265 | in their place. | 在他们的位置。 |
| 266 | I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end. | 我不认为这是美国的故事 最终占上风。 |
| 267 | I don't believe it because for us to give up, for us to give in now, after all this country's been | 我不相信,因为我们放弃 现在,我们投降, 毕竟这个国家已经 |
| 268 | through, to cynicism and division would be a betrayal of our founding ideas, a betrayal of | 至于愤世嫉俗和分裂 将会背叛我们的创始思想 背叛 |
| 269 | our faith. | 我们的信仰。 |
| 270 | And I remain convinced that the overwhelming majority of Americans feel the same | 我仍然坚信,绝大多数美国人也一样 |
| 271 | way, that as unsettled as we are, people aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. | 就像我们一样不安 人们不会寻求永远的愤怒和分裂 |
| 272 | They | 他们 |
| 273 | are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect, that deep in our gut, we want to | 追求公平、常识和相互尊重, 内心深处,我们希望 |
| 274 | find a way to turn towards each other again, not further away. | 找到一个方法 再次转向对方, 而不是更远。 |
| 275 | I believe this because I've seen it | 我相信是因为我见过 |
| 276 | all across our country, in cities that have worked together to reclaim their streets from crime, | 在我国各地, 城市已经共同努力 恢复他们的街道 从犯罪, |
| 277 | in rural communities that have rebuilt their economy, in businesses that are finding new | 在重建其经济的农村社区,在发现新的 |
| 278 | ways to make housing affordable, in those ordinary people in the Twin Cities who brave | 在双城市中勇敢的普通人中,如何使住房负担得起 |
| 279 | frigid temperatures, risk their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look out for | 寒冷的气温,冒着自身安全的风险,肩并肩地站着看 |
| 280 | neighbors and sometimes look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do. | 邻居有时会照顾陌生人 因为他们知道这样做是正确的 |
| 281 | I've seen it, and I've seen it in a new generation of leaders here and around the world, | 我看到了,我看到它 在新一代的领导人 在这里和世界各地, |
| 282 | in Punihe and Addison, leaders who are determined to make our governments and our economies and our | 在普尼厄和艾迪森,那些决心使我们的政府、经济、 |
| 283 | societies work for everyone. | 社会为每个人服务。 |
| 284 | Obama foundational leaders like Hannah, a food corps member from | 奥巴马的创始领导人 像汉娜,一个食品团队成员 来自 |
| 285 | Ohio who's helping ensure every child has access to at least one nourishing meal. | 俄亥俄州正在帮助确保每个孩子至少能得到一顿营养餐. |
| 286 | Or George, | 或者乔治 |
| 287 | an entrepreneur who whose nonprofit helps get unused, unexpired medicine, often at no cost | 其非盈利性帮助获得未使用、未过期药品的企业家,往往不支付费用; |
| 288 | to people who need it. | 给那些需要的人 |
| 289 | Or Zuzana, a human rights lawyer in Poland who's won more than 30 landmark | 或Zuzana,波兰人权律师,他赢得了30多个里程碑 |
| 290 | cases. | 案例。 |
| 291 | There are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of these young people out | 这些年轻人有成千上万,成千上万,几十万 |
| 292 | there, making a difference right now. | 在那里, 改变现在。 |
| 293 | And this center is devoted to lifting up their stories, | 这个中心致力于提升他们的故事, |
| 294 | giving them the tools and support they need to expand their impact. | 为他们提供扩大影响所需的工具和支持。 |
| 295 | For while our work is | 虽然我们的工作 |
| 296 | nonpartisan, we are not values neutral. | 无党派,我们不是中性价值观。 |
| 297 | We have a point of view. | 我们有一个观点。 |
| 298 | The exhibits in this center | 这个中心的展品 |
| 299 | are not meant to evoke nostalgia for some gauzy bygone era, some unattainable past | 并不是要唤起怀旧 对一些纱布时代, 一些无法实现的过去 |
| 300 | that we can dream about and say, oh, we miss you Barack. | 我们可以做梦,然后说,哦,我们想你巴拉克。 |
| 301 | They're meant, | 他们的意思是, |
| 302 | they're meant to remind us of who we can be, to remind us of what's possible | 他们本意是提醒我们,我们能是谁, 提醒我们什么是可能的 |
| 303 | so we can forge ahead, clear-eyed and confident and do the work that still needs to be done. | 这样,我们就能向前看,目光明亮,充满信心,并完成仍然需要完成的工作。 |
| 304 | We can learn from the past, but America's story isn't frozen in the past. | 我们可以从过去中吸取教训,但美国的故事在过去并没有冻结. |
| 305 | It has chapters | 它有章节 |
| 306 | yet to be written, not by one person or a few people, not by Barack and Michelle | 还没有写,不是一个人或几个人,不是巴拉克和米歇尔 |
| 307 | or anybody with a fancy title or a high office, but by all of us. | 或任何有高贵头衔或高贵职位的人, 但由我们所有人。 |
| 308 | You know, one of the things a lot of presidential libraries now have in common is a replica of the | 你知道,很多总统图书馆现在的共同之处之一 就是复制 |
| 309 | Oval Office. | 办公室 |
| 310 | And if you take a peek at the one inside this building, you will see some objects | 如果你偷看这栋楼里的那个 你会看到一些物体 |
| 311 | that carried some special meaning for me during the time that I was in office. | 在我上任期间,这对我很重要 |
| 312 | There's a program | 有一个程序 |
| 313 | that a friend from the South Side gave me that he had retrieved from the 1963 March on Washington. | 南区的一个朋友告诉我 他从1963年3月的华盛顿 找回来的 |
| 314 | He was there. | 他当时在场 |
| 315 | There's a Norman Rockwell painting of the Statue of Liberty with workers hanging on | 有张诺曼·罗克威尔的 自由女神像画 工人挂在 |
| 316 | ropes, burnishing the torch that she holds aloft. | 绳子,烧她拿着的火炬 |
| 317 | And on the rug, you'll read words from some of | 在地毯上,你会读一些 |
| 318 | the paintings that you'll see right there at the south end of the plaza by Martin Purdy. | 马丁·普迪在广场南端看到的画作 |
| 319 | The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. | 道德宇宙的弧线很长,但它向正义弯曲. |
| 320 | As a quote that was often invoked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but it originally comes from a | 小马丁·路德·金博士经常引用这一引文,但最初引自 |
| 321 | Boston minister's sermon more than 170 years ago. | 170多年前波士顿部长的布道. |
| 322 | And at the time, the abolitionist cause | 当时,废奴主义导致 |
| 323 | seemed lost. | 看来迷路了 |
| 324 | The compromise of 1850 had made harboring fugitive slaves a crime under federal | 1850年的妥协使得窝藏逃亡奴隶成为联邦法律下的罪行. |
| 325 | law, even in those states that had abolished slavery. | 法律,甚至在那些废除奴隶制的州。 |
| 326 | And in a case that garnered national | 在一个国内的案例中 |
| 327 | attention, a young fugitive in Boston had been seized and tried and marched to the wharf by | 注意,波士顿的一位年轻的逃犯 被抓住并受审 并游行到码头 |
| 328 | hundreds of armed officers, where he was summarily put on a ship bound for the South, | 数百名武装军官被立即送上驶往南方的船只, |
| 329 | where he would remain in shackles and chains. | 在那里,他要留在枷锁和枷锁中。 |
| 330 | And it was a moment of profound uncertainty | 那是一个充满不确定性的时刻 |
| 331 | and despair, a moment the minister called darker than any New England had witnessed. | 和绝望,一个叫 黑暗的时刻部长 比任何新英格兰人目睹。 |
| 332 | We do not see, Reverend Theodore Parker observed, that justice is always done on earth. | 我们没有看到,西奥多·帕克牧师说,正义总是在地球上实现的。 |
| 333 | Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment. | 许多刀子是有钱的,狡猾的,荣耀的,而正义的人是贫穷的,憎恨的,在折磨中. |
| 334 | I do not pretend, the preacher said, to understand the moral universe. | 牧师说,我不假装理解道德世界。 |
| 335 | The arc is a long one. | 弧长者. |
| 336 | My eye reaches but little ways. | 我的眼睛伸向了很小的路。 |
| 337 | I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure | 我无法计算曲线和完成数字 |
| 338 | by the experience of sight. | 以见识的经验发誓, |
| 339 | I can divide it by conscience. | 我可以按照良心来划分 |
| 340 | But from what I see, I am sure | 但从我看,我确定 |
| 341 | it bends towards justice. | 它向正义倾斜 |
| 342 | The good Reverend was under no illusions about the perils and | 好牧师对危险没有幻想 |
| 343 | obstacles facing the abolitionist cause. | 废除死刑者所面临的障碍。 |
| 344 | His words offered no easy answers, no comforting | 他的话没有容易的答案,没有安慰 |
| 345 | assurances that he or his congregation would live to see the progress they so desperately saw. | 保证他或他的会众能活着看到他们如此绝望地看到的进展。 |
| 346 | Rather, his was a declaration of faith, a defiant call not to abandon hope or give way to fear, | 相反,他是一个信仰的宣示,一个不放弃希望或让位给恐惧的悖逆的号召, |
| 347 | but to stay true to our better selves and true to one another, and to keep fighting to fulfill | 但是要忠于我们更好的自我 忠于彼此 继续战斗以达到目的 |
| 348 | the promise of this nation, even in the face of cruelty and bitter disappointment, | 这个国家的承诺, 即使面对残酷和痛苦的失望, |
| 349 | even in the face of impossible odds. | 即使面对不可能的概率。 |
| 350 | It is that spirit that we open this center today. | 我们今天打开这个中心正是这种精神。 |
| 351 | The same spirit that so many of you showed all those years ago. | 和你们这么多年前一样 |
| 352 | The same spirit that inspired | 同样的精神激励 |
| 353 | generations of Americans to meet the challenges of their time. | 一代又一代的美国人 要迎接他们时代的挑战 |
| 354 | The same spirit that is alive and | 同样的精神是活着和 |
| 355 | well here on the south side of Chicago. | 在芝加哥的南边 |
| 356 | Same spirit that will see America and the world | 同样的精神,将看到美国和世界 |
| 357 | through its present trials. | 通过其目前的审判。 |
| 358 | There is a new generation out there ready to write the next | 外面有一代人准备写下一代 |
| 359 | chapter of our story. | 我们的故事的章节。 |
| 360 | We intend to help them do it, and we ask that you join us. | 我们打算帮助他们这样做,我们请你加入我们。 |
| 361 | Thank you. | 谢谢 |
| 362 | God bless you. | 上帝保佑你们。 |
| 363 | God bless the United States of America. | 上帝保佑美利坚合众国。 |
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