【英文演讲】1993年美国总统克林顿就职演说.docx

【英文演讲】1993年美国总统克林顿就职演说00:02.00First Inaugural Address of William Jefferson Clinton00:05.93 January 20, 199300:07.9500:08.71美国复兴的新时代 比尔 克林顿 第一次就职演讲 星期三,1993年1月20日00:11.0000:12.67My fellow citizens :00:14.75同胞们：00:15.62Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.00:19.16今天，我们庆祝美国复兴的奇迹。00:20.80This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we00:27.36show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy, that brings00:36.37forth the vision and courage to reinvent America.00:41.02这个仪式虽在隆冬举行，然而，我们通过自己的言语和向世界展示的面容、却促使春回大地-00:41.52回到了世界上这个最古老的民主国家，并带来了重新创造美国的远见和勇气。00:42.83When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to00:48.97the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. Not change for change's00:55.59sake, but change to preserve America's ideals; life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Though we01:08.62march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless. Each generation of Americans must define01:20.01what it means to be an American.01:22.6401:24.23On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of01:32.30service to America.01:35.4801:38.48当我国的缔造者勇敢地向世界宣布美国独立，并向上帝表明自 己的目的时，他们知道，01:43.48美国若要永存，就必须变革。不是为变革而变革，而是为了维护美国的理想-为了生命、自01:48.48由和追求幸福而变革。尽管我们随着当今时代 的节拍前进，但我们的使命永恒不变。每一01:53.48代美国人，部必须为作为一个美国人意味着什么下定义。01:58.48为此我谨代表我国人民向我的前任布什总统致意，感谢他半个世纪以来为美国所作出的贡献。02:00.4802:01.37 And I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice02:06.85triumphed over Depression, fascism and Communism.02:10.21我还要向千百万男女表示谢忱，他们坚定不移，勇于牺牲，先后战胜了大萧条，法西斯主义和共产主义。02:11.2102:11.79Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a02:20.52world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.02:27.5202:28.91今天，在冷战阴影下成长起来的一代人，在世界上负起了新的责 任。这个世界虽然沐浴着自由的阳光02:29.00但仍受到旧仇宿怨和新的祸患的威胁。02:29.5002:30.09Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is02:37.06weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among02:43.81our people.02:46.14我们在无与伦比的繁荣中长大，继承了仍然是世界上最强大的经济。但由于企业倒闭，02:47.14工资增长停滞、不平等状况加剧，人民的分歧加深，我们的经济已经削弱。02:47.5402:47.82When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled02:53.65slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now, the sights and sounds of03:01.11this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world.03:07.35当乔治 华盛顿第一次宣读我刚才宜读的誓言时，人们骑马把 那个信息缓慢地传遍大03:07.88地，继而又来船把它传过海洋。而现在，这个仪式的情景和声音即刻向全球几十亿人播放。03:08.38Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost03:14.71magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful03:23.41competition with people all across the earth.03:28.11通信和商务具有全球性，投资具有流动性；技术几 乎具有魔力；改善生活的理想现在具有普遍性。03:28.61今天，我们美国人通过同世界各地人民进行和平竞争来谋求生存。03:29.34Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question03:36.06of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.03:42.46各种深远而强大的力量正在震撼和改造我们的世界，当今时代的当务之急是我们能否使变革成为我们的朋03:43.26友，而不是成为我们的敌人。03:43.80This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to03:48.88compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot03:56.96work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our04:04.40enterprises, great and small; when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and04:10.88when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have04:18.52not made change our friend.04:21.34这个新世界已经使几百万能够参与竞争并且取胜的美国人过上 了富裕的生活。但是，当多数人04:21.94干得越多反而挣得越少的时候，当有些人根本不可能工作的时候，当保健费用的重负使众多家庭不堪承受、04:22.34使大大小小的企业濒临破 产的时候，当犯罪活动的恐惧使守法公民不能自由行动的时候，当千百万贫穷儿童04:22.94甚至不能想象我们呼唤他们过的那种生活的时候，我们就没有使变革成为我们的朋友。04:23.37We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps. But we have not done so. Instead,we have04:30.37 drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.04:38.65我们知道，我们必须面对严酷的事实真相，并采取强有力的步骤。但我们没有这样做，04:39.11而是听之任之，以致损耗了我们的资源，破坏了我们的经济，动摇了我们 的信心。04:40.11Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. And Americans have ever been a restless, questing,04:48.12 hopeful people. We must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.04:54.50我们面临惊人的挑战，但我们同样具有惊人的力量，美国人历来是不安现状、不断追求04:55.10和充满希望的民族，今天，我们必须把前人的远见卓识和坚强意志带到我们的任务中去。04:56.36From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our05:03.01people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history.05:09.83从革命，内战，大萧条，直到民权运动，我国人民总是下定决心，从历次危机中构筑我国历史的支柱。05:10.54Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would05:15.57need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.05:24.95托马斯 杰斐逊认为，为了维护我国的根基，我们需要时常进行激动人心的变革。美国同胞们，05:27.25我们的时代就是变革的时代，让我们拥抱这个时代吧！05:29.2505:32.31Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.05:40.18There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.05:48.50我们的民主制度不仅要成为举世称羡的目标，而且要成为举国复兴的动力。05:50.50美国没有任何错误的东西不能被正确的东西所纠正。05:52.56And so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift; a new season of American renewal has begun.06:03.56因此，我们今天立下誓言，要结束这个僵持停顿、放任自流的时代，一个复兴美国的新时代已经开始。06:06.1806:08.93To renew America, we must be bold. We must do what no generation has had to do before.06:16.09我们要复兴美国，就必须鼓足勇气。我们必须做前人无需做的 事情。06:16.69 We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our06:24.04 massive debt. And we must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity.06:32.05 It will not be easy; it will require sacrifice. But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice06:41.50for its own sake, but for our own sake. We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.06:50.77我们必须更多地投资于人民，投资于他们的工作和未来，与此同时，我们必须减少巨额债务。而且，我们必须在一个需要06:51.27为每个机会而竞争的世界上做到这一 切。这样做并不容易：这样做要求作出牺牲。但是，这是做得到的，06:51.77而且能做得公平合理。我们不是为牺牲而牺牲，我们必须像家庭供养子女那样供养自己的国家。06:52.58Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched07:01.93a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come;07:10.74the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom07:19.03we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all07:26.73and demand responsibility from all.07:30.29我国的缔造者是用子孙后代的眼光来审视自己的。我们也必须 这样做。凡是注意过孩07:31.29子朦胧睡眼的人，都知道后代意味着什么，后代就是世界的未来-我们为之坚持自己的07:32.29理想，我们向之借用这个星球，我们对之负有神圣的责任。我们必须做美国最拿手的事情：07:33.29为所有的人提供更多的机会，要所有的人负起更多的责任。07:37.69It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or07:45.43from each other. Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for07:54.18our communities and our country. To renew America, we must revitalize our democracy.08:02.14现在是破除只求向政府和别人免费索取的恶习的时候了。让我们大家不仅为自己和家庭，而08:02.84且为社区和国家担负起更多的责任吧。我们要复兴美国，就必须恢复我们民主制度的活力。08:03.31 08:03.71This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of08:11.37intrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is08:20.07in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends08:27.87us here and pays our way.08:29.57这个美丽的首都，就像文明的曙光出现以来的每一个首都一样，常常是尔虞我诈、明争暗斗之地。08:32.57大腕人物争权夺势，没完没了地为官员的更替升降而烦神，却忘记了那些用辛勤和汗水把我们送到这里来，并养活了我们的人。08:35.83Americans deserve better, and in this city today, there are people who want to do better. And08:43.70so I say to all of us here, let us resolve to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer08:51.89shout down the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the08:58.96pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make our government a place for what09:06.93Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent experimentation," a government for our tomorrows, not09:14.41our yesterdays. Let us give this capital back to the people to whom it belongs.09:20.62国人理应得到更好的回报。在这个城市里，今天有人想把事 情办得更好一些。因此，09:21.92我要时所有在场的人说：让我们下定决心改革政治，使权力和特权的喧嚣不再压倒人民的呼09:23.12声。让我们撇开个人利益。这样我们就能觉察美国的病痛，并看到美国的希望。让我们下定09:24.62决心，使政府成为富兰克林 罗斯福所说的进行"大胆而持久试验"的地方，成为一个面向未09:26.62来而不是留恋过去的政府。让 我们把这个首都归还给它所属于的人民。09:29.52To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well at home. There is no longer09:35.43division between what is foreign and what is domestic; the world economy, the world environment,09:41.19the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race; they affect us all.09:46.13我们要复兴美国，就必须迎接国内外的种种挑战。国外和国内事务之间已不再有明确的09:46.63界限-世界经济，世界环境，世界艾滋病危机，世界军备竞赛，这一切都在影响着我们大家。09:47.50Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable. Communism's09:54.00collapse has called forth old animosities and new dangers.09:58.04 Clearly America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make.10:03.90今天，由于旧秩序已经过去，这个世界更加自由，但同时也更不安定，共产主义的崩溃唤起了原有的仇恨，10:04.20造成了新的威胁。显然，美国应当继续领导这个我们曾经倾注心血所造成的世界。10:04.51 10:04.71While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities,10:11.05of this new world. Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.10:18.79我们在国内进行重建的同时，面对这个新世界的挑战不会退缩不前，也下会坐失良机。10:19.09我们将同盟友一起努力进行变革，以免被变革所吞没。10:19.68When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international10:24.19community is defied, we will act; with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when10:31.79necessary. The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and10:38.40wherever else they stand are testament to our resolve.10:41.65当我们的重要利益受到挑战，或者，当国际社会的意志和良知受到蔑视，10:41.95我们将采取行动-可能时就采用和平外交手段，必要时就使用武力。10:42.35今天，在波斯湾、索马里和任何其他地方为国效力的勇敢的美国人，都证明了我们的决心。10:42.87But our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across10:50.81the world, we see them embraced, and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those10:57.94on every continent who are building democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause.11:05.25但是，我们最伟大的力量是我们思想的威力。这些思想在许多国家仍然处于萌芽阶段。11:05.35看到这些思想在世界各地被接受，我们感到欢欣鼓舞。我们的希望，我们的心，与每一个大11:05.95陆正在建立民主和自由的人们是连在一起的。他们的事业也是美国的事业。11:06.43The American people have summoned the change we celebrate today. You have raised your11:13.08voices in an unmistakable chorus. You have cast your votes in historic numbers. And you have11:20.05changed the face of Congress, the presidency and the political process itself. Yes, you, my fellow11:28.19Americans have forced the spring.11:30.88美国人民唤来了我们今天所庆祝的变革。你们毫不含糊地齐声疾呼。你们以前所未有的人数参加了投票。11:31.88你们使国会、总统职务和政治进程本身全都面目一新。是的，是你们，我的美国同胞们，促使春回大地。11:32.88Now, we must do the work the season demands.11:35.95To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office. I ask the Congress to join with me.11:44.33But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone. My fellow11:51.98Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal. I challenge a new generation of young Americans11:59.05to a season of service; to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping12:07.27company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much to be done;12:14.34enough indeed for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service,too.12:20.86现在，我们必须做这个季节需要做的工作。现在，我就运用我的全部职权转向这项工作。12:21.80我请求国会同我一道做这项工作。任何总统、任何国会、任何政府都不能单独完成这一使命。12:22.30同胞们，在我国复兴的过程中，你们也必须发挥作用。我向新一代美国年轻人挑战，12:22.30要求你们投入这一奉献的季节-按照你们的理想主义行动起来，使不幸的儿童得到帮助，使贫困的人们得到关怀，12:22.30使四分五裂的社区恢复联系。要做的事情很多-确实够多的，以至几百万在精神上仍然年轻的人也可作出奉献。12:22.80In serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth, we need each other. And we must care12:28.89for one another. Today, we do more than celebrate America; we rededicate ourselves to the very12:40.06idea of America.12:42.94An idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of challenge. An idea12:49.94tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, might have12:57.04been each other. An idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad13:05.61diversity the deepest measure of unity. An idea infused with the conviction that America's long13:14.45heroic journey must go forever upward.13:19.83And so, my fellow Americans, at the edge of the 21st century, let us begin anew,with energy and13:30.36hope, with faith and discipline, and let us work until our work is done. The scripture says, "And let13:40.98us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not."13:48.38在奉献过程中，我们认识到相互需要这一简单而又强大的真 理。我们必须相互关心.今天，我们不仅是在赞颂美国，13:48.48我们再一次把自己奉献给美国的理想：这个理想在革命中诞生，在两个世纪的挑战中更新；这个理想经受了认识的考验，13:48.58大家认识到，若不是命运的安排，幸运者或不幸者有可能互换位置；这个理想由于一种信念而变得崇高，即我国能够从13:48.68无数的多元化中求得最深刻的统一，这个理想洋溢着一种自信：美国漫长而英勇的旅程必将永远继续。同胞们，13:48.78在我恻即将跨入21世纪之际，让我们以旺盛的精力和满腔的希望，以坚定的信心和 严明的纪律开始工作，直到把工作完成。13:48.88圣经说："我们行善，不可丧志，若不灰心，到了时候，就要收成。"13:49.99From this joyful mountaintop of celebration, we hear a call to service in the valley. We have13:58.96heard the trumpets. We have changed the guard. And now, each in our way, and with God's help,14:07.57we must answer the call.14:10.37Thank you. and God bless you all.14:13.37在这个欢乐的山巅，我们听见山谷里传来了要我们作出奉献的召唤。我们听到了号角声。14:14.37我们已经换岗。现在，我们必须以各自的方式，在上帝的帮助下响应这一召唤。14:15.37谢谢大家。上帝保佑大家。14:17.63