Part I

Now, we will disagree, sometimes fiercely, about how to get there. As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It’s not always a straight line. It’s not always a smooth path.

現(xiàn)在，我們對如何實現(xiàn)這一目標(biāo)存在分歧，有時分歧還很嚴重。正如兩個多世紀以來一樣，進展的取得將是斷斷續(xù)續(xù)，并非總是一條直線，并非總是一帆風(fēng)順。

By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won’t end all the gridlock or solve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward. But that common bond is where we must begin.

承認我們擁有共同的希望和夢想，僅憑這一點不會結(jié)束所有的僵局，或解決我們所有的問題，或代替推動這個國家向前所需的達成共識和做出艱難讓步的辛苦努力。不過，這一共同的紐帶是我們必須開始的地方。

Our economy is recovering. A decade of war is ending. A long campaign is now over. And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you, and you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.

我們的經(jīng)濟正在好轉(zhuǎn)。長達10年的戰(zhàn)爭即將結(jié)束。一場漫長的競選現(xiàn)已落幕。無論我是否贏得了你們的選票，我一直在傾聽你們的故事，向你們學(xué)習(xí)，是你們使我成為一位更好的總統(tǒng)。聽過你們的故事和困難經(jīng)歷，我在重返白宮時對今后需要做的工作和未來將懷著比以往更堅定的決心和更大的熱情。

Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. And in the coming weeks and months, I am looking forward to reaching out and working with leaders of both parties to meet the challenges we can only solve together. Reducing our deficit. Reforming our tax code. Fixing our immigration system. Freeing ourselves from foreign oil. We’ve got more work to do.

今晚你們把票投給了行動，而不是像以往投給了政治。你們選舉我們來專注于你們的工作，而不是我們的工作。在未來的幾周和幾個月內(nèi)，我將期待與兩黨領(lǐng)袖接觸并合作，以便面對我們團結(jié)一致才能解決的問題。減少赤字，改革稅法，修改移民制度，擺脫對外國石油的依賴。我們還很更多工作要做。

But that doesn’t mean your work is done. The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote. America’s never been about what can be done for us. It’s about what can be done by us together through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of self-government. That’s the principle we were founded on.

但這并不意味著你們的工作就此結(jié)束。民主國家公民的角色并不隨著投票完結(jié)而結(jié)束。美國看重的從來都不是能夠為我們個人做些什么，而是我們團結(jié)一致通過自治這一艱難、令人倍感挫折但必要的工作能夠?qū)崿F(xiàn)什么。這正是我們的立國之本。

This country has more wealth than any nation, but that’s not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military in history, but that’s not what makes us strong. Our university, our culture are all the envy of the world, but that’s not what keeps the world coming to our shores.

美國的財富多于世界上任何其他國家，但真正讓我們富有的并非金錢；我們擁有有史以來最強大的軍力，但真正讓我們充滿力量的并非軍隊；我們的大學(xué)和文化為全世界所艷羨，但美國真正吸引各國人踏上這片土地的魅力也不在于此。

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth. The belief that our destiny is shared; that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations. The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for come with responsibilities as well as rights. And among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism. That’s what makes America great.

真正讓美國與眾不同的，是將這個地球上最多元化的國家的人民團結(jié)到一起的那些紐帶。是我們共命運的信念，是只有當(dāng)我們肩負某些對彼此以及對后代的責(zé)任美國才能走下去的信念，是無數(shù)的美國人前赴后繼為之奮斗的自由──它既賦予了我們權(quán)利，也給我們帶來了責(zé)任；是愛、慈善、義務(wù)和愛國。正是這些讓美國變得偉大。

I am hopeful tonight because I’ve seen the spirit at work in America. I’ve seen it in the family business whose owners would rather cut their own pay than lay off their neighbors, and in the workers who would rather cut back their hours than see a friend lose a job. I’ve seen it in the soldiers who reenlist after losing a limb and in those SEALs who charged up the stairs into darkness and danger because they knew there was a buddy behind them watching their back.

今晚，我滿懷希望，因為我已經(jīng)看到美國精神正在得以發(fā)揚。我看到有些家族企業(yè)，所有者寧可減少自己的薪酬也不愿讓鄰居丟掉工作；我看到有些工人寧愿縮減自己的工時也不愿看到朋友沒有活干；我看到有些士兵在失去一條腿或胳膊之后又選擇再次入伍；我看到海豹突擊隊員不避危險沖上樓梯、沖入黑暗，因為他們知道有一個兄弟在做他的后盾。

I’ve seen it on the shores of New Jersey and New York, where leaders from every party and level of government have swept aside their differences to help a community rebuild from the wreckage of a terrible storm. And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.

在新澤西和紐約的海岸，我也看到了美國精神。每一個政黨和各級政府的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者都捐棄分歧，為在駭人風(fēng)暴過后的廢墟上重建社區(qū)各盡己力。就在不久前的一天，在俄亥俄的門托，我看到一位父親在講述他8歲女兒的故事。這個女孩與白血病進行了長期的斗爭，如果不是因為幾個月前通過的醫(yī)改法案，保險公司就會停止支付醫(yī)療費用，他們的家庭就將失去一切。

I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father’s story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own. And I know that every American wants her future to be just as bright. That’s who we are. That’s the country I’m so proud to lead as your president.

我曾有機會與這位父親攀談，不僅如此，我還見到了他的女兒，這個非常了不起的小姑娘。當(dāng)這位父親向傾聽他的故事的人講述時，每一位在場的父母的眼里都含著淚水，因為我們知道，我們自己的孩子也有可能遇到這種狀況。而且我知道，每一位美國人都希望這位小女孩的未來能像所有人的未來一樣光明。這就是美國人，這就是美國，我為自己能夠成為這個國家的總統(tǒng)、帶領(lǐng)這個國家前行感到無比光榮。

And tonight, despite all the hardship we’ve been through, despite all the frustrations of Washington, I’ve never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain that hope. I’m not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. I’m not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight.

今晚，盡管我們遭遇了很多困難，盡管華盛頓有諸多不盡人意之處，我仍從未像現(xiàn)在這樣對未來充滿希望。我從未像現(xiàn)在這樣對美國充滿希望。我請大家也保持這樣的希望。我所說的并非盲目的樂觀主義，不是那種看不到眼前的任務(wù)有多么艱巨、看不到前行的路上有什么樣的障礙的希望；我所說的并非作壁上觀或是臨戰(zhàn)退縮的一廂情愿的理想主義。

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

我一直相信，所謂希望就是我們內(nèi)心倔強地堅持的力量，相信不管有多少相反的證據(jù)，都要相信有更好的東西在等著我們，只要我們有勇氣不斷前行、不懈工作、不停戰(zhàn)斗。

America, I believe we can build on the progress we’ve made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.

國民們，我相信我們有能力在已經(jīng)取得的進步的基礎(chǔ)上再進一步，繼續(xù)為了給中產(chǎn)階級創(chuàng)造新的工作、新的機遇、新的保障而戰(zhàn)斗。我相信我們有能力信守開國者們許下的諾言，信守這樣一種理念，那就是不管你是誰，不管你來自哪里，不管你長相如何，不管你愛著哪個地方，你所需要做的就是努力工作。不管你的膚色是黑是白，不管你是拉美裔、亞裔還是美國原住民，不管你年輕還是年老，富有還是貧窮，身體健全或是殘障，同性戀還是異性戀，只要你愿意努力，就能夠在美國大有作為。

I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

我相信我們有能力共同握住這樣的未來，因為美國人民并不像政界那么嚴重分歧。美國人民不像某些飽學(xué)之士所認為的那樣憤世嫉俗。美國的抱負并不是每一個美國人的抱負的簡單加總，美國也不是紅州和藍州的簡單聯(lián)合。我們是美利堅合眾國，我們將永遠是美利堅合眾國。

And together with your help and God’s grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

有你們的幫助，有上帝的仁慈，我們將繼續(xù)攜手前行，讓全世界知道我們生活在全球最偉大的國度的原因到底是什么。

Thank you, America. God bless you. God bless these United States.

謝謝你，國民們，上帝保佑你們，上帝保佑美國。

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