奥巴马2016年总统就职演讲

1 / 52 奥巴马 2016 年总统就职演讲 remarks of president barack obama inaugural address 奥巴马总统就职演说 jan 20, 2016 my fellow citizens:我的同胞们： i stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. i thank president bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.我今天站在这里，以谦卑的心情面对着在我面前的使命，对于你们赋予我的信任心存感 激，也不敢遗忘开国先贤们所作的牺牲。我感谢布什总统为我们国家所作的服务、以 及在政 权交接过程中他所展示的大度及合作。 forty-four americans have now taken the presidential oath. the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. at these moments, 2 / 52 america has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.到现在已经有 44 位美国人进行了总统就职宣誓。这些言辞在繁荣兴旺时以及和平时期作 出。但是，也有一些时期，这些誓言是在阴云密布和暴风雨来袭时作出。在这些时期里，美 国继续向前行，不单单是身为总统者的睿智和远见，也是因为我们身为人民者仍然忠于开国 先贤们的理想、以及忠实执行开国时的 文件宣言。 so it has been. so it must be with this generation of americans.所以，世代一直是如此的。所以我们这一代的美国 人也必须如此。 that we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. homes 3 / 52 have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet. 我们现在非常了解我们正处于危机之中。我们的国家正在作战状态，对抗一个暴力和仇 恨的广大网络。我们的经济大大受到削弱，这不仅是一些人贪婪和不负责任的后果，也是我 们在做出艰难抉择，为国家进入新时代进行准备方面的共同失误所使然。房屋失去了；工作 机会流失了；商业陷入凋敝的困境。我们的医疗费用过于昂贵；我们有太多的学校令人失望； 每天都有更多的证据显示，我们使用能源的方式只能令我们的对手变强，同时威胁到我们的 星球。 these are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that americas decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower 4 / 52 its sights. 这些就是危机的信号，数据和统计结果都显示出来。数字不容易显示出来的、但是却不 容忽视的是，我们全国各地有些信心正在消蚀，担心的是美国的衰落不可避免，担心我们的 下一代不得不降低对未来的期许。 today i say to you that the challenges we face are real. they are serious andthey are many. they will not be met easily or in a short span of time. but know this, america - they will be met. 今天我要对你们说的是，我们面临的挑战是真实的。这些挑战不仅严峻，而且复杂。应 对这些挑战绝非易事，更非一朝一夕之功。但是，美国，请明白这一点：这些挑战将会面对。 on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.我们今天聚集在一起，因 为我们选择了希望而不是恐惧，选择了众志成城而不是纷争不 和。 我们今天共同来宣布，让心胸狭窄的怨言和虚妄的诺言成为过去，结束相互指责和攻击 5 / 52 以及令人厌倦的教条，这些已经窒息压制我们的政治太过长久。我们仍然还是一个年青的国家，不过用圣经的话来说，抛弃幼稚东西的时间已经到了。 现在，我们要彰显美国的持久精神，创造新的历史，继承和发扬代代传承的珍贵才智和崇高 的理想：那就是上帝赋予我们的，人人平等，人人自由，人人都有机会寻求最大幸福。 in reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. it must be earned. our journey has never been one of short- cuts or settling for less. it has not been the path for the faint-hearted - for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things - some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.重申我们国家伟大的同时，我们深深懂得，伟大从来不是与生具来的。它必须努力赢得； 6 / 52 我们的道路从来没有捷径，也没有妥协。我们的道路从来不是懦夫们所走的，也不是给那些 喜欢轻松，或者喜欢追逐财富和名誉的人走的。而是给那些不畏风险的人、脚踏实地的实践 者、那些发明创造者。带领我们走向繁荣和自由的漫长崎岖之路的前进者之中，有些有名声 的人，但是更多的是工作中默默无闻的男女大众。for us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. 为了我们，他们背起简单的行囊，飘洋过海，寻求新的生活。 for us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the west; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.为了我们，他们在血汗车间和作坊中辛勤劳作，并且在美国的西部扎下根，他们忍受皮 鞭的抽打，在坚硬的土地上辛勤耕作。 for us, they fought and died, in places like concord and gettysburg; normandy and khe sahn. 为了我们， 他们在康科德和盖底斯堡，在诺曼底和溪生出生入死地战斗。 time and again these men and 7 / 52 women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. they saw america as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. 为了我们能够过上好日子，我们的 这些男女大众，前仆后继，英勇奋斗，不懈牺牲，直 到他们的双手粗糙地磨出老茧；他们看到的美国是一个理想高于个人雄心壮志的国家，他们 把美国的理想看得高于个人的生死，高于财富和派别。 this is the journey we continue today. we remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on earth. our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. our capacity remains undiminished. but our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions 8 / 52 - that time has surely passed. starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking america. 这就是我们今天要继续进行的旅程。我们依然是世界上最繁荣、最强大的国家；我们劳 工的创造力并没有比这场危机开始的时候低；我们的思想也没有缺乏创造性；对我们产品和 服务的需求，也没有比上个星期或者上个月或者上一年减少；我们的能力依然没有减弱；但 是，我们那种一成不变，保护狭隘利益，推出不受欢迎决策的时代注定已经成为过去。从今 天开始， 我们将重新鼓舞，揩干净身上的灰尘，重新开始重新创造美国的任务。 for everywhere we look, there is work to be done. the state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to 篇二： 2016 年美国总统奥巴马就职演说中英文对照文稿 2016 年美国总统奥巴马就职演说中英文对照文稿 北京时间 1 月 22 日凌晨，贝拉克侯赛因奥巴马宣誓就职第四十四任美利坚合众国总 统并发表就职演说。奥巴马在演讲中追溯 美国民主传统和宪法精神，强调了民众的力量。演 9 / 52 讲中涉及了包括就业、医保、移民和同性恋等多项议题，以下为奥巴马就职演说全文： mr. obama: thank you. thank you so much. vice president biden, mr. chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:谢谢，非常感谢大家。拜登副总统、首席大 法官先生、国会议员们、尊敬的各位嘉宾、 亲爱的公民们。 each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constitution. we affirm the promise of our democracy. we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. what makes us exceptional what makes us american is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: 当我们每次聚集在 一起为总统举行就职典礼时，我们都是在见证美国宪法的不朽力量。 10 / 52 我们是在又一次立下美国民主的承诺。 我们再次提醒说，把这个国家凝聚在一起的不是我们 的肤色，不是信仰的教条，也不是我们的姓氏源于何处。使我们与众不同 使我们成为美 国人 的，是我们对一个在两个多世纪以前发表的宣言中所表述的理念： “ we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”“我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，他们都从他们的造物主那里被赋予 了某些不可剥夺的权利，包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。” today we continue a never-ending journey, to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. for history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from god, it must be secured by his people here on earth. the patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the 11 / 52 privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. they gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.今天，我们仍在继续这个永恒的旅程，让那些字句体现在我们这个时代的现实中。因为 历史告诉我们，虽然这些真理是不言而喻的，但它们却不会自动实现；虽然自由是上帝给我 们的礼物，但自由只能靠他在世间的子民的奋斗才能获得。 1776 年爱国先驱们所进行的斗争 并不是以少数人的特权或乌合之众的统治来替代专制君主。他们为我们缔造的是一个共和国，一个民有、民治、民享的政府，并将 捍卫这个建国理念的任务交给一代又一代的后人。for more than two hundred years, we have. 两百多年的历史证明，我们做到了。 through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. we made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together. 从皮鞭下和刺刀尖流出的鲜血中，我们发现，建立在自由和平等原则之上的合众国不能 12 / 52 一半是蓄奴的，一半是自由的。我们浴火重生，我们发誓共同努力向前。 我们共同决定，现代经济需要铁路和公路，以加快旅行和商业，也需要中小学和大学来 培训我们的工人。 我们一起发现，只有确保竞争和公平的法规健全，自由市场才能欣欣向荣。 together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life s worst hazards and misfortune. 我们一同决定，一个伟大国家必须关照弱者，并保护我们的人民免受生活中最严重的危 险和不幸。 through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society s ills can be cured through government alone. our celebration of initiative and enterprise; our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our character. 在做这一切的时候，我们从来没有放弃 对政府集中权力的怀疑，我们也没有屈就于那种 相信只靠政府就可以解决所有社会弊病的幻想。我们一直保持着自己的秉性，推崇创造力和 13 / 52 企业家精神，坚持辛勤工作和个人责任。 但是我们也很明白，随着时代的变化，我们也必须变化；我们出于对基本原则的忠诚， 需要对新的挑战做出新的回应；我们为保护个人自由就最终需要集体作出努力。美国人民如 果再单打独斗去应付当今世界的挑战，等于让美国军队以长枪和民兵组织去面对法西斯主义 或共产主义的武装。没有任何一个个人有能力训练出我们后代的教育需要的所有数学和科学 教师，或者建造出能把新的工作和商业机会带给我们的道路、网络、实验室。现在比以往任 何时候都需要我们共同努力，作为一个国家人民的整体，来做这些事情。 this generation of americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. a decade of war is now ending. an economic recovery has begun. america s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. my fellow americans, weare made for this 14 / 52 moment, and we will seize it so long as we seize it together.我们这一代美国人经历过危机的考验，这些危机坚定了我们的决心，也证明了我们的耐 力。长达 10 年的战争即将结束，经济复苏已经开始，美国的潜力是无限的，因为我们拥有这 个全球化的世界需要的所有特质：我们年轻有动力，多元而开放，我们有应对危机的无限能 力和创新发展的天赋。美国同胞们，我们为这个时刻而生，只要我们共同努力，我们就能牢 牢抓住这个机会。 for we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. we believe that america s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know that america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. we are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has 15 / 52 the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an american, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of god but also in our own. 我们美国人知道，我们的国家不可能在只有越来越少的人富有、越来越多的人捉襟见肘 的情况下取得成功，我们相信美国的繁荣有赖于更多的人成为中产阶级，我们知道美国的振 兴取决于每个人都能在工作中找到独立与自信，也取决于人们诚实的劳动让家庭脱离贫困。 当一个出身贫困的年轻女孩知道，她与任何人都享有同样的成功机会，身为美国人，她不仅 仅是在上帝眼中，而且在每一个人的眼中，她都享有自由与平等，这样我们才算是遵守了立 国的原则。 we understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time. we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, and reach higher. but while the means will change, our purpose endures: 16 / 52 a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single american. that is what this moment requires. that is what will give real meaning to our creed. 我 们明白，目前那些陈旧的政府计划跟不上时代。我们必须驾驭新的思想和技术以重塑政府， 更新税法，改革学校，并让公民能够掌握新技能，以便更加努力工作，学习更多的知识，以 达到更高的目标。我们的方法虽然会改变，但目的始终如一：建设一个奖励每个人的努力和 决心的国家。这是当下所需要的。这是我们信念的真正意义所在。 我们，美国人，仍然相信，每位公民都应该得到基本的安全和尊严。我们必须作出降低 我们的医保费用和赤字规模的艰难抉择。但是，我们拒绝接受这种看法， 亦即美国必须在照 顾建设了国家的那代人和投资于开创国家未来的那代人之间作出选择。我们记得过去的教训： 老人的暮年在贫困中度过，残疾孩子的父母走投无路。我们不相信，在这个国家里自由只属 于幸运者，幸福只属于少数人。我们知道，无论我们平日如何负责，我们当中任何人，在任 何时候，都有可能面临失业、突然生病或者房子被17 / 52 风暴卷走的情况。我们通过联邦医疗保险、 医疗补助计划以及社会安全保障为彼此作出的承诺，不仅不会挫伤我们的积极性，反而使我 们更加强 壮。它们不会使我们成为一群不劳而获的人，反而使我们敢于去冒险，这才使国家 强大。 we, the people, still believe that our obligations as americans are not just to ourselves, but to all 我们，美国人，依然相信我们作为美国人的承诺不仅是对自己的，也是对所有子孙后代 的。我们会对气候变化的威胁做出回应，因为我们了解如果不这样做，将会违背对子孙后代 的承 诺。有些人可能依然不承认科学的判断，但所有人都无法不去正视疯狂的野火、残酷的 干旱、更大风暴的袭击。通往可持续发展能源的道路会是漫长的，而且有时会很艰难。但美 国不能抗拒这个转变，而是必须领导这个转变。我们不能将可以增加就业、诞生新型产业的 这些技术拱手让给其它国家，我们必须拥有这些技术。这是维护我们经济的活力与国家财富 的途径，这些财富包括我们的森林、江河、农田、18 / 52 雪山。这是保护我们的地球的途径，那是 上帝交给我们去守护的。这也是我们为先驱们宣示的 信念增加新的含义的途径。 奥巴马 2016 国情咨文演讲 当地时间 12 号晚间，美国总统奥巴马在华盛顿发表 了任上最后一次国情咨文，这也是他第八次进行国情咨文演讲。 mr. speaker, mr. vice president, members of congress, my fellow americans: 议长先生、副总统先生、各位国会议员和美国同胞们： 今晚是我在这里做国情咨文的第八个年头，也是最后一次。我将尽量简而言之。我知道 你们中有些人急着回爱荷华州。 i also understand that because its an election season, expectations for what well achieve this year are low. still, mr. speaker, i appreciate the constructive approach you and the other leaders took at the end of last year to pass a budget and make tax cuts permanent for working families. so i hope we can work together this year on bipartisan priorities like criminal justice reform, and helping people who 19 / 52 are battling prescription drug abuse. we just might surprise the cynics again. 我也理解此时正当大选之季，因此公众对我们今年成就的期望并不高。但是，议长先生， 您以及其他领导人去年年末通过了建设性的预算决议，使得工薪家庭减税计划能够长久实施 下去，我对此深表感激。因此我衷心希望今年两党能够在一些重要事务上同心协作，比如， 推行刑事司法改革，帮助那些与处方药滥用行为抗争的人们。我们很可能会让质疑者们再次 大吃一惊。 violence. equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. all these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and i will not let up until they get done. 但在今晚，我打算少谈些像往年那样的发展计划。别担心，我还是有很多计划要谈，比 如，帮助学生学习编写计算机代码，以及对病人进行个性化治疗。我将继续推动这些未竟 事 业的进步。完善有漏洞的移民体系。保护我们的孩子们免遭枪械暴力。继续推行同工同酬及 20 / 52 带薪休假，并提高最低工资水平。所有的这一切对于努力工作的家庭们来说依然至关重要； 这些仍是我们要做的对的事情。我绝不会放松这些工作，直至他们完成为止。 but for my final address to this chamber, i dont want to talk just about the next year. i want to focus on the next five years, ten years, and beyond.但这是我最后一次在此发表讲话，我不想只谈论来年的事宜。我想关注今后的五年、十 年，甚至更久远的事情。 i want to focus on our future. 我更关注我们的未来。 we live in a time of extraordinary change change thats reshaping the way we live, the way we work, our planet and our place in the world. its change that promises amazing medical breakthroughs, but also economic disruptions that strain working families. it promises education for girls in the most remote villages, but also connects terrorists plotting an ocean away. its change that can broaden opportunity, or widen inequality. and whether we like it or not, the pace of this change will only 21 / 52 accelerate. 我们生活在一个充满巨变的时代，这场巨变改变了我们的生活、工作方式，改变了我们 的星球和我们在世界上的地位。这种巨变预示着医学将出现重大突破，也会带来困扰着工薪 家庭的经济动荡。它为生活在边远山区的女孩们带去教育的希望，却也使远距重洋的恐怖分 子得以串通一气策划阴谋。这场巨变能够带来机遇，也会扩大不公。无论我们喜欢与否，这 场巨变的进度只会越来越快。 america has been through big changes before wars anddepression, the influx of immigrants, workers fighting for a fair deal, and movements to expand civil rights. each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes onchange, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening america under control. and each time, weovercame those fears. we did not, in the words of lincoln, adhere to the dogmas of the quiet past. instead we thought anew, and 22 / 52 acted anew. we made change work for us, always extending americas promise outward, to the next frontier, to more and more people. and because we did because we saw opportunity where others saw only peril we emerged stronger and better than before. 过去的真理，现在亦未曾改变。我们的乐观主义与职业道德，我们的发现与创新精神， 我们种族多样化和法治信条，这些都是我们作为一个国家所拥有的独一无二的优点，使我们 具备了世代繁荣昌盛、国泰民安的一切条件。 in fact, its that spirit that made the progress of these past seven years possible. its how we recovered from the worst economic crisis in generations. its how we reformed our health care system, andreinvented our energy sector; how we delivered more care and benefits to our troops and veterans, and how we secured the freedom in every state to marry the person we love. 23 / 52 事实上，正因有了这种精神力量，我们过去七年才可能取得进步。它使我们得以从几代 以来最严重的经济危机中恢复；是我们改革医疗体系、改造能源部门的动力；保证了我们给 予军人和老兵更多关心和福利。也正因为此，我们能够让每个州的人都获得了与所爱的人结 婚的自由。 but such progress is not inevitable. it is the result of choices we make together. and we face such choices right now. will we respond to the changes of our time with fear, turning inward as a nation, and turning against each other as a people? or will we face the future withconfidence in who we are, what we stand for, and the incredible things we can do together?篇二：奥巴马 2016 年就职演讲中英文对照 奥巴马 2016 年就职演讲中英文对照北京时间 1 月 22日凌晨，贝拉克侯赛因奥巴马宣誓就职第四十四任美利坚合众国总 统并发表就职演说。奥巴马在演讲中追溯美国民主传统和宪法精神，强调了民众的力量。演 讲中涉及了包括就业、医保、移民和同性恋等多项24 / 52 议题，以下为奥巴马就职演说全文： mr. obama: thank you. thank you so much. vice president biden, mr. chief justice, members of the united states congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:谢谢，非常感谢大家。拜登副总统、首席大法官先生、国会议员们、尊敬的各位嘉宾、 亲爱的公民们。 each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our constitution. we affirm the promise of our democracy. we recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. what makes us exceptional what makes us american is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: 每一次我们集会庆祝总统就职都是在见证美国宪法的持久力量。我们都是在肯定美国民 主的承诺。我们重申，将这个国家紧密联系在一起25 / 52 的不是我们的肤色，也不是 我们信仰的教 条，更不是我们名字的来源。让我们与众不同，让我们成为美国人的是我们对于一种理念的 恪守。 200 多年前，这一理念在一篇宣言中被清晰阐述： “ we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they areendowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” “我们认为下述真理是不言而喻的，人人生而平等。造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权 利，包括生存、自由和追求幸福的权利。” today we continue a never-ending journey, to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. for history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from god, it must be secured by his people here on earth. the patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of 26 / 52 a mob. they gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.今天，我们继续着这一未竟的征程，架起这些理念与我们时代现实之间的桥梁。因为历 史告诉我们，即便这些真理是不言而喻的，它们也从来不会自动生效。因为虽 然自由是上帝 赋予的礼物，但仍需要世间的子民去捍卫。 1776 年，美国的爱国先驱们不是只为了推翻国王 的暴政而战，也不是为赢得少数人的特权，建立暴民的 统治。先驱们留给我们一个共和国， 一个民有、民治、民