[00:02.00]First Inaugural Address of William Jefferson Clinton
[00:05.93] January 20, 1993
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[00:08.71]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
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[00:12.67]My fellow citizens :
[00:14.75]同胞们：
[00:15.62]Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal.
[00:19.16]今天，我们庆祝美国复兴的奇迹。
[00:20.80]This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we
[00:27.36]show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy, that brings
[00:36.37]forth 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。
[00:42.83]When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to
[00:48.97]the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. Not change for change's
[00:55.59]sake, but change to preserve America's ideals; life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Though we
[01:08.62]march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless. Each generation of Americans must define
[01:20.01]what it means to be an American.
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[01:24.23]On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of
[01:32.30]service to America.
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[01:38.48]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。
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[02:01.37] And I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice
[02:06.85]triumphed 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。
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[02:11.79] Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a
[02:20.52]world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.
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[02:28.91]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。
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[02:30.09]Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is
[02:37.06]weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among
[02:43.81]our 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。
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[02:47.82] When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled
[02:53.65]slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now, the sights and sounds of
[03:01.11]this 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。
[03:08.38] Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost
[03:14.71]magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful
[03:23.41]competition 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。
[03:29.34] Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question
[03:36.06]of 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。
[03:43.80] This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to
[03:48.88]compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot
[03:56.96]work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our
[04:04.40]enterprises, great and small; when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and
[04:10.88]when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have
[04:18.52]not 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。
[04:23.37]We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps. But we have not done so. Instead,we have
[04:30.37] 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。
[04:40.11]Though 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。
[04:56.36] From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our
[05:03.01]people 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。
[05:10.54] Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very
foundations of our nation, we would
[05:15.57]need 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！
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[05:32.31]Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.
[05:40.18]There 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。
[05:52.56]And 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。
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[06:08.93]To 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 our
[06:24.04] 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 sacrifice
[06:41.50]for 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。
[06:52.58]Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched
[07:01.93]a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come;
[07:10.74]the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom
[07:19.03]we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all
[07:26.73]and 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。
[07:37.69]It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or
[07:45.43]from each other. Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for
[07:54.18]our 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。
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[08:03.71]This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of
[08:11.37]intrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is
[08:20.07]in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends
[08:27.87]us 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。
[08:35.83]Americans deserve better, and in this city today, there are people who want to do better. And
[08:43.70]so I say to all of us here, let us resolve to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer
[08:51.89]shout down the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the
[08:58.96]pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make our government a place for what
[09:06.93]Franklin Roosevelt called \"bold, persistent experimentation,\" a government for our tomorrows, not
[09:14.41]our 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。
[09:29.52]To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well at home. There is no longer
[09:35.43]division between what is foreign and what is domestic; the world economy, the world environment,
[09:41.19]the 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。
[09:47.50]Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable. Communism's
[09:54.00]collapse 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。
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[10:04.71]While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities,
[10:11.05]of 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。
[10:19.68]When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international
[10:24.19]community is defied, we will act; with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when
[10:31.79]necessary. The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and
[10:38.40]wherever 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。
[10:42.87]But our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across
[10:50.81]the world, we see them embraced, and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those
[10:57.94]on 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。
[11:06.43]The American people have summoned the change we celebrate today. You have raised your
[11:13.08]voices in an unmistakable chorus. You have cast your votes in historic numbers. And you have
[11:20.05]changed the face of Congress, the presidency and the political process itself. Yes, you, my fellow
[11:28.19]Americans 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。
[11:32.88]Now, we must do the work the season demands.
[11:35.95]To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office. I ask the Congress to join with me.
[11:44.33]But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone. My fellow
[11:51.98]Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal. I challenge a new generation of young Americans
[11:59.05]to a season of service; to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping
[12:07.27]company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much to be done;
[12:14.34]enough 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。
[12:22.80]In serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth, we need each other. And we must care
[12:28.89]for one another. Today, we do more than celebrate America; we rededicate ourselves to the very
[12:40.06]idea of America.
[12:42.94]An idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of challenge. An idea
[12:49.94]tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate we, the fortunate and
the unfortunate, might have
[12:57.04]been each other. An idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad
[13:05.61]diversity the deepest measure of unity. An idea infused with the conviction that America's long
[13:14.45]heroic journey must go forever upward.
[13:19.83]And so, my fellow Americans, at the edge of the 21st century, let us begin anew,with energy and
[13:30.36]hope, with faith and discipline, and let us work until our work is done. The scripture says, \"And let
[13:40.98]us 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。\"
[13:49.99]From this joyful mountaintop of celebration, we hear a call to service in the valley. We have
[13:58.96]heard the trumpets. We have changed the guard. And now, each in our way, and with God's help,
[14:07.57]we must answer the call.
[14:10.37]Thank 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。
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