Good Evening: 晚上好：
This a special night for me. Exactly three years ago, on July 15, 1976, I accepted the nomination of my party to run for President of the United States. I promised you a President who is not isolated from the people, who feels your pain, and who shares your dreams, and who draws his strength and his wisdom from you. 今晚对我来说是个特殊的夜晚。整整三年前，1976年7月15日，我接受了我党提名，竞选美国总统。我向你们承诺，我会做一位不脱离人民的总统，一位能感受你们痛苦、分享你们梦想、从你们身上汲取力量和智慧的总统。
During the past three years I've spoken to you on many occasions about national concerns, the energy crisis, reorganizing the government, our nation's economy, and issues of war and especially peace. But over those years the subjects of the speeches, the talks, and the press conferences have become increasingly narrow, focused more and more on what the isolated world of Washington thinks is important. Gradually, you've heard more and more about what the government thinks or what the government should be doing and less and less about our nation's hopes, our dreams, and our vision of the future. 在过去三年里，我多次就国家关切的问题与你们交谈——能源危机、政府重组、我国经济以及战争与和平问题。但这些年来，演讲、谈话和新闻发布会的主题变得越来越狭窄，越来越关注华盛顿那个孤立世界认为重要的东西。渐渐地，你们听到的越来越多是政府的想法或政府应该做什么，而越来越少是我们国家的希望、梦想和未来愿景。
Ten days ago, I had planned to speak to you again about a very important subject -- energy. For the fifth time I would have described the urgency of the problem and laid out a series of legislative recommendations to the Congress. But as I was preparing to speak, I began to ask myself the same question that I now know has been troubling many of you: Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem? 十天前，我本计划再次向你们发表演讲，谈论一个非常重要的话题——能源。这将是我第五次描述这个问题的紧迫性，并向国会提出一系列立法建议。但在我准备演讲时，我开始问自己一个我现在知道也困扰着你们许多人的问题：为什么我们作为一个国家不能团结起来解决我们严重的能源问题？
It's clear that the true problems of our nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realize more than ever that as President I need your help. So, I decided to reach out and to listen to the voices of America. 很明显，我们国家真正的问题要深刻得多——比加油站排队或能源短缺更深刻，甚至比通货膨胀或经济衰退更深刻。我比以往任何时候都更意识到，作为总统，我需要你们的帮助。因此，我决定走出去，倾听美国人民的声音。
I invited to Camp David people from almost every segment of our society -- business and labor, teachers and preachers, governors, mayors, and private citizens. And then I left Camp David to listen to other Americans, men and women like you. It has been an extraordinary ten days, and I want to share with you what I've heard. 我邀请了来自社会几乎每个阶层的人到戴维营——商界和劳工界、教师和牧师、州长、市长和普通公民。然后我离开戴维营，去倾听其他美国人的声音，像你们一样的男男女女。这十天非同寻常，我想与你们分享我所听到的。
First of all, I got a lot of personal advice. Let me quote a few of the typical comments that I wrote down. 首先，我得到了很多个人建议。让我引用一些我记录下来的典型评论。
This from a southern governor: "Mr. President, you are not leading this nation -- you're just managing the government." 一位南方州长说："总统先生，你不是在领导这个国家——你只是在管理政府。"
"You don't see the people enough anymore." "你不再足够多地接触人民了。"
"Some of your Cabinet members don't seem loyal. There is not enough discipline among your disciples." "你的一些内阁成员似乎不够忠诚。你的门徒们缺乏纪律。"
"Don't talk to us about politics or the mechanics of government, but about an understanding of our common good." "不要跟我们谈论政治或政府机制，要谈论对我们共同利益的理解。"
"Mr. President, we're in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears." "总统先生，我们有麻烦了。跟我们谈谈血、汗和泪。"
"If you lead, Mr. President, we will follow." "如果你领导，总统先生，我们就会跟随。"
Many people talked about themselves and about the condition of our nation. This from a young woman in Pennsylvania: "I feel so far from government. I feel like ordinary people are excluded from political power." 许多人谈到了他们自己和我们国家的状况。一位宾夕法尼亚州的年轻女性说："我感觉离政府太远了。我感觉普通人被排除在政治权力之外。"
And this from a young Chicano: "Some of us have suffered from recession all our lives." 一位年轻的墨西哥裔美国人说："我们中的一些人一生都在遭受经济衰退的折磨。"
"Some people have wasted energy, but others haven't had anything to waste." "有些人浪费了能源，但其他人却没有什么可浪费的。"
And this from a religious leader: "No material shortage can touch the important things like God's love for us or our love for one another." 一位宗教领袖说："任何物质短缺都触及不到重要的东西，比如上帝对我们的爱或我们彼此之间的爱。"
And I like this one particularly from a black woman who happens to be the mayor of a small Mississippi town: "The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first." 我特别喜欢这位碰巧是密西西比州一个小镇镇长的黑人女性的话："大人物并不是唯一重要的人。记住，除非有人在别处把东西挖出来，否则你在华尔街什么也卖不出去。"
This kind of summarized a lot of other statements: "Mr. President, we are confronted with a moral and a spiritual crisis." 这概括了许多其他的说法："总统先生，我们面临着一场道德和精神危机。"
Several of our discussions were on energy, and I have a notebook full of comments and advice. I'll read just a few. 我们的一些讨论是关于能源的，我有一本满是评论和建议的笔记本。我只读几条。
"We can't go on consuming forty percent more energy than we produce. When we import oil we are also importing inflation plus unemployment." "我们不能继续消费比我们生产多百分之四十的能源。当我们进口石油时，我们也在进口通货膨胀和失业。"
"We've got to use what we have. The Middle East has only five percent of the world's energy, but the United States has twenty-four percent." "我们必须利用我们所拥有的。中东只有世界百分之五的能源，但美国拥有百分之二十四。"
And this is one of the most vivid statements: "Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC has a knife." 这是最生动的说法之一："我们的脖子伸过栅栏，欧佩克手里拿着一把刀。"
"There will be other cartels and other shortages. American wisdom and courage right now can set a path to follow in the future." "还会有其他卡特尔和其他短缺。美国的智慧和勇气现在可以为未来设定一条道路。"
This was a good one: "Be bold, Mr. President. We may make mistakes, but we are ready to experiment." 这条说得好："大胆些，总统先生。我们可能会犯错误，但我们准备好尝试了。"
And this one from a labor leader got to the heart of it: "The real issue is freedom. We must deal with the energy problem on a war footing." 一位劳工领袖的话直指核心："真正的问题是自由。我们必须以战争的姿态来处理能源问题。"
And the last that I'll read: "When we enter the moral equivalent of war, Mr. President, don't issue us BB guns." 我最后读这一条："当我们进入道德上的战争状态时，总统先生，不要给我们玩具枪。"
These ten days confirmed my belief in the decency and the strength and the wisdom of the American people. 这十天证实了我对美国人民正直、力量和智慧的信念。
But they also bore out some of my longstanding concerns about our nation's underlying problems. 但也证实了我长期以来对我们国家根本问题的担忧。
I know, of course, being President, that government actions and legislation can be very important. That's why I've worked hard to put my campaign promises into law, and I have to admit, with just mixed success. 当然，作为总统，我知道政府的行动和立法可能非常重要。这就是为什么我努力将我的竞选承诺付诸法律，我必须承认，结果喜忧参半。
But after listening to the American people, I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America. 但在听取了美国人民的意见后，我再次被提醒，世界上所有的立法都无法解决美国的问题。
So, I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. 因此，我今晚想首先与你们谈论一个比能源或通货膨胀更严重的话题。
I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. 我现在想与你们谈论对美国民主的根本威胁。
I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. 我不是指我们的政治和公民自由。它们会持久存在。
And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world. 我也不是指美国的外在力量，这个国家今晚在世界各处都处于和平状态。
With unmatched economic power and military might. 拥有无与伦比的经济实力和军事力量。
The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. 威胁几乎在日常中看不见。
It is a crisis of confidence. 它是一场信心危机。
It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation. 它是一场打击我们国家意志核心、灵魂和精神的危机。我们可以在对自己生命意义的日益增长的怀疑中，在我们国家失去目标统一性中看到这场危机。
The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America. 我们对未来信心的侵蚀正威胁着摧毁美国的社会和政治结构。
Our people are losing that faith, not only in government itself. 我们的人民正在失去这种信念，不仅对政府本身。
But also in the ability as citizens to serve as the ultimate rulers and shapers of our democracy. 而且对公民作为我们民主最终统治者和塑造者的能力失去信心。
The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July. 我们作为一个民族一直拥有的信心，不仅仅是一个浪漫的梦想，也不是我们只在独立日才读的一本布满灰尘的书中的格言。
It is the idea which founded our nation and has guided our development as a people. 它是建立我们国家并指导我们作为一个民族发展的理念。
Confidence in the future has supported everything else -- public institutions and private enterprise, our own families, and the very Constitution of the United States. 对未来的信心支撑了一切——公共机构和私营企业、我们自己的家庭，以及美国宪法本身。
Confidence has defined our course and has served as a link between generations. We've always believed in something called progress. We've always had a faith that the days of our children would be better than our own. 信心定义了我们的道路，并作为代际之间的纽带。我们一直相信一种叫做进步的东西。我们一直相信，我们孩子的日子会比我们自己的更好。
As a people we know our past and we are proud of it. Our progress has been part of the living history of America, even the world. We always believed that we were part of a great movement of humanity itself called democracy, involved in the search for freedom; and that belief has always strengthened us in our purpose. 作为一个民族，我们了解我们的过去，并为此感到自豪。我们的进步是美国甚至世界活生生历史的一部分。我们一直相信我们是人类伟大运动——民主——的一部分，参与追求自由；这种信念始终坚定了我们的目标。
But just as we are losing our confidence in the future, we are also beginning to close the door on our past. 但就在我们对未来失去信心的同时，我们也开始关闭过去的大门。
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. 在一个以辛勤工作、强大家庭、紧密社区和对上帝的信仰为荣的国家里，我们中的太多人现在倾向于崇拜自我放纵和消费。人的身份不再由一个人做什么来定义，而是由一个人拥有什么来定义。
But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose. 但我们发现，拥有东西和消费东西并不能满足我们对意义的渴望。我们认识到，堆积物质财富无法填补没有信心或目标的生活的空虚。
The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world. 美国精神危机的症状在我们周围随处可见。在我国历史上，大多数人第一次相信未来五年会比过去五年更糟。三分之二的美国人甚至不投票。美国工人的生产力实际上正在下降，美国人储蓄未来的意愿已经低于西方世界所有其他国家。
As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning. 如你所知，对政府、教会、学校、新闻媒体和其他机构的不尊重正在增长。这不是一个令人愉快或安心的信息，但这是事实，也是一个警告。
These changes did not happen overnight. They've come upon us gradually over the last generation, years that were filled with shocks and tragedy. 这些变化不是一夜之间发生的。它们在过去一代人的时间里逐渐降临到我们身上，那些充满冲击和悲剧的岁月。
We were sure that ours was a nation of the ballot, not the bullet, until the murders of John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam. We respected the Presidency as a place of honor until the shock of Watergate. 我们确信我们是一个投票而非子弹的国家，直到约翰·肯尼迪、罗伯特·肯尼迪和马丁·路德·金被谋杀。我们被教导我们的军队永远无敌，我们的事业永远正义，却遭受了越南的痛苦。我们把总统职位视为一个荣誉的地方，直到水门事件的冲击。
We remember when the phrase "sound as a dollar" was an expression of absolute dependability, until ten years of inflation began to shrink our dollar and our savings. We believed that our nation's resources were limitless until 1973 when we had to face a growing dependence on foreign oil. 我们记得"美元坚挺"曾是绝对可靠的表达，直到十年的通货膨胀开始缩水我们的美元和储蓄。我们相信我们国家的资源是无限的，直到1973年我们不得不面对对外国石油日益增长的依赖。
These wounds are still very deep. They have never been healed. 这些伤口仍然很深。它们从未愈合。
Looking for a way out of this crisis, our people have turned to the Federal Government and found it isolated from the mainstream of our nation's life. Washington, D.C., has become an island. The gap between our citizens and our government has never been so wide. The people are looking for honest answers, not easy answers; clear leadership, not false claims and evasiveness and politics as usual. 在寻找摆脱这场危机的方法时，我们的人民转向联邦政府，却发现它与我们国家生活的主流隔绝。华盛顿特区已经成为一座孤岛。我们公民和政府之间的差距从未如此之大。人民正在寻找诚实的答案，而不是容易的答案；寻找明确的领导，而不是虚假的声明、回避和照常的政治。
What you see too often in Washington and elsewhere around the country is a system of government that seems incapable of action. You see a Congress twisted and pulled in every direction by hundreds of well-financed and powerful special interests. 你在华盛顿和全国其他地方太经常看到的是一个似乎无法行动的政府体系。你看到国会被数百个资金雄厚、势力强大的特殊利益集团向各个方向扭曲和拉扯。
You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and a fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends. 你看到每个极端立场都被一个或另一个不屈不挠的团体捍卫到最后一票，几乎到最后一口气。你经常看到一种需要牺牲的平衡和公平的方法——每个人做出一点牺牲——像孤儿一样被抛弃，没有支持，没有朋友。
Often you see paralysis and stagnation and drift. You don't like it, and neither do I. What can we do? 你经常看到瘫痪、停滞和漂移。你不喜欢这样，我也不喜欢。我们能做什么？
First of all, we must face the truth, and then we can change our course. We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face. It is a true challenge of this generation of Americans. 首先，我们必须面对真相，然后我们才能改变我们的方向。我们必须彼此信任，信任我们治理自己的能力，信任这个国家的未来。恢复美国的信心现在是我们面临的最重要任务。这是这一代美国人的真正挑战。
One of the visitors to Camp David last week put it this way: "We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America." 上周访问戴维营的一位访客是这样说的："我们必须停止哭泣，开始流汗；停止说话，开始走路；停止诅咒，开始祈祷。我们需要的力量不会来自白宫，而是来自美国的每一个家庭。"
We know the strength of America. We are strong. We can regain our unity. We can regain our confidence. We are the heirs of generations who survived threats much more powerful and awesome than those that challenge us now. Our fathers and mothers were strong men and women who shaped a new society during the Great Depression, who fought world wars and who carved out a new charter of peace for the world. 我们知道美国的力量。我们很强大。我们可以重新获得团结。我们可以重新获得信心。我们是经历了比现在挑战我们的威胁更强大、更可怕的世代的继承人。我们的父辈和母辈是坚强的人，他们在大萧条时期塑造了一个新社会，他们参加了世界大战，并为世界制定了新的和平宪章。
We ourselves are the same Americans who just ten years ago put a man on the moon. We are the generation that dedicated our society to the pursuit of human rights and equality. And we are the generation that will win the war on the energy problem and in that process, rebuild the unity and confidence of America. 我们自己就是十年前把人送上月球的美国人。我们是致力于追求人权和平等的一代。我们是将赢得能源问题战争并在此过程中重建美国团结和信心的一代。
We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure. 我们正处于历史的转折点。有两条路可以选择。一条是我今晚警告过的路，通往分裂和自身利益的路。那条路通向一种错误的自由观念，即抓住优势凌驾于他人之上的权利。那条路将是狭隘利益之间持续冲突的道路，最终导致混乱和僵化。这是一条必然失败的路线。
All the traditions of our past, all the lessons of our heritage, all the promises of our future point to another path -- the path of common purpose and the restoration of American values. That path leads to true freedom for our nation and ourselves. We can take the first steps down that path as we begin to solve our energy problem. 我们过去的所有传统、我们遗产的所有教训、我们未来的所有承诺都指向另一条路——共同目标和恢复美国价值观的道路。那条路通向我们国家和我们自己的真正自由。当我们开始解决能源问题时，我们可以沿着那条路迈出第一步。
Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny. 能源将是对我们团结国家能力的直接考验，也可以成为我们团结的标准。在能源的战场上，我们可以为我们的国家赢得新的信心，并重新掌控我们共同的命运。
In little more than two decades we've gone from a position of energy independence to one in which almost half the oil we use comes from foreign countries, at prices that are going through the roof. Our excessive dependence on OPEC has already taken a tremendous toll on our economy and our people. 在短短二十多年里，我们从能源独立的地位变成了我们使用的石油几乎一半来自外国的地位，价格也在飞涨。我们对欧佩克的过度依赖已经给我们的经济和人民造成了巨大损失。
This is the direct cause of the long lines which have made millions of you spend aggravating hours waiting for gasoline. It's a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. 这是导致数百万人花令人恼火的时间排队等待汽油的直接原因。这是我们现在面临的通货膨胀和失业增加的原因之一。这种对外国石油的不可容忍的依赖威胁着我们的经济独立和国家的安全。
The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them. 能源危机是真实的。它是全球性的。它是对我们国家的明确而现实的危险。这些是事实，我们必须面对它们。
What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important. 我现在关于能源必须对你们说的话很简单，但至关重要。
Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977-- never. 第一点：今晚我为美国的能源政策设定一个明确的目标。从这一刻开始，这个国家永远不会使用比我们1977年更多的外国石油——永远不会。
From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade -- a saving of over four and a half million barrels of imported oil per day. 从现在起，我们能源需求的每一次新增都将通过我们自己的生产和节约来满足。我们对外国石油依赖的长达一代人的增长将立即停止，然后在我们进入20世纪80年代时逆转，因为今晚我设定了进一步的目标：到下一个十年末，将我们对外国石油的依赖减少一半——每天节省超过450万桶进口石油。
Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my presidential authority to set import quotas. I'm announcing tonight that for 1979 and 1980, I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow. These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit. 第二点：为确保我们实现这些目标，我将使用我的总统权力设定进口配额。今晚我宣布，1979年和1980年，我将禁止超过这些目标允许的任何一滴外国石油进入这个国家。这些配额将确保进口量甚至低于我们在最近东京峰会上设定的雄心勃勃的水平。
Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel -- from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun. 第三点：为了给我们能源安全，我要求我国历史上最大规模的和平时期资金和资源投入，以开发美国自己的替代燃料来源——来自煤炭、油页岩、用于酒精汽油的植物产品、非常规天然气和太阳能。
I propose the creation of an energy security corporation to lead this effort to replace two and a half million barrels of imported oil per day by 1990. The corporation will issue up to five billion dollars in energy bonds, and I especially want them to be in small denominations so average Americans can invest directly in America's energy security. 我提议创建一家能源安全公司，领导这项努力，到1990年每天替代250万桶进口石油。该公司将发行高达50亿美元的能源债券，我特别希望它们以小额面额发行，以便普通美国人可以直接投资于美国的能源安全。
Just as a similar synthetic rubber corporation helped us win World War II, so will we mobilize American determination and ability to win the energy war. Moreover, I will soon submit legislation to Congress calling for the creation of this nation's first solar bank which will help us achieve the crucial goal of twenty percent of our energy coming from solar power by the year 2000. 就像二战期间类似的合成橡胶公司帮助我们赢得战争一样，我们也将动员美国的决心和能力来赢得能源战争。此外，我很快将向国会提交立法，要求创建我国第一家太阳能银行，这将帮助我们实现到2000年20%的能源来自太阳能的关键目标。
These efforts will cost money, a lot of money, and that is why Congress must enact the windfall profits tax without delay. It will be money well spent. Unlike the billions of dollars that we ship to foreign countries to pay for foreign oil, these funds will be paid by Americans, to Americans. These will go to fight, not to increase, inflation and unemployment. 这些努力将花费金钱，大量的金钱，这就是为什么国会必须立即制定暴利税。这笔钱花得值。与我们汇往外国支付外国石油的数十亿美元不同，这些资金将由美国人支付给美国人。这些资金将用于对抗，而不是增加，通货膨胀和失业。
Point four: I'm asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our nation's utility companies cut their massive use of oil by fifty percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source. 第四点：我要求国会授权，作为法律规定，我国的公用事业公司在未来十年内将其大量使用的石油削减50%，并改用其他燃料，特别是煤炭——我们最丰富的能源来源。
Point five: To make absolutely certain that nothing stands in the way of achieving these goals, I will urge Congress to create an energy mobilization board which, like the War Production Board in World War II, will have the responsibility and authority to cut through the red tape, the delays, and the endless roadblocks to completing key energy projects. 第五点：为了绝对确保没有任何东西阻碍实现这些目标，我将敦促国会创建一个能源动员委员会，像二战期间的战争生产委员会一样，拥有责任和权力来克服繁文缛节、延误和完成关键能源项目的无尽障碍。
We will protect our environment. But when this nation critically needs a refinery or a pipeline, we will build it. 我们将保护我们的环境。但当这个国家迫切需要炼油厂或管道时，我们就会建造它。
Point six: I'm proposing a bold conservation program to involve every state, county, and city and every average American in our energy battle. This effort will permit you to build conservation into your homes and your lives at a cost you can afford. 第六点：我提议一项大胆的节约计划，让每个州、县、城市和每个普通美国人都参与我们的能源斗争。这项努力将允许你以负担得起的成本在你的家庭和生活中融入节约。
I ask Congress to give me authority for mandatory conservation and for standby gasoline rationing. To further conserve energy, I'm proposing tonight an extra ten billion dollars over the next decade to strengthen our public transportation systems. 我要求国会授予我强制节约和备用汽油配给的权力。为了进一步节约能源，我今晚提议在未来十年内额外投入100亿美元来加强我们的公共交通系统。
And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense, I tell you it is an act of patriotism. 我请求你们，为了你们自己和国家的安全，不要进行不必要的旅行，尽可能使用拼车或公共交通工具，每周多停一天车，遵守限速，并设定恒温器以节省燃料。每一次这样的能源节约行为不仅仅是常识，我告诉你，这是一种爱国行为。
Our nation must be fair to the poorest among us, so we will increase aid to needy Americans to cope with rising energy prices. We often think of conservation only in terms of sacrifice. In fact, it is the most painless and immediate ways of rebuilding our nation's strength. Every gallon of oil each one of us saves is a new form of production. It gives us more freedom, more confidence, that much more control over our own lives. 我们国家必须对最贫困的人公平，因此我们将增加对贫困美国人的援助，以应对不断上涨的能源价格。我们常常只从牺牲的角度考虑节约。事实上，这是重建我们国家力量的最无痛和最直接的方式。我们每个人节省的每一加仑石油都是一种新的生产形式。它给我们更多的自由、更多的信心，以及对我们自己生活更大的控制。
So, the solution of our energy crisis can also help us to conquer the crisis of the spirit in our country. It can rekindle our sense of unity, our confidence in the future, and give our nation and all of us individually a new sense of purpose. 因此，解决我们的能源危机也可以帮助我们克服我国的精神危机。它可以重新点燃我们的团结感、对未来的信心，并给予我们国家和我们每个人一个新的目标感。
You know we can do it. We have the natural resources. We have more oil in our shale alone than several Saudi Arabias. We have more coal than any nation on earth. We have the world's highest level of technology. We have the most skilled work force, with innovative genius, and I firmly believe that we have the national will to win this war. 你知道我们能做到。我们拥有自然资源。我们仅页岩中的石油就比几个沙特阿拉伯还多。我们拥有比世界上任何国家都多的煤炭。我们拥有世界最高水平的技术。我们拥有最熟练的劳动力，具有创新天才，我坚信我们拥有赢得这场战争的国家意志。
I do not promise you that this struggle for freedom will be easy. I do not promise a quick way out of our nation's problems, when the truth is that the only way out is an all-out effort. What I do promise you is that I will lead our fight, and I will enforce fairness in our struggle, and I will ensure honesty. And above all, I will act. 我不向你承诺这场自由斗争会很容易。我不承诺快速解决我们国家的问题，因为事实是，唯一的出路是全力以赴。我向你承诺的是，我将领导我们的斗争，我将在我们的斗争中维护公平，我将确保诚实。最重要的是，我将采取行动。
We can manage the short-term shortages more effectively, and we will; but there are no short-term solutions to our long-range problems. There is simply no way to avoid sacrifice. 我们可以更有效地管理短期短缺，我们也会这样做；但我们的长期问题没有短期解决方案。根本没有办法避免牺牲。
Twelve hours from now I will speak again in Kansas City, to expand and to explain further our energy program. Just as the search for solutions to our energy shortages has now led us to a new awareness of our nation's deeper problems, so our willingness to work for those solutions in energy can strengthen us to attack those deeper problems. 十二个小时后，我将再次在堪萨斯城发表演讲，进一步扩展和解释我们的能源计划。正如对能源短缺解决方案的寻求现在让我们对国家更深层次的问题有了新的认识一样，我们在能源方面为这些解决方案努力的意愿也可以加强我们解决那些更深层次问题的能力。
I will continue to travel this country, to hear the people of America. You can help me to develop a national agenda for the 1980s. I will listen; and I will act. We will act together. 我将继续走遍这个国家，倾听美国人民的声音。你可以帮助我制定20世纪80年代的国家议程。我会倾听；我会采取行动。我们将共同行动。
These were the promises I made three years ago, and I intend to keep them. 这些是我三年前做出的承诺，我打算兑现它们。
Little by little we can and we must rebuild our confidence. We can spend until we empty our treasuries, and we may summon all the wonders of science. But we can succeed only if we tap our greatest resources -- America's people, America's values, and America's confidence. 一点一点地，我们可以而且必须重建我们的信心。我们可以花钱直到掏空我们的国库，我们可以召唤科学的所有奇迹。但我们只有利用我们最大的资源——美国人民、美国价值观和美国信心——才能成功。
I have seen the strength of America in the inexhaustible resources of our people. In the days to come, let us renew that strength in the struggle for an energy-secure nation. 我在美国人民取之不尽的资源中看到了美国的力量。在未来的日子里，让我们在争取能源安全国家的斗争中重新焕发这种力量。
In closing, let me say this: I will do my best, but I will not do it alone. Let your voice be heard. Whenever you have a chance, say something good about our country. With God's help and for the sake of our nation, it is time for us to join hands in America. Let us commit ourselves together to a rebirth of the American spirit. Working together with our common faith we cannot fail. 最后，请允许我说：我会尽我最大的努力，但我不会独自完成。让你的声音被听到。无论何时有机会，说一些关于我们国家的好话。在上帝的帮助下，为了我们国家的利益，现在是我们在美国携手合作的时候了。让我们共同致力于美国精神的复兴。凭借我们共同的信念，共同努力，我们不会失败。
Thank you and good night. 谢谢大家，晚安。