Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself. 七十一年前，在一个晴朗无云的早晨，死亡从天而降，世界从此改变。一道闪光、一堵火墙摧毁了一座城市，也证明了人类拥有毁灭自身的手段。
Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not so distant past. We come to mourn the dead, including over 100,000 in Japanese men, women and children; thousands of Koreans; a dozen Americans held prisoner. Their souls speak to us. They ask us to look inward, to take stock of who we are and what we might become. 我们为何要来到这个地方，来到广岛？我们来此是为了沉思在并不遥远的过去所释放的可怕力量。我们来此是为了悼念逝者，包括十多万日本男女老少；数千名韩国人；还有十几名被囚禁的美国人。他们的灵魂在向我们诉说。他们要求我们审视内心，反思我们是谁，以及我们可能成为什么样的人。
It is not the fact of war that sets Hiroshima apart. Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors, having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood, used these tools not just for hunting, but against their own kind. 让广岛与众不同的并非战争本身。文物告诉我们，暴力冲突早在人类始祖时期就已出现。我们的早期祖先学会了用燧石制作刀刃、用木头制作长矛，这些工具不仅用于狩猎，也被用来对付同类。
On every continent, the history of civilization is filled with war, whether driven by scarcity of grain or hunger for gold; compelled by nationalist fervor or religious zeal. Empires have risen and fallen. Peoples have been subjugated and liberated. And at each juncture, innocents have suffered, a countless toll, their names forgotten by time. 在每一块大陆上，文明史都充斥着战争——无论是由粮食短缺或黄金欲望驱动，还是被民族主义热情或宗教狂热所驱使。帝国兴起又覆灭。人民被奴役又获得解放。而在每一个历史关头，无辜者都遭受了苦难，伤亡不计其数，他们的名字已被时间遗忘。
The World War that reached its brutal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was fought among the wealthiest and most powerful of nations. Their civilizations had given the world great cities and magnificent art. Their thinkers had advanced ideas of justice and harmony and truth. 那场在广岛和长崎迎来残酷结局的世界大战，是在最富有、最强大的国家之间进行的。它们的文明为世界带来了伟大的城市和壮丽的艺术。它们的思想家提出了正义、和谐与真理的理念。
And yet, the war grew out of the same base instinct for domination or conquest that had caused conflicts among the simplest tribes; an old pattern amplified by new capabilities and without new constraints. In the span of a few years, some 60 million people would die -- men, women, children no different than us, shot, beaten, marched, bombed, jailed, starved, gassed to death. 然而，这场战争源于同样的支配或征服本能，正是这种本能导致了最原始部落之间的冲突；这是一种旧模式，被新的能力放大，却没有新的约束。在短短几年内，约有六千万人丧生——男人、女人、儿童，与我们并无二致，他们被枪杀、殴打、行军、轰炸、监禁、饿死、毒死。
There are many sites around the world that chronicle this war -- memorials that tell stories of courage and heroism; graves and empty camps that echo of unspeakable depravity. Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud that rose into these skies, we are most starkly reminded of humanity's core contradiction; how the very spark that marks us as a species -- our thoughts, our imagination, our language, our tool-making, our ability to set ourselves apart from nature and bend it to our will -- those very things also give us the capacity for unmatched destruction. 世界各地有许多记录这场战争的场所——讲述勇气与英雄主义故事的纪念碑；回荡着难以言喻的暴行的坟墓和空荡集中营。然而，在升入这片天空的蘑菇云影像中，我们最鲜明地想起了人类的核心矛盾；正是那标志着我们作为一个物种的特质——我们的思想、我们的想象力、我们的语言、我们的工具制造能力、我们将自己与自然区分开来并按自己的意志驾驭自然的能力——正是这些东西也赋予了我们进行无与伦比的破坏的能力。
How often does material advancement or social innovation blind us to this truth. How easily we learn to justify violence in the name of some higher cause. Every great religion promises a pathway to love and peace and righteousness, and yet no religion has been spared from believers who have claimed their faith as a license to kill. Nations arise, telling a story that binds people together in sacrifice and cooperation, allowing for remarkable feats, but those same stories have so often been used to oppress and dehumanize those who are different. 物质进步或社会创新多少次让我们对这一真相视而不见。我们多么轻易地学会了以某种崇高事业的名义为暴力辩护。每一个伟大的宗教都承诺了一条通往爱、和平与正义的道路，然而，没有一个宗教能够幸免于那些声称信仰可以作为杀人许可证的信徒。国家的崛起，讲述着将人们在牺牲与合作中凝聚在一起的故事，成就了非凡的伟业，但这些故事也常常被用来压迫和非人化那些不同的人。
Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds; to cure disease and understand the cosmos. But those same discoveries can be turned into ever-more efficient killing machines. 科学让我们能够跨越大洋交流、飞越云端；治愈疾病、理解宇宙。但同样的发现也可以被改造成更高效的杀人机器。
The wars of the modern age teach this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution, as well. 现代战争教会了我们这一真理。广岛教会了我们这一真理。没有人类制度相应进步的技术进步会将我们推向毁灭。导致原子分裂的科学革命，也需要一场道德革命。
That is why we come to this place. We stand here, in the middle of this city, and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war, and the wars that came before, and the wars that would follow. 这就是我们来到这里的原因。我们站在这座城市的中央，强迫自己想象炸弹落下的那一刻。我们强迫自己感受孩子们因所见而困惑的恐惧。我们倾听无声的哭泣。我们铭记在那场可怕战争的漫长过程中，以及在此之前的战争和此后的战争中，所有遇难的无辜者。
Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering, but we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again. Someday the voices of the hibakusha will no longer be with us to bear witness. But the memory of the morning of August 6th, 1945 must never fade. That memory allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change. 仅靠言语无法表达如此深重的苦难，但我们肩负着共同的责任，要直视历史的眼睛，扪心自问我们必须做出怎样的改变才能再次遏制这样的苦难。终有一天，被爆者的声音将不再能为我们作证。但1945年8月6日早晨的记忆永远不能褪色。那段记忆让我们战胜自满。它点燃了我们的道德想象力。它让我们得以改变。
And since that fateful day, we have made choices that give us hope. The United States and Japan forged not only an alliance, but a friendship that has won far more for our people than we could ever claim through war. The nations of Europe built a Union that replaced battlefields with bonds of commerce and democracy. Oppressed peoples and nations won liberation. An international community established institutions and treaties that worked to avoid war and aspire to restrict and roll back, and ultimately eliminate the existence of nuclear weapons. 自那个决定性的日子以来，我们做出了给我们带来希望的选择。美国和日本不仅建立了同盟，更建立了友谊，这种友谊为我们两国人民带来的收获远超我们通过战争所能获得的。欧洲各国建立了联盟，用商业和民主的纽带取代了战场。被压迫的人民和国家赢得了解放。国际社会建立了机构和条约，致力于避免战争，并立志限制、削减并最终消除核武器。
Still, every act of aggression between nations; every act of terror and corruption and cruelty and oppression that we see around the world shows our work is never done. We may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations -- and the alliances that we've formed -- must possess the means to defend ourselves. But among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear, and pursue a world without them. 然而，国家之间的每一次侵略行为；我们在世界各地看到的每一次恐怖、腐败、残忍和压迫行为都表明，我们的工作永远不会结束。我们也许无法消除人类作恶的能力，因此各国——以及我们组建的同盟——必须拥有自卫的手段。但在像我国这样拥有核武库的国家中，我们必须有勇气逃离恐惧的逻辑，追求一个没有核武器的世界。
We may not realize this goal in my lifetime. But persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe. We can chart a course that leads to the destruction of these stockpiles. We can stop the spread to new nations, and secure deadly materials from fanatics. 我们可能在有生之年无法实现这一目标。但持续的努力可以降低灾难发生的可能性。我们可以规划一条通向销毁这些核武库的道路。我们可以阻止核武器向新国家扩散，并保护致命材料免遭狂热分子之手。
And yet that is not enough. For we see around the world today how even the crudest rifles and barrel bombs can serve up violence on a terrible scale. We must change our mindset about war itself -- to prevent conflict through diplomacy, and strive to end conflicts after they've begun; to see our growing interdependence as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not violent competition; to define our nations not by our capacity to destroy, but by what we build. 然而，这还不够。因为我们看到，在当今世界，即使是最粗糙的步枪和汽油弹也能造成可怕规模的暴力。我们必须改变我们对战争本身的思维方式——通过外交预防冲突，并在冲突开始后努力结束冲突；将我们日益增长的相互依存视为和平合作而非暴力竞争的理由；不以我们的破坏能力来定义我们的国家，而以我们建设的成就来定义。
And perhaps above all, we must reimagine our connection to one another as members of one human race. For this, too, is what makes our species unique. We're not bound by genetic code to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose. We can tell our children a different story -- one that describes a common humanity; one that makes war less likely and cruelty less easily accepted. 也许最重要的是，我们必须重新构想我们作为人类大家庭成员彼此之间的联系。因为这也是使我们这个物种独一无二的地方。我们不受基因密码的束缚去重复过去的错误。我们可以学习。我们可以选择。我们可以给我们的孩子讲述一个不同的故事——一个描述共同人性的故事；一个让战争变得不那么可能、残忍不那么容易被接受的故事。
We see these stories in the hibakusha -- the woman who forgave a pilot who flew the plane that dropped the atomic bomb, because she recognized that what she really hated was war itself; the man who sought out families of Americans killed here, because he believed their loss was equal to his own. 我们在被爆者身上看到了这些故事——那位原谅了驾驶投弹飞机的飞行员的女性，因为她意识到她真正憎恨的是战争本身；那位寻找在这里遇难的美国人的家人的男性，因为他相信他们的损失与他自己的损失是同等的。
My own nation's story began with simple words: All men are created equal, and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Realizing that ideal has never been easy, even within our own borders, even among our own citizens. 我自己国家的故事始于几个简单的词：人人生而平等，造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利，包括生命、自由和追求幸福。实现这一理想从来都不是易事，即使在我们的国境之内，即使在我们自己的公民中间。
But staying true to that story is worth the effort. It is an ideal to be strived for; an ideal that extends across continents, and across oceans. The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious; the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family -- that is the story that we all must tell. 但忠于这个故事是值得努力的。这是一个值得为之奋斗的理想；一个跨越大陆、跨越海洋的理想。每个人不可剥夺的价值，每个生命都珍贵的信念；我们同属一个人类大家庭这一根本而必要的理念——这就是我们所有人都必须讲述的故事。
That is why we come to Hiroshima. So that we might think of people we love -- the first smile from our children in the morning; the gentle touch from a spouse over the kitchen table; the comforting embrace of a parent -- we can think of those things and know that those same precious moments took place here seventy-one years ago. Those who died -- they are like us. Ordinary people understand this, I think. They do not want more war. They would rather that the wonders of science be focused on improving life, and not eliminating it. 这就是我们来到广岛的原因。这样我们就能想起我们所爱的人——早晨孩子们的第一个微笑；厨房餐桌旁爱人温柔的触碰；父母令人安心的拥抱——我们可以想起这些事，然后知道七十一年前，同样珍贵的时刻也曾在这里发生。那些逝去的人——他们和我们一样。我想，普通人都明白这一点。他们不想要更多的战争。他们宁愿科学的奇迹集中于改善生活，而不是消灭生命。
When the choices made by nations, when the choices made by leaders reflect this simple wisdom, then the lesson of Hiroshima is done. 当国家做出的选择，当领导人做出的选择，都反映了这一朴素的智慧时，广岛的教训就完成了。
The world was forever changed here. But today, the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is the future we can choose -- a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not as the dawn of atomic warfare, but as the start of our own moral awakening. 世界在这里被永远改变了。但今天，这座城市的孩子们将在和平中度过他们的一天。这是多么珍贵的事情。它值得被保护，然后延伸到每一个孩子。这就是我们可以选择的未来——一个广岛和长崎不再被视为原子战争的开端，而是我们自身道德觉醒之始的未来。
