Four days ago, this community was shaken by an evil and hateful act. Today, we are reminded of what is good. That there is compassion, empathy and decency, and most of all, there is love. That's the Orlando that we've seen in recent days. And that is the America that we have seen. 四天前,这个社区被一起邪恶可恨的暴行所震动。今天,我们想起了什么是美好。那就是同情、同理与正派,最重要的是,那就是爱。这就是我们近日来看到的奥兰多。这就是我们看到的美国。
This afternoon, the Vice President and I had the opportunity to meet with many of the families here. As you might imagine, their grief is beyond description. Through their pain and through their tears, they told us about the joy that their loved ones had brought to their lives. They talked about their sons or their daughters -- so many young people, in their 20s and 30s; so many students who were focused on the future. One young woman was just 18 years old. Another, said her father, was a happy girl with so many dreams. 今天下午,我和副总统有机会会见了许多遇难者家属。可以想象,他们的悲痛难以言表。在痛苦和泪水中,他们向我们讲述了亲人曾带给他们的欢乐。他们谈起自己的儿子或女儿——那么多年轻人,二三十岁;那么多专注于未来的学生。有一个女孩才十八岁。另一个女孩,她父亲说,是一个怀揣无数梦想的快乐姑娘。
There were siblings there talking about their brothers and their sisters and how they were role models that they looked up to. There were husbands and wives who had taken a solemn vow; fathers and mothers who gave their full hearts to their children. These families could be our families. In fact, they are our family -- they're part of the American family. Today, the Vice President and I told them, on behalf of the American people, that our hearts are broken, too, but we stand with you and that we are here for you, and that we are remembering those who you loved so deeply. 在场的兄弟姐妹讲述着他们的兄弟姊妹,讲述着他们是自己仰慕的榜样。有立下庄严誓言的夫妻;有为孩子倾尽全心的父母。这些家庭可能就是我们的家庭。事实上,他们就是我们的家人——他们是美国家庭的一部分。今天,我和副总统告诉他们,我代表美国人民说,我们的心也碎了,但我们与你们同在,我们支持你们,我们铭记你们深深爱着的那些人。
As a nation, we've also been inspired by the courage of those who risked their lives and cared for others. Partners whose last moments were spent shielding each other. The mother who gave her life to save her son. The former Marine whose quick thinking saved dozens of lives. 作为一个国家,我们也被那些冒着生命危险救助他人的人的勇气所鼓舞。伴侣们在生命最后一刻用身体掩护彼此。一位母亲为救儿子献出了生命。一位前海军陆战队员的敏捷思维挽救了数十条生命。
Joe and I had the chance to thank Mayor Dyer, Chief Mina, Sheriff Demings, all who responded in heroic ways; the outstanding police and first responders who were able to, through their professionalism and quick response, rescue so many people. We also owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to all the doctors, all the nurses who have worked day and night to treat the injured, save lives and prevent even more anguish. 乔和我有机会感谢戴尔市长、米纳局长、戴明斯警长,以及所有英勇响应的人;感谢出色的警察和急救人员,他们凭借专业精神和快速反应,救出了这么多人。我们还要向所有日夜奋战救治伤者、挽救生命、避免更多痛苦的医生和护士致以最深的谢意。
As one of the doctors here said, "after the worst of humanity reared its ugly head...the best of humanity came roaring back." Let me get that quote more precisely -- "after the worst of humanity reared its evil head...the best of humanity came roaring back." 正如这里的一位医生所说:"当人性中最丑恶的一面露出狰狞面目时……人性中最美好的一面强势回归。"让我把这句话说得更准确一些——"当人性中最丑恶的一面露出邪恶面目时……人性中最美好的一面强势回归。"
Now, if we're honest with ourselves, if, in fact, we want to show the best of our humanity, then we're all going to have to work together at every level of government, across political lines, to do more to stop killers who want to terrorize us. We will continue to be relentless against terrorist groups like ISIL and al Qaeda. We are going to destroy them. We are going to disrupt their networks, and their financing, and the flow of fighters in and out of war theaters. We're going to disrupt their propaganda that poisons so many minds around the world. 现在,如果我们诚实地面对自己,如果我们真的想展现人性中最美好的一面,那么我们所有人都必须在各级政府层面、跨越党派界限,共同努力,采取更多行动阻止那些想要恐吓我们的凶手。我们将继续对伊斯兰国和基地组织等恐怖组织保持毫不留情的打击。我们将摧毁他们。我们将破坏他们的网络、他们的资金、以及战斗人员进出战区的流动。我们将瓦解毒害世界各地众多心灵的宣传。
We're going to do all that. Our resolve is clear. But given the fact that the last two terrorist attacks on our soil -- Orlando and San Bernardino -- were homegrown, carried out it appears not by external plotters, not by vast networks or sophisticated cells, but by deranged individuals warped by the hateful propaganda that they had seen over the Internet, then we're going to have to do more to prevent these kinds of events from occurring. 所有这些我们都会做到。我们的决心是明确的。但鉴于我们本土上发生的最近两次恐怖袭击——奥兰多和圣贝纳迪诺——都是本土发起的,显然不是外部策划者所为,也不是庞大网络或精密组织所为,而是被在互联网上看到的仇恨宣传所扭曲的精神错乱者所为,那么我们就必须采取更多措施来防止这类事件发生。
It's going to take more than just our military. It's going to require more than just our intelligence teams. As good as they are, as dedicated as they are, as focused as they are, if you have lone wolf attacks like this, hatched in the minds of a disturbed person, then we're going to have to take different kinds of steps in order to prevent something like this from happening. 这不仅仅需要我们的军队。这不仅仅需要我们的情报团队。尽管他们很优秀、很敬业、很专注,但如果是像这样的"独狼式"袭击,萌发于一个精神失常者的头脑中,那么我们就必须采取不同类型的措施来防止此类事件的发生。
Those who were killed and injured here were gunned down by a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. The motives of this killer may have been different than the mass shooters in Aurora or Newtown, but the instruments of death were so similar. And now, another 49 innocent people are dead. Another 53 are injured. Some are still fighting for their lives. Some will have wounds that will last a lifetime. 在这里遇害和受伤的人,是被一名手持强力攻击性武器的凶手枪杀的。这名凶手的动机可能与奥罗拉或纽顿的大规模枪手不同,但死亡工具却如此相似。而现在,又有四十九名无辜者死亡。又有五十三人受伤。有些人仍在与死神搏斗。有些人将留下终身的创伤。
We can't anticipate or catch every single deranged person that may wish to do harm to his neighbors, or his friends, or his coworkers, or strangers. But we can do something about the amount of damage that they do. Unfortunately, our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed individual like those in Aurora and Newtown to buy extraordinarily powerful weapons -- and they can do so legally. 我们无法预见或抓住每一个可能想伤害邻居、朋友、同事或陌生人的精神错乱者。但我们可以对他们造成的伤害程度有所作为。不幸的是,我们的政治体制合谋让恐怖分子,或者像奥罗拉和纽顿那样的精神异常者,能够极其容易地买到威力巨大的武器——而且他们可以合法地买到。
Today, once again, as has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked, why does this keep happening? And they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. They don't care about the politics. Neither do I. Neither does Joe. And neither should any parent out there who's thinking about their kids being not in the wrong place, but in places where kids are supposed to be. 今天,又一次,就像之前无数次一样,我拥抱了悲痛的家属和父母,他们问,为什么这种事一再发生?他们恳求我们采取更多行动制止这场屠杀。他们不在乎政治。我也不在乎。乔也不在乎。任何一个想到自己的孩子不是出现在了不该出现的地方,而是出现在了孩子本该出现的地方的父母,都不应该在乎。
This debate needs to change. It's outgrown the old political stalemates. The notion that the answer to this tragedy would be to make sure that more people in a nightclub are similarly armed to the killer defies common sense. Those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet these families and explain why that makes sense. They should meet with the Newtown families -- some of whom Joe saw yesterday -- whose children would now be finishing fifth grade -- on why it is that we think our liberty requires these repeated tragedies. That's not the meaning of liberty. 这场辩论需要改变。它已经超越了旧有的政治僵局。那种认为应对这场悲剧的办法是让夜总会里更多人配备与凶手同样的武器的想法,违背常识。那些为攻击性武器的易得性辩护的人,应该见见这些家庭,解释一下为什么这说得通。他们应该见见纽顿的家属——乔昨天见到了其中一些人——他们的孩子现在本该上五年级了——问问他们,为什么我们认为我们的自由需要这些反复发生的悲剧。那不是自由的含义。
I'm pleased to hear that the Senate will hold votes on preventing individuals with possible terrorist ties from buying guns, including assault weapons. I truly hope that senators rise to the moment and do the right thing. I hope that senators who voted no on background checks after Newtown have a change of heart. And then I hope the House does the right thing, and helps end the plague of violence that these weapons of war inflict on so many young lives. 我很高兴听说参议院将就阻止可能与恐怖主义有关联的个人购买枪支——包括攻击性武器——进行投票。我真心希望参议员们能挺身而出,做正确的事。我希望那些在纽顿事件后对背景调查投反对票的参议员能回心转意。然后我希望众议院也能做正确的事,帮助结束这些战争武器给那么多年轻生命带来的暴力灾祸。
I've said this before -- we will not be able to stop every tragedy. We can't wipe away hatred and evil from every heart in this world. But we can stop some tragedies. We can save some lives. We can reduce the impact of a terrorist attack if we're smart. And if we don't act, we will keep seeing more massacres like this -- because we'll be choosing to allow them to happen. We will have said, we don't care enough to do something about it. 我以前说过——我们无法阻止每一场悲剧。我们无法从世界上每一颗心中抹去仇恨与邪恶。但我们可以阻止一些悲剧。我们可以挽救一些生命。如果我们足够明智,我们可以降低恐怖袭击的影响。而如果我们不采取行动,我们将不断看到更多这样的大屠杀——因为我们将选择任由它们发生。我们等于在说,我们还不够在乎,不愿为此做点什么。
Here in Orlando, we are reminded not only of our obligations as a country to be resolute against terrorists, we are reminded not only of the need for us to implement smarter policies to prevent mass shootings, we're also reminded of what unites us as Americans, and that what unites us is far stronger than the hate and the terror of those who target us. 在奥兰多,我们不仅被提醒作为一个国家我们有义务坚决打击恐怖主义,不仅被提醒我们需要实施更明智的政策来防止大规模枪击,我们也被提醒是什么将我们作为美国人团结在一起,而团结我们的力量远比那些针对我们的人的仇恨与恐惧更强大。
For so many people here who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, the Pulse Nightclub has always been a safe haven, a place to sing and dance, and most importantly, to be who you truly are -- including for so many people whose families are originally from Puerto Rico. Sunday morning, that sanctuary was violated in the worst way imaginable. So whatever the motivations of the killer, whatever influences led him down the path of violence and terror, whatever propaganda he was consuming from ISIL and al Qaeda, this was an act of terrorism but it was also an act of hate. 对于这里许多女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者来说,脉搏夜总会一直是一个安全的避风港,一个可以唱歌跳舞的地方,最重要的是,一个可以做真正的自己的地方——对那么多祖籍波多黎各的人来说尤其如此。周日早上,那片圣所以最可怕的方式遭到了侵犯。所以无论凶手的动机是什么,无论是什么影响将他引向了暴力与恐怖之路,无论他从伊斯兰国和基地组织那里吸收了什么宣传,这都是一次恐怖主义行为,但同时也是一次仇恨行为。
This was an attack on the LGBT community. Americans were targeted because we're a country that has learned to welcome everyone, no matter who you are or who you love. And hatred towards people because of sexual orientation, regardless of where it comes from, is a betrayal of what's best in us. 这是对LGBT群体的袭击。美国人成为目标,是因为我们是一个学会了欢迎每一个人的国家,无论你是谁,无论你爱谁。因性取向而仇恨他人,无论这种仇恨来自何方,都是对我们最美好本性的背叛。
Joe and I were talking on the way over here -- you can't make up the world into "us" and "them," and denigrate and express hatred towards groups because of the color of their skin, or their faith, or their sexual orientation, and not feed something very dangerous in this world. 乔和我来的路上在聊——你不能把世界分成"我们"和"他们",不能因为肤色、信仰或性取向而诋毁和表达对某个群体的仇恨,否则就会在这个世界上滋生非常危险的东西。
So if there was ever a moment for all of us to reflect and reaffirm our most basic beliefs that everybody counts and everybody has dignity, now is the time. It's a good time for all of us to reflect on how we treat each other, and to insist on respect and equality for every human being. 所以,如果说有什么时候我们所有人都应该反思并重申我们最基本的信念——每个人都重要,每个人都有尊严——那就是现在。这是我们所有人反思我们如何对待彼此、坚持每个人都应得到尊重和平等的好时机。
We have to end discrimination and violence against our brothers and sisters who are in the LGBT community -- here at home and around the world, especially in countries where they are routinely persecuted. We have to challenge the oppression of women, wherever it occurs -- here or overseas. There's only "us" -- Americans. 我们必须结束对LGBT群体兄弟姐妹的歧视和暴力——在国内和世界各地都是如此,尤其是在他们经常遭受迫害的国家。我们必须挑战对女性的压迫,无论它发生在哪里——在这里还是在海外。只有"我们"——美国人。
Here in Orlando, in the men and women taken from us, those who loved them, we see some of the true character of this country -- the best of humanity coming roaring back; the love and the compassion and the fierce resolve that will carry us through not just through this atrocity, but through whatever difficult times may confront us. 在奥兰多,从那些被夺走的人们身上,从那些爱着他们的人身上,我们看到了这个国家的一些真实品格——人性中最美好的一面强势回归;爱、同情和坚定的决心,将带领我们不仅度过这场暴行,也度过任何可能降临的艰难时刻。
It's our pluralism and our respect for each other -- including a young man who said to a friend, he was "super proud" to be Latino. It's our love of country -- the patriotism of an Army reservist who was known as "an amazing officer." It's our unity -- the outpouring of love that so many across our country have shown to our fellow Americans who are LGBT, a display of solidarity that might have been unimaginable even a few years ago. 是我们的多元主义和对彼此的尊重——包括一个年轻人对朋友说,他为自己是拉丁裔而"超级自豪"。是我们的爱国情怀——一位陆军预备役军人的爱国精神,他被称为"一名了不起的军官"。是我们的团结——全国上下对我们LGBT同胞所展现出的爱的洪流,这种团结的展示即使在几年前也是难以想象的。
Out of this darkest of moments, that gives us hope -- seeing people reflect, seeing people's best instincts come out, maybe in some cases, minds and hearts change. It is our strength and our resilience -- the same determination of a man who died here who traveled the world, mindful of the risks as a gay man, but who spoke for us all when he said, "we cannot be afraid...we are not going to be afraid." 在这至暗时刻,这给了我们希望——看到人们反思,看到人们最善良的本能被激发,也许在某些情况下,思想和心灵都在改变。是我们的力量和韧性——是一位在这里遇难的男子的决心,他周游世界,作为一名同性恋者深知风险,但他代表我们所有人说:"我们不能害怕……我们不会害怕。"
May we all find that same strength in our own lives. May we all find that same wisdom in how we treat one another. May God bless all who we lost here in Orlando. May He comfort their families. May He heal the wounded. May He bring some solace to those whose hearts have been broken. May He give us resolve to do what's necessary to reduce the hatred of this world, curb the violence. And may He watch over this country that we call home. 愿我们都能在自己的生活中找到同样的力量。愿我们都能在如何对待彼此上找到同样的智慧。愿上帝保佑我们在奥兰多失去的所有人。愿他安慰他们的家人。愿他治愈伤者。愿他给那些心碎的人带来慰藉。愿他赐予我们决心,去做必要的事来减少这个世界的仇恨、遏制暴力。愿他守护我们称之为家的这个国家。
Thank you very much, everybody. 非常感谢大家。