Thank you very much. 非常感谢大家。
And, Reverend Clergy all, Senator Hawkins, distinguished members of the Florida congressional delegation, and all of you: I can't tell you how you have warmed my heart with your welcome. I'm delighted to be here today. 各位牧师、霍金斯参议员、佛罗里达州国会代表团的各位尊敬的成员，以及你们所有人：你们无法想象你们的欢迎让我多么感动。我很高兴今天能来到这里。
Those of you in the National Association of Evangelicals are known for your spiritual and humanitarian work. And I would be especially remiss if I didn't discharge right now one personal debt of gratitude. Thank you for your prayers. Nancy and I have felt their presence many times in many ways. And believe me, for us they've made all the difference. 全国福音派协会的各位以你们的精神和人道主义工作而闻名。如果我现在不履行一项个人的感恩之债，那就太失职了。感谢你们的祈祷。南希和我在许多时候以许多方式感受到了它们的存在。请相信我，对我们来说，它们至关重要。
The other day in the East Room of the White House at a meeting there, someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessionary [sic] prayer." 前几天在白宫东厅的一次会议上，有人问我是否知道外面有多少人在为总统祈祷。我不得不说："是的，我知道。我感受到了。我相信代祷。"
But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that -- or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him. I think I understand how Abraham Lincoln felt when he said, "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." 但我不禁对那位提问者说——或至少告诉他们——如果他有时祈祷时听到忙音，那只是因为我比他先打进了电话。我想我理解亚伯拉罕·林肯说这话时的感受："我曾许多次被一种压倒性的信念驱使而跪下，那就是我别无去处。"
From the joy and the good feeling of this conference, I go to a political reception. Now, I don't know why, but that bit of scheduling reminds me of a story which I'll share with you. 从这次会议的喜悦和美好感受中，我要去参加一个政治招待会。现在，我不知道为什么，但这个日程安排让我想起了一个故事，我来和大家分享。
An evangelical minister and a politician arrived at Heaven's gate one day together. And St. Peter, after doing all the necessary formalities, took them in hand to show them where their quarters would be. And he took them to a small, single room with a bed, a chair, and a table and said this was for the clergyman. And the politician was a little worried about what might be in store for him. And he couldn't believe it then when St. Peter stopped in front of a beautiful mansion with lovely grounds, many servants, and told him that these would be his quarters. 一位福音派牧师和一位政客某天一起来到了天堂门口。圣彼得在办理完所有必要的手续后，亲自带他们去看各自的住处。他把他们带到一个有床、椅子和桌子的小单间，说这是给牧师的。政客有点担心自己会有什么待遇。当圣彼得在一座有美丽庭院和许多仆人的豪宅前停下，告诉他这将是他的住处时，他简直不敢相信。
And he couldn't help but ask, he said, "But wait, how -- there's something wrong -- how do I get this mansion while that good and holy man only gets a single room?" And St. Peter said, "You have to understand how things are up here. We've got thousands and thousands of clergy. You're the first politician who ever made it." 他忍不住问道："等等，怎么——这有什么不对——为什么我住这座豪宅，而那位善良圣洁的人只能住一个单间？"圣彼得说："你得理解这里的情况。我们有成千上万的牧师。你是第一个来到这里的政客。"
But I don't want to contribute to a stereotype. So I tell you there are a great many God-fearing, dedicated, noble men and women in public life, present company included. And yes, we need your help to keep us ever-mindful of the ideas and the principles that brought us into the public arena in the first place. The basis of those ideals and principles is a commitment to freedom and personal liberty that, itself is grounded in the much deeper realization that freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted. 但我不想助长刻板印象。所以我要告诉你们，公共生活中有许多敬畏上帝、敬业、高尚的男女，在座的各位也是。是的，我们需要你们的帮助，让我们时刻铭记最初促使我们进入公共领域的理念和原则。这些理念和原则的基础是对自由和个人自由的承诺，而这种承诺本身就根植于一个更深刻的认识：只有热切寻求并谦卑接受上帝的恩赐，自由才能繁荣。
The American experiment in democracy rests on this insight. Its discovery was the great triumph of our Founding Fathers, voiced by William Penn when he said: "If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants." 美国的民主实验正是建立在这一洞见之上。这一发现是我们开国先贤的伟大胜利，威廉·佩恩曾说："如果我们不愿受上帝治理，就必然受暴君统治。"
Explaining the inalienable rights of men, Jefferson said, "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." And it was George Washington who said that "of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." 杰斐逊在解释人类不可剥夺的权利时说："赐予我们生命的上帝，同时也赐予了我们自由。"乔治·华盛顿曾说："在所有导向政治繁荣的倾向和习惯中，宗教和道德是不可或缺的支柱。"
And finally, that shrewdest of all observers of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, put it eloquently after he had gone on a search for the secret of America's greatness and genius -- and he said: "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and the genius of America. America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." 最后，美国民主最敏锐的观察者亚历西斯·德·托克维尔，在探寻美国伟大和天才的秘密后，雄辩地说："直到我走进美国的教堂，听到她的讲坛上燃烧着正义之火，我才理解了美国的伟大和天才。美国是善良的。如果美国不再善良，美国就不再伟大。"
Well, I'm pleased to be here today with you who are keeping America great by keeping her good. Only through your work and prayers and those of millions of others can we hope to survive this perilous century and keep alive this experiment in liberty, this last, best hope of man. 嗯，我很高兴今天能与你们这些通过保持美国的善良来保持美国伟大的人们在一起。只有通过你们的工作和祈祷，以及数百万其他人的工作和祈祷，我们才有希望度过这个危险的世纪，让这个自由实验、这个人类最后最好的希望保持活力。
I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities: the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God. 我想让你们知道，本届政府所遵循的政治哲学看到了美国的伟大在于你们——她的人民——以及你们的家庭、教会、邻里、社区：这些机构培养和滋养了诸如关心他人和尊重上帝之下的法治等价值观。
Now, I don't have to tell you that this puts us in opposition to, or at least out of step with, a -- a prevailing attitude of many who have turned to a modern-day secularism, discarding the tried and time-tested values upon which our very civilization is based. No matter how well intentioned, their value system is radically different from that of most Americans. 现在，我不必告诉你们，这使我们与许多转向现代世俗主义、抛弃我们文明所赖以建立的经过验证的价值观的人处于对立或至少不合拍的位置。无论他们的初衷多么好，他们的价值体系与大多数美国人截然不同。
And while they proclaim that they're freeing us from superstitions of the past, they've taken upon themselves the job of superintending us by government rule and regulation. Sometimes their voices are louder than ours, but they are not yet a majority. 虽然他们宣称正在把我们从过去的迷信中解放出来，却自己承担起通过政府规章来管理我们的工作。有时他们的声音比我们更响亮，但他们还不是多数。
An example of that vocal superiority is evident in a controversy now going on in Washington. And since I'm involved I've been waiting to hear from the parents of young America. How far are they willing to go in giving to government their prerogatives as parents? 这种声音上的优势在华盛顿正在进行的争论中表现得尤为明显。由于我参与其中，我一直在等待听到美国年轻父母的声音。他们愿意在多大程度上将作为父母的特权让渡给政府？
Let me state the case as briefly and simply as I can. An organization of citizens, sincerely motivated, deeply concerned about the increase in illegitimate births and abortions involving girls well below the age of consent, some time ago established a nationwide network of clinics to offer help to these girls and, hopefully, alleviate this situation. Now, again, let me say, I do not fault their intent. However, in their well-intentioned effort, these clinics decided to provide advice and birth control drugs and devices to underage girls without the knowledge of their parents. 让我尽可能简明扼要地陈述这件事。一个公民组织，出于真诚的动机，深切关注法定同意年龄以下女孩的私生子和堕胎增加问题，不久前建立了一个全国性的诊所网络，为这些女孩提供帮助，以期缓解这一状况。现在，我再说一次，我不质疑他们的意图。然而，在这些善意的努力中，这些诊所决定在未告知父母的情况下向未成年女孩提供咨询和避孕药物及器具。
For some years now, the federal government has helped with funds to subsidize these clinics. In providing for this, the Congress decreed that every effort would be made to maximize parental participation. Nevertheless, the drugs and devices are prescribed without getting parental consent or giving notification after they've done so. Girls termed "sexually active" -- and that has replaced the word "promiscuous" -- are given this help in order to prevent illegitimate birth or abortion. 多年来，联邦政府一直提供资金补贴这些诊所。在批准拨款时，国会规定必须尽一切努力最大限度地让父母参与。然而，药物和器具的处方却是在未获得父母同意或事后通知的情况下开出的。被称为"性活跃"的女孩——这个词已经取代了"滥交"——获得这种帮助以防止私生或堕胎。
Well, we have ordered clinics receiving federal funds to notify the parents such help has been given. One of the nation's leading newspapers has created the term "squeal rule" in editorializing against us for doing this, and we're being criticized for violating the privacy of young people. A judge has recently granted an injunction against an enforcement of our rule. I've watched TV panel shows discuss this issue, seen columnists pontificating on our error, but no one seems to mention morality as playing a part in the subject of sex. 我们已下令接受联邦资金的诊所通知父母已提供了此类帮助。一家全国性主要报纸创造了"告密规则"一词来编辑批评我们这样做，我们因侵犯年轻人的隐私而受到批评。一名法官最近发布禁令阻止执行我们的规定。我看过电视讨论节目讨论这个问题，看到专栏作家对我们的错误说教，但似乎没有人提到道德在性这一话题中的作用。
Is all of Judeo-Christian tradition wrong? Are we to believe that something so sacred can be looked upon as a purely physical thing with no potential for emotional and psychological harm? And isn't it the parents' right to give counsel and advice to keep their children from making mistakes that may affect their entire lives? 整个犹太-基督教传统都错了吗？难道我们要相信如此神圣的事物可以被视为纯粹的物质之事，而不会造成情感和心理上的伤害？难道父母没有权利给予忠告和建议，以防止他们的孩子犯下可能影响一生的错误吗？
Many of us in government would like to know what parents think about this intrusion in their family by government. We're going to fight in the courts. The right of parents and the rights of family take precedence over those of Washington-based bureaucrats and social engineers. 我们政府中的许多人想知道父母对政府干预他们家庭的看法。我们将在法庭上斗争。父母和家庭的权利优先于华盛顿的官僚和社会工程师的权利。
But the fight against parental notification is really only one example of many attempts to water down traditional values and even abrogate the original terms of American democracy. Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. 但反对父母通知权实际上只是许多试图淡化传统价值观甚至废除美国民主原始条款的企图中的一个例子。当宗教充满活力、上帝之下的法治得到承认时，自由就会繁荣。我们的开国先贤通过第一修正案时，是为了保护教会免受政府干预。他们从未打算在政府与宗教信仰概念之间筑起一道敌意之墙。
The evidence of this permeates our history and our government. The Declaration of Independence mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times. "In God We Trust" is engraved on our coinage. The Supreme Court opens its proceedings with a religious invocation. And the members of Congress open their sessions with a prayer. I just happen to believe the schoolchildren of the United States are entitled to the same privileges as Supreme Court justices and congressmen. 这一证据渗透在我们的历史和政府中。《独立宣言》提到至高存在不少于四次。"我们信仰上帝"铭刻在我们的硬币上。最高法院以宗教祈祷开启其诉讼程序。国会议员以祈祷开始他们的会议。我只是碰巧认为，美国的学童有权享有与最高法院大法官和国会议员相同的特权。
Last year, I sent the Congress a constitutional amendment to restore prayer to public schools. Already this session, there's growing bipartisan support for the amendment, and I am calling on the Congress to act speedily to pass it and to let our children pray. 去年，我向国会提交了一项恢复公立学校祈祷的宪法修正案。本会期已经有越来越多的两党支持这项修正案，我呼吁国会迅速行动通过它，让我们的孩子祈祷。
Perhaps some of you read recently about the Lubbock school case, where a judge actually ruled that it was unconstitutional for a school district to give equal treatment to religious and nonreligious student groups, even when the group meetings were being held during the students' own time. The First Amendment never intended to require government to discriminate against religious speech. 也许你们中有人最近读到了拉伯克学校案，一位法官竟然裁定一个学区给予宗教和非宗教学生团体平等待遇是违宪的，即使这些团体的聚会是在学生自己的时间进行的。第一修正案从未打算要求政府歧视宗教言论。
Senators Denton and Hatfield have proposed legislation in the Congress on the whole question of prohibiting discrimination against religious forms of student speech. Such legislation could go far to restore freedom of religious speech for public school students. And I hope the Congress considers these bills quickly. And with your help, I think it's possible we could also get the constitutional amendment through the Congress this year. 登顿参议员和哈特菲尔德参议员在国会提出了关于禁止歧视宗教形式学生言论的立法。此类立法可以大大恢复公立学校学生的宗教言论自由。我希望国会迅速审议这些法案。在你们的帮助下，我认为我们今年也有可能让宪法修正案在国会获得通过。
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to one and a half million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will someday pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected. 十多年前，最高法院的一项裁决实际上从五十个州的法律中抹去了保护未出生儿童权利的法规。如今，按需堕胎每年夺去多达一百五十万未出生儿童的生命。结束这一悲剧的人类生命立法终有一天会在国会通过，你我必须永不停息地为此努力。除非能证明未出生的孩子不是一个生命实体，否则其生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利必须受到保护。
You may remember that when abortion on demand began, many, and indeed, I'm sure many of you, warned that the practice would lead to a decline in respect for human life, that the philosophical premises used to justify abortion on demand would ultimately be used to justify other attacks on the sacredness of human life -- infanticide or mercy killing. Tragically enough, those warnings proved all too true. Only last year a court permitted the death by starvation of a handicapped infant. 你们可能记得，当按需堕胎开始时，许多人——我确信你们中的许多人——警告说这种做法会导致对人类生命尊重的下降，用于为按需堕胎辩护的哲学前提最终将被用来为对人类生命神圣性的其他攻击辩护——杀婴或安乐死。可悲的是，这些警告被证明是完全正确的。就在去年，一个法院允许一名残疾婴儿被饿死。
I have directed the Health and Human Services Department to make clear to every health care facility in the United States that the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 protects all handicapped persons against discrimination based on handicaps, including infants. 我已指示卫生与公众服务部向美国每个医疗机构明确说明，1973年《康复法》保护所有残疾人免受基于残疾的歧视，包括婴儿。
And we have taken the further step of requiring that each and every recipient of federal funds who provides health care services to infants must post and keep posted in a conspicuous place a notice stating that "discriminatory failure to feed and care for handicapped infants in this facility is prohibited by federal law." It also lists a twenty-four-hour; toll-free number so that nurses and others may report violations in time to save the infant's life. 我们还采取了进一步的措施，要求每个接受联邦资金并向婴儿提供医疗服务的机构必须在显眼位置张贴并持续张贴一份通知，声明"根据联邦法律，禁止在本机构中对残疾婴儿进行歧视性不喂养和不照料。"通知还列出了一个二十四小时免费电话，以便护士和其他人可以及时报告违规行为以挽救婴儿的生命。
In addition, recent legislation introduced by -- in the Congress by Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois not only increases restrictions on publicly financed abortions, it also addresses this whole problem of infanticide. I urge the Congress to begin hearings and to adopt legislation that will protect the right of life to all children, including the disabled or handicapped. 此外，伊利诺伊州众议员亨利·海德在国会提出的近期立法不仅加强了对公共资金资助堕胎的限制，还涉及杀婴这一整个问题。我敦促国会开始听证并通过立法保护所有儿童的生命权，包括残疾或残障儿童。
Now, I'm sure that you must get discouraged at times, but there you've done better than you know, perhaps. There's a great spiritual awakening in America, a renewal of the traditional values that have been the bedrock of America's goodness and greatness. 现在，我确信你们有时一定会感到气馁，但你们做得比你们知道的要好。美国正在经历一场伟大的精神觉醒，传统价值观正在复兴，而这些价值观一直是美国善良和伟大的基石。
One recent survey by a Washington-based research council concluded that Americans were far more religious than the people of other nations; 95 percent of those surveyed expressed a belief in God and a huge majority believed the Ten Commandments had real meaning in their lives. And another study has found that an overwhelming majority of Americans disapprove of adultery, teenage sex, pornography, abortion, and hard drugs. And this same study showed a deep reverence for the importance of family ties and religious belief. 华盛顿一家研究理事会最近的一项调查得出结论，美国人比其他国家的人虔诚得多；百分之九十五的受访者表示信仰上帝，绝大多数人认为十诫在他们的生活中具有真正的意义。另一项研究发现，绝大多数美国人反对通奸、青少年性行为、色情、堕胎和硬毒品。同一项研究还显示了对家庭纽带和宗教信仰重要性的深深敬畏。
I think the items that we've discussed here today must be a key part of the nation's political agenda. For the first time the Congress is openly and seriously debating and dealing with the prayer and abortion issues and that's enormous progress right there. I repeat: America is in the midst of a spiritual awakening and a moral renewal. And with your biblical keynote, I say today, "Yes, let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream." 我认为我们今天讨论的这些议题必须成为国家政治议程的关键部分。国会首次公开、认真地讨论和处理祈祷和堕胎问题，这本身就是巨大的进步。我重申：美国正处于精神觉醒和道德复兴之中。以你们的圣经主题，我今天说："是的，愿公义如江河滔滔，公义如永不断绝的溪流。"
Now, obviously, much of this new political and social consensus I've talked about is based on a positive view of American history, one that takes pride in our country's accomplishments and record. But we must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man. We know that living in this world means dealing with what philosophers would call the phenomenology of evil or, as theologians would put it, the doctrine of sin. 现在，显然，我谈到的这种新的政治和社会共识大部分基于对美国历史的积极看法，一种为我们国家的成就和记录感到自豪的看法。但我们永远不能忘记，没有任何政府计划能够完善人类。我们知道，生活在这个世界上意味着要面对哲学家所说的"恶的现象学"，或者神学家所说的"罪论"。
There is sin and evil in the world, and we're enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might. Our nation, too, has a legacy of evil with which it must deal. The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country. 世界上存在罪恶和邪恶，圣经和主耶稣吩咐我们要竭尽全力反对它。我们的国家也有必须面对的邪恶遗产。这片土地的荣耀在于它有能力超越我们过去的道德罪恶。例如，少数族裔公民为平等权利进行的长期斗争，曾经是分裂和内战的根源，现在是所有美国人的骄傲。我们绝不能倒退。这个国家没有种族主义、反犹太主义或其他形式种族和民族仇恨的容身之地。
I know that you've been horrified, as have I, by the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice. Use the mighty voice of your pulpits and the powerful standing of your churches to denounce and isolate these hate groups in our midst. The commandment given us is clear and simple: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." 我知道你们和我一样，对一些宣扬偏执和偏见的仇恨团体的死灰复燃感到震惊。用你们讲坛的强大声音和教会的崇高地位来谴责和孤立我们中间的这些仇恨团体。给我们的诫命清晰而简单："要爱你的邻舍如同爱自己。"
But whatever sad episodes exist in our past, any objective observer must hold a positive view of American history, a history that has been the story of hopes fulfilled and dreams made into reality. Especially in this century, America has kept alight the torch of freedom, but not just for ourselves but for millions of others around the world. 但无论我们过去存在怎样悲伤的插曲，任何客观的观察者都必须对美国历史持积极看法——这是一部希望实现、梦想成真的历史。特别是在本世纪，美国一直高擎自由的火炬，不仅为了我们自己，也为了世界上数以百万计的其他人。
And this brings me to my final point today. During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. 这把我带到了今天的最后一点。在我作为总统的第一次新闻发布会上，在回答一个直接问题时，我指出，作为马列主义者，苏联领导人公开宣布他们承认的唯一道德就是有利于他们事业——即世界革命——的道德。
I think I should point out I was only quoting Lenin, their guiding spirit, who said in 1920 that they repudiate all morality that proceeds from supernatural ideas -- that's their name for religion -- or ideas that are outside class conceptions. Morality is entirely subordinate to the interests of class war. And everything is moral that is necessary for the annihilation of the old, exploiting social order and for uniting the proletariat. 我想我应该指出，我只是在引用列宁——他们的精神导师——在1920年所说的话：他们拒斥一切源自超自然观念——这是他们对宗教的称呼——或阶级概念之外观念的道德。道德完全从属于阶级战争的利益。一切有利于消灭旧的剥削社会秩序和团结无产阶级的行为都是道德的。
Well, I think the refusal of many influential people to accept this elementary fact of Soviet doctrine illustrates a historical reluctance to see totalitarian powers for what they are. We saw this phenomenon in the 1930s. We see it too often today. 嗯，我认为许多有影响力的人拒绝接受苏联学说的这一基本事实，体现了历史上不愿看清极权权力本质的倾向。我们在1930年代看到了这种现象。今天我们也经常看到。
This doesn't mean we should isolate ourselves and refuse to seek an understanding with them. I intend to do everything I can to persuade them of our peaceful intent, to remind them that it was the West that refused to use its nuclear monopoly in the forties and fifties for territorial gain and which now proposes 50 percent cut in strategic ballistic missiles and the elimination of an entire class of land-based, intermediate-range nuclear missiles. 这并不意味着我们应该孤立自己并拒绝与他们寻求谅解。我打算尽我所能说服他们我们的和平意图，提醒他们正是西方在四十年代和五十年代拒绝利用其核垄断来获取领土，而现在提议将战略弹道导弹削减百分之五十，并消除一整类陆基中程核导弹。
At the same time, however, they must be made to understand we will never compromise our principles and standards. We will never give away our freedom. We will never abandon our belief in God. And we will never stop searching for a genuine peace. But we can assure none of these things America stands for through the so-called nuclear freeze solutions proposed by some. 但与此同时，必须让他们明白我们永远不会妥协我们的原则和标准。我们永远不会放弃我们的自由。我们永远不会放弃我们对上帝的信仰。我们将永远不会停止寻求真正的和平。但我们无法通过一些人提出的所谓核冻结方案来确保美国所代表的这一切。
The truth is that a freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud, for that is merely the illusion of peace. The reality is that we must find peace through strength. 事实是，现在冻结将是一个非常危险的骗局，因为那不过是和平的幻象。现实是，我们必须以实力求和平。
I would agree to a freeze if only we could freeze the Soviets' global desires. A freeze at current levels of weapons would remove any incentive for the Soviets to negotiate seriously in Geneva and virtually end our chances to achieve the major arms reductions which we have proposed. Instead, they would achieve their objectives through the freeze. 如果我们能冻结苏联的全球野心，我会同意冻结。在当前武器水平上冻结将消除苏联在日内瓦认真谈判的任何动力，并几乎终结我们实现所提议的重大军备削减的机会。相反，他们将通过冻结实现其目标。
A freeze would reward the Soviet Union for its enormous and unparalleled military buildup. It would prevent the essential and long overdue modernization of United States and allied defenses and would leave our aging forces increasingly vulnerable. 冻结将奖励苏联庞大而无与伦比的军事建设。它将阻止美国和盟国防务急需且早就该进行的现代化，使我们老化的力量日益脆弱。
And an honest freeze would require extensive prior negotiations on the systems and numbers to be limited and on the measures to ensure effective verification and compliance. And the kind of a freeze that has been suggested would be virtually impossible to verify. Such a major effort would divert us completely from our current negotiations on achieving substantial reductions. 而且，诚实的冻结需要在系统和数量限制以及确保有效核查和遵守的措施方面进行大量预先谈判。而所建议的那种冻结几乎无法核查。这样一项重大努力将使我们完全偏离当前实现大幅削减的谈判。
A number of years ago, I heard a young father, a very prominent young man in the entertainment world, addressing a tremendous gathering in California. It was during the time of the cold war, and communism and our own way of life were very much on people's minds. And he was speaking to that subject. 多年前，我听到一位年轻的父亲——娱乐界一位非常著名的年轻人——在加利福尼亚向一大群人演讲。那是在冷战时期，共产主义和我们的生活方式是人们非常关心的话题。他正在谈论那个主题。
And suddenly, though, I heard him saying, "I love my little girls more than anything." And I said to myself, "Oh, no, don't. You can't -- don't say that." But I had underestimated him. He went on: "I would rather see my little girls die now; still believing in God, than have them grow up under communism and one day die no longer believing in God." 突然，我听到他说："我爱我的小女孩胜过一切。"我对自己说："哦，不，别。你不能——别那么说。"但我低估了他。他继续说："我宁愿看到我的小女孩现在就死去，仍然信仰上帝，也不愿让她们在共产主义下长大，有一天死去时不再信仰上帝。"
There were thousands of young people in that audience. They came to their feet with shouts of joy. They had instantly recognized the profound truth in what he had said, with regard to the physical and the soul and what was truly important. 听众中有数千名年轻人。他们站起来欢呼雀跃。他们立刻认出了他所说的话中关于肉体与灵魂以及真正重要之事的深刻真理。
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness. Pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world. 是的，让我们为所有生活在极权黑暗中的人的救赎而祈祷。祈祷他们能发现认识上帝的喜乐。但在那之前，让我们清醒地认识到，当他们宣扬国家的至高无上、宣称国家对个人人类的无所不能、预言其最终将统治地球上所有民族时，他们是现代世界的邪恶焦点。
It was C.S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable Screw Tape Letters, wrote: "The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered; moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice." C.S.刘易斯在他令人难忘的《地狱来鸿》中写道："如今最大的邪恶并非发生在狄更斯喜欢描绘的那些肮脏的'犯罪巢穴'中。它甚至不是发生在集中营和劳改营中。在那里我们看到的只是其最终结果。但它是在明亮、铺着地毯、温暖、灯光明亮的办公室中被构想和决定的；是由那些白领、修剪整齐的指甲、刮得光洁的脸颊、不需要提高嗓门的安静男人们提议、附议、通过并记录下来的。"
Well, because these quiet men do not raise their voices, because they sometimes speak in soothing tones of brotherhood and peace, because, like other dictators before them, they're always making "their final territorial demand," some would have us accept them at their word and accommodate ourselves to their aggressive impulses. But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom. 嗯，因为这些安静的男人不提高嗓门，因为他们有时用兄弟情谊和和平的舒缓语调说话，因为他们像之前的独裁者一样总是在提出"最后的领土要求"，一些人要我们接受他们的话并迁就他们的侵略冲动。但如果历史教会了我们什么，那就是对对手简单的绥靖或一厢情愿的想法是愚蠢的。它意味着背叛我们的过去，挥霍我们的自由。
So, I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority. You know, I've always believed that old Screw Tape reserved his best efforts for those of you in the Church. 所以，我敦促你们大声反对那些企图使美国在军事和道德上处于劣势的人。你们知道，我一直认为老斯科鲁泰普为你们教会中的人保留了他最大的努力。
So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. 所以，在你们讨论核冻结提案时，我敦促你们警惕骄傲的诱惑——那种轻松地宣布自己超然于一切之上、将双方都标记为同样有过错的诱惑，那种无视历史事实和邪恶帝国侵略冲动、简单地将军备竞赛称为巨大误解从而将自己从对错善恶的斗争中抽身的诱惑。
I ask you to resist the attempts of those who would have you withhold your support for our efforts, this administration's efforts, to keep America strong and free, while we negotiate real and verifiable reductions in the world's nuclear arsenals and one day, with God's help, their total elimination. 我请求你们抵制那些要你们扣留对本届政府努力的支持的人的企图——本届政府努力保持美国的强大和自由，同时我们谈判实现世界核武库的真正且可核查的削减，并终有一天在上帝的帮助下实现其彻底消除。
While America's military strength is important, let me add here that I've always maintained that the struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith. 虽然美国的军事力量很重要，但让我补充一点，我一直坚持认为，现在为世界而进行的斗争永远不会由炸弹或火箭、军队或军事力量来决定。我们今天面临的真正危机是精神层面的；从根本上说，这是对道德意志和信仰的考验。
Whittaker Chambers, the man whose own religious conversion made him a witness to one of the terrible traumas of our time, the Hiss-Chambers case, wrote that the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which the West is indifferent to God, the degree to which it collaborates in communism's attempt to make man stand alone without God. 惠特克·钱伯斯——他自己的宗教皈依使他成为我们时代可怕创伤之一——希斯-钱伯斯案的见证者——写道，西方世界的危机存在于西方对上帝冷漠的程度，存在于它与共产主义合作使人类独自站立而没有上帝的程度。
And then he said, for Marxism-Leninism is actually the second-oldest faith, first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with the words of temptation, "Ye shall be as gods." 然后他说，马列主义实际上是最古老的信仰，最初在伊甸园中以诱惑的话语宣告："你们将如神。"
The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, "but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism's faith in Man." 他写道，西方世界可以回应这一挑战，"但前提是它对上帝及其所赋予自由的信仰，不亚于共产主义对人的信仰。"
I believe we shall rise to the challenge. I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last -- last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. For in the words of Isaiah: 我相信我们将迎接这一挑战。我相信共产主义是人类历史中又一个悲伤、离奇的篇章，其最后的几页甚至现在正在被书写。我相信这一点，因为我们在寻求人类自由的过程中，力量的源泉不是物质的，而是精神的。因为它不知限制，它必定会令那些奴役同类的人感到恐惧并最终战胜他们。正如以赛亚书所言：
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might He increase[th] strength. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary. 他赐力量给软弱的人，使无力的人增加力量。但那等候耶和华的必从新得力；他们必如鹰展翅上腾；他们奔跑却不困倦。
Yes, change your world. One of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine, said, "We have it within our power to begin the world over again." We can do it, doing together what no one church could do by itself. 是的，改变你们的世界。我们的开国先贤之一托马斯·潘恩说："我们有能力重新创造世界。"我们可以做到，通过共同做任何单个教会都无法独自完成的事。
God bless you and thank you very much. 上帝保佑你们，非常感谢。
