Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Please be seated. 谢谢，非常感谢。谢谢大家，请坐。
Well, hello, Belfast! Hello, Northern Ireland! You now know why it’s so difficult to speak after Michelle -- she’s better than me. But on behalf of both of us, thank you so much for this extraordinarily warm welcome. 贝尔法斯特，你们好！北爱尔兰的朋友们，你们好！现在你们知道，米歇尔讲完后为什么我这么难接着讲了——她比我讲得好。我代表我们两人，感谢你们如此热情的欢迎。
And I want to thank Hannah for introducing my wife. We had a chance to speak with Hannah backstage and she’s an extraordinary young woman, who I know is going to do even greater things in years to come. 还要感谢汉娜介绍我的妻子。我们在后台和她聊过，她是一位非凡的年轻女性，我知道未来几年她还会成就更多事。
I want to thank two men, who I’ve hosted at the White House on many a St. Patrick’s Day, for their warm welcome -- First Minister Peter Robinson -- and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. I spend the whole year trying to unite Washington around things, and they come to visit on St. Patrick’s Day and they do it in a single afternoon. 我想感谢两位曾多次在圣帕特里克节来到白宫的人热情欢迎我们：首席部长彼得·罗宾逊和副首席部长马丁·麦吉尼斯。我花一整年试着让华盛顿的人团结一致，他们每年圣帕特里克节来访，却在一个下午就做到了。
I want to thank the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Teresa Villiers. To all the Ministers in the audience; to Lord Mayor Máirtín Ó Muilleoir. And I want to thank all the citizens of Belfast and Northern Ireland for your hospitality. 感谢北爱尔兰事务大臣特蕾莎·维利尔斯、在座各位部长和市长马丁·奥穆利尔，也感谢贝尔法斯特与北爱尔兰全体居民的款待。
As our daughters pointed out as we were driving in, I cause a big fuss wherever I go. So traffic and barricades and police officers, and it’s all a big production, a lot of people are involved -- and I’m very, very grateful for accommodating us. 开车过来时，我的女儿们说，爸爸去哪里都会弄得声势浩大。交通管制、路障、警察和一大群工作人员，确实动静不小。感谢大家为接待我们作出的安排。
The first time Michelle and I visited this island was about two years ago. We were honored to join tens of thousands on College Green in Dublin. We traveled to the little village of Moneygall, where, as it turned out, my great-great-great grandfather was born. And I actually identified this individual in this place only a few years ago. When I was first running for office in Chicago, I didn’t know this, but I wish I had. 米歇尔和我第一次到这座岛是大约两年前。我们很荣幸在都柏林的学院绿地与数万人相聚，又去了小村庄莫尼戈尔。后来发现，我的曾曾曾祖父就出生在那里。我也是几年前才查出这位祖先。如果当年初次在芝加哥竞选时知道，该有多好。
When I was in Chicago, as I was campaigning, they’d look at my last name and they’d say, “Oh, there’s an O’Bama from the homeland running on the South Side, so he must be Irish -- but I've never heard the Gaelic name, Barack” But it pays to be Irish in Chicago. 当时我在芝加哥竞选，人们看着我的姓说：“哦，南区有位来自老家的奥巴马参选，他一定是爱尔兰人。可‘巴拉克’这个盖尔语名字，我还真没听过。”不过，在芝加哥，有爱尔兰血统是件好事。
So while we were in Moneygall, I had a chance to meet my eighth cousin, Henry -- who’s also known as Henry the Eighth. We knew he was my cousin because his ears flapped out just like mine. I leafed through the parish logs where the names of my ancestors are recorded. I even watched Michelle learn how to pull a proper pint of “black.” 在莫尼戈尔，我见到了八代表亲亨利，大家也叫他“亨利八世”。他的耳朵和我的一样向外翘，我们因此认出是亲戚。我翻阅记录祖先姓名的教区档案，还看着米歇尔学习如何倒出一杯地道的黑啤酒。
Audience Member: Whoop! 观众：喔！
President Obama: Who’s cheering for that? So it was a magical visit. But the only problem was it was far too short. A volcano in Iceland forced us to leave before we could even spend the night. So we’ve been eager for a chance to return to the Emerald Isle ever since -- and this time, we brought our daughters, too. 奥巴马总统：是谁在为这件事欢呼？那次访问真奇妙，唯一遗憾是太短了。冰岛的火山爆发迫使我们连一晚都没住就离开。因此，我们一直盼望再来这座翡翠之岛，这次还带上了女儿。
In particular, we wanted to come here, to Northern Ireland, a place of remarkable beauty and extraordinary history; part of an island with which tens of millions of Americans share an eternal relationship. America’s story, in part, began right outside the doors of this gleaming hall. Three hundred and twenty-five years ago, a ship set sail from the River Lagan for the Chesapeake Bay, filled with men and women who dreamed of building a new life in a new land. 我们尤其想来到北爱尔兰。这里风景秀美、历史非凡，所在的岛屿与数千万美国人有着永久的联系。美国故事的一部分，就始于这座明亮大厅门外。三百二十五年前，一艘船从拉甘河出发驶向切萨皮克湾，载着梦想在新大陆开启新生活的男女移民。
They, followed by hundreds of thousands more, helped America write those early chapters. They helped us win our independence. They helped us draft our Constitution. Soon after, America returned to Belfast, opening one of our very first consulates here in 1796, when George Washington was still President. 他们和后来几十万移民一起，帮助美国写下最初的篇章。他们帮助我们赢得独立，起草宪法。不久，美国也来到贝尔法斯特，一七九六年、乔治·华盛顿仍任总统时，就在这里开设了最早的领事馆之一。
Today, names familiar to many of you are etched on schools and courthouses and solemn memorials of war across the United States -- names like Wilson and Kelly, Campbell and O’Neill. So many of the qualities that we Americans hold dear we imported from this land -- perseverance, faith, an unbending belief that we make our own destiny, and an unshakable dream that if we work hard and we live responsibly, something better lies just around the bend. 今天，威尔逊、凯利、坎贝尔、奥尼尔等你们熟悉的姓氏，刻在美国各地学校、法院和庄严的战争纪念碑上。美国人珍视的许多品质都来自这里：坚忍、信仰、坚信命运由自己塑造，以及只要勤奋负责，转过下一个弯就会有更好生活的坚定梦想。
So our histories are bound by blood and belief, by culture and by commerce. And our futures are equally, inextricably linked. And that’s why I’ve come to Belfast today -- to talk about the future we can build together. 血脉与信念、文化与商业，把我们的历史联系在一起；未来也同样不可分割。这就是我今天来到贝尔法斯特的原因：谈谈我们能够共同创造的未来。
Your generation, a young generation, has come of age in a world with fewer walls. You’ve been educated in an era of instant information. You’ve been tempered by some very difficult times around the globe. And as I travel, what I’ve seen of young people like you -- around the world, they show me these currents have conspired to make you a generation possessed by both a clear-eyed realism, but also an optimistic idealism; a generation keenly aware of the world as it is, but eager to forge the world as it should be. And when it comes to the future we share, that fills me with hope. 你们年轻一代成长在一个围墙更少的世界，在信息瞬息可得的时代受教育，也经受过全球许多艰难时期的磨砺。我在各地见到的年轻人让我发现，这些经历把你们塑造成既清醒务实又乐观理想的一代：你们明白世界如今是什么样，却仍渴望把它建设成应有的样子。想到我们共同的未来，这让我充满希望。
Young people fill me with hope. 年轻人给我希望。
Here, in Northern Ireland, this generation has known even more rapid change than many young people have seen around the world. And while you have unique challenges of your own, you also have unique reasons to be hopeful. For you are the first generation in this land to inherit more than just the hardened attitudes and the bitter prejudices of the past. You’re an inheritor of a just and hard-earned peace. You now live in a thoroughly modern Northern Ireland. 在北爱尔兰，你们这一代经历的变化比世界上许多同龄人还快。虽然挑战独特，你们也有独特的希望：你们是这里第一代继承的不再只有过去僵硬的态度和苦涩偏见的人。你们继承了一份来之不易、符合公义的和平，生活在一个现代的北爱尔兰。
Of course, the recessions that spread through nearly every country in recent years have inflicted hardship here, too, and there are communities that still endure real pain. But, day to day, life is changing throughout the North. There was a time people couldn’t have imagined Northern Ireland hosting a gathering of world leaders, as you are today. And I want to thank Chief Constable Matt Baggott for working to keep everyone safe this week. 当然，近年席卷几乎各国的经济衰退也使这里受苦，一些社区仍经历切实的痛楚。但北方的日常生活正在变化。过去，谁能想象北爱尔兰像今天这样举办世界领导人聚会？我要感谢警察总长马特·巴戈特本周为保障大家安全所作的努力。
Northern Ireland is hosting the World Police and Fire Games later this year -- which Dame Mary Peters is helping to organize. Golf fans like me had to wait a long six decades for the Irish Open to return to the North last year. I am unhappy that I will not get a few rounds in while I'm here. I did meet Rory McIlroy last year -- and Rory offered to get my swing “sorted," -- which was a polite way of saying, “Mr. President, you need help.” 今年晚些时候，北爱尔兰还将主办世界警察与消防运动会，玛丽·彼得斯女爵士正协助筹办。像我这样的高尔夫球迷，为爱尔兰公开赛去年重返北方等了漫长的六十年。可惜这次我没机会下场打几轮。去年见到罗里·麦克罗伊时，他说可以帮我把挥杆“调整一下”。这是一种礼貌说法，意思是“总统先生，您需要帮助”。
None of that would have been imaginable a generation ago. And Belfast is a different city. Once-abandoned factories are rebuilt. Former industrial sites are reborn. Visitors come from all over to see an exhibit at the MAC, a play at the Lyric, a concert here at Waterfront Hall. Families crowd into pubs in the Cathedral Quarter to hear “trad.” Students lounge at cafés, asking each other, “What’s the craic?” So to paraphrase Seamus Heaney, it’s the manifestation of sheer, bloody genius. This island is now chic. 这些事在一代人之前都无法想象。贝尔法斯特也成为不同的城市：废弃工厂得到重建，旧工业区重获新生。游客从各地前来，在都市艺术中心看展，在抒情剧院看戏，或来这座海滨大厅听音乐会。家庭聚在大教堂区的酒馆里听传统音乐，学生坐在咖啡馆闲聊，问彼此“最近有什么趣事？”借谢默斯·希尼的话说，这体现出一种十足的、惊人的才华。这座岛如今很时髦。
And these daily moments of life in a bustling city and a changing country, it may seem ordinary to many of you -- and that’s what makes it so extraordinary. That’s what your parents and grandparents dreamt for all of you -- to travel without the burden of checkpoints, or roadblocks, or seeing soldiers on patrol. To enjoy a sunny day free from the ever-present awareness that violence could blacken it at any moment. To befriend or fall in love with whomever you want. 在繁忙城市与变化中的国家，这些日常片刻对许多人或许显得平凡；恰恰因此，它们才格外不凡。这正是父母和祖父母为你们梦想的生活：出门不再背负检查站、路障和巡逻士兵的压力；晴天里不必时刻担忧暴力突然让阳光黯淡；可以与自己喜欢的任何人交朋友或相爱。
They hoped for a day when the world would think something different when they heard the word “Belfast.” Because of their effort, because of their courage that day has come. Because of their work, those dreams they had for you became the most incredible thing of all -- they became a reality. 他们盼望有一天，世人听见“贝尔法斯特”时会想到不同的事。凭借他们的努力与勇气，这一天已经到来；他们为你们怀抱的梦想也变成了最不可思议的事——现实。
It's been 15 years now since the Good Friday Agreement; since clenched fists gave way to outstretched hands. The people of this island voted in overwhelming numbers to see beyond the scars of violence and mistrust, and to choose to wage peace. Over the years, other breakthroughs and agreements have followed. That’s extraordinary, because for years, few conflicts in the world seemed more intractable than the one here in Northern Ireland. And when peace was achieved here, it gave the entire world hope. 《耶稣受难日协议》签署至今已有十五年，紧握的拳头变成伸出的手。这座岛上绝大多数人投票决定越过暴力与猜疑留下的伤痕，选择缔造和平。此后多年，又达成其他突破和协议。这非同寻常，因为长期以来，世界上似乎很少有冲突比北爱尔兰的冲突更难化解。这里实现和平，也给整个世界带来希望。
The world rejoiced in your achievement -- especially in America. Pubs from Chicago to Boston were scenes of revelry, folks celebrating the hard work of Hume and Trimble and Adams and Paisley, and so many others. In America, you helped us transcend our differences -- because if there’s one thing on which Democrats and Republicans in America wholeheartedly agree, it’s that we strongly support a peaceful and prosperous Northern Ireland. 世界为你们的成就欢欣，美国尤其如此。从芝加哥到波士顿，酒馆里的人都在庆祝休姆、特林布尔、亚当斯、佩斯利及许多其他人的辛勤努力。在美国，你们还帮助我们超越分歧，因为民主党与共和党有一点完全一致：我们坚定支持和平、繁荣的北爱尔兰。
But as all of you know all too well, for all the strides that you’ve made, there’s still much work to do. There are still people who haven’t reaped the rewards of peace. There are those who aren’t convinced that the effort is worth it. There are still wounds that haven’t healed, and communities where tensions and mistrust hangs in the air. There are walls that still stand; there are still many miles to go. 但你们比谁都清楚，尽管取得巨大进展，仍有许多工作要做。有人尚未分享到和平的成果，有人还不相信努力值得；仍有未愈合的创伤，也有紧张和猜疑弥漫的社区。围墙仍在，前路仍长。
From the start, no one was naïve enough to believe that peace would be anything but a long journey. Yeats once wrote “Peace comes dropping slow.” But that doesn’t mean our efforts to forge a real and lasting peace should come dropping slow. This work is as urgent now as it has ever been, because there’s more to lose now than there has ever been. 从一开始，没人天真到认为和平不是漫长旅程。叶芝曾写道：“和平缓缓降临。”但这不表示我们创造真实、持久和平的努力也该缓慢。现在这项工作与以往任何时候一样紧迫，因为今天可失去的东西比以往更多。
In today’s hyper-connected world, what happens here has an impact on lives far from these green shores. If you continue your courageous path toward a permanent peace, and all the social and economic benefits that have come with it, that won’t just be good for you, it will be good for this entire island. It will be good for the United Kingdom. It will be good for Europe. It will be good for the world. 在高度互联的世界，这里发生的事影响远离这片绿色海岸的人们。如果你们继续勇敢走向永久和平，继续收获伴随和平而来的社会和经济利益，受益的不只是北爱尔兰，也包括整座岛屿、英国、欧洲以及全世界。
We need you to get this right. And what’s more, you set an example for those who seek a peace of their own. Because beyond these shores, right now, in scattered corners of the world, there are people living in the grip of conflict -- ethnic conflict, religious conflict, tribal conflicts -- and they know something better is out there. And they’re groping to find a way to discover how to move beyond the heavy hand of history, to put aside the violence. They’re studying what you’re doing. And they’re wondering, perhaps if Northern Ireland can achieve peace, we can, too. 我们需要你们把这件事做好。更重要的是，你们为别处寻求和平的人树立榜样。此刻世界各地有人仍陷在族群、宗教和部落冲突之中。他们知道可以有更好的生活，正努力寻找摆脱沉重历史、放下暴力的方法。他们研究你们的做法，想着：也许北爱尔兰能实现和平，我们也能。
You’re their blueprint to follow. You’re their proof of what is possible -- because hope is contagious. They’re watching to see what you do next. 你们是他们可遵循的蓝图，也是可能性的证明，因为希望会传播。他们正看着你们下一步怎么走。
Now, some of that is up to your leaders. As someone who knows firsthand how politics can encourage division and discourage cooperation, I admire the Northern Ireland Executive and the Northern Ireland Assembly all the more for making power-sharing work. That’s not easy to do. It requires compromise, and it requires absorbing some pain from your own side. I applaud them for taking responsibility for law enforcement and for justice, and I commend their effort to “Building a United Community” -- important next steps along your transformational journey. 其中有些事取决于领导人。我亲身知道政治如何助长分裂、妨碍合作，因此更加敬佩北爱尔兰行政机构和议会能让权力共享发挥作用。这并不容易，需要妥协，有时还得承受己方的不满。我赞扬他们承担执法与司法责任，也赞赏他们建设“团结社区”的努力。这是你们转型道路上的重要下一步。
Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity -- symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others -- these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it. If towns remain divided -- if Catholics have their schools and buildings, and Protestants have theirs -- if we can’t see ourselves in one another, if fear or resentment are allowed to harden, that encourages division. It discourages cooperation. 因为学校和住房的隔离、工作与机会的匮乏，以及有人引以为傲、有人却深感痛苦的历史象征，都不是和平之外的枝节，而是和平的核心。如果城镇依然分裂，天主教徒和新教徒各上各的学校、各用各的建筑，我们不能从彼此身上看见自己，让恐惧或怨恨继续固化，就会鼓励分裂、阻碍合作。
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It’s about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don’t exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. 归根结底，和平不只是政治问题，也关乎态度、同理心，关乎拆除我们在心里为自己筑起、并代代背负的隔阂。那些隔阂在客观现实中未必存在，却始终伴随着我们。
And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union. A hundred and fifty years ago, we were torn open by a terrible conflict. Our Civil War was far shorter than The Troubles, but it killed hundreds of thousands of our people. And, of course, the legacy of slavery endured for generations. 我知道这点，因为美国也花了几十年努力完善联邦，进展缓慢、渐进，有时痛苦，时进时退。一百五十年前，一场可怕冲突撕裂了我们。美国内战虽远短于北爱尔兰的动乱，却使数十万人死亡。奴隶制的遗毒当然又延续了几代人。
Even a century after we achieved our own peace, we were not fully united. When I was a boy, many cities still had separate drinking fountains and lunch counters and washrooms for blacks and whites. My own parents’ marriage would have been illegal in certain states. And someone who looked like me often had a hard time casting a ballot, much less being on a ballot. 即使在自己的和平到来一百年后，我们也没有完全团结。我小时候，许多城市仍为黑人和白人设置不同的饮水处、餐厅座位和洗手间。我父母的婚姻在某些州会被视为违法。长得像我的人连投票都常有困难，更不用说成为候选人。
But over time, laws changed, and hearts and minds changed, sometimes driven by courageous lawmakers, but more often driven by committed citizens. Politicians oftentimes follow rather than lead. And so, especially young people helped to push and to prod and to protest, and to make common cause with those who did not look like them. And that transformed America -- so that Malia and Sasha’s generation, they have different attitudes about differences and race than mine and certainly different from the generation before that. 但随着时间推移，法律改变，人心和观念也改变。有时是勇敢的立法者推动，更常见的却是坚定的公民推动。政治家往往跟随而非引领。年轻人尤其不断推动、敦促、抗议，并与和自己外貌不同的人结盟，改变了美国。如今玛丽娅和萨莎这一代，对差异和种族的态度不同于我这一代，更不同于上一代。
And each successive generation creates a new space for peace and tolerance and justice and fairness. 每一代人都为和平、宽容、正义与公平开辟新的空间。
And while we have work to do in many ways, we have surely become more tolerant and more just, more accepting, more willing to see our diversity in America not as something to fear, but as something to welcome because it's a source of our national strength. 虽然我们在许多方面仍有工作要做，但美国确实变得更宽容、更公正，更愿意接纳差异，不再把多元视为威胁，而把它视为国家力量的源泉。
So as your leaders step forward to address your challenges through talks by all parties, they’ll need you young people to keep pushing them, to create a space for them, to change attitudes. Because ultimately, whether your communities deal with the past and face the future united together isn’t something you have to wait for somebody else to do –- that’s a choice you have to make right now. 所以，当领导人通过各方会谈应对挑战时，他们需要你们年轻人继续推动他们，给他们创造行动空间，也改变社会态度。归根结底，社区能否面对过去、团结走向未来，无须等待别人决定；你们现在就要作出选择。
It's within your power to bring about change. Whether you are a good neighbor to someone from the other side of past battles -- that’s up to you. Whether you treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve -- that’s up to you. Whether you let your kids play with kids who attend a different church -– that’s your decision. Whether you take a stand against violence and hatred, and tell extremists on both sides that no matter how many times they attack the peace, they will not succeed –- that is in your hands. 改变掌握在你们手里。你是否愿意做过去冲突另一边某个人的好邻居，由你决定；是否以他应得的尊严和尊重对待他，由你决定；是否让孩子与去另一座教堂的孩子一起玩，也是你的选择。是否站出来反对暴力与仇恨，告诉两边的极端分子，不论他们多少次攻击和平都不会得逞，同样掌握在你们手中。
And whether you reach your own outstretched hand across dividing lines, across peace walls, to build trust in a spirit of respect –- that’s up to you. The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us. 你是否愿意跨越分界线、穿过和平墙，向对方伸出手，本着尊重建立信任，也由你决定。和平条件可以由政治领袖谈判，但和平的命运取决于我们每个人。
This peace in Northern Ireland has been tested over the past 15 years. It's been tested over the past year. It will be tested again. But remember something that President Clinton said when he spoke here in Belfast just a few weeks after the horrors of Omagh. That bomb, he said, “was not the last bomb of The Troubles; it was the opening shot of a vicious attack on the peace.” And whenever your peace is attacked, you will have to choose whether to respond with the same bravery that you’ve summoned so far, or whether you succumb to the worst instincts. 过去十五年，北爱尔兰的和平受过考验；过去一年也受过考验；以后还会再受考验。但请记住奥马爆炸案发生几周后，克林顿总统在贝尔法斯特说的话。他说，那枚炸弹“不是北爱尔兰动乱的最后一枚炸弹，而是对和平发动恶毒攻击的第一枪”。每当和平受到攻击，你们都要选择：是以迄今展现的勇气回应，还是屈从于最坏的本能，
those impulses that kept this great land divided for too long. You'll have to choose whether to keep going forward, not backwards. 屈从于那些让这片伟大土地分裂太久的冲动。你们必须选择继续前进，而不是倒退。
And you should know that so long as you are moving forward, America will always stand by you as you do. We will keep working closely with leaders in Stormont, Dublin and Westminster to support your political progress. We’ll keep working to strengthen our economies, including through efforts like the broad economic initiative announced on Friday to unlock new opportunities for growth and investment between our two countries’ businesses -- because jobs and opportunity are essential to peace. 请知道，只要你们向前走，美国就会始终站在你们身边。我们会继续与斯托蒙特、都柏林和威斯敏斯特的领导人密切合作，支持政治进步；也会努力加强经济关系，包括星期五宣布的广泛经济倡议，为两国企业创造新的增长和投资机会。因为工作和机会是和平的基础。
Our scientists will keep collaborating with yours in fields like nanotechnology and clean energy and health care that make our lives better and fuel economic growth on both sides of the Atlantic -- because progress is essential to peace. 两国科学家将继续在纳米技术、清洁能源和医疗等领域合作，让生活更美好，推动大西洋两岸经济增长，因为进步是和平的基础。
And because knowledge and understanding is essential to peace, we will keep investing in programs that enrich both of us -- programs like the one at Belfast Metropolitan College, which teaches students from West and North Belfast the skills they need for new jobs, and exchange programs that have given thousands in Northern Ireland and the United States the chance to travel to each other’s communities and learn from one another. 知识和理解同样是和平的基础，因此我们会继续投资让双方受益的项目。例如贝尔法斯特城市学院的课程，为西贝尔法斯特和北贝尔法斯特的学生教授新工作所需技能；还有交流计划，让北爱尔兰与美国数千人走进彼此的社区，互相学习。
Now, one of those young people is here today. Sylvia Gordon is the director of an organization called Groundwork Northern Ireland, which aims to bring about change from the ground up. Where’s Sylvia? Where’s Sylvia? Is Sylvia here somewhere? Where is she? She’s here somewhere. You’re here, too, yes. Some guy just waved, he said, “I’m here.” Which is good, I appreciate you being here. 参与过这类交流的一位年轻人今天也在场。西尔维娅·戈登是“北爱尔兰基层行动”组织的负责人，致力于自下而上推动改变。西尔维娅在哪儿？她在这里吗？我想她在场。你也在啊，没错。刚才有位先生挥手说“我在这里”。很好，我也感谢你来。
As someone who got my start as a community organizer, I was so impressed with what Sylvia has done, because a few years ago, Sylvia visited the United States to learn more about how Americans organize to improve their communities. So after she came home, Sylvia rolled up her sleeves here in Belfast and decided to do something about Alexandra Park. Some of you may know this park. For years, it was thought to be the only park in Europe still divided by a wall. Think about that. In all of Europe, that one park has got a wall in the middle of it. 我自己从社区组织工作起步，因此对西尔维娅的努力很有感触。几年前，她访问美国，学习美国人如何组织起来改善社区。回到贝尔法斯特后，她挽起袖子，决定为亚历山德拉公园做点事。你们有些人知道这座公园。多年来，人们认为它是欧洲唯一仍被围墙隔开的公园。想一想，整个欧洲，偏偏这座公园中间有堵墙。
Sylvia and her colleagues knew how hard it would be to do anything about a peace wall, but they reached out to the police, they reached out to the Department of Justice. They brought together people from across the communities. They knew it was going to be hard, but they tried anyway. And together, they all decided to build a gate to open that wall. And now, people can walk freely through the park and enjoy the sun -- when it comes out -- just like people do every day in parks all around the world. 西尔维娅和同事知道，要改变一道和平墙有多难，却仍联系警察和司法部门，把不同社区的人聚到一起。他们知道会很难，还是决定试一试。最后，大家决定在墙上开一扇门。如今人们可以自由穿行公园，在阳光出现的时候享受阳光，就像全世界其他公园里的人每天做的那样。
A small bit of progress. But the fact that so far we’ve only got a gate open and the wall is still up means there’s more work to do. And that’s the work of your generation. As long as more walls still stand, we will need more people like Sylvia. We’ll need more of you, young people, who imagine the world as it should be; who knock down walls; who knock down barriers; who imagine something different and have the courage to make it happen. The courage to bring communities together, to make even the small impossibilities a shining example of what is possible. 这是小小的进步，但目前只打开一扇门，墙还在那里，意味着仍有更多工作要做。这就是你们这一代的任务。只要还有围墙，就需要更多像西尔维娅这样的人，也需要更多年轻人想象世界应有的模样，推倒围墙、打破障碍，勇敢实现不同的可能。你们要有勇气团结社区，让看似不可能的小变化也成为可能性的闪亮证明。
And that, more than anything, will shape what Northern Ireland looks like 15 years from now and beyond. 最能决定十五年后及更久远未来的北爱尔兰是什么模样的，就是这些行动。
All of you -- every single young person here today -- possess something the generation before yours did not, and that is an example to follow. When those who took a chance on peace got started, they didn’t have a successful model to emulate. They didn’t know how it would work. But they took a chance. And so far, it has succeeded. And the first steps are the hardest and requires the most courage. The rest, now, is up to you. 今天在场的每一位年轻人，都拥有上一代没有的东西：可以效仿的榜样。当年那些决定尝试和平的人出发时，没有成功模式可循，不知道会怎样。但他们还是冒险迈出了第一步，迄今取得了成功。第一步最难，需要最大的勇气。接下来的路，现在由你们来走。
“Peace is indeed harder than war,” the Irish author Colum McCann recently wrote. “And its constant fragility is part of its beauty. A bullet need happen only once, but for peace to work we need to be reminded of its existence again and again and again.” 爱尔兰作家科伦·麦凯恩最近写道：“和平确实比战争更难，而它持续的脆弱也是其美丽的一部分。子弹只需射出一次；但要让和平持续，我们必须一次又一次地记住它的存在。”
And that’s what we need from you. That’s what we need from every young person in Northern Ireland, and that’s what we need from every young person around the world. You must remind us of the existence of peace -- the possibility of peace. You have to remind us of hope again and again and again. Despite resistance, despite setbacks, despite hardship, despite tragedy, you have to remind us of the future again and again and again. 这就是我们对你们的期待，也是对北爱尔兰乃至全世界每位年轻人的期待。你们必须一次又一次提醒我们，和平存在，和平可能实现；一次又一次提醒我们怀抱希望；即使面对抵抗、挫折、困难和悲剧，也要一次又一次提醒我们未来仍在前方。
I have confidence you will choose that path; you will embrace that task. And to those who choose the path of peace, I promise you the United States of America will support you every step of the way. We will always be a wind at your back. And as I said when I visited two years ago, I am convinced that this little island that inspires the biggest of things -- this little island, its best days are yet ahead. 我相信你们会选择这条路、承担这项任务。对选择和平之路的人，我保证，美利坚合众国会在每一步支持你们，永远做你们身后的助力。正如两年前访问时我所说，我坚信这座能激发伟大事业的小岛，最好的日子仍在前面。
Good luck. 祝你们好运。
God bless you. 愿上帝保佑你们。
And God bless all the people of Northern Ireland. 愿上帝保佑北爱尔兰所有人民。
Thank you. 谢谢。