Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens: 主席先生、大会各位女士先生们、我的同胞们：
I accept your nomination and your program. I should have preferred to hear those words uttered by a stronger, a wiser, a better man than myself. But after listening to the President's speech, I even feel better about myself. None of you, my friends, can wholly appreciate what is in my heart. I can only hope that you understand my words. They will be few. 我接受你们的提名和纲领。我本来希望听到由一个比我更强、更明智、更好的人说出这些话。但听了总统的演讲后，我对自己感觉好多了。朋友们，没有人能完全理解我心中的感受。我只能希望你们理解我的话。我的话不会太多。
I have not sought the honor you have done me. I could not seek it, because I aspired to another office, which was the full measure of my ambition, and one does not treat the highest office within the gift of the people of Illinois as an alternative or as a consolation prize. 我从未寻求过你们给予我的这份荣誉。我无法寻求它，因为我曾渴望另一个职位，那是我全部抱负的顶峰，而一个人不会把伊利诺伊州人民赋予的最高职位当作备选或安慰奖。
I would not seek your nomination for the Presidency, because the burdens of that office stagger the imagination. Its potential for good or evil, now and in the years of our lives, smothers exultation and converts vanity to prayer. 我不会寻求你们的总统提名，因为那个职位的重担令人难以想象。它在我们现在和未来岁月中的善恶潜力，浇灭了喜悦，将虚荣化为祈祷。
I have asked the Merciful Father -- the Father of us all -- to let this cup pass from me, but from such dreaded responsibility one does not shrink in fear, in self-interest, or in false humility. So, "If this cup may not pass from me," I -- "except I drink it, Thy will be done." 我曾祈求仁慈的天父——我们所有人的天父——让这杯苦酒远离我，但面对如此可怕的责任，没有人会因恐惧、私利或虚假的谦逊而退缩。所以，"若这杯不可离开我，"我——"必要喝它，愿你的旨意成就。"
That my heart has been troubled, that I have not sought this nomination, that I could not seek it in good conscience, that I would not seek it in honest self-appraisal, is not to say that I value it the less. Rather, it is that I revere the office of the Presidency of the United States. And now, my friends, that you have made your decision, I will fight to win that office with all -- with all my heart and my soul. And, with your help, I have no doubt that we will win. 我的心曾不安，我未曾寻求这个提名，我凭良心无法寻求它，我凭诚实的自我评价也不会寻求它，但这并非意味着我不珍视它。相反，这是因为我崇敬美利坚合众国的总统职位。现在，朋友们，既然你们已经做出了决定，我将全力以赴——全心全意、竭尽全力去争取这个职位。有了你们的帮助，我毫不怀疑我们会胜利。
You have summoned me to the highest mission within the gift of any people. I could not be more proud. Better men than I were at hand for this mighty task, and I owe to you and to them every resource of mind and of strength that I possess to make your deed today a good one for our country and for our Party. I am confident too, that your selection of a candidate for Vice President will strengthen me and our Party immeasurably in the hard, the implacable work that lies ahead of all of us. 你们召唤我承担任何民族所能赋予的最高使命。我无比自豪。比我更优秀的人就在身边准备承担这项伟大任务，我欠你们和他们我所拥有的每一份智慧和力量，以使你们今天的决定对我们的国家和政党有益。我也相信，你们选择的副总统候选人将在我们所有人面前艰巨、无情的工作中极大地加强我和我们政党的力量。
I know you join me in gratitude and in respect for the great Democrats and the leaders of our generation whose names you have considered here in this convention, whose vigor, whose character, whose devotion to the Republic we love so well have won the respect of countless Americans and have enriched our Party. I shall need them; we shall need them, because I have not changed in any respect since yesterday. 我知道你们和我一样，对我们这一代伟大的民主党人和领袖们心怀感激和敬意，你们在这次大会上考虑了他们的名字，他们的活力、品格、对我们深爱的共和国的奉献赢得了无数美国人的尊重，并丰富了我们的政党。我需要他们；我们需要他们，因为我自昨天以来在任何方面都没有改变。
Your nomination, awesome as I find it, has not enlarged my capacities, so I am profoundly grateful and emboldened by their comradeship and their fealty, and I have been deeply moved by their expressions of good will and of support. And I cannot, my friends, resist the urge to take the one opportunity that has been afforded me to pay my humble respects to a very great and good American, whom I am proud to call my kinsman, Alben Barkley of Kentucky. 你们的提名虽然令我敬畏，但并没有扩大我的能力，所以我对他们的同志情谊和忠诚深表感激和鼓舞，他们表达的善意和支持也深深打动了我。朋友们，我无法抗拒这个机会，向一位非常伟大、非常优秀的美国人表达我谦卑的敬意，我自豪地称他为我的亲戚——肯塔基州的阿尔本·巴克利。
Let me say, too, that I have been heartened by the conduct of this convention. You have argued and disagreed, because as Democrats you care and you care deeply. But you have disagreed and argued without calling each other "liars" and "thieves," without despoiling our best traditions -- you have not spoiled our best traditions in any naked struggles for power. 我还要说，这次大会的表现让我感到振奋。你们争论过、分歧过，因为作为民主党人，你们关心，并且深切关心。但你们在争论和分歧时没有互相称呼"骗子"和"小偷"，没有破坏我们最美好的传统——你们没有在赤裸裸的权力斗争中破坏我们最美好的传统。
And you have written a platform that neither equivocates, contradicts, nor evades. You have restated our Party's record, its principles and its purposes, in language that none can mistake, and with a firm confidence in justice, freedom, and peace on earth that will raise the hearts and the hopes of mankind for that distant day when no one rattles a saber and no one drags a chain. 你们制定了一个既不模棱两可、也不矛盾、更不回避的纲领。你们以无人误解的语言重申了我们党的记录、原则和目标，并以对正义、自由和世界和平的坚定信心，这将为人类带来希望，期盼那遥远的一天——没有人挥舞刀剑，没有人拖着锁链。
For all these things I am grateful to you. But I feel no exultation, no sense of triumph. Our troubles are all ahead of us. Some will call us appeasers; others will say that we are the war Party. Some will say we are reactionary; others will say that we stand for socialism. There will be the inevitable cries of "throw the rascals out," "it's time for a change," and so on and so on. 对于这一切，我感激你们。但我没有喜悦，没有胜利的感觉。我们的困难都在前方。有些人会称我们为绥靖者；另一些人会说我们是好战党。有些人会说我们是反动派；另一些人会说我们代表社会主义。不可避免地会响起"把无赖赶出去"、"是时候改变了"等等呼声。
We'll hear all those things and many more besides. But we will hear nothing that we have not heard before. I am not too much concerned with partisan denunciation, with epithets and abuse, because the workingman, the farmer, the thoughtful businessman, all know that they are better off than ever before, and they all know that the greatest danger to free enterprise in this country died with the Great Depression under the hammer blows of the Democratic Party. 我们会听到所有这些，还有更多。但我们不会听到任何以前没有听过的东西。我不太在意党派谴责、辱骂和恶言，因为工人、农民、有思想的商人都知道他们比以往任何时候都过得更好，他们都知道这个国家自由企业最大的危险在大萧条中被民主党的铁锤击垮了。
And nor am I afraid that the precious two-party system is in danger. Certainly the Republican Party looked brutally alive a couple of weeks ago -- and I mean both Republican parties. Nor am I afraid that the Democratic Party is old and fat and indolent. After a hundred and fifty years, it has been old for a long time, and it will never be indolent, as long as it looks forward and not back, as long as it commands the allegiance of the young and the hopeful who dream the dreams and see the visions of a better America and a better world. 我也不担心宝贵的两党制处于危险之中。几周前共和党看起来显然生机勃勃——我指的是两个共和党。我也不担心民主党已经老态龙钟、慵懒不堪。一百五十年后，它早就老了，但只要它向前看而不是向后看，只要它赢得那些梦想着更美好美国和更美好世界的年轻有为者的忠诚，它就永远不会慵懒。
You will hear many sincere and thoughtful people express concern about the continuation of one Party in power for twenty years. I don't belittle this attitude. But change for the sake of change has no absolute merit in itself. If our greatest hazard is preservation of the values of Western civilization, in our self-interest alone, if you please, is it the part of wisdom to change for the sake of change to a Party with a split personality, to a leader, whom we all respect, but who has been called upon to minister to a hopeless case of political schizophrenia? 你们会听到许多真诚和有思想的人对一党连续执政二十年表示担忧。我不轻视这种态度。但为了改变而改变本身没有绝对的价值。如果我们最大的危险是维护西方文明的价值观，哪怕只是为了我们自身的利益，请问，为了改变而改变，转向一个人格分裂的政党，转向一位我们都尊重但被要求医治政治精神分裂症无望病例的领导人，这是明智之举吗？
If the fear is corruption in official position, do you believe with Charles Evans Hughes that guilt is personal and knows no Party? Do you doubt the power of any political leader, if he has the will to do so, to set his own house in order without his neighbors having to burn it down? 如果担心的是官员腐败，你是否相信查尔斯·埃文斯·休斯所说的，罪责是个人的，不分党派？你是否怀疑任何政治领导人，如果他有意愿的话，能够整顿自己的事务，而无需邻居们放火烧掉它？
What does concern me, in common with thinking partisans of both parties, is not just winning this election but how it is won, how well we can take advantage of this great quadrennial opportunity to debate issues sensibly and soberly. I hope and pray that we Democrats, win or lose, can campaign not as a crusade to exterminate the opposing Party, as our opponents seem to prefer, but as a great opportunity to educate and elevate a people whose destiny is leadership, not alone of a rich and prosperous, contented country, as in the past, but of a world in ferment. 与两党有思想的支持者一样，我关心的不仅仅是赢得这次选举，而是如何赢得选举，我们如何充分利用这个伟大的四年一次的机会，明智而冷静地辩论问题。我希望并祈祷我们民主党人，无论输赢，都能以一种伟大的机会来教育和提升一个命运是领导的民族，而不是像过去那样领导一个富裕、繁荣、满足的国家，而是领导一个动荡的世界，而不是像我们的对手似乎更喜欢的那样，作为一场消灭反对党的十字军东征。
And, my friends, even more important than winning the election is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party, the acid, final test. When the tumult and the shouting die, when the bands are gone and the lights are dimmed, there is the stark reality of responsibility in an hour of history haunted with those gaunt, grim specters of strife, dissension, and materialism at home and ruthless, inscrutable, and hostile power abroad. 朋友们，比赢得选举更重要的是治理国家。这是对一个政党的考验，是最终的考验。当喧嚣和呼喊平息，当乐队离去，灯光变暗，在这个被国内冲突、纷争和物质主义以及国外无情、难以捉摸和敌对势力所困扰的历史时刻，责任的严峻现实摆在面前。
The ordeal of the twentieth century, the bloodiest, most turbulent era of the whole Christian age, is far from over. Sacrifice, patience, understanding, and implacable purpose may be our lot for years to come. Let's face it. Let's talk sense to the American people. 二十世纪——整个基督教时代最血腥、最动荡的时代——的苦难远未结束。牺牲、耐心、理解和坚定的目标可能是我们未来几年的命运。让我们面对现实。让我们对美国人民说真话。
Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions, like resistance when you're attacked, but a long, patient, costly struggle which alone can assure triumph over the great enemies of man -- war, poverty, and tyranny -- and the assaults upon human dignity which are the most grievous consequences of each. 让我们告诉他们真相：没有付出就没有收获，我们正处于重大决策的前夜，不是简单的决策，比如在受到攻击时进行抵抗，而是一场漫长、耐心、代价高昂的斗争，只有这场斗争才能确保战胜人类的伟大敌人——战争、贫困和暴政——以及每一个敌人带来的最严重后果：对人类尊严的侵犯。
Let's tell them that the victory to be won in the twentieth century, this portal to the Golden Age, mocks the pretensions of individual acumen and ingenuity, for it is a citadel guarded by thick walls of ignorance and of mistrust which do not fall before the trumpets' blast or the politicians' imprecations or even a general's baton. They are, my friends, walls that must be directly stormed by the hosts of courage, of morality, and of vision, standing shoulder to shoulder, unafraid of ugly truth, contemptuous of lies, half truths, circuses, and demagoguery. 让我们告诉他们，要在二十世纪——这个通往黄金时代的门户——取得胜利，需要超越个人的才智和聪明，因为它是一座被无知和不信任的厚墙守护的城堡，这些墙不会在号角声、政客的诅咒甚至将军的指挥棒面前倒塌。朋友们，这些墙必须由勇气、道德和远见的力量直接攻破，他们肩并肩站立，不畏惧丑陋的真相，蔑视谎言、半真半假、马戏表演和煽动。
The people are wise, wiser than the Republicans think. And the Democratic Party is the people's Party -- not the labor Party, not the farmers' Party, not the employers' Party -- it is the Party of no one because it is the Party of everyone. 人民是明智的，比共和党人想象的更明智。民主党是人民的政党——不是劳工党，不是农民党，不是雇主党——它不属于任何人，因为它属于每一个人。
That, I think, is our ancient mission. Where we have deserted it, we have failed. With your help, there will be no desertion now. Better we lose the election than mislead the people, and better we lose than misgovern the people. 我认为，这是我们古老的使命。在我们背离它的地方，我们失败了。有了你们的帮助，现在不会再有背离。我们宁愿输掉选举，也不愿误导人民；我们宁愿输掉，也不愿治理不善。
Help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Help me to do the job in these years of darkness, of doubt, and of crisis which stretch beyond the horizon of tonight's happy vision, and we will justify our glorious past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. Thus, we will serve our great tradition greatly. 帮助我在这个冲突和竞选的秋天完成这项工作。帮助我在这些黑暗、疑虑和危机的岁月里完成这项工作，这些岁月延伸到今晚美好愿景的地平线之外，我们将证明我们光荣的过去和沉默的数百万人的忠诚是值得的，他们期待我们给予同情、理解和诚实的目的。因此，我们将大大地服务于我们伟大的传统。
I ask of you all you have. I will give you all I have, even as he who came here tonight and honored me, as he has honored you, the Democratic Party, by a lifetime of service and bravery that will find him an imperishable page in the history of the Republic and of the Democratic Party -- President Harry S. Truman. 我要求你们付出一切。我将付出我的一切，就像今晚来到这里并尊敬我的人一样，他以一生的服务和勇气尊敬了你们和民主党，他将在美国共和国和民主党的历史上留下不朽的一页——哈里·S·杜鲁门总统。
And finally, my friends, in this staggering task that you have assigned me, I shall always try "to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God." 最后，朋友们，在你们交给我的这项艰巨任务中，我将永远努力"行公义，好怜悯，存谦卑的心与上帝同行。"