My fellow citizens, I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our Nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. 同胞们，今天我站在这里，为我们面前的任务感到谦卑，感谢你们赋予我的信任，铭记我们祖先所作出的牺牲。我感谢布什总统为国家服务，以及他在整个过渡期间所表现出的慷慨与合作。
Forty-four Americans have now taken the Presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears and true to our founding documents. 四十四位美国人已经宣读过总统就职誓言。这些话语曾在繁荣浪潮中响起，也曾在和平静水中回荡。然而，有时誓言是在乌云密布和风暴肆虐之际宣读的。在这些时刻，美国能够继续前进，不仅仅是因为身居高位者的智慧或远见，更是因为我们人民始终忠实于先辈的理想，忠于我们的建国文献。
So it has been; so it must be with this generation of Americans. 以往如此，这一代美国人也必须如此。
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our Nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the Nation for a new age. Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly. Our schools fail too many. And each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet. 现在人人都明白，我们正处于危机之中。我们的国家正在与一个广泛的暴力和仇恨网络作战。我们的经济严重削弱，这既是某些人贪婪和不负责任的后果，也是我们集体未能做出艰难选择、未能为国家迎接新时代做好准备的结果。房屋被剥夺，工作流失，企业倒闭。我们的医疗保健过于昂贵。我们的学校让太多人失望。每一天都有更多证据表明，我们使用能源的方式正在加强我们的对手，威胁我们的星球。
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land, a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights. Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious, and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met. 这些是危机的指标，有数据和统计可查。但在我们国家，还有一种难以衡量但同样深刻的信心流失，一种挥之不去的恐惧，担心美国的衰落不可避免，担心下一代必须降低期望。今天我告诉你们，我们面临的挑战是真实的。它们很严重，也很多。它们不会轻易解决，也不会在短时间内解决。但请相信，美国：它们终将被克服。
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics. 今天，我们聚集在一起，因为我们选择希望而非恐惧，选择团结目标而非冲突与分歧。今天，我们来宣布结束那些长期以来扼杀我们政治的琐碎抱怨、虚假承诺、相互指责和过时教条。
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit, to choose our better history, to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. 我们仍然是一个年轻的国家，但正如圣经所说，是时候放下孩子气的东西了。是时候重申我们持久的精神，选择我们更美好的历史，传承那份代代相传的珍贵礼物和崇高理念：上帝赋予的承诺——人人生而平等，人人享有自由，人人都应有机会追求幸福的完整实现。
In reaffirming the greatness of our Nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted, for those who prefer leisure over work or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things--some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor--who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom. 在重申我们国家伟大的同时，我们明白伟大从来不是上天赐予的。它必须通过努力赢得。我们的旅程从未有过捷径或满足于现状。这不是懦夫的道路，不是那些偏爱休闲胜过工作或只追求财富和名望乐趣的人的道路。相反，是那些冒险者、实干家、创造者——有些备受赞誉，但更多是默默无闻的劳动者——他们带着我们走过漫长崎岖的道路，迈向繁荣与自由。
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West, endured the lash of the whip, and plowed the hard Earth. For us, they fought and died in places like Concord and Gettysburg, Normandy and Khe Sanh. 为了我们，他们收拾起仅有的家当，漂洋过海寻找新的生活。为了我们，他们在血汗工厂辛勤劳作，开拓西部，忍受皮鞭的抽打，耕耘坚硬的土地。为了我们，他们在康科德、葛底斯堡、诺曼底和溪山等地战斗牺牲。
Time and again, these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked 'til their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions, greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. 一次又一次，这些男男女女奋斗、牺牲、辛勤劳作直到双手磨出老茧，只为让我们能够过上更好的生活。他们将美国视为超越个人野心总和的存在，超越了出身、财富或派系的所有差异。
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive. Our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions, that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America. 这就是我们今天继续的旅程。我们仍然是世界上最繁荣、最强大的国家。我们的工人并不比危机开始时缺乏生产力。我们的头脑并不缺乏创造力。我们的商品和服务并不比上周、上月或去年更少需求。我们的能力依然不减。但我们墨守成规、保护狭隘利益、推迟不愉快决定的时代，无疑已经过去。从今天起，我们必须振作起来，掸去身上的灰尘，重新开始重塑美国的工作。
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do. 环顾四周，处处都有工作要做。经济状况要求我们大胆而迅速地行动，我们不仅要创造新的就业机会，还要为增长奠定新的基础。我们将建设道路和桥梁，建设支撑我们商业并将我们紧密联系在一起的电网和数字线路。我们将使科学回归其应有的位置，运用技术的奇迹来提高医疗保健的质量并降低其成本。我们将利用阳光、风能和土壤来为我们的汽车提供燃料，为我们的工厂提供动力。我们将改造我们的学校、学院和大学，以满足新时代的需求。这一切我们都能做到。这一切我们都将做到。
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose and necessity to courage. 现在，有些人质疑我们抱负的规模，认为我们的制度无法承受太多宏伟计划。他们的记忆太短暂，因为他们忘记了这个国家已经取得的成就，忘记了当想象力与共同目标相结合、必要性与勇气相呼应时，自由的人民能够实现什么。
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our Government is too big or too small, but whether it works; whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day, because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government. 愤世嫉俗者未能理解的是，他们脚下的大地已经移动，那些长期消耗我们的陈腐政治争论不再适用。我们今天提出的问题不是政府太大还是太小，而是它是否有效；它是否帮助家庭找到体面工资的工作、负担得起的医疗保健、有尊严的退休生活。答案是肯定的地方，我们打算继续前进。答案是否定的地方，计划将终止。而我们这些管理公共资金的人将承担责任，明智地支出，改革不良习惯，并在光天化日之下处理事务，因为只有这样，我们才能恢复人民与政府之间至关重要的信任。
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched. But this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control. The Nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart, not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. 我们面临的问题也不是市场是善是恶的力量。它创造财富和扩展自由的力量无与伦比。但这场危机提醒我们，没有警惕的目光，市场可能失控。一个只偏袒富人的国家不可能长期繁荣。我们经济的成功始终不仅取决于国内生产总值的规模，还取决于繁荣的覆盖面，取决于我们将机会扩展到每一颗愿意奋斗的心的能力——这不是出于慈善，而是因为这是我们共同利益最可靠的途径。
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils that we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born, know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and we are ready to lead once more. 至于我们的共同防御，我们拒绝在安全与理想之间做出虚假的选择。我们的开国元勋们面对我们难以想象的危险，起草了一份确保法治和人权的宪章，一份经过几代人鲜血扩展的宪章。这些理想仍然照亮世界，我们不会为了权宜之计而放弃它们。因此，对于今天正在观看的所有其他国家和政府，从最宏伟的首都到我父亲出生的小村庄，请知道美国是每个国家以及每个追求和平与尊严未来的男人、女人和孩子的朋友，我们准备再次领导。
Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use. Our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint. 回想一下，前几代人不仅用导弹和坦克击败了法西斯主义和共产主义，还用坚固的联盟和持久的信念。他们明白，仅凭我们的力量无法保护我们，也无权让我们为所欲为。相反，他们知道我们的力量通过审慎使用而增长。我们的安全源于我们事业的正义、我们榜样的力量、谦逊和克制的缓和品质。
We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort, even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense. And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken. You cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you. 我们是这一遗产的守护者。再次以这些原则为指导，我们能够应对那些需要更大努力、需要国家间更大合作与理解的新威胁。我们将开始负责任地将伊拉克交还给其人民，并在阿富汗缔造来之不易的和平。与老朋友和前对手一起，我们将不懈努力减少核威胁，遏制全球变暖的幽灵。我们不会为我们的生活方式道歉，也不会在捍卫它时动摇。对于那些试图通过制造恐怖和屠杀无辜来推进其目标的人，我们现在要说，我们的精神更强大，无法被打破。你们无法比我们更持久，我们将击败你们。
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth. And because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass, that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself, and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace. 因为我们知道，我们多样的遗产是一种力量，而非弱点。我们是一个由基督徒、穆斯林、犹太教徒、印度教徒和无信仰者组成的国家。我们被每种语言和文化塑造，来自地球的每一个角落。而且，因为我们经历了内战和种族隔离的苦涩，并从那个黑暗篇章中变得更加强大和团结，我们不禁相信旧的仇恨终将消逝，部落的界限终将消融；随着世界变小，我们共同的人性终将显现，美国必须在开创和平新时代中发挥其作用。
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist. 对于穆斯林世界，我们寻求一条基于共同利益和相互尊重的新道路。对于世界各地那些寻求制造冲突或将社会弊病归咎于西方的领导人，请知道你们的人民将根据你们能够建设什么来评判你们，而不是你们能够摧毁什么。对于那些通过腐败、欺骗和压制异议来紧握权力的人，请知道你们站在了历史的错误一边，但如果你们愿意松开拳头，我们将伸出援手。
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow, to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect, for the world has changed, and we must change with it. 对于贫穷国家的人民，我们承诺与你们共同努力，使你们的农场繁荣，让清洁水流动，滋养饥饿的身体，喂养饥饿的心灵。对于像我们这样享有相对富足的国家，我们要说，我们不能再对边界之外的苦难漠不关心，也不能再无视影响地消耗世界资源，因为世界已经改变，我们必须随之改变。
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service, a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet at this moment, a moment that will define a generation, it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all. 当我们思考面前展开的道路时，我们怀着谦卑的感激之情记住那些勇敢的美国人，此时此刻，他们正在遥远的沙漠和山脉巡逻。他们今天有话要告诉我们，就像躺在阿灵顿的阵亡英雄们穿越岁月低语一样。我们尊敬他们，不仅因为他们是我们自由的守护者，还因为他们体现了服务精神——一种愿意在比自身更伟大的事物中寻找意义的精神。然而在这一刻，这个将定义一代人的时刻，正是这种精神必须注入我们所有人心中。
For as much as Government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this Nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job, which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate. 尽管政府可以做很多事情，也必须做很多事情，但最终这个国家依靠的是美国人民的信念和决心。是堤坝决口时接纳陌生人的善意，是宁愿削减工时也不愿看到朋友失业的工人的无私，这些让我们度过最黑暗的时刻。是消防员冲进烟雾弥漫楼梯的勇气，也是父母养育孩子的意愿，最终决定了我们的命运。
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends--honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism--these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility, a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to ourselves, our Nation, and the world. Duties that we do not grudgingly accept but, rather, seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. 我们的挑战可能是新的。我们应对挑战的工具可能是新的。但我们成功所依赖的价值观——诚实和勤奋、勇气和公平竞争、宽容和好奇心、忠诚和爱国主义——这些是古老的。这些是真实的。它们一直是我们历史上进步的无声力量。因此，我们需要回归这些真理。我们现在需要的是一个新的责任时代，每个美国人都认识到我们对自己、对国家、对世界负有责任。这些责任不是我们勉强接受的，而是我们乐意承担的，因为我们坚信，没有什么比全力以赴完成一项艰巨任务更能满足精神、更能定义我们的品格。
This is the price and the promise of citizenship. This is the source of our confidence, the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed; why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath. 这就是公民身份的代价和承诺。这是我们信心的源泉——知道上帝召唤我们去塑造不确定的命运。这是我们自由和信条的意义；这就是为什么不同种族、不同信仰的男人、女人和孩子能够在这个宏伟的广场上共同庆祝，也是为什么一个父亲在不到六十年前可能还无法在当地餐厅获得服务的人，现在能够站在你们面前宣读最神圣的誓言。
So let us mark this day with remembrance of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The Capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our Revolution was most in doubt, the Father of our Nation ordered these words be read to the people: 因此，让我们以铭记我们是谁以及我们走过了多远来纪念这一天。在美国诞生的那一年，在最寒冷的月份里，一小群爱国者蜷缩在冰冷河边即将熄灭的篝火旁。首都被遗弃。敌人正在逼近。雪地上沾满了鲜血。在我们革命的结果最不确定的时刻，我们国家的开国元勋下令向人民宣读这些话：
"Let it be told to the future world . . . that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive . . . that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]." "让未来的世界知晓……在隆冬时节，当只有希望和美德能够生存之时……城市和国家因共同的危险而警觉，挺身而出迎接挑战。"
America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end; that we did not turn back, nor did we falter. And with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. 美国，面对我们共同的危险，在这艰难的寒冬，让我们记住这些永恒的话语。带着希望和美德，让我们再次勇敢地面对冰冷的潮流，忍受可能到来的风暴。让我们的子孙后代说，当我们受到考验时，我们拒绝让这段旅程结束；我们没有回头，也没有动摇。怀着对地平线的坚定目光和上帝的恩典，我们承载着那份伟大的自由礼物，并将其安全地传递给后代。
Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. 谢谢大家。上帝保佑你们，上帝保佑美利坚合众国。