Thank you. Thank you so much. 谢谢大家。非常感谢。
Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: 拜登副总统、首席大法官先生、美国国会议员们、各位尊贵的来宾、同胞们：
Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this Nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional—what makes us American—is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: 每当我们聚集在一起举行总统就职典礼时，我们都见证着宪法经久不衰的力量。我们重申我们民主的承诺。我们回顾，将这个国家凝聚在一起的，不是我们的肤色、我们的信仰信条或我们名字的起源。使我们与众不同——使我们成为美国人的——是我们对两个多世纪前在一份宣言中阐述的理念的忠诚：
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等；造物主赋予他们若干不可剥夺的权利；其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。
Today we continue a never-ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth. The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of and by and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed. 今天，我们继续一段永无止境的旅程，要将这些文字的含义与我们时代的现实联系起来。因为历史告诉我们，虽然这些真理可能是不言而喻的，但它们从来不是自动生效的；虽然自由是上帝赐予的礼物，但它必须由他在地球上的子民来维护。1776年的爱国者们战斗，不是为了用少数人的特权或暴民的统治来取代国王的暴政。他们为我们留下了一个共和国，一个民有、民治、民享的政府，将维护我们建国信条的任务托付给每一代人。
And for more than 200 years, we have. 两百多年来，我们一直这样做。
Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together. 通过鞭笞流下的鲜血和利剑流下的鲜血，我们认识到，一个建立在自由和平等原则之上的联邦，不可能在一半是奴隶、一半是自由人的状态下生存。我们重塑了自己，并誓言共同前进。
Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train our workers. 我们共同认定，现代经济需要铁路和公路来加速旅行和商业，需要学校和学院来培训我们的工人。
Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. 我们共同发现，只有在有规则确保竞争和公平竞争的情况下，自由市场才能繁荣。
Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune. 我们共同决心，一个伟大的国家必须关心弱势群体，并保护其人民免受生活中最严重的危险和不幸。
Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills can be cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character. 在这一切中，我们从未放弃对中央权威的怀疑，也从未屈服于那种认为社会所有弊病都可以仅靠政府来解决的幻想。我们对主动性和创业精神的推崇，我们对辛勤工作和个人责任的坚持，这些都是我们性格中的不变品质。
But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. 但我们始终明白，时代变了，我们也必须改变；忠于我们的建国原则需要对新挑战作出新的回应；维护我们的个人自由最终需要集体行动。因为美国人民再也无法独自应对当今世界的要求，就像美国士兵无法用火枪和民兵来对抗法西斯主义或共产主义的力量一样。
No single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. Now more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people. 没有一个人能够培养出我们为孩子们的未来所需的所有数学和科学教师，也无法建造出将带来新工作和新企业的道路、网络和研究实验室。现在比以往任何时候都更需要我们共同做这些事情，作为一个国家、一个民族。
This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. America's possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment and we will seize it—so long as we seize it together. 这一代美国人经历了危机的考验，这些危机锤炼了我们的决心，证明了我们的韧性。十年的战争即将结束。经济复苏已经开始。美国的可能性是无限的，因为我们拥有这个无国界世界所要求的一切品质：年轻和动力；多样性和开放性；无限的冒险能力和创新天赋。我的美国同胞们，我们是为这一刻而生的，只要我们共同抓住它，我们就一定会成功。
For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. We know that America thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. 因为我们人民明白，当越来越少的少数人做得非常好，而越来越多的大多数人勉强维持生计时，我们的国家就无法成功。我们相信，美国的繁荣必须建立在不断壮大的中产阶级的宽阔肩膀上。我们知道，当每个人都能在工作中找到独立和自豪感时，当诚实劳动的工资使家庭摆脱困境的边缘时，美国就会繁荣昌盛。
We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God, but also in our own. 当一个出生在最贫困环境中的小女孩知道她和其他人有同样的成功机会时，我们就是忠于我们的信条的——因为她是美国人；她是自由的，她是平等的，不仅在上帝眼中，也在我们自己眼中。
We understand that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time. So we must harness new ideas and technology to remake our government, revamp our Tax Code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher. But while the means will change, our purpose endures: a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single American. That is what this moment requires. That is what will give real meaning to our creed. 我们明白，陈旧的计划不足以满足我们时代的需求。因此，我们必须利用新思想和新技术来重塑我们的政府，改革我们的税法，改革我们的学校，并赋予我们的公民所需的技能，使他们能够更努力地工作、学到更多、达到更高的目标。但是，虽然手段会改变，我们的目的始终不变：一个奖励每一个美国人的努力和决心的国家。这就是此刻所要求的。这就是将赋予我们信条真正意义的东西。
We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. 我们人民仍然相信，每个公民都应该享有基本的安全和尊严。我们必须做出艰难的选择，以降低医疗保健成本和减少我们的赤字规模。但我们拒绝这样的信念：美国必须在照顾建设这个国家的一代人与投资将建设其未来的一代人之间做出选择。因为我们记得过去的教训，当时晚年是在贫困中度过的，残疾儿童的父母无处可去。
We do not believe that in this country freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss or a sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great. 我们不相信在这个国家里，自由只属于幸运者，幸福只属于少数人。我们认识到，无论我们多么负责任地生活，我们中的任何人在任何时候都可能面临失业、突发疾病或家园被可怕的风暴席卷。我们通过医疗保险、医疗补助和社会保障彼此作出的承诺，这些东西不会削弱我们的主动性，而是会增强我们。它们不会使我们成为一个索取的国家；它们让我们能够承担使这个国家伟大的风险。
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. 我们人民仍然相信，我们作为美国人的义务不仅是对我们自己，而且是对所有子孙后代。我们将应对气候变化的威胁，因为我们知道，如果不这样做，将背叛我们的孩子和未来世代。有些人可能仍然否认科学的压倒性判断，但没有人能够避免肆虐的火灾、严重的干旱和更强大的风暴带来的毁灭性影响。
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure—our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. 通往可持续能源的道路将是漫长的，有时是艰难的。但美国不能抗拒这一转变，我们必须引领它。我们不能将将推动新工作和新产业的技术让给其他国家，我们必须争取其前景。这就是我们将如何保持我们的经济活力和我们的国家财富——我们的森林和水道，我们的农田和白雪皑皑的山峰。这就是我们将如何保护我们的星球，上帝命令我们要照顾它。这就是将赋予我们先辈曾经宣布的信条意义的东西。
We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. Our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. The knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war; who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends—and we must carry those lessons into this time as well. 我们人民仍然相信，持久的安全和持久的和平不需要永久的战争。我们身着军装的勇敢男女，经过战火的锤炼，在技能和勇气上无与伦比。我们的公民，因失去亲人的记忆而伤痛，深知自由所付出的代价。他们牺牲的知识将使我们永远警惕那些想要伤害我们的人。但我们也是那些赢得和平而不仅仅是战争的人的继承者；他们将不共戴天的敌人变成了最可靠的朋友——我们也必须将这些教训带入这个时代。
We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law. We will show the courage to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully—not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear. 我们将通过武力和法治来保卫我们的人民，维护我们的价值观。我们将展现勇气，尝试和平解决我们与其他国家的分歧——不是因为我们对所面临的危险天真，而是因为接触可以更持久地消除怀疑和恐惧。
America will remain the anchor of strong alliances in every corner of the globe. And we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis abroad, for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation. 美国将继续成为全球每个角落强大联盟的锚点。我们将更新那些扩展我们管理海外危机能力的机构，因为没有一个国家比这个世界上最强大的国家更关心和平的世界。
We will support democracy from Asia to Africa, from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice—not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice. 我们将支持从亚洲到非洲、从美洲到中东的民主，因为我们的利益和我们的良知迫使我们代表那些渴望自由的人采取行动。我们必须成为穷人、病人、边缘化群体和偏见受害者的希望之源——不是出于单纯的慈善，而是因为我们这个时代的和平需要我们共同信条所描述的那些原则的不断推进：宽容和机会，人的尊严和正义。
We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth. 我们人民今天宣布，最明显的真理——我们所有人都是生而平等的——是指引我们前行的星辰；正如它指引我们的先辈走过塞内卡福尔斯、塞尔玛和石墙；正如它指引所有那些有名无名的男男女女，他们在这条伟大的林荫道上留下足迹，听到一位牧师说我们不能独自行走；听到一位国王宣称我们的个人自由与地球上每个灵魂的自由密不可分。
It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law—for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. 现在，我们这一代人的任务是继续那些先驱者开始的事业。我们的旅程尚未完成，直到我们的妻子、母亲和女儿能够获得与她们的努力相等的生活。我们的旅程尚未完成，直到我们的同性恋兄弟姐妹在法律下得到与其他人一样的待遇——因为如果我们确实是生而平等的，那么我们彼此承诺的爱也肯定应该是平等的。
Our journey is not complete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity—until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. 我们的旅程尚未完成，直到没有公民被迫等待数小时才能行使投票权。我们的旅程尚未完成，直到我们找到更好的方式欢迎那些仍然将美国视为机会之地的奋斗、充满希望的移民——直到聪明的年轻学生和工程师被纳入我们的劳动力队伍，而不是被驱逐出我们的国家。
Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia, to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm. 我们的旅程尚未完成，直到我们所有的孩子，从底特律的街道到阿巴拉契亚的山丘，再到纽敦宁静的小巷，都知道他们被关心、被珍视，并永远安全免受伤害。
That is our generation's task—to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life. It does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time. 这就是我们这一代人的任务——让这些文字、这些权利、这些生命、自由和追求幸福的价值观对每个美国人都成为现实。忠于我们的建国文件并不要求我们在生活的每个方面都达成一致。这并不意味着我们所有人对自由的定义完全相同，或者遵循完全相同的幸福之路。进步并不迫使我们永远解决关于政府角色的长达数百年的辩论，但它确实要求我们在我们的时代采取行动。
For now decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, we must act knowing that today's victories will be only partial and that it will be up to those who stand here in 4 years and 40 years and 400 years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall. 因为现在决定就在我们面前，我们不能拖延。我们不能将专制主义误认为原则，或将 spectacle 误认为政治，或将辱骂视为理性辩论。我们必须行动，知道我们的工作将是不完美的。我们必须行动，我们必须行动，知道今天的胜利将只是部分的，将由那些在4年、40年和400年后站在这里的人来推进曾经在费城一间简陋的大厅里赋予我们的永恒精神。
My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or faction. And we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service. But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty or an immigrant realizes her dream. My oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride. 我的美国同胞们，我今天在你们面前宣誓的誓言，就像在这座国会大厦服务的其他人所宣读的誓言一样，是对上帝和国家的誓言，而不是对政党或派系的。我们必须在我们的服务期间忠实地履行这一承诺。但我今天所说的话与士兵报名服役或移民实现梦想时所宣誓的誓言并没有太大不同。我的誓言与我们所有人对飘扬在我们上方、让我们心中充满自豪的旗帜所作出的承诺并没有太大不同。
They are the words of citizens and they represent our greatest hope. You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country's course. You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time—not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals. 这些是公民的话语，它们代表着我们最大的希望。你和我，作为公民，有力量设定这个国家的航向。你和我，作为公民，有义务塑造我们时代的辩论——不仅用我们投下的选票，而且用我们为捍卫我们最古老的价值观和持久的理想而发出的声音。
Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom. 让我们每个人，现在都以庄严的职责和令人敬畏的喜悦来拥抱我们永恒的与生俱来的权利。通过共同的努力和共同的目标，带着激情和奉献精神，让我们响应历史的召唤，将那珍贵的自由之光带入不确定的未来。
Thank you. God bless you, and may He forever bless these United States of America. 谢谢大家。上帝保佑你们，愿他永远保佑美利坚合众国。