Hello, everybody! Where y’at? It is good to be back in the Big Easy. And this is the weather in August all the time, right? As soon as I land in New Orleans, the first thing I do is get hungry. When I was here with the family a few years ago, I had a shrimp po-boy at Parkway Bakery and Tavern. I still remember it -- that’s how good it was. And one day, after I leave office, maybe I’ll finally hear Rebirth at the Maple Leaf on Tuesday night. I’ll get a chance to “see the Mardi Gras,” and somebody will tell me what’s Carnival for. -- But right now, I just go to meetings. 大家好！你们好吗？回到"大快活"城真是太好了。八月的天气总是这样，对吧？每次我一降落在新奥尔良，第一件事就是觉得饿。几年前我和家人来这里的时候，在帕克威面包酒馆吃了一份虾馅穷男孩三明治。我至今还记得——那味道实在太棒了。等我卸任之后的某一天，也许我终于能在周二晚上去枫叶酒吧听"重生"铜管乐队的演出。我会有机会"见识一下狂欢节"，到时候有人会告诉我嘉年华到底是什么。——不过现在，我只有开会的份。
I want to thank Michelle for the introduction and, more importantly, for the great work she’s doing, what she symbolizes, and what she represents in terms of the city bouncing back. I want to acknowledge a great friend and somebody who has been working tirelessly on behalf of this city, and he’s following a family legacy of service -- your mayor, Mitch Landrieu. Proud of him. And his beautiful wife, Cheryl. 我要感谢米歇尔的介绍，更重要的是，感谢她所做的杰出工作，感谢她所象征的意义，以及她在城市复兴中所代表的力量。我要向一位伟大的朋友致意，他一直为这座城市不懈奋斗，延续着家族服务的传统——你们的市长米奇·兰德鲁。我为他感到骄傲。还有他美丽的妻子谢丽尔。
Senator Bill Cassidy is here. Where did Senator Cassidy go? There he is. Congressman Cedric Richmond. Where’s the Congressman? There he is over there. We’ve got a lifelong champion of Louisiana in your former senator, Mary Landrieu in the house. Mary! I want to acknowledge a great supporter to the efforts to recover and rebuild, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries from New York, who has traveled down here with us. 比尔·卡西迪参议员也来了。卡西迪参议员去哪儿了？在那儿。塞德里克·里士满众议员。众议员在哪儿呢？在那边。我们还有路易斯安那州终生的捍卫者、你们的前参议员玛丽·兰德鲁也到场了。玛丽！我还要感谢一位全力支持灾后恢复重建工作的人士，来自纽约的哈基姆·杰弗里斯众议员，他专程和我们一同来到这里。
To all the elected officials from Louisiana and Mississippi who are here today, thank you so much for your reception. 感谢今天到场的所有路易斯安那州和密西西比州的民选官员，非常感谢你们的接待。
I’m here to talk about a specific recovery. But before I begin to talk just about New Orleans, I want to talk about America’s recovery, take a little moment of presidential privilege to talk about what’s been happening in our economy. This morning, we learned that our economy grew at a stronger and more robust clip back in the spring than anybody knew at the time. The data always lags. We already knew that over the past five and a half years, our businesses have created 13 million new jobs. 我今天来到这里，是要谈论一场特定的重建。但在我开始专门谈论新奥尔良之前，我想先谈谈美国的经济复苏，借用一点总统的特权，来谈谈我们经济的近况。今天上午，我们得知今年春天我国经济的增长势头比当时所有人所知的都要强劲。数据总是滞后的。我们已经知道，在过去五年半里，我们的企业创造了1300万个新就业岗位。
These new numbers that came out, showing that the economy was growing at a 3.7 percent clip, means that the United States of America remains an anchor of global strength and stability in the world -- that we have recovered faster, more steadily, stronger than just about any economy after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. 最新公布的数据显示，经济增长率达到了3.7%，这意味着美利坚合众国依然是全球力量与稳定的压舱石——在经历了大萧条以来最严重的金融危机之后，我们的复苏速度更快、步伐更稳、力度更强，几乎超过了任何一个经济体。
And it’s important for us to remember that strength. It’s been a volatile few weeks around the world. And there’s been a lot of reports in the news, and the stock market swinging, and worries about China and about Europe. But the United States of America, for all the challenges that we still have, continue to have the best cards. We just got to play them right. 我们要牢记这份力量，这很重要。过去几周，全球局势动荡不安。新闻报道铺天盖地，股市起伏不定，人们对中国和欧洲的状况忧心忡忡。但美利坚合众国，尽管我们仍面临诸多挑战，手中握有的依然是最好的牌。我们只需要把牌打好。
Our economy has been moving, and continues to grow. And unemployment continues to come down. And our work is not yet done, but we have to have that sense of steadiness and vision and purpose in order to sustain this recovery so that it reaches everybody and not just some. It’s why we need to do everything we can in government to make sure our economy keeps growing. That requires Congress to protect our momentum -- not kill it. 我们的经济一直在前行，并将继续增长。失业率持续下降。我们的工作尚未完成，但我们必须保有那份沉稳、远见和决心，才能维持这份复苏，让它惠及每一个人，而不只是一部分人。正因如此，我们需要在政府层面尽一切努力，确保经济持续增长。这就要求国会保护我们的增长势头——而不是扼杀它。
Congress is about to come back from a six-week recess. The deadline to fund the government is, as always, the end of September. And so I want everybody just to understand that Congress has about a month to pass a budget that helps our economy grow. Otherwise, we risk shutting down the government and services that we all count on for the second time in two years. That would not be responsible. It does not have to happen. 国会即将结束为期六周的休会期。和往常一样，政府拨款的最后期限是九月底。我希望大家都明白，国会还有大约一个月的时间来通过一项促进经济增长的预算。否则，我们将面临政府关门的风险，两年内第二次停摆我们所有人都依赖的公共服务。那将是不负责任的行为。这种情况完全可以避免。
Congress needs to fund America in a way that invests in our growth and our security, and not cuts us off at the knees by locking in mindless austerity or shortsighted sequester cuts to our economy or our military. I’ve said I will veto a budget like that. I think most Americans agree we’ve got to invest in, rather than cut, things like military readiness, infrastructure, schools, public health, the research and development that keeps our companies on the cutting edge. 国会需要以投资于增长和安全的方式为美国提供资金，而不是通过盲目的紧缩政策或短视的自动减支来削弱我们的经济和军事。我已经说过，我会否决这样的预算。我相信大多数美国人都同意，我们应该投资而非削减军事战备、基础设施、学校教育、公共卫生，以及让我们的企业保持领先地位的研发投入。
That’s what great nations do. That’s what great nations do. And you know, eventually, we’re going to do it anyway, so let’s just do it without too much drama. Let’s do it without another round of threats to shut down the government. Let’s not introduce unrelated partisan issues. Nobody gets to hold the American economy hostage over their own ideological demands. You, the people who send us to Washington, expect better. Am I correct? 伟大的国家就是这样做的。伟大的国家就是这样做的。而且你们知道，我们最终总归要这么做，那就让我们少一点戏剧性，直接去做吧。让我们不要再用政府关门来一轮又一轮地威胁。不要把不相干的党派议题夹带进来。谁也不能为了自己的意识形态诉求，把美国经济当作人质。是你们——把我们送到华盛顿的人民——期望我们做得更好。我说得对吗？
So my message to Congress is: Pass a budget. Prevent a shutdown. Don’t wait until the last minute. Don’t worry our businesses or our workers by contributing unnecessarily to global uncertainty. Get it done, and keep the United States of America the anchor of global strength that we are and always should be. 所以我对国会的信息是：通过预算。避免关门。不要等到最后一刻。不要不必要地加剧全球不确定性，让我们的企业和工人忧心忡忡。把事情做好，让美利坚合众国继续成为全球力量的压舱石——我们现在是，也永远应该是。
Now, that’s a process of national recovery that from coast to coast we’ve been going through. But there’s been a specific process of recovery that is perhaps unique in my lifetime, right here in the state of Louisiana, right here in New Orleans. 这就是我们从海岸到海岸一直在经历的国家复苏进程。但有一场特殊的重建进程，在我有生之年或许是独一无二的，就在路易斯安那州，就在新奥尔良。
Not long ago, our gathering here in the Lower 9 probably would have seemed unlikely. As I was flying here today with a homegirl from Louisiana, Donna Brazile, she was -- she saved all the magazines, and she was whipping them out, and one of them was a picture of the Lower 9th right after the storm had happened. And the notion that there would be anything left seemed unimaginable at the time. 就在不久前，我们能在下九区聚会，似乎还是一件不可能的事。今天我和一位路易斯安那州的老乡唐娜·布拉齐尔一同飞过来，她——她攒了一大堆杂志，一路往外掏，其中一本上有风暴刚过后下九区的照片。在当时，这里还能留下任何东西的想法，都是难以想象的。
Today, this new community center stands as a symbol of the extraordinary resilience of this city, the extraordinary resilience of its people, the extraordinary resilience of the entire Gulf Coast and of the United States of America. You are an example of what is possible when, in the face of tragedy and in the face of hardship, good people come together to lend a hand, and, brick by brick, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, you build a better future. 今天，这座崭新的社区中心巍然矗立，象征着这座城市非凡的韧性，象征着这里的人民非凡的韧性，象征着整个墨西哥湾沿岸以及美利坚合众国非凡的韧性。你们就是一个榜样，证明了当善良的人们在悲剧和苦难面前携起手来，一砖一瓦、一个街区接一个街区、一片社区接一片社区地努力，就能建设出更美好的未来。
And that, more than any other reason, is why I’ve come back here today -- plus, Mitch Landrieu asked me to. It’s been 10 years since Katrina hit, devastating communities in Louisiana and Mississippi, across the Gulf Coast. In the days following its landfall, more than 1,800 of our fellow citizens -- men, women and children -- lost their lives. Some folks in this room may have lost a loved one in that storm. 而这，比任何其他原因都更重要，是我今天回到这里的原因——当然，也是因为米奇·兰德鲁邀请我来。卡特里娜飓风袭来已经十年了，它摧毁了路易斯安那州、密西西比州以及整个墨西哥湾沿岸的社区。在飓风登陆后的那些日子里，超过1800名我们的同胞——男人、女人和孩子——失去了生命。在座的有些人可能就在那场风暴中失去了挚爱。
Thousands of people saw their homes destroyed, livelihoods wiped out, hopes and dreams shattered. Many scattered in exodus to cities across the country, and too many still haven’t returned. Those who stayed and lived through that epic struggle still feel the trauma sometimes of what happened. As one woman from Gentilly recently wrote me, “A deep part of the whole story is the grief.” So there’s grief then and there’s still some grief in our hearts. 成千上万的人目睹家园被毁、生计断绝、希望与梦想破灭。许多人流离失所，分散到全国各地的城市，还有太多的人至今未能归来。那些留下来、经历了那场史诗般挣扎的人们，有时依然会感受到创伤的疼痛。正如一位来自让蒂伊的女士最近写给我的话："整个故事深处，是无尽的悲伤。"所以，悲伤留在了当时，而我们心中至今仍有一丝伤痛。
Here in New Orleans, a city that embodies a celebration of life, suddenly seemed devoid of life. A place once defined by color and sound -- the second line down the street, the crawfish boils in backyards, the music always in the air -- suddenly it was dark and silent. And the world watched in horror. We saw those rising waters drown the iconic streets of New Orleans. Families stranded on rooftops. Bodies in the streets. Children crying, crowded in the Superdome. An American city dark and under water. 在新奥尔良这座以颂扬生命著称的城市，一时间却仿佛了无生机。这个曾经以色彩和声音闻名的地方——街头的第二线游行、后院的小龙虾宴、空气中弥漫的音乐——突然变得黑暗而沉寂。世界惊恐地注视着这一切。我们看到不断上涨的洪水淹没了新奥尔良标志性的街道。家家户户困在屋顶上。街道上躺着遇难者的遗体。孩子们哭泣着，挤在超级穹顶体育馆里。一座美国城市陷入黑暗，被水淹没。
And this was something that was supposed to never happen here -- maybe somewhere else. But not here, not in America. And we came to realize that what started out as a natural disaster became a manmade disaster -- a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. 而这一切本不应该发生在这里——也许会发生在别的什么地方。但不在这里，不在美国。我们逐渐意识到，这场起初的自然灾害，最终演变成了一场人为的灾难——一场政府未能保护好本国公民的失败。
And the storm laid bare a deeper tragedy that had been brewing for decades because we came to understand that New Orleans, like so many cities and communities across the country, had for too long been plagued by structural inequalities that left too many people, especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs or affordable health care or decent housing. 风暴还暴露了一场酝酿了数十年的更深层的悲剧，因为我们开始明白，新奥尔良和全国许许多多的城市与社区一样，长期以来深受结构性不平等的困扰，这种不平等让太多的人——尤其是穷人，尤其是有色人种——得不到好的工作、负担得起的医疗或体面的住房。
Too many kids grew up surrounded by violent crime, cycling through substandard schools where few had a shot to break out of poverty. And so like a body weakened already, undernourished already, when the storm hit, there was no resources to fall back on. 太多的孩子在暴力犯罪的包围中长大，在不合格的学校里辗转，几乎没有机会摆脱贫困。于是，就像一个本就虚弱、本就营养不良的身体，当风暴袭来时，已经没有任何资源可以依靠。
Shortly after I visited -- shortly after the storm, I visited with folks not here because we couldn’t distract local recover efforts. Instead, I visited folks in a shelter in Houston -- many who had been displaced. And one woman told me, “We had nothing before the hurricane. And now we have less than nothing.” We had nothing before the hurricane -- now we had less than nothing. 我曾在风暴过后不久前去探访——我没有来这里，因为不能干扰当地的救援工作。相反，我去了休斯顿的一个避难所，看望那里的人们——许多都是流离失所的灾民。有一位女士告诉我："飓风之前我们就一无所有。现在我们比一无所有还不如。"飓风之前我们就一无所有——现在我们比一无所有还不如。
And we acknowledge this loss, and this pain, not to dwell on the past, not to wallow in grief; we do it to fortify our commitment and to bolster our hope, to understand what it is that we’ve learned, and how far we’ve come. 我们承认这份损失、这份痛楚，不是为了沉湎于过去，不是为了沉溺于悲伤；我们这样做，是为了坚定我们的承诺，增强我们的希望，明白我们学到了什么，以及我们已经走了多远。
Because this is a city that slowly, unmistakably, together, is moving forward. Because the project of rebuilding here wasn’t just to restore the city as it had been. It was to build a city as it should be -- a city where everyone, no matter what they look like, how much money they’ve got, where they come from, where they're born has a chance to make it. 因为这座城市正在缓慢地、坚定地、齐心协力地向前迈进。因为这里的重建工程，不仅仅是恢复这座城市昔日的模样。而是要建设一座它应有的模样的城市——一座每个人都有机会成功的城市，无论他们长相如何、财富多少、来自何方、出生何地。
And I’m here to say that on that larger project of a better, stronger, more just New Orleans, the progress that you have made is remarkable. The progress you've made is remarkable. 我今天在这里要说的是，在建设一个更美好、更强大、更公正的新奥尔良这一宏大事业中，你们所取得的进步是非凡的。你们取得的进步是非凡的。
That’s not to say things are perfect. Mitch would be the first one to say that. We know that African Americans and folks in hard-hit parishes like Plaquemines and St. Bernard are less likely to feel like they’ve recovered. Certainly we know violence still scars the lives of too many youth in this city. As hard as rebuilding levees are, as hard as -- 这并不是说一切都完美了。米奇会第一个这么说。我们知道，非裔美国人和像普拉克明斯、圣贝尔纳这样受灾严重教区的居民，仍然不太能感受到自己已经恢复了。当然，我们也知道暴力仍在给这座城市太多年轻人的生活留下创伤。重建堤坝有多难，就像——
Auditor: [Inaudible] Mental health. 听众：（听不清）心理健康。
President Obama: I agree with that. But I’ll get to that. Thank you, ma’am. 奥巴马总统：我同意。不过我会说到的。谢谢你，女士。
As hard as rebuilding levees is, as hard as rebuilding housing is, real change -- real lasting, structural change -- that's even harder. And it takes courage to experiment with new ideas and change the old ways of doing things. That’s hard. Getting it right, and making sure that everybody is included and everybody has a fair shot at success -- that takes time. That's not unique to New Orleans. We’ve got those challenges all across the country. 重建堤坝很难，重建住房很难，但真正的改变——真正持久的、结构性的改变——则更难。尝试新的想法、改变旧的做事方式，需要勇气。这很难。把事情做对，确保每个人都被包容、每个人都有公平的成功机会——这需要时间。这并非新奥尔良独有。全国各地我们都面临这样的挑战。
But I’m here to say, I’m here to hold up a mirror and say because of you, the people of New Orleans, working together, this city is moving in the right direction. And I have never been more confident that together we will get to where we need to go. You inspire me. 但我今天要说的是，我要举起一面镜子说，正因为有你们——新奥尔良的人民——齐心协力，这座城市正朝着正确的方向前进。我从未像现在这样确信，我们终将一起到达我们需要到达的地方。你们激励着我。
Your efforts inspire me. And no matter how hard it’s been and how hard and how long the road ahead might seem, you’re working and building and striving for a better tomorrow. I see evidence of it all across this city. And, by the way, along the way, the people of New Orleans didn't just inspire me, you inspired all of America. Folks have been watching what’s happened here, and they’ve seen a reflection of the very best of the American spirit. 你们的努力激励着我。无论过去有多么艰难，无论前方的道路看起来有多么漫长，你们都在努力工作、建设家园、为更美好的明天而奋斗。我在这座城市的每一个角落都看到了证据。而且顺便说一句，一路走来，新奥尔良人民不仅仅激励了我，你们也激励了整个美国。人们一直在关注这里发生的一切，他们从中看到了美国精神最美好的一面。
As President, I’ve been proud to be your partner. Across the board, I’ve made the recovery and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast a priority. I made promises when I was a senator that I’d help. And I’ve kept those promises. 作为总统，我一直以成为你们的伙伴为荣。在各个方面，我都把墨西哥湾沿岸的恢复和重建作为优先事项。当我还是参议员的时候，我就承诺过要提供帮助。我一直信守着这些承诺。
We’re cutting red tape to help you build back even stronger. We’re taking the lessons we’ve learned here, we’ve applied them across the country, including places like New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy. 我们正在削减繁文缛节，帮助你们重建得更加坚固。我们把在这里学到的经验教训应用到了全国各地，包括飓风桑迪过后的纽约和新泽西等地。
If Katrina was initially an example of what happens when government fails, the recovery has been an example of what’s possible when government works together -- state and local, community -- everybody working together as true partners. 如果说卡特里娜飓风最初是政府失灵的一个例证，那么这场重建就是政府协同合作时所能成就的典范——州政府、地方政府、社区——所有人作为真正的伙伴齐心协力。
Together, we’ve delivered resources to help Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida rebuild schools and hospitals, roads, police and fire stations, restore historic buildings and museums. And we’re building smarter, doing everything from elevating homes to retrofitting buildings to improving drainage, so that our communities are better prepared for the next storm. 我们共同提供资源，帮助路易斯安那州、密西西比州、阿拉巴马州和佛罗里达州重建学校、医院、道路、警察局和消防站，修复历史建筑和博物馆。我们建设得更加智能，从抬高房屋地基到改造建筑，再到改善排水系统，无所不做，让我们的社区为下一场风暴做好更充分的准备。
Working together, we’ve transformed education in this city. Before the storm, New Orleans public schools were largely broken, leaving generations of low-income kids without a decent education. Today, thanks to parents and educators, school leaders, nonprofits, we’re seeing real gains in achievement, with new schools, more resources to retain and develop and support great teachers and principals. 通过共同努力，我们改变了这座城市的教育面貌。风暴之前，新奥尔良的公立学校基本上处于瘫痪状态，让一代又一代的低收入孩子得不到像样的教育。今天，感谢家长、教育工作者、学校领导和非营利组织，我们看到学业成绩有了实实在在的提升，新学校不断涌现，更多资源用于留住、培养和支持优秀的教师和校长。
We have data that shows before the storm, the high school graduation rate was 54 percent. Today, it’s up to 73 percent. Before the storm, college enrollment was 37 percent. Today, it’s almost 60 percent. We still have a long way to go, but that is real progress. New Orleans is coming back better and stronger. 数据显示，风暴之前，高中毕业率为54%。今天，这一比例已升至73%。风暴之前，大学入学率为37%。今天，这一比例已接近60%。我们还有很长的路要走，但这是真正的进步。新奥尔良正在以更好、更强的姿态回归。
Working together, we’re providing housing assistance to more families today than before the storm, with new apartments and housing vouchers. And we will keep working until everybody who wants to come home can come home. 通过共同努力，我们今天为更多家庭提供了住房援助，包括新公寓和住房券，数量超过了风暴之前。我们将继续努力，直到每一个想回家的人都能回到家中。
Together, we’re building a New Orleans that is as entrepreneurial as any place in the country, with a focus on expanding job opportunities and making sure that more people benefit from a growing economy here. We’re creating jobs to rebuild the city’s transportation infrastructure, expanding training programs for industries like high-tech manufacturing, but also water management, because we’ve been building some good water management around here and we want to make sure everybody has access to those good, well-paying jobs. 我们正在共同建设一个和全国任何地方一样充满创业精神的新奥尔良，重点是扩大就业机会，确保更多人从这里不断增长的经济中受益。我们正在创造就业岗位，重建城市的交通基础设施，扩大高科技制造业等行业的培训项目，当然还有水资源管理——因为我们在这里建设了相当出色的水资源管理系统，我们希望确保每个人都能获得那些优质的、收入丰厚的工作。
Small businesses like Michelle’s are growing. It’s small businesses like hers that are helping to fuel 65 straight months of private sector job growth in America. That’s the longest streak in American history. 像米歇尔这样的小企业正在成长。正是像她这样的小企业，推动了美国私营部门连续65个月的就业增长。这是美国历史上最长的连续增长纪录。
Together, we’re doing more to make sure that everyone in this city has access to great health care. More folks have access to primary care at neighborhood clinics so that they can get the preventive care that they need. We’re building a brand new VA Medical Center downtown, alongside a thriving biosciences corridor that’s attracting new jobs and investment. 我们共同做出了更多努力，确保这座城市的每个人都能获得优质的医疗保健。更多的人可以在社区诊所获得初级保健，从而得到他们需要的预防护理。我们正在市中心建造一座全新的退伍军人事务部医疗中心，旁边是一条蓬勃发展的生物科技走廊，吸引着新的就业和投资。
We are working to make sure that we have additional mental health facilities across the city and across the country, and more people have access to quality, affordable health care –- some of the more than 16 million Americans who have gained health insurance over the past few years. 我们正在努力确保全市乃至全国有更多的心理健康设施，让更多人获得优质、负担得起的医疗保健——过去几年中，已有超过1600万美国人获得了医疗保险，其中就包括这里的人们。
All of this progress is the result of the commitment and drive of the people of this region. I saw that spirit today. Mitch and I started walking around a little bit. Such a nice day outside. And we went to Faubourg Lafitte, we were in Tremé, and we saw returning residents living in brand new homes, mixed income -- new homes near schools and clinics and parks, child care centers; more opportunities for working families. 所有这些进步，都源于这个地区人民的奉献精神和奋斗动力。今天我就看到了这种精神。米奇和我刚才四处走了走。外面天气真好。我们去了福堡拉菲特，去了特雷梅区，我们看到返乡的居民住进了崭新的、混合收入的住宅——这些新住宅附近有学校、诊所、公园和托儿中心；为工薪家庭提供了更多机会。
We saw that spirit today at Willie Mae’s Scotch House. After Katrina had destroyed that legendary restaurant, some of the best chefs from the country decided America could not afford to lose such an important place. So they came down here to help -- helped rebuild. And I just sampled some of her fried chicken. -- It was really good. -- Although I did get a grease spot on my suit. -- But that's okay. If you come to New Orleans and you don't have a grease spot somewhere -- then you didn’t enjoy the city. Just glad I didn’t get it on my tie. 今天我们在威利·梅的苏格兰屋餐厅也看到了这种精神。卡特里娜飓风摧毁了那家传奇餐厅之后，全国一些最优秀的厨师认为，美国不能失去这样一个重要的地方。所以他们来到这里帮忙——帮助重建。我刚刚尝了一点她做的炸鸡。——真的很好吃。——不过我的西装上确实沾了一滴油。——但没关系。如果你来新奥尔良身上一滴油都没沾——那你就不算真正享受过这座城市。幸好没沾到领带上。
We all just heard that spirit of New Orleans in the remarkable young people from Roots of Music. When the storm washed away a lot of middle school music programs, Roots of Music helped fill that gap. And today, it’s building the next generation of musical talent -- the next Irma Thomas, or the next Trombone Shorty, or the next Dr. John. There’s a Marsalis kid in here somewhere. How you doing? 我们刚才都从"音乐之根"组织那些出色的年轻人身上，听到了新奥尔良的精神。当风暴冲毁了许多中学音乐项目时，"音乐之根"填补了这一空白。今天，它正在培养下一代音乐人才——下一个厄玛·托马斯，下一个长号矮子，下一个约翰博士。这里还有个马萨利斯家的孩子呢。你好吗？
And I saw it in the wonderful young men I met earlier who are part of “NOLA for Life,” which is focused on reducing the number of murders in the city of New Orleans. This is a program that works with the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative to make sure that all young people, and particularly our boys and young men of color who so disproportionately are impacted by crime and violence, have the opportunity to fulfill their full potential. 我还在今天早些时候见到的那些出色的年轻人身上看到了这种精神，他们是"新奥尔良为生命"项目的成员，该项目致力于减少新奥尔良市的谋杀案数量。这个项目与白宫的"守护我的兄弟"倡议合作，确保所有年轻人，尤其是那些受犯罪和暴力影响格外严重的有色人种男孩和年轻男性，都有机会充分发挥他们的潜能。
In fact, after the storm, this city became a laboratory for urban innovation across the board. And we’ve been tackling with you, as a partner, all sorts of major challenges -- fighting poverty, supporting our homeless veterans. And as a result, New Orleans has become a model for the nation as the first city, the first major city to end veterans’ homelessness -- which is a remarkable achievement. 事实上，风暴过后，这座城市全面成为了城市创新的试验场。我们作为伙伴，与你们一起应对各种各样的重大挑战——抗击贫困、帮助无家可归的退伍军人。结果，新奥尔良成为了全国的榜样，成为第一个、第一个结束退伍军人无家可归现象的大城市——这是一项非凡的成就。
You’re also becoming a model for the nation when it comes to disaster response and resilience. We learned lessons from Katrina. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed stricter standards, more advanced techniques for levees. Here in Louisiana, we built a 14 billion dollar system of improved levees and pump stations and gates -- a system that stood the test of Hurricane Isaac. 在灾害应对和抵御能力方面，你们也正在成为全国的榜样。我们从卡特里娜飓风中吸取了教训。美国陆军工程兵团制定了更严格的标准，研发了更先进的堤坝建造技术。在路易斯安那州，我们建造了一套价值140亿美元的改良堤坝、泵站和水闸系统——这套系统经受住了艾萨克飓风的考验。
We’ve revamped FEMA -- and I just have to say, by the way, there’s a man named Craig Fugate who runs FEMA --and has been doing extraordinary work, and his team, all across the country, every time there’s a disaster. I love me some Craig Fugate. 我们改组了联邦应急管理局——顺便说一句，有一个叫克雷格·富盖特的人在管理联邦应急管理局——他和他的团队在全国各地，每一次灾难发生时，都做出了非凡的工作。我可太喜欢克雷格·富盖特了。
-- Although it's a little disturbing -- he gets excited when there are disasters -- because he gets restless if everything is just quiet. But under his leadership, we've revamped FEMA into a stronger, more efficient agency. In fact, the whole federal government has gotten smarter at preventing and recovering from disasters, and serving as a better partner to local and state governments. ——不过有点让人不安的是——他一有灾难就兴奋——因为如果一切风平浪静，他就坐不住。但在他的领导下，我们已经把联邦应急管理局改组成为一个更强大、更高效的机构。事实上，整个联邦政府在防灾和灾后恢复方面都变得更加智能，也成为了地方和州政府更好的合作伙伴。
And as I’ll talk about next week, when I visit Alaska, making our communities more resilient is going to be increasingly important, because we’re going to see more extreme weather events as the result of climate change -- deeper droughts, deadlier wildfires, stronger storms. That’s why, in addition to things like new and better levees, we’ve also been investing in restoring wetlands and other natural systems that are just as critical for storm protection. 正如我下周访问阿拉斯加时将要谈到的，让我们的社区更具抵御能力将变得越来越重要，因为气候变化将导致更多极端天气事件——更严重的干旱、更致命的野火、更强烈的风暴。正因如此，除了新建和改良堤坝之外，我们还在投资恢复湿地和其他自然系统，它们对于风暴防护同样至关重要。
So we’ve made a lot of progress over the past 10 years. You’ve made a lot of progress. That gives us hope. But it doesn’t allow for complacency. It doesn’t mean we can rest. Our work here won’t be done when almost 40 percent of children still live in poverty in this city. That’s not a finished job. That’s not a full recovery. Our work won’t be done when a typical black household earns half the income of white households in this city. The work is not done yet. 过去十年，我们取得了很大进步。你们取得了很大进步。这给了我们希望。但我们不能因此而自满。这不意味着我们可以停下脚步。当这座城市仍有近40%的儿童生活在贫困中时，我们的工作就没有完成。那不是一份完成了的工作。那不是全面的复苏。当这座城市典型的黑人家庭收入只有白人家庭的一半时，我们的工作就没有完成。工作尚未完成。
Our work is not done when there’s still too many people who have yet to find good, affordable housing, and too many people -- especially African American men -- who can’t find a job. Not when there are still too many people who haven’t been able to come back home; folks who, around the country, every day, live the words sung by Louis Armstrong, “Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?” 当仍有太多人找不到好的、负担得起的住房，太多人——尤其是非裔美国男性——找不到工作时，我们的工作就没有完成。当仍有太多人无法回到家乡时，我们的工作就没有完成；那些散落在全国各地的人们，每一天都在吟唱着路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的歌："你知道思念新奥尔良意味着什么吗？"
But the thing is, the people of New Orleans, there’s something in you guys that is just irrepressible. You guys have a way of making a way out of no way. You know the sun comes out after every storm. You’ve got hope -- especially your young people reflect hope -- young people like Victor York-Carter. 但关键在于，新奥尔良的人民，你们身上有一种不可抑制的力量。你们总能在绝境中开辟出一条道路。你们知道，每一场风暴过后，太阳都会照常升起。你们心怀希望——尤其是你们的年轻人，他们身上闪耀着希望的光芒——比如维克多·约克-卡特这样的年轻人。
Where’s Victor? Victor York-Carter. Stand up, Victor. I was just talking to Victor. I had some lunch with him. He’s this fine young man that I just met with. Stand up -- everybody. See, these are the guys who I ate chicken with. Really impressive -- have overcome more than their fair share of challenges, but are still focused on the future. Yes, sit down. I don’t want you to start getting embarrassed. 维克多在哪儿？维克多·约克-卡特。站起来，维克多。我刚才还和维克多聊过天。我和他一起吃了午饭。他是我刚见过的一位优秀的年轻人。大家都看看——站起来。看到了吧，这些就是和我一起吃炸鸡的小伙子们。真的很了不起——他们克服了超乎常人的重重困难，但依然专注于未来。好的，坐下吧。我可不想让你们难为情。
So I’ll just give you one example. Victor grew up in the 8th Ward. Gifted art student, loved math. He was 13 when Katrina hit. And he remembers waking up to what looked like something out of a disaster movie. He and his family waded across the city, towing his younger brother in a trash can to keep him afloat. 让我给你们举一个例子。维克多在第八区长大。他是个有天赋的美术生，热爱数学。卡特里娜飓风来袭时，他只有13岁。他还记得，醒来时眼前的景象就像灾难电影里的画面一样。他和家人涉水穿过整座城市，把弟弟放在垃圾桶里拖着走，好让弟弟不被水淹没。
They were eventually evacuated to Texas. Six months later, they returned, and the city was almost unrecognizable. Victor saw his peers struggling to cope, many of them still traumatized, their lives still disordered. So he joined an organization called Rethink to help young people get more involved in rebuilding New Orleans. And recently, he finished a coding boot camp at Operation Spark; today, he’s studying to earn a high-tech job. He wants to introduce more young people to science and technology and civics so that they have the tools to change the world. 他们最终被疏散到了得克萨斯州。六个月后，他们回来了，城市却几乎面目全非。维克多看到同龄的孩子们在挣扎中应对，许多人仍然深受创伤，生活依然混乱。于是他加入了一个叫"重新思考"的组织，帮助年轻人更多地参与到新奥尔良的重建中来。最近，他在"星火行动"完成了编程训练营；如今，他正在学习，争取获得一份高科技工作。他想让更多年轻人接触科学、技术和公民教育，让他们拥有改变世界的工具。
And so Victor and these young men that I just met with, they’ve overcome extraordinary odds. They’ve lived through more than most of us will ever have to endure. They’ve made some mistakes along the way. But for all that they’ve been through, they have been just as determined to improve their own lives, to take responsibility for themselves, but also to try to see if they can help others along the way. 维克多和我刚见过的这些年轻人，他们克服了非同寻常的困难。他们所经历的，比我们大多数人终其一生需要承受的还要多。一路走来，他们也犯过一些错误。但尽管经历了这一切，他们依然同样坚定地要改善自己的生活，为自己负责，同时也努力看看能否在这条路上帮助他人。
So when I talk to young men like that, that gives me hope. It’s still hard. I told them they can't get down on themselves. Tough stuff will happen along the way. But if they’ve come this far, they can keep on going. 所以当我和这样的年轻人交谈时，这给了我希望。前路依然艰难。我告诉他们，不要对自己失望。艰难的事情总会发生。但既然他们已经走了这么远，就一定能继续走下去。
And Americans like you -- the people of New Orleans, young men like this -- you're what recovery has been all about. You're why I’m confident that we can recover from crisis and start to move forward. You've helped this country recover from a crisis and helped it move forward. 而像你们这样的美国人——新奥尔良的人民，这样的年轻人——你们才是重建的全部意义所在。正因为有你们，我才有信心我们能够从危机中恢复并继续前行。你们帮助这个国家从危机中走出来，推动它向前发展。
You're the reason 13 million new jobs have been created. You're the reason the unemployment rate fell from 10 percent to 5.3. You're the reason that layoffs are near an all-time low. You're the reason the uninsured rate is at an all-time low and the high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, and the deficit has been cut by two-thirds, and two wars are over. 正因为有你们，1300万个新就业岗位被创造出来。正因为有你们，失业率从10%降到了5.3%。正因为有你们，裁员率接近历史最低。正因为有你们，未参保率处于历史最低水平，高中毕业率处于历史最高水平，赤字削减了三分之二，两场战争已经结束。
And nearly 180,000 American troops who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have now gone down to 15,000. And a clean energy revolution is helping to save this planet. 在伊拉克和阿富汗服役的近18万美军，如今已缩减至1.5万人。一场清洁能源革命正在帮助拯救这个星球。
You're the reason why justice has expanded and now we're focused on making sure that everybody is treated fairly under the law, and why people have the freedom to marry whoever they love from sea to shining sea. 正因为有你们，正义得到了伸张，如今我们正致力于确保每个人在法律面前都受到公平对待；正因为有你们，人们可以自由地与自己相爱的人结婚，从这片海洋到那片闪耀的海洋。
I tell you, we're moving into the next presidential cycle and the next political season, and you will hear a lot of people telling you everything that’s wrong with America. And that's okay. That’s a proper part of our democracy. One of the things about America is we're never satisfied. We keep pushing forward. We keep asking questions. We keep challenging our government. We keep challenging our leaders. We keep looking for the next set of challenges to tackle. We find what’s wrong because we have confidence that we can fix it. 我告诉你们，我们即将进入下一个总统选举周期和下一个政治季，你们会听到很多人告诉你们美国的种种问题。这没关系。这是我们民主制度的应有之义。美国的特质之一就是我们永不满足。我们不断向前推进。我们不断提出问题。我们不断挑战我们的政府。我们不断挑战我们的领导人。我们不断寻找下一组需要应对的挑战。我们发现问题，是因为我们有信心能够解决问题。
But it’s important that we remember what’s right, and what’s good, and what’s hopeful about this country. It’s worth remembering that for all the tragedy, for the all images of Katrina in those first few days, in those first few months, look at what’s happened here. 但重要的是，我们要记住这个国家什么是对的、什么是好的、什么是充满希望的。值得铭记的是，尽管有种种悲剧，尽管卡特里娜飓风最初几天、最初几个月的画面令人心碎，但看看这里发生的变化吧。
It’s worth remembering the thousands of Americans like Michelle, and Victor, and Mrs. Willie Mae and the folks who rallied around her -- Americans all across this country who when they saw neighbors and friends or strangers in need came to help. 值得铭记的是，成千上万像米歇尔、维克多、威利·梅夫人以及那些团结在她周围的人们——遍布全国各地的美国人，当他们看到邻居、朋友或陌生人需要帮助时，都会伸出援手。
And people who today still spend their time every day helping others -- rolling up their sleeves, doing the hard work of changing this country without the need for credit or the need for glory; don't get their name in the papers, don't see their day in the sun, do it because it’s right. 还有那些至今仍每天花时间帮助他人的人们——他们卷起袖子，默默做着改变这个国家的艰苦工作，不求赞誉，不求荣耀；他们的名字不会见诸报端，不会迎来属于自己的高光时刻，他们这样做，只是因为这是正确的事。
These Americans live the basic values that define this country -- the value we’ve been reminded of in these past 10 years as we’ve come back from a crisis that changed this city, and an economic crisis that spread throughout the nation -- the basic notion that I am my brother’s keeper, and I am my sister’s keeper, and that we look out for each other and that we're all in this together. 这些美国人践行着定义这个国家的基本价值观——在过去十年里，当我们从改变了这座城市的危机和席卷全国的经济危机中走出来时，我们被反复提醒的价值观——那就是一个基本的信念：我是我兄弟的守护者，我是我姐妹的守护者，我们彼此守望，我们风雨同舟。
That’s the story of New Orleans -- but that's also the story of America -- a city that, for almost 300 years, has been the gateway to America’s soul. Where the jazz makes you cry, the funerals make you dance -- the bayou makes you believe all kinds of things. -- A place that has always brought together people of all races and religions and languages. And everybody adds their culture and their flavor into this city’s gumbo. You remind our nation that for all of our differences, in the end, what matters is we're all in the same boat. We all share a similar destiny. 这就是新奥尔良的故事——但这也是美国的故事——一座近300年来一直是美国灵魂门户的城市。在这里，爵士乐让你落泪，葬礼让你起舞——河口的沼泽让你相信一切皆有可能。——这个地方始终汇聚着各种种族、宗教和语言的人们。每个人都把自己的文化和风味融入这座城市的秋葵浓汤里。你们提醒着我们的国家，尽管我们有种种差异，但最终，重要的是我们都在同一条船上。我们共享着相似的命运。
If we stay focused on that common purpose, if we remember our responsibility to ourselves but also our responsibilities and obligations to one another, we will not just rebuild this city, we will rebuild this country. We’ll make sure not just these young men, but every child in America has a structure and support and love and the kind of nurturing that they need to succeed. We’ll leave behind a city and a nation that’s worthy of generations to come. 如果我们继续专注于这一共同目标，如果我们牢记对自己的责任，也牢记对彼此的责任与义务，我们将不仅仅重建这座城市，我们将重建这个国家。我们将确保，不只是这些年轻人，而是美国的每一个孩子，都能获得成功所需的保障、支持、关爱和培养。我们将留下一座无愧于子孙后代的城市，和一个无愧于子孙后代的国家。
That's what you've gotten started. Now we got to finish the job. 这就是你们已经开启的事业。现在，我们要把它完成。
Thank you. God bless you. God bless America. 谢谢大家。上帝保佑你们。上帝保佑美国。