Brandenburg Gate Address(勃兰登堡门演讲)

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演讲背景:2013年6月19日,奥巴马总统在德国柏林勃兰登堡门东侧的巴黎广场发表演讲。讲话呼应肯尼迪总统五十年前在西柏林宣示团结的历史,回顾柏林空运、东德民众反抗及柏林墙倒塌,强调自由来自公民坚持而非政府恩赐。他警告民主社会不能因冷战结束而自满,提出以“公正的和平”回应当代挑战:减少核武器、应对气候变化、扩大经济机会、支持各地追求自由的人,并帮助贫困地区建立自主发展的能力。他也谈到反恐措施、无人机与隐私保护之间的平衡。奥巴马呼吁美欧继续合作,跨越心中的隔阂,将柏林克服分裂的精神用于全世界的和平与正义。

Thank you, Chancellor Merkel, for your leadership, your friendship, and the example of your life -- from a child of the East to the leader of a free and united Germany. 默克尔总理,感谢您的领导、友谊,以及您从东德的孩子成长为自由统一德国领导人的人生榜样。

As I’ve said, Angela and I don’t exactly look like previous German and American leaders. But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart. 正如我说过的,安格拉和我与以往的德美领导人长得并不太像。但今天我们能站在这座城市曾被分割的断层线上,证明一条永恒真理:任何围墙都挡不住人心中对正义、自由与和平的渴望。

Mayor Wowereit, distinguished guests, and especially the people of Berlin and of Germany -- thank you for this extraordinarily warm welcome. In fact, it's so warm and I feel so good that I'm actually going to take off my jacket, and anybody else who wants to, feel free to. We can be a little more informal among friends. 沃韦赖特市长、各位嘉宾,尤其是柏林和德国人民,感谢你们无比热情的欢迎。天气太热了,气氛也太好了,我想把外套脱下来。谁想脱,也请随意。在朋友之间,我们可以放松一点。

As your Chancellor mentioned, five years ago I had the privilege to address this city as senator. Today, I'm proud to return as President of the United States. And I bring with me the enduring friendship of the American people, as well as my wife, Michelle, and Malia and Sasha. You may notice that they're not here. The last thing they want to do is to listen to another speech from me. So they're out experiencing the beauty and the history of Berlin. And this history speaks to us today. 正如总理提到的,五年前我以参议员身份有幸在这座城市讲话。今天,我以美国总统身份自豪地重返这里,带来美国人民持久的友谊。我也带来了妻子米歇尔和女儿玛丽娅、萨莎。你们可能发现她们不在这里。她们最不想做的,就是再听我讲一次话。所以她们正在欣赏柏林的美丽与历史。而这段历史今天仍在对我们说话。

Here, for thousands of years, the people of this land have journeyed from tribe to principality to nation-state; through Reformation and Enlightenment, renowned as a “land of poets and thinkers,” among them Immanuel Kant, who taught us that freedom is the “unoriginated birthright of man, and it belongs to him by force of his humanity.” 千百年来,这片土地上的人民从部落走向诸侯邦,再走向民族国家,经历宗教改革与启蒙运动,成就了“诗人和思想家之国”。其中,伊曼努尔·康德教导我们,自由是“人生来就有的权利,因其人性而属于他”。

Here, for two centuries, this gate stood tall as the world around it convulsed -- through the rise and fall of empires; through revolutions and republics; art and music and science that reflected the height of human endeavor, but also war and carnage that exposed the depths of man’s cruelty to man. 两百年来,这座大门在周围世界的剧变中屹立,见证帝国兴衰、革命与共和国,也见证体现人类创造力巅峰的艺术、音乐和科学,以及暴露人对人残酷本性的战争与屠杀。

It was here that Berliners carved out an island of democracy against the greatest of odds. As has already been mentioned, they were supported by an airlift of hope, and we are so honored to be joined by Colonel Halvorsen, 92 years old -- the original “candy bomber.” We could not be prouder of him. I hope I look that good, by the way, when I'm 92. 就在这里,柏林人在几乎不可能的困境中开辟了一座民主孤岛。正如刚才提到的,满载希望的空运支持了他们。今天,九十二岁的哈尔沃森上校——最早的“糖果轰炸机”——也来到这里,我们深感荣幸,并为他无比自豪。顺便说一句,我希望自己九十二岁时也能像他一样精神。

During that time, a Marshall Plan seeded a miracle, and a North Atlantic Alliance protected our people. And those in the neighborhoods and nations to the East drew strength from the knowledge that freedom was possible here, in Berlin -- that the waves of crackdowns and suppressions might therefore someday be overcome. 那时,马歇尔计划播下奇迹的种子,北大西洋联盟保护了我们的人民。东边街区和国家的人们知道柏林的自由仍有可能,因此获得力量,相信一波又一波镇压终会被战胜。

Today, 60 years after they rose up against oppression, we remember the East German heroes of June 17th. When the wall finally came down, it was their dreams that were fulfilled. Their strength and their passion, their enduring example remind us that for all the power of militaries, for all the authority of governments, it is citizens who choose whether to be defined by a wall, or whether to tear it down. 今天,在他们反抗压迫六十年后,我们纪念六月十七日的东德英雄。柏林墙终于倒下时,实现的正是他们的梦想。他们的力量、热情与持久榜样提醒我们:无论军队多强大、政府权力多大,最终由公民决定自己是被一道墙定义,还是亲手拆掉它。

And we’re now surrounded by the symbols of a Germany reborn. A rebuilt Reichstag and its glistening glass dome. An American embassy back at its historic home on Pariser Platz. And this square itself, once a desolate no man’s land, is now open to all. So while I am not the first American President to come to this gate, I am proud to stand on its Eastern side to pay tribute to the past. 如今,重生德国的象征环绕着我们:重建的国会大厦及其闪亮的玻璃穹顶,回到巴黎广场原址的美国大使馆,还有这座曾荒凉无人的广场,如今对所有人开放。我不是第一位来到这道门前的美国总统,但很自豪今天能站在它东侧,向过去致敬。

For throughout all this history, the fate of this city came down to a simple question: Will we live free or in chains? Under governments that uphold our universal rights, or regimes that suppress them? In open societies that respect the sanctity of the individual and our free will, or in closed societies that suffocate the soul? 纵观历史,这座城市的命运归结为一个简单问题:我们要自由地生活,还是戴着枷锁?生活在维护普遍权利的政府下,还是压制权利的政权下?生活在尊重个体神圣性和自由意志的开放社会,还是扼杀灵魂的封闭社会?

As free peoples, we stated our convictions long ago. As Americans, we believe that “all men are created equal” with the right to life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And as Germans, you declared in your Basic Law that “the dignity of man is inviolable.” Around the world, nations have pledged themselves to a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes the inherent dignity and rights of all members of our human family. 自由人民早已表明信念。美国人相信“人人生而平等”,享有生命、自由和追求幸福的权利。德国人则在《基本法》中宣告“人的尊严不可侵犯”。世界各国承诺遵守《世界人权宣言》,承认人类大家庭每位成员固有的尊严与权利。

And this is what was at stake here in Berlin all those years. And because courageous crowds climbed atop that wall, because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies, because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom, we can say, here in Berlin, here in Europe -- our values won. Openness won. Tolerance won. And freedom won here in Berlin. 当年柏林之争,攸关的就是这些原则。勇敢的人群爬上柏林墙,腐败独裁政权让位于新兴民主,欧洲大陆数百万人呼吸到自由空气。因此,我们今天可以在柏林、在欧洲说:我们的价值观胜利了,开放胜利了。宽容胜利了,自由在柏林胜利了。

And yet, more than two decades after that triumph, we must acknowledge that there can, at times, be a complacency among our Western democracies. Today, people often come together in places like this to remember history -- not to make it. After all, we face no concrete walls, no barbed wire. There are no tanks poised across a border. There are no visits to fallout shelters. And so sometimes there can be a sense that the great challenges have somehow passed. 然而,胜利二十多年后,我们必须承认,西方民主国家有时会自满。今天,人们常来到这样的地方纪念历史,却不再想着创造历史。毕竟眼前没有实体围墙和铁丝网,边境对面没有坦克待命,也无需去防辐射掩体。于是有时会觉得,重大的挑战似乎已经过去。

And that brings with it a temptation to turn inward -- to think of our own pursuits, and not the sweep of history; to believe that we’ve settled history’s accounts, that we can simply enjoy the fruits won by our forebears. 这又带来向内收缩的诱惑:只考虑个人追求,不思考历史大势;相信历史旧账已清,可以安享先辈赢得的成果。

But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations. Today’s threats are not as stark as they were half a century ago, but the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity -- that struggle goes on. And I’ve come here, to this city of hope, because the tests of our time demand the same fighting spirit that defined Berlin a half-century ago. 但柏林的朋友们,我今天来告诉你们,伟大的国家不以自满为特征。今天的威胁虽不像半个世纪前那样鲜明,争取自由、安全和人的尊严的斗争仍在继续。我来到这座希望之城,是因为我们时代的考验需要半个世纪前定义柏林的同样斗志。

Chancellor Merkel mentioned that we mark the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s stirring defense of freedom, embodied in the people of this great city. His pledge of solidarity -- “Ich bin ein Berliner” -- echoes through the ages. But that’s not all that he said that day. 默克尔总理提到,我们正在纪念约翰·F·肯尼迪总统为自由发表激动人心的辩护的周年;那种自由就体现在这座伟大城市的人民身上。他宣示团结的“我是柏林人”,至今仍回响。但那天他说的不止这一句。

Less remembered is the challenge that he issued to the crowd before him: “Let me ask you,” he said to those Berliners, “let me ask you to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today” and “beyond the freedom of merely this city.” Look, he said, “to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.” 人们较少记得他还向听众提出挑战。他请柏林人“抬起目光,超越眼前的危险”,也“超越仅属于这座城市的自由”,望向“公正和平的那一天”,超越彼此、面向全人类。

President Kennedy was taken from us less than six months after he spoke those words. And like so many who died in those decades of division, he did not live to see Berlin united and free. Instead, he lives forever as a young man in our memory. But his words are timeless because they call upon us to care more about things than just our own self-comfort, about our own city, about our own country. They demand that we embrace the common endeavor of all humanity. 说完这段话不到六个月,肯尼迪总统离开了我们。和那个分裂年代许多逝者一样,他没能看到柏林统一自由,永远以年轻人的形象留在我们记忆中。但他的话历久弥新,因为它要求我们关心超越自身安逸、自己城市和自己国家的事,要求我们承担全人类的共同事业。

And if we lift our eyes, as President Kennedy called us to do, then we’ll recognize that our work is not yet done. For we are not only citizens of America or Germany -- we are also citizens of the world. And our fates and fortunes are linked like never before. 若按照肯尼迪总统的呼吁抬起目光,就会看见工作尚未结束。我们不仅是美国或德国的公民,也是世界公民,命运与财富比以往联系得更紧。

We may no longer live in fear of global annihilation, but so long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe. We may strike blows against terrorist networks, but if we ignore the instability and intolerance that fuels extremism, our own freedom will eventually be endangered. We may enjoy a standard of living that is the envy of the world, but so long as hundreds of millions endure the agony of an empty stomach or the anguish of unemployment, we’re not truly prosperous. 我们也许不再恐惧全球毁灭,但只要核武器存在,就谈不上真正安全。我们可以打击恐怖网络,但若忽视滋养极端主义的动荡与不宽容,自由终将受威胁。我们的生活水平也许令世界羡慕,但只要数亿人忍受饥饿或失业的痛苦,我们便算不上真正繁荣。

I say all this here, in the heart of Europe, because our shared past shows that none of these challenges can be met unless we see ourselves as part of something bigger than our own experience. Our alliance is the foundation of global security. Our trade and our commerce is the engine of our global economy. Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet. When Europe and America lead with our hopes instead of our fears, we do things that no other nations can do, no other nations will do. 我在欧洲心脏地带说这些,是因为共同的过去告诉我们:若只顾自己的经历,不把自己视作更大整体的一部分,就无法应对这些挑战。我们的同盟是全球安全的基础,贸易与商业是世界经济的引擎,价值观要求我们关心素未谋面者的生活。当欧洲和美国让希望而非恐惧引领行动,就能做其他国家做不到或不愿做的事。

So we have to lift up our eyes today and consider the day of peace with justice that our generation wants for this world. 因此,今天我们要抬起目光,思考这一代想为世界创造怎样“公正的和平”。

I'd suggest that peace with justice begins with the example we set here at home, for we know from our own histories that intolerance breeds injustice. Whether it's based on race, or religion, gender or sexual orientation, we are stronger when all our people -- no matter who they are or what they look like -- are granted opportunity, and when our wives and our daughters have the same opportunities as our husbands and our sons. 我认为它始于我们在国内树立的榜样。历史告诉我们,不宽容滋生不公。无论歧视基于种族、宗教、性别还是性取向,当每个人——不论是谁、长什么样——都得到机会,当妻子和女儿拥有与丈夫和儿子相同的机会,国家就更强大。

When we respect the faiths practiced in our churches and synagogues, our mosques and our temples, we're more secure. When we welcome the immigrant with his talents or her dreams, we are renewed. When we stand up for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and treat their love and their rights equally under the law, we defend our own liberty as well. We are more free when all people can pursue their own happiness. 尊重教堂、犹太会堂、清真寺和寺庙中的不同信仰,我们就更安全。欢迎带着才能和梦想来的移民,我们就获得新的活力。支持男女同性恋同胞,在法律下平等对待他们的爱情与权利,我们也在捍卫自己的自由。所有人都能追求自己的幸福,我们才更自由。

And as long as walls exist in our hearts to separate us from those who don’t look like us, or think like us, or worship as we do, then we're going to have to work harder, together, to bring those walls of division down. 只要心中仍有围墙,把我们与外貌、想法或信仰不同的人隔开,我们就必须携手更努力地拆除它。

Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource -- our people. And that’s why we choose to invest in education, and science and research. “公正的和平”意味着自由企业释放每个人的才华与创造力。其他模式靠自上而下指挥经济增长,或只依赖地下开采的资源;但我们相信,真正的繁荣来自最宝贵的资源——人民。所以我们选择投资教育、科学和研究。

And now, as we emerge from recession, we must not avert our eyes from the insult of widening inequality, or the pain of youth who are unemployed. We have to build new ladders of opportunity in our own societies that -- even as we pursue new trade and investment that fuels growth across the Atlantic. 如今走出经济衰退,我们不能无视日益扩大的不平等,也不能忽视失业青年的痛苦。即使通过新贸易和投资促进大西洋两岸增长,也须在自己的社会建立新的机会阶梯。

America will stand with Europe as you strengthen your union. And we want to work with you to make sure that every person can enjoy the dignity that comes from work -- whether they live in Chicago or Cleveland or Belfast or Berlin, in Athens or Madrid, everybody deserves opportunity. We have to have economies that are working for all people, not just those at the very top. 欧洲加强联盟时,美国会站在你们身边。我们希望携手确保每个人都享有工作带来的尊严,无论生活在芝加哥、克利夫兰、贝尔法斯特、柏林、雅典或马德里,人人都应有机会。我们的经济必须惠及所有人,而不只是顶层少数人。

Peace with justice means extending a hand to those who reach for freedom, wherever they live. Different peoples and cultures will follow their own path, but we must reject the lie that those who live in distant places don’t yearn for freedom and self-determination just like we do; that they don’t somehow yearn for dignity and rule of law just like we do. We cannot dictate the pace of change in places like the Arab world, but we must reject the excuse that we can do nothing to support it. “公正的和平”意味着向任何地方争取自由的人伸出援手。不同民族和文化会走自己的道路,但我们必须拒绝这种谎言:远方的人不像我们一样渴望自由和自主,也不像我们一样渴望尊严与法治。我们无法规定阿拉伯世界等地区变化的速度,却不能以此为借口,声称无法提供任何支持。

We cannot shrink from our role of advancing the values we believe in -- whether it's supporting Afghans as they take responsibility for their future, or working for an Israeli-Palestinian peace -- or engaging as we've done in Burma to help create space for brave people to emerge from decades of dictatorship. In this century, these are the citizens who long to join the free world. They are who you were. They deserve our support, for they too, in their own way, are citizens of Berlin. And we have to help them every day. 我们不能回避推动所信价值观的角色。无论是支持阿富汗人民掌握未来,努力实现以色列与巴勒斯坦之间的和平,还是像在缅甸那样为勇敢的人们走出数十年独裁创造空间。这些是本世纪渴望加入自由世界的公民。他们就像过去的你们,值得我们的支持;因为以自己的方式,他们也是柏林人。我们每天都要帮助他们。

Peace with justice means pursuing the security of a world without nuclear weapons -- no matter how distant that dream may be. And so, as President, I've strengthened our efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and reduced the number and role of America’s nuclear weapons. Because of the New START Treaty, we’re on track to cut American and Russian deployed nuclear warheads to their lowest levels since the 1950s. “公正的和平”意味着追求一个没有核武器的安全世界,无论这个梦想多遥远。作为总统,我加强了防止核武器扩散的努力,减少美国核武器的数量及其作用。凭借《新削减战略武器条约》,美俄部署的核弹头将降至上世纪五十年代以来最低水平。

But we have more work to do. So today, I’m announcing additional steps forward. After a comprehensive review, I’ve determined that we can ensure the security of America and our allies, and maintain a strong and credible strategic deterrent, while reducing our deployed strategic nuclear weapons by up to one-third. And I intend to seek negotiated cuts with Russia to move beyond Cold War nuclear postures. 但还有工作要做。今天,我宣布进一步行动。经过全面审查,我认定,美国可以在确保自身和盟友安全、保持强大可信战略威慑的同时,把部署的战略核武器再减少最多三分之一。我打算与俄罗斯谈判进一步削减,摆脱冷战时期的核态势。

At the same time, we’ll work with our NATO allies to seek bold reductions in U.S. and Russian tactical weapons in Europe. And we can forge a new international framework for peaceful nuclear power, and reject the nuclear weaponization that North Korea and Iran may be seeking. 同时,我们会与北约盟友合作,大幅削减美俄在欧洲的战术核武器。我们还可以为和平利用核能建立新的国际框架,反对朝鲜和伊朗可能寻求的核武器化。

America will host a summit in 2016 to continue our efforts to secure nuclear materials around the world, and we will work to build support in the United States to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and call on all nations to begin negotiations on a treaty that ends the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. These are steps we can take to create a world of peace with justice. 美国将在二〇一六年主办峰会,继续努力确保世界各地核材料安全;我们会在国内争取支持批准《全面禁止核试验条约》,并呼吁各国开始谈判停止生产核武器裂变材料的条约。这些都是通往“公正的和平”的步骤。

Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet. The effort to slow climate change requires bold action. And on this, Germany and Europe have led. “公正的和平”意味着不让子女继承一个更严酷、更不宜居的星球。减缓气候变化需要大胆行动,德国和欧洲已在这方面领先。

In the United States, we have recently doubled our renewable energy from clean sources like wind and solar power. We’re doubling fuel efficiency on our cars. Our dangerous carbon emissions have come down. But we know we have to do more -- and we will do more. 在美国,我们近来把风能和太阳能等清洁可再生能源的产量翻了一番,提高汽车燃油效率的目标也翻了一番,有害碳排放已经下降。但我们知道仍须做得更多,也一定会做得更多。

With a global middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now be an effort of all nations, not just some. For the grim alternative affects all nations -- more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise. This is the future we must avert. This is the global threat of our time. And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late. That is our job. That is our task. We have to get to work. 随着全球中产阶级每天消耗更多能源,这项努力必须由所有国家共同承担,而不是只靠几个国家。严酷的另一种未来会影响每个国家:更严重的风暴、更多饥荒和洪灾、新的难民潮、消失的海岸线、上升的海平面。这是必须避免的未来,是我们时代的全球性威胁。为了后代,我们这一代必须在为时过晚之前达成应对气候变化的全球约定。这是我们的工作、我们的任务,现在就要行动。

Peace with justice means meeting our moral obligations. And we have a moral obligation and a profound interest in helping lift the impoverished corners of the world. By promoting growth so we spare a child born today a lifetime of extreme poverty. By investing in agriculture, so we aren’t just sending food, but also teaching farmers to grow food. By strengthening public health, so we’re not just sending medicine, but training doctors and nurses who will help end the outrage of children dying from preventable diseases. “公正的和平”意味着履行道德义务。帮助世界贫困地区摆脱困境,既是道德责任,也关乎我们的深切利益。我们要促进增长,让今天出生的孩子不必一生陷于极端贫困;投资农业,不只送粮食,还教农民种粮;加强公共卫生,不只送药,还培养医生护士,终结儿童因可预防疾病死亡的荒谬现实。

Making sure that we do everything we can to realize the promise -- an achievable promise -- of the first AIDS-free generation. That is something that is possible if we feel a sufficient sense of urgency. 我们要竭尽所能实现一个可以达成的承诺:诞生第一代不受艾滋病威胁的人。只要有足够紧迫感,这就有可能。

Our efforts have to be about more than just charity. They’re about new models of empowering people -- to build institutions; to abandon the rot of corruption; to create ties of trade, not just aid, both with the West and among the nations they’re seeking to rise and increase their capacity. Because when they succeed, we will be more successful as well. Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity. 我们的努力不能止于慈善,而要建立赋予人民力量的新模式:建设制度,清除腐败,与西方及发展中的国家之间建立贸易联系,而不只依赖援助,提高自身能力。因为他们成功,我们也会更成功。命运相连,我们不能忽视那些不仅渴望自由、也渴望繁荣的人。

And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within -- from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens. 最后,要记住,“公正的和平”取决于我们能否同时维护社会安全和定义社会的开放。对自由的威胁不只来自外部,也可能生于内部——来自恐惧,或公民对公共事务的漠视。

For over a decade, America has been at war. Yet much has now changed over the five years since I last spoke here in Berlin. The Iraq war is now over. The Afghan war is coming to an end. Osama bin Laden is no more. Our efforts against al Qaeda are evolving. 美国已经历十多年战争,但自五年前我上次在柏林讲话以来,许多事情变了:伊拉克战争结束,阿富汗战争即将结束,本·拉登不在人世,我们打击“基地”组织的方式也在调整。

And given these changes, last month, I spoke about America’s efforts against terrorism. And I drew inspiration from one of our founding fathers, James Madison, who wrote, “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” James Madison is right -- which is why, even as we remain vigilant about the threat of terrorism, we must move beyond a mindset of perpetual war. And in America, that means redoubling our efforts to close the prison at Guantanamo. It means tightly controlling our use of new technologies like drones. 鉴于这些变化,上个月我谈到美国反恐努力,并引用建国先贤詹姆斯·麦迪逊的话:“没有哪个国家能在持续战争中保住自由。”麦迪逊说得对。因此,即使继续警惕恐怖主义威胁,也必须超越永久战争的思维。在美国,这意味着加倍努力关闭关塔那摩监狱,并严格约束无人机等新技术的使用。

It means balancing the pursuit of security with the protection of privacy. 这意味着在追求安全与保护隐私之间取得平衡。

And I'm confident that that balance can be struck. I'm confident of that, and I'm confident that working with Germany, we can keep each other safe while at the same time maintaining those essential values for which we fought for. 我有信心找到这种平衡,也相信与德国合作,我们既能保障彼此安全,又能维护共同为之奋斗的核心价值。

Our current programs are bound by the rule of law, and they're focused on threats to our security -- not the communications of ordinary persons. They help confront real dangers, and they keep people safe here in the United States and here in Europe. But we must accept the challenge that all of us in democratic governments face: to listen to the voices who disagree with us; to have an open debate about how we use our powers and how we must constrain them; and to always remember that government exists to serve the power of the individual, and not the other way around. 现有项目受到法治约束,针对的是安全威胁,而非普通人的通信。它们帮助应对真实危险,保护美国和欧洲人民。但所有民主政府都必须接受这样的挑战:倾听反对者的声音,公开辩论我们如何运用、又如何限制权力,永远记住政府是为个人服务,而非个人为政府服务。

That’s what makes us who we are, and that’s what makes us different from those on the other side of the wall. 这定义了我们,也使我们不同于当年围墙另一边的政权。

That is how we'll stay true to our better history while reaching for the day of peace and justice that is to come. These are the beliefs that guide us, the values that inspire us, the principles that bind us together as free peoples who still believe the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." 这样,我们才能忠于更好的历史,继续追求未来公正与和平的日子。这些是引导我们的信念、激励我们的价值、把自由人民联系起来的原则。我们仍相信马丁·路德·金博士的话:“任何地方的不公,都是对所有地方公正的威胁。”

And we should ask, should anyone ask if our generation has the courage to meet these tests? If anybody asks if President Kennedy's words ring true today, let them come to Berlin, for here they will find the people who emerged from the ruins of war to reap the blessings of peace; from the pain of division to the joy of reunification. And here, they will recall how people trapped behind a wall braved bullets, and jumped barbed wire, and dashed across minefields, and dug through tunnels, and leapt from buildings, and swam across the Spree to claim their most basic right of freedom. 如果有人问我们这一代是否有勇气接受考验,问肯尼迪总统的话今天是否仍然真实,就请他们来到柏林。在这里,他们会看到人们如何从战争废墟中获得和平,从分裂痛苦中得到团聚的喜悦;也会记起那些被困在墙后的人如何冒着枪弹翻越铁丝网、冲过雷区、挖掘隧道、从楼上跳下、游过施普雷河,只为争取最基本的自由权利。

The wall belongs to history. But we have history to make as well. And the heroes that came before us now call to us to live up to those highest ideals -- to care for the young people who can't find a job in our own countries, and the girls who aren't allowed to go to school overseas; to be vigilant in safeguarding our own freedoms, but also to extend a hand to those who are reaching for freedom abroad. 柏林墙已经属于历史,但我们也有历史要创造。先辈英雄如今召唤我们实践最崇高的理想:关心本国找不到工作的青年,也关心海外不能上学的女孩;警惕地守护自己的自由,也向国外争取自由的人伸出援手。

This is the lesson of the ages. This is the spirit of Berlin. And the greatest tribute that we can pay to those who came before us is by carrying on their work to pursue peace and justice not only in our countries but for all mankind. 这是历代的教训,也是柏林的精神。我们能给予先辈的最大致敬,就是继续他们的事业,不仅为本国,也为全人类追求和平与正义。

Vielen Dank. God bless you. God bless the peoples of Germany. And God bless the United States of America. 非常感谢。愿上帝保佑你们,保佑德国人民,保佑美利坚合众国。

Thank you very much. 非常感谢。

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Barack Obama(巴拉克·奥巴马)

Barack Obama(巴拉克·奥巴马)

美国首位非裔总统,第四十四任总统

出生:1961国籍:美国

巴拉克·奥巴马(Barack Obama)是美国第四十四任总统,也是美国历史上首位非裔美国人总统。他于1961年出生于夏威夷州,在2008年历史性当选总统之前曾担任伊利诺伊州参议员。在他的两届任期(2009-2017年)内,奥巴马总统取得了重大成就:通过《平价医疗法案》(奥巴马医改)使2000万美国人获得医疗保险,在2008年金融危机后改革金融监管体系,下令击毙本·拉登,结束美国在伊拉克的作战行动,推动全美同性婚姻合法化,恢复与古巴的外交关系,并通过《巴黎协定》领导全球应对气候变化的努力。他的总统任期被广泛认为是美国政治史上的重要里程碑,以希望、团结和变革的信息为特征。

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