Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don't know whether I was crazy or not. Sometimes I think perhaps I was. I approved of it; I joined in the general cry of madness and despair. I urged men to fight. I was safe because I was too old to go. 尊敬的法官大人，我已经谈到了战争。我曾经相信它。我不知道我当时是否疯了。有时我想我可能是。我赞成战争；我加入了疯狂和绝望的普遍呼声。我敦促人们去战斗。我很安全，因为我太老了不能去。
I was like the rest. What did they do? Right or wrong, justifiable or unjustifiable -- which I need not discuss today -- it changed the world. For four long years the civilized world was engaged in killing men. Christian against Christian, barbarian uniting with Christians to kill Christians; anything to kill. 我和其他人一样。他们做了什么？对还是错，合理还是不合理——这我今天不需要讨论——它改变了世界。四年来，文明世界一直在杀人。基督教徒对基督教徒，野蛮人联合基督教徒杀害基督教徒；任何事情都可以成为杀人的理由。
It was taught in every school, aye in the Sunday schools. The little children played at war. The toddling children on the street. Do you suppose this world has ever been the same since? How long, your Honor, will it take for the world to get back the humane emotions that were slowly growing before the war? 它在每所学校里被教导，甚至在主日学校里。小孩子玩战争游戏。蹒跚学步的孩子在街上玩耍。你认为这个世界从那以后还和以前一样吗？尊敬的法官大人，世界需要多长时间才能恢复战前缓慢增长的人道情感？
How long will it take the calloused hearts of men before the scars of hatred and cruelty shall be removed? 人们麻木的心需要多长时间才能消除仇恨和残酷留下的伤疤？
We read of killing one hundred thousand men in a day. We read about it and we rejoiced in it -- if it was the other fellows who were killed. We were fed on flesh and drank blood. Even down to the prattling babe. 我们读到一天杀死十万人。我们读到这些，并且很高兴——如果被杀的是别人的话。我们以肉为食，以血为饮。甚至连牙牙学语的婴儿也是如此。
I need not tell you how many upright, honorable young boys have come into this court charged with murder, some saved and some sent to their death, boys who fought in this war and learned to place a cheap value on human life. You know it and I know it. 我无需告诉你有多少正直、可敬的年轻男孩来到这个法庭被控谋杀，有些被拯救，有些被送上死亡之路，这些男孩参加过这场战争，学会了轻视人类生命。你知道这一点，我也知道。
These boys were brought up in it. The tales of death were in their homes, their playgrounds, their schools; they were in the newspapers that they read; it was a part of the common frenzy -- what was a life? It was nothing. It was the least sacred thing in existence and these boys were trained to this cruelty. 这些男孩就是在这种环境中长大的。死亡的故事充斥在他们的家庭、操场、学校里；充斥在他们阅读的报纸上；这是普遍狂热的一部分——生命算什么？什么都不是。它是存在中最不神圣的东西，而这些男孩被训练成这种残忍。
It will take fifty years to wipe it out of the human heart, if ever. I know this, that after the Civil War in 1865, crimes of this sort increased, marvelously. No one needs to tell me that crime has no cause. 即使有可能，也要花五十年才能从人类心中抹去它。我知道，1865年内战后，这类犯罪惊人地增加了。没有人需要告诉我犯罪没有原因。
It has as definite a cause as any other disease, and I know that out of the hatred and bitterness of the Civil War crime increased as America had never seen before. I know that Europe is going through the same experience today; I know it has followed every war; and I know it has influenced these boys so that life was not the same to them as it would have been if the world had not made red with blood. 它和任何其他疾病一样有明确的原因，我知道内战的仇恨和痛苦导致犯罪增加到美国前所未有的程度。我知道欧洲今天正在经历同样的经历；我知道每一场战争之后都是如此；我知道这影响了这些男孩，使他们对生命的看法与世界没有被鲜血染红时不同。
I protest against the crimes and mistakes of society being visited upon them. All of us have a share in it. I have mine. I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity. 我抗议社会的罪行和错误降临到他们身上。我们所有人都有份。我也有份。我无法说出，也永远不会知道我的多少话可能滋生了残忍，取代了爱、善良和慈善。
Your Honor knows that in this very court crimes of violence have increased growing out of the war. Not necessarily by those who fought but by those that learned that blood was cheap, and human life was cheap, and if the State could take it lightly why not the boy? 尊敬的法官大人知道，就在这个法庭里，暴力犯罪因战争而增加。不一定是那些参战的人，而是那些学会了鲜血廉价、人命廉价的人——如果国家可以轻描淡写地对待，为什么男孩不可以？
There are causes for this terrible crime. There are causes as I have said for everything that happens in the world. War is a part of it; education is a part of it; birth is a part of it; money is a part of it -- all these conspired to compass the destruction of these two poor boys. 这起可怕的罪行有其原因。正如我所说，世界上发生的一切都有原因。战争是其中一部分；教育是其中一部分；出生是其中一部分；金钱是其中一部分——所有这些共同导致了这两个可怜男孩的毁灭。
Has the court any right to consider anything but these two boys? The State says that your Honor has a right to consider the welfare of the community, as you have. If the welfare of the community would be benefited by taking these lives, well and good. I think it would work evil that no one could measure. 除了这两个男孩，法院还有权考虑其他事情吗？国家说尊敬的法官大人有权考虑社区的福利，正如你所做的那样。如果剥夺这些生命能造福社区，那很好。但我认为这将造成无法估量的恶果。
Has your Honor a right to consider the families of these defendants? I have been sorry, and I am sorry for the bereavement of Mr. And Mrs. Frank, for those broken ties that cannot be healed. All I can hope and wish is that some good may come from it all. 尊敬的法官大人有权考虑这些被告的家庭吗？我一直感到遗憾，我对弗兰克先生和夫人的丧亲之痛感到遗憾，那些无法愈合的破裂关系。我所能希望和祝愿的是，这一切能带来一些好处。
But as compared with the families of Leopold and Loeb, the Franks are to be envied -- and everyone knows it. 但与利奥波德和洛布的家庭相比，弗兰克一家值得羡慕——每个人都知道这一点。
I do not know how much salvage there is in these two boys. I hate to say it in their presence, but what is there to look forward to? I do not know but what your Honor would be merciful to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful if you tied a rope around their necks and let them die. 我不知道这两个男孩还有多少希望。我讨厌在他们面前说这些，但他们还有什么可期待的？我不知道尊敬的法官大人是否会对他们仁慈，但如果您在他们脖子上套上绳索让他们死去，那对文明来说不是仁慈，也不是仁慈。
Merciful to them, but not merciful to civilization, and not merciful to those who would be left behind. To spend the balance of their days in prison is mighty little to look forward to, if anything. Is it anything? They may have the hope that as the years roll around they might be released. 对他们仁慈，但对文明不仁慈，对那些将被留下的人也不仁慈。在监狱里度过余生，即使有可能，也没什么可期待的。这算什么？他们可能希望随着岁月流逝，他们可能会被释放。
I do not know. I do not know. I will be honest with this court as I have tried to be from the beginning. I know that these boys are not fit to be at large. I believe they will not be until they pass through the next stage of life, at forty-five or fifty. 我不知道。我不知道。我将诚实地对待这个法庭，正如我从一开始就努力做到的那样。我知道这些男孩不适合自由。我相信在他们度过下一个生命阶段，四十五或五十岁之前，他们不会适合。
Whether they will then, I cannot tell. I am sure of this; that I will not be here to help them. So far as I am concerned, it is over. 到时他们是否适合，我无法告诉你。但我确定的是：我不会在这里帮助他们。就我而言，一切都结束了。
I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies, as they do, and have changed their emotions, as they do -- that they may once more return to life. I would be the last person on earth to close the door of hope to any human being that lives, and least of all to my clients. 我不会告诉这个法庭，我不希望有一天，当生命和年龄改变了他们的身体（正如它们所做的那样），改变了他们的情感（正如它们所做的那样）——他们可能再次回到生活中。我将是世界上最后一个对任何活着的人关上希望之门的人，尤其是我的客户。
But what have they to look forward to? Nothing. And I think here of the stanza of Housman: 但他们还有什么可期待的？什么都没有。我想到了豪斯曼的诗节：
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night. 现在空洞的火焰烧成黑色， 灯光在低低闪烁： 挺起肩膀，扛起背包， 离开你的朋友，走吧。 别怕，小伙子们，没什么可怕的， 不要左顾右盼： 在你走过的无尽道路上， 除了黑夜，一无所有。
I care not, your Honor, whether the march begins at the gallows or when the gates of Joilet close upon them, there is nothing but the night, and that is little for any human being to expect. 我不在乎，尊敬的法官大人，无论征程从绞刑架开始，还是从乔利埃特监狱的大门关上开始，除了黑夜，一无所有，这对任何人来说都没什么可期待的。
But there are others to consider. Here are these two families, who have led honest lives, who will bear the name that they bear, and future generations must carry it on. 但还有其他人需要考虑。这两个家庭，他们过着诚实的生活，他们将承担他们的姓氏，未来几代人必须继续传承。
Here is Leopold's father -- and this boy was the pride of his life. He watched him, he cared for him, he worked for him; the boy was brilliant and accomplished, he educated him, and he thought that fame and position awaited him, as it should have awaited. 这是利奥波德的父亲——这个男孩是他一生的骄傲。他看着他，关心他，为他工作；这个男孩聪明多才，他教育他，他认为名望和地位在等着他，理应如此。
It is a hard thing for a father to see his life's hopes crumble into dust. 一个父亲看到自己一生的希望化为尘土，这是一件多么艰难的事。
Should he be considered? Should his brothers be considered? Will it do society any good or make your life safer, or any human being's life safer, if it should be handed down from generation to generation, that this boy, their kin, died upon the scaffold? 他应该被考虑吗？他的兄弟应该被考虑吗？如果这件事代代相传，说这个男孩，他们的亲人，死在绞刑架上，这会对社会有任何好处吗？会让你的生活更安全吗？会让任何人的生活更安全吗？
And Loeb's the same. Here are the faithful uncle and brother, who have watched here day by day, while Dickie's father and his mother are too ill to stand this terrific strain, and shall be waiting for a message which means more to them than it can mean to you or me. 洛布的情况也一样。忠实的叔叔和兄弟日复一日地在这里守望，而迪基的父母病得太重，无法承受这种巨大的压力，他们将等待一个对他们来说比对你或我更重要的消息。
Shall these be taken into account in this general bereavement? 在这场普遍的丧亲之痛中，这些人应该被考虑吗？
Have they any rights? Is there any reason, your Honor, why their proud names and all the future generations that bear them shall have this bar sinister written across them? How many boys and girls, how many unborn children will feel it? 他们有任何权利吗？尊敬的法官大人，有任何理由让他们骄傲的名字以及所有继承这些名字的后代都被写上这邪恶的污点吗？有多少男孩女孩，多少未出生的孩子会感受到它？
It is bad enough as it is, God knows. It is bad enough, however it is. But it's not yet death on the scaffold. It's not that. And I ask your Honor, in addition to all that I have said to save two honorable families from a disgrace that never ends, and which could be of no avail to help any human being that lives. 现状已经够糟糕了，天知道。无论如何都够糟糕了。但还不是绞刑架上的死亡。还不是那样。我请求尊敬的法官大人，除了我所说的一切，还要拯救两个可敬的家庭免受永无止境的耻辱，这种耻辱对任何活着的人都没有帮助。
Now, I must say a word more and then I will leave this with you where I should have left it long ago. None of us are unmindful of the public; courts are not, and juries are not. We placed our fate in the hands of a trained court, thinking that he would be more mindful and considerate than a jury. 现在，我必须再说一句话，然后我就把这件事留给你，我早就应该这样做了。我们没有人不关心公众；法院不关心，陪审团也不关心。我们把命运交到训练有素的法院手中，认为他会比陪审团更关心、更体贴。
I cannot say how people feel. I have stood here for three months as one might stand at the ocean trying to sweep back the tide. I hope the seas are subsiding and the wind is falling, and I believe they are, but I wish to make no false pretense to this court. 我无法说人们的感受。我站在这里三个月了，就像一个人站在海边试图退潮。我希望海浪正在退去，风正在减弱，我相信是这样，但我不想对这个法庭虚伪。
The easy thing and the popular thing to do is to hang my clients. I know it. Men and women who do not think will applaud. The cruel and thoughtless will approve. It will be easy today; but in Chicago, and reaching out over the length and breadth of the land, more and more fathers and mothers, the humane, the kind and the hopeful, who are gaining an understanding and asking questions not only about these poor boys, but about their own -- these will join in no acclaim at the death of my clients. 最容易做和最受欢迎的事是绞死我的客户。我知道这一点。不思考的男女会鼓掌。残忍和轻率的人会赞成。今天很容易做到；但在芝加哥，在这片土地的每一个角落，越来越多的父亲和母亲，那些人道、善良和充满希望的人，他们正在获得理解，不仅询问这些可怜的男孩，也询问他们自己的孩子——这些人不会为我的客户之死欢呼。
These would ask that the shedding of blood be stopped, and that the normal feelings of man resume their sway. And as the days and the months and the years go on, they will ask it more and more. 他们会要求停止流血，让人类的正常情感恢复统治。随着日子、月份和岁月的流逝，他们会越来越多地要求。
But, your Honor, what they shall ask may not count. I know the easy way. I know the future is with me, and what I stand for here; not merely for the lives of these two unfortunate lads, but for all boys and all girls; for all of the young, and as far as possible, for all of the old. 但是，尊敬的法官大人，他们的要求可能不算数。我知道容易的做法。我知道未来站在我这边，站在我在这里所代表的一切这边；不仅为这两个不幸的小伙子的生命，也为所有男孩女孩；为所有年轻人，并尽可能为所有老年人。
I am pleading for life, understanding, charity, kindness, and the infinite mercy that considers all. I am pleading that we overcome cruelty with kindness and hatred with love. I know the future is on my side. 我祈求生命、理解、慈善、善良和无限的仁慈，这种仁慈考虑一切。我祈求我们用善良战胜残忍，用爱战胜仇恨。我知道未来站在我这边。
Your Honor stands between the past and the future. You may hang these boys; you may hang them by the neck until they are dead. But in doing it you will turn your face toward the past. 尊敬的法官大人站在过去和未来之间。您可以绞死这些男孩；您可以把他们绞死直到死亡。但这样做您将面朝过去。
In doing it you are making it harder for every other boy who in ignorance and darkness must grope his way through the mazes which only childhood knows. In doing it you will make it harder for unborn children. 这样做您将使每一个在无知和黑暗中摸索的男孩更加艰难，他们必须穿过只有童年才知道的迷宫。这样做您将使未出生的孩子更加艰难。
You may save them and make it easier for every child that sometime may stand where these boys stand. You will make it easier for every human being with an aspiration and a vision and a hope and a fate. 您可以拯救他们，使每个将来可能站在这些男孩位置上的孩子更加容易。您将使每个有抱负、有远见、有希望、有命运的人更加容易。
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man. 我为未来祈求；我为一个仇恨和残忍不再控制人心的时代祈求。那时我们可以通过理性、判断、理解和信仰学会所有生命都值得拯救，仁慈是人类最高的品质。
I feel that I should apologize for the length of time I have taken. This case may not be as important as I think it is, and I am sure I do not need to tell this court, or to tell my friends that I would fight just as hard for the poor as for the rich. 我觉得我应该为占用了这么长时间道歉。这个案件可能不如我想象的那么重要，我相信我不需要告诉这个法庭，也不需要告诉我的朋友，我会为穷人奋斗，就像为富人奋斗一样努力。
If I should succeed, my greatest reward and my greatest hope will be that for the countless unfortunates who must tread the same road in blind childhood that these poor boys have trod -- that I have done something to help human understanding, to temper justice with mercy, to overcome hate with love. 如果我成功了，我最大的回报和最大的希望是，对于那些必须在盲目的童年中踏上这些可怜男孩走过的同一条道路的无数不幸者——我做了一些事情来帮助人类理解，用仁慈调和正义，用爱战胜仇恨。
I was reading last night of the aspiration of the old Persian poet, Omar Khayyam. It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision. I wish it was in my heart, and I wish it was in the hearts of all: 昨晚我读到古代波斯诗人奥马尔·海亚姆的愿望。它吸引我，是我所能想象的最高境界。我希望它在我心中，也希望它在所有人心中：
So I be written in the Book of Love, I do not care about that Book above. Erase my name or write it as you will, So I be written in the Book of Love. 只要我被写在爱的书中， 我不在乎上面那本书。 随意删去我的名字或写上， 只要我被写在爱的书中。