Thank you very much. Thank you, Notre Dame. Thank you. Thank you. Please, have a seat. Thank you.... 非常感谢大家。谢谢你，圣母大学。谢谢。谢谢。请大家坐下。谢谢……
Well first of all, congratulations, Class of 2009. Congratulations to all the parents, the cousins, the aunts, the uncles -- the -- all the people who helped to bring you to the point that you are here today. Thank you so much to Father Jenkins for that extraordinary introduction, even though you said what I want to say much more elegantly. You are doing an extraordinary job as president of this extraordinary institution, and your continued and courageous and contagious commitment to honest, thoughtful dialogue is an inspiration to us all. 首先，祝贺你们，2009届的毕业生。也要祝贺所有的父母、堂表兄弟姐妹、姑姑阿姨、叔伯舅舅——所有帮助你们走到今天这一步的人。非常感谢詹金斯神父那番精彩的介绍，尽管您用比我更优雅的方式说出了我想说的话。作为这所非凡学府的校长，您的工作卓有成效，您对坦诚、理性对话所保持的坚定、勇敢且具有感染力的承诺，对我们所有人都是一种激励。
So, good afternoon, to Father Hesburgh, to Notre Dame trustees, to faculty, to family. I am honored to be here today. And...I am grateful to all of you for allowing me to be a part of your graduation. And I also want to thank you for the honorary degree that I received. I know it has not been without controversy. I don't know if you're aware of this, but these honorary degrees are apparently pretty hard to come by. 那么，下午好，赫斯伯格神父，圣母大学的校董们、教师们、家人们。今天我很荣幸能来到这里。我……感谢大家允许我参与你们的毕业典礼。我也要感谢你们授予我荣誉学位。我知道这并非没有争议。我不知道你们是否了解，这些荣誉学位似乎相当难得。
So far I'm only 1 for 2 as President. Father...Hesburgh is 150 for 150. I guess that's better. So, Father Ted after the ceremony maybe you can give me some pointers to boost my average. 就任总统至今，我在这方面只取得了1胜2负的成绩。而赫斯伯格神父是150次提名150次通过。我想那确实更胜一筹。所以，泰德神父，典礼结束后也许您可以给我一些指点，帮我提高一下命中率。
I also want to congratulate the Class of 2009 for all your accomplishments. And since -- 我也要祝贺2009届毕业生所取得的各项成就。那么，既然——
[Audience member interrupts with pro-life slogans] [一名听众以反堕胎口号打断]
President Obama: And since -- this is Notre Dame, I mean -- That's...all right. And since -- 奥巴马总统：既然——这里是圣母大学，我是说——这……没关系。既然——
Audience (chanting): "We are ND! We are ND!" 听众（齐声高呼）："我们是ND！我们是ND！"
President Obama: We're fine, everybody. We're -- We're following Brennan's adage that we don't do things easily. We want to -- We're -- We're not going to shy away from things that are uncomfortable sometimes. 奥巴马总统：我们没事，大家。我们——我们遵循布伦南的格言，不做容易的事。我们——我们不会回避那些有时让人不舒服的事情。
Now, since -- since this is Notre Dame I think we should talk not only about your accomplishments in the classroom, but also in the competitive arena. No, don't worry, I'm not going to talk about that. We all know about this university's proud and storied football team, but I also hear that Notre Dame holds the largest outdoor 5-on-5 basketball tournament in the world -- "Bookstore Basketball." 那么，既然——既然这里是圣母大学，我想我们不仅要谈论你们在课堂上的成就，也要谈谈在竞技场上的成就。不，别担心，我不会谈那件事。我们大家都知道这所大学引以为豪、历史悠久的橄榄球队，但我也听说圣母大学举办着世界上规模最大的户外五对五篮球赛——"书店篮球赛"。
Now this excites me. I want to congratulate the winners of this year's tournament, a team by the name of "Hallelujah Holla Back." Congratulations. Well done. Though I have to say, I'm personally disappointed that the "Barack O'Ballers" did not pull it out this year. So next year, if you need a 6'2" forward with a decent jumper, you know where I live. 这让我很兴奋。我要祝贺今年这项赛事的冠军，一支名叫"哈利路亚回声"的球队。祝贺你们。干得漂亮。不过我必须说，我个人对"巴拉克投篮手"队今年没能夺冠感到失望。所以明年，如果你们需要一个身高六英尺二英寸、跳投还凑合的前锋，你们知道我住哪儿。
Now, every one of you should be proud of what you've achieved at this institution. One hundred and sixty-three classes of Notre Dame graduates have sat where you sit today. Some were here during years that simply rolled into the next without much notice or fanfare -- periods of relative peace and prosperity that required little by way of sacrifice or struggle. 如今，你们每个人都应该为自己在这所学府所取得的成就感到自豪。圣母大学已有163届毕业生坐在你们今天所坐的位置上。他们中有些人所处的年代，岁月悄然流逝，波澜不惊——那是相对和平与繁荣的时期，几乎无需付出什么牺牲或奋斗。
You, however, are not getting off that easy. You have a different deal. Your class has come of age at a moment of great consequence for our nation and for the world -- a rare inflection point in history where the size and scope of the challenges before us require that we remake our world to renew its promise, that we align our deepest values and commitments to the demands of a new age. It's a privilege and a responsibility afforded to few generations -- and a task that you're now called to fulfill. 然而，你们不会这么轻松。你们面对的是另一番境遇。你们这一届在国家和世界面临重大抉择的时刻长大成人——这是历史上罕见的转折点，我们所面对挑战的规模与程度，要求我们重塑世界、重焕其承诺，使我们最深的价值观与承诺与新时代的要求相契合。这是少数几代人才能享有的特权和责任——也是你们如今被召唤去完成的使命。
This generation, your generation is the one that must find a path back to prosperity and decide how we respond to a global economy that left millions behind even before the most recent crisis hit -- an economy where greed and short-term thinking were too often rewarded at the expense of fairness, and diligence, and an honest day's work. 这一代人，你们这一代人，必须找到一条重回繁荣的道路，并决定如何应对一个甚至在最近这次危机爆发前就已让数百万人被抛在身后的全球经济——一个贪婪和短视思维常常以牺牲公平、勤勉和诚实劳动为代价而受到奖励的经济。
Your generation -- Your generation must decide how to save God's creation from a changing climate that threatens to destroy it. Your generation must seek peace at a time when there are those who will stop at nothing to do us harm, and when weapons in the hands of a few can destroy the many. And we must find a way to reconcile our ever-shrinking world with its ever-growing diversity -- diversity of thought, diversity of culture, and diversity of belief. 你们这一代——你们这一代人必须决定如何从不断变化的气候中拯救上帝的造物，免其遭受毁灭。你们这一代人必须在有人不择手段想要伤害我们、少数人手中的武器就能毁灭多数人的时代里寻求和平。我们必须找到一种方式，调和日益缩小的世界与日益多元的差异——思想的多元、文化的多元、信仰的多元。
In short, we must find a way to live together as one human family. And -- And it's this last challenge that I'd like to talk about today, despite the fact that Father John stole all my best lines. For the major threats we face in the 21st century -- whether it's global recession or violent extremism, the spread of nuclear weapons or pandemic disease -- these things do not discriminate. They do not recognize borders. They do not see color. They do not target specific ethnic groups. 简而言之，我们必须找到一种作为人类大家庭共同生活的方式。而——而正是这最后一个挑战，我想今天谈一谈，尽管约翰神父把我最精彩的台词都抢先说了。因为我们在21世纪所面临的主要威胁——无论是全球经济衰退还是暴力极端主义，核武器扩散还是大流行病——这些东西都不加区分。它们不认国界。它们不看肤色。它们不以特定族裔为目标。
Moreover, no one person, or religion, or nation can meet these challenges alone. Our very survival has never required greater cooperation and greater understanding among all people from all places than at this moment in history. 此外，没有任何一个人、一种宗教或一个国家能够独自应对这些挑战。我们的生存，从未像当今这个历史时刻这样，需要世界各地所有人之间如此深度的合作与理解。
Unfortunately, finding that common ground -- recognizing that our fates are tied up, as Dr. King said, in a "single garment of destiny" -- is not easy. And part of the problem, of course, lies in the imperfections of man -- our selfishness, our pride, our stubbornness, our acquisitiveness, our insecurities, our egos -- all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin. 不幸的是，寻求这种共同立场——认识到我们的命运如金博士所言交织于"一条命运的共同织锦"之中——并非易事。当然，部分原因在于人性的不完美——我们的自私、骄傲、固执、贪得无厌、不安全感和自我中心——所有那些大大小小的残忍，我们这些身处基督教传统中的人理解为根植于原罪之中。
We too often seek advantage over others. We cling to outworn prejudice and fear those who are unfamiliar. Too many of us view life only through the lens of immediate self-interest and crass materialism -- in which the world is necessarily a zero-sum game. The strong too often dominate the weak, and too many of those with wealth and with power find all manner of justification for their own privilege in the face of poverty and injustice. 我们太经常地谋求凌驾于他人之上的优势。我们固守陈旧的偏见，畏惧那些不熟悉的人和事。我们中太多人仅仅透过眼前私利和粗俗物质主义的镜头来看待生活——在这种视角下，世界必然是一场零和博弈。强者太经常地压迫弱者，而太多拥有财富和权力的人，在贫困和不公面前，总能找到种种理由为自己的特权辩护。
And so for all our technology and scientific advances, we see here in this country and around the globe violence and want and strife that would seem sadly familiar to those in ancient times. We know these things. And hopefully one of the benefits of the wonderful education that you have received here at Notre Dame is that you've had time to consider these wrongs in the world, perhaps recognized impulses in yourself that you want to leave behind. 因此，尽管我们拥有种种技术和科学进步，我们仍然在国内和全球各地看到暴力、匮乏与冲突，这些景象对古代人来说恐怕会似曾相识、令人悲哀。我们了解这些事。而 hopefully 你们在圣母大学所受的精彩教育的好处之一，就是你们有时间思考世界上的这些不公，或许也认识到自己内心想要抛弃的某些冲动。
You've grown determined -- each in your own way -- to right them. And yet one of the vexing things for those of us interested in promoting greater understanding and cooperation among people is the discovery that even bringing together persons of good will, bringing together men and women of principle and purpose -- even accomplishing that can be difficult. 你们已经下定决心——每人以自己的方式——去纠正它们。然而，对我们这些致力于促进人与人之间更深理解与合作的人来说，一个令人困扰的发现是：哪怕是召集善意的、有原则、有追求的男男女女坐到一起——哪怕做到这一点，都可能十分困难。
The soldier and the lawyer may both love this country with equal passion, and yet reach very different conclusions on the specific steps needed to protect us from harm. The gay activist and the evangelical pastor may both deplore the ravages of HIV/AIDS, but find themselves unable to bridge the cultural divide that might unite their efforts. Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in an admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes who are convinced that their son's or daughter's hardships might be relieved. 军人和律师可能都同样深爱这个国家，却在保护我们免受伤害所需的具体步骤上得出截然不同的结论。同性恋权益活动家和福音派牧师可能都痛恨艾滋病的肆虐，却发现自己无法弥合那本可联合他们力量的文化鸿沟。那些公开反对干细胞研究的人，其立场或许根植于对生命神圣性令人钦佩的信念，但幼年糖尿病患儿的父母同样如此，他们坚信自己孩子的苦难或许能够因此得到缓解。
The -- The question, then -- The question, then, is how do we work through these conflicts? Is it possible for us to join hands in common effort? As citizens of a vibrant and varied democracy, how do we engage in vigorous debate? How does each of us remain firm in our principles, and fight for what we consider right, without, as Father John said, demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side? And of course, nowhere do these questions come up more powerfully than on the issue of abortion. 那么——那么问题就来了——问题是，我们如何化解这些冲突？我们是否有可能携手共同努力？作为一个生机勃勃、多元纷呈的民主国家的公民，我们如何进行激烈的辩论？我们每个人如何既坚守自己的原则、为自己认为正确的事而斗争，又不至于像约翰神父所说的那样，把另一边同样坚定信念的人妖魔化？当然，没有什么议题比堕胎问题更强烈地引发这些疑问。
As I considered the controversy surrounding my visit here, I was reminded of an encounter I had during my Senate campaign, one that I describe in a book I wrote called The Audacity of Hope. In a few days after I won the Democratic nomination, I received an e-mail from a doctor who told me that while he voted for me in the Illinois primary, he had a serious concern that might prevent him from voting for me in the general election. 当我思考围绕我此次来访的争议时，我想起了我在参议员竞选期间的一次经历，我在自己所写的一本名为《无畏的希望》的书中描述过这件事。在我赢得民主党提名的几天后，我收到一位医生的电子邮件，他告诉我，虽然他在伊利诺伊州初选中投了我一票，但他有一个严重的顾虑，可能会让他在大选中无法再支持我。
He described himself as a Christian who was strongly pro-life -- but that was not what was preventing him potentially from voting for me. 他形容自己是一名虔诚的基督徒，在堕胎问题上持强烈的反堕胎立场——但这并不是可能妨碍他投票给我的原因。
What bothered the doctor was an entry that my campaign staff had posted on my website -- an entry that said I would fight, quote, "right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman's right to choose," unquote. The doctor said he had assumed I was a reasonable person. He supported my policy initiatives to help the poor and to lift up our educational system, but that if I truly believed that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then I was not very reasonable. 真正让这位医生介怀的，是我的竞选团队在我网站上发布的一段话——那段话说我将"与那些想要剥夺女性选择权的右翼意识形态分子作斗争"。这位医生说他原以为我是个讲理的人。他支持我帮助穷人、提升教育体系的政策主张，但如果我真心认为每一位反堕胎者都是想给女性施加痛苦的意识形态分子，那我并不算讲理。
He wrote, "I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words." 他写道："我在此时此刻并不要求你反对堕胎，只要求你用公允的言辞谈论这个问题。"
Fair-minded words. 公允的言辞。
After I read the doctor's letter, I wrote back to him and I thanked him. And I didn't change my underlying position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my website. And I said a prayer that night that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me; because when we do that -- when we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe -- that's when we discover at least the possibility of common ground. 读完这位医生的来信后，我给他回了信，向他致谢。我没有改变我的基本立场，但我确实让我的工作人员修改了网站上的措辞。那天晚上我祈祷自己能像这位医生那样，把善意的推定同样延伸给他人；因为当我们这样做——当我们向那些想法和信念与我们不尽相同的人敞开胸怀与心灵——那时我们至少会发现共同立场的可能。
That's when we begin to say, "Maybe we won't agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this heart-wrenching decision for any woman is not made casually, and it has both moral and spiritual dimensions." 那时我们才会开始说，"也许我们在堕胎问题上无法达成一致，但我们仍可一致认为，对任何女性而言，这个令人心碎的决定都不是轻率做出的，它兼具道德和精神上的维度。"
So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions. Let's reduce unintended pregnancies. Let's make adoption more available. Let's -- Let's provide care and support for women who do carry their children to term. Let's honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded not only in sound science, but also in clear ethics, as well as respect for the equality of women. Those are things we can do. 因此，让我们携手减少寻求堕胎的女性人数。让我们减少意外怀孕。让收养变得更加便利。让我们——让我们为那些确实将孩子足月生产的女性提供关怀和支持。让我们尊重那些反对堕胎者的良知，制定合理的良知条款，并确保我们所有的医疗政策不仅建立在扎实的科学之上，也建立在清晰的伦理之上，以及对女性平等的尊重之上。这些都是我们可以做到的事。
Now, understand -- understand, Class of 2009, I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away, because no matter how much we may want to fudge it -- indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory -- the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature. 那么，请理解——请理解，2009届的毕业生们，我并不是说围绕堕胎的争论可以或应当消失，因为无论我们多么想含糊其辞——事实上，尽管我们知道大多数美国人在这个问题上的看法是复杂甚至矛盾的——事实是，在某种程度上，两派的立场是不可调和的。每一方都将继续怀着热情与信念向公众阐述自己的主张。但毫无疑问，我们完全可以不必把持不同观点的人简化成漫画式的形象。
Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It's a way of life that has always been the Notre Dame tradition. You know, Father -- Father Hesburgh has long spoken of this institution as both a -- a lighthouse and a crossroads, a lighthouse that stands apart, shining with the wisdom of the Catholic tradition, while the crossroads is where "differences of culture and religion and conviction can co-exist with friendship, civility, hospitality, and especially love." 敞开胸怀。敞开心灵。讲求公正的言辞。这一直是圣母大学的传统生活方式。你们知道，赫斯伯格神父——赫斯伯格神父长期以来把这所学府形容为既是灯塔又是十字路口：灯塔卓然独立，闪耀着天主教传统的智慧之光；而十字路口则是"文化与宗教与信念的差异，可以与友谊、礼仪、好客，尤其是爱共存"之地。
And I want to join him and Father John in saying how inspired I am by the maturity and responsibility with which this class has approached the debate surrounding today's ceremony. You are an example of what Notre Dame is about. 我想与他和约翰神父一道表示，这一届毕业生以成熟和负责的态度对待围绕今日典礼的辩论，让我深受鼓舞。你们就是圣母大学精神的典范。
Now, this tradition of cooperation and understanding is one that I learned in my own life many years ago -- also with the help of the Catholic Church. You see, I was not raised in a particularly religious household, but my mother instilled in me a sense of service and empathy that eventually led me to become a community organizer after I graduated college. 这种合作与理解的传统，是我多年前在自己的生活中学到的——同样离不开天主教会的帮助。你们看，我并非成长于一个特别虔诚的家庭，但母亲向我灌输了服务与同理心的意识，最终促使我在大学毕业后成为一名社区组织者。
And a group of Catholic churches in Chicago helped fund an organization known as the "Developing Communities Project," and we worked to lift up South Side neighborhoods that had been devastated when the local steel plant closed. 芝加哥的一群天主教会帮助资助了一个名为"社区发展项目"的组织，我们致力于帮助那些因当地钢厂关闭而遭到重创的南区社区走出困境。
And it was quite an eclectic crew -- Catholic and Protestant churches, Jewish and African American organizers, working-class black, white, and Hispanic residents -- all of us with different experiences, all of us with different beliefs; but all of us learned to work side by side because all of us saw in these neighborhoods other human beings who needed our help to find jobs and improve schools. We were bound together in the service of others. 那真是一个形形色色的群体——天主教与新教教会、犹太裔和非裔美国人组织者、工人阶层的黑人、白人和西语裔居民——我们每个人都有着不同的经历，每个人都有着不同的信仰；但我们所有人都学会了并肩工作，因为我们都在这些社区里看到了需要我们帮助找工作、改善学校的其他人。我们在服务他人的过程中紧密团结在一起。
And something else happened during the time I spent in these neighborhoods, perhaps because the church folks I worked with were so welcoming and understanding; perhaps because they invited me to their services and sang with me from their hymnals; perhaps because I was really broke and they fed me; perhaps because I witnessed all of the good works their faith inspired them to perform, I found myself drawn not just to the work with the church; I was drawn to be in the church. It was through this service that I was brought to Christ. 在我待在这些社区的岁月里，还发生了其他一些事，或许是因为与我共事的教会弟兄姐妹如此热情好客、善解人意；或许是因为他们邀请我参加他们的礼拜、与他们一同唱赞美诗；或许是因为我当时真的身无分文，而他们给我饭吃；或许是因为我目睹了他们的信仰所激励他们去做的种种善举，我发现自己不仅被与教会相关的工作所吸引；我被吸引进入了教会。正是通过这种服务，我被引向了基督。
And at the time, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was the Archbishop of Chicago. And for those of you -- for those of you too young to have known him or known of him, he was a kind and good and wise man; a saintly man. I can still remember him speaking at one of the first organizing meetings I attended on the South Side. He stood as both a lighthouse and a crossroads -- unafraid to speak his mind on moral issues ranging from poverty and AIDS and abortion to the death penalty and nuclear war. 那时，约瑟夫·贝尔纳丁枢机主教是芝加哥的总主教。对你们中——对你们中那些太年轻而未曾认识他或未曾听说过他的人来说，他是一位善良、美好而智慧的人；一位圣洁的人。我仍能记得他在我参加的最早一次南区组织会议上发言的情形。他既是一座灯塔，也是一个十字路口——敢于在从贫困、艾滋病、堕胎到死刑和核战争等一系列道德问题上直言不讳。
And yet, he was congenial and gentle in his persuasion, always trying to bring people together, always trying to find common ground. And just before he died, a reporter asked Cardinal Bernardin about this approach to his ministry. And he said, "You can't really get on with preaching the Gospel until you've touched hearts and minds." 然而，他在劝服他人时却和蔼可亲、温文尔雅，总是努力把人们团结在一起，总是努力寻求共同立场。就在他去世前不久，一位记者问贝尔纳丁枢机主教这种牧灵方式背后的缘由。他说："在你触及人心之前，你无法真正开始传扬福音。"
My heart and mind were touched by him. They were touched by the words and deeds of the men and women I worked alongside in parishes across Chicago. And I'd like to think that we touched the hearts and minds of the neighborhood families whose lives we helped change. For this, I believe, is our highest calling. 我的心和思想深受他触动。它们也被我在芝加哥各堂区并肩工作的那些男男女女的言行所触动。我也愿意相信，我们触动了那些生活因我们帮助而改变的家庭的心灵与思想。因为这一点，我相信，是我们最高的召唤。
Now, you, Class of 2009, are about to enter the next phase of your life at a time of great uncertainty. You'll be called to help restore a free market that's also fair to all who are willing to work. You'll be called to seek new sources of energy that can save our planet; to give future generations the same chance that you had to receive an extraordinary education. 如今，你们2009届的毕业生即将在一个充满不确定性的时刻步入人生的下一阶段。你们将被召唤去帮助重建一个既自由又公平、惠及所有愿意工作之人的市场。你们将被召唤去寻找能够拯救我们星球的新能源；让后代有机会像你们一样接受非凡的教育。
And whether as a person drawn to public service, or simply someone who insists on being an active citizen, you will be exposed to more opinions and ideas broadcast through more means of communication than ever existed before. You'll hear talking heads scream on cable; and you'll read blogs that claim definitive knowledge; and you will watch politicians pretend they know what they're talking about. 无论你是被公共服务所吸引的人，还是仅仅坚持做一个积极参与的公民，你都将接触到比以往任何时候都多的观点和想法，通过比以往任何时候都多的传播媒介。你会听到电视评论员在有线电视上尖叫；你会读到自称掌握确定知识的博客；你会看到政客们装作懂得自己在说什么。
Occasionally, you may have the great fortune of actually seeing important issues debated by people who do know what they're talking about -- by well-intentioned people with brilliant minds and mastery of the facts. In fact, I suspect that some of you will be among those brightest stars. 偶尔，你可能会有幸亲眼看到重要议题被真正懂行的人辩论——被那些心怀善意、才智卓越、对事实了如指掌的人辩论。事实上，我猜想你们中的一些人就会成为那些最耀眼的明星。
And in this world of competing claims about what is right and what is true, have confidence in the values with which you've been raised and educated. Be unafraid to speak your mind when those values are at stake. Hold firm to your faith and allow it to guide you on your journey. In other words, stand as a lighthouse. But remember, too, that you can be a crossroads. 在这个关于何为正确、何为真实的相互竞争的主张层出不穷的世界里，要对你们被养育和教育的价值观充满信心。当这些价值观受到威胁时，要敢于直言。坚守你的信仰，让它指引你前行。换言之，要像灯塔一样矗立。但也要记住，你也可以成为一个十字路口。
Remember, too, that the ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt. It's the belief in things not seen. It's beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us. And those of us who believe must trust that His wisdom is greater than our own. 也要记住，信仰最大的讽刺在于，它必然容许怀疑。它是对未见之事的相信。作为人类，我们无法确切地知晓上帝为我们安排了什么，或祂对我们有何要求。我们这些信神的人必须相信，祂的智慧高过我们的智慧。
And this doubt should not push us away our faith. But it should humble us. It should temper our passions, cause us to be wary of too much self-righteousness. It should compel us to remain open and curious and eager to continue the spiritual and moral debate that began for so many of you within the walls of Notre Dame. 而这种怀疑不应将我们推离信仰。但它应使我们谦卑。它应缓和我们的激情，让我们警惕过分的自以为是。它应驱使我们保持开放和好奇，渴望延续对许多人来说始于圣母大学校园之内的那种精神与道德上的探讨。
And within our vast democracy, this doubt should remind us even as we cling to our faith to persuade through reason, through an appeal, whenever we can, to universal rather than parochial principles, and most of all through an abiding example of good works and charity and kindness and service that moves hearts and minds. 而在我们广袤的民主国家中，这种怀疑应提醒我们，即便我们坚守信仰，也要通过理性去说服他人，尽可能诉诸普世原则而非狭隘的教派原则，最重要的是，通过持久的善行、慈善、仁爱和服务的榜样来打动人心。
For if there is one law that we can be most certain of, it is the law that binds people of all faiths and no faith together. It's no coincidence that it exists in Christianity and Judaism, in Islam and Hinduism, in Buddhism and humanism. It is, of course, the Golden Rule -- the call to treat one another as we wish to be treated. The call to love. The call to serve. 因为如果说有一条法则我们可以最确信，那就是把所有有信仰和无信仰的人联系在一起的法则。它存在于基督教和犹太教、伊斯兰教和印度教、佛教和人本主义之中，绝非巧合。它当然就是金律——号召我们像希望被对待那样对待他人。号召我们去爱。号召我们去服务。
To do what we can to make a difference in the lives of those with whom we share the same brief moment on this Earth. So many of you at Notre Dame -- by the last count, upwards of 80 percent -- have lived this law of love through the service you've performed at schools and hospitals, international relief agencies and local charities. Brennan is just one example of what your class has accomplished. That's incredibly impressive, a powerful testament to this institution. 尽我们所能，去为我们在这地球上共同分享的短暂时刻里那些人的生命带来改变。圣母大学的你们中许多人——据最近统计，超过80%——通过在学校、医院、国际救援机构和地方慈善机构所开展的服务，践行了这条爱的法则。布伦南只是你们这一届所取得成就的一个例子。这令人惊叹，是这所学府的有力见证。
And now -- now you must carry the tradition forward. Make it a way of life. Because when you serve, it doesn't just improve your community, it makes you a part of your community. It breaks down walls. It fosters cooperation. And when that happens -- when -- when people set aside their differences, even for a moment, to work in common effort toward a common goal; when they struggle together, and sacrifice together, and learn from one another -- then all things are possible. 那么现在——现在你们必须将这一传统传承下去。让它成为一种生活方式。因为当你服务时，它不仅改善了你的社区，也让你成为社区的一部分。它打破隔阂。它促进合作。当这一切发生——当——当人们放下分歧，哪怕是片刻，为共同目标而协同努力；当他们共同奋斗、共同牺牲、相互学习——那么一切皆有可能。
After all, I stand here today, as President and as an African American, on the 55th anniversary of the day that the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Brown versus Board of Education. Now, Brown was of course the first major step in dismantling the "separate but equal" doctrine. But it would take a number of years and a nationwide movement to fully realize the dream of civil rights for all of God's children. 毕竟，我今天站在这里，作为总统，也作为一名非裔美国人，正值最高法院就"布朗诉教育委员会案"作出判决55周年纪念日。布朗案当然是拆除"隔离但平等"原则的第一大步。但要真正实现所有上帝子女的民权梦想，仍需多年努力和一场全国性运动。
There were freedom rides and lunch counters and Billy clubs, and there was also a Civil Rights Commission appointed by President Eisenhower. It was the 12 resolutions recommended by this commission that would ultimately become law in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 有自由乘车运动、坐柜台抗议、警棍镇压，也有艾森豪威尔总统任命的民权委员会。正是该委员会建议的12项决议，最终成为1964年《民权法案》中的法律。
There were six members of this commission. It included five whites and one African American, Democrats and Republicans, two Southern governors, the dean of a Southern law school, a Midwestern university president, and your own Father Ted Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame. So they worked for two years, and at times President Eisenhower had to intervene personally since no hotel or restaurant in the South would serve the black and white members of the commission together. 该委员会有六名成员。其中包括五名白人和一名非裔美国人，民主党人和共和党人，两位南方州长，一位南方法学院院长，一位中西部大学校长，以及你们自己的泰德·赫斯伯格神父——圣母大学校长。他们工作了两年，有时艾森豪威尔总统不得不亲自出面斡旋，因为南方没有任何一家酒店或餐馆愿意同时招待委员会的黑人和白人成员。
And finally when they reached an impasse in Louisiana, Father Ted flew them all to Notre Dame's retreat in Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin -- where they eventually -- where they eventually overcame their differences and hammered out a final deal. 最终，当他们在路易斯安那州陷入僵局时，泰德神父用飞机把所有人都接到圣母大学位于威斯康星州兰奥莱克斯的静修所——在那里他们最终——在那里他们最终克服了分歧，敲定了最终的协议。
And years later, President Eisenhower asked Father Ted how on earth he was able to broker an agreement between men of such different backgrounds and beliefs. And Father Ted simply said that during their first dinner in Wisconsin they discovered they were all fishermen. And so he quickly readied a boat for a twilight trip out on the lake. They fished, and they talked, and they changed the course of history. 多年以后，艾森豪威尔总统问泰德神父，他究竟是如何在背景和信仰如此迥异的人之间促成协议的。泰德神父只是说，他们在威斯康星共进的第一顿晚餐时发现，他们都是钓鱼爱好者。于是他迅速备好一条船，趁暮色出湖。他们钓鱼，他们交谈，他们改变了历史的进程。
I will not pretend that the challenges we face will be easy, or that the answers will come quickly, or that all our differences and divisions will fade happily away -- because life is not that simple. It never has been. But as you leave here today, remember the lessons of Cardinal Bernardin, of Father Hesburgh, of movements for change both large and small. 我不会假装我们所面临的挑战会很容易，也不会假装答案会很快到来，更不会假装我们所有的分歧和裂痕都会愉快地消散——因为生活并非那么简单。它从来都不是。但当你们今天离开这里时，请记住贝尔纳丁枢机主教、赫斯伯格神父以及大大小小变革运动所带来的教训。
Remember that each of us, endowed with the dignity possessed by all children of God, has the grace to recognize ourselves in one another; to understand that we all seek the same love of family, the same fulfillment of a life well lived. Remember that in the end, in some way we are all fishermen. 请记住，我们每一个人，被赋予所有上帝之子所拥有的尊严，都有恩典去在彼此身上认出自己；去理解我们都在追寻同样的家人之爱、同样圆满度过一生的满足感。请记住，归根结底，在某种意义上，我们都是渔夫。
If nothing else, that knowledge should give us faith that through our collective labor, and God's providence, and our willingness to shoulder each other's burdens, America will continue on its precious journey towards that more perfect union. Congratulations, Class of 2009. 除此之外，这种认知应让我们心怀信念：通过我们共同的劳作、上帝的眷顾，以及我们愿意相互承担重负的精神，美国将继续它迈向更加完善联邦的珍贵旅程。祝贺你们，2009届的毕业生。
May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America. 愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。