Thank you....Thank you. What a -- What a wonderful reception. Thank you, Saint Paul. Thank you, Minnesota. 谢谢……谢谢。多么——多么热烈的欢迎。谢谢你，圣保罗。谢谢你，明尼苏达。
Thank you, JoAnn Syverson, for the wonderful introduction. 谢谢你，乔安·赛弗森，感谢你的精彩介绍。
Thank you, Michelle Obama and Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. Thank you to my brothers and sisters. Thank you to -- Thank you to my staff. Thank you to our volunteers. Thank you to my political team. Thank you to our campaign manager, David Plouffe, who never gets any credit, but has built the best political organization in the country. 谢谢你，米歇尔·奥巴马、玛利亚·奥巴马和萨沙·奥巴马。谢谢我的兄弟姐妹。谢谢——谢谢我的工作人员。谢谢我们的志愿者。谢谢我的政治团队。谢谢我们的竞选经理戴维·普卢夫，他从未得到任何赞誉，却建立了全国最优秀的政治组织。
Thank you to my grandmother, who helped raise me, and is sitting in Hawaii somewhere right now because she can't travel, but who poured everything she had into me, and who helped to make me the man I am today. Tonight is for her. 谢谢我的祖母，她抚养我长大，现在因为无法出行，正坐在夏威夷的某个地方，但她把一切都倾注在我身上，帮助我成为今天的我。今晚是献给她的。
Tonight, Minnesota, after 54 hard-fought contests, our primary season has finally come to an end. Sixteen -- Sixteen months have passed since we first stood together on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Thousands of miles have been traveled; millions of voices have been heard. 今晚，明尼苏达，经过54场艰苦的角逐，我们的初选季终于画上了句号。十六个月——自从我们第一次在伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德的旧州议会大厦台阶上站在一起，已经过去了十六个月。数千英里的路途已经走过；数百万的声音已经被倾听。
And because of what you said, because you decided that change must come to Washington, because you believed that this year must be different than all the rest, because -- because you chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears, but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations, tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another, a journey -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. 因为你们所说的话，因为你们决定变革必须来到华盛顿，因为你们相信今年必须与以往所有年份不同，因为——因为你们选择倾听的不是自己的疑虑或恐惧，而是你们最大的希望和最高的抱负，今晚我们标志着一段历史性旅程的结束，同时开启另一段旅程——一段将为美国带来更美好明天的旅程。
Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for the President of the United States of America. 因为你们，今晚我能站在这里说，我将成为美利坚合众国的民主党总统候选人。
I want to -- I want to thank -- I want to thank -- I want to thank all those in Montana and South Dakota who stood up for change today. I want to thank every American who stood with us over the course of this campaign, through the good days and the bad, from the snows of Cedar Rapids to the sunshine of Sioux Falls. 我想——我想感谢——我想感谢——我想感谢蒙大拿州和南达科他州所有今天站出来支持变革的人们。我想感谢每一位在这场竞选过程中与我们并肩而立的美国人，无论是顺境还是逆境，从锡达拉皮兹的积雪到苏瀑的阳光。
And, tonight, I also want to thank the men and woman who took this journey with me as fellow candidates for President. You know, at this defining moment -- At this defining moment for our nation, we should be proud that our Party put forth one of the most talented, qualified field of individuals ever to run for office. I have not just competed with them as rivals. I've learned from them as friends, as public servants, and as patriots who love America and are willing to work tirelessly to make this country better. 今晚，我还要感谢那些与我一同踏上这段征程的总统候选人。你们知道，在这个决定性的时刻——在我们国家的这个决定性时刻，我们应当为本党推出了美国选举史上最具才华、最有资历的候选人阵容之一而自豪。我不只把他们当作对手与之竞争，也把他们当作朋友、公仆，以及热爱美国并愿为国家变得更好而不懈努力的爱国者，从他们身上学习。
They are leaders of this Party and leaders that America will turn to for years to come. 他们是这个政党的领袖，也是美国未来多年将依靠的领袖。
And that is particularly true for the candidate who has traveled further on this journey than anyone else: Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign. She has made history not -- not just because she's a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she is a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight. I congratulate her on her victory in South Dakota, and I congratulate her on the race that she has run throughout this contest. 这一点对那位在这段旅程中走得比任何人都更远的候选人来说尤其如此：希拉里·克林顿参议员在这场竞选中创造了历史。她创造了历史不仅是因为她作为女性完成了以前没有女性做过的事情，更因为她是一位用力量、勇气和对事业的承诺激励了数百万美国人的领袖。我祝贺她在南达科他州的胜利，也祝贺她在整个竞选中所经历的这场赛跑。
We've certainly had our differences over the last 16 months. 我们在过去16个月中确实有过分歧。
But as someone who's shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning -- even in the face of tough odds -- is exactly what sent her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago, what sent her to work at the Children's Defense Fund and made her fight for health care as first lady, what led her to the United States Senate and fueled her barrier-breaking campaign for the presidency: an unyielding desire to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult the fight may be. 但作为一个曾多次与她同台的人，我可以告诉你，即使面对重重困难，每天早晨仍驱使希拉里·克林顿起身奋斗的，正是多年前促使她和比尔·克林顿投身得克萨斯州第一次竞选、促使她到儿童保护基金会工作并在担任第一夫人期间为医疗保障奔走、引领她进入美国参议院并推动她打破壁垒竞选总统的那股力量：无论斗争多么艰难，都矢志改善普通美国人生活的愿望。
And you can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country -- and we will win that fight -- she will be central to that victory. When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen. Our Party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton. 你们可以放心，当我们最终赢得这个国家全民医保的战斗时——我们将赢得这场斗争——她将是那场胜利的核心。当我们改变能源政策并让我们的孩子摆脱贫困时，那将是因为她努力帮助实现了这一切。我们的政党和我们的国家因为她而变得更好，我也因为有幸与希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿竞争而成为一个更好的候选人。
There are those who say that this primary has somehow left us weaker and more divided. Well, I say that, because of this primary, there are millions of Americans who've cast their ballot for the very first time. There are -- There are Independents and Republicans who understand this election isn't just about a change of Party in Washington, but also about the need to change Washington. There are -- There are young people, and African-Americans, and Hispanic-Americans, and women of all ages who have voted in numbers that have broken records and inspired a nation. 有人说这场初选不知何故让我们变得更弱、更分裂。好吧，我说，因为这场初选，有数百万美国人第一次投了票。还有——还有独立人士和共和党人明白，这场选举不仅仅是关于华盛顿政党的更迭，更是关于改变华盛顿的需要。还有——还有年轻人、非裔美国人、拉美裔美国人以及各种年龄的女性，他们以破纪录的人数投票，激励了整个国家。
All of you chose to support a candidate you believe in deeply. But at the end of the day, we aren't the reason you came out and waited in lines that stretched block after block to make your voice heard. You didn't do that -- You didn't do that because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else. You did it because you know in your hearts that at this moment, a moment that will define a generation, we cannot afford to keep doing what we've been doing. We owe our children a better future. We owe our country a better future. 你们所有人都选择支持一位你们深深相信的候选人。但归根结底，我们不是你们出来排队、排过一个又一个街区来让自己的声音被听到的原因。你们那样做——你们那样做不是因为我或克林顿参议员或其他任何人。你们那样做是因为你们心中知道，在这个时刻，一个将定义一代人的时刻，我们不能继续做我们一直在做的事情。我们欠孩子们一个更美好的未来。我们欠国家一个更美好的未来。
And for all those who dream of that future tonight, I say: Let us begin the work together. Let us unite in common effort to chart a new course for America. 对于所有那些今晚梦想那个未来的人们，我说：让我们一起开始工作吧。让我们共同努力，为美国规划一条新道路。
In just -- In just a few short months, the Republican Party will arrive in St. Paul with a very different agenda. They will -- They will come here to nominate John McCain, a man who has served this country heroically. I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My -- My differences with him -- My differences with him are not personal. 再过短短几个月，共和党将带着截然不同的议程来到圣保罗。他们将——他们将来到这里提名约翰·麦凯恩，一个为这个国家英勇服务的人。我尊敬，我们尊敬约翰·麦凯恩的服务，我尊重他的许多成就，即使他选择否认我的成就。我与他的分歧不是个人的。
They are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign, because while John McCain can legitimately tout moments of independence from his Party in the past, such independence has not been the hallmark of his presidential campaign. 我与他的分歧在于他此次竞选提出的政策。约翰·麦凯恩当然可以宣扬自己过去曾有不随本党立场行事的时刻，但这种独立性并不是他这次总统竞选的特征。
It's not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year. 约翰·麦凯恩去年在参议院有95%的时间选择与乔治·布什站在一起，这不是变革。
It's not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs, or insure our workers, or help Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college, policies that have lowered the real incomes of the average American family, and widened the gap between Wall Street and Main Street, and left our children with a mountain of debt. 他主张再延续四年布什的经济政策，而这些政策既未能创造待遇优厚的工作，也未能让劳动者获得保险保障，更未能帮助美国人承担飞涨的大学费用；它们降低了普通美国家庭的实际收入，拉大了华尔街与普通民众之间的差距，还给我们的孩子留下一座债务大山——这不是变革。
It's not change when he promises to continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians, a policy where all we look for are reasons to stay in Iraq, while we spend billions of dollars a month on a war that isn't making the American people any safer. So -- So, I'll say this: There are many words to describe John McCain's attempt to pass off his embrace of George Bush's policies as bipartisan and new, but "change" is not one of them. 他承诺继续推行一项伊拉克政策：要求我们英勇的军人付出一切，却不要求伊拉克政客承担任何责任；只顾寻找继续驻留伊拉克的理由，同时每月为一场没有让美国人民更安全的战争耗费数十亿美元——这不是变革。所以——所以，我要说：约翰·麦凯恩试图把自己对乔治·布什政策的全盘接受包装成跨党派的新主张，可以用很多词来形容，但“变革”绝不在其中。
"Change" is not one of them, because change is a foreign policy that doesn't begin and end with a war that should've never been authorized and never been waged. “变革”不在其中，因为真正的变革，是让外交政策不再始于、也不再终于一场本不该获得授权、更不该发动的战争。
I won't stand here and pretend that there are many good options left in Iraq, but what's not an option is leaving our troops in that country for the next hundred years, especially at a time when our military is overstretched, our nation is isolated, and nearly every other threat to America is being ignored. We -- We must be -- We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in, but we -- but start leaving we must. It's time for Iraqis to take responsibility for their future. 我不会站在这里假装伊拉克还剩下许多好选择，但把我们的军队留在那里一百年绝不是一个选择，尤其是在我军已不堪重负、国家陷于孤立、几乎所有其他威胁美国的因素都被忽视之时。撤出伊拉克时，我们必须审慎，不能再像当初进入伊拉克时那样草率；但无论如何，我们必须开始撤军。现在该由伊拉克人为自己的未来负责了。
It's time to rebuild our military and give our veterans the care and the benefits they deserve when they come home. 现在是重建我们的军队并在我们的军人回家时给予他们应得的关怀和福利的时候了。
It's time -- It's time to refocus our efforts on Al Qaida's leadership and Afghanistan, and rally the world against the common threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear weapons, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease. That's what change is. 现在是——现在是我们重新集中精力对付基地组织领导人和阿富汗的时候了，团结世界对抗21世纪的共同威胁：恐怖主义和核武器、气候变化和贫困、种族灭绝和疾病。这就是变革的含义。
Change -- Change, Minnesota, is realizing that meetings [sic] today's threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy: tough -- tough, direct diplomacy, where the President of the United States isn't afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for. We must once again have the courage and the conviction to lead the free world. That is the legacy of Roosevelt and Truman and Kennedy. That's what the American people demand. That's what change is. 变革——明尼苏达，变革意味着认识到（原文此处有语病），应对当今威胁不仅要靠我们的火力，还要靠外交的力量：强硬而直接的外交，让美国总统敢于向任何微不足道的独裁者明确说明美国的立场和我们的信念。我们必须重新拿出勇气和信念来领导自由世界。这是罗斯福、杜鲁门和肯尼迪留下的传承，是美国人民的要求，也是变革的真正含义。
Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and the workers who created it. It's understanding that the struggles facing working families can't be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a middle-class tax break to those who need it, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation. 变革，就是建设一种不仅奖赏财富，也奖赏创造财富的劳动和劳动者的经济。它意味着认识到，工薪家庭面临的困境，不能靠再花费数十亿美元为大公司和富有的首席执行官减税来解决；真正的办法，是为有需要的人提供中产阶级减税，投资修缮日益破败的基础设施，改变能源利用方式，改善学校，并重新履行我们对科学与创新的承诺。
It's understanding that fiscal responsibility and shared prosperity can go hand-in-hand, as they did when Bill Clinton was President. 它认识到，财政责任和共同繁荣可以齐头并进，就像比尔·克林顿担任总统时那样。
John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy -- cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota -- he'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for. 约翰·麦凯恩在过去几周里花了很多时间谈论去伊拉克的旅行，但也许如果他花时间去那些受这场经济打击最严重的城市和城镇旅行——密歇根州、俄亥俄州的城市，以及明尼苏达州这里——他就会理解人们在寻找什么样的变革。
Maybe if he went to Iowa and met the student who works the night shift after a full day of class and still can't pay the medical bills for a sister who's ill, he'd understand she can't afford four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and the wealthy. She needs us to pass health care right now, a plan that guarantees insurance to every American who wants it and brings down premiums for every family who needs it. That's the change we need, Minnesota. 也许，如果他去爱荷华州见到那名学生——她上完一整天的课还要值夜班，却仍付不起患病姐妹的医药费——他就会明白，她承受不起一个只照顾健康者和富人的医疗方案再延续四年。她需要我们立即通过医疗改革方案，确保每个希望参保的美国人都能获得保险，并为每个有需要的家庭降低保费。这才是我们需要的变革，明尼苏达。
Maybe -- Maybe if John McCain went to Pennsylvania and he met the man who lost his job, but can't even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he'd understand we can't afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators. That man needs us to pass an energy policy that works with automakers to raise fuel standards, and makes corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future, an energy policy that will create millions of new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced. That's the change we need, Minnesota. 也许——也许如果约翰·麦凯恩去宾夕法尼亚州，见到那个失去工作却连开车去找新工作的油钱都付不起的人，他就会明白我们负担不起又四年依赖独裁者石油的政策。那个人需要我们通过一项与汽车制造商合作提高燃油标准、让公司为他们的污染付费、让石油公司将他们创纪录的利润投资于清洁能源未来的能源政策，一项将创造数百万高薪且无法外包的新工作的能源政策。这就是我们需要的变革，明尼苏达。
And maybe if John McCain spent some time in the schools of South Carolina or St. Paul, Minnesota, or where he spoke tonight in New Orleans, Louisiana, he'd understand that we can't afford to leave the money behind for No Child Left Behind; that we owe it to our children to invest in early-childhood education; and recruit an army of new teachers and give them better pay and more support; and finally decide that, in this global economy, the chance to get a college education should not be a privilege for the few, but a birthright of every American. That's the change we need in America. 也许，如果约翰·麦凯恩花些时间走访南卡罗来纳州或明尼苏达州圣保罗的学校，或者他今晚发表演讲的路易斯安那州新奥尔良的学校，他就会明白，我们不能再让《不让一个孩子掉队法》得不到足够经费；我们有责任为孩子投资早期教育，招募一支新的教师大军，给予他们更高薪酬和更多支持；我们还必须最终认定，在全球化经济中，接受大学教育的机会不应只是少数人的特权，而应是每个美国人与生俱来的权利。这才是美国需要的变革。
That's why I'm running for President of the United States. 这就是我竞选美国总统的原因。
Now -- Now, the other side will come here in September and offer a very different set of policies and positions, and that is a good thing. That is a debate I look forward to. It is a debate that the American people deserve on the issues that will help determine the future of this country and the future for our children. But what you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won't hear from this campaign or this Party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon. 现在——另一方将在九月来到这里，提出一套截然不同的政策和立场，这是件好事。我期待这场辩论；在关系到这个国家和我们孩子未来的问题上，美国人民也理应看到这样的辩论。但你们不应再经历一场由恐惧、暗示和分裂操控的选举。你们不会从这支竞选团队或这个政党听到那种把宗教当作挑拨工具、把爱国主义当作打人棍棒的政治话术。
What you won't see from this campaign or this Party is a politics that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to polarize, because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first. 你们也不会从这支竞选团队或这个政党看到这样一种政治：不把对手视为可以较量的竞争者，而把他们当作制造对立的敌人。因为我们或许自称民主党人或共和党人，但首先都是美国人；我们永远首先是美国人。
Despite -- Despite what the good senator from Arizona may have said tonight, I've seen people of differing views and opinions find common cause many times during my two decades in public life, and I've brought many together myself. I've walked arm-in-arm with community leaders on the south side of Chicago and watched tensions fade as black and white and Latino fought together for good jobs and good schools. I've sat across the table from law enforcement officials and civil rights advocates to reform a criminal justice system that sent 13 innocent people to death row. 不管——不管今晚那位来自亚利桑那州的优秀参议员说了什么，在我二十年的公共生涯中，我曾多次看到持不同观点和意见的人找到共同事业，也亲自促成许多人携手合作。我曾与芝加哥南区的社区领袖挽臂同行，看着黑人、白人和拉丁裔为好工作和好学校并肩奋斗，彼此的紧张随之消退。我曾与执法官员和民权倡导者相对而坐，共同改革一个曾把13名无辜者送上死囚区的刑事司法制度。
I've worked with friends in the other Party to provide more children with health insurance and more working families with a tax break, to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and ensure that the American people know where their tax dollars are being spent, and to reduce the influence of lobbyists who have all too often set the agenda in Washington. 我曾与另一个政党的朋友合作，为更多的孩子提供医疗保险，为更多的工薪家庭减税，遏制核武器的扩散，确保美国人民知道他们的税款花在哪里，并减少那些常常在华盛顿设定议程的说客的影响。
In our country -- In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we agree on everything, but because, behind all the false labels and false divisions and categories that define us, beyond all the petty bickering and point-scoring in Washington, Americans are a decent, generous, compassionate people, united by common challenges and common hopes. 在我们的国家——我发现，这种合作之所以能够发生，并不是因为我们事事意见一致，而是因为，越过那些界定我们的虚假标签、虚假分裂和人为分类，越过华盛顿所有琐碎争吵和政治算计，美国人民本质上正直、慷慨而富有同情心，并因共同的挑战与希望团结在一起。
And every so often, there are moments which call on that fundamental goodness to make this country great again. So it was for that band of patriots who declared in a Philadelphia hall the formation of a more perfect union, and for all those who gave on the fields of Gettysburg and Antietam their last full measure of devotion to save that same union. So it was for the greatest generation that conquered fear itself, and liberated a continent from tyranny, and made this country home to untold opportunity and prosperity. 每隔一段时间，总会出现一些时刻，召唤人们凭借这种根本的善良，让国家再次伟大。当年，一群爱国者在费城的大厅里宣告建立一个更完美的联邦，就是这样的时刻；无数人在葛底斯堡和安提坦战场上为拯救同一个联邦献出全部生命，也是这样的时刻。最伟大的一代战胜恐惧本身，把一个大陆从暴政中解放出来，并让这个国家成为拥有无穷机遇与繁荣的家园，同样如此。
So it was for the workers who stood out on the picket lines, the women who shattered glass ceilings, the children who braved a Selma bridge for freedom's cause. So it has been for every generation that faced down the greatest challenges and the most improbable odds to leave their children a world that's better and kinder and more just. 那些坚守罢工纠察线的工人、打破玻璃天花板的女性、为自由事业勇敢走上塞尔玛大桥的年轻人，也是如此。每一代人都曾直面最严峻的挑战和看似最不可能克服的困境，为子孙留下一个更美好、更友善、更公正的世界。
And so it must be for us. 如今，我们也必须如此。
America, this is our moment. This is our time, our time to turn the page on the policies of the past, our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face, our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love. 美国，这是我们的时刻，这是我们的时代：是翻过旧政策篇章的时代，是以新的活力和理念应对挑战的时代，也是为我们热爱的国家开辟新方向的时代。
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge -- I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations, but I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. 征程会很艰难，道路会很漫长。我迎接这项挑战——我怀着深切的谦卑，也清楚自己的局限；但我同样怀着对美国人民潜能的无限信念。
Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless. 因为，只要我们愿意为之努力、为之奋斗，并始终坚信它，我就绝对相信，几代人以后，我们回望今天时，能够告诉孩子们：正是在这一刻，我们开始让病有所医、让失业者获得好工作。
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. 这是海洋上升的势头开始减缓，我们的星球开始愈合的时刻。
This was the moment when we ended a war, and secured our nation, and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. 正是在这一刻，我们结束战争，守护国家，并重新树立美国作为人类最后且最美好希望的形象。
This was the moment, this was the time when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals. 正是在这一刻、这个时代，我们团结起来重塑这个伟大的国家，让它永远展现我们最美好的一面和最崇高的理想。
Thank you, Minnesota. God bless you. 谢谢你，明尼苏达。上帝保佑你。
God bless the United States of America. 上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
