General Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps! 威斯特摩兰将军、格罗夫将军、各位来宾、陆战队的弟兄们：
As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, "Where are you bound for, General?" And when I replied, "West Point," he remarked, "Beautiful place. Have you ever been there before?" 今天早上我离开酒店时，一个门卫问我："您要去哪里，将军？"我回答说："西点。"他说："好地方。您以前去过吗？"
No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this [Thayer Award]. Coming from a profession I have served so long, and a people I have loved so well, it fills me with an emotion I cannot express. 没有人能不为这样的致敬所深深感动——这是塞拉努斯·塞耶奖。这一奖项来自我服务了这么久的一个职业，来自我如此深爱的一群人，它让我心中涌起一种无法表达的情感。
But this award is not intended primarily to honor a personality, but to symbolize a great moral code—the code of conduct and chivalry of those who guard this beloved land of culture and ancient descent. That is the animation of this medallion. For all eyes and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the American soldier. That I should be integrated in this way with so noble an ideal arouses a sense of pride and yet of humility which will be with me always. 但这个奖项的主要目的不是为了表彰一个人，而是象征一种伟大的道德准则——那些守护这片有着古老文化传承的可爱土地的人们所遵循的行为准则和骑士精神。这就是这枚奖章的生命力所在。对所有人的眼睛和所有的时代来说，它是美国军人伦理的表达。能以这种方式与如此崇高的理想融为一体，唤起了我的自豪感，同时也让我永远保持谦逊。
Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. 责任、荣誉、国家：这三个神圣的词庄严地规定了你应该成为什么样的人，你能够成为什么样的人，你将会成为什么样的人。它们是你的号召点：当勇气似乎要失败时建立勇气；当似乎没有理由相信时重获信念；当希望变得渺茫时创造希望。
Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. 不幸的是，我既没有那样的口才，也没有那样的诗意想象力，更没有那样的比喻才华，来告诉你们它们全部的含义。
The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and I am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, will try to downgrade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule. 不信的人会说这些不过是些文字，不过是个口号，不过是浮夸的说法。每个学究、每个蛊惑人心的政客、每个愤世嫉俗者、每个伪君子、每个捣乱者，还有我遗憾地说，一些品格完全不同的其他人，都会试图贬低它们，甚至到嘲笑和奚落的程度。
But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid. They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for actions, not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge. 但这些正是它们所做的事情。它们塑造你的基本品格。它们将你塑造成国家防务的守护者，担负起你未来的角色。它们让你足够强大以知道自己何时软弱，足够勇敢以面对自己的恐惧。它们教导你在真正的失败中保持骄傲和不屈不挠，但在成功中保持谦逊和温和；不要用行动代替言语，不要寻求安逸的道路，而是面对压力并鞭策自己克服困难和挑战。
They teach you to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future yet never neglect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. 它们教导你在风暴中挺立，但对跌倒的人怀有同情；在寻求掌控他人之前先掌控自己；拥有一颗纯洁的心，一个崇高的目标；学会笑，但永远不要忘记如何哭；展望未来，但永远不要忽视过去；认真对待生活，但永远不要把自己看得太重；保持谦逊，这样你才能记住真正伟大的质朴，真正智慧的开放心态，真正力量的温顺。
They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. They create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life. They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman. 它们给了你意志的坚定，想象力的品质，情感的活力，生命深泉的清新，勇敢而不是怯懦的气质优势，对冒险的渴望而不是对安逸的热爱。它们在你心中创造了惊奇感，对未知事物的坚定希望，以及生命的喜悦和灵感。它们以这种方式教导你成为一名军官和绅士。
And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they reliable? Are they brave? Are they capable of victory? Their story is known to all of you. It is the story of the American man-at-arms. My estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then as I regard him now—as one of the world's noblest figures, not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless. 那么你将要领导的是什么样的士兵呢？他们可靠吗？他们勇敢吗？他们能胜利吗？他们的故事你们都知道。这是美国武装人员的故事。我对他的评价是在许多、许多年前的战场上形成的，从未改变。我那时就认为他——现在依然认为他——是世界上最高贵的人物之一，不仅是最优秀的军事品格之一，也是最纯洁无瑕的人物之一。
His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. 他的名字和荣誉是每个美国公民与生俱来的权利。在他的青春和力量中，在他的爱和忠诚中，他献出了凡人所能给予的一切。
He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. He has written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast. But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and by his achievements. 他不需要我或任何其他人的悼词。他用红字在敌人的胸膛上写下了自己的历史。但当我想到他在逆境中的耐心，在战火中的勇气，以及在胜利中的谦逊时，我心中充满了一种无法用言语表达的钦佩之情。他属于历史，因为他提供了成功的爱国主义最伟大的榜样之一。他属于后世，作为后代在自由和正义原则上的教导者。他属于现在，属于我们，因他的美德和成就。
In 20 campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other he has drained deep the chalice of courage. 在20次战役中，在一百个战场上，在一千个篝火旁，我目睹了那种持久的坚韧，那种爱国的自我牺牲，以及那种不可战胜的决心——这些在他的人民心中刻下了他的雕像。从世界的一端到另一端，他已深深饮干了勇气的圣杯。
As I listened to those songs [of the glee club], in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World War, bending under soggy packs, on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the judgment seat of God. 当我聆听那些[合唱团的]歌曲时，在我的记忆中，我仿佛能看到第一次世界大战中那些惊人的纵队，他们背着湿透的背包，在许多疲惫的行军中，从滴水的黄昏到毛毛雨的黎明，跋涉穿过被炮弹轰击的道路的泥泞，为进攻而严阵以待，嘴唇冻蓝，浑身覆盖着淤泥和泥浆，被风和雨冷却着，向他们的目标推进，对许多人来说，是向上帝的审判席。
I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victory. Always, for them: Duty, Honor, Country; always their blood and sweat and tears, as we sought the way and the light and the truth. 我不知道他们出生的尊严，但我知道他们死亡的荣耀。他们毫无怨言地死去，心中怀着信念，嘴上带着我们将继续取得胜利的希望。永远为他们：责任、荣誉、国家；永远是他们的血、汗和泪，当我们寻找道路、光明和真理时。
And 20 years after, on the other side of the globe, again the filth of murky foxholes, the stench of ghostly trenches, the slime of dripping dugouts; those boiling suns of relentless heat, those torrential rains of devastating storms; the loneliness and utter desolation of jungle trails; the bitterness of long separation from those they loved and cherished; the deadly pestilence of tropical disease; the horror of stricken areas of war; their resolute and determined defense, their swift and sure attack, their indomitable purpose, their complete and decisive victory—always victory. 二十年后，在地球的另一端，又有了阴暗散兵坑里的污秽，鬼蜮般战壕里的恶臭，滴流的掩体里的黏液；那些无情的炎热太阳，那些毁灭性的暴风雨；丛林小径上的孤独和彻底的荒凉；与他们所爱和珍惜的人长久分离的痛苦；热带疾病的致命瘟疫；战争灾区的恐怖；他们坚决果断的防御，他们迅速果断的进攻，他们不屈不挠的目的，他们彻底的决定性胜利——永远是胜利。
Always through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, the vision of gaunt, ghastly men reverently following your password of: Duty, Honor, Country. 永远通过最后一阵阵还击的血腥烟雾，那些憔悴、苍白的人们的幻影，虔诚地遵循着你的口令：责任、荣誉、国家。
The code which those words perpetuate embraces the highest moral laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong. 这些字眼所传承的准则包含了最高的道德法则，将经得起任何为人类进步而颁布的伦理或哲学的考验。它的要求是正确的事情，它的约束来自错误的事情。
The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training—sacrifice. 士兵，高于所有其他人，被要求实践最伟大的宗教修行——牺牲。
In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when he created man in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the Divine help which alone can sustain him. 在战斗中，在危险和死亡面前，他揭示了造物主按照自己的形象创造人时赋予他的那些神圣属性。没有任何身体上的勇气和任何野蛮的本能可以替代那唯一能维持他的神圣帮助。
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind. 无论战争的事件多么可怕，被召唤为国献身的士兵是人类最高贵的发展。
You now face a new world—a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite, spheres, and missiles mark the beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us it has taken to form the earth, in the three or more billion years of development of the human race, there has never been a more abrupt or staggering evolution. We deal now not with things of this world alone, but with the illimitable distances and as yet unfathomed mysteries of the universe. We are reaching out for a new and boundless frontier. 你现在面对一个新的世界——一个变革的世界。卫星、球体和导弹对太空的推进标志着人类漫长故事中另一个时代的开始。在科学家告诉我们地球形成所经历的五十多亿年中，在人类发展的三十多亿年中，从未有过如此突然或惊人的演变。我们现在处理的不再仅仅是这个世界的事物，而是宇宙无限的距离和尚未被探索的奥秘。我们正在寻求一个新的、无限的前沿。
We speak in strange terms: of harnessing the cosmic energy; of making winds and tides work for us; of creating unheard synthetic materials to supplement or even replace our old standard basics; to purify sea water for our drink; of mining ocean floors for new fields of wealth and food; of disease preventatives to expand life into the hundreds of years; of controlling the weather for a more equitable distribution of heat and cold, of rain and shine; of space ships to the moon. 我们用奇怪的术语说话：关于利用宇宙能量；关于让风和潮汐为我们工作；关于创造前所未有的合成材料来补充甚至取代我们旧有的基础材料；关于净化海水供我们饮用；关于开采海底以获取新的财富和食物；关于预防疾病将寿命延长至数百年；关于控制天气以实现冷热、雨水和阳光的更公平分配；关于飞往月球的宇宙飞船。
Of the primary target in war, no longer limited to the armed forces of an enemy, but instead to include his civil populations; of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy; of such dreams and fantasies as to make life the most exciting of all time. 关于战争中的主要目标，不再仅限于敌人的武装力量，而是要包括他的平民人口；关于团结的人类与某个其他行星系的邪恶力量之间的最终冲突；关于那些使生命成为所有时代中最令人兴奋的梦想和幻想。
And through all this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined, inviolable: it is to win our wars. 在所有这些变革和发展的喧嚣中，你的使命保持不变，坚定不移，不可侵犯：那就是赢得我们的战争。
Everything else in your professional career is but corollary to this vital dedication. All other public purposes, all other public projects, all other public needs, great or small, will find others for their accomplishment. But you are the ones who are trained to fight. Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory; that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed; that the very obsession of your public service must be: Duty, Honor, Country. 你职业生涯中的其他一切都只是对这一重要奉献的补充。所有其他公共目的，所有其他公共项目，所有其他公共需求，无论大小，都会找到其他人来完成。但你们是那些被训练来战斗的人。你们的是武器的职业，胜利的意志，战争中没有胜利替代品的坚定知识；如果你失败了，国家就会被摧毁；你公共服务的痴迷必须是：责任、荣誉、国家。
Others will debate the controversial issues, national and international, which divide men's minds; but serene, calm, aloof, you stand as the Nation's war-guardian, as its lifeguard from the raging tides of international conflict, as its gladiator in the arena of battle. For a century and a half you have defended, guarded, and protected its hallowed traditions of liberty and freedom, of right and justice. 其他人将辩论那些分裂人心的国内外有争议的问题；但你安详、冷静、超然地站着，作为国家的战争守护者，作为从国际冲突汹涌潮汐中的救生员，作为战斗竞技场上的角斗士。一个半世纪以来，你一直在捍卫、守护和保护它关于自由与正义、权利与正义的神圣传统。
Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government; whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing, indulged in too long, by federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by taxes grown too high, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be. 让民间的声音来争论我们政府运作的优点或缺点；无论我们的实力是否因赤字融资而被消耗，联邦家长制是否过于强大，权力集团是否过于傲慢，政治是否过于腐败，犯罪是否过于猖獗，道德是否过于低下，税收是否过高，极端分子是否过于暴力；无论我们的个人自由是否像应有的那样彻底和完整。
These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night: Duty, Honor, Country. 这些重大国家问题不是你的专业参与或军事解决方案的范围。你的指路明灯像黑夜中十倍的灯塔一样突出：责任、荣誉、国家。
You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country. 你是将我们整个国家防务体系结构粘合在一起的酵母。从你们的队伍中涌现出伟大的船长们，他们在战争警钟敲响的时刻将国家的命运掌握在手中。长长的灰线从未让我们失望。如果你们这样做了，一百万穿着橄榄绿、棕色卡其布、蓝色和灰色军装的幽灵将从他们的白色十字架上崛起，雷鸣般地喊出那些神奇的字眼：责任、荣誉、国家。
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. 这并不意味着你们是好战分子。相反，士兵，高于所有其他人，为和平祈祷，因为他必须承受战争最深的伤口和伤疤。
But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war." 但在我们耳边始终回响着柏拉图——那位最智慧的哲学家——不祥的话语："只有死者看到了战争的终结。"
The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. 阴影正在为我拉长。黄昏已至。我旧日的日子已经消逝，色彩和色调都已褪去。它们在事物的梦中闪烁着消逝。它们的记忆是一种奇妙的美，被泪水浇灌，被昨天的微笑温柔地抚摸。
I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. 我徒劳地聆听，但用渴望的耳朵，聆听微弱的军号吹响起床号的迷人旋律，聆听遥远的战鼓敲响长长的鼓声。在我的梦中，我再次听到枪炮的撞击声，步枪的咔嗒声，战场上那奇异的、哀伤的低语。
But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country. 但在我记忆的黄昏，我总是回到西点。那里永远回响着：责任、荣誉、国家。
Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. 今天标志着我与你们的最后一次点名，但我想让你们知道，当我渡过那条河时，我最后的有意识想法将是关于陆战队，关于陆战队，关于陆战队。
I bid you farewell. 我向你们告别。