Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Speaker, members of my family and friends, my countrymen, and the friends of my country wherever they may be: 主席先生，副总统先生，首席大法官先生，议长先生，我的家人和朋友们，我的同胞们，以及我国各地的朋友们：
We meet again, as upon a like moment four years ago, and again you have witnessed my solemn oath of service to you. 四年前的这一刻，我们曾在此相聚，今天你们又一次见证了我向你们庄严宣誓服务的时刻。
I, too, am a witness, today testifying in your name to the principles and purposes to which we, as a people, are pledged. 我也是一位见证人，今天以你们的名义见证我们作为一个民族所承诺的原则和目标。
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God. And the hopes in our hearts fashion the deepest prayers of our whole people. 首先，我们在国家共同的劳动中寻求全能上帝的祝福。我们心中的希望构成了全体人民最深切的祈祷。
May we pursue the right--without self-righteousness. 愿我们追求正义——却不自以为义。
May we know unity--without conformity. 愿我们懂得团结——却不盲目顺从。
May we grow in strength--without pride in self. 愿我们成长壮大——却不自傲自满。
May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. 愿我们在与世界各国人民的交往中，永远讲真话、行正义。
And so shall America--in the sight of all men of good will-prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass. 如此，美国——在所有善良人们的眼中——将证明忠于那些在我们经历的这个考验时刻约束和统治我们作为一个民族的崇高目标。
We live in a land of plenty, but rarely has this earth known such peril as today. 我们生活在一个富足的国度，但今天这个世界很少经历过如此的危险。
In our nation work and wealth abound. Our population grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors and highways. Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. The air rings with the song of our industry--rolling mills and blast furnaces, dynamos, dams and assembly lines--the chorus of America the bountiful. 在我们国家，工作和财富充裕。人口增长。商业活动挤满了我们的河流、铁路、天空、港口和公路。土壤肥沃，农业高产。空气中回荡着我们工业的歌声——轧钢机、鼓风炉、发电机、水坝和装配线——这是丰饶的美国的合唱。
Now this is our home--yet this is not the whole of our world. For our world is where our full destiny lies--with men, of all peoples and all nations, who are or would be free. And for them--and so for us--this is no time of ease or of rest. 这是我们的家园——但这并非我们世界的全部。因为我们的世界是我们全部命运所在之处——与所有民族、所有国家中那些已经自由或渴望自由的人们同在。对他们而言——也对我们而言——这不是安逸或休息的时代。
In too much of the earth there is want, discord, danger. New forces and new nations stir and strive across the earth, with power to bring, by their fate, great good or great evil to the free world's future. From the deserts of North Africa to the islands of the South Pacific one third of all mankind has entered upon an historic struggle for a new freedom: freedom from grinding poverty. Across all continents, nearly a billion people seek, sometimes almost in desperation, for the skills and knowledge and assistance by which they may satisfy from their own resources, the material wants common to all mankind. 在世界太多地方，存在着匮乏、纷争和危险。新的力量和新的国家在全球范围内涌动和奋斗，它们的命运有能力给自由世界的未来带来巨大的善或巨大的恶。从北非沙漠到南太平洋岛屿，人类三分之一已进入一场争取新自由的历史性斗争：摆脱极度贫困的自由。在各大洲，近十亿人有时近乎绝望地寻求技能、知识和援助，以便从自己的资源中满足全人类共有的物质需求。
No nation, however old or great, escapes this tempest of change and turmoil. Some, impoverished by the recent World War, seek to restore their means of livelihood. In the heart of Europe, Germany still stands tragically divided. So is the whole continent divided. And so, too, all the world. 没有任何国家，无论多古老或多伟大，能逃脱这场变革和动荡的风暴。一些因最近的世界大战而贫困的国家，正努力恢复生计。在欧洲中心，德国仍然悲惨地分裂着。整个大陆也是如此。整个世界也是如此。
The divisive force is International Communism and the power that it controls. 造成分裂的力量是国际共产主义及其控制的势力。
The designs of that power, dark in purpose, are clear in practice. It strives to seal forever the fate of those it has enslaved. It strives to break the ties that unite the free. And it strives to capture--to exploit for its own greater power--all forces of change in the world, especially the needs of the hungry and the hopes of the oppressed. 那种力量的图谋，目的阴暗，实践中却很明显。它努力永远锁定那些被它奴役者的命运。它努力打破团结自由人民的纽带。它努力夺取——为增强自己的力量而利用——世界上所有变革的力量，特别是饥饿者的需求和被压迫者的希望。
Yet the world of International Communism has itself been shaken by a fierce and mighty force: the readiness of men who love freedom to pledge their lives to that love. Through the night of their bondage, the unconquerable will of heroes has struck with the swift, sharp thrust of lightning. Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city; henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man's yearning to be free. 然而，国际共产主义世界本身也被一股强大的力量所震撼：热爱自由的人们随时准备为这种爱献出生命的决心。在他们被奴役的黑夜中，英雄们不可征服的意志像闪电般迅猛而尖锐地出击。布达佩斯不再仅仅是一座城市的名字；从今以后，它是人类渴望自由的新的光辉象征。
Thus across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change. And, we--though fortunate be our lot--know that we can never turn our backs to them. 因此，狂风席卷全球。而我们——尽管命运幸运——知道我们永远不能背向它们。
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose--the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. 我们面对这个动荡的世界，宣布我们坚定而不变的目标——在一个道德法则盛行的世界里，建立一个公正的和平。
The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning--and ready to pay its full price. 建立这样的和平是一项大胆而庄严的使命。宣布它很容易。服务它将很困难。要实现它，我们必须充分认识其全部含义——并准备付出全部代价。
We know clearly what we seek, and why. 我们清楚地知道我们追求什么，以及为什么追求。
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself. 我们寻求和平，因为和平是自由的气候。现在，正如在其他任何时代，我们寻求和平，因为现代武器的力量警告我们，和平可能是人类生命本身唯一可能的气候。
Yet this peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone: it must be rooted in the lives of nations. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. But the law of which we speak, comprehending the values of freedom, affirms the equality of all nations, great and small. 然而，我们寻求的这种和平不能仅靠恐惧而生：它必须植根于各国人民的生活中。必须有正义，被所有人民感知和分享，因为没有正义，世界只能知道一种紧张而不稳定的休战。必须有法律，被所有国家坚定地援引和尊重，因为没有法律，世界只能承诺强者对弱者的微薄怜悯。但我们所说的法律，包含自由的价值观，确认所有国家无论大小一律平等。
Splendid as can be the blessings of such a peace, high will be its cost: in toil patiently sustained, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne. 这样一种和平的祝福虽然辉煌，代价却高昂：需要耐心持续的辛劳，需要体面给予的帮助，需要冷静承受的牺牲。
We are called to meet the price of this peace. 我们被召唤来承担这份和平的代价。
To counter the threat of those who seek to rule by force, we must pay the costs of our own needed military strength, and help to build the security of others. 为了对抗那些企图以武力统治的威胁，我们必须承担我们自身所需军事力量的成本，并帮助建立他人的安全。
We must use our skills and knowledge and, at times, our substance, to help others rise from misery, however far the scene of suffering may be from our shores. For wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict. 我们必须运用我们的技能和知识，有时甚至是我们的物资，帮助他人摆脱苦难，无论苦难的场景离我们的海岸有多远。因为在世界上任何地方，只要人们知道绝望的匮乏，就必须至少出现希望的火花，进步的希望，否则最终必将燃起冲突的火焰。
We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere. We are accordingly pledged to honor, and to strive to fortify, the authority of the United Nations. For in that body rests the best hope of our age for the assertion of that law by which all nations may live in dignity. 我们承认并接受我们与世界各地人民命运的深刻联系。因此，我们承诺尊重并努力加强联合国的权威。因为在这个机构中，寄托着我们这个时代通过法律使所有国家有尊严地生活的最大希望。
And beyond this general resolve, we are called to act a responsible role in the world's great concerns or conflicts--whether they touch upon the affairs of a vast region, the fate of an island in the Pacific, or the use of a canal in the Middle East. Only in respecting the hopes and cultures of others will we practice the equality of all nations. Only as we show willingness and wisdom in giving counsel in receiving counsel--and in sharing burdens, will we wisely perform the work of peace. 除了这一普遍决心之外，我们还被召唤在世界重大事务或冲突中发挥负责任的作用——无论是涉及广阔地区的事务、太平洋岛屿的命运，还是中东运河的使用。只有尊重他人的希望和文化，我们才能实践各国平等。只有我们表现出提供建议、接受建议和分担负担的意愿和智慧，我们才能明智地履行和平的工作。
For one truth must rule all we think and all we do. No people can live to itself alone. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense. The economic need of all nations-in mutual dependence--makes isolation an impossibility: not even America's prosperity could long survive if other nations did not also prosper. No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people, seeking such shelter for themselves, can now build only their own prison. 有一个真理必须支配我们所有的思想和行动。没有任何民族能够独善其身。所有生活在自由中的人的团结是他们唯一可靠的防御。所有国家在经济上的相互依赖使孤立成为不可能：如果其他国家不繁荣，即使是美国的繁荣也不可能长久维持。没有任何国家再能成为一座孤独、强大和安全的堡垒。任何寻求这种庇护的人民，现在只能建造自己的监狱。
Our pledge to these principles is constant, because we believe in their rightness. 我们对这些原则的承诺是坚定的，因为我们相信它们是正确的。
We do not fear this world of change. America is no stranger to much of its spirit. Everywhere we see the seeds of the same growth that America itself has known. The American experiment has, for generations, fired the passion and the courage of millions elsewhere seeking freedom, equality, opportunity. And the American story of material progress has helped excite the longing of all needy peoples for some satisfaction of their human wants. These hopes that we have helped to inspire, we can help to fulfill. 我们不畏惧这个变化的世界。美国对其精神并不陌生。我们到处看到与美国自身所经历的同样成长的种子。几代人以来，美国的实验激发了数百万其他地方寻求自由、平等和机会的人的激情和勇气。美国物质进步的故事帮助激发了所有贫困人民满足人类需求的渴望。这些我们帮助激发的希望，我们可以帮助实现。
In this confidence, we speak plainly to all peoples. 怀着这种信心，我们坦率地对所有人民说话。
We cherish our friendship with all nations that are or would be free. We respect, no less, their independence. And when, in time of want or peril, they ask our help, they may honorably receive it; for we no more seek to buy their sovereignty than we would sell our own. Sovereignty is never bartered among free men. 我们珍视与所有已经自由或渴望自由的国家的友谊。我们同样尊重它们的独立。当它们在匮乏或危险时刻寻求我们的帮助时，它们可以体面地接受；因为我们既不寻求购买它们的主权，也不会出售我们自己的主权。主权在自由人之间从不被交易。
We honor the aspirations of those nations which, now captive, long for freedom. We seek neither their military alliance nor any artificial imitation of our society. And they can know the warmth of the welcome that awaits them when, as must be, they join again the ranks of freedom. 我们尊重那些目前被俘虏、渴望自由的国家的愿望。我们既不寻求它们的军事联盟，也不寻求我们社会的任何人为模仿。当它们重新加入自由行列时——这是必然的——它们可以感受到等待它们的温暖欢迎。
We honor, no less in this divided world than in a less tormented time, the people of Russia. We do not dread, rather do we welcome, their progress in education and industry. We wish them success in their demands for more intellectual freedom, greater security before their own laws, fuller enjoyment of the rewards of their own toil. For as such things come to pass, the more certain will be the coming of that day when our peoples may freely meet in friendship. 在这个分裂的世界里，我们与在不那么痛苦的时代一样，尊重俄罗斯人民。我们不畏惧，而是欢迎它们在教育和工业方面的进步。我们祝愿它们在要求更多知识自由、在自己的法律面前更安全、更充分享受自己劳动成果方面取得成功。因为随着这些事情的实现，我们两国人民能够自由友好相见的那一天将更加确定。
So we voice our hope and our belief that we can help to heal this divided world. Thus may the nations cease to live in trembling before the menace of force. Thus may the weight of fear and the weight of arms be taken from the burdened shoulders of mankind. 因此，我们表达我们的希望和信念，即我们能够帮助治愈这个分裂的世界。这样，各国可能不再在武力威胁下颤抖地生活。这样，恐惧的重担和军备的重担可能从人类负担沉重的肩膀上卸下。
This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated. 这正是我们被召唤去做的工作，也是我们力量所致力于的事业。
And so the prayer of our people carries far beyond our own frontiers, to the wide world of our duty and our destiny. 因此，我们人民的祈祷远远超出我们自己的边界，延伸到我们职责和命运所在的广阔世界。
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly--until at last the darkness is no more. 愿自由之光降临所有黑暗的土地，明亮燃烧——直到最后黑暗不复存在。
May the turbulence of our age yield to a true time of peace, when men and nations shall share a life that honors the dignity of each, the brotherhood of all. 愿我们时代的动荡让位于真正的和平时期，那时各国人民将共享一种尊重每个人尊严、所有人兄弟情谊的生活。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢大家。