To Irene, Ken, Jennifer, Danny's friends and former colleagues, it is an extraordinary honor to be here with you in this magnificent place to pay tribute to a man who would probably be wondering what all the fuss is about. 致Irene、Ken、Jennifer、Danny的朋友们和昔日的同事们，能在这座宏伟的殿堂里与你们同在，向一位大概会纳闷「这些大惊小怪是为何」的人致敬，是我莫大的荣幸。
This Tuesday was in many ways a day like any other. The sun rose; the sun set; the great work of our democracy carried on. But in a fundamental sense it was different. It was the first day in many of our lives -- certainly my own -- that the halls of the United States Congress were not graced by the presence of Daniel Ken Inouye. 这周二在很多方面都和平常一样。太阳升起；太阳落下；民主的伟大事业继续前行。但从根本上说，这一天是不同的。这是在我们许多人的一生中——当然也包括我自己的——美国国会大厅首次没有Daniel Ken Inouye身影的一天。
Danny was elected to the U.S. Senate when I was two years old. He had been elected to Congress a couple of years before I was born. He would remain my senator until I left Hawaii for college. Danny当选美国参议员时我才两岁。他在我出生前几年就当选了众议员。在我离开Hawaii去上大学之前，他一直是我的参议员。
Now, even though my mother and grandparents took great pride that they had voted for him, I confess that I wasn't paying much attention to the United States Senate at the age of four or five or six. It wasn't until I was 11 years old that I recall even learning what a U.S. senator was, or it registering, at least. It was during my summer vacation with my family -- my first trip to what those of us in Hawaii call the Mainland. 虽然我的母亲和外祖父母为投票支持他而深感自豪，但我承认在四五六岁时，我并没有太关注美国参议院。直到十一岁，我才依稀记得自己知道了什么是美国参议员，或者说至少才开始有印象。那是在我和家人度过暑假期间——我第一次去到我们Hawaii人称之为「大陆」的地方。
So we flew over the ocean, and with my mother and my grandmother and my sister, who at the time was two, we traveled around the country. It was a big trip. We went to Seattle, and we went to Disneyland -- which was most important. We traveled to Kansas where my grandmother's family was from, and went to Chicago, and went to Yellowstone. And we took Greyhound buses most of the time, and we rented cars, and we would stay at local motels or Howard Johnson's. 于是我们飞越海洋，我和妈妈、外婆以及当时才两岁的妹妹一起在全国旅行。那是一次大旅行。我们去了Seattle，去了Disneyland——这最重要。我们去了Kansas，那是我外婆的故乡，还去了Chicago和Yellowstone。大部分时间我们坐Greyhound巴士，也会租车，住在当地的汽车旅馆或Howard Johnson's。
And if there was a pool at one of these motels, even if it was just tiny, I would be very excited. And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that. 如果这些汽车旅馆里有个游泳池，哪怕很小，我都会非常兴奋。制冰机也很令人兴奋——还有自动售货机，我对那个更是兴奋得不得了。
But this is at a time when you didn't have 600 stations and 24 hours' worth of cartoons. And so at night, if the TV was on, it was what your parents decided to watch. And my mother that summer would turn on the TV every night during this vacation and watch the Watergate hearings. And I can't say that I understood everything that was being discussed, but I knew the issues were important. I knew they spoke to some basic way about who we were and who we might be as Americans. 那是一个没有六百个频道和二十四小时动画片的时代。所以到了晚上，如果电视开着，看的都是父母选的节目。那年夏天，我母亲每天晚上都会打开电视，在假期里收看Watergate听证会。我不能说我听懂了所有讨论的内容，但我知道那些议题很重要。我知道它们在某种程度上关乎我们作为美国人是谁，以及我们可能成为谁。
And so, slowly, during the course of this trip, which lasted about a month, some of this seeped into my head. And the person who fascinated me most was this man of Japanese descent with one arm, speaking in this courtly baritone, full of dignity and grace. And maybe he captivated my attention because my mom explained that this was our senator and that he was upholding what our government was all about. Maybe it was a boyhood fascination with the story of how he had lost his arm in a war. But I think it was more than that. 于是，在这趟持续约一个月的旅途中，有些东西慢慢渗透进了我的脑海。最让我着迷的是这位日裔男子，他只有一只手臂，说话带着庄重的男中音，充满尊严与优雅。也许他吸引了我的注意，是因为妈妈告诉我这是我们的参议员，他在捍卫我们政府的核心理念。也许是小男孩对他在战争中失去手臂的故事着了迷。但我想，意义远不止于此。
Now, here I was, a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. And I was beginning to sense how fitting into the world might not be as simple as it might seem. And so to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who wasn't out of central casting when it came to what you'd think a senator might look like at the time, and the way he commanded the respect of an entire nation I think it hinted to me what might be possible in my own life. 那时的我，一个白人母亲、黑人父亲的孩子，在Indonesia和Hawaii长大。我开始意识到，融入这个世界可能并不像看上去那么简单。所以看到这个人，这位参议员，这位有力量的、有成就的人，他完全不符合你当时认为参议员应该长的样子，却能赢得整个国家的尊重——这让我隐约看到了自己人生中的可能性。
This was a man who as a teenager stepped up to serve his country even after his fellow Japanese Americans were declared enemy aliens; a man who believed in America even when its government didn't necessarily believe in him. That meant something to me. It gave me a powerful sense -- one that I couldn't put into words -- a powerful sense of hope. 这是一个在青少年时期就挺身报国的人，即使在他身边的日裔美国人被宣布为敌国侨民之后依然如此；一个即使政府未必信任他，依然相信America的人。这对我来说意味着很多。它给了我一种强烈的感觉——一种我无法用言语表达的感觉——一种强烈的希望。
And as I watched those hearings, listening to Danny ask all those piercing questions night after night, I learned something else. I learned how our democracy was supposed to work, our government of and by and for the people; that we had a system of government where nobody is above the law, where we have an obligation to hold each other accountable, from the average citizen to the most powerful of leaders, because these things that we stand for, these ideals that we hold dear are bigger than any one person or party or politician. 当我观看那些听证会，听Danny夜复一夜提出那些尖锐的问题时，我还学到了别的东西。我学到了我们的民主应该如何运作，我们的民有、民治、民享的政府；我们有一种任何人都不能凌驾于法律之上的制度，我们有义务互相问责，从普通公民到最有权力的领导人，因为我们所捍卫的这些理念比任何一个人、一个政党或一个政客都要伟大。
And, somehow, nobody communicated that more effectively than Danny Inouye. You got a sense, as Joe mentioned, of just a fundamental integrity; that he was a proud Democrat, but most importantly, he was a proud American. And were it not for those two insights planted in my head at the age of 11, in between Disneyland and a trip to Yellowstone, I might never have considered a career in public service. I might not be standing here today. 而且，没有人比Danny Inouye更有效地传达了这一点。正如Joe所提到的，你能感受到一种根本的正直；他是一个自豪的民主党人，但最重要的是，他是一个自豪的美国人。如果不是十一岁时在我的脑海中种下的这两份感悟——在Disneyland和Yellowstone之旅之间——我可能永远不会考虑投身公共服务。我今天可能就不会站在这里。
I think it's fair to say that Danny Inouye was perhaps my earliest political inspiration. 我想可以这样说，Danny Inouye也许是我最早的政治启发者。
And then, for me to have the privilege of serving with him, to be elected to the United States Senate and arrive, and one of my first visits is to go to his office, and for him to greet me as a colleague, and treat me with the same respect that he treated everybody he met, and to sit me down and give me advice about how the Senate worked and then regale me with some stories about wartime and his recovery -- stories full of humor, never bitterness, never boastfulness, just matter-of-fact -- some of them I must admit a little off-color. 后来，我有幸与他共事，当选美国参议员并抵达国会，我最早的拜访之一就是去他的办公室。他以同事之礼迎接我，像对待他遇到的每一个人那样尊重我。他让我坐下，给我讲解参议院的运作方式，然后讲了一些战争时期和他康复期间的故事——那些故事充满幽默，从不苦涩，从不自夸，只是平平淡淡地讲述——有些我得承认有点不雅。
I couldn't probably repeat them in the cathedral. There's a side of Danny that -- well. 我大概无法在教堂里复述那些。Danny还有这样的一面——嗯。
Danny once told his son his service to this country had been for the children, or all the sons and daughters who deserved to grow up in a nation that never questioned their patriotism. Danny曾告诉他的儿子，他为国家服务是为了孩子们，为了所有理应在这样一个国家长大、其爱国心从不被质疑的儿女们。
This is my country, he said. Many of us have fought hard for the right to say that. And, obviously, Rick Shinseki described what it meant for Japanese Americans, but my point is, is that when he referred to our sons and daughters he wasn't just talking about Japanese Americans. He was talking about all of us. He was talking about those who serve today who might have been excluded in the past. He's talking about me. 「这是我的国家，」他说。「我们中许多人为了说出这句话的权利而奋力抗争。」显然，Rick Shinseki描述了这对日裔美国人意味着什么，但我想说的是，当他提到我们的儿女时，他不仅仅是在说日裔美国人。他是在说我们所有人。他是在说那些今天服役、在过去可能被排斥的人。他是在说我。
And that's who Danny was. For him, freedom and dignity were not abstractions. They were values that he had bled for, ideas he had sacrificed for, rights he understood as only someone can who has had them threatened, had them taken away. 这就是Danny的为人。对他来说，自由和尊严不是抽象概念。它们是他为之流血的价值观，是他为之牺牲的理念，是他作为曾经被威胁、被剥夺过权利的人才能理解的权利。
The valor that earned him our nation's highest military decoration -- a story so incredible that when you actually read the accounts, you think this -- you couldn't make this up. It's like out of an action movie. That valor was so rooted in a deep and abiding love of this country. And he believed, as we say in Hawaii that we're a single 'ohana -- that we're one family. And he devoted his life to making that family strong. 为他赢得国家最高军事荣誉的英勇——那个故事如此令人难以置信，当你读到那些记述时，你会觉得——这简直编不出来。就像动作片一样。那种英勇深植于对这个国家深沉而持久的爱。他相信，正如我们在Hawaii所说的，我们是一个'ohana——我们是一家人。他毕生致力于让这个家庭更加强大。
After experiencing the horror of war himself, Danny also felt a profound connection to those who followed. It wasn't unusual for him to take time out of his busy schedule to sit down with a veteran or a fellow amputee, trading stories, telling jokes -- two heroes, generations apart, sharing an unspoken bond that was forged in battle and tempered in peace. In no small measure because of Danny's service, our military is, and will always remain, the best in the world, and we recognize our sacred obligation to give our veterans the care they deserve. 在亲身经历战争的恐怖之后，Danny也与后来者建立了深厚的联系。他常常在繁忙的日程中抽出时间，与一位退伍军人或一位同是截肢者的人坐下来交谈，交换故事，讲讲笑话——两位英雄，相隔几代人，分享着在战火中铸就、在和平中淬炼的无言纽带。在很大程度上，正是因为Danny的服务，我们的军队现在是、也将永远是最好的军队，我们认识到给予退伍军人他们应得照顾的神圣义务。
Of course, Danny didn't always take credit for the difference he made. Ever humble, one of the only landmarks that bear his name is a Marine Corps mess hall in Hawaii. And when someone asked him how he wanted to be remembered, Danny said, "I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay." 当然，Danny并不总是把他的贡献归功于自己。他始终谦逊，以他名字命名的地标之一不过是Hawaii的一个海军陆战队食堂。当有人问他希望被怎样铭记时，Danny说：「我诚实并尽我所能地代表Hawaii人民和这个国家。我觉得我做得还不错。」
Danny, you were more than okay. You were extraordinary. Danny，你不仅仅是不错。你是非凡的。
It's been mentioned that Danny ended his convention speech in Chicago in 1968 with the word, "aloha." "To some of you who visited us, it may have meant hello," he said, but "To others, it may have meant goodbye. Those of us who've been privileged to live in Hawaii understand aloha means I love you." 有人提到，Danny在1968年Chicago的大会演讲中最后说的是「aloha」这个词。「对一些来过我们这里的人来说，它可能意味着你好，」他说，但「对另一些人来说，它可能意味着再见。我们中有幸生活在Hawaii的人明白，aloha的意思是我爱你。」
And as someone who has been privileged to live in Hawaii, I know that he embodied the very best of that spirit, the very best of "aloha." It's fitting it was the last word that Danny spoke on this Earth. He may have been saying goodbye to us. Maybe he was saying hello to someone waiting on the other side. But it was a final expression most of all of his love for the family and friends that he cared so much about, for the men and women he was honored to serve with, for the country that held such a special place in his heart. 作为一个有幸在Hawaii生活过的人，我知道他体现了那种精神最美好的一面，最美好的「aloha」。他在这世上说的最后一个词是「aloha」，这是再合适不过的了。他可能是在向我们告别。也许他是在向另一边等待的人说你好。但这更是一种最终的表达——他对那些他深爱的家人和朋友、对那些他有幸与之共事的男男女女、对那个在他心中占据特殊位置的国家——的爱。
And so we remember a man who inspired all of us with his courage, and moved us with his compassion, that inspired us with his integrity, and who taught so many of us -- including a young kid growing up in Hawaii -- that America has a place for everyone. 所以我们铭记这样一个人，他以勇气激励了我们所有人，以慈悲感动了我们，以正直鼓舞了我们，他教会了我们那么多人——包括一个在Hawaii长大的孩子——America有每个人的位置。
May God bless Daniel Inouye. 愿上帝赐福Daniel Inouye。
And may God grant us more souls like his. 愿上帝再赐我们更多像他那样的灵魂。
