Your Eminence, Vicki, Kara, Edward, Patrick, Curran, Caroline, members of the Kennedy family, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: 尊敬的枢机主教阁下、维基、卡拉、爱德华、帕特里克、柯伦、卡罗琳，肯尼迪家族成员，各位贵宾，同胞们：
Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had none; the soul of the Democratic Party; and the lion of the U.S. Senate - a man whose name graces nearly one thousand laws, and who penned more than three hundred himself. 今天，我们向罗斯与约瑟夫·肯尼迪最年幼的孩子道别。世界将长久铭记他们的儿子爱德华——他是一份沉重遗产的继承人；是无权无势者的捍卫者；是民主党的灵魂；是美国参议院的雄狮——一个名字出现在近千部法律之中、亲手撰写超过三百部法律的人。
But those of us who loved him, and ache with his passing, know Ted Kennedy by the other titles he held: Father. Brother. Husband. Uncle Teddy, or as he was often known to his younger nieces and nephews, "The Grand Fromage," or "The Big Cheese." I, like so many others in the city where he worked for nearly half a century, knew him as a colleague, a mentor, and above all, a friend. 但我们这些爱他、为他的离去而心痛的人，知道泰德·肯尼迪拥有的其他头衔：父亲。兄弟。丈夫。泰迪叔叔，或者正如他年幼的侄女侄子们常称呼的那样，"大奶酪"。我，如同这座他为之工作了近半个世纪的城市里的许多人一样，视他为同事、导师，而最重要的是，朋友。
Ted Kennedy was the baby of the family who became its patriarch; the restless dreamer who became its rock. He was the sunny, joyful child, who bore the brunt of his brothers' teasing, but learned quickly how to brush it off. When they tossed him off a boat because he didn't know what a jib was, six-year-old Teddy got back in and learned to sail. When a photographer asked the newly-elected Bobby to step back at a press conference because he was casting a shadow on his younger brother, Teddy quipped, "It'll be the same in Washington." 泰德·肯尼迪是家里的幼子，却成了家族的族长；是不安分的梦想家，却成了家族的磐石。他是那个阳光快乐的孩子，承受着哥哥们的戏弄，却很快学会了一笑置之。当他们因为他不知道什么是三角帆而把他扔下船时，六岁的泰迪爬回船上，学会了航行。当一位摄影师在新闻发布会上要求新当选的鲍比往后站，因为他挡住了弟弟的光线时，泰迪打趣道："到了华盛顿也一样。"
This spirit of resilience and good humor would see Ted Kennedy through more pain and tragedy than most of us will ever know. He lost two siblings by the age of sixteen. He saw two more taken violently from the country that loved them. He said goodbye to his beloved sister, Eunice, in the final days of his own life. He narrowly survived a plane crash, watched two children struggle with cancer, buried three nephews, and experienced personal failings and setbacks in the most public way possible. 这种坚韧与幽默的精神，帮助泰德·肯尼迪度过了比我们大多数人一生经历的都更多的痛苦与悲剧。他在十六岁前就失去了两个兄弟姐妹。他亲眼目睹另外两位被暴力夺走，离开了热爱他们的国家。他在自己生命的最后几天，与挚爱的姐姐尤妮斯道别。他在一次飞机失事中险死还生，看着两个孩子与癌症抗争，埋葬了三个侄子，还以最公开的方式经历了个人的失败与挫折。
It is a string of events that would have broken a lesser man. And it would have been easy for Teddy to let himself become bitter and hardened; to surrender to self-pity and regret; to retreat from public life and live out his years in peaceful quiet. No one would have blamed him for that. 这一连串的事件足以击垮一个不如他坚强的人。泰迪完全有理由让自己变得愤世嫉俗、冷酷无情；沉溺于自怜与悔恨；退出公共生活，在平静安宁中度过余生。没有人会因此责备他。
But that was not Ted Kennedy. As he told us, "...[I]ndividual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves." Indeed, Ted was the "Happy Warrior" that the poet William Wordsworth spoke of when he wrote: 但那不是泰德·肯尼迪。正如他告诉我们的："……个人的过错与弱点不是放弃的借口——也不能免除我们奉献自我的共同义务。"事实上，泰德正是诗人威廉·华兹华斯所描述的"快乐的战士"，他曾写道：
As tempted more; more able to endure, 诱惑越多，越能坚韧承受；
As more exposed to suffering and distress; 越多暴露于苦难与悲痛之中，
Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. 便越对温柔与怜悯敏感。
Through his own suffering, Ted Kennedy became more alive to the plight and suffering of others - the sick child who could not see a doctor; the young soldier sent to battle without armor; the citizen denied her rights because of what she looks like or who she loves or where she comes from. The landmark laws that he championed -- the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, immigration reform, children's health care, the Family and Medical Leave Act -all have a running thread. 通过自身的痛苦，泰德·肯尼迪对他人的困境与苦难变得更加敏感——看不起医生的患病儿童；没有盔甲就被派上战场的年轻士兵；因相貌、所爱之人或出身而被剥夺权利的公民。他推动的那些里程碑式的法律——《民权法案》、《美国残疾人法案》、移民改革、儿童医疗保健、《家庭与医疗休假法案》——都贯穿着一条主线。
Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard; to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity; to make real the dream of our founding. He was given the gift of time that his brothers were not, and he used that gift to touch as many lives and right as many wrongs as the years would allow. 泰德·肯尼迪一生的事业，不是为那些拥有财富、权力或特殊关系的人奔走呼号。而是为那些被倾听者发声；为机会之梯增添一级台阶；让建国的梦想变为现实。他获得了他的兄弟们未能拥有的时间礼物，他用这份礼物，在岁月允许的范围内，触动了尽可能多的生命，纠正了尽可能多的不公。
We can still hear his voice bellowing through the Senate chamber, face reddened, fist pounding the podium, a veritable force of nature, in support of health care or workers' rights or civil rights. 我们仍能听到他的声音在参议院议事厅中咆哮，涨红着脸，拳头捶打着讲台，为医疗保健、劳工权利或民权呐喊助威，俨然一股自然之力。
And yet, while his causes became deeply personal, his disagreements never did. While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that is not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw him. He was a product of an age when the joy and nobility of politics prevented differences of party and philosophy from becoming barriers to cooperation and mutual respect - a time when adversaries still saw each other as patriots. 然而，虽然他的事业变得与个人深切相关，他的分歧却从未如此。虽然他最激烈的批评者将他视为党派避雷针，但那不是泰德·肯尼迪看待世界的棱镜，也不是他的同事们看待他的棱镜。他是一个时代的产物——在那个时代，政治的喜悦与崇高，阻止了党派与理念的差异成为合作与相互尊重的障碍——一个对手仍将彼此视为爱国者的时代。
And that's how Ted Kennedy became the greatest legislator of our time. He did it by hewing to principle, but also by seeking compromise and common cause - not through deal-making and horse-trading alone, but through friendship, and kindness, and humor. 而这就是泰德·肯尼迪如何成为我们这个时代最伟大的立法者。他既坚守原则，也寻求妥协与共同立场——不仅通过交易与讨价还价，更通过友谊、善意与幽默。
There was the time he courted Orrin Hatch's support for the Children's Health Insurance Program by having his Chief of Staff serenade the Senator with a song Orrin had written himself; the time he delivered shamrock cookies on a china plate to sweeten up a crusty Republican colleague; and the famous story of how he won the support of a Texas Committee Chairman on an immigration bill. 有一次，为了争取奥林·哈奇对《儿童健康保险计划》的支持，他让自己的幕僚长为这位参议员演唱了一首奥林自己写的歌；有一次，他用瓷盘送去三叶草饼干，哄好了一位脾气暴躁的共和党同僚；还有那个著名的故事，讲述他如何赢得一位德州委员会主席对移民法案的支持。
Teddy walked into a meeting with a plain manila envelope, and showed only the Chairman that it was filled with the Texan's favorite cigars. When the negotiations were going well, he would inch the envelope closer to the Chairman. When they weren't, he would pull it back. Before long, the deal was done. 泰迪带着一个普通的马尼拉信封走进会议，只让主席看到里面装满了这位德州人最爱的雪茄。谈判顺利时，他就把信封慢慢推向主席；不顺利时，就把它拉回来。没过多久，协议就达成了。
It was only a few years ago, on St. Patrick's Day, when Teddy buttonholed me on the floor of the Senate for my support on a certain piece of legislation that was coming up for vote. I gave him my pledge, but expressed my skepticism that it would pass. But when the roll call was over, the bill garnered the votes it needed, and then some. I looked at Teddy with astonishment and asked how he had pulled it off. He just patted me on the back, and said "Luck of the Irish!" 就在几年前的圣帕特里克节，泰迪在参议院议厅里拉住我，要我支持一项即将投票的法案。我答应了他，但对法案能否通过表示怀疑。但唱票结束后，法案不仅获得了所需票数，还绰绰有余。我惊讶地看着泰迪，问他是怎么做到的。他只是拍拍我的背说："爱尔兰人的运气！"
Of course, luck had little to do with Ted Kennedy's legislative success, and he knew that. A few years ago, his father-in-law told him that he and Daniel Webster just might be the two greatest senators of all time. Without missing a beat, Teddy replied, "What did Webster do?" 当然，泰德·肯尼迪的立法成就与运气关系不大，他自己也知道这一点。几年前，他的岳父告诉他，他和丹尼尔·韦伯斯特或许是有史以来最伟大的两位参议员。泰迪不假思索地回答："韦伯斯特做了什么？"
But though it is Ted Kennedy's historic body of achievements we will remember, it is his giving heart that we will miss. It was the friend and colleague who was always the first to pick up the phone and say, "I'm sorry for your loss," or "I hope you feel better," or "What can I do to help?" 虽然我们会铭记泰德·肯尼迪历史上的一系列成就，但我们会怀念的，是他那颗慷慨之心。他是那位朋友与同事，总是第一个拿起电话说："对你的失去我深感遗憾，"或"希望你快点好起来，"或"我能帮你做什么？"
It was the boss who was so adored by his staff that over five hundred spanning five decades showed up for his 75th birthday party. It was the man who sent birthday wishes and thank you notes and even his own paintings to so many who never imagined that a U.S. Senator would take the time to think about someone like them. 他是那位深受员工爱戴的老板，跨越五十年的五百多名员工都出席了他的七十五岁生日派对。他是那个向那么多人送去生日祝福、感谢信，甚至自己画作的人——那些人从未想到过，一位美国参议员会花时间去想念他们这样的普通人。
I have one of those paintings in my private study - a Cape Cod seascape that was a gift to a freshman legislator who happened to admire it when Ted Kennedy welcomed him into his office the first week he arrived in Washington; by the way, that's my second favorite gift from Teddy and Vicki after our dog Bo. And it seems like everyone has one of those stories - the ones that often start with "You wouldn't believe who called me today." 我的私人书房里就挂着一幅这样的画——一幅科德角海景，是他送给一位刚到华盛顿第一周就去他办公室拜访、碰巧对这幅画赞不绝口的新科议员的礼物；顺便说一句，这是我从泰迪和维基那里收到的第二喜欢的礼物，仅次于我们的狗"波"。似乎每个人都有这样的故事——那些常常以"你不会相信今天谁给我打电话了"开头的故事。
Ted Kennedy was the father who looked after not only his own three children, but John's and Bobby's as well. He took them camping and taught them to sail. He laughed and danced with them at birthdays and weddings; cried and mourned with them through hardship and tragedy; and passed on that same sense of service and selflessness that his parents had instilled in him. 泰德·肯尼迪不仅是照顾自己三个孩子的父亲，也照顾着约翰和鲍比的孩子。他带他们去露营，教他们航行。在生日和婚礼上，他与他们欢笑共舞；在艰难与悲剧中，他与他们一同哭泣哀悼；并将父母灌输给自己的那份服务与无私精神传递给了他们。
Shortly after Ted walked Caroline down the aisle and gave her away at the altar, he received a note from Jackie that read, "On you the carefree youngest brother fell a burden a hero would have begged to be spared. We are all going to make it because you were always there with your love." 在泰德牵着卡罗琳的手走过红毯、在圣坛前将她交给新郎后不久，他收到了杰奎琳的一张便条，上面写着："在你身上，那位无忧无虑的最小的弟弟，承担了一个英雄都会恳求免除的重担。我们都能挺过来，因为你总带着你的爱在那里。"
Not only did the Kennedy family make it because of Ted's love - he made it because of theirs; and especially because of the love and the life he found in Vicki. After so much loss and so much sorrow, it could not have been easy for Ted Kennedy to risk his heart again. That he did is a testament to how deeply he loved this remarkable woman from Louisiana. And she didn't just love him back. As Ted would often acknowledge, Vicki saved him. She gave him strength and purpose; joy and friendship; and stood by him always, especially in those last, hardest days. 不仅肯尼迪家族因为泰德的爱而挺了过来——他也因为家人的爱而挺了过来；尤其是因为他在维基身上找到的爱与生活。经历了如此多的失去与悲痛，泰德·肯尼迪再次冒倾心之险，绝非易事。他这样做了，这正证明了他是多么深爱这位来自路易斯安那州的非凡女性。而她不仅仅是回报了他的爱。正如泰德常承认的那样，维基拯救了他。她给了他力量与目标；喜悦与友谊；始终陪伴在他身边，尤其是在那些最后、最艰难的日子里。
We cannot know for certain how long we have here. We cannot foresee the trials or misfortunes that will test us along the way. We cannot know God's plan for us. 我们无法确切知道自己能在世间停留多久。我们无法预见途中考验我们的磨难或不幸。我们无法知晓上帝对我们的计划。
What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world, so that someday, if we are blessed with the chance to look back on our time here, we can know that we spent it well; that we made a difference; that our fleeting presence had a lasting impact on the lives of other human beings. 我们所能做的，就是带着目标、爱与喜悦，尽我们所能地活出生命。我们可以用每一天，向最亲近的人表达我们有多么在乎他们，以我们希望自己被对待的善意与尊重去对待他人。我们可以从错误中学习，从失败中成长。我们可以不惜一切代价努力创造一个更美好的世界，以便有朝一日，如果我们有幸能回望在世间的这段时光，我们可以知道自己过得充实；知道自己有所作为；知道我们短暂的存在，对其他人的生命产生了持久的影响。
This is how Ted Kennedy lived. This is his legacy. He once said of his brother Bobby that he need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, and I imagine he would say the same about himself. 这就是泰德·肯尼迪的生活方式。这就是他的遗产。他曾这样评价他的哥哥鲍比——不必在他死后将其理想化或拔高到超越他生前的样子，我想他对自己也会说同样的话。
The greatest expectations were placed upon Ted Kennedy's shoulders because of who he was, but he surpassed them all because of who he became. We do not weep for him today because of the prestige attached to his name or his office. We weep because we loved this kind and tender hero who persevered through pain and tragedy - not for the sake of ambition or vanity; not for wealth or power; but only for the people and the country he loved. 因为泰德·肯尼迪的出身，最崇高的期望被加诸于他的肩头，但他因为成为了那样的人，而超越了所有期望。今天我们为他哭泣，不是因为他的名字或职位带来的声望。我们哭泣，是因为我们爱这位善良温柔的英雄，他在痛苦与悲剧中坚韧不拔——不是为了野心或虚荣；不是为了财富或权力；而只是为了他所爱的人民与国家。
In the days after September 11th, Teddy made it a point to personally call each one of the 177 families of this state who lost a loved one in the attack. But he didn't stop there. He kept calling and checking up on them. He fought through red tape to get them assistance and grief counseling. He invited them sailing, played with their children, and would write each family a letter whenever the anniversary of that terrible day came along. To one widow, he wrote the following: 在9·11事件后的那些日子里，泰迪特意亲自给这个州在袭击中失去亲人的177个家庭一一打电话。但他并没有止步于此。他持续打电话，关心他们的近况。他克服繁文缛节，为他们争取援助与哀伤辅导。他邀请他们去航行，陪他们的孩子玩耍，每当那个可怕日子的周年纪念日来临，他都会给每个家庭写一封信。他曾给一位寡妇写下这样的话：
"As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us." "正如你深知的那样，时间的流逝永远无法真正治愈如此巨大损失的悲剧记忆，但我们要继续前行，因为我们必须如此，因为我们的亲人希望我们如此，因为他们给予我们的爱，仍有光芒在世间指引我们。"
We carry on. 我们继续前行。
Ted Kennedy has gone home now, guided by his faith and by the light of those he has loved and lost. At last he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good he did, the dream he kept alive, and a single, enduring image - the image of a man on a boat; white mane tousled; smiling broadly as he sails into the wind, ready for what storms may come, carrying on toward some new and wondrous place just beyond the horizon. May God Bless Ted Kennedy, and may he rest in eternal peace. 泰德·肯尼迪现已归家，在信仰与他所爱及所失之人的光芒指引下。他终于与他们再次相聚，留给我们这些为他的离去而悲痛的人，是他给予的回忆、他做过的善事、他守护的梦想，以及一个永恒的画面——一个男人在船上；白色的鬃发被风吹乱；当他迎风航行时，笑容灿烂地绽放，准备迎接任何可能袭来的风暴，继续驶向地平线外某个新奇而奇妙的地方。愿上帝保佑泰德·肯尼迪，愿他在永恒的安宁中安息。