To Chip, Kathy, and Nancy, who graciously shared your father with a nation that loved him; to Walter's friends, colleagues, protégés, and all who considered him a hero; to the men of the Intrepid; to all of you who are gathered here today; I am honored to be here to pay tribute to the life and times of the man who chronicled our time. 致奇普、凯西和南希，你们慷慨地与一个热爱你们父亲的国度分享了他；致沃尔特的朋友、同事、门生，以及所有视他为英雄的人；致"无畏号"的将士们；致今天聚集在这里的各位：我很荣幸能在此向这位记录了我们时代的伟人致敬，追思他的一生和他所处的时代。
I did not know Mr. Cronkite personally. And my regret is made more acute by the stories that have been shared here today. Nor, for that matter, did I know him any better than the tens of millions who turned to him each night in search of the answer to a simple question: "What happened today?" But like them and like all of you, I have benefited as a citizen from his dogged pursuit of the truth, his passionate defense of objective reporting, and his view that journalism is more than just a profession; it is a public good vital to our democracy. 我个人并不认识克朗凯特先生。今天在这里分享的种种故事，更让我的这份遗憾变得深切。就此而言，我也并不比每晚转向他、寻求一个简单问题答案的数千万观众更了解他——那个问题是："今天发生了什么？"但和他们一样，和你们所有人一样，作为公民，我从他坚持不懈地追求真相、激情捍卫客观报道、以及他认为新闻不仅是一种职业、更是关乎我们民主的公共财富的观点中受益良多。
Even in his early career, Walter Cronkite resisted the temptation to get the story first in favor of getting it right. He wanted to get it first, but he understood the importance of getting it right. During one of his first jobs in Kansas City, Walter's program manager urged him to go on the air reporting a massive blaze -- and we just heard how much he loved fires -- a massive blaze at city hall that had already claimed lives. 即使在职业生涯的早期，沃尔特·克朗凯特就抵制住了抢首发新闻的诱惑，而更注重把新闻做对。他当然想抢首发，但他明白做对的新闻更为重要。在堪萨斯城的一份早期工作中，沃尔特的节目主管催促他上播音台报道一场大火——我们刚刚听到他多么热爱火灾新闻——一场已经夺去人命的市政厅大火。
When Walter reached for the telephone, his boss asked, "What are you doing; get on the air!" Walter replied that he was calling the fire department to confirm the story. "You don't need to confirm it," the manager shouted, "my wife is watching the whole thing!" 当沃尔特伸手去拿电话时，他的老板问："你在干什么，赶紧开播！"沃尔特回答说他在给消防部门打电话核实这条新闻。"你不需要核实，"主管大喊，"我妻子正看着整个过程呢！"
Needless to say, Walter made the call, and even as the program manager took to the air himself to broadcast the unfolding tragedy, Walter discovered that it had been nothing more than a small fire that hadn't resulted in any injuries. He lost his job -- but he got the story right. 不用说，沃尔特打了那通电话，而就在节目主管亲自上播音台播报这场悲剧的同时，沃尔特发现那只不过是一场没有造成任何伤亡的小火。他丢了工作——但他把新闻做对了。
Walter wasn't afraid to rattle the high and the mighty, either; but he never dared to compromise his integrity. He got along with elected officials, even if they were wary of one another's motives. One politician once remarked, "Walter, my friend, you've got to believe me, fully 85 percent of everything I told you today is the absolute truth." 沃尔特也不害怕惊动权贵；但他从不肯牺牲自己的正直。他与民选官员相处融洽，即使双方都对彼此的动机心存戒备。一位政客曾这样说："沃尔特，我的朋友，你得相信我，今天我告诉你的一切，足足有百分之八十五是绝对真实的。"
He shared a complicated relationship with Presidents of both parties, who wanted him on their side even as they were convinced that he wasn't. President Johnson called Walter after the evening news from time to time to voice his displeasure over a certain story. But Walter knew that if he was receiving vociferous complaints from both sides, he must be doing his job. 他与两党总统都保持着复杂的关系，这些总统都希望他站在自己一边，却又深信他并非如此。约翰逊总统偶尔会在晚间新闻播出后打电话给沃尔特，就某条新闻表达不满。但沃尔特知道，如果他同时收到双方的激烈抱怨，那他一定是在尽职尽责地工作。
His endless inquisitiveness about our world, I can imagine, came from a mother who sold encyclopedias for a living. As a boy, Walter spent countless hours getting lost within their pages, endlessly sidetracked by new and interesting entries that branched off from one another, fascinated by the world around us and how it worked. 我可以想象，他对我们这个世界的无尽好奇，来自他那位以推销百科全书为生的母亲。小时候，沃尔特花了无数个小时在百科全书的页面中徜徉，被一条条新奇有趣的条目不断引向新的分支，对我们周围的世界及其运行方式充满迷恋。
And that's the way he lived his life -- with curiosity, exploring our planet, seeking to make sense of it and explaining it to others. He went everywhere and he did everything. He raced cars and boats; he traveled everywhere from the Amazon to the Arctic; he plunged 8,000 feet below the sea, trekked 18,000 feet up into the Himalayas, and experienced weightlessness in the upper reaches of our atmosphere -- all with one mission: to make it come alive for the rest of us. 这就是他一生的活法——充满好奇，探索我们的星球，努力理解它并向他人解释。他无所不至，无所不试。他赛车赛船；他从亚马逊到北极走遍四方；他潜入海下八千英尺，跋涉到喜马拉雅山一万八千英尺高处，并在大气层的上层体验失重——这一切都为了一个使命：让这个世界为我们其他人活灵活现地呈现出来。
And as our world began to change, he helped us understand those changes. He was forever there, reporting through world war and cold war; marches and milestones; scandal and success; calmly and authoritatively telling us what we needed to know. He was a voice of certainty in a world that was growing more and more uncertain. And through it all, he never lost the integrity or the plainspoken speaking style that he gained growing up in the heartland. He was a familiar and welcome voice that spoke to each and every one of us personally. 当我们的世界开始变化时，他帮助我们理解这些变化。他永远在场，报道着世界大战与冷战；游行与里程碑；丑闻与成就；他平静而权威地告诉我们需要知道的一切。在一个越来越不确定的世界里，他是确定性的声音。在这一切之中，他从未失去在腹地长大时养成的正直与朴素的说话风格。他是一位熟悉而亲切的声音，与我们在场的每一个人亲自交谈。
So it may have seemed inevitable that he was named the most trusted man in America. But here's the thing: That title wasn't bestowed on him by a network. We weren't told to believe it by some advertising campaign. It was earned. It was earned by year after year and decade after decade of painstaking effort; a commitment to fundamental values; his belief that the American people were hungry for the truth, unvarnished and unaccompanied by theatre or spectacle. He didn't believe in dumbing down. He trusted us. 因此，他被评为"美国最值得信赖的人"似乎顺理成章。但问题是：这个头衔并非由某家电视网授予。也并非某个广告活动告诉我们去相信它。它是赢得的。它是经过年复一年、十年又十年艰苦努力赢得的；是对基本价值观的坚守；是他相信美国人民渴望真相——不加修饰、不附戏剧或喧嚣的真相。他不相信把事情简化以迎合大众。他信任我们。
When he was told of this extraordinary honor that he was the most trusted man in America, he naturally downplayed it by saying the people had not polled his wife. When people of both political parties actually tried to recruit him to run for office, without even asking for his stances on the issues, he said no -- to the relief of all potential opponents. And when, even a decade and a half after his retirement, he still ranked first in seven of eight categories for television journalists, he was disbelieving that he hadn't won the eighth category, "attractiveness." 当他被授予这一非凡荣誉——成为美国最值得信赖的人时，他自然地淡化了此事，说人们没有去问他妻子的看法。当两党人士都试图招募他竞选公职时——甚至没有询问他在各项议题上的立场——他拒绝了，这让所有潜在的对手都松了一口气。而当他在退休十五年后，仍在电视记者的八项评比中有七项位列第一时，他难以置信地认为自己竟然没有赢得第八项——"吸引力"。
Through all the events that came to define the 20th century, through all our moments of deepest hurt and brightest hope, Walter Cronkite was there, telling the story of the American age. 纵观定义了20世纪的所有事件，贯穿我们最深的伤痛和最亮的希望的所有时刻，沃尔特·克朗凯特始终在场，讲述着美国时代的故事。
And this is how we remember him today. But we also remember and celebrate the journalism that Walter practiced -- a standard of honesty and integrity and responsibility to which so many of you have committed your careers. It's a standard that's a little bit harder to find today. We know that this is a difficult time for journalism. Even as appetites for news and information grow, newsrooms are closing. Despite the big stories of our era, serious journalists find themselves all too often without a beat. Just as the news cycle has shrunk, so has the bottom line. 这就是我们今天缅怀他的方式。但我们同样缅怀并赞颂沃尔特所践行的新闻事业——一种诚实、正直、负责任的标准，你们当中许多人已将职业生涯奉献于此。这种标准在今天已变得更难寻觅。我们知道，这是新闻业艰难的时刻。尽管对新闻和信息的渴求与日俱增，新闻编辑室却在关闭。尽管我们这个时代有诸多重大新闻，严肃的记者却常常发现自己无事可做。正如新闻周期在缩短，利润底线也在缩减。
And too often, we fill that void with instant commentary and celebrity gossip and the softer stories that Walter disdained, rather than the hard news and investigative journalism he championed. "What happened today?" is replaced with "Who won today?" The public debate cheapens. The public trust falters. 而我们常常用即时评论、名人八卦和沃尔特所不屑的软新闻来填补这一空白，而非他所推崇的硬新闻和调查性报道。"今天发生了什么"被"今天谁赢了"所取代。公共辩论变得肤浅。公众信任动摇。
We fail to understand our world or one another as well as we should -- and that has real consequences in our own lives and in the life of our nation. We seem stuck with a choice between what cuts to our bottom line and what harms us as a society. Which price is higher to pay? Which cost is harder to bear? 我们未能如我们应做到的那样去理解我们的世界或彼此——而这在我们自己的生活和国家的生命中有着真实的后果。我们似乎陷入了一个两难选择：是削减我们的利润底线，还是伤害我们的社会。哪个代价更高？哪种成本更难承受？
"This democracy," Walter said, "cannot function without a reasonably well-informed electorate." That's why the honest, objective, meticulous reporting that so many of you pursue with the same zeal that Walter did is so vital to our democracy and our society: Our future depends on it. "这个民主，"沃尔特说，"如果没有一个相当知情的选民群体，就无法运转。"这就是为什么你们当中许多人以沃尔特般的热情所追求的诚实、客观、严谨的报道，对我们的民主和社会如此至关重要：我们的未来系于此。
Walter was no naive idealist. He understood the challenges and the pressures and the temptations facing journalism in this new era. He believed that a media company has an obligation to pursue a profit, but also an obligation to invest a good chunk of that profit back into news and public affairs. He was excited about all the stories that a high-tech world of journalism would be able to tell, and all the newly-emerging means with which to tell it. 沃尔特绝非天真的理想主义者。他理解新时代新闻业所面临的挑战、压力和诱惑。他认为传媒公司有追求利润的义务，但也有义务将相当一部分利润再投入到新闻和公共事务中。他对高科技时代的新闻业所能讲述的所有故事，以及所有新兴的讲述方式感到兴奋。
Naturally, we find ourselves wondering how he would have covered the monumental stories of our time. In an era where the news that city hall is on fire can sweep around the world at the speed of the Internet, would he still have called to double-check? Would he have been able to cut through the murky noise of the blogs and the tweets and the sound bites to shine the bright light on substance? Would he still offer the perspective that we value? Would he have been able to remain a singular figure in an age of dwindling attention spans and omnipresent media? 我们自然不禁会想，他会如何报道我们这个时代的重大新闻。在这个市政厅失火的消息能以互联网速度传遍全球的时代，他还会打电话去再三核实吗？他能穿透博客、推文和只言片语的混沌噪音，照亮真正有分量的内容吗？他还能提供我们所珍视的视角吗？在一个注意力日益分散、媒体无处不在的时代，他还能保持独一无二的人物地位吗？
And somehow, we know that the answer is yes. The simple values Walter Cronkite set out in pursuit of -- to seek the truth, to keep us honest, to explore our world the best he could -- they are as vital today as they ever were. 然而，我们不知怎的就知道，答案是肯定的。沃尔特·克朗凯特所追寻的简单价值观——追求真相、让我们保持诚实、尽其所能探索我们的世界——在今天和他曾经追寻时一样至关重要。
Our American story continues. It needs to be told. And if we choose to live up to Walter's example, if we realize that the kind of journalism he embodied will not simply rekindle itself as part of a natural cycle, but will come alive only if we stand up and demand it and resolve to value it once again, then I'm convinced that the choice between profit and progress is a false one -- and that the golden days of journalism still lie ahead. 我们美国的故事仍在继续。它需要被讲述。如果我们选择效法沃尔特的榜样，如果我们认识到他所体现的那种新闻业不会作为自然循环的一部分自行复兴，而只有当我们挺身而出、要求它、并决心再次珍视它时才会复活，那么我坚信，利润与进步之间的选择是一个虚假的二选一——新闻业的黄金时代仍在前方。
Walter Cronkite invited a nation to believe in him -- and he never betrayed that trust. That's why so many of you entered the profession in the first place. That's why the standards he set for journalists still stand. And that's why he loved and valued all of you, but we loved and valued Walter not only as the rarest of men, but as an indispensable pillar of our society. 沃尔特·克朗凯特邀请一个国家相信他——而他从未辜负这种信任。这就是为什么你们当中许多人最初会选择进入这个行业。这就是为什么他为记者所立下的标准至今仍然成立。这就是为什么他热爱并珍视你们所有人，而我们热爱并珍视沃尔特，不仅视他为世间罕见的人物，更视他为我们社会不可或缺的支柱。
He's reunited with his beloved Betsy now, watching the stories of this century unfold with boundless optimism -- every so often punctuating the air with a gleeful "oh, boy!" We are grateful to him for altering and illuminating our time, and for the opportunity he gave to us to say that, yes, we, too, were there. 他现在与他挚爱的贝琪重聚了，正以无尽的乐观主义注视着本世纪的故事展开——不时以一声欢快的"哦，天哪！"穿插在空气中。我们感谢他改变并照亮了我们的时代，也感谢他给予我们机会说出：是的，我们也在场。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢大家。