Good morning. 早上好。
Yesterday, we received another painful reminder of the serious economic challenge our country is facing when we learned that 533,000 jobs were lost in November alone, the single worst month of job loss in over three decades. That puts the total number of jobs lost in this recession at nearly two million. 昨天，我们再次痛苦地意识到我国正面临的严峻经济挑战：仅11月一个月，美国就减少了53.3万个就业岗位，这是三十多年来单月失业最严重的一次。这使本轮经济衰退以来累计流失的就业岗位接近两百万个。
But this isn’t about numbers. It’s about each of the families those numbers represent. It’s about the rising unease and frustration that so many of you are feeling during this holiday season. Will you be able to put your kids through college? Will you be able to afford health care? Will you be able to retire with dignity and security? Will your job or your husband’s job or your daughter’s or son's jobs be the next ones cut? 但这不仅仅是数字的问题，而是这些数字背后每一个家庭的故事。它关乎你们之中许多人在这个假日季节所感受到的日益强烈的不安与焦虑。你们还能不能供孩子上大学？还能不能负担得起医疗费用？还能不能体面而安稳地退休？你的工作，或者你丈夫的工作，又或者你女儿或儿子的工作，会不会是下一个被裁掉的？
These are the questions that keep so many Americans awake at night. But it's not the first time these questions have been asked though. We've faced difficult times before, times when our economic destiny seemed to be slipping out of our hands. And at each moment, we have risen to meet the challenge, as one people united by a sense of common purpose. And I know that Americans can rise to the moment once again. 这些问题让无数美国人在深夜辗转难眠。但这并不是人们第一次提出这些问题。我们曾经历过艰难时刻，曾有过经济命运似乎正从我们手中溜走的时刻。而在每一个这样的时刻，我们都作为一个因共同目标而团结一致的民族挺身而出迎接挑战。我知道，美国人这一次同样能够挺身而出。
But we need action -- and action now. That's why I've asked my economic team to develop an economic recovery plan for both Wall Street and Main Street that will help save or create at least two and a half million jobs, while rebuilding our infrastructure, improving our schools, reducing our dependence on oil, and saving billions of dollars. 但我们需要行动——而且是立刻行动。正因如此，我已要求我的经济团队制定一项兼顾华尔街和主街的经济复苏计划，目标是创造或保住至少250万个就业岗位，同时重建我们的基础设施，改善我们的学校，降低我们对石油的依赖，并节省数十亿美元。
We won’t do it the old Washington way. We won’t just throw money at the problem. We’ll measure progress by the reforms we make and the results we achieve -- by the jobs we create, by the energy we save, by whether America is more competitive in the world. 我们不会沿用华盛顿的旧套路。我们不会仅仅向问题砸钱。我们将以所推行的改革和所取得的成效来衡量进步——以我们创造的就业、节约的能源，以及美国在世界上是否更具竞争力来衡量。
Today, I'm announcing a few key parts of my plan. First, we will launch a massive effort to make public buildings more energy-efficient. Our government now pays the highest energy bills in the world. We need to change that. We need to upgrade our federal buildings by replacing old heating systems and installing efficient light bulbs. That won’t just save you, the American taxpayer, billions of dollars each year. It will put people back to work. 今天，我要公布计划中的几个关键部分。第一，我们将发起一项大规模行动，提高公共建筑的能效。目前美国政府的能源开支高居全球之首。我们必须改变这一现状。我们需要更换老旧的供暖系统、安装高效照明灯具，对联邦建筑进行升级。这不仅能每年为美国纳税人节省数十亿美元，还能让人们重新走上工作岗位。
Second, we will create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s. We’ll invest your precious tax dollars in new and smarter ways, and we’ll set a simple rule: Use it or lose it. If a state doesn’t act quickly to invest in roads and bridges in their communities, they’ll lose the money. 第二，我们将对国家基础设施进行自上世纪五十年代联邦公路系统建立以来最大规模的一次新投资，借此创造数以百万计的就业岗位。我们将以更明智的新方式投入你们宝贵的税款，并确立一条简单的规则：不用即失。如果一个州不迅速投资于本地区的道路和桥梁，它就会失去这笔资金。
Third, my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen. We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools. 第三，我的经济复苏计划将启动这个国家有史以来最为全面的校舍现代化和升级工程。我们将修缮破败的学校，使其更加节能，并在教室里配备新的计算机。因为要让我们的孩子在21世纪的经济中具备竞争力，我们需要把他们送进21世纪的学校。
As we renew our schools and highways, we’ll also renew our information superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President -- because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world. 在更新学校和公路的同时，我们也将更新我们的信息高速公路。美国在宽带普及率上仅排世界第十五位，这是不可接受的。在这个发明了互联网的国家，每一个孩子都应当有机会上网，而当我担任总统时，他们将获得这一机会——因为这是我们增强美国在世界上的竞争力的途径。
In addition to connecting our libraries and schools to the Internet, we must also ensure that our hospitals are connected to each other through the Internet. That is why the economic recovery plan I’m proposing will help modernize our health care system; and that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives. We will make sure that every doctor’s office and hospital in this country is using cutting edge technology and electronic medical records so that we can cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help save billions of dollars each year. 除了让图书馆和学校接入互联网，我们还必须确保各医院之间通过互联网互联互通。正因如此，我提出的经济复苏计划将助力我国医疗体系现代化；这不仅能保住就业，更能挽救生命。我们将确保全国每一家诊所和医院都采用尖端技术和电子病历，从而减少繁文缛节，避免医疗差错，每年节省数十亿美元。
These are just a few parts of the economic recovery plan that I will be rolling out in the coming weeks. When Congress reconvenes in January, I look forward to working with them to pass a plan immediately. We need to act with the urgency this moment demands to save or create at least two and a half million jobs so that the nearly two million Americans who’ve lost them know that they have a future. And that’s exactly what I intend to do as President of the United States. 以上只是我将在未来几周陆续公布的经济复苏计划中的若干部分。当国会明年一月复会时，我期待与他们合作，立即通过一项计划。我们必须以当前时刻所要求的紧迫感采取行动，创造或保住至少250万个就业岗位，让近两百万已经失去工作的美国人知道，他们仍有未来。这正是我作为美国总统打算去做的事情。
Thanks for listening. 感谢收听。