Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Good evening. You know, I had an entire speech prepared for this wonderful occasion, but now that I'm here I think I'm going to try something a little different. Tonight I want to speak from the heart. I'm going to speak off the cuff. 谢谢。谢谢大家。晚上好。你们知道，我原本为这个美好的场合准备了一整篇演讲稿，但既然我已经站在这里，我想我要尝试一点不一样的。今晚我想发自内心地讲几句。我要脱稿来讲。
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Good evening. Pause for laughter. Wait a minute, this may not be working as well as I -- Let me try that again. 晚上好。停顿，等待笑声。等一下，这效果似乎没有我想的那样——让我再来一次。
Good evening, everybody. I would like to welcome you all to the 10-day anniversary of my first 100 days. I am Barack Obama. Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me. Apologies to the Fox table. They're -- Where are they? I have to confess I really did not want to be here tonight, but I knew I had to come -- just one more problem that I've inherited from George W. Bush. 大家晚上好。欢迎大家来参加我执政百日的十日纪念。我是巴拉克·奥巴马。你们大多数人报道过我。你们所有人都把票投给了我。向福克斯那一桌致歉。他们——人在哪儿呢？我必须承认，今晚我真的很不想来，但我知道我必须得来——这又是一个我从乔治·W·布什那里继承下来的麻烦。
But now that I'm here, it's great to be here. It's great to see all of you. Michelle Obama is here, the First Lady of the United States. Hasn't she been an outstanding First Lady? She's even begun to bridge the differences that have divided us for so long, because no matter which party you belong to we can all agree that Michelle has the right to bare arms. 不过既然我已经来了，能来这里真好。很高兴见到各位。米歇尔·奥巴马今晚也在场，美利坚合众国的第一夫人。她难道不是一位出色的第一夫人吗？她甚至开始弥合那些长期分裂我们的分歧，因为无论你属于哪个党派，我们都可以认同一点——米歇尔有露出双臂的权利。
Now Sasha and Malia aren't here tonight because they're grounded. You can't just take Air Force One on a joy ride to Manhattan. I don't care whose kids you are. We've been setting some ground rules here. They're starting to get a little carried away. 萨莎和玛利亚今晚没来，因为她们被禁足了。你们不能随便坐空军一号去曼哈顿兜风。我不管你们是谁家的孩子。我们在这儿立了一些规矩。她们开始有点得意忘形了。
Now, speaking -- when I think about children obviously I think about Michelle and it reminds me that tomorrow is Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the audience. I do have to say, though, that this is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel because he's not used to saying the word "day" after "mother." That's true. 说到——当我想到孩子时，自然就会想到米歇尔，这也提醒我明天是母亲节。祝在座所有母亲母亲节快乐。不过我得说，对拉姆·伊曼纽尔来说这是个不太好过的节日，因为他对在"母亲"后面说"节"这个字不太习惯。这是真的。
David Axelrod is here. You know, David and I have been together for a long time. I can still remember -- I got to sort of -- I tear up a little bit when I think back to that day that I called Ax so many years ago and said, you and I can do wonderful things together. And he said to me the same thing that partners all across America are saying to one another right now: Let's go to Iowa and make it official. 大卫·阿克塞尔罗德今晚也在。你们知道，大卫和我在一起已经很久了。我仍然记得——我有点——回想起多年前我打电话给阿克斯说"你和我一起可以做出一些美妙的事情"的那一天，我还会眼眶湿润。他对我说了全美国各地的伴侣们此刻正在彼此倾诉的那句话：我们去艾奥瓦州，把关系正式定下来吧。
Michael Steele is in the house tonight. Or as he would say, "in the heezy." What's up? Where is Michael? Michael, for the last time, the Republican Party does not qualify for a bailout. Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset, I'm sorry. 迈克尔·斯蒂尔今晚也在场。或者用他的话说，"在屋子里"。最近怎么样？迈克尔在哪儿？迈克尔，我再说最后一次，共和党不符合救助的资格。拉什·林博不算作不良资产，抱歉。
Dick Cheney was supposed to be here but he is very busy working on his memoirs, tentatively titled, "How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People." 迪克·切尼本应出席今晚的活动，但他正忙着撰写回忆录，暂定名为《如何射杀朋友并审讯他人》。
You know, it's been a whirlwind of activity these first hundred days. We've enacted a major economic recovery package, we passed a budget, we forged a new path in Iraq, and no President in history has ever named three Commerce Secretaries this quickly. Which reminds me, if Judd Gregg is here, your business cards are ready now. 你们知道，这头一百天是旋风式的忙碌。我们通过了一项重大的经济复苏方案，通过了预算，在伊拉克开辟了新道路，而且历史上没有哪位总统这么快就任命了三位商务部长。这倒提醒我，如果贾德·格雷格在场，你的名片现在可以拿走了。
On top of that, I've also reversed the ban on stem cell research, signed an expansion -- signed an expansion of the children's health insurance. Just last week, Car and Driver named me auto executive of the year. Something I'm very proud of. 除此之外，我还撤销了对干细胞研究的禁令，签署了——签署了儿童医疗保险的扩展法案。就在上周，《名车志》把我评为年度汽车业高管。这是让我很自豪的一件事。
We've also begun to change the culture in Washington. We've even made the White House a place where people can learn and can grow. Just recently, Larry Summers asked if he could chair the White House Council on Women and Girls. And I do appreciate that Larry is here tonight because it is seven hours past his bedtime. Gibbs liked that one. 我们也开始改变华盛顿的风气。我们甚至把白宫变成了一个让人可以学习和成长的地方。就在最近，拉里·萨默斯问我，他能不能担任白宫妇女与女童委员会的主席。我也确实很感激拉里今晚能来，因为现在已经过了他的就寝时间七个小时了。吉布斯喜欢这个段子。
In the last hundred days, we've also grown the Democratic Party by infusing it with new energy and bringing in fresh, young faces like Arlen Specter. Now, Joe Biden rightly deserves a lot of credit for convincing Arlen to make the switch, but Secretary Clinton actually had a lot to do with it too. One day she just pulled him aside and she said, Arlen, you know what I always say -- "if you can't beat them, join them." 在过去的一百天里，我们也为民主党注入了新的活力，吸引了阿伦·斯佩克特这样年轻的新面孔加入，从而壮大了民主党。乔·拜登在说服阿伦转党方面理应得到很多赞誉，但克林顿国务卿其实也功不可没。有一天她把他拉到一边说，阿伦，你知道我一直怎么说来着——"打不过，就加入他们。"
Which brings me to another thing that's changed in this new, warmer, fuzzier White House, and that's my relationship with Hillary. You know, we had been rivals during the campaign, but these days we could not be closer. In fact, the second she got back from Mexico she pulled into a hug and gave me a big kiss. Told me I'd better get down there myself. Which I really appreciated. I mean, it was -- it was nice. 这就引出了在这个更温暖、更有人情味的白宫里另一处变化——那就是我和希拉里的关系。你们知道，我们在竞选期间曾是竞争对手，但如今我们关系亲密无间。事实上，她从墨西哥一回来就拥抱了我，并给了我一个亲吻。说我最好亲自去一趟那里。我对此非常感激。我的意思是，那——那感觉挺好的。
And of course we've also begun to change America's image in the world. We talked about this during this campaign and we're starting to execute. We've renewed alliances with important partners and friends. If you look on the screen there, there I am with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. There I am with Gordon Brown. 当然，我们也开始改变美国在世界上的形象。这是我们在竞选期间谈过的，现在我们正开始付诸行动。我们与重要的伙伴和朋友重新巩固了联盟关系。你们看屏幕上，那是我和日本首相麻生太郎在一起。那是我和戈登·布朗在一起。
But as I said during the campaign, we can't just talk to our friends. As hard as it is, we also have to talk to our enemies, and I've begun to do exactly that. Take a look at the monitor there. Now, let me be clear, just because he handed me a copy of Peter Pan does not mean that I'm going to read it -- but it's good diplomatic practice to just accept these gifts. 但正如我在竞选期间所说，我们不能只与朋友对话。再艰难，我们也必须与敌人对话，而我已经开始这样做了。请看那边的屏幕。我要说明一下，他递给我一本《彼得·潘》并不意味着我就会去读——但接受这些礼物是不错的外交礼仪。
All this change hasn't been easy. Change never is. So I've cut the tension by bringing a new friend to the White House. He's warm, he's cuddly, loyal, enthusiastic. You just have to keep him on a tight leash. Every once in a while he goes charging off in the wrong direction and gets himself into trouble. But enough about Joe Biden. 所有这些变革都不容易。变革从来都不容易。所以我带回了一位新朋友到白宫，以此来缓解紧张气氛。他热情、可爱、忠诚、充满干劲。你只需要把他牵紧一点。每隔一阵子他就会朝着错误的方向冲出去，给自己惹上麻烦。好了，关于乔·拜登就说到这儿。
All in all, we're proud of the change we've brought to Washington in these first hundred days but we've got a lot of work left to do, as all of you know. So I'd like to talk a little bit about what my administration plans to achieve in the next hundred days. 总而言之，我们为这头一百天里给华盛顿带来的变化感到自豪，但正如各位所知，我们还有许多工作要做。所以我想谈一谈我的政府计划在接下来的一百天里完成哪些工作。
During the second hundred days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first hundred days. It's going to be big, folks. In the next hundred days, I will learn to go off the prompter and Joe Biden will learn to stay on the prompter. 在第二个一百天里，我们将设计、建造并开放一座专门纪念我头一百天的图书馆。朋友们，那将会很大。在接下来的一百天里，我将学会脱稿讲话，而乔·拜登将学会照稿念。
In the next hundred days, our bipartisan outreach will be so successful that even John Boehner will consider becoming a Democrat. After all, we have a lot in common. He is a person of color. Although not a color that appears in the natural world. What's up, John? 在接下来的一百天里，我们的两党外联工作将如此成功，以至于连约翰·博纳都会考虑加入民主党。毕竟，我们有很多共同点。他是有色人种。虽然那种颜色在自然界中并不存在。最近怎么样，约翰？
In the next hundred days, I will meet with a leader who rules over millions with an iron fist, who owns the airwaves and uses his power to crush all who would challenge his authority at the ballot box. It's good to see you, Mayor Bloomberg. 在接下来的一百天里，我将与一位以铁腕统治数百万民众、垄断电波、并利用权力粉碎所有在投票箱前挑战他权威的领导人会面。很高兴见到你，彭博市长。
In the next hundred days, we will housetrain our dog, Bo, because the last thing Tim Geithner needs is someone else treating him like a fire hydrant. In the next hundred days, I will strongly consider losing my cool. 在接下来的一百天里，我们要训练我们的狗波波学会在家里的规矩，因为蒂姆·盖特纳最不需要的就是又有人把他当成消防栓。在接下来的一百天里，我会认真考虑发一次脾气。
Finally, I believe that my next hundred days will be so successful I will be able to complete them in 72 days. And on the 73rd day, I will rest. 最后，我相信我的下一个一百天将会非常成功，成功到我能在72天内就完成它。而在第73天，我将安息。
I just -- I want to end by saying a few words about the men and women in this room whose job it is to inform the public and pursue the truth. You know, we meet tonight at a moment of extraordinary challenge for this nation and for the world, but it's also a time of real hardship for the field of journalism. And like so many other businesses in this global age, you've seen sweeping changes and technology and communications that lead to a sense of uncertainty and anxiety about what the future will hold. 我只想——在结束之前，我想就今晚在座各位中那些以向公众传递信息、追寻真相为职责的男女说几句话。你们知道，我们今晚相聚之际，这个国家和整个世界正处于非同寻常的挑战时刻，但对新闻行业而言，这也是一段真正艰难的时期。和这个全球化时代里的许多其他行业一样，你们目睹了技术和通信领域的剧烈变革，这些变革带来了对未来的不确定感和焦虑。
Across the country, there are extraordinary, hardworking journalists who have lost their jobs in recent days, recent weeks, recent months. And I know that each newspaper and media outlet is wrestling with how to respond to these changes, and some are struggling simply to stay open. And it won't be easy. Not every ending will be a happy one. 在全国各地，有许多杰出的、勤勉的新闻记者在最近几天、几周、几个月里失去了工作。我知道每一家报纸和媒体机构都在苦苦思索如何应对这些变化，其中一些甚至仅仅是为了维持运营就已竭尽全力。这并不容易。并非每一个结局都会是圆满的。
But it's also true that your ultimate success as an industry is essential to the success of our democracy. It's what makes this thing work. You know, Thomas Jefferson once said that if he had the choice between a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, he would not hesitate to choose the latter. 但同样真实的是，你们作为一个行业最终能否成功，对我们民主的成败至关重要。这正是这套制度得以运转的关键。你们知道，托马斯·杰斐逊曾说，如果要在没有报纸的政府和没有政府的报纸之间做出选择，他会毫不犹豫地选择后者。
Clearly, Thomas Jefferson never had cable news to contend with -- but his central point remains: A government without newspapers, a government without a tough and vibrant media of all sorts, is not an option for the United States of America. 显然，托马斯·杰斐逊当年不必应付有线电视新闻——但他的核心观点依然成立：一个没有报纸的政府，一个没有各种各样强硬而充满活力的媒体的政府，对美利坚合众国而言不是一种选项。
So I may not -- I may not agree with everything you write or report. I may even complain, or more likely Gibbs will complain, from time to time about how you do your jobs, but I do so with the knowledge that when you are at your best, then you help me be at my best. You help all of us who serve at the pleasure of the American people do our jobs better by holding us accountable, by demanding honesty, by preventing us from taking shortcuts and falling into easy political games that people are so desperately weary of. 所以我可能——我可能并不赞同你们所写或所报道的一切。我甚至可能抱怨，或者更可能是吉布斯会抱怨，时不时对你们如何履行职责表示不满，但我这样做是带着这样一种认识：当你们处于最佳状态时，你们也帮助我处于最佳状态。你们帮助我们所有这些蒙美国人民之托而行事的人更好地完成工作——通过问责我们、要求诚实、阻止我们抄近路、陷入民众已深感厌倦的那些廉价政治游戏。
And that kind of reporting is worth preserving -- not just for your sake, but for the public's. We count on you to help us make sense of a complex world and tell the stories of our lives the way they happen, and we look for you for truth, even if it's always an approximation, even if -- 而这样的报道值得守护——不仅是为了你们自己，也是为了公众。我们依赖你们帮助我们理解这个复杂的世界，按事情本来发生的样子讲述我们生活的故事，我们指望你们追寻真相，即便它始终只是一种近似，即便——
This is a season of renewal and reinvention. That is what government must learn to do, that's what businesses must learn to do, and that's what journalism is in the process of doing. And when I look out at this room and think about the dedicated men and women whose questions I've answered over the last few years, I know that for all the challenges this industry faces, it's not short on talent or creativity or passion or commitment. It's not short of young people who are eager to break news or the not-so-young who still manage to ask the tough ones time and time again. 这是一个革新与重塑的季节。这是政府必须学会做的事，这是企业必须学会做的事，而这也正是新闻业正在做的。当我环顾这个大厅，想到过去几年间那些我曾回答过他们问题的、敬业的男女，我知道，尽管这个行业面临种种挑战，但它并不缺乏才华、创造力、热情或奉献精神。它并不缺乏渴望抢发新闻的年轻人，也不缺乏那些仍能一次又一次提出尖锐问题的不那么年轻的人。
These qualities alone will not solve all your problems, but they certainly prove that the problems are worth solving. And that is a good place as any to begin. 单凭这些品质并不能解决你们所有的问题，但它们无疑证明了这些问题是值得解决的。而这是一个再好不过的起点。
So I offer you my thanks, I offer you my support, and I look forward to working with you and answering to you and the American people as we seek a more perfect union in the months and years ahead. 因此，我向你们表达我的感谢，给予你们我的支持，并期待在未来的岁月里与你们合作、向你们和美国人民负责，共同追求一个更完美的联邦。
Thank you very much, everybody. 非常感谢大家。
Thank you. 谢谢。