Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. President, Vice President Quayle, Senator Mitchell, Speaker Wright, Senator Dole, Congressman Michel, and fellow citizens, neighbors, and friends: 首席大法官先生，总统先生，奎尔副总统，米切尔参议员，赖特议长，多尔参议员，米歇尔众议员，以及各位同胞、邻居和朋友们：
There is a man here who has earned a lasting place in our hearts and in our history. President Reagan, on behalf of our nation, I thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for America. 这里有一位先生，他在我们心中和历史上赢得了永久的地位。里根总统，我代表我们的国家，感谢您为美国所做的一切美好贡献。
I've just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today not only because this is our bicentennial inauguration but because Washington remains the Father of our Country. 我刚刚逐字重复了两百年前乔治·华盛顿宣誓的誓言，我手按的圣经就是他手按过的那本。今天华盛顿的记忆与我们同在是恰当的，不仅因为这是我们的两百周年就职典礼，还因为华盛顿仍然是我们国家的国父。
And he would, I think, be gladdened by this day; for today is the concrete expression of a stunning fact: our continuity, these 200 years, since our government began. 我想他会为今天感到高兴，因为今天具体体现了一个惊人的事实：自我们的政府成立以来，这两百年来我们的连续性。
We meet on democracy's front porch. A good place to talk as neighbors and as friends. For this is a day when our nation is made whole, when our differences, for a moment, are suspended. And my first act as President is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads. 我们在民主的门廊上相会。这是一个像邻居和朋友一样交谈的好地方。因为今天是我们国家融为一体的日子，我们的分歧暂时搁置。我作为总统的第一个行动是祈祷。请大家低头。
Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to heed and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: "Use power to help people." 天父，我们低头感谢您的爱。接受我们对带来这一天的和平以及使和平得以延续的共同信仰的感谢。让我们强大地完成您的工作，愿意倾听您的旨意，并在我们心中写下这些话："用权力帮助人民。"
For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us remember, Lord. Amen. 因为我们被赋予权力不是为了推进我们自己的目的，也不是为了在世界上炫耀，更不是为了声名。权力只有一个正当用途，那就是服务人民。主啊，帮助我们记住。阿门。
I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous time, but we can make it better. For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. 我来到你们面前，在一个充满希望的时刻就任总统。我们生活在一个和平繁荣的时代，但我们可以让它变得更好。新的微风正在吹拂，一个被自由刷新的世界仿佛获得重生。
For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. 因为在人们的心中，如果不是事实上，独裁者的日子已经结束。极权主义时代正在过去，它的旧思想像枯叶一样从一棵古老、毫无生气的树上被吹走。
A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken and new action to be taken. 新的微风正在吹拂，一个被自由刷新的国家准备继续前进。有新的领域需要开拓，有新的行动需要采取。
There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow. 有时未来像浓雾一样浓厚；你坐着等待，希望迷雾散去，露出正确的道路。但这是一个未来似乎是一扇你可以直接走进名为明天的房间的时代。
Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy through the door to freedom. Men and women of the world move toward free markets through the door to prosperity. The people of the world agitate for free expression and free thought through the door to the moral and intellectual satisfactions that only liberty allows. 世界上伟大的国家正在通过通往自由的大门走向民主。世界上的男女正在通过通往繁荣的大门走向自由市场。世界人民正在通过通往只有自由才能带来的道德和知识满足的大门，争取言论自由和思想自由。
We know what works: Freedom works. We know what's right: Freedom is right. We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on Earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections, and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state. 我们知道什么有效：自由有效。我们知道什么是正确的：自由是正确的。我们知道如何确保地球上的人类过上更公正、更繁荣的生活：通过自由市场、言论自由、自由选举，以及不受国家阻碍地行使自由意志。
For the first time in this century, for the first time in perhaps all history, man does not have to invent a system by which to live. We don't have to talk late into the night about which form of government is better. We don't have to wrest justice from the kings. We only have to summon it from within ourselves. 在本世纪，也许在整个历史上，人类第一次不必发明一种赖以生存的制度。我们不必彻夜讨论哪种政府形式更好。我们不必从国王手中夺取正义。我们只需要从我们自己内心召唤它。
We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity. 我们必须按照我们所知道的去行动。我以一位圣人的希望为指引：在关键问题上，团结一致；在重要问题上，尊重多样性；在一切问题上，慷慨大度。
America today is a proud, free nation, decent and civil, a place we cannot help but love. We know in our hearts, not loudly and proudly but as a simple fact, that this country has meaning beyond what we see, and that our strength is a force for good. But have we changed as a nation even in our time? Are we enthralled with material things, less appreciative of the nobility of work and sacrifice? 今天的美国是一个自豪、自由的国家，体面而文明，一个我们情不自禁热爱的地方。我们内心深处知道，不是大声而骄傲地，而是作为一个简单的事实，这个国家有着超越我们所见的意义，我们的力量是一股向善的力量。但即使在我们这个时代，我们作为一个国家是否已经改变？我们是否沉迷于物质事物，对工作和牺牲的崇高性不那么欣赏？
My friends, we are not the sum of our possessions. They are not the measure of our lives. In our hearts we know what matters. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. 我的朋友们，我们不是我们财产的总和。它们不是我们生命的衡量标准。我们心中知道什么才是重要的。我们不能只希望留给我们的孩子一辆更大的汽车、一个更大的银行账户。
We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend; a loving parent; a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood, and town better than he found it. 我们必须希望赋予他们作为忠诚朋友、慈爱的父母、一个让自己的家园、社区和城镇比他发现时更好的公民的意义。
And what do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we're no longer there? That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us? Or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship? 当我们不再在这里时，我们希望与我们共事的男男女女怎么评价我们？是说我们比周围任何人都更渴望成功？还是说我们停下来询问一个生病的孩子是否好转，并在那里停留片刻，交流一句友谊的话语？
No President, no government can teach us to remember what is best in what we are. But if the man you have chosen to lead this government can help make a difference; if he can celebrate the quieter, deeper successes that are made not of gold and silk but of better hearts and finer souls; if he can do these things, then he must. 没有任何总统，没有任何政府能够教我们记住我们最美好的品质。但如果你们选择领导这个政府的人能够有所作为；如果他能够庆祝那些不那么张扬但更深层的成功，这些成功不是由黄金和丝绸构成，而是由更美好的心灵和更高尚的灵魂构成；如果他能够做到这些，那么他必须这样做。
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world. 美国除非致力于崇高的道德原则，否则永远不会完全成为自己。我们作为一个民族今天有这样一个目标：让国家的面貌更友善，让世界的面貌更温和。
My friends, we have work to do. There are the homeless, lost and roaming. There are the children who have nothing, no love and no normalcy. There are those who cannot free themselves of enslavement to whatever addiction -- drugs, welfare, the demoralization that rules the slums. 我的朋友们，我们有工作要做。有无家可归者，迷失和流浪。有一无所有的孩子，没有爱，没有正常的生活。有那些无法摆脱任何成瘾——毒品、福利、统治贫民窟的道德败坏——奴役的人。
There is crime to be conquered, the rough crime of the streets. There are young women to be helped who are about to become mothers of children they can't care for and might not love. They need our care, our guidance, and our education, though we bless them for choosing life. 有犯罪需要征服，街头的野蛮犯罪。有需要帮助的年轻女性，她们即将成为无法照顾、甚至可能不爱的孩子的母亲。她们需要我们的关怀、指导和教育，尽管我们祝福她们选择了生命。
The old solution, the old way, was to think that public money alone could end these problems. But we have learned that that is not so. And in any case, our funds are low. We have a deficit to bring down. 旧的解决方案，旧的方式，是认为仅靠公共资金就能解决这些问题。但我们已经认识到事实并非如此。无论如何，我们的资金有限。我们有赤字需要降低。
We have more will than wallet, but will is what we need. We will make the hard choices, looking at what we have and perhaps allocating it differently, making our decisions based on honest need and prudent safety. 我们的意愿多于钱包，但意愿才是我们所需要的。我们将做出艰难的选择，审视我们所拥有的，并可能以不同的方式分配它，基于诚实的需求和审慎的安全做出决定。
And then we will do the wisest thing of all. We will turn to the only resource we have that in times of need always grows: the goodness and the courage of the American people. 然后我们将做最明智的事情。我们将转向我们唯一在需要时总是增长的资源：美国人民的善良和勇气。
And I am speaking of a new engagement in the lives of others, a new activism, hands-on and involved, that gets the job done. We must bring in the generations, harnessing the unused talent of the elderly and the unfocused energy of the young. For not only leadership is passed from generation to generation but so is stewardship. And the generation born after the Second World War has come of age. 我说的是一种新的参与他人生活的方式，一种新的行动主义，亲力亲为、积极参与，把工作做好。我们必须让各代人参与进来，利用老年人未被利用的才能和年轻人未集中的精力。因为不仅领导权代代相传，管理责任也是如此。二战后出生的一代已经成年。
I have spoken of a Thousand Points of Light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led, rewarding. 我谈到了千点光，那些像星星一样遍布全国、做好事的社区组织。我们将携手合作，鼓励、有时领导、有时被领导、奖励。
We will work on this in the White House, in the Cabinet agencies. I will go to the people and the programs that are the brighter points of light, and I'll ask every member of my government to become involved. 我们将在白宫、在内阁机构中为此努力。我将走向那些是更亮点光的人们和项目，并要求我的政府每一位成员都参与进来。
The old ideas are new again because they're not old, they are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism that finds its expression in taking part and pitching in. 旧思想再次变得新颖，因为它们并不陈旧，它们是永恒的：责任、牺牲、承诺，以及在参与和贡献中体现的爱国主义。
We need a new engagement, too, between the Executive and the Congress. The challenges before us will be thrashed out with the House and the Senate. And we must bring the Federal budget into balance. 我们也需要行政部门和国会之间建立新的合作关系。我们面前的挑战将与众议院和参议院一起讨论。我们必须使联邦预算达到平衡。
And we must ensure that America stands before the world united, strong, at peace, and fiscally sound. But of course things may be difficult. We need to compromise; we've had dissension. We need harmony; we've had a chorus of discordant voices. 我们必须确保美国在世界面前团结一致、强大、和平且财政健全。但当然事情可能会很困难。我们需要妥协；我们曾经有过分歧。我们需要和谐；我们曾经有过不和谐的声音。
For Congress, too, has changed in our time. There has grown a certain divisiveness. We have seen the hard looks and heard the statements in which not each other's ideas are challenged but each other's motives. And our great parties have too often been far apart and untrusting of each other. 国会在我们这个时代也发生了变化。出现了某种分裂。我们看到了冷淡的表情，听到了不仅质疑彼此的想法，而且质疑彼此动机的言论。我们伟大的政党常常相距甚远，互不信任。
It's been this way since Vietnam. That war cleaves us still. But, friends, that war began in earnest a quarter of a century ago, and surely the statute of limitation has been reached. 自越南战争以来就是如此。那场战争至今仍使我们分裂。但是，朋友们，那场战争开始于四分之一世纪前，当然时效期已经过了。
This is a fact: The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory. A new breeze is blowing, and the old bipartisanship must be made new again. 这是一个事实：越南战争的最终教训是，没有一个伟大的国家能够长期承受被记忆撕裂的痛苦。新的微风正在吹拂，旧的两党合作必须重新变得新颖。
To my friends, and, yes, I do mean friends -- in the loyal opposition and, yes, I mean loyal -- I put out my hand. I am putting out my hand to you, Mr. Speaker. I am putting out my hand to you, Mr. Majority Leader. 致我的朋友们，是的，我确实指的是朋友们——在忠诚的反对党中，是的，我指的是忠诚的反对党——我伸出我的手。议长先生，我向你伸出我的手。多数党领袖先生，我向你伸出我的手。
For this is the thing: This is the age of the offered hand. And we can't turn back clocks, and I don't want to. But when our fathers were young, Mr. Speaker, our differences ended at the water's edge. 因为事实是：这是伸出援手的时代。我们不能让时光倒流，我也不想。但当我们的父辈年轻时，议长先生，我们的分歧在国界处结束。
And we don't wish to turn back time, but when our mothers were young, Mr. Majority Leader, the Congress and the Executive were capable of working together to produce a budget on which this nation could live. 我们不想让时光倒流，但当我们的母亲年轻时，多数党领袖先生，国会和行政部门能够共同努力制定一项国家可以依靠的预算。
Let us negotiate soon and hard. But in the end, let us produce. The American people await action. They didn't send us here to bicker. They ask us to rise above the merely partisan. "In crucial things, unity" -- and this, my friends, is crucial. 让我们尽快且努力地谈判。但最终，让我们拿出成果。美国人民期待行动。他们不是派我们来争吵的。他们要求我们超越纯粹的党派之争。"在关键问题上，团结一致"——而这，我的朋友们，是至关重要的。
To the world, too, we offer new engagement and a renewed vow: We will stay strong to protect the peace. The offered hand is a reluctant fist; once made -- strong, and can be used with great effect. 对世界，我们也提供新的参与和更新的誓言：我们将保持强大以维护和平。伸出的手是不情愿的拳头；一旦握紧——就很有力，可以产生巨大的效果。
There are today Americans who are held against their will in foreign lands and Americans who are unaccounted for. Assistance can be shown here and will be long remembered. Good will begets good will. Good faith can be a spiral that endlessly moves on. 今天有美国人在外国土地上被非法扣押，有美国人下落不明。在这里可以给予援助，这将被长久铭记。善意孕育善意。诚信可以是一个无限延续的螺旋。
Great nations like great men must keep their word. When America says something, America means it, whether a treaty or an agreement or a vow made on marble steps. 伟大的国家像伟大的人一样必须遵守诺言。当美国说什么时，美国是认真的，无论是条约、协议还是在大理石台阶上许下的誓言。
We will always try to speak clearly, for candor is a compliment; but subtlety, too, is good and has its place. While keeping our alliances and friendships around the world strong, ever strong, we will continue the new closeness with the Soviet Union, consistent both with our security and with progress. 我们将始终努力清晰地表达，因为坦率是一种赞美；但微妙之处也是好的，也有其位置。在保持我们在世界各地的联盟和友谊强大、永远强大的同时，我们将继续与苏联建立新的亲密关系，这既符合我们的安全，也符合进步。
One might say that our new relationship in part reflects the triumph of hope and strength over experience. But hope is good, and so is strength and vigilance. 有人可能会说，我们新的关系在某种程度上反映了希望和力量战胜经验的胜利。但希望是美好的，力量和警惕也是美好的。
Here today are tens of thousands of our citizens who feel the understandable satisfaction of those who have taken part in democracy and seen their hopes fulfilled. But my thoughts have been turning the past few days to those who would be watching at home. 今天，成千上万的公民感到了参与民主并看到他们的希望实现的可以理解的满足感。但过去几天，我的思绪转向了那些将在家观看的人。
To an older fellow who will throw a salute by himself when the flag goes by and the woman who will tell her sons the words of the battle hymns. I don't mean this to be sentimental. I mean that on days like this we remember that we are all part of a continuum, inescapably connected by the ties that bind. 转向了一位年长的同胞，他会在国旗经过时独自敬礼，以及一位会告诉她的儿子们战歌歌词的妇女。我不是说这是多愁善感。我的意思是，在这样的日子里，我们记住我们都是一个连续体的一部分，被纽带不可避免地连接在一起。
Our children are watching in schools throughout our great land. And to them I say, Thank you for watching democracy's big day. For democracy belongs to us all, and freedom is like a beautiful kite that can go higher and higher with the breeze. 我们的孩子们正在我们伟大国家的学校里观看。我对他们说，感谢你们观看民主的大日子。因为民主属于我们所有人，自由就像一只美丽的风筝，可以随着微风越飞越高。
And to all I say, No matter what your circumstances or where you are, you are part of this day, you are part of the life of our great nation. 我对所有人说，无论你的处境如何，无论你在哪里，你都是这一天的一部分，你是我们伟大国家生活的一部分。
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, and easygoingness about each other's attitudes and way of life. 总统既不是王子也不是教皇，我也不寻求窥探人们的灵魂。事实上，我渴望更大的宽容，对彼此的态度和生活方式更加随和。
There are few clear areas in which we as a society must rise up united and express our intolerance. The most obvious now is drugs. And when that first cocaine was smuggled in on a ship, it may as well have been a deadly bacteria, so much has it hurt the body, the soul of our country. And there is much to be done and to be said, but take my word for it: This scourge will stop! 在少数明确的领域，我们作为一个社会必须团结一致，表达我们的不容忍。现在最明显的就是毒品。当第一批可卡因被走私上船时，它可能就像一种致命的细菌，它对我们国家的身体和灵魂造成了如此大的伤害。还有很多事情要做，很多话要说，但相信我：这场灾难将会停止！
And so, there is much to do. And tomorrow the work begins. And I do not mistrust the future. I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger. Our challenges are great, but our will is greater. And if our flaws are endless, God's love is truly boundless. 因此，有很多事情要做。明天工作就开始了。我不怀疑未来。我不害怕前方的挑战。因为我们的问题很大，但我们的心更大。我们的挑战很伟大，但我们的意志更伟大。如果我们的缺点是无限的，上帝的爱确实是无限的。
Some see leadership as high drama and the sound of trumpets calling, and sometimes it is that. But I see history as a book with many pages, and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. The new breeze blows, a page turns, the story unfolds. And so, today a chapter begins, a small and stately story of unity, diversity, and generosity -- shared, and written, together. 有些人认为领导力是一场盛大的戏剧和号角声，有时确实如此。但我把历史看作一本有许多页的书，每一天我们都用充满希望和意义的行动填满一页。新的微风吹拂，一页翻开，故事展开。因此，今天一个章节开始了，一个关于团结、多样性和慷慨的小而庄严的故事——共同分享，共同书写。
Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. 谢谢大家。上帝保佑你们。上帝保佑美利坚合众国。