My Fellow-Citizens: 各位公民：
In obedience of the mandate of my countrymen I am about to dedicate myself to their service under the sanction of a solemn oath. 在同胞们的授权下，我即将在庄严的誓言约束下奉献自己为他们服务。
Deeply moved by the expression of confidence and personal attachment which has called me to this service, I am sure my gratitude can make no better return than the pledge I now give before God and these witnesses of unreserved and complete devotion to the interests and welfare of those who have honored me. 同胞们表达的信任和个人情谊深深打动了我，我确信，我所能做出的最好回报，就是在上帝和这些见证人面前许下的誓言——毫无保留地、全心全意地奉献自己，为那些赋予我荣誉的人的利益和福祉服务。
I deem it fitting on this occasion, while indicating the opinion I hold concerning public questions of present importance, to also briefly refer to the existence of certain conditions and tendencies among our people which seem to menace the integrity and usefulness of their Government. 我认为在这个场合，在表明我对当前重要公共问题的看法时，也应当简要提及我们人民中存在的某些状况和趋势，这些状况和趋势似乎威胁着政府的完整性和效用。
While every American citizen must contemplate with the utmost pride and enthusiasm the growth and expansion of our country, the sufficiency of our institutions to stand against the rudest shocks of violence, the wonderful thrift and enterprise of our people, and the demonstrated superiority of our free government, it behooves us to constantly watch for every symptom of insidious infirmity that threatens our national vigor. 虽然每个美国公民都必须以极大的自豪和热情看待我们国家的成长和扩张、我们制度抵御最猛烈暴力冲击的能力、我们人民卓越的节俭和进取心，以及我们自由政府的卓越表现，但我们也必须时刻警惕每一个威胁我们国家活力的潜在弱点的征兆。
The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse. 一个身体健康的强壮男子自信地迎接生活中最艰苦的活动，为持续劳动的强健体魄而欢欣鼓舞，但他的要害部位附近可能潜藏着未被注意的疾病，终将导致他突然崩溃。
It can not be doubted that our stupendous achievements as a people and our country's robust strength have given rise to heedlessness of those laws governing our national health which we can no more evade than human life can escape the laws of God and nature. 毫无疑问，我们作为一个民族所取得的巨大成就和我们国家的强大力量，已经使人们忽视了那些支配我们国家健康的法则——我们无法逃避这些法则，正如人类生命无法逃避上帝和自然的法则。
Manifestly nothing is more vital to our supremacy as a nation and to the beneficent purposes of our Government than a sound and stable currency. 显然，对于我们作为一个国家的至高无上地位和我们政府的仁慈目标来说，没有什么比健全稳定的货币更重要。
Its exposure to degradation should at once arouse to activity the most enlightened statesmanship, and the danger of depreciation in the purchasing power of the wages paid to toil should furnish the strongest incentive to prompt and conservative precaution. 货币面临贬值的危险，应当立即唤起最开明的政治家采取行动；而劳动者工资购买力下降的危险，应当为及时和保守的预防措施提供最强有力的激励。
In dealing with our present embarrassing situation as related to this subject we will be wise if we temper our confidence and faith in our national strength and resources with the frank concession that even these will not permit us to defy with impunity the inexorable laws of finance and trade. 在处理与货币问题相关的当前困境时，如果我们能坦率地承认，即使是我们的国家力量和资源也不允许我们肆意违抗金融和贸易的无情法则，并以此来调和我们对国家力量和资源的信心，我们将是明智的。
At the same time, in our efforts to adjust differences of opinion we should be free from intolerance or passion, and our judgments should be unmoved by alluring phrases and unvexed by selfish interests. 同时，在努力调和意见分歧时，我们应该摒弃偏执和激情，我们的判断不应被诱人的言辞所动摇，也不应被自私的利益所干扰。
I am confident that such an approach to the subject will result in prudent and effective remedial legislation. 我相信，这种处理方式将导致审慎而有效的补救性立法。
In the meantime, so far as the executive branch of the Government can intervene, none of the powers with which it is invested will be withheld when their exercise is deemed necessary to maintain our national credit or avert financial disaster. 与此同时，只要政府行政部门能够干预，当行使这些权力被认为是维护国家信用或避免金融灾难所必需时，我们将毫不犹豫地动用这些权力。
Closely related to the exaggerated confidence in our country's greatness which tends to a disregard of the rules of national safety, another danger confronts us not less serious. 与对我们国家伟大的过度自信密切相关——这种自信倾向于忽视国家安全的规则——另一个同样严重的危险正摆在我们面前。
I refer to the prevalence of a popular disposition to expect from the operation of the Government especial and direct individual advantages. 我指的是普遍存在的一种民众倾向，即期望从政府的运作中获得特殊和直接的个人利益。
The verdict of our voters which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection's sake enjoins upon the people's servants the duty of exposing and destroying the brood of kindred evils which are the unwholesome progeny of paternalism. 我们选民的裁决谴责了为保护而保护的不公正做法，这责成人民的公仆有责任揭露和摧毁那些作为父爱主义不健康产物的同类邪恶。
This is the bane of republican institutions and the constant peril of our government by the people. 这是共和制度的祸根，也是我们民治政府的持续危险。
It degrades to the purposes of wily craft the plan of rule our fathers established and bequeathed to us as an object of our love and veneration. 它将我们先辈建立并留给我们作为热爱和崇敬对象的统治计划，贬低为狡猾手段的目的。
It perverts the patriotic sentiments of our countrymen and tempts them to pitiful calculation of the sordid gain to be derived from their Government's maintenance. 它歪曲了我们同胞的爱国情感，诱使他们可怜地计算从政府维持中可以获得的肮脏利益。
It undermines the self-reliance of our people and substitutes in its place dependence upon governmental favoritism. 它破坏了我们人民的自力更生精神，取而代之的是对政府恩惠的依赖。
It stifles the spirit of true Americanism and stupefies every ennobling trait of American citizenship. 它扼杀了真正的美国精神，使美国公民的每一个高尚品质变得麻木。
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people. 父爱主义的教训应该被忘却，而更好的教训应该被教导：虽然人民应该爱国地、愉快地支持他们的政府，但政府的职能并不包括支持人民。
The acceptance of this principle leads to a refusal of bounties and subsidies, which burden the labor and thrift of a portion of our citizens to aid ill-advised or languishing enterprises in which they have no concern. 接受这一原则导致拒绝津贴和补贴——这些措施让一部分公民的劳动和节俭负担加重，去援助那些不明智或经营不善的企业，而这些企业与他们毫无关系。
It leads also to a challenge of wild and reckless pension expenditure, which overleaps the bounds of grateful recognition of patriotic service and prostitutes to vicious uses the people's prompt and generous impulse to aid those disabled in their country's defense. 它还导致挑战疯狂和鲁莽的养老金支出——这些支出超越了感恩认可爱国服务的界限，把人民迅速而慷慨地援助国家保卫中伤残者的冲动滥用在邪恶的用途上。
Every thoughtful American must realize the importance of checking at its beginning any tendency in public or private station to regard frugality and economy as virtues which we may safely outgrow. 每一个有思想的美国人都必须认识到，无论在公共还是私人岗位上，都必须从一开始就遏制任何将节俭和节约视为我们可以安全摒弃的美德的倾向。
The toleration of this idea results in the waste of the people's money by their chosen servants and encourages prodigality and extravagance in the home life of our countrymen. 容忍这种想法会导致人民的被选公仆浪费人民的钱财，并助长我们同胞家庭生活中的挥霍和奢侈。
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character. 在我们的政府体制下，浪费公共资金是对公民的犯罪；而我们人民在个人事务中对节约和节俭的轻视，可悲地削弱了我们民族性格的力量和坚韧。
It is a plain dictate of honesty and good government that public expenditures should be limited by public necessity, and that this should be measured by the rules of strict economy. 诚实和善政的明确要求是，公共支出应受到公共需求的限制，而公共需求应以严格节约的规则来衡量。
And it is equally clear that frugality among the people is the best guaranty of a contented and strong support of free institutions. 同样清楚的是，人民的节俭是对自由制度满意和坚定支持的最好保证。
One mode of the misappropriation of public funds is avoided when appointments to office, instead of being the rewards of partisan activity, are awarded to those whose efficiency promises a fair return of work for the compensation paid to them. 当职位任命不再是党派活动的回报，而是授予那些效率有望为所支付的报酬提供公平工作回报的人时，公共资金的一种滥用方式就得到了避免。
To secure the fitness and competency of appointees to office and remove from political action the demoralizing madness for spoils, civil-service reform has found a place in our public policy and laws. 为了确保任命人员的胜任能力，并消除政治行动中对战利品的疯狂追求，文官制度改革已经在我们的公共政策和法律中占据了一席之地。
The benefits already gained through this instrumentality and the further usefulness it promises entitle it to the hearty support and encouragement of all who desire to see our public service well performed or who hope for the elevation of political sentiment and the purification of political methods. 通过这一工具已经获得的好处以及它所承诺的进一步效用，使它值得所有希望看到公共服务良好执行或希望政治情绪提升和政治方法净化的人的衷心支持和鼓励。
The existence of immense aggregations of kindred enterprises and combinations of business interests formed for the purpose of limiting production and fixing prices is inconsistent with the fair field which ought to be open to every independent activity. 为限制生产和固定价格而形成的同类企业的庞大联合以及商业利益的组合，与应该向每一项独立活动开放的公平竞争环境是不一致的。
Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition. 商业中的正当竞争不应被对具有破坏性力量的联合要求的强制让步所取代，被服务的人民也不应失去通常来自健康竞争的廉价好处。
These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness. 这些联合和组合往往构成对人民利益的阴谋，在所有阶段它们都是不自然的，违背我们美国人的公平感。
To the extent that they can be reached and restrained by Federal power the General Government should relieve our citizens from their interference and exactions. 在联邦权力能够触及和约束的范围内，联邦政府应该使我们的公民免受它们的干预和勒索。
Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land. 对我们政府所依据的原则的忠诚，坚决要求政府保证给每个公民的法律面前平等，应该在全国所有地区得到公正和真诚的承认。
The enjoyment of this right follows the badge of citizenship wherever found, and, unimpaired by race or color, it appeals for recognition to American manliness and fairness. 这种权利的享有跟随公民身份的标志无论到哪里，不受种族或肤色的损害，它呼吁美国的男子汉气概和公平感予以承认。
Our relations with the Indians located within our border impose upon us responsibilities we can not escape. 我们与境内印第安人的关系，使我们承担无法逃避的责任。
Humanity and consistency require us to treat them with forbearance and in our dealings with them to honestly and considerately regard their rights and interests. 人道和一致性要求我们宽容地对待他们，在与他们的交往中诚实和体贴地考虑他们的权利和利益。
Every effort should be made to lead them, through the paths of civilization and education, to self-supporting and independent citizenship. 应尽一切努力引导他们通过文明和教育的道路，实现自给自足和独立的公民身份。
In the meantime, as the nation's wards, they should be promptly defended against the cupidity of designing men and shielded from every influence or temptation that retards their advancement. 与此同时，作为国家的受监护人，他们应该得到及时保护，免受图谋不轨者的贪婪，并免受任何阻碍他们进步的影响或诱惑。
The people of the United States have decreed that on this day the control of their Government in its legislative and executive branches shall be given to a political party pledged in the most positive terms to the accomplishment of tariff reform. 美国人民已颁布法令，从今天起，政府的立法和行政部门的控制权将交给一个以最明确的条款承诺完成关税改革的政党。
They have thus determined in favor of a more just and equitable system of Federal taxation. 他们因此决定支持一种更加公正和平等的联邦税收制度。
The agents they have chosen to carry out their purposes are bound by their promises not less than by the command of their masters to devote themselves unremittingly to this service. 他们选择来执行其目的的代理人，不仅受他们承诺的约束，也受他们主人命令的约束，必须不懈地致力于这项服务。
While there should be no surrender of principle, our task must be undertaken wisely and without heedless vindictiveness. 虽然不应放弃原则，但我们的任务必须明智地承担，不能盲目报复。
Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong. 我们的使命不是惩罚，而是纠正错误。
If in lifting burdens from the daily life of our people we reduce inordinate and unequal advantages too long enjoyed, this is but a necessary incident of our return to right and justice. 如果在减轻人民日常生活负担时，我们减少了长期享有的过度和不平等的优势，这只是我们回归正义和公正的必要附带结果。
If we exact from unwilling minds acquiescence in the theory of an honest distribution of the fund of the governmental beneficence treasured up for all, we but insist upon a principle which underlies our free institutions. 如果我们要求不情愿的人们接受这样的理论——即政府为所有人储备的恩惠基金应诚实分配，我们只是坚持了构成我们自由制度基础的原则。
When we tear aside the delusions and misconceptions which have blinded our countrymen to their condition under vicious tariff laws, we but show them how far they have been led away from the paths of contentment and prosperity. 当我们揭开使我们同胞在恶性关税法律下对自身状况视而不见的幻想和误解时，我们只是向他们表明，他们已经偏离满足和繁荣的道路有多远。
When we proclaim that the necessity for revenue to support the Government furnishes the only justification for taxing the people, we announce a truth so plain that its denial would seem to indicate the extent to which judgment may be influenced by familiarity with perversions of the taxing power. 当我们宣称支持政府的收入需求是向人民征税的唯一正当理由时，我们宣布了一个如此明显的真理，否认它似乎表明了判断力可能在多大程度上受到熟悉征税权力滥用的影响。
And when we seek to reinstate the self-confidence and business enterprise of our citizens by discrediting an abject dependence upon governmental favor, we strive to stimulate those elements of American character which support the hope of American achievement. 而当我们通过揭露对政府恩惠的卑鄙依赖来恢复公民的自信和创业精神时，我们努力激发那些支持美国成就希望的美国性格要素。
Anxiety for the redemption of the pledges which my party has made and solicitude for the complete justification of the trust the people have reposed in us constrain me to remind those with whom I am to cooperate that we can succeed in doing the work which has been especially set before us only by the most sincere, harmonious, and disinterested effort. 对兑现我们政党所做承诺的焦虑，以及对人民给予我们信任的完全正当性的担忧，使我必须提醒与我合作的人，只有通过最真诚、和谐和无私的努力，我们才能成功完成特别摆在我们面前的工作。
Even if insuperable obstacles and opposition prevent the consummation of our task, we shall hardly be excused. 即使无法克服的障碍和反对阻止了我们任务的完成，我们也很难被原谅。
And if failure can be traced to our fault or neglect we may be sure the people will hold us to a swift and exacting accountability. 而如果失败可以追溯到我们的过错或疏忽，我们可以肯定人民将让我们迅速而严格地承担责任。
The oath I now take to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States not only impressively defines the great responsibility I assume, but suggests obedience to constitutional commands as the rule by which my official conduct must be guided. 我现在宣誓维护、保护和捍卫美国宪法，这不仅深刻定义了我承担的重大责任，也表明遵守宪法命令是指导我官方行为的规则。
I shall to the best of my ability and within my sphere of duty preserve the Constitution by loyally protecting every grant of Federal power it contains, by defending all its restraints when attacked by impatience and restlessness, and by enforcing its limitations and reservations in favor of the States and the people. 我将尽我所能，在我的职责范围内，通过忠实地保护宪法所载的每一项联邦权力授予，通过在耐心和不安的攻击面前捍卫所有宪法限制，以及通过执行有利于各州和人民的宪法限制和保留，来维护宪法。
Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me and mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me. 深刻认识到摆在我面前的职责的严重性，并意识到我的弱点，如果我必须独自承担等待我的责任，我会感到震惊。
I am, however, saved from discouragement when I remember that I shall have the support and the counsel and cooperation of wise and patriotic men who will stand at my side in Cabinet places or will represent the people in their legislative halls. 然而，当我想到我将得到明智和爱国的人士的支持、建议和合作——他们将站在我的内阁位置上，或在立法大厅代表人民——我就不会感到气馁。
I find also much comfort in remembering that my countrymen are just and generous and in the assurance that they will not condemn those who by sincere devotion to their service deserve their forbearance and approval. 我还从记住同胞们的公正和慷慨中得到很多安慰，并确信他们不会谴责那些以真诚奉献为他们服务、值得他们宽容和认可的人。
Above all, I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. 最重要的是，我知道有一位至高无上的存在统治着人类的事务，他的善良和仁慈一直伴随着美国人民。我知道，如果我们谦卑而虔诚地寻求他的有力援助，他现在不会离弃我们。