Hello, Boston! 波士顿的朋友们，大家好！
Scripture tells us to “run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Run with endurance the race that is set before us. 《圣经》告诉我们：“存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程。”要坚忍地跑完摆在我们面前的路。
On Monday morning, the sun rose over Boston. The sunlight glistened off the Statehouse dome. In the Common and the Public Garden, spring was in bloom. On this Patriot’s Day, like so many before, fans jumped onto the T to see the Sox at Fenway. In Hopkinton, runners laced up their shoes and set out on a 26.2-mile test of dedication and grit and the human spirit. And across this city, hundreds of thousands of Bostonians lined the streets -- to hand the runners cups of water and to cheer them on. 星期一早晨，太阳从波士顿升起，阳光洒在州议会大厦的穹顶上。波士顿公园和公共花园里，春花正盛开。和往年的爱国者日一样，球迷们跳上地铁，赶去芬威球场看红袜队比赛。在霍普金顿，跑者系紧鞋带，踏上全长二十六点二英里的赛程，考验自己的奉献精神、毅力和意志。城里的几十万居民站在街边，给跑者递水，为他们加油。
It was a beautiful day to be in Boston -- a day that explains why a poet once wrote that this town is not just a capital, not just a place. Boston, he said, “is the perfect state of grace.” 那原本是波士顿美好的一天。难怪有位诗人曾写道，这座城不只是首府，不只是一个地方。他说，波士顿是“一种完美的恩典之境”。
And then, in an instant, the day’s beauty was shattered. A celebration became a tragedy. And so we come together to pray, and mourn, and measure our loss. But we also come together today to reclaim that state of grace -- to reaffirm that the spirit of this city is undaunted, and the spirit of this country shall remain undimmed. 然而就在一瞬间，这一天的美好被击碎了，庆典变成了悲剧。所以我们聚在一起祈祷、哀悼、体会失去亲人的痛苦。但今天我们相聚，也为了重新找回那份恩典，重申这座城市的精神不会屈服，这个国家的精神也不会黯淡。
To Governor Patrick; Mayor Menino; Cardinal O’Malley and all the faith leaders who are here; Governors Romney, Swift, Weld and Dukakis; members of Congress; and most of all, the people of Boston and the families who’ve lost a piece of your heart. We thank you for your leadership. We thank you for your courage. We thank you for your grace. 帕特里克州长、梅尼诺市长、奥马利枢机主教及在场的各位宗教领袖、罗姆尼、斯威夫特、韦尔德和杜卡基斯几位前州长、国会议员，以及最重要的波士顿人民和失去挚爱的家庭：感谢你们的领导、勇气与宽厚。
I’m here today on behalf of the American people with a simple message: Every one of us has been touched by this attack on your beloved city. Every one of us stands with you. 今天我代表美国人民来到这里，只想说一句简单的话：你们深爱的城市遭到袭击，我们每一个人都深受触动。我们每一个人都与你们站在一起。
Because, after all, it’s our beloved city, too. Boston may be your hometown, but we claim it, too. It’s one of America’s iconic cities. It’s one of the world’s great cities. And one of the reasons the world knows Boston so well is that Boston opens its heart to the world. 因为波士顿也是我们深爱的城市。它是你们的家乡，我们也把它当作自己的城市。它是美国最具代表性的城市之一，也是世界上最伟大的城市之一。世界如此熟悉波士顿，一个重要原因就是波士顿向世界敞开心扉。
Over successive generations, you’ve welcomed again and again new arrivals to our shores -- immigrants who constantly reinvigorated this city and this commonwealth and our nation. Every fall, you welcome students from all across America and all across the globe, and every spring you graduate them back into the world -- a Boston diaspora that excels in every field of human endeavor. 一代又一代，你们不断欢迎来到美国的新移民。他们一次次为这座城市、这个州和我们的国家注入新活力。每年秋天，你们迎接来自全美和世界各地的学生；每年春天，又送他们走向世界。波士顿培养的人才散布各地，在人类活动的各个领域大放异彩。
Year after year, you welcome the greatest talents in the arts and science, research -- you welcome them to your concert halls and your hospitals and your laboratories to exchange ideas and insights that draw this world together. 年复一年，你们欢迎艺术、科学和研究领域的杰出人才走进音乐厅、医院和实验室，交流使世界联系更紧密的思想与见解。
And every third Monday in April, you welcome people from all around the world to the Hub for friendship and fellowship and healthy competition -- a gathering of men and women of every race and every religion, every shape and every size; a multitude represented by all those flags that flew over the finish line. 每年四月的第三个星期一，你们还欢迎来自世界各地的人来到这座城市，在友谊、团契与健康竞争的精神中相聚。不同种族、宗教、体型的人们来到这里，终点线上空飘扬的各国旗帜正象征着这样的多元群体。
So whether folks come here to Boston for just a day, or they stay here for years, they leave with a piece of this town tucked firmly into their hearts. So Boston is your hometown, but we claim it a little bit, too. 因此，无论来访者只在波士顿停留一天，还是住上多年，离开时心里都会带走这座城市的一部分。波士顿是你们的家乡，我们也多少把它当作自己的家乡。
I know this because there’s a piece of Boston in me. You welcomed me as a young law student across the river; welcomed Michelle, too. You welcomed me during a convention when I was still a state senator and very few people could pronounce my name right. 我知道这一点，因为我的心里也有一部分属于波士顿。当年我还是河对岸的一名年轻法学院学生，你们欢迎了我，也欢迎了米歇尔。后来我还只是州参议员，很少有人能把我的名字念对；在那次党代会期间，你们又欢迎了我。
Like you, Michelle and I have walked these streets. Like you, we know these neighborhoods. And like you, in this moment of grief, we join you in saying -- “Boston, you’re my home.” For millions of us, what happened on Monday is personal. It’s personal. 和你们一样，米歇尔和我走过这些街道，熟悉这些社区。在这悲伤的时刻，我们和你们一起说：“波士顿，你是我的家。”对我们数百万人而言，星期一发生的事切身而痛。真的切身而痛。
Today our prayers are with the Campbell family of Medford. They're here today. Their daughter, Krystle, was always smiling. Those who knew her said that with her red hair and her freckles and her ever-eager willingness to speak her mind, she was beautiful, sometimes she could be a little noisy, and everybody loved her for it. She would have turned 30 next month. As her mother said through her tears, “This doesn’t make any sense.” 今天，我们为来自梅德福的坎贝尔一家祈祷。他们今天也在场。他们的女儿克里斯特尔总是面带笑容。认识她的人说，红头发、长着雀斑的她十分美丽，总是迫不及待地表达自己的想法，有时还会有点吵闹，但所有人都因此爱她。下个月她本应满三十岁。她的母亲含着泪说：“这一切毫无道理。”
Our prayers are with the Lu family of China, who sent their daughter, Lingzi, to BU so that she could experience all this city has to offer. She was a 23-year-old student, far from home. And in the heartache of her family and friends on both sides of a great ocean, we’re reminded of the humanity that we all share. 我们为来自中国的吕家祈祷。他们把女儿凌子送到波士顿大学，希望她体验这座城市能提供的一切。她是一名二十三岁的学生，远离家乡。她在大洋两岸的家人和朋友承受的悲痛提醒我们，彼此共享同样的人性。
Our prayers are with the Richard family of Dorchester -- to Denise and their young daughter, Jane, as they fight to recover. And our hearts are broken for 8-year-old Martin -- with his big smile and bright eyes. His last hours were as perfect as an 8-year-old boy could hope for -- with his family, eating ice cream at a sporting event. And we’re left with two enduring images of this little boy -- forever smiling for his beloved Bruins, and forever expressing a wish he made on a blue poster board: “No more hurting people. Peace.” 我们也为来自多切斯特的理查德一家祈祷，愿丹妮丝和年幼的女儿简顺利康复。八岁的马丁有灿烂的笑容和明亮的眼睛，他的离世令我们心碎。他生命最后的几个小时，像任何八岁男孩所希望的那样美好：与家人一起，在体育赛事现场吃冰激凌。我们心里永远留着他的两个画面：他为心爱的棕熊队露出笑脸，以及他在一块蓝色海报板上写下的心愿：“不要再伤害人。和平。”
No more hurting people. Peace. 不要再伤害人。和平。
Our prayers are with the injured -- so many wounded, some gravely. From their beds, some are surely watching us gather here today. And if you are, know this: As you begin this long journey of recovery, your city is with you. Your commonwealth is with you. Your country is with you. We will all be with you as you learn to stand and walk and, yes, run again. Of that I have no doubt. You will run again. You will run again. 我们为伤者祈祷，那么多人受伤，有些人伤势严重。他们之中一定有人正躺在病床上，看着我们今天聚在这里。如果你正在看，请记住：当你踏上漫长的康复之路，你的城市、你的州、你的国家都与你同在。你重新学会站立、行走，没错，再次奔跑时，我们都会陪着你。我对此毫不怀疑。你会再次奔跑。你一定会再次奔跑。
Because that’s what the people of Boston are made of. Your resolve is the greatest rebuke to whoever committed this heinous act. If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorize us, to shake us from those values that Deval described, the values that make us who we are, as Americans -- well, it should be pretty clear by now that they picked the wrong city to do it. Not here in Boston. Not here in Boston. 因为波士顿人民就是这样坚强。你们的决心，是对犯下这桩卑劣罪行者最有力的驳斥。如果他们想恫吓我们、恐吓我们，让我们抛弃德瓦尔刚才所说的那些使我们成为美国人的价值观，那么现在应该很清楚了：他们选错了城市。在波士顿，这行不通。在波士顿，这行不通。
You’ve shown us, Boston, that in the face of evil, Americans will lift up what’s good. In the face of cruelty, we will choose compassion. In the face of those who would visit death upon innocents, we will choose to save and to comfort and to heal. We’ll choose friendship. We’ll choose love. 波士顿，你们向我们证明，面对邪恶，美国人会弘扬良善；面对残忍，我们会选择仁爱；面对夺取无辜者生命的人，我们会选择拯救、安慰和治愈。我们会选择友谊，选择爱。
Scripture teaches us, “God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.” And that’s the spirit you’ve displayed in recent days. 《圣经》教导我们：“上帝赐给我们的，不是胆怯的心，而是刚强、仁爱、自律的心。”过去几天，你们展现的正是这样的精神。
When doctors and nurses, police and firefighters and EMTs and Guardsmen run towards explosions to treat the wounded -- that’s discipline. 当医生、护士、警察、消防员、急救人员和国民警卫队成员冲向爆炸现场救治伤者，这就是自律。
When exhausted runners, including our troops and veterans -- who never expected to see such carnage on the streets back home -- become first responders themselves, tending to the injured -- that’s real power. 当精疲力尽的跑者，包括从未想到会在家乡街头看到如此惨状的军人和退伍军人，也成为先遣救援人员，照顾伤者，这才是真正的力量。
When Bostonians carry victims in their arms, deliver water and blankets, line up to give blood, open their homes to total strangers, give them rides back to reunite with their families -- that’s love. 当波士顿人抱起受害者，送去水和毯子，排队献血，向陌生人敞开家门，开车送他们回家与亲人团聚，这就是爱。
That’s the message we send to those who carried this out and anyone who would do harm to our people. Yes, we will find you. And, yes, you will face justice. We will find you. We will hold you accountable. But more than that; our fidelity to our way of life -- to our free and open society -- will only grow stronger. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but one of power and love and self-discipline. 这就是我们向作案者，以及任何想伤害我国人民的人传达的信息。是的，我们会找到你们，你们会接受司法审判。我们会找到你们，追究你们的责任。但更重要的是，我们会更加坚定地守护自己的生活方式、自由开放的社会。因为上帝赐给我们的不是胆怯的心，而是刚强、仁爱、自律的心。
Like Bill Iffrig, 78 years old -- the runner in the orange tank top who we all saw get knocked down by the blast -- we may be momentarily knocked off our feet, but we’ll pick ourselves up. We’ll keep going. We will finish the race. In the words of Dick Hoyt, who’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, in 31 Boston Marathons -- “We can’t let something like this stop us.” This doesn’t stop us. 看看七十八岁的比尔·伊弗里格。他就是我们看到被爆炸冲击波掀倒的那位身穿橙色背心的跑者。我们也许会暂时跌倒，但一定会重新站起来，继续前进，跑完全程。迪克·霍伊特曾推着残疾的儿子里克参加三十一届波士顿马拉松，他说：“我们不能让这样的事挡住我们。”它挡不住我们。
And that’s what you’ve taught us, Boston. That’s what you’ve reminded us -- to push on. To persevere. To not grow weary. To not get faint. Even when it hurts. Even when our heart aches. We summon the strength that maybe we didn’t even know we had, and we carry on. We finish the race. We finish the race. 波士顿，这正是你们教给我们的事：继续前进，坚忍不拔，不疲倦，不气馁。即使身体疼痛，即使心中悲伤，我们也会唤起或许连自己都不知道拥有的力量，继续向前，跑完全程。我们要跑完全程。
And we do that because of who we are. And we do that because we know that somewhere around the bend a stranger has a cup of water. Around the bend, somebody is there to boost our spirits. On that toughest mile, just when we think that we’ve hit a wall, someone will be there to cheer us on and pick us up if we fall. We know that. 我们这样做，因为这就是我们。我们也知道，转过某个弯，就有陌生人递来一杯水；再往前，就有人为我们鼓劲。在最难熬的那一英里，当我们觉得自己撞上了极限，总会有人为我们欢呼，在我们跌倒时扶起我们。我们知道这一点。
And that’s what the perpetrators of such senseless violence -- these small, stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build, and think somehow that makes them important -- that’s what they don’t understand. Our faith in each other, our love for each other, our love for country, our common creed that cuts across whatever superficial differences there may be -- that is our power. That’s our strength. 而那些制造毫无意义的暴力、只想破坏而不愿建设、以为这样就能显得自己重要的渺小之人，恰恰不明白这一点。我们彼此之间的信任、彼此的爱、对国家的爱，以及超越表面差异的共同信念，就是我们的力量、我们的坚强之源。
That’s why a bomb can’t beat us. That’s why we don’t hunker down. That’s why we don’t cower in fear. We carry on. We race. We strive. We build, and we work, and we love -- and we raise our kids to do the same. And we come together to celebrate life, and to walk our cities, and to cheer for our teams. When the Sox and Celtics and Patriots or Bruins are champions again -- to the chagrin of New York and Chicago fans -- the crowds will gather and watch a parade go down Boylston Street. 这就是为什么炸弹打不败我们。我们不会躲起来，不会因恐惧而退缩。我们继续前进，奔跑、奋斗、建设、工作、相爱，也教孩子们这样做。我们聚在一起庆祝生命，走在城市的街道上，为球队欢呼。等红袜队、凯尔特人队、爱国者队或棕熊队再次夺冠时，纽约和芝加哥的球迷或许会不高兴，但人群仍会聚集起来，观看庆祝队伍沿博伊尔斯顿街前进。
And this time next year, on the third Monday in April, the world will return to this great American city to run harder than ever, and to cheer even louder, for the 118th Boston Marathon. Bet on it. 明年此时，也就是四月的第三个星期一，世界各地的人们会回到这座美国名城，为第一百一十八届波士顿马拉松更加奋力地奔跑，更加响亮地欢呼。我对此深信不疑。
Tomorrow, the sun will rise over Boston. Tomorrow, the sun will rise over this country that we love. This special place. This state of grace. 明天，太阳仍会从波士顿升起。明天，太阳仍会照耀我们深爱的国家，这个特别的地方，这片恩典之境。
Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon. May He comfort their families. And may He continue to watch over these United States of America. 《圣经》告诉我们：“存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程。”在我们继续奔跑时，愿上帝怀抱那些过早离开我们的人，安慰他们的家人，并继续守护美利坚合众国。
