For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land. 为了我自己和我们的国家，我要感谢我的前任为治愈我们的国家所做的一切。
In this outward and physical ceremony, we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say, "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." 在这个外在的、物质的仪式中，我们再次证明了我们国家内在的、精神的力量。正如我的高中老师朱莉娅·科尔曼小姐常说的："我们必须适应变化的时代，同时坚守不变的原则。"
Here before me is the Bible used in the inauguration of our first President, in 1789, and I have just taken the oath of office on the Bible my mother gave me just a few years ago, opened to a timeless admonition from the ancient prophet Micah: "He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." 在我面前的是1789年我们第一任总统就职时使用的圣经，而我刚刚用我母亲几年前给我的圣经宣誓就职，翻开的是古代先知弥迦的永恒告诫："世人哪，耶和华已指示你何为善。他向你所要的是什么呢？只要你行公义、好怜悯、存谦卑的心与你的上帝同行。"
This inauguration ceremony marks a new beginning, a new dedication within our Government, and a new spirit among us all. A President may sense and proclaim that new spirit, but only a people can provide it. 这次就职典礼标志着一个新的开始，我们政府内部的新奉献精神，以及我们所有人之间的新精神。总统可以感知并宣告这种新精神，但只有人民才能赋予它。
Two centuries ago, our Nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom. But the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of this Nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream. 两个世纪前，我们国家的诞生是人类追求自由漫长历程中的一个里程碑。但是，激发这个国家缔造者的大胆而辉煌的梦想仍在等待实现。今天我没有新的梦想要提出，而是呼吁对旧梦想抱有新的信念。
Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests. 我们是第一个公开以精神和人类自由来定义自己的社会。正是这种独特的自我定义赋予了我们非凡的吸引力，但它也赋予我们一种特殊的义务，即承担那些道德责任——一旦承担，这些责任似乎总是符合我们自身的最大利益。
You have given me a great responsibility--to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes. 你们赋予了我重大的责任——与你们保持紧密联系，不辜负你们的期望，并体现你们的精神。让我们共同创造一种新的民族团结和信任精神。你们的力量可以弥补我的弱点，你们的智慧可以帮助我减少错误。
Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right. 让我们一起学习、一起欢笑、一起工作、一起祈祷，相信最终我们将共同在正义中取得胜利。
The American dream endures. We must once again have full faith in our country--and in one another. I believe America can be better. We can be even stronger than before. 美国梦依然存在。我们必须再次对我们的国家——以及对彼此——抱有充分的信心。我相信美国可以变得更好。我们可以比以前更强大。
Let our recent mistakes bring a resurgent commitment to the basic principles of our Nation, for we know that if we despise our own government, we have no future. We recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently, united. In those times no prize was beyond our grasp. 让我们最近的错误重新唤起对国家基本原则的承诺，因为我们知道，如果我们鄙视自己的政府，我们就没有未来。我们记得那些特殊的时刻，那时我们短暂但辉煌地团结在一起。在那些时刻，没有什么奖品是我们无法获得的。
But we cannot dwell upon remembered glory. We cannot afford to drift. We reject the prospect of failure or mediocrity or an inferior quality of life for any person. Our Government must at the same time be both competent and compassionate. 但我们不能沉溺于记忆中的荣耀。我们不能随波逐流。我们拒绝任何失败、平庸或任何人生存质量低下的前景。我们的政府必须同时具备能力和同情心。
We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our national beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced. 我们已经找到了高度的个人自由，现在我们正在努力增强机会平等。我们对人权的承诺必须是绝对的，我们的法律必须公平，我们的国家美丽必须得到保护；强者不得迫害弱者，人的尊严必须得到增强。
We have learned that more is not necessarily better, that even our great Nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems. We cannot afford to do everything, nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future. So, together, in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good, we must simply do our best. 我们认识到，更多并不一定更好，即使我们伟大的国家也有其公认的限度，我们既不能回答所有问题，也不能解决所有问题。我们不能做所有事情，但在面对未来时，我们也不能缺乏勇气。因此，让我们共同以个人牺牲为共同利益的精神，尽我们最大的努力。
Our Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. 我们的国家只有在国内强大，才能在国外强大。我们知道，增强其他国家自由的最佳方式是在这里展示我们的民主制度值得效仿。
To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength. 要忠于自己，我们必须忠于他人。我们不会在国外的行为违反我们在国内的规则和标准，因为我们知道，我们国家赢得的信任对我们的力量至关重要。
The world itself is now dominated by a new spirit. Peoples more numerous and more politically aware are craving, and now demanding, their place in the sun--not just for the benefit of their own physical condition, but for basic human rights. 世界本身现在被一种新的精神所主导。越来越多、政治意识越来越强的人民渴望并现在要求在阳光下拥有自己的地位——不仅是为了改善自己的物质条件，更是为了基本人权。
The passion for freedom is on the rise. Tapping this new spirit, there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane. 对自由的热情正在上升。借助这种新精神，在这个新开始的日子里，美国承担的最高尚、最宏伟的任务莫过于帮助塑造一个真正人道的公正和平世界。
We are a strong nation, and we will maintain strength so sufficient that it need not be proven in combat--a quiet strength based not merely on the size of an arsenal but on the nobility of ideas. 我们是一个强大的国家，我们将保持足够的力量，使其无需在战斗中证明——一种安静的力量，不仅基于武器库的规模，而且基于思想的崇高。
We will be ever vigilant and never vulnerable, and we will fight our wars against poverty, ignorance, and injustice, for those are the enemies against which our forces can be honorably marshaled. 我们将永远保持警惕，永远不脆弱，我们将对贫困、无知和不公正开战，因为这些是我们的力量可以光荣地集结起来对抗的敌人。
We are a proudly idealistic nation, but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness. 我们是一个自豪的理想主义国家，但不要让任何人把我们的理想主义误认为软弱。
Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for those societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people. 因为我们是自由的，我们永远不能对其他地方的自由命运漠不关心。我们的道德感要求我们明确偏爱那些与我们一样始终尊重个人人权的社会。我们不寻求恐吓，但显然，一个他人可以不受惩罚地统治的世界将不利于体面，也将威胁所有人民的福祉。
The world is still engaged in a massive armaments race designed to ensure continuing equivalent strength among potential adversaries. We pledge perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments to those necessary for each nation's own domestic safety. And we will move this year a step toward our ultimate goal--the elimination of all nuclear weapons from this Earth. We urge all other people to join us, for success can mean life instead of death. 世界仍在进行大规模的军备竞赛，旨在确保潜在对手之间持续保持同等力量。我们承诺以毅力和智慧努力将世界军备限制在每个国家国内安全所需的水平。今年，我们将朝着最终目标迈出一步——从地球上消除所有核武器。我们敦促所有其他人加入我们，因为成功意味着生存而非死亡。
Within us, the people of the United States, there is evident a serious and purposeful rekindling of confidence. And I join in the hope that when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our Nation:--that we had remembered the words of Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy, and justice;--that we had torn down the barriers that separated those of different race and region and religion, and where there had been mistrust, built unity, with a respect for diversity;--that we had found productive work for those able to perform it;--that we had strengthened the American family, which is the basis of our society; 在我们美国人民内部，明显出现了严肃而有目的的信心复苏。我希望，当我作为你们总统的任期结束时，人们会这样评价我们的国家：我们记住了弥迦的话，重新开始寻找谦卑、怜悯和正义；我们拆除了分隔不同种族、地区和宗教的障碍，在曾经存在不信任的地方建立了团结，并尊重多样性；我们为所有有能力工作的人找到了有成效的工作；我们加强了作为社会基础的美国家庭；
--that we had ensured respect for the law and equal treatment under the law, for the weak and the powerful, for the rich and the poor; and--that we had enabled our people to be proud of their own Government once again. 我们确保了法律受到尊重，法律面前人人平等，无论强弱、贫富；并且我们使我们的人民再次为自己的政府感到自豪。
I would hope that the nations of the world might say that we had built a lasting peace, based not on weapons of war but on international policies which reflect our own most precious values. 我希望世界各国会说，我们建立了持久的和平，这种和平不是基于战争武器，而是基于反映我们最珍贵价值的国际政策。
These are not just my goals---and they will not be my accomplishments-but the affirmation of our Nation's continuing moral strength and our belief in an undiminished, ever-expanding American dream. 这些不仅仅是我的目标——也不会是我的成就——而是我们国家持续的道德力量和我们对不减、不断扩展的美国梦信念的肯定。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢你们。