Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice President Pence, and my distinguished guests, and my fellow Americans: This is America's day. This is democracy's day, a day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages America has been tested anew, and America has risen to the challenge. 首席大法官罗伯茨、副总统哈里斯、议长佩洛西、舒默领袖、麦康奈尔领袖、副总统彭斯，以及各位尊贵的来宾和我的美国同胞们：这是美国的日子。这是民主的日子，一个充满历史和希望、复兴和决心的日子。经过一个时代的考验，美国再次经受了考验，并且美国已经迎接了挑战。
Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause, the cause of democracy. The people—the will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile. And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. 今天，我们庆祝的不是一位候选人的胜利，而是一项事业的胜利——民主事业。人民的意愿已经被倾听，人民的意愿已经被遵循。我们再次认识到，民主是宝贵的，民主是脆弱的。在这个时刻，我的朋友们，民主取得了胜利。
So now, on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundation, we come together as one Nation under God, indivisible, to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries. As we look ahead in our uniquely American way—restless, bold, optimistic—and set our sights on the Nation we know we can be and we must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here today. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our Nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night, who cannot be with us today, but whom we salute for his lifetime of service. 因此，在这片神圣的土地上——就在几天前，暴力试图动摇国会大厦的根基——我们作为一个在上帝之下、不可分割的国家团结在一起，进行我们两百多年来一直进行的权力和平交接。当我们以独特的美国方式展望未来——永不满足、勇敢、乐观——并将目光投向我们知道能够成为并且必须成为的国家时，我感谢两党的前任总统今天来到这里。我衷心感谢他们。正如我昨晚交谈过的卡特总统一样，我深知我们宪法的韧性和国家的力量——卡特总统今天不能与我们在一起，但我们向他致敬，感谢他一生的服务。
I have just taken the sacred oath each of these patriots have taken, the oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us, on "We the People," who seek a more perfect Union. 我刚刚宣誓了这些爱国者每个人都曾宣誓过的神圣誓言，这是乔治·华盛顿首次宣誓的誓言。但美国的故事不取决于我们中的任何一个人，不取决于我们中的一些人，而是取决于我们所有人，取决于追求更完美联邦的"我们人民"。
This is a great Nation; we are good people. Over the centuries, through storm and strife, in peace and in war, we've come so far. But we still have far to go. We'll press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibilities: much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build, and much to gain. 这是一个伟大的国家；我们是善良的人民。几个世纪以来，经历风雨和冲突，在和平与战争中，我们已经走了这么远。但我们还有很长的路要走。我们将以速度和紧迫感向前推进，因为在这个充满危险和重大可能性的冬天，我们有很多事情要做：需要修复的、需要恢复的、需要治愈的、需要建设的，以及需要获得的。
Few people in our Nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once-in-a-century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II. Millions of jobs have been lost; hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear. And now, a rise of political extremism, White supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. 在我们国家的历史上，很少有人比我们现在所处的时代更具挑战性或更困难。一种百年一遇的病毒悄然在全国蔓延，一年内夺走的生命比美国在整个二战中失去的还多。数百万个工作岗位流失；数十万家企业倒闭。一个酝酿了约400年的种族正义呼声感动着我们。人人享有正义的梦想将不再被推迟。一声生存的呼唤来自地球本身，这声呼唤再迫切、再清晰不过了。现在，政治极端主义、白人至上主义和国内恐怖主义抬头，我们必须面对并将其击败。
To overcome these challenges—to restore the soul and secure the future of America—requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy: unity. Unity. 要克服这些挑战——要恢复美国的灵魂并确保美国的未来——需要的远不止言语。它需要民主中最难以捉摸的东西：团结。团结。
In another January on New Year's Day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper, the President said, and I quote, "If my name ever goes down into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it." My whole soul is in it. 1863年1月的另一个新年，亚伯拉罕·林肯签署了《解放奴隶宣言》。当他落笔时，总统说，引用他的话："如果我的名字有一天载入史册，那将是因为这个举动，我的整个灵魂都投入其中。"我的整个灵魂都投入其中。
Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our Nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause: uniting to fight the foes we face: anger, resentment, and hatred; extremism, lawlessness, violence; disease, joblessness, and hopelessness. 今天，在这个一月的日子里，我的整个灵魂都投入其中：让美国团结起来，团结我们的人民，团结我们的国家。我要求每个美国人加入我的这项事业：团结起来对抗我们面临的敌人：愤怒、怨恨和仇恨；极端主义、无法无天、暴力；疾病、失业和绝望。
With unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs. We can put people to work in good jobs. We can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus. We can reward work and rebuild the middle class and make health care secure for all. We can deliver racial justice, and we can make America, once again, the leading force for good in the world. 有了团结，我们可以做伟大的事情，重要的事情。我们可以纠正错误。我们可以让人们找到好工作。我们可以让我们的孩子在安全的学校里学习。我们可以战胜致命的病毒。我们可以奖励工作，重建中产阶级，让所有人都享有安全的医疗保健。我们可以实现种族正义，并再次让美国成为世界上向善的主导力量。
I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality that racism, nativism, fear, demonization have long torn us apart. The battle is perennial. And victory is never assured. 我知道，如今谈论团结在某些人听来可能像是愚蠢的幻想。我知道分裂我们的力量是深刻的，也是真实的。但我也知道它们并非新事物。我们的历史一直是美国理想——我们生而平等——与残酷、丑陋的现实——种族主义、排外主义、恐惧、妖魔化——之间的持续斗争。这场战斗是长期的。胜利永远不是确定的。
Through the Civil War, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setbacks, our "better angels" have always prevailed. In each of these moments, enough of us—enough of us—have come together to carry all of us forward. And we can do that now. History, faith, and reason show the way: the way of unity. 经历了内战、大萧条、世界大战、9·11事件，通过斗争、牺牲和挫折，我们的"更好的天使"总是取得胜利。在每一个这样的时刻，我们中足够多的人——足够多的人——团结起来带领我们所有人前进。我们现在也可以做到这一点。历史、信仰和理性指明了道路：团结的道路。
We can see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. 我们可以将彼此视为邻居，而不是对手。我们可以以尊严和尊重对待彼此。我们可以携手合作，停止争吵，降温。因为没有团结，就没有和平，只有痛苦和愤怒。没有进步，只有令人疲惫的愤怒。没有国家，只有混乱的状态。
This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America. If we do that, I guarantee you, we will not fail. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we have acted together. 这是我们历史性的危机和挑战时刻，团结是前进的道路。我们必须作为美利坚合众国迎接这一时刻。如果我们这样做，我向你们保证，我们不会失败。在美国，当我们共同行动时，我们从未、从未、从未、从未失败过。
And so today, at this time, in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another, hear one another, see one another, show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war. And we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured. 因此，今天，在这个时刻，在这个地方，让我们所有人重新开始。让我们开始倾听彼此、听到彼此、看到彼此、尊重彼此。政治不必是一场摧毁其道路上一切的熊熊烈火。每一次分歧不必成为全面战争的原因。我们必须摒弃那种事实本身被操纵甚至捏造的文化。
My fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. America has to be better than this. And I believe America is so much better than this. 我的美国同胞们，我们必须与此不同。美国必须比这更好。我相信美国远比这更好。
Just look around. Here we stand, in the shadow of the Capitol dome, as was mentioned earlier, completed amid the Civil War, when the Union itself was literally hanging in the balance. Yet we endured, we prevailed. 看看周围。我们站在这里，在国会大厦圆顶的阴影下——如前所述，它在内战期间完工，当时联邦本身确实岌岌可危。然而我们坚持了下来，我们取得了胜利。
Here we stand looking out on the great Mall where Dr. King spoke of his dream. 我们站在这里，眺望伟大的国家广场，马丁·路德·金博士曾在那里讲述他的梦想。
Here we stand, where 108 years ago, at another Inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing-in of the first woman in American history elected to national office: Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. 我们站在这里——108年前，在另一次就职典礼上，数千名抗议者试图阻止勇敢的妇女争取投票权的游行。而今天，我们庆祝美国历史上第一位当选国家公职的女性：副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯。别告诉我事情不会改变。
Here we stand across the Potomac from Arlington Cemetery, where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace. 我们站在这里，跨越波托马克河与阿灵顿国家公墓相望，那些献出最后一份忠诚的英雄们安息在永恒的和平中。
And here we stand, just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever—not ever. 我们站在这里——就在几天前，一群暴乱暴徒以为他们可以用暴力压制人民的意愿，阻止我们民主的运作，将我们从这片神圣的土地上赶走。这没有发生。这永远不会发生，今天不会，明天不会，永远不会——永远不会。
To all those who supported our campaign, I am humbled by the faith you've placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this: Hear me out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart. And if you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peaceably, within the guardrails of our Republic, is perhaps this Nation's greatest strength. Yet hear me clearly: Disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you: I will be a President for all Americans—all Americans. And I promise you, I will fight as hard for those who did not support me as for those who did. 对所有支持我们竞选的人，我对你们给予我们的信任感到谦卑。对所有不支持我们的人，让我这样说：在我们前进的过程中，请听我说完。衡量我和我的心。如果你仍然不同意，那就这样吧。这就是民主。这就是美国。在我们共和国的范围内和平表达异议的权利，也许是这个国家最大的力量。但请听清楚：分歧绝不能导致分裂。我向你们承诺：我将成为所有美国人的总统——所有美国人。我向你们保证，我将为那些不支持我的人与支持我的人一样努力奋斗。
Many centuries ago, Saint Augustine, a saint of my church, wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love—defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love? That define us as Americans? I think we know: opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honor, and yes, the truth. 许多世纪以前，我的教会的圣人圣奥古斯丁写道，一个民族是由他们共同热爱的对象定义的——由他们共同热爱的对象定义的。我们作为美国人共同热爱的对象是什么？那些定义我们作为美国人的东西？我想我们知道：机会、安全、自由、尊严、尊重、荣誉，是的，还有真理。
Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth, and there are lies: lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility, as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders—leaders who have pledged to honor our Constitution and protect our Nation—to defend the truth and defeat the lies. 最近几周和几个月给我们上了痛苦的一课。有真理，也有谎言：为权力和利润而编造的谎言。我们每个人都有责任和义务，作为公民、作为美国人，尤其是作为领导人——那些承诺尊重宪法和保护国家的领导人——捍卫真理，战胜谎言。
Look, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand, like my dad, they lay at bed at night staring at the ceiling, wondering: "Can I keep my health care? Can I pay my mortgage?" Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like you or worship the way you do or don't get their news from the same sources you do. We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say, just for a moment. Stand in their shoes. 看，我理解我的许多美国同胞对未来感到恐惧和不安。我理解他们担心自己的工作。我理解，就像我父亲一样，他们晚上躺在床上盯着天花板，想知道："我能保住我的医疗保健吗？我能支付我的抵押贷款吗？"想着他们的家人，想着接下来会发生什么。我向你们保证，我理解。但答案不是向内转，退回到相互竞争的派系中，不信任那些长相不同、信仰不同或新闻来源不同的人。我们必须结束这场将红州与蓝州、农村与城市、保守派与自由派对立的不文明战争。如果我们敞开心扉而不是硬化我们的心，如果我们表现出一点宽容和谦逊，如果我们愿意站在别人的立场上——就像我妈妈会说的那样——哪怕只是片刻，我们就能做到这一点。站在他们的立场上。
Because here is the thing about life: There is no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days when you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be. That is what we do for one another. And if we are this way, our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree. 因为生活就是这样：无法预料命运会给你带来什么。有些日子你需要帮助。有些日子我们被召唤去伸出援手。事情必须是这样的。这就是我们为彼此做的事情。如果我们这样做，我们的国家将更强大、更繁荣、更准备好迎接未来。我们仍然可以有分歧。
My fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us, we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one Nation. One Nation. And I promise you this: As the Bible says, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." We will get through this, together—together. 我的美国同胞们，在我们面前的工作中，我们需要彼此。我们需要我们所有的力量来度过这个黑暗的冬天。我们正进入病毒可能最艰难、最致命的时期。我们必须抛开政治，最终作为一个国家面对这场大流行。一个国家。我向你们保证：正如圣经所说，"哭泣可能持续一夜，但欢乐在早晨到来。"我们将一起度过难关——一起。
Look, folks, all my colleagues that I served with in the House and the Senate up here. We all understand the world is watching, watching all of us today. So here is my message to those beyond our borders: America has been tested, and we have come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again, not to meet yesterday's challenges, but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. We will be a strong and trusted partner for peace, progress, and security. 看，朋友们，所有与我在众议院和参议院共事过的同事们。我们都明白世界正在注视着，今天注视着我们所有人。因此，我对海外的人们要说：美国经受了考验，我们因此变得更强大。我们将修复我们的联盟，再次与世界接触，不是为了应对昨天的挑战，而是今天和明天的挑战。我们不仅要以我们力量的榜样来领导，还要以我们榜样的力量来领导。我们将成为和平、进步与安全的强大而可信的伙伴。
Look, you all know, we have been through so much in this Nation. And, in my first act as President, I'd like to ask you to join me in a moment of silent prayer to remember all those we lost this past year to the pandemic, those 400,000 fellow Americans: moms, dads, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. We will honor them by becoming the people and Nation we know we can and should be. 看，你们都知道，我们在这个国家经历了太多。在我作为总统的第一个行动中，我想请你们和我一起默哀片刻，纪念过去一年因大流行失去的所有人——那些40万美国同胞：母亲、父亲、丈夫、妻子、儿子、女儿、朋友、邻居和同事。我们将通过成为我们知道能够并且应该成为的人和国家来纪念他们。
So I ask you, let's say a silent prayer for those who have lost their lives, for those they left behind, and for our country. 所以我请你们，为那些失去生命的人、他们留下的人以及我们的国家默哀。
[At this point, a moment of silence was observed.] [此时，默哀片刻。]
Folks, this is a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy and on truth, a raging virus, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is, we face them all at once, presenting this Nation with one of the gravest of responsibilities we've had. 朋友们，这是一个考验的时刻。我们面临着对民主和真理的攻击、肆虐的病毒、日益加剧的不平等、系统性种族主义的刺痛、气候危机以及美国在世界上的角色。其中任何一个都足以以深刻的方式挑战我们。但事实是，我们同时面临所有这些问题，这给这个国家带来了我们所肩负的最严峻的责任之一。
Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up? All of us? It is time for boldness, for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you: We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. Will we rise to the occasion, is the question. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must; I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will. 现在我们将受到考验。我们会站出来吗？我们所有人？是时候勇敢了，因为有太多事情要做。我向你们保证，这是肯定的：我们将根据我们如何解决我们时代这些连锁危机来接受评判。问题是，我们会挺身而出吗？我们会掌控这个难得而艰难的时刻吗？我们会履行我们的义务，并将一个新的、更好的世界传给我们的孩子吗？我相信我们必须这样做；我确信你们也一样。我相信我们会的。
And when we do, we will write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America: the American story, a story that might sound something like a song that means a lot to me. It's called "American Anthem," and there's one verse that stands out, at least for me, and it goes like this: 当我们这样做时，我们将在美国历史上写下下一个伟大的篇章：美国的故事，一个对我意义重大的歌的故事。它叫做《美国国歌》，有一段歌词特别突出，至少对我来说是这样，歌词是这样的：
"The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this dayWhat shall be our legacy? What will our children say? . . .Let me know in my heart when my days are throughAmerica, America, I gave my best to you." "几个世纪的工作和祈祷把我们带到了今天。我们的遗产将是什么？我们的子孙会怎么说？……让我在心中知道，当我的日子结束时，美国，美国，我把我最好的给了你。"
Let's add—let's us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great Nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: "They gave their best. They did their duty. They healed a broken land." 让我们——让我们把我们自己的工作和祈祷加入我们伟大国家正在展开的故事中。如果我们这样做，那么当我们的日子结束时，我们的孩子和他们的孩子会说我们："他们付出了最好的。他们尽了他们的职责。他们治愈了破碎的土地。"
My fellow Americans, I close today where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you I give you my word: I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution. I will defend our democracy. I will defend America. And I will give all, all of you, keep everything you—I do, in your service, thinking not of power, but of possibilities; not of personal interest, but of the public good. And together, we shall write an American story of hope, not fear; of unity, not division; of light, not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. 我的美国同胞们，今天我以开始时的神圣誓言结束。在上帝和你们所有人面前，我向你们保证：我将永远对你们坦诚相待。我将捍卫宪法。我将捍卫我们的民主。我将捍卫美国。我将奉献一切，为你们所有人服务，我所做的一切都是为你们服务，思考的不是权力，而是可能性；不是个人利益，而是公共利益。我们将一起书写一个充满希望而非恐惧、团结而非分裂、光明而非黑暗的美国故事。一个关于正派和尊严、爱与治愈、伟大与善良的故事。
May this be the story that guides us, the story that inspires us, and the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment; democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch, but thrived; that America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forebearers, one another, and generations to follow. 愿这成为指导我们的故事，激励我们的故事，并告诉未来的时代：我们回应了历史的召唤，我们迎接了这个时刻；民主和希望、真理和正义没有在我们的监视下消亡，而是蓬勃发展；美国在国内确保了自由，并再次成为世界的灯塔。这是我们欠我们的先辈、彼此以及后代的。
So with purpose and resolve we turn to those tasks of our time, sustained by faith, driven by conviction, and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. 因此，带着目标和决心，我们转向我们时代的任务，以信仰支撑，以信念驱动，并全心奉献给彼此和我们深爱的国家。
May God bless America, and may God protect our troops. Thank you, America. 愿上帝保佑美国，愿上帝保护我们的军队。谢谢你，美国。