My fellow countrymen: 同胞们：
On this occasion the oath I have taken before you and before God is not mine alone, but ours together. We are one nation and one people. Our fate as a nation and our future as a people rest not upon one citizen but upon all citizens. 在这个时刻，我在你们和上帝面前所宣誓的誓言，不仅属于我个人，也属于我们所有人。我们是一个国家，一个民族。我们国家的命运和人民的未来，不取决于任何一个公民，而取决于所有公民。
That is the majesty and the meaning of this moment. 这正是此刻的庄严与意义之所在。
For every generation there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation the choice must be our own. 每一代人都有自己的命运。有些人的命运由历史决定。而我们这一代人，必须自己做出选择。
Even now, a rocket moves toward Mars. It reminds us that the world will not be the same for our children, or even for ourselves in a short span of years. The next man to stand here will look out on a scene that is different from our own. 就在此刻，一枚火箭正飞向火星。它提醒我们，世界在短短几年内就将变得与今日不同，对我们的孩子如此，对我们自己也是如此。下一位站在这里的人，将看到与我们今日截然不同的景象。
Ours is a time of change--rapid and fantastic change--bearing the secrets of nature, multiplying the nations, placing in uncertain hands new weapons for mastery and destruction, shaking old values and uprooting old ways. 我们所处的时代是一个变革的时代——迅速而奇妙的变革——揭示着自然的奥秘，使国家数量倍增，将用于统治和毁灭的新武器交到不定的手中，动摇着旧有的价值观，颠覆着古老的生活方式。
Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people and on their faith. 在变革之中，我们的命运将取决于我们人民不变的品格和他们的信念。
THE AMERICAN COVENANT They came here--the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened--to find a place where a man could be his own man. They made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind. And it binds us still. If we keep its terms we shall flourish. 美国契约——他们来到这里——流亡者和异乡人，勇敢却又恐惧——寻找一个人能够做自己主人的地方。他们与这片土地立下了契约。这份契约孕育于正义，书写于自由，联结于团结，它注定有一天将激励全人类的希望。它至今仍约束着我们。如果我们恪守其条款，我们必将繁荣昌盛。
JUSTICE AND CHANGE First, justice was the promise that all who made the journey would share in the fruits of the land. 正义与变革——首先，正义是所有踏上这片土地的人都能共享土地果实的承诺。
In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die untended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write. 在一个财富丰裕的国度，家庭不应生活在无望的贫困之中。在一个收成丰厚的国度，孩子们不应忍饥挨饿。在一个拥有治病奇迹的国度，邻居不应无人照料地受苦和死亡。在一个学者云集、学习兴盛的国度，年轻人必须学会读写。
For more than 30 years that I have served this Nation I have believed that this injustice to our people, this waste of our resources, was our real enemy. For 30 years or more, with the resources I have had, I have vigilantly fought against it. I have learned and I know that it will not surrender easily. 在我为这个国家服务的三十多年里，我一直相信，对我们人民的这种不公，对我们资源的这种浪费，是我们真正的敌人。三十多年来，我尽其所能，始终不懈地与之斗争。我已经了解，也深知它不会轻易投降。
But change has given us new weapons. Before this generation of Americans is finished, this enemy will not only retreat, it will be conquered. 但变革赋予了我们新的武器。在我们这一代美国人完成使命之前，这个敌人不仅将撤退，而且将被征服。
Justice requires us to remember: when any citizen denies his fellow, saying: "His color is not mine or his beliefs are strange and different," in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this Nation. 正义要求我们铭记：当任何公民拒绝他的同胞，说"他的肤色与我不同，他的信仰陌生而异样"，在那一刻，他背叛了美国——尽管是他的先辈缔造了这个国家。
LIBERTY AND CHANGE Liberty was the second article of our covenant. It was self-government. It was our Bill of Rights. But it was more. America would be a place where each man could be proud to be himself: stretching his talents, rejoicing in his work, important in the life of his neighbors and his nation. 自由与变革——自由是我们契约的第二条。它是自治。它是我们的权利法案。但它还意味着更多。美国将成为这样一个地方：每个人都能自豪地做自己——发挥自己的才能，为自己的工作感到喜悦，在邻居和国家的生活中发挥重要作用。
This has become more difficult in a world where change and growth seem to tower beyond the control and even the judgment of men. We must work to provide the knowledge and the surroundings which can enlarge the possibilities of every citizen. 在一个变革与增长似乎超出人类控制甚至判断能力的世界里，这变得更加困难。我们必须努力提供能够扩大每个公民可能性的知识和环境。
THE WORLD AND CHANGE The American covenant called on us to help show the way for the liberation of man. And that is today our goal. Thus, if as a nation, there is much outside our control, as a people no stranger is outside our hope. 世界与变革——美国契约号召我们帮助指引人类解放之路。这就是我们今天的目标。因此，虽然作为一个国家，有许多事情超出我们的控制，但作为一个民族，没有任何陌生人在我们的希望之外。
Change has brought new meaning to that old mission. We can never again stand aside, prideful in isolation. Terrific dangers and troubles that we once called "foreign" now constantly live among us. If American lives must end, and American treasure be spilled, in countries that we barely know, then that is the price that change has demanded of conviction and of our enduring covenant. 变革赋予了这一古老使命新的意义。我们再也不能袖手旁观，骄傲地孤立自己。我们曾经称之为"外国"的巨大危险和麻烦，如今时常与我们同在。如果美国人必须牺牲生命，美国的财富必须洒在我们几乎一无所知的国家里，那么这就是变革对信念和我们持久契约所要求的代价。
Think of our world as it looks from that rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continent stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. 想想从那枚飞向火星的火箭上看到的我们的世界。它就像一个孩子的地球仪，悬挂在太空中，大陆像彩色地图一样贴在它的侧面。我们都是地球上这个小点上的同路人。而我们每个人，在时间的长河中，实际上与同伴们只有短暂的相遇。
How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. 在这脆弱的存在中，我们竟然相互仇恨和毁灭，这是多么不可思议。对于所有愿意放弃对他人的统治、转而追求对自然的掌控的人来说，机会是充足的。世界足够广阔，所有人都可以按照自己的方式寻求幸福。
Our Nation's course is abundantly clear. We aspire to nothing that belongs to others. We seek no dominion over our fellow man, but man's dominion over tyranny and misery. 我们国家的道路非常清晰。我们不觊觎属于他人的任何东西。我们不寻求对同胞的统治，而是寻求人类对暴政和苦难的统治。
But more is required. Men want to be part of a common enterprise, a cause greater than themselves. And each of us must find a way to advance the purpose of the Nation, thus finding new purpose for ourselves. Without this, we will simply become a nation of strangers. 但这还不够。人们渴望成为一项共同事业的一部分，一项比自身更伟大的事业。我们每个人都必须找到推进国家目标的途径，从而为自己找到新的目标。否则，我们将仅仅成为一个陌生人的国度。
UNION AND CHANGE The third article is union. To those who were small and few against the wilderness, the success of liberty demanded the strength of union. Two centuries of change have made this true again. 团结与变革——第三条是团结。对于那些在荒野面前渺小而稀少的人们来说，自由的成功需要团结的力量。两个世纪的变革使这一点再次成为真理。
No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder together we can increase the bounty of all. We have discovered that every child who learns, and every man who finds work, and every sick body that is made whole--like a candle added to an altar-brightens the hope of all the faithful. 资本家与工人、农民与职员、城市与乡村，不再需要为瓜分我们的财富而争斗。通过并肩奋斗，我们可以增加所有人的财富。我们发现，每一个学会知识的孩子，每一个找到工作的人，每一个痊愈的病人——就像祭坛上增添的一支蜡烛——都会照亮所有信徒的希望。
So let us reject any among us who seek to reopen old wounds and rekindle old hatreds. They stand in the way of a seeking nation. 因此，让我们拒绝我们中间任何试图重开旧伤、重燃旧恨的人。他们阻碍着一个寻求进步的国家。
Let us now join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred; not without difference of opinion but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. 现在，让我们将理性与信念相结合，将行动与经验相结合，将我们利益的统一转变为目标的统一。因为时机已经到来，我们要实现没有冲突的进步，实现没有仇恨的变革；不是没有意见分歧，而是没有那些会给团结留下世代伤痕的深刻而持久的分裂。
THE AMERICAN BELIEF Under this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation--prosperous, great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. But we have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit. 美国信念——在正义、自由和团结的契约之下，我们成为了一个国家——繁荣、伟大而强大。我们保持了自由。但上帝并未承诺我们的伟大将永恒。他允许我们用双手的汗水和精神的力量去追求伟大。
I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of the ants. It is the excitement of becoming-always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again--but always trying and always gaining. 我不相信伟大社会是蚂蚁那样整齐、僵化而贫瘠的群体。它是成长的激动——永远在成长，在尝试，在探索，在跌倒，在休息，然后再次尝试——但永远在尝试，永远在进步。
In each generation, with toil and tears, we have had to earn our heritage again. If we fail now then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored. 每一代人，都要通过辛劳和泪水，重新赢得我们的遗产。如果我们现在失败，那么我们将在富足中忘记我们在艰辛中学到的东西：民主建立在信念之上，自由索取的多于给予的，而上帝对那些最受眷顾者的审判最为严厉。
If we succeed it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but rather because of what we believe. 如果我们成功，那将不是因为我们拥有什么，而是因为我们是什么；不是因为我们拥有什么，而是因为我们相信什么。
For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and in our own union. We believe that every man must some day be free. And we believe in ourselves. 因为我们是一个信仰的民族。在建设的喧嚣和我们日常追求的匆忙之下，我们相信正义、自由和我们自己的团结。我们相信每个人终有一天会获得自由。我们相信自己。
And that is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime, in depression and in war they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith that they could not see or that they could not even imagine. And it brought us victory. And it will again. 这正是我们的敌人一直以来所犯的错误。在我的一生中，在大萧条和战争中，他们等待着我们的失败。每一次，从美国人内心深处的隐秘之处，都涌现出他们无法看到甚至无法想象的信念。它带给我们胜利。它将再次带给我们胜利。
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes Of man. 因为这就是美国的本质。它是未被跨越的沙漠和未被攀登的山脊。它是遥不可及的星辰和沉睡在未开垦土地上的收成。我们的世界是否已经逝去？我们说再见。一个新的世界是否正在到来？我们欢迎它，我们将使它顺应人类的希望。
And to these trusted public servants and to my family, and those close friends of mine who have followed me down a long winding road, and to all the people of this Union and the world, I will repeat today what I said on that sorrowful day in November last year: I will lead and I will do the best I can. 对于这些值得信赖的公仆，对于我的家人，对于那些跟随我走过漫长曲折道路的亲密朋友，对于这个联邦的所有人民和全世界，我今天将重复我在去年十一月那个悲伤日子里所说的话：我将领导，我将尽我所能。
But you, you must look within your own hearts to the old promises and to the old dreams. They will lead you best of all. 但你们，你们必须在自己的内心深处寻找古老的承诺和古老的梦想。它们将最好地指引你们。
For myself, I ask only in the words of an ancient leader: "Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?" 至于我自己，我只用一位古代领袖的话来祈求："求你赐我智慧和知识，使我能出入在你百姓面前，因为谁能判断这众多的百姓呢？"