Good morning. Praise be to God. Let me begin by thanking the entire Vermont Avenue Baptist Church family for welcoming our family here today. It feels like a family. Thank you for making us feel that way. To Pastor Wheeler, first lady Wheeler, thank you so much for welcoming us here today. Congratulations on Jordan Denice -- aka Cornelia. 早上好。赞美归于上帝。请允许我首先感谢佛蒙特大道浸信会教堂的整个大家庭，感谢你们今天在这里欢迎我们一家人。这里就像家人一样亲切。谢谢你们让我们有这种感觉。感谢 Wheeler 牧师和 Wheeler 师母，非常感谢你们今天在此迎接我们。祝贺 Jordan Denice——又名 Cornelia。
Michelle and I have been blessed with a new nephew this year as well -- Austin Lucas Robinson. So maybe at the appropriate time we can make introductions. Now, if Jordan's father is like me, then that will be in about 30 years. That is a great blessing. 米歇尔和我今年也喜添一位侄子——Austin Lucas Robinson。所以也许在合适的时候我们可以互相介绍认识。不过，如果 Jordan 的父亲和我一样的话，那大概要再等 30 年。这是一份巨大的祝福。
Michelle and Malia and Sasha and I are thrilled to be here today. And I know that sometimes you have to go through a little fuss to have me as a guest speaker. So let me apologize in advance for all the fuss. 米歇尔、Malia、Sasha 和我今天非常高兴能来到这里。我知道，请我担任客座演讲者有时要费些周折。所以请允许我事先为这一切麻烦表示歉意。
We gather here, on a Sabbath, during a time of profound difficulty for our nation and for our world. In such a time, it soothes the soul to seek out the Divine in a spirit of prayer; to seek solace among a community of believers. But we are not here just to ask the Lord for His blessing. We aren't here just to interpret His Scripture. We're also here to call on the memory of one of His noble servants, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 我们在安息日聚集于此，正值我们的国家和我们的世界面临深重困难之时。在这样的时刻，以祷告之心寻求神圣、在信众群体中寻求慰藉，能抚慰我们的灵魂。但我们来到这里，不只是为了祈求主的赐福，不只是为了诠释主的经文。我们还要在这里追念主的一位高贵仆人——马丁·路德·金牧师博士。
Now, it's fitting that we do so here, within the four walls of Vermont Avenue Baptist Church -- here, in a church that rose like the phoenix from the ashes of the civil war; here in a church formed by freed slaves, whose founding pastor had worn the union blue; here in a church from whose pews congregants set out for marches and from whom choir anthems of freedom were heard; from whose sanctuary King himself would sermonize from time to time. 如今，我们在这里、在佛蒙特大道浸信会教堂的四壁之内这样做，是再合适不过的——这座教堂如同凤凰般从内战的灰烬中重生；这座教堂由获得自由的黑奴建立，其创会牧师曾身穿北军蓝装；这座教堂的长椅是会众出发参加游行的起点，自由颂歌的合唱从这里响起；金本人也时常在这座圣坛上布道。
One of those times was Thursday, December 6, 1956. Pastor, you said you were a little older than me, so were you around at that point? You were three years old -- okay. I wasn’t born yet. 那是 1956 年 12 月 6 日星期四的一次。牧师，您说自己比我大一点，那么那时您已经出生了吗？您那时才三岁——好的。我那时还没有出生。
On Thursday, December 6, 1956. And before Dr. King had pointed us to the mountaintop, before he told us about his dream in front of the Lincoln Memorial, King came here, as a 27-year-old preacher, to speak on what he called "The Challenge of a New Age." "The Challenge of a New Age." It was a period of triumph, but also uncertainty, for Dr. King and his followers -- because just weeks earlier, the Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of Montgomery's buses, a hard-wrought, hard-fought victory that would put an end to the 381-day historic boycott down in Montgomery, Alabama. 1956 年 12 月 6 日星期四。在金博士指引我们登上山顶之前，在他于林肯纪念堂前告诉我们他的梦想之前，金曾以一位 27 岁年轻牧者的身份来到这里，就他所称的"新时代的挑战"发表演讲。"新时代的挑战。"对金博士和他的追随者而言，那是一个胜利与不确定性并存的时期——因为就在几周前，最高法院下令废除蒙哥马利公交车的种族隔离，这是一场来之不易、艰苦奋斗的胜利，它终结了阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利那场历时 381 天的历史性抵制运动。
And yet, as Dr. King rose to take that pulpit, the future still seemed daunting. It wasn't clear what would come next for the movement that Dr. King led. It wasn't clear how we were going to reach the Promised Land. Because segregation was still rife; lynchings still a fact. Yes, the Supreme Court had ruled not only on the Montgomery buses, but also on Brown v. Board of Education. And yet that ruling was defied throughout the South -- by schools and by states; they ignored it with impunity. 然而，当金博士登上讲坛时，未来依然令人望而生畏。金博士所领导的运动下一步将走向何方尚不明朗。我们如何抵达应许之地也无从知晓。因为种族隔离依旧猖獗，私刑仍然存在。是的，最高法院不仅在蒙哥马利公交车案上作出裁决，也在布朗诉教育委员会案中作出判决。然而这一判决在整个南方遭到公然违抗——学校和各州都视若无睹，肆意无视。
And here in the nation's capital, the federal government had yet to fully align itself with the laws on its books and the ideals of its founding. 而在国家的首都，联邦政府也尚未完全与法律条文及建国理念保持一致。
So it's not hard for us, then, to imagine that moment. We can imagine folks coming to this church, happy about the boycott being over. We can also imagine them, though, coming here concerned about their future, sometimes second-guessing strategy, maybe fighting off some creeping doubts, perhaps despairing about whether the movement in which they had placed so many of their hopes -- a movement in which they believed so deeply -- could actually deliver on its promise. 因此，我们不难想象那一刻。我们可以想象人们走进这座教堂，为抵制运动的结束而欣喜。但我们也可以想象，他们带着对未来的忧虑而来，有时会重新审视策略，也许在与悄然滋生的疑虑作斗争，也许在绝望中怀疑——他们曾寄予厚望、深信不疑的运动，是否真的能兑现其承诺。
So here we are, more than half a century later, once again facing the challenges of a new age. Here we are, once more marching toward an unknown future, what I call the Joshua generation to their Moses generation -- the great inheritors of progress paid for with sweat and blood, and sometimes life itself. 半个多世纪后的今天，我们再次面临新时代的挑战。我们再次向未知的未来进发——我称之为"约书亚一代"相对于"摩西一代"——我们是进步的伟大继承者，而这份进步是用汗水、鲜血，有时甚至是生命换来的。
We've inherited the progress of unjust laws that are now overturned. We take for granted the progress of a ballot being available to anybody who wants to take the time to actually vote. We enjoy the fruits of prejudice and bigotry being lifted -- slowly, sometimes in fits and starts, but irrevocably -- from human hearts. It's that progress that made it possible for me to be here today; for the good people of this country to elect an African American the 44th President of the United States of America. 我们继承了过去的不公法律如今被废除所带来的进步。我们理所当然地享受着这样的进步：任何愿意花时间投票的人都能获得选票。我们享受着偏见和偏执从人心中被清除的果实——缓慢地，有时断断续续，但不可逆转地被清除。正是这种进步使我今天能够站在这里；使这个国家善良的人民选出一位非裔美国人担任美利坚合众国第 44 任总统。
Reverend Wheeler mentioned the inauguration, last year's election. You know, on the heels of that victory over a year ago, there were some who suggested that somehow we had entered into a post-racial America, all those problems would be solved. There were those who argued that because I had spoke of a need for unity in this country that our nation was somehow entering into a period of post-partisanship. That didn’t work out so well. There was a hope shared by many that life would be better from the moment that I swore that oath. Wheeler 牧师提到了就职典礼，提到了去年的大选。要知道，在一年多前那场胜利之后，有人暗示我们已进入后种族时代的美国，所有那些问题都会迎刃而解。还有人争辩说，因为我曾谈到这个国家需要团结，所以我们的国家正在进入一个后党争的时代。结果并不尽如人意。许多人曾怀有共同的希望：从我宣誓就职的那一刻起，生活就会变得更好。
Of course, as we meet here today, one year later, we know the promise of that moment has not yet been fully fulfilled. Because of an era of greed and irresponsibility that sowed the seeds of its own demise, because of persistent economic troubles unaddressed through the generations, because of a banking crisis that brought the financial system to the brink of catastrophe, we are being tested -- in our own lives and as a nation -- as few have been tested before. 当然，一年后的今天我们相聚于此，我们知道那一刻的承诺尚未完全兑现。由于一个贪婪与不负责任的时代为自己播下了毁灭的种子，由于代代未决的持续经济困境，由于一场将金融系统推向灾难边缘的银行业危机，我们正在接受考验——无论是在个人生活中还是作为一个国家——这种考验是前所未有的。
Unemployment is at its highest level in more than a quarter of a century. Nowhere is it higher than the African American community. Poverty is on the rise. Home ownership is slipping. Beyond our shores, our sons and daughters are fighting two wars. Closer to home, our Haitian brothers and sisters are in desperate need. Bruised, battered, many people are legitimately feeling doubt, even despair, about the future. Like those who came to this church on that Thursday in 1956, folks are wondering, where do we go from here? 失业率处于四分之一个多世纪以来的最高水平。在非裔美国人社区中尤为严重。贫困率不断上升。住房拥有率持续下滑。在我们的海岸之外，我们的儿女正在两场战争中奋战。而在离我们更近的地方，海地的兄弟姐妹正处于绝望的困境中。伤痕累累、疲惫不堪，许多人有理由对未来感到怀疑甚至绝望。就像 1956 年那个星期四来到这座教堂的人们一样，大家都在思考：我们接下来该走向何方？
I understand those feelings. I understand the frustration and sometimes anger that so many folks feel as they struggle to stay afloat. I get letters from folks around the country every day; I read 10 a night out of the 40,000 that we receive. And there are stories of hardship and desperation, in some cases, pleading for help: I need a job. I'm about to lose my home. I don't have health care -- it's about to cause my family to be bankrupt. Sometimes you get letters from children: My mama or my daddy have lost their jobs, is there something you can do to help? 我理解这些感受。我理解许多人在挣扎求生时感到的挫败，有时是愤怒。我每天都会收到全国各地民众的来信；在我们收到的四万封信中，我每晚要读十封。那些信里讲述着艰辛和绝望的故事，有时是在恳求帮助：我需要一份工作。我快要失去我的房子了。我没有医保——这就要让我的家庭破产了。有时还会收到孩子们的来信：我的妈妈或爸爸失业了，您能帮帮我们吗？
Ten letters like that a day we read. 我们每天读十封这样的信。
So, yes, we're passing through a hard winter. It's the hardest in some time. But let's always remember that, as a people, the American people, we've weathered some hard winters before. This country was founded during some harsh winters. The fishermen, the laborers, the craftsmen who made camp at Valley Forge -- they weathered a hard winter. The slaves and the freedmen who rode an underground railroad, seeking the light of justice under the cover of night -- they weathered a hard winter. 所以，是的，我们正在经历一个严冬。这是近年来最难熬的一个。但让我们始终铭记，作为一个民族、作为美国人民，我们曾熬过许多严冬。这个国家就是在严冬中建立的。在福吉谷扎营的渔民、劳工和工匠——他们熬过了一个严冬。搭乘"地下铁路"、在夜色掩护下追寻正义之光的奴隶和自由民——他们熬过了一个严冬。
The seamstress whose feet were tired, the pastor whose voice echoes through the ages -- they weathered some hard winters. It was for them, as it is for us, difficult, in the dead of winter, to sometimes see spring coming. They, too, sometimes felt their hopes deflate. And yet, each season, the frost melts, the cold recedes, the sun reappears. So it was for earlier generations and so it will be for us. 那双脚疲惫的女裁缝，那声音穿越时代的牧师——他们也熬过了一些严冬。对他们而言，也正如对我们一样，在隆冬深处有时难以看见春天的到来。他们也曾感到希望破灭。然而，每一个季节，霜雪终会消融，严寒终会退去，太阳终会重现。前人如此，我们亦将如此。
What we need to do is to just ask what lessons we can learn from those earlier generations about how they sustained themselves during those hard winters, how they persevered and prevailed. Let us in this Joshua generation learn how that Moses generation overcame. 我们需要做的，就是从前辈那里学习：他们如何在严冬中坚持、如何坚韧不拔、如何最终获胜。让我们这一代"约书亚一代"学习"摩西一代"是如何克服困难的。
Let me offer a few thoughts on this. First and foremost, they did so by remaining firm in their resolve. Despite being threatened by sniper fire or planted bombs, by shoving and punching and spitting and angry stares, they adhered to that sweet spirit of resistance, the principles of nonviolence that had accounted for their success. 请允许我提几点看法。首先也是最重要的，他们凭借坚定的决心做到了这一点。尽管受到狙击手火力的威胁或炸弹的恐吓，尽管被推搡、被拳打、被吐口水、被怒目而视，他们仍坚守那份美好的抵抗精神，坚守那促成他们成功的非暴力原则。
Second, they understood that as much as our government and our political parties had betrayed them in the past -- as much as our nation itself had betrayed its own ideals -- government, if aligned with the interests of its people, can be -- and must be -- a force for good. So they stayed on the Justice Department. They went into the courts. They pressured Congress, they pressured their President. They didn’t give up on this country. They didn’t give up on government. They didn’t somehow say government was the problem; they said, we're going to change government, we're going to make it better. 第二，他们明白，尽管我们的政府和政党过去曾背叛过他们——尽管我们的国家本身曾背叛自己的理想——但政府若与人民利益相一致，就可以——也必须——成为一股向善的力量。所以他们持续向司法部施压。他们走进法庭。他们向国会施压，向总统施压。他们没有放弃这个国家，他们没有放弃政府。他们没有简单地说政府就是问题所在；他们说，我们要改变政府，我们要让它变得更好。
Imperfect as it was, they continued to believe in the promise of democracy; in America's constant ability to remake itself, to perfect this union. 尽管它并不完美，他们仍继续相信民主的承诺；相信美国不断自我重塑、完善这个联邦的能力。
Third, our predecessors were never so consumed with theoretical debates that they couldn't see progress when it came. Sometimes I get a little frustrated when folks just don't want to see that even if we don't get everything, we're getting something. King understood that the desegregation of the Armed Forces didn’t end the civil rights movement, because black and white soldiers still couldn't sit together at the same lunch counter when they came home. But he still insisted on the rightness of desegregating the Armed Forces. That was a good first step -- even as he called for more. 第三，我们的前辈从未沉湎于理论辩论而看不见到来的进步。有时我会有些沮丧，因为有些人就是不愿看到：即使我们得不到全部，我们也在取得一些进展。金明白，武装部队的种族隔离解除并不意味着民权运动的结束，因为黑人士兵和白人士兵回国后仍不能在同一个午餐柜台并肩而坐。但他仍坚持解除武装部队种族隔离的正确性。这是良好的一步——即便他同时呼吁更多。
He didn’t suggest that somehow by the signing of the Civil Rights that somehow all discrimination would end. But he also didn’t think that we shouldn’t sign the Civil Rights Act because it hasn’t solved every problem. Let's take a victory, he said, and then keep on marching. Forward steps, large and small, were recognized for what they were -- which was progress. 他并未暗示签署《民权法案》就能终结一切歧视。但他也不认为因为《民权法案》没有解决所有问题就不该签署它。他说，让我们先接受这场胜利，然后继续前行。每一个向前迈出的步伐，无论大小，都被认可为它本来的样子——那就是进步。
Fourth, at the core of King's success was an appeal to conscience that touched hearts and opened minds, a commitment to universal ideals -- of freedom, of justice, of equality -- that spoke to all people, not just some people. For King understood that without broad support, any movement for civil rights could not be sustained. That's why he marched with the white auto worker in Detroit. That's why he linked arm with the Mexican farm worker in California, and united people of all colors in the noble quest for freedom. 第四，金成功的核心在于对良知的呼唤，它触动了人心、开启了心智；在于对自由、正义、平等这些普世理想的坚守，这些理想向所有人发声，而不仅仅是部分人。因为金明白，没有广泛的支持，任何民权运动都无法持续。正因如此，他在底特律与白人汽车工人并肩游行；正因如此，他在加州与墨西哥裔农场工人挽臂同行，将各种肤色的人们团结在追寻自由这一崇高的征程中。
Of course, King overcame in other ways as well. He remained strategically focused on gaining ground -- his eyes on the prize constantly -- understanding that change would not be easy, understand that change wouldn't come overnight, understanding that there would be setbacks and false starts along the way, but understanding, as he said in 1956, that "we can walk and never get weary, because we know there is a great camp meeting in the promised land of freedom and justice." 当然，金还以其他方式克服了困难。他保持战略专注，不断推进——目光始终盯着目标——明白变革不会轻而易举，明白变革不会一蹴而就，明白沿途会有挫折和错误的开始，但也明白正如他在 1956 年所说："我们可以行走而永不疲倦，因为我们知道在自由与正义的应许之地有一场盛大的营会。"
And it's because the Moses generation overcame that the trials we face today are very different from the ones that tested us in previous generations. Even after the worst recession in generations, life in America is not even close to being as brutal as it was back then for so many. That's the legacy of Dr. King and his movement. That's our inheritance. Having said that, let there be no doubt the challenges of our new age are serious in their own right, and we must face them as squarely as they faced the challenges they saw. 正是因为"摩西一代"克服了重重困难，我们今天面对的考验与前几代人所经历的截然不同。即使经历了数代人以来最严重的经济衰退，美国的生活也远不像当年对许多人那样残酷。这就是金博士及其运动的遗产，这就是我们的继承。话虽如此，不要怀疑我们这个新时代的挑战本身就十分严峻，我们必须像他们直面所见的挑战那样，坦荡地面对它们。
I know it's been a hard road we've traveled this year to rescue the economy, but the economy is growing again. The job losses have finally slowed, and around the country, there's signs that businesses and families are beginning to rebound. We are making progress. 我知道，这一年我们为挽救经济走过了一条艰难的道路，但经济正在重新增长。就业岗位的流失终于放缓，全国各地都有迹象显示企业和家庭正在开始复苏。我们正在取得进展。
I know it's been a hard road that we've traveled to reach this point on health reform. I promise you I know. But under the legislation I will sign into law, insurance companies won't be able to drop you when you get sick, and more than 30 million people -- our fellow Americans will finally have insurance. 我知道，我们走到医改这一步走过了一条艰难的道路。我向你们保证，我深知其中艰辛。但在我将签署成为法律的法案下，保险公司将不能在你生病时取消你的保险，超过 3000 万人——我们的美国同胞——将终于拥有保险。
More than 30 million men and women and children, mothers and fathers, won't be worried about what might happen to them if they get sick. This will be a victory not for Democrats; this will be a victory for dignity and decency, for our common humanity. This will be a victory for the United States of America. 超过 3000 万的男女老少、为人父母者，将不再为他们生病时可能遭遇的困境而忧心。这不会是民主党的胜利；这将是为尊严与体面、为我们共同人性的胜利。这将是美利坚合众国的胜利。
Let's work to change the political system, as imperfect as it is. I know people can feel down about the way things are going sometimes here in Washington. I know it's tempting to give up on the political process. 让我们努力改变这个政治体制，尽管它并不完美。我知道人们有时会对华盛顿这里的事态发展感到沮丧。我知道放弃政治进程的诱惑是存在的。
But we've put in place tougher rules on lobbying and ethics and transparency -- tougher rules than any administration in history. It's not enough, but it's progress. Progress is possible. Don't give up on voting. Don't give up on advocacy. Don't give up on activism. There are too many needs to be met, too much work to be done. Like Dr. King said, "We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope." 但我们已经制定了更严格的游说、道德和透明度规则——比历史上任何一届政府都更严格。这还不够，但这是进步。进步是可能的。不要放弃投票，不要放弃倡导，不要放弃行动。有太多的需求等待满足，有太多的工作等待完成。正如金博士所说："我们必须接受有限的失望，但绝不能失去无限的希望。"
Let us broaden our coalition, building a confederation not of liberals or conservatives, not of red states or blue states, but of all Americans who are hurting today, and searching for a better tomorrow. The urgency of the hour demands that we make common cause with all of America's workers -- white, black, brown -- all of whom are being hammered by this recession, all of whom are yearning for that spring to come. 让我们扩大联盟，建立一个不是由自由派或保守派、不是由红州或蓝州组成，而是由今天正在受苦、寻求更美好明天的所有美国人组成的联合体。当下的紧迫性要求我们与全美国所有工人——白人、黑人、棕色人种——结成共同事业，他们都正被这场衰退重击，都在渴望那个春天的到来。
It demands that we reach out to those who've been left out in the cold even when the economy is good, even when we're not in recession -- the youth in the inner cities, the youth here in Washington, D.C., people in rural communities who haven't seen prosperity reach them for a very long time. It demands that we fight discrimination, whatever form it may come. That means we fight discrimination against gays and lesbians, and we make common cause to reform our immigration system. 它要求我们向那些即使在经济繁荣、即使不在衰退时期也被冷落的人伸出援手——内城区的青年、华盛顿特区的青年、那些很久没有看到繁荣降临的农村社区的人们。它要求我们打击任何形式的歧视。这意味着我们要打击对同性恋者的歧视，并要共同努力改革我们的移民体系。
And finally, we have to recognize, as Dr. King did, that progress can't just come from without -- it also has to come from within. And over the past year, for example, we've made meaningful improvements in the field of education. I've got a terrific Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan. He's been working hard with states and working hard with the D.C. school district, and we've insisted on reform, and we've insisted on accountability. We we're putting in more money and we've provided more Pell Grants and more tuition tax credits and simpler financial aid forms. 最后，我们必须像金博士那样认识到，进步不能只来自外部——它也必须来自内部。例如，过去一年里，我们在教育领域取得了有意义的改进。我有一位出色的教育部长 Arne Duncan。他一直在与各州努力合作，与华盛顿特区学区努力合作，我们坚持改革，我们坚持问责。我们投入了更多的资金，提供了更多的佩尔助学金、更多的学费税收抵免以及更简单的助学金申请表。
We've done all that, but parents still need to parent. Kids still need to own up to their responsibilities. We still have to set high expectations for our young people. Folks can't simply look to government for all the answers without also looking inside themselves, inside their own homes, for some of the answers. 我们做了所有这些，但父母仍然需要尽父母之责。孩子们仍需承担起自己的责任。我们仍需对年轻人寄予厚望。人们不能仅仅指望政府给出所有答案，而不去审视自己、审视自己的家庭去寻找部分答案。
Progress will only come if we're willing to promote that ethic of hard work, a sense of responsibility, in our own lives. I'm not talking, by the way, just to the African American community. Sometimes when I say these things people assme, well, he's just talking to black people about working hard. No, no, no, no. I'm talking to the American community. Because somewhere along the way, we, as a nation, began to lose touch with some of our core values. You know what I'm talking about. 只有当我们愿意在自己的生活中倡导勤勉的伦理和责任感时，进步才会到来。顺便说一句，我并非只是在和非裔美国人社区对话。有时我说这些话，人们会以为——嗯，他只是在跟黑人谈努力工作。不，不，不，不。我是在和整个美国社会对话。因为在某个时刻，我们作为一个国家开始与某些核心价值观失去了联系。你们知道我在说什么。
We became enraptured with the false prophets who prophesized an easy path to success, paved with credit cards and home equity loans and get-rich-quick schemes, and the most important thing was to be a celebrity; it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you get on TV. That's everybody. 我们曾被那些假先知所迷惑，他们预言通往成功的捷径——铺满信用卡、房屋净值贷款和一夜暴富的阴谋，而最重要的事情就是成为名人；你做什么并不重要，只要能上电视就行。这是每个人都曾陷入的状态。
We forgot what made the bus boycott a success; what made the civil rights movement a success; what made the United States of America a success -- that, in this country, there's no substitute for hard work, no substitute for a job well done, no substitute for being responsible stewards of God's blessings. 我们忘记了是什么让公交车抵制运动取得成功；是什么让民权运动取得成功；是什么让美利坚合众国取得成功——那就是，在这个国家，没有什么能替代努力工作，没有什么能替代把工作做好，没有什么能替代做上帝祝福的负责任的管家。
What we're called to do, then, is rebuild America from its foundation on up. To reinvest in the essentials that we've neglected for too long -- like health care, like education, like a better energy policy, like basic infrastructure, like scientific research. Our generation is called to buckle down and get back to basics. 那么，我们被召唤去做的，是从根基开始重建美国。重新投资我们长期忽视的那些基本要素——比如医疗、教育、更好的能源政策、基本基础设施、科学研究。我们这一代被召唤埋头苦干、回归根本。
We must do so not only for ourselves, but also for our children, and their children. For Jordan and for Austin. That's a sacrifice that falls on us to make. It's a much smaller sacrifice than the Moses generation had to make, but it's still a sacrifice. 我们必须这样做，不仅是为了我们自己，也是为了我们的孩子，以及他们的孩子。为了 Jordan，为了 Austin。这是我们这一代必须做出的牺牲。这比"摩西一代"所做的牺牲要小得多，但它仍是一种牺牲。
Yes, it's hard to transition to a clean energy economy. Sometimes it may be inconvenient, but it's a sacrifice that we have to make. It's hard to be fiscally responsible when we have all these human needs, and we're inheriting enormous deficits and debt, but that's a sacrifice that we're going to have to make. You know, it's easy, after a hard day's work, to just put your kid in front of the TV set -- you're tired, don't want to fuss with them -- instead of reading to them, but that's a sacrifice we must joyfully accept. 是的，向清洁能源经济转型很艰难。有时可能不太方便，但这是我们必须做出的牺牲。当我们面对所有这些人类需求、并继承了巨额赤字和债务时，要做到财政负责很困难，但这是我们必须做出的牺牲。要知道，辛苦工作一天之后，把孩子放在电视机前很容易——你很累，不想跟他们折腾——而不是给他们读书，但这是我们必须欣然接受的牺牲。
Sometimes it's hard to be a good father and good mother. Sometimes it's hard to be a good neighbor, or a good citizen, to give up time in service of others, to give something of ourselves to a cause that's greater than ourselves -- as Michelle and I are urging folks to do tomorrow to honor and celebrate Dr. King. But these are sacrifices that we are called to make. These are sacrifices that our faith calls us to make. Our faith in the future. Our faith in America. Our faith in God. 有时做一位好父亲、好母亲并不容易。有时做一位好邻居、好公民并不容易，要为他人奉献时间，为比我们自身更伟大的事业付出自己——正如米歇尔和我明天要呼吁大家去做的那样，以纪念和庆祝金博士。但这些是我们被召唤去做出的牺牲。这些是我们的信仰召唤我们去做的牺牲。我们对未来的信仰。我们对美国的信仰。我们对上帝的信仰。
And on his sermon all those years ago, Dr. King quoted a poet's verse: 在多年前的那次布道中，金博士引用了一位诗人的诗句：
Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on the throne… And behind the dim unknown stands God Within the shadows keeping watch above his own. 真理永远立于刑台之上， 谬误永远端坐王座…… 而在幽暗的未知背后，上帝伫立， 在阴影中守望祂的子民。
Even as Dr. King stood in this church, a victory in the past and uncertainty in the future, he trusted God. He trusted that God would make a way. A way for prayers to be answered. A way for our union to be perfected. A way for the arc of the moral universe, no matter how long, to slowly bend towards truth and bend towards freedom, to bend towards justice. He had faith that God would make a way out of no way. 当金博士站在这个教堂中——身后是一场胜利，前方是未知的不确定——他信赖上帝。他相信上帝会开辟一条道路。一条让祷告得以回应的道路。一条让我们的联邦得以完善的道路。一条让道德宇宙的弧线无论多长，都缓缓弯向真理、弯向自由、弯向正义的道路。他相信上帝能从无路之处开辟出一条路。
You know, folks ask me sometimes why I look so calm. They say, all this stuff coming at you, how come you just seem calm? And I have a confession to make here. There are times where I'm not so calm. Reggie Love knows. My wife knows. There are times when progress seems too slow. There are times when the words that are spoken about me hurt. There are times when the barbs sting. There are times when it feels like all these efforts are for naught, and change is so painfully slow in coming, and I have to confront my own doubts. 你们知道，有时人们问我为什么看起来那么平静。他们说，这么多事情同时向你涌来，你怎么还能显得那么平静？我要在这里坦白一件事。有些时候我并不那么平静。Reggie Love 知道。我的妻子知道。有时进步似乎太慢。有时人们所说关于我的话语会刺痛我。有时尖酸的批评会让人难受。有时感觉所有这些努力似乎都是徒劳，变革来得如此缓慢而令人痛苦，我必须直面自己的疑虑。
But let me tell you -- during those times it's faith that keeps me calm. It's faith that gives me peace. The same faith that leads a single mother to work two jobs to put a roof over her head when she has doubts. The same faith that keeps an unemployed father to keep on submitting job applications even after he's been rejected a hundred times. The same faith that says to a teacher even if the first nine children she's teaching she can't reach, that that 10th one she's going to be able to reach. 但让我告诉你们——在那些时刻，是信仰让我保持平静。是信仰给了我安宁。正是这份信仰，让一位单亲妈妈在怀疑中仍打两份工为自己和孩子谋得一处遮风避雨之地；正是这份信仰，让一位失业的父亲在被拒绝一百次之后仍继续投递求职申请；正是这份信仰，让一位教师相信，即便她教的前九个孩子她都无法触及，那第十个孩子她一定能够触达。
The same faith that breaks the silence of an earthquake's wake with the sound of prayers and hymns sung by a Haitian community. A faith in things not seen, in better days ahead, in Him who holds the future in the hollow of His hand. A faith that lets us mount up on wings like eagles; lets us run and not be weary; lets us walk and not faint. 正是这份信仰，用海地社区唱出的祷告和圣诗之声，打破了地震过后的沉寂。一份对未见之事的信仰，对更美好明天的信仰，对那位将未来握在掌中之手的祂的信仰。一份让我们如鹰展翅上腾、让我们奔跑而不疲倦、让我们行走而不至软弱的信仰。
So let us hold fast to that faith, as Joshua held fast to the faith of his fathers, and together, we shall overcome the challenges of a new age. Together, we shall seize the promise of this moment. Together, we shall make a way through winter, and we're going to welcome the spring. Through God all things are possible. 因此，让我们坚守这份信仰，正如约书亚坚守他父辈的信仰一样，齐心协力，我们必将克服新时代的挑战。齐心协力，我们必将抓住此刻的承诺。齐心协力，我们必将穿越严冬，迎接春天的到来。在上帝里面，凡事都能。
May the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King continue to inspire us and ennoble our world and all who inhabit it. And may God bless the United States of America. 愿马丁·路德·金博士的记忆继续激励我们，使我们的世界和所有栖居其中的人更加高尚。愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you. 非常感谢各位。上帝保佑你们。
