Fellow-Citizens: 各位公民：
The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill--to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast. 我所有前任的做法给我施加了一项我欣然履行的义务——在履行公共职责的第一项庄严行动之际，阐明指导我履职的原则，并表达我在承担如此重大责任时的感受。
In imitating their example I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country. 效仿他们的榜样，我追随杰出人物的足迹，我们有幸相信，他们的卓越在任何国家的行政史上都是无与伦比的。
Among them we recognize the earliest and firmest pillars of the Republic--those by whom our national independence was first declared, him who above all others contributed to establish it on the field of battle. 在他们之中，我们认识到共和国最早和最坚定的支柱——那些首先宣告我们民族独立的人，那位在战场上为确立独立贡献最大的人。
And those whose expanded intellect and patriotism constructed, improved, and perfected the inestimable institutions under which we live. If such men in the position I now occupy felt themselves overwhelmed by a sense of gratitude for this the highest of all marks of their country's confidence, and by a consciousness of their inability adequately to discharge the duties of an office so difficult and exalted, how much more must these considerations affect one who can rely on no such claims for favor or forbearance! 以及那些以开阔的智慧和爱国精神构建、改进并完善我们赖以生存的宝贵制度的人。如果处于我现在位置的这些人都因感受到对国家最高信任的感激之情，以及意识到自己无法充分履行如此艰难和崇高的职责而感到不知所措，那么这些考量对一个没有任何理由要求恩惠或宽容的人影响会更大！
Unlike all who have preceded me, the Revolution that gave us existence as one people was achieved at the period of my birth; and whilst I contemplate with grateful reverence that memorable event, I feel that I belong to a later age and that I may not expect my countrymen to weigh my actions with the same kind and partial hand. 与所有前任不同，赋予我们民族独立的革命在我出生时已经完成；当我怀着感激和崇敬之情思考这一历史性事件时，我感到自己属于一个较晚的时代，不应指望同胞们以同样仁慈和偏袒的态度评判我的行为。
So sensibly, fellow-citizens, do these circumstances press themselves upon me that I should not dare to enter upon my path of duty did I not look for the generous aid of those who will be associated with me in the various and coordinate branches of the Government; did I not repose with unwavering reliance on the patriotism, the intelligence, and the kindness of a people who never yet deserted a public servant honestly laboring their cause. 各位公民，这些情况如此深刻地触动了我，若非期望得到将与我在政府各部门共事的人们的慷慨帮助，若非坚定不移地信赖一个从未抛弃真诚为其事业努力的公仆的人民的爱国精神、智慧和善意，我是不敢开始我的职责之路的。
And, above all, did I not permit myself humbly to hope for the sustaining support of an ever-watchful and beneficent Providence. 并且，最重要的是，若非谦卑地希望得到一位时刻警惕和仁慈的天意的持续支持。
To the confidence and consolation derived from these sources it would be ungrateful not to add those which spring from our present fortunate condition. Though not altogether exempt from embarrassments that disturb our tranquillity at home and threaten it abroad, yet in all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world. 除了从这些来源获得的信心和安慰，还必须加上我们目前幸运处境所带来的那些。尽管并非完全没有困扰国内安宁和威胁国外和平的困难，但在伟大、幸福和繁荣人民的所有特质上，我们在世界上无与伦比。
Abroad we enjoy the respect and, with scarcely an exception, the friendship of every nation; at home, while our Government quietly but efficiently performs the sole legitimate end of political institutions--in doing the greatest good to the greatest number--we present an aggregate of human prosperity surely not elsewhere to be found. 在国外，我们享有几乎所有国家的尊重和友谊；在国内，我们的政府安静而高效地履行政治制度的唯一合法目标——为最大多数人谋取最大利益——我们展现了人类繁荣的总体水平，这在其他地方肯定是找不到的。
How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy! All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. 那么，每个公民无论其行动范围大小，都有义务努力维护这种无比幸福的状况！如果我们满足于仅仅依赖我们碰巧拥有的特殊优势，那么历史和经验的所有教训都将白费。
Position and climate and the bounteous resources that nature has scattered with so liberal a hand--even the diffused intelligence and elevated character of our people--will avail us nothing if we fail sacredly to uphold those political institutions that were wisely and deliberately formed with reference to every circumstance that could preserve or might endanger the blessings we enjoy. 地理位置、气候条件以及大自然慷慨赐予的丰富资源——甚至我们人民的广泛智慧和高尚品格——如果我们不能神圣地维护那些明智而审慎地制定的政治制度，这些都将毫无用处，因为这些制度考虑了每一个可能维护或危及我们所享幸福的情况。
The thoughtful framers of our Constitution legislated for our country as they found it. Looking upon it with the eyes of statesmen and patriots, they saw all the sources of rapid and wonderful prosperity; but they saw also that various habits, opinions, and institutions peculiar to the various portions of so vast a region were deeply fixed. 我们宪法的深思熟虑的制定者们根据国家的实际情况进行立法。以政治家和爱国者的眼光看待国家，他们看到了快速而惊人繁荣的所有源泉；但他们也看到，如此广阔地区的不同部分所特有的各种习惯、意见和制度已经根深蒂固。
Distinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union was essential to the welfare and happiness of all. Between many of them there was, at least to some extent, a real diversity of interests, liable to be exaggerated through sinister designs; they differed in size, in population, in wealth, and in actual and prospective resources and power. 独立的主权国家已经存在，它们的真诚团结对所有人的福祉和幸福至关重要。它们之间至少在某种程度上存在着真正的利益差异，这种差异可能被险恶的图谋夸大；它们在规模、人口、财富以及实际和潜在的资源与实力上各不相同。
They varied in the character of their industry and staple productions, and [in some] existed domestic institutions which, unwisely disturbed, might endanger the harmony of the whole. Most carefully were all these circumstances weighed, and the foundations of the new Government laid upon principles of reciprocal concession and equitable compromise. 它们的工业特征和主要产品各不相同，有些地区存在着国内制度，如果不明智地加以干扰，可能危及整体和谐。所有这些情况都经过了最仔细的权衡，新政府的基础建立在相互让步和公平妥协的原则之上。
The jealousies which the smaller States might entertain of the power of the rest were allayed by a rule of representation confessedly unequal at the time, and designed forever to remain so. 较小州可能对其他州权力的猜忌，通过当时公认不平等且旨在永远保持不平等的代表规则得到了缓解。
A natural fear that the broad scope of general legislation might bear upon and unwisely control particular interests was counteracted by limits strictly drawn around the action of the Federal authority. 人们自然担心广泛的一般立法可能影响并不明智地控制特定利益，这种担心通过严格限制联邦权力的行动范围得到了抵消。
And to the people and the States was left unimpaired their sovereign power over the innumerable subjects embraced in the internal government of a just republic, excepting such only as necessarily appertain to the concerns of the whole confederacy or its intercourse as a united community with the other nations of the world. 人民和各州保留了对公正共和国内部政府所包含的无数事务的主权权力，只有那些必然属于整个联邦或作为一个统一社区与世界其他国家交往的事务除外。
This provident forecast has been verified by time. Half a century, teeming with extraordinary events, and elsewhere producing astonishing results, has passed along, but on our institutions it has left no injurious mark. From a small community we have risen to a people powerful in numbers and in strength; but with our increase has gone hand in hand the progress of just principles. 这种远见卓识已经被时间所验证。半个世纪过去了，充满了非凡事件，在其他地方产生了惊人的结果，但对我们的制度没有留下任何有害的痕迹。我们从一个小社区成长为一个人数众多、实力强大的民族；但随着我们的增长，正义原则的进步也与之并进。
The privileges, civil and religious, of the humblest individual are still sacredly protected at home, and while the valor and fortitude of our people have removed far from us the slightest apprehension of foreign power, they have not yet induced us in a single instance to forget what is right. 最卑微个人的公民和宗教特权在国内仍然受到神圣保护，尽管我们人民的勇气和坚韧使我们远离了对外国势力的丝毫恐惧，但我们从未在任何情况下忘记什么是正确的。
Our commerce has been extended to the remotest nations; the value and even nature of our productions have been greatly changed; a wide difference has arisen in the relative wealth and resources of every portion of our country; yet the spirit of mutual regard and of faithful adherence to existing compacts has continued to prevail in our councils and never long been absent from our conduct. 我们的商业已经扩展到最遥远的国家；我们产品的价值甚至性质已经发生了巨大变化；我国各地区的相对财富和资源出现了巨大差异；然而，相互尊重和忠实遵守现有契约的精神在我们的议会中继续盛行，在我们的行为中从未长期缺失。
We have learned by experience a fruitful lesson--that an implicit and undeviating adherence to the principles on which we set out can carry us prosperously onward through all the conflicts of circumstances and vicissitudes inseparable from the lapse of years. 我们从经验中汲取了有益的教训——坚定不移地坚持我们最初确立的原则，可以带领我们在所有冲突的环境和不可避免的岁月变迁中繁荣前进。
The success that has thus attended our great experiment is in itself a sufficient cause for gratitude, on account of the happiness it has actually conferred and the example it has unanswerably given. 我们伟大实验所取得的成功本身就是感恩的充分理由，因为它带来了实际的幸福，并提供了无可辩驳的榜样。
But to me, my fellow-citizens, looking forward to the far-distant future with ardent prayers and confiding hopes, this retrospect presents a ground for still deeper delight. It impresses on my mind a firm belief that the perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves; that if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come. 但对我来说，各位公民，怀着热切的祈祷和坚定的希望展望遥远的未来，这种回顾给我带来了更深的喜悦。它让我坚信，我们制度的永久存在取决于我们自己；如果我们坚持其建立所依据的原则，它们注定会为无数后代带来福祉。
And that America will present to every friend of mankind the cheering proof that a popular government, wisely formed, is wanting in no element of endurance or strength. Fifty years ago its rapid failure was boldly predicted. 并且，美国将向全人类的每一位朋友展示令人鼓舞的证明：一个明智建立的民选政府在持久力和力量上毫不欠缺。五十年前，有人大胆预言它会迅速失败。
Latent and uncontrollable causes of dissolution were supposed to exist even by the wise and good, and not only did unfriendly or speculative theorists anticipate for us the fate of past republics, but the fears of many an honest patriot overbalanced his sanguine hopes. 即使是明智善良的人也认为存在潜在且无法控制的解体原因，不仅不友好或投机的理论家预测我们将重蹈过去共和国的覆辙，而且许多诚实的爱国者的恐惧也超过了他们的乐观希望。
Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed. An imperfect experience during the struggles of the Revolution was supposed to warrant the belief that the people would not bear the taxation requisite to discharge an immense public debt already incurred and to pay the necessary expenses of the Government. 回顾这些并非仓促而是不情愿做出的预言，看看它们在每一个案例中是如何完全失败的。革命斗争期间的不完美经验被认为证明了人民不会承担偿还已经产生的巨额公共债务和支付政府必要开支所需的税收。
The cost of two wars has been paid, not only without a murmur, but with unequaled alacrity. No one is now left to doubt that every burden will be cheerfully borne that may be necessary to sustain our civil institutions or guard our honor or welfare. 两场战争的费用不仅毫无怨言地支付了，而且以无与伦比的热情支付了。现在没有人怀疑，为维护我们的公民制度或捍卫我们的荣誉和福祉所必需的每一项负担都将被愉快地承担。
Indeed, all experience has shown that the willingness of the people to contribute to these ends in cases of emergency has uniformly outrun the confidence of their representatives. 事实上，所有经验都表明，在紧急情况下，人民为这些目的做出贡献的意愿始终超过其代表的信心。
In the early stages of the new Government, when all felt the imposing influence as they recognized the unequaled services of the first President, it was a common sentiment that the great weight of his character could alone bind the discordant materials of our Government together and save us from the violence of contending factions. Since his death nearly forty years are gone. 在新政府的早期，当所有人都感受到第一任总统的巨大影响并认可他无与伦比的服务时，一种普遍的看法是，只有他伟大的人格力量才能将我们政府的不同元素凝聚在一起，使我们免受激烈派系斗争的暴力。自他去世以来近四十年过去了。
Party exasperation has been often carried to its highest point; the virtue and fortitude of the people have sometimes been greatly tried; yet our system, purified and enhanced in value by all it has encountered, still preserves its spirit of free and fearless discussion, blended with unimpaired fraternal feeling. 党派的愤怒常常达到顶点；人民的美德和坚韧有时受到极大考验；然而，我们的制度经过所经历的一切考验而得到净化和提升，仍然保持着自由无畏讨论的精神，并与未受损害的兄弟情谊融为一体。
The capacity of the people for self-government, and their willingness, from a high sense of duty and without those exhibitions of coercive power so generally employed in other countries, to submit to all needful restraints and exactions of municipal law, have also been favorably exemplified in the history of the American States. 美国各州的历史也有利地证明了人民自治的能力，以及他们出于高度责任感、无需其他国家普遍使用的强制力量展示而愿意服从市政法律的所有必要限制和要求。
Occasionally, it is true, the ardor of public sentiment, outrunning the regular progress of the judicial tribunals or seeking to reach cases not denounced as criminal by the existing law, has displayed itself in a manner calculated to give pain to the friends of free government and to encourage the hopes of those who wish for its overthrow. 确实，有时公众情绪的热情超过了司法法庭的正常程序或试图触及现有法律未宣布为犯罪的案件，表现出一种可能给自由政府的朋友带来痛苦并鼓励希望推翻它的人的方式。
These occurrences, however, have been far less frequent in our country than in any other of equal population on the globe, and with the diffusion of intelligence it may well be hoped that they will constantly diminish in frequency and violence. 然而，这些事件在我国比在世界上任何其他人口相等的国家都要少得多，随着知识的普及，可以有理由希望它们的频率和暴力程度将不断降低。
The generous patriotism and sound common sense of the great mass of our fellow-citizens will assuredly in time produce this result; for as every assumption of illegal power not only wounds the majesty of the law, but furnishes a pretext for abridging the liberties of the people. 广大同胞的慷慨爱国精神和健全的常识肯定会及时产生这一结果；因为每一次非法权力的行使不仅伤害了法律的尊严，而且为剥夺人民自由提供了借口。
The latter have the most direct and permanent interest in preserving the landmarks of social order and maintaining on all occasions the inviolability of those constitutional and legal provisions which they themselves have made. 因此，人民最直接和永久的利益在于维护社会秩序的标志，并在任何情况下维护他们自己制定的宪法和法律规定的不可侵犯性。
In a supposed unfitness of our institutions for those hostile emergencies which no country can always avoid their friends found a fruitful source of apprehension, their enemies of hope. While they foresaw less promptness of action than in governments differently formed, they overlooked the far more important consideration that with us war could never be the result of individual or irresponsible will. 我们的制度被认为不适合那些任何国家都无法永远避免的敌对紧急情况，这在我们的朋友中引起了担忧，在敌人中则带来了希望。他们预见行动不如其他形式的政府迅速，但忽视了更重要的考虑：对我们来说，战争永远不会是个人或不负责任意志的结果。
But must be a measure of redress for injuries sustained, voluntarily resorted to by those who were to bear the necessary sacrifice, who would consequently feel an individual interest in the contest, and whose energy would be commensurate with the difficulties to be encountered. 而必须是对所受伤害的补救措施，由那些将承担必要牺牲的人自愿采取，他们因此会在冲突中感受到个人利益，其能量将与所遇到的困难相称。
Actual events have proved their error; the last war, far from impairing, gave new confidence to our Government, and amid recent apprehensions of a similar conflict we saw that the energies of our country would not be wanting in ample season to vindicate its rights. 实际事件证明了他们的错误；上一场战争不仅没有削弱，反而增强了我们政府的信心，在最近对类似冲突的担忧中，我们看到我国的能量将及时充分地维护其权利。
We may not possess, as we should not desire to possess, the extended and ever-ready military organization of other nations; we may occasionally suffer in the outset for the want of it; but among ourselves all doubt upon this great point has ceased, while a salutary experience will prevent a contrary opinion from inviting aggression from abroad. 我们可能不拥有，也不应渴望拥有其他国家那样广泛而随时准备的军事组织；我们有时可能在一开始因为缺乏它而遭受损失；但在我们内部，关于这一点的所有怀疑已经消除，而有益的经验将阻止相反的观点招致外国侵略。
Certain danger was foretold from the extension of our territory, the multiplication of States, and the increase of population. Our system was supposed to be adapted only to boundaries comparatively narrow. 有人预言，领土的扩张、州的增多和人口的增加将带来一定的危险。我们的制度被认为只适用于相对狭窄的边界。
These have been widened beyond conjecture; the members of our Confederacy are already doubled, and the numbers of our people are incredibly augmented. The alleged causes of danger have long surpassed anticipation, but none of the consequences have followed. 这些边界已经扩大到超出预期；我们联邦的成员已经翻倍，人口数量惊人地增加。所谓的危险原因早已超出预期，但没有任何后果随之而来。
The power and influence of the Republic have arisen to a height obvious to all mankind; respect for its authority was not more apparent at its ancient than it is at its present limits; new and inexhaustible sources of general prosperity have been opened. 共和国的权力和影响力已经上升到全人类都显而易见的高度；对其权威的尊重在其古代边界并不比在当前边界更明显；新的、取之不尽的普遍繁荣源泉已经打开。
The effects of distance have been averted by the inventive genius of our people, developed and fostered by the spirit of our institutions; and the enlarged variety and amount of interests, productions, and pursuits have strengthened the chain of mutual dependence and formed a circle of mutual benefits too apparent ever to be overlooked. 距离的影响已被我国人民的发明天才所克服，这种天才在我们制度精神的培育和发展下得到了发挥；利益、产品和追求的多样性和数量的增加加强了相互依赖的链条，并形成了一个互利互惠的循环，其明显程度不容忽视。
In justly balancing the powers of the Federal and State authorities difficulties nearly insurmountable arose at the outset and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable. Amid these it was scarcely believed possible that a scheme of government so complex in construction could remain uninjured. 在公正平衡联邦和州权力方面，一开始就出现了几乎无法克服的困难，随后的冲突被认为是不可避免的。在这些困难中，人们几乎不相信一个结构如此复杂的政府方案能够毫发无损地存在。
From time to time embarrassments have certainly occurred; but how just is the confidence of future safety imparted by the knowledge that each in succession has been happily removed! 不时确实发生了困难；但知道每一个困难都已被成功克服，这给人带来了未来安全的信心，这是多么公正啊！
Overlooking partial and temporary evils as inseparable from the practical operation of all human institutions, and looking only to the general result, every patriot has reason to be satisfied. 将部分和暂时的弊端视为所有人为制度实际运作中不可分割的一部分，只关注总体结果，每个爱国者都有理由感到满意。
While the Federal Government has successfully performed its appropriate functions in relation to foreign affairs and concerns evidently national, that of every State has remarkably improved in protecting and developing local interests and individual welfare. 联邦政府在处理外交事务和明显属于全国性的问题上成功履行了其适当职能，而每个州在保护和发展地方利益和个人福利方面都有了显著改善。
And if the vibrations of authority have occasionally tended too much toward one or the other, it is unquestionably certain that the ultimate operation of the entire system has been to strengthen all the existing institutions and to elevate our whole country in prosperity and renown. 如果权力的振动有时过于倾向某一方或另一方，毫无疑问，整个制度的最终运作是加强了所有现有制度，并使我们整个国家在繁荣和声望上得到提升。
The last, perhaps the greatest, of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery. Our forefathers were deeply impressed with the delicacy of this subject, and they treated it with a forbearance so evidently wise that in spite of every sinister foreboding it never until the present period disturbed the tranquillity of our common country. 在我们政治状况中被认为潜藏着的最突出的不和与灾难来源，也许是最后一个，也是最大的一个，就是国内奴隶制制度。我们的先辈对这个问题的敏感性印象深刻，他们以显然明智的克制态度对待它，尽管有各种不祥的预言，但直到目前为止，它从未扰乱我们共同国家的安宁。
Such a result is sufficient evidence of the justice and the patriotism of their course; it is evidence not to be mistaken that an adherence to it can prevent all embarrassment from this as well as from every other anticipated cause of difficulty or danger. 这样的结果足以证明他们做法的正义性和爱国精神；这是不容误解的证据，表明坚持这种做法可以防止来自这个以及其他任何预期困难或危险原因的所有尴尬。
Have not recent events made it obvious to the slightest reflection that the least deviation from this spirit of forbearance is injurious to every interest, that of humanity included? Amidst the violence of excited passions this generous and fraternal feeling has been sometimes disregarded. 最近的事件难道没有清楚地表明，哪怕是最轻微偏离这种克制精神，都会损害包括人道在内的每一项利益吗？在激动情绪的暴力中，这种慷慨和兄弟般的感情有时被忽视了。
And standing as I now do before my countrymen, in this high place of honor and of trust, I can not refrain from anxiously invoking my fellow-citizens never to be deaf to its dictates. 现在我站在我的同胞面前，在这个荣誉和信任的崇高位置上，我不能不焦急地呼吁我的同胞们永远不要对它的指示充耳不闻。
Perceiving before my election the deep interest this subject was beginning to excite, I believed it a solemn duty fully to make known my sentiments in regard to it, and now, when every motive for misrepresentation has passed away, I trust that they will be candidly weighed and understood. At least they will be my standard of conduct in the path before me. 在我当选前，我意识到这个问题开始引起的浓厚兴趣，我认为有责任充分表明我对此的看法，现在，当所有歪曲的动机都已消失时，我相信这些看法将被坦率地权衡和理解。至少它们将是我未来道路上的行为标准。
I then declared that if the desire of those of my countrymen who were favorable to my election was gratified "I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slaveholding States. 我当时宣布，如果支持我当选的同胞们的愿望得到满足，"我必须以坚定和毫不妥协的态度进入总统职位，反对国会在蓄奴州不希望的情况下废除哥伦比亚特区奴隶制的任何企图。
And also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the States where it exists." I submitted also to my fellow-citizens, with fullness and frankness, the reasons which led me to this determination. 并且以同样坚定的决心抵制在存在奴隶制的各州对其进行任何干涉。"我也向我的同胞们充分而坦率地说明了导致我做出这一决定的理由。
The result authorizes me to believe that they have been approved and are confided in by a majority of the people of the United States, including those whom they most immediately affect. It now only remains to add that no bill conflicting with these views can ever receive my constitutional sanction. 结果使我相信，这些理由已经得到包括那些最直接受影响的人在内的美国大多数人民的认可和信任。现在只需要补充说，任何与这些观点相冲突的法案都永远不会得到我的宪法批准。
These opinions have been adopted in the firm belief that they are in accordance with the spirit that actuated the venerated fathers of the Republic, and that succeeding experience has proved them to be humane, patriotic, expedient, honorable, and just. 这些观点是在坚定信念的基础上采纳的，即它们符合共和国敬爱的先辈们所秉持的精神，并且随后的经验证明它们是人道的、爱国的、权宜的、光荣的和公正的。
If the agitation of this subject was intended to reach the stability of our institutions, enough has occurred to show that it has signally failed, and that in this as in every other instance the apprehensions of the timid and the hopes of the wicked for the destruction of our Government are again destined to be disappointed. 如果对这个问题的煽动旨在动摇我们制度的稳定性，那么已经发生的事情足以表明它已明显失败，在这一点上以及其他任何情况下，胆小者的担忧和邪恶者希望我们政府毁灭的愿望注定再次落空。
Here and there, indeed, scenes of dangerous excitement have occurred, terrifying instances of local violence have been witnessed, and a reckless disregard of the consequences of their conduct has exposed individuals to popular indignation; but neither masses of the people nor sections of the country have been swerved from their devotion to the bond of union and the principles it has made sacred. 确实，各处发生了危险的激动场面，目睹了可怕的局部暴力事件，对其行为后果的鲁莽无视使个人面临公众愤慨；但无论是人民群众还是国家的任何地区，都没有偏离对联邦纽带及其所神圣化的原则的忠诚。
It will be ever thus. Such attempts at dangerous agitation may periodically return, but with each the object will be better understood. That predominating affection for our political system which prevails throughout our territorial limits, that calm and enlightened judgment which ultimately governs our people as one vast body. 永远会是这样。这种危险的煽动企图可能周期性地重现，但每次人们都会更好地理解其目的。在我们整个领土上普遍存在的对我们政治制度的深厚感情，最终作为一个庞大整体统治我们人民的冷静而开明的判断。
Will always be at hand to resist and control every effort, foreign or domestic, which aims or would lead to overthrow our institutions. 将随时准备抵制和控制旨在或可能导致推翻我们制度的每一项努力，无论是来自国外还是国内。
What can be more gratifying than such a retrospect as this? We look back on obstacles avoided and dangers overcome, on expectations more than realized and prosperity perfectly secured. 还有什么比这样的回顾更令人欣慰的呢？我们回顾克服的障碍和战胜的危险，回顾超出预期的期望和完全保障的繁荣。
To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply. We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our Constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control. 实际经验对敌对者的希望、胆小者的恐惧和焦虑者的疑虑给出了决定性的回答。我们看到时间逐渐消除了每一个不利的预言，我们的宪法克服了一开始被认为无法控制的每一个不利情况。
Present excitement will at all times magnify present dangers, but true philosophy must teach us that none more threatening than the past can remain to be overcome; and we ought (for we have just reason) to entertain an abiding confidence in the stability of our institutions. 当前的激动情绪总是会放大当前的危险，但真正的哲学必须教导我们，没有比过去更可怕的危险需要克服；我们应该（因为我们有充分的理由）对我们制度的稳定性抱有持久的信心。
And an entire conviction that if administered in the true form, character, and spirit in which they were established they are abundantly adequate to preserve to us and our children the rich blessings already derived from them, to make our beloved land for a thousand generations that chosen spot where happiness springs from a perfect equality of political rights. 并且完全相信，如果以其建立时的真实形式、特征和精神来管理，它们足以保护我们和我们的子孙后代已经从中获得的丰富福祉，使我们亲爱的土地在一千代人中成为幸福源自政治权利完全平等的神圣之地。
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. 因此，我希望宣布，指导我履行国家赋予我的崇高职责的原则是严格遵守宪法的文字和精神，正如其制定者所设计的那样。
Looking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regarding it as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with, I shall endeavor to preserve, protect, and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action. 回顾它作为一份神圣而不易制定的文件；记住它自始至终都是让步和妥协的产物；将其视为仅限于国家目标；认为它将所有未明确交出的权力留给人民和各州，我将努力通过在每一项行动中急切参考其规定来维护、保护和捍卫它。
To matters of domestic concernment which it has intrusted to the Federal Government and to such as relate to our intercourse with foreign nations I shall zealously devote myself; beyond those limits I shall never pass. 对于它委托给联邦政府的国内事务以及与我们与外国交往有关的事务，我将热忱地献身；超出这些范围，我永远不会逾越。
To enter on this occasion into a further or more minute exposition of my views on the various questions of domestic policy would be as obtrusive as it is probably unexpected. Before the suffrages of my countrymen were conferred upon me I submitted to them, with great precision, my opinions on all the most prominent of these subjects. 在这个场合进一步或更详细地阐述我对国内政策各种问题的看法，既唐突又可能出乎意料。在同胞们的选举权授予我之前，我已经非常精确地向他们阐述了我对所有最突出问题的看法。
Those opinions I shall endeavor to carry out with my utmost ability. 这些看法我将努力以最大的能力贯彻。
Our course of foreign policy has been so uniform and intelligible as to constitute a rule of Executive conduct which leaves little to my discretion, unless, indeed, I were willing to run counter to the lights of experience and the known opinions of my constituents. 我们的外交政策路线一直如此统一和清晰，以至于构成了一项行政行为准则，几乎没有留给我任何自由裁量权，除非我愿意违背经验的启示和我的选民的已知意见。
We sedulously cultivate the friendship of all nations as the conditions most compatible with our welfare and the principles of our Government. We decline alliances as adverse to our peace. 我们孜孜不倦地培养与所有国家的友谊，因为这是最符合我们福祉和政府原则的条件。我们拒绝结盟，因为这不利于我们的和平。
We desire commercial relations on equal terms, being ever willing to give a fair equivalent for advantages received. We endeavor to conduct our intercourse with openness and sincerity, promptly avowing our objects and seeking to establish that mutual frankness which is as beneficial in the dealings of nations as of men. 我们渴望在平等条件下建立商业关系，永远愿意为所获得的利益给予公平的回报。我们努力以开放和真诚的态度进行交往，及时表明我们的目标，并寻求建立那种在国家和个人交往中同样有益的相互坦诚。
We have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies. 我们无意干涉，也否认有权干涉可能困扰其他国家的争端，无论是内部还是外部的，我们将它们视为实际存在的社会群体，并在所有争议中保持严格的中立。
Well knowing the tried valor of our people and our exhaustless resources, we neither anticipate nor fear any designed aggression; and in the consciousness of our own just conduct we feel a security that we shall never be called upon to exert our determination never to permit an invasion of our rights without punishment or redress. 深知我们人民久经考验的勇气和我们取之不尽的资源，我们既不预期也不害怕任何蓄意的侵略；并且在意识到我们自己的正义行为时，我们感到一种安全感，即我们永远不会被要求行使我们的决心，永远不会允许对我们权利的侵犯不受惩罚或得不到补救。
In approaching, then, in the presence of my assembled countrymen, to make the solemn promise that yet remains, and to pledge myself that I will faithfully execute the office I am about to fill, I bring with me a settled purpose to maintain the institutions of my country, which I trust will atone for the errors I commit. 那么，在我聚集的同胞面前，在即将做出庄严承诺并保证忠实履行我即将担任的职务之际，我怀着维护我国制度的坚定决心，我相信这将弥补我所犯的错误。
In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. 在从人民手中接过两次托付给我杰出前任的神圣信任时，他如此忠诚和出色地履行了这一职责，我知道我无法期望以同样的能力和成功来完成这项艰巨的任务。
But united as I have been in his counsels, a daily witness of his exclusive and unsurpassed devotion to his country's welfare, agreeing with him in sentiments which his countrymen have warmly supported, and permitted to partake largely of his confidence, I may hope that somewhat of the same cheering approbation will be found to attend upon my path. 但由于我曾参与他的咨询，每天目睹他对国家福利的专属和无与伦比的奉献，与他持有同胞们热烈支持的观点，并被允许大量分享他的信心，我可以希望，同样令人鼓舞的认可将伴随我的道路。
For him I but express with my own the wishes of all, that he may yet long live to enjoy the brilliant evening of his well-spent life; and for myself, conscious of but one desire, faithfully to serve my country, I throw myself without fear on its justice and its kindness. Beyond that I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days. May her ways be ways of pleasantness and all her paths be peace! 对于他，我仅以我个人的意愿表达所有人的愿望，愿他长久地享受他美好一生的辉煌晚年；对于我自己，意识到只有一个愿望——忠实地为国家服务，我毫不畏惧地将自己托付给它的正义和善意。除此之外，我只仰望神圣上帝的仁慈保护，我谦卑地祈求他给予支持，并热切地祈祷他俯视我们所有人。愿他的天意保佑我们亲爱的国家享有荣誉和长久的岁月。愿她的道路充满欢乐，愿她的一切路径都平安！