Well, good morning, everybody. Thank you Deputy Secretary Mayorkas, Judge Roberts, and Director Rodriguez. Thank you to our Archivist, David Ferriero, and everyone at the National Archives for hosting us here today in this spectacular setting. 大家早上好。感谢马约尔卡斯副部长、罗伯茨法官和罗德里格斯局长。感谢我们的档案官戴维·费里罗，以及国家档案馆的每一位工作人员，感谢你们今天在这个壮观的场所接待我们。
And to my fellow Americans, our newest citizens -- I'm so excited. You are men and women from more than 25 countries, from Brazil to Uganda, from Iraq to the Philippines. You may come from teeming cities or rural villages. You don't look alike. You don't worship the same way. But here, surrounded by the very documents whose values bind us together as one people, you've raised your hand and sworn a sacred oath. I'm proud to be among the first to greet you as "my fellow Americans." 至于我的美国同胞们——我们最新的公民们——我太激动了。你们是来自二十五个以上国家的男男女女，从巴西到乌干达，从伊拉克到菲律宾。你们可能来自繁华的城市，也可能来自乡村。你们的长相各不相同。你们的信仰方式也不一样。但在这里，在那些以其价值观将我们凝聚为一个民族的文献的环绕下，你们举起了手，宣读了神圣的誓言。我很自豪能成为第一批以"我的美国同胞"来称呼你们的人之一。
What a remarkable journey all of you have made. And as of today, your story is forever woven into the larger story of this nation. In the brief time that we have together, I want to share that story with you. Because even as you've put in the work required to become a citizen, you still have a demanding and rewarding task ahead of you -- and that is the hard work of active citizenship. You have rights and you have responsibilities. And now you have to help us write the next great chapter in America's story. 你们所有人都走过了一段非凡的旅程。而从今天起，你们的故事将永远融入这个国家更宏大的叙事之中。在我们共处的短暂时间里，我想与你们分享这个故事。因为即使你们已经完成了成为公民所需的努力，你们面前仍然有一项艰巨而值得的任务——那就是积极公民的辛劳。你们拥有权利，也肩负责任。现在，你们要帮助我们书写美国故事的下一个伟大篇章。
Just about every nation in the world, to some extent, admits immigrants. But there's something unique about America. We don't simply welcome new immigrants, we don't simply welcome new arrivals -- we are born of immigrants. That is who we are. Immigration is our origin story. And for more than two centuries, it's remained at the core of our national character; it's our oldest tradition. It's who we are. It's part of what makes us exceptional. 世界上几乎每个国家都在一定程度上接纳移民。但美国有其独特之处。我们不只是欢迎新移民，不只是欢迎新来者——我们本身就是移民的后代。这就是我们的本色。移民是我们的起源故事。两个多世纪以来，它始终是我们民族性格的核心，是我们最古老的传统。这就是我们。这也是我们卓尔不群的原因之一。
After all, unless your family is Native American, one of the first Americans, our families -- all of our families -- come from someplace else. The first refugees were the Pilgrims themselves -- fleeing religious persecution, crossing the stormy Atlantic to reach a new world where they might live and pray freely. 毕竟，除非你的家族是美洲原住民——最早的美国人之一——否则我们的家族，我们所有的家族，都来自别的地方。第一批难民就是清教徒本身——他们逃离宗教迫害，横渡波涛汹涌的大西洋，来到一个可以自由生活、自由祈祷的新世界。
Eight signers of the Declaration of Independence were immigrants. And in those first decades after independence, English, German, and Scottish immigrants came over, huddled on creaky ships, seeking what Thomas Paine called "asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty..." 《独立宣言》的八位签署者就是移民。在独立后的最初几十年里，英国、德国和苏格兰移民纷至沓来，挤在吱呀作响的船上，寻求托马斯·潘恩所说的"为那些受迫害的公民自由和宗教自由爱好者提供的庇护……"
Down through the decades, Irish Catholics fleeing hunger, Italians fleeing poverty filled up our cities, rolled up their sleeves, built America. Chinese laborers jammed in steerage under the decks of steamships, making their way to California to build the Central Pacific Railroad that would transform the West -- and our nation. 几十年来，逃离饥荒的爱尔兰天主教徒、逃离贫困的意大利人涌入我们的城市，撸起袖子，建设了美国。华工们挤在蒸汽轮船甲板下的统舱里，远赴加州，修建了将改变西部乃至整个国家的中央太平洋铁路。
Wave after wave of men, women, and children -- from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, from Asia and Africa -- poured into Ellis Island, or Angel Island, their trunks bursting with their most cherished possessions -- maybe a photograph of the family they left behind, a family Bible, or a Torah, or a Koran. 一波又一波的男女老少——来自中东和地中海地区，来自亚洲和非洲——涌入埃利斯岛或天使岛。他们的行李箱里塞满了最珍视的物品——也许是一张留给家人的照片，一本家庭圣经，一卷托拉经，或是一本古兰经。
A bag in one hand, maybe a child in the other, standing for hours in long lines. New York and cities across America were transformed into a sort of global fashion show. You had Dutch lace caps and the North African fezzes, stodgy tweed suits and colorful Caribbean dresses. 一只手拎着包，另一只手或许还抱着孩子，在长长的队伍里一站就是几个小时。纽约和全美各地的城市变成了一场全球时装秀。有荷兰的蕾丝帽，有北非的菲斯帽，有笨重的粗花呢西装，还有色彩斑斓的加勒比连衣裙。
And perhaps, like some of you, these new arrivals might have had some moments of doubt, wondering if they had made a mistake in leaving everything and everyone they ever knew behind. So life in America was not always easy. It wasn't always easy for new immigrants. Certainly it wasn't easy for those of African heritage who had not come here voluntarily, and yet in their own way were immigrants themselves. 也许，和你们中的一些人一样，这些新来者也曾有过疑虑的时刻，怀疑自己抛下一切熟悉的人和事是否是个错误。所以在美国的生活并不总是容易的。对新移民来说并不总是容易的。对于那些非自愿来到这里的非洲裔人来说当然更不容易，尽管他们以自己的方式也是移民。
There was discrimination and hardship and poverty. But, like you, they no doubt found inspiration in all those who had come before them. And they were able to muster faith that, here in America, they might build a better life and give their children something more. 曾有歧视，曾有艰辛，曾有贫困。但是，和你们一样，他们无疑从前人的身上找到了力量。他们能够鼓起信念，相信在美国，他们可以创造更好的生活，可以给孩子们更多东西。
Just as so many have come here in search of a dream, others sought shelter from nightmares. Survivors of the Holocaust. Soviet Refuseniks. Refugees from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Iraqis and Afghans fleeing war. Mexicans, Cubans, Iranians leaving behind deadly revolutions. Central American teenagers running from gang violence. The Lost Boys of Sudan escaping civil war. They're people like Fulbert Florent Akoula from the Republic of Congo, who was granted asylum when his family was threatened by political violence. And today, Fulbert is here, a proud American. 正如许多人来这里追寻梦想一样，另一些人则是为了躲避噩梦。大屠杀幸存者。苏联拒绝移民者。来自越南、老挝、柬埔寨的难民。逃离战争的伊拉克人和阿富汗人。留下致命革命的墨西哥人、古巴人、伊朗人。逃离帮派暴力的中美洲青少年。逃离内战的苏丹迷途少年。还有来自刚果共和国的富尔贝·弗洛朗·阿库拉这样的人——当他的家人受到政治暴力威胁时，他获得了庇护。而今天，富尔贝在这里，作为一名自豪的美国人。
We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America. Immigrants like you are more likely to start your own business. Many of the Fortune 500 companies in this country were founded by immigrants or their children. Many of the tech startups in Silicon Valley have at least one immigrant founder. 我们永远说得不够多、不够响亮：移民和难民让美国焕发新生、充满活力。像你们这样的移民更有可能自主创业。这个国家的财富五百强企业中，有许多是由移民或他们的子女创立的。硅谷的许多科技初创公司至少有一位移民创始人。
Immigrants are the teachers who inspire our children, and they're the doctors who keep us healthy. They're the engineers who design our skylines, and the artists and the entertainers who touch our hearts. Immigrants are soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen who protect us, often risking their lives for an America that isn't even their own yet. 移民是激励我们孩子的老师，是守护我们健康的医生。他们是设计我们城市天际线的工程师，是触动我们心灵的艺术家和艺人。移民是保护我们的士兵、水手、飞行员、海军陆战队员、海岸警卫队员——他们常常为一个还不属于他们的美国冒着生命危险。
As an Iraqi, Muhanned Ibrahim Al Naib was the target of death threats for working with American forces. He stood by his American comrades, and came to the U.S. as a refugee. And today, we stand by him. And we are proud to welcome Muhanned as a citizen of the country that he already helped to defend. 作为伊拉克人，穆罕奈德·易卜拉欣·奈卜因为与美军合作而成为死亡威胁的目标。他坚守在美国战友身边，以难民身份来到了美国。而今天，我们与他站在一起。我们自豪地欢迎穆罕奈德成为这个他已经帮助捍卫的国家的公民。
We celebrate this history, this heritage, as an immigrant nation. And we are strong enough to acknowledge, as painful as it may be, that we haven't always lived up to our own ideals. We haven't always lived up to these documents. 作为一个移民国家，我们赞颂这段历史、这份遗产。同时，我们也有足够的勇气承认——尽管这可能令人痛苦——我们并不总是践行自己的理想。我们并不总是无愧于这些文献。
From the start, Africans were brought here in chains against their will, and then toiled under the whip. They also built America. A century ago, New York City shops displayed those signs, "No Irish Need Apply." Catholics were targeted, their loyalty questioned -- so much so that as recently as the 1950s and '60s, when JFK had to run, he had to convince people that his allegiance wasn't primarily to the Pope. 从一开始，非洲人就被戴上锁链强行带到这里，在皮鞭下劳作。他们也建设了美国。一个世纪前，纽约市的商店里贴着"爱尔兰人不必申请"的告示。天主教徒成为攻击目标，他们的忠诚受到质疑——以至于近在二十世纪五六十年代，肯尼迪参选时还不得不向人们证明他的首要忠诚对象不是教皇。
Chinese immigrants faced persecution and vicious stereotypes, and were, for a time, even banned from entering America. During World War II, German and Italian residents were detained, and in one of the darkest chapters in our history, Japanese immigrants and even Japanese American citizens were forced from their homes and imprisoned in camps. We succumbed to fear. We betrayed not only our fellow Americans, but our deepest values. We betrayed these documents. It's happened before. 中国移民面临迫害和恶毒的刻板印象，甚至一度被禁止进入美国。二战期间，德裔和意裔居民被拘留；而在我们历史上最黑暗的篇章之一中，日本移民乃至日裔美国公民都被赶出家园，关进集中营。我们屈服于恐惧。我们不仅背叛了我们的美国同胞，也背叛了我们最深层的价值观。我们背叛了这些文献。这种事情以前发生过。
And the biggest irony of course was -- is that those who betrayed these values were themselves the children of immigrants. How quickly we forget. One generation passes, two generation passes, and suddenly we don't remember where we came from. And we suggest that somehow there is "us" and there is "them," not remembering we used to be "them." 而最大的讽刺当然是——那些背叛了这些价值观的人，他们本身就是移民的后代。我们忘记得多快啊。一代人过去了，两代人过去了，突然间我们就忘了自己从哪里来。我们总觉得有"我们"和"他们"之分，却忘了我们曾经也是"他们"。
On days like today, we need to resolve never to repeat mistakes like that again. We must resolve to always speak out against hatred and bigotry in all of its forms -- whether taunts against the child of an immigrant farmworker or threats against a Muslim shopkeeper. We are Americans. Standing up for each other is what the values enshrined in the documents in this room compels us to do -- especially when it's hard. Especially when it's not convenient. That's when it counts. That's when it matters -- not when things are easy, but when things are hard. 在今天这样的日子里，我们需要下定决心，永远不再重蹈那样的覆辙。我们必须下定决心，始终反对一切形式的仇恨和偏执——无论是对移民农工子女的嘲讽，还是对穆斯林店主的威胁。我们是美国人。为彼此挺身而出，是这个房间里文献所承载的价值观要求我们去做的事情——尤其是在困难的时候。尤其是在不方便的时候。那才是真正重要的时刻。那才是真正关键的时刻——不是在诸事顺利时，而是在艰难困苦中。
The truth is, being an American is hard. Being part of a democratic government is hard. Being a citizen is hard. It is a challenge. It's supposed to be. There's no respite from our ideals. All of us are called to live up to our expectations for ourselves -- not just when it's convenient, but when it's inconvenient. When it's tough. When we're afraid. 事实是，做一个美国人很难。参与民主治理很难。做一个公民很难。这是一项挑战。它本就该如此。我们的理想没有喘息的余地。我们所有人都被召唤去实现对自己的期望——不只是在方便的时候，而是在不方便的时候。在艰难的时候。在我们恐惧的时候。
The tension throughout our history between welcoming or rejecting the stranger, it's about more than just immigration. It's about the meaning of America, what kind of country do we want to be. It's about the capacity of each generation to honor the creed as old as our founding: "E Pluribus Unum" -- that out of many, we are one. 贯穿我们历史的、关于欢迎还是排斥陌生人的张力，不仅仅关乎移民。它关乎美国的意义，关乎我们想成为什么样的国家。它关乎每一代人能否恪守与我们建国同样古老的信条："合众为一"——从众人中，我们融为一体。
Scripture tells us, "For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers." "We are strangers before you." In the Mexican immigrant today, we see the Catholic immigrant of a century ago. In the Syrian seeking refuge today, we should see the Jewish refugee of World War II. 圣经告诉我们："因为我们在你面前是陌生人，是寄居的，正如我们列祖一样。""我们在你面前是陌生人。"在今天的墨西哥移民身上，我们看到了一个世纪前的天主教移民。在今天寻求庇护的叙利亚人身上，我们应当看到二战时期的犹太难民。
In these new Americans, we see our own American stories -- our parents, our grandparents, our aunts, our uncles, our cousins who packed up what they could and scraped together what they had. And their paperwork wasn't always in order. And they set out for a place that was more than just a piece of land, but an idea. 在这些新美国人身上，我们看到了我们自己的美国故事——我们的父母、祖父母、叔伯姑舅、表兄表妹，他们收拾起能带的一切，凑齐仅有的家当。他们的文件并不总是齐全的。他们出发前往一个地方，那里不只是一片土地，而是一种理念。
America: A place where we can be a part of something bigger. A place where we can contribute our talents and fulfill our ambitions and secure new opportunity for ourselves and for others. 美国：一个我们可以成为更伟大事业一部分的地方。一个我们可以贡献才能、实现抱负、为自己和他人争取新机遇的地方。
A place where we can retain pride in our heritage, but where we recognize that we have a common creed, a loyalty to these documents, a loyalty to our democracy; where we can criticize our government, but understand that we love it. 一个我们可以为自己的传统感到自豪，但同时认识到我们拥有共同信条的地方——忠诚于这些文献，忠诚于我们的民主；一个我们可以批评政府，但同时明白我们热爱它的地方。
A place where we agree to live together even when we don't agree with each other; where we work through the democratic process, and not through violence or sectarianism to resolve disputes; where we live side by side as neighbors; and where our children know themselves to be a part of this nation, no longer strangers, but the bedrock of this nation, the essence of this nation. 一个即使意见不同也同意共同生活的地方；一个通过民主程序而非暴力或宗派主义解决争端的地方；一个我们作为邻居并肩生活的地方；一个我们的孩子知道自己是这个国家一部分的地方——他们不再是陌生人，而是这个国家的基石，这个国家的本质。
And that's why today is not the final step in your journey. More than 60 years ago, at a ceremony like this one, Senator John F. Kennedy said, "No form of government requires more of its citizens than does the American democracy." Our system of self-government depends on ordinary citizens doing the hard, frustrating but always essential work of citizenship -- of being informed. Of understanding that the government isn't some distant thing, but is you. Of speaking out when something is not right. Of helping fellow citizens when they need a hand. Of coming together to shape our country's course. 这就是为什么今天不是你们旅程的终点。六十多年前，在一次类似的仪式上，参议员约翰·F·肯尼迪说过："没有哪种政体比美国民主更要求其公民付出。"我们的自治体制依赖于普通公民去做那些艰辛、令人沮丧但始终至关重要的公民工作——保持知情。明白政府不是什么遥远的东西，而就是你自己。在出现问题时大声说出来。在同胞需要帮助时伸出援手。团结起来塑造我们国家的航向。
And that work gives purpose to every generation. It belongs to me. It belongs to the judge. It belongs to you. It belongs to you, all of us, as citizens. To follow our laws, yes, but also to engage with your communities and to speak up for what you believe in. And to vote -- to not only exercise the rights that are now yours, but to stand up for the rights of others. 而这项工作赋予每一代人以意义。它属于我。它属于法官。它属于你。它属于你们，我们所有人，作为公民。是的，遵守法律，但也要参与社区事务，为你所信仰的事物发声。还要投票——不仅行使现在属于你们的权利，还要为他人的权利挺身而出。
Birtukan Gudeya is here from Ethiopia. She said, "The joy of being an American is the joy of freedom and opportunity. We have been handed a work in progress, one that can evolve for the good of all Americans." I couldn't have said it better. 来自埃塞俄比亚的比尔图坎·古迪亚今天也在这里。她说："作为美国人的喜悦，就是自由和机遇的喜悦。我们接过了一项进行中的事业，一项可以为所有美国人的利益而发展的事业。"我说得再好也不过如此。
That is what makes America great -- not just the words on these founding documents, as precious and valuable as they are, but the progress that they've inspired. If you ever wonder whether America is big enough to hold multitudes, strong enough to withstand the forces of change, brave enough to live up to our ideals even in times of trial, then look to the generations of ordinary citizens who have proven again and again that we are worthy of that. 这就是美国之所以伟大的原因——不仅仅是这些建国文献上的文字，尽管它们珍贵而重要，更是这些文字所激发的进步。如果你曾怀疑美国是否足够广阔以容纳众生，是否足够坚强以抵御变革之力，是否足够勇敢以在考验时期仍践行我们的理想，那么请看看一代又一代的普通公民，他们一次又一次地证明了我们配得上这一切。
That's our great inheritance -- what ordinary people have done to build this country and make these words live. And it's our generation's task to follow their example in this journey -- to keep building an America where no matter who we are or what we look like, or who we love or what we believe, we can make of our lives what we will. 这就是我们伟大的遗产——普通人建设这个国家、让这些文字焕发活力的所作所为。而我们这一代人的任务，就是在这段旅程中追随他们的榜样——继续建设一个美国，在那里，无论我们是谁、长相如何、爱谁、信仰什么，我们都能主宰自己的人生。
You will not and should not forget your history and your past. That adds to the richness of American life. But you are now American. You've got obligations as citizens. And I'm absolutely confident you will meet them. You'll set a good example for all of us, because you know how precious this thing is. It's not something to take for granted. It's something to cherish and to fight for. 你们不会也不应该忘记自己的历史和过去。那丰富了美国生活的内涵。但你们现在是美国人了。你们肩负着公民的义务。我绝对相信你们会履行这些义务。你们将为我们所有人树立好榜样，因为你们知道这份东西有多么珍贵。它不是理所当然的。它值得我们珍惜，值得我们为之奋斗。
Thank you. May god bless you. May god bless the United States of America. 谢谢。愿上帝保佑你们。愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
