Secretary Hagel, Secretary Mabus, Admirals Greenert and Hilarides, Mayor Gray, leaders from across this city and our Armed Forces, to all the outstanding first responders, and, most of all, the families whose hearts have been broken: 哈格尔部长、马伯斯部长、格里纳特上将和希拉里德斯上将、格雷市长、这座城市和我国武装部队的各位领导、所有英勇出色的急救人员，以及最重要的，心碎的遇难者家属：
We cannot begin to comprehend your loss. We know that no words we offer today are equal to the magnitude, to the depths of that loss. But we come together as a grateful nation to honor your loved ones, to grieve with you, and to offer, as best we can, some solace and comfort. 我们无法真正体会你们失去亲人的痛苦。我们知道，今天无论说什么，都不足以表达这份失去的沉重与深切。但我们怀着全国人民的感激之情聚集在一起，缅怀你们所爱的人，与你们共同哀悼，并尽我们所能带来一点慰藉。
On the night that we lost Martin Luther King Jr. to a gunman's bullet, Robert Kennedy stood before a stunned and angry crowd in Indianapolis and he broke the terrible news. And in the anguish of that moment, he turned to the words of an ancient Greek poet, Aeschylus: 马丁·路德·金遇刺身亡的那个夜晚，罗伯特·肯尼迪站在印第安纳波利斯一群震惊而愤怒的人面前，向他们宣布了这个噩耗。在那悲痛的时刻，他引用了古希腊诗人埃斯库罗斯的话：
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. 即使在睡梦中，无法忘却的痛苦也一滴一滴落在心上，直到我们陷入绝望之际，虽非出于本愿，却藉着上帝令人敬畏的恩典获得智慧。
Pain which cannot forget -- drop by drop upon the heart. 无法忘却的痛苦，一滴一滴落在心上。
The tragedy and the pain that brings us here today is extraordinary. It is unique. The lives that were taken from us were unique. The memories their loved ones carry are unique, and they will carry them and endure long after the news cameras are gone. But part of what wears on as well is the sense that this has happened before. Part of what wears on us, what troubles us so deeply as we gather here today, is how this senseless violence that took place in the Navy Yard echoes other recent tragedies. 今天把我们带到这里的悲剧和痛苦非同寻常，独一无二。逝去的每一个生命都是独一无二的。亲人们珍藏的回忆也独一无二；即使新闻摄像机早已离去，他们仍会带着这些回忆，承受这份痛苦。然而，折磨我们的还有一种感觉：这样的事以前发生过。今天聚集在这里时，令我们如此痛心不安的，正是海军造船厂发生的这场无谓暴力事件，与近来的其他悲剧何其相似。
As President, I have now grieved with five American communities ripped apart by mass violence: Fort Hood. Tucson. Aurora. Sandy Hook. And now, the Washington Navy Yard. And these mass shootings occur against a backdrop of daily tragedies, as an epidemic of gun violence tears apart communities across America -- from the streets of Chicago to neighborhoods not far from here. 担任总统以来，我已经同五个遭大规模暴力事件重创的美国社区共同哀悼：胡德堡、图森、奥罗拉、桑迪胡克，如今又有华盛顿海军造船厂。而这些大规模枪击案背后，还有日复一日的悲剧：枪支暴力如同流行病，从芝加哥的街头到离这里不远的社区，撕裂着全美各地的生活。
And so, once again, we remember our fellow Americans who were just going about their day doing their jobs, doing what they loved -- in this case, the unheralded work that keeps our country strong and our Navy the finest fleet in the world. These patriots doing their work that they were so proud of, and who have now been taken away from us by unspeakable violence. 因此，我们再次缅怀那些原本只是照常工作、做着自己热爱之事的同胞。他们默默无闻的工作使我们的国家保持强大，使我们的海军成为世界上最优秀的舰队。这些爱国者以自己的工作为荣，如今却被难以言说的暴力夺去了生命。
Once more we come together to mourn the lives of beauty and to comfort the wonderful families who cherished them. Once more we pay tribute to all who rushed towards the danger, who risked their lives so others might live, and who are in our prayers today, including Officer Scott Williams. Once more our hearts are broken. Once more we ask why. Once more we seek strength and wisdom through God's grace. 我们再次聚在一起，悼念这些美好的生命，安慰深爱着他们的家人。我们再次向所有冲向危险、冒着生命危险救助他人的人致敬；今天我们的祈祷也献给他们，包括斯科特·威廉姆斯警官。我们的心再次破碎，再次追问为什么，再次祈求藉上帝的恩典获得力量和智慧。
You and your families, this Navy family, are still in the early hour of your grief. And I'm here today to say that there is nothing routine about this tragedy. There is nothing routine about your loss. Your loved ones will not be forgotten. They will endure in the hearts of the American people and in the hearts of the Navy that they helped to keep strong, and the hearts of their coworkers and their friends and their neighbors. 你们和家人，以及这个海军大家庭，仍处于哀痛的最初时刻。我今天要说，这场悲剧绝非寻常，你们的失去绝非寻常。你们所爱的人不会被遗忘。他们将永远留在美国人民心中，留在他们曾帮助维系强大的海军心中，也留在同事、朋友和邻居心中。
"I want them to know how she lived," Jessica Gaarde said of her mother Kathy. "She is not a number, or some statistic." None of these 12 fellow Americans are statistics. Today, I want every American to see how these men and women lived. You may have never met them, but you know them. They're your neighbors -- like Arthur Daniels, out there on the weekend, polishing his white Crown Victoria; and Kenneth Proctor, with his beloved yellow Mustang, who, if you asked, would fix your car, too. 杰西卡·加尔德谈起母亲凯茜时说：“我希望人们知道她是怎样生活的。她不是一个数字，也不是什么统计数据。”这十二位美国同胞，没有一位只是统计数据。今天，我希望每个美国人都看到他们曾怎样生活。你或许从未见过他们，却熟悉这样的人：他们就是你的邻居。亚瑟·丹尼尔斯会在周末擦亮他那辆白色皇冠维多利亚轿车；肯尼思·普罗克特钟爱他的黄色野马汽车，你若开口请他帮忙，他也会替你修车。
She was the friendly face at the store. Sylvia Frasier, with her unforgettable gold hair, who took a second job at Walmart because, she said, she just loved working with people. She was the diehard fan you sat next to at the game. Kathy Gaarde loved her hockey and her Caps, a season ticket holder for 25 years. 她是商店里那张亲切的面孔。西尔维娅·弗雷泽有一头令人难忘的金发；她又到沃尔玛找了一份工作，因为她说自己就是喜欢和人打交道。她也是你在球赛中邻座的铁杆球迷。凯茜·加尔德热爱冰球，热爱首都人队，连续二十五年持有季票。
They were the volunteers who made your community better. Frank Kohler, giving dictionaries to every third-grader in his county; Marty Bodrog, leading the children's Bible study at church. 他们是让社区变得更好的志愿者。弗兰克·科勒给所在县的每一位三年级学生送词典；马蒂·博德罗格在教堂带领儿童研读《圣经》。
They lived the American Dream -- like Kisan Pandit, who left everything he knew in India for this land of opportunity, and raised a wonderful family and dedicated himself to the United States Navy. They were proud veterans -- like Gerald Read, who wore the Army uniform for more than 25 years; and Michael Arnold, who became one of the Navy's leading architects, of whom a colleague said, "nobody knew those ships like him." 他们实现了美国梦。基桑·潘迪特离开印度熟悉的一切，来到这片充满机会的土地，建立了美满的家庭，并献身美国海军。他们也是自豪的退伍军人：杰拉尔德·里德穿了二十五年多的陆军制服；迈克尔·阿诺德成为海军杰出的舰船设计师，一位同事说：“没有人比他更了解那些舰船。”
They were dedicated fathers -- like Mike Ridgell, coaching his daughter's softball teams, joining Facebook just to keep up with his girls, one of whom said, "he was always the cool dad." They were loving mothers -- like Mary Francis Knight, devoted to her daughters, and who had just recently watched with joy as her older daughter got married. They were doting grandparents -- like John Johnson, always smiling, giving bear hugs to his 10 grandchildren, and who would have welcomed his 11th grandchild this fall. 他们是尽责的父亲。迈克·里奇尔执教女儿的垒球队，还为了了解女儿们的近况加入脸书；其中一个女儿说：“他一直是个很酷的爸爸。”她们是慈爱的母亲。玛丽·弗朗西丝·奈特深爱女儿们，不久前还满怀喜悦地见证大女儿结婚。他们也是疼爱孙辈的祖父母。约翰·约翰逊总是笑容满面，给十个孙辈大大的拥抱；如果他还在，今年秋天就能迎接第十一个孙辈。
These are not statistics. They are the lives that have been taken from us. This is how far a single act of violence can ripple. A husband has lost his wife. Wives have lost their husbands. Sons and daughters have lost their moms and their dads. Little children have lost their grandparents. Hundreds in our communities have lost a neighbor, and thousands here have lost a friend. 他们不是统计数据。他们是从我们身边被夺走的生命。这就是一场暴力的影响所能波及的范围：一位丈夫失去了妻子，妻子们失去了丈夫，儿女失去了父母，年幼的孩子失去了祖父母。社区里数百人失去了一位邻居，这里数千人失去了一位朋友。
As has been mentioned, for one family, the Daniels family, old wounds are ripped open again. Priscilla has lost Arthur, her husband of 30 years. Only a few years ago, as Mayor Gray indicated, another shooting took the life of their son, just 14 years old. "I can't believe this is happening again," Priscilla says. 正如刚才提到的，丹尼尔斯一家又一次被揭开旧伤。普丽西拉失去了相伴三十年的丈夫亚瑟。就在几年前，如格雷市长所说，另一场枪击夺去了他们年仅十四岁儿子的生命。普丽西拉说：“我不敢相信这样的事又发生了。”
So these families have endured a shattering tragedy. It ought to be a shock to us all as a nation and as a people. It ought to obsess us. It ought to lead to some sort of transformation. That's what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies. In the United Kingdom, in Australia, when just a single mass shooting occurred in those countries, they understood that there was nothing ordinary about this kind of carnage. They endured great heartbreak, but they also mobilized and they changed, and mass shootings became a great rarity. 这些家庭承受了令人心碎的悲剧。作为一个国家、一个民族，我们所有人都应为之震惊。它应当让我们久久不能释怀，推动我们作出改变。其他国家经历类似悲剧时就是这样做的。在英国和澳大利亚，即使只发生过一场大规模枪击，人们也明白这种屠杀绝非寻常。他们承受了深重的悲痛，但也动员起来，作出了改变，使大规模枪击变得极为罕见。
And yet, here in the United States, after the round-of-clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches and all the punditry and all the commentary, nothing happens. Alongside the anguish of these American families, alongside the accumulated outrage so many of us feel, sometimes I fear there's a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. 然而，在美国，经过有线电视全天候报道、对家属令人心碎的采访，以及所有演讲、专家评论和议论之后，却什么也没有发生。看到这些美国家庭的悲痛，感受到我们许多人积累的愤怒，我有时担心，一种认命的情绪正悄然蔓延：人们仿佛觉得，这些悲剧就是现实，这竟成了某种新的常态。
We can't accept this. As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. There is nothing normal about our children being gunned down in their classrooms. There is nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets. 我们不能接受这一切。今天，因悲痛与关爱而团结在一起的美国人必须坚决表明：无辜男女在工作场所被枪杀，绝不正常；我们的孩子在教室里被枪杀，绝不正常；孩子们在街头死于流弹，也绝不正常。
No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence -- none. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there is nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different. 没有其他发达国家承受着这样的暴力，一个也没有。在美国，谋杀率是其他发达国家的三倍，枪支谋杀率则是十倍。这绝非不可避免，而是我们作出或未能作出的决定所造成的。改变这一切，责任就在我们身上。
Sometimes it takes an unexpected voice to break through, to help remind us what we know to be true. And we heard one of those voices last week. Dr. Janis Orlowski's team at Medstar Washington Hospital Center treated the wounded. And in the midst of one of her briefings, she spoke with heartbreaking honesty as somebody who sees, daily and nightly, the awful carnage of so much violence. 有时，需要一个出人意料的声音穿透喧嚣，提醒我们早已知道的真相。上周我们就听到了这样的声音。梅德斯达华盛顿医院中心的雅妮丝·奥尔洛夫斯基医生和她的团队救治了伤者。在一次情况通报中，她作为一个日日夜夜目睹暴力造成惨重伤害的人，说出了令人心碎的大实话。
We are a great country, she said, but "there's something wrong." All these shootings, all these victims, she said, "this is not America." "It is a challenge to all of us," she said, and "we have to work together to get rid of this." 她说，我们是一个伟大的国家，但“有些事情不对劲”。谈到这些枪击和受害者，她说：“这不是美国应有的样子。”她还说：“这是对我们所有人的挑战”，“我们必须共同努力，消除这一切”。
And that's the wisdom we should be taking away from this tragedy and so many others -- not accepting these shootings as inevitable, but asking what can we do to prevent them from happening again and again and again. I've said before, we cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try. 这就是我们应从这场悲剧以及许多其他悲剧中汲取的智慧：不要把枪击视为不可避免，而要追问怎样阻止它们一再发生。我以前说过，我们无法制止每一桩无谓的暴力行为，也无法洞悉困扰人心中的每一种恶念。但如果我们能避免哪怕一场这样的悲剧，挽救哪怕一个生命，让别的家庭免受这些家庭正在经历的痛苦，我们就一定有责任去尝试。
It's true that each of the tragedies I've mentioned is different. And in this case, it's clear we need to do a better job of securing our military facilities and deciding who gets access to them. And as Commander in Chief, I have ordered a review of procedures up and down the chain, and I know that Secretary Hagel is moving aggressively on that. As a society, it's clear we've got to do a better job of ensuring that those who need mental health care actually get it, and that in those efforts we don't stigmatize those who need help. Those things are clear, and we've got to move to address them. 诚然，我提到的每场悲剧各不相同。就这一次而言，我们显然需要加强军事设施的安全，审慎决定谁可以进入。作为三军统帅，我已下令全面审查各级程序，也知道哈格尔部长正积极推进此事。作为社会，我们显然还必须确保需要心理健康服务的人真正得到帮助，并在此过程中避免给求助者贴上污名。这些都很明确，我们必须着手解决。
But we Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart, what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings, is that we don't do enough -- we don't take the basic, common-sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. 但美国人并非天生比其他国家的人更暴力，也并非天生更容易出现心理健康问题。使我国有别于其他国家、令我们如此容易发生大规模枪击的主要原因，是我们做得不够：我们没有采取基本而合乎常理的措施，不让罪犯和危险人物拿到枪支。
What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on gun -- and a lot of us know this. But the politics are difficult, as we saw again this spring. And that's sometimes where the resignation comes from -- the sense that our politics are frozen and that nothing will change. 美国的不同之处，在于枪很容易到手；我们许多人都知道这一点。但正如今年春天再次表明的那样，政治阻力很大。认命的情绪有时就从这里产生：人们觉得政治已经僵住，什么都不会改变。
Well, I cannot accept that. I do not accept that we cannot find a common-sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic Second Amendment freedoms and the rights of law-abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis. And it may not happen tomorrow and it may not happen next week, it may not happen next month -- but it will happen. Because it's the change that we need, and it's a change overwhelmingly supported by the majority of Americans. 我无法接受这样的看法。我不相信，我们无法找到合乎常理的办法，在维护自身传统、包括第二修正案保障的基本自由与守法拥枪者的权利的同时，减少经常造成严重伤害的枪支暴力。改变也许不会在明天、下周或下个月到来，但它一定会到来。因为这是我们需要的改变，也是绝大多数美国人支持的改变。
By now, though, it should be clear that the change we need will not come from Washington, even when tragedy strikes Washington. Change will come the only way it ever has come, and that's from the American people. So the question now is not whether, as Americans, we care in moments of tragedy. Clearly, we care. Our hearts are broken -- again. And we care so deeply about these families. But the question is, do we care enough? 不过，到现在应该很清楚了：即使悲剧发生在华盛顿，我们需要的改变也不会来自华盛顿。改变只能像过去一样，来自美国人民。所以现在的问题不是，在悲剧发生时，我们美国人是否在乎。显然，我们在乎。我们的心再一次破碎，也深深牵挂着这些家庭。但问题是：我们在乎得够不够？
Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today? 即使困难重重，即使在政治上令人不安，我们是否仍足够在乎，愿意继续为我们知道能够实现的那个国家挺身而出？我们是否足够在乎，能持续投入热情并施加压力，让社区和国家更安全？我们是否足够在乎，愿意竭尽所能，让其他家庭免受今天这里人们所承受的痛苦？
Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work, and go to school, and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're going to have to change. We're going to have to change. 光有泪水不够，光有言语和祈祷也不够。如果我们真想纪念这十二位男女，真想让这个国家的人们能够上班、上学、走在街上，而不必担心无谓的暴力，不必再有那么多生命被枪弹夺走，那么我们就必须改变。我们必须改变。
On Monday morning, these 12 men and women woke up like they did every day. They left home and they headed off to work. Gerald Read's wife Cathy said, "See you tonight for dinner." And John Johnson looked at his wife Judy and said what he always said whenever they parted, "Goodbye beautiful. I love you so much." 星期一早晨，这十二位男女像平日一样醒来，离开家去上班。杰拉尔德·里德的妻子凯茜说：“晚上回来吃饭见。”约翰·约翰逊望着妻子朱迪，说出每次分别时都会说的话：“再见，美人儿。我非常爱你。”
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." “即使在睡梦中，无法忘却的痛苦也一滴一滴落在心上，直到我们陷入绝望之际，虽非出于本愿，却藉着上帝令人敬畏的恩典获得智慧。”
What Robert Kennedy understood, what Dr. King understood, what all our great leaders have always understood, is that wisdom does not come from tragedy alone or from some sense of resignation in the fallibility of man. Wisdom comes through the recognition that tragedies such as this are not inevitable, and that we possess the ability to act and to change, and to spare others the pain that drops upon our hearts. So in our grief, let us seek that grace. Let us find that wisdom. And in doing so, let us truly honor these 12 American patriots. 罗伯特·肯尼迪、金博士以及我们所有伟大领袖始终明白：智慧并非仅从悲剧中产生，也并非来自对人类不完美的认命。智慧来自这样的认识：类似悲剧并非不可避免；我们有能力行动和改变，让他人免受那一滴一滴落在我们心上的痛苦。因此，让我们在悲伤中寻求那份恩典，找到那份智慧，并以此真正纪念这十二位美国爱国者。
May God hold close the souls taken from us and grant them eternal peace. May He comfort and watch over these families. And may God grant us the strength and the wisdom to keep safe our United States of America. 愿上帝将逝者的灵魂拥在怀中，赐予他们永恒的安宁。愿上帝慰藉并守护这些家庭。愿上帝赐予我们力量和智慧，守护美利坚合众国的安全。