Good evening, my fellow Americans: 晚上好，我的美国同胞们：
Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the 250 million human beings who live in that part of the world. No other goal motivates American policy in Southeast Asia. 今晚，我想和你们谈谈越南和东南亚的和平问题。没有其他问题如此牵动我国人民的心。没有其他梦想如此吸引着生活在那片土地上的两亿五千万人民。没有其他目标如此驱动着美国在东南亚的政策。
For years, representatives of our Governments and others have traveled the world seeking to find a basis for peace talks. Since last September they have carried the offer that I made public at San Antonio. And that offer was this: 多年来，我国政府代表及其他人奔波于世界各地，寻求和谈的基础。自去年九月起，他们传达了我在圣安东尼奥公开提出的方案。那个方案是这样的：
That the United States would stop its bombardment of North Vietnam when that would lead promptly to productive discussions -- and that we would assume that North Vietnam would not take military advantage of our restraint. 当北越的轰炸停止能立即促成富有成效的谈判时，美国将停止对北越的轰炸——同时我们将假定北越不会利用我们的克制采取军事行动。
Hanoi denounced this offer, both privately and publicly. Even while the search for peace was going on, North Vietnam rushed their preparations for a savage assault on the people, the government, and the allies of South Vietnam. Their attack -- during the Tet holidays -- failed to achieve its principal objectives. It did not collapse the elected Government of South Vietnam or shatter its army -- as the Communists had hoped. It did not produce a "general uprising" among the people of the cities, as they had predicted. 河内方面私下和公开都拒绝了这个方案。即使在寻求和平的过程中，北越也在加紧准备，对南越人民、政府及其盟友发动猛烈进攻。他们在春节期间发动的进攻未能实现其主要目标。它没有像共产党人所希望的那样使南越民选政府垮台或瓦解其军队。它没有像他们预测的那样在城市民众中引发"全面起义"。
The Communists were unable to maintain control of any of the more than 30 cities that they attacked. And they took very heavy casualties. 共产党人无法守住他们攻击的三十多个城市中的任何一个，并且付出了惨重伤亡。
But they did compel the South Vietnamese and their allies to move certain forces from the countryside into the cities. They caused widespread disruption and suffering. Their attacks, and the battles that followed, made refugees of half a million human beings. 但他们确实迫使南越及其盟友将部分兵力从农村调往城市。他们造成了广泛的破坏和苦难。他们的进攻以及随后的战斗使五十万人沦为难民。
The Communists may renew their attack any day. They are, it appears, trying to make 1968 the year of decision in South Vietnam -- the year that brings, if not final victory or defeat, at least a turning point in the struggle. 共产党人随时可能重新发动进攻。他们似乎正试图让1968年成为南越的决定之年——这一年即使不带来最终胜利或失败，至少也会带来斗争的转折点。
This much is clear: If they do mount another round of heavy attacks, they will not succeed in destroying the fighting power of South Vietnam and its allies. But tragically, this is also clear: Many men -- on both sides of the struggle -- will be lost. A nation that has already suffered 20 years of warfare will suffer once again. Armies on both sides will take new casualties. And the war will go on. There is no need for this to be so. There is no need to delay the talks that could bring an end to this long and this bloody war. 有一点是清楚的：如果他们再发动一轮大规模进攻，他们将无法摧毁南越及其盟友的战斗力。但可悲的是，还有一点同样清楚：双方都将有许多人丧生。一个已经遭受二十年战火的国家将再次蒙受苦难。双方的军队都将出现新的伤亡。战争将继续下去。没有理由让这种情况继续。没有理由推迟可能结束这场漫长而血腥的战争的谈判。
Tonight, I renew the offer I made last August: to stop the bombardment of North Vietnam. We ask that talks begin promptly, that they be serious talks on the substance of peace. We assume that during those talks Hanoi will not take advantage of our restraint. We are prepared to move immediately toward peace through negotiations. So tonight, in the hope that this action will lead to early talks, I am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict. We are reducing -- substantially reducing -- the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once. 今晚，我重申去年八月提出的方案：停止对北越的轰炸。我们要求谈判立即开始，要求就和平的实质问题进行认真谈判。我们假定在谈判期间，河内不会利用我们的克制。我们已准备好立即通过谈判走向和平。因此今晚，怀着这一行动将促成早期谈判的希望，我迈出了缓解冲突的第一步。我们正在减少——大幅减少——目前的敌对行动水平，我们正在单方面立即这样做。
Tonight, I have ordered our aircraft and our naval vessels to make no attacks on North Vietnam, except in the area north of the demilitarized zone where the continuing enemy buildup directly threatens allied forward positions and where the movements of their troops and supplies are clearly related to that threat. The area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of North Vietnam's population, and most of its territory. Thus, there will be no attacks around the principal populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of North Vietnam. 今晚，我已命令我们的飞机和舰艇不对北越发动攻击，但非军事区以北地区除外，因为那里持续的敌军集结直接威胁盟军前沿阵地，其军队和物资调动明显与该威胁相关。我们停止攻击的地区涵盖北越近百分之九十的人口和大部分领土。因此，在北越的主要人口聚居区或粮食产区将不会有攻击。
Even this very limited bombing of the North could come to an early end -- if our restraint is matched by restraint in Hanoi. But I cannot in good conscience stop all bombing so long as to do so would immediately and directly endanger the lives of our men and our allies. Whether a complete bombing halt becomes possible in the future will be determined by events. 即使是这种对北方非常有限的轰炸也可能提前结束——如果河内方面也能相应克制的话。但凭良心，我不能停止全部轰炸，因为这样做将立即直接危及我们的军人和盟友的生命。未来是否可能全面停止轰炸将取决于事态发展。
Our purpose in this action is to bring about a reduction in the level of violence that now exists. It is to save the lives of brave men -- and to save the lives of innocent women and children. It is to permit the contending forces to move closer to a political settlement. 我们采取这一行动的目的是降低当前存在的暴力水平。是为了拯救勇敢者的生命——拯救无辜妇女和儿童的生命。是为了让交战各方更接近政治解决。
And tonight I call upon the United Kingdom and I call upon the Soviet Union -- as co-chairmen of the Geneva conferences, and as permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- to do all they can to move from the unilateral act of de-escalation that I have just announced toward genuine peace in Southeast Asia. 今晚我呼吁英国和苏联——作为日内瓦会议的联合主席，作为联合国安理会常任理事国——尽其所能，推动从我刚刚宣布的单边缓解行动走向东南亚的真正和平。
Now, as in the past, the United States is ready to send its representatives to any forum, at any time, to discuss the means of bringing this ugly war to an end. I am designating one of our most distinguished Americans, Ambassador Averell Harriman, as my personal representative for such talks. In addition, I have asked Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, who returned from Moscow for consultation, to be available to join Ambassador Harriman at Geneva or any other suitable place -- just as soon as Hanoi agrees to a conference. 现在，与过去一样，美国随时准备派遣代表前往任何论坛、在任何时间讨论结束这场丑恶战争的方法。我正指定我们最杰出的美国人之一——阿弗莱尔·哈里曼大使——作为我参加此类谈判的私人代表。此外，我已要求从莫斯科回国述职的卢埃林·汤普森大使待命，以便在河内同意举行会议时，与哈里曼大使在日内瓦或其他任何合适的地点会合。
I call upon President Ho Chi Minh to respond positively, and favorably, to this new step toward peace. But if peace does not come now through negotiations, it will come when Hanoi understands that our common resolve is unshakable, and our common strength is invincible. 我呼吁胡志明主席积极而有利地回应这一走向和平的新举措。但如果和平不能通过谈判现在到来，那么当河内明白我们的共同决心不可动摇、我们的共同力量不可战胜时，和平终将到来。
Tonight, we and the other allied nations are contributing 600,000 fighting men to assist 700,000 South Vietnamese troops in defending their little country. Our presence there has always rested on this basic belief: The main burden of preserving their freedom must be carried out by them -- by the South Vietnamese themselves. 今晚，我们和其他盟国正在投入六十万作战人员，协助七十万南越军队保卫他们的小国。我们在那里的存在始终基于一个基本信念：保卫自由的主要责任必须由他们自己——南越人民——来承担。
We and our allies can only help to provide a shield behind which the people of South Vietnam can survive and can grow and develop. On their efforts -- on their determinations and resourcefulness -- the outcome will ultimately depend. That small, beleaguered nation has suffered terrible punishment for more than 20 years. I pay tribute once again tonight to the great courage and the endurance of its people. 我们和盟友只能帮助提供一个盾牌，让南越人民在其后生存、成长和发展。最终结果将取决于他们的努力——取决于他们的决心和智慧。那个小而备受围困的国家已经遭受了二十多年的可怕惩罚。今晚我再次向其人民的巨大勇气和忍耐力致敬。
South Vietnam supports armed forces tonight of almost 700,000 men, and I call your attention to the fact that that is the equivalent of more than 10 million in our own population. Its people maintain their firm determination to be free of domination by the North. 南越今晚维持着近七十万人的武装力量，我提请你们注意，这相当于我国人口中一千多万人。其人民保持着摆脱北方统治的坚定决心。
There has been substantial progress, I think, in building a durable government during these last three years. The South Vietnam of 1965 could not have survived the enemy's Tet offensive of 1968. The elected government of South Vietnam survived that attack -- and is rapidly repairing the devastation that it wrought. 我认为，过去三年在建设一个持久政府方面取得了实质性进展。1965年的南越不可能在1968年敌人的春节攻势中幸存下来。南越的民选政府在这次攻击中幸存下来——并正在迅速修复其造成的破坏。
The South Vietnamese know that further efforts are going to be required to expand their own armed forces; to move back into the countryside as quickly as possible; to increase their taxes; to select the very best men that they have for civil and military responsibilities; to achieve a new unity within their constitutional government, and to include in the national effort all those groups who wish to preserve South Vietnam's control over its own destiny. 南越人知道，他们需要做出进一步努力来扩编自己的武装力量；尽快回到农村；增加税收；挑选最优秀的人才担任文职和军事职务；在宪政政府内部实现新的团结，并将所有希望维护南越自主掌控自身命运的团体纳入国家努力之中。
Last week President Thieu ordered the mobilization of 135,000 additional South Vietnamese. He plans to reach as soon as possible a total military strength of more than 800,000 men. To achieve this, the Government of South Vietnam started the drafting of 19-year-olds on March 1st. On May 1st, the Government will begin the drafting of 18-year-olds. 上周阮文绍总统下令动员十三万五千名南越预备人员。他计划尽快使总兵力达到八十多万人。为此，南越政府于三月一日开始征召十九岁的青年。五月一日，政府将开始征召十八岁的青年。
Last month, 10,000 men volunteered for military service. That was two and a half times the number of volunteers during the same month last year. Since the middle of January, more than 48,000 South Vietnamese have joined the armed forces, and nearly half of them volunteered to do so. 上个月，有一万人自愿参军，这是去年同期志愿者人数的两倍半。自一月中旬以来，超过四万八千名南越人加入了武装力量，其中近一半是自愿加入的。
All men in the South Vietnamese armed forces have had their tours of duty extended for the duration of the war, and reserves are now being called up for immediate active duty. President Thieu told his people last week, and I quote: 南越武装部队中所有军人的服役期限都已延长至战争结束，预备役人员也正在被征召服现役。阮文绍总统上周对他的国民说，我引述如下：
We must make greater efforts, we must accept more sacrifices, because as I have said many times, this is our country. The existence of our nation is at stake, and this is mainly a Vietnamese responsibility. 我们必须做出更大努力，我们必须接受更多牺牲，因为正如我多次说过的，这是我们的国家。我们国家的存亡攸关此事，这主要是越南人的责任。
He warned his people that a major national effort is required to root out corruption and incompetence at all levels of government. We applaud this evidence of determination on the part of South Vietnam. Our first priority will be to support their effort. We shall accelerate the re-equipment of South Vietnam's armed forces in order to meet the enemy's increased firepower. And this will enable them progressively to undertake a larger share of combat operations against the Communist invaders. 他告诫国民，需要做出重大国家努力来根除各级政府的腐败和无能。我们赞赏南越展现出的这种决心。我们的首要优先事项将是支持他们的努力。我们将加速重新装备南越武装力量，以应对敌人增强的火力。这将使他们能够逐步承担更大份额的对共产党入侵者的作战任务。
On many occasions I have told the American people that we would send to Vietnam those forces that are required to accomplish our mission there. So with that as our guide we have previously authorized a force level of approximately 525,000. Some weeks ago to help meet the enemy's new offensive we sent to Vietnam about 11,000 additional Marine and airborne troops. They were deployed by air in 48 hours on an emergency basis. 我曾多次告诉美国人民，我们将向越南派遣完成任务所需的兵力。以此为指导，我们此前已授权约五十二万五千人的兵力水平。几周前，为应对敌人的新攻势，我们向越南派遣了约一万一千名额外的海军陆战队和空降部队。他们在四十八小时内通过空运紧急部署。
But the artillery and the tank and the aircraft and medical and other units that were needed to work with and support these infantry troops in combat could not then accompany them by air on that short notice. 但与这些步兵协同作战所需的大炮、坦克、飞机、医疗及其他单位无法在如此短的时间内随同空运。
In order that these forces may reach maximum combat effectiveness, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have recommended to me that we should prepare to send during the next five months the support troops totaling approximately 13,500 men. A portion of these men will be made available from our active forces. The balance will come from reserve component units, which will be called up for service. 为使这些部队达到最大战斗力，参谋长联席会议建议我，应在未来五个月内准备派遣总计约一万三千五百人的支援部队。其中一部分将从现役部队中抽调。其余部分将来自预备役部队单位，这些单位将被征召服役。
The actions that we have taken since the beginning of the year to re-equip the South Vietnamese forces; to meet our responsibilities in Korea, as well as our responsibilities in Vietnam; to meet price increases and the cost of activating and deploying these reserve forces; to replace helicopters and provide the other military supplies we need, all of these actions are going to require additional expenditures. The tentative estimate of those additional expenditures is 2 1/2 billion dollars in this fiscal year and 2 billion, 600 million in the next fiscal year. 自今年年初以来，我们为重新装备南越军队、履行在朝鲜和越南的责任、应对价格上涨以及启动和部署这些预备役部队的成本、更换直升机和提供其他所需军需物资而采取的行动，所有这些都需要额外支出。这些额外支出的初步估计为本财政年度二十五亿美元，下一财政年度二十六亿美元。
These projected increases in expenditures for our national security will bring into sharper focus the nation's need for immediate action, action to protect the prosperity of the American people and to protect the strength and the stability of our American dollar. 这些国家安全支出的预计增加将更加凸显国家对立即采取行动的需要——保护美国人民繁荣、保护美元实力和稳定的行动。
On many occasions I have pointed out that without a tax bill or decreased expenditures, next year's deficit would again be around $20 billion. I have emphasized the need to set strict priorities in our spending. I have stressed that failure to act -- and to act promptly and decisively -- would raise very strong doubts throughout the world about America's willingness to keep its financial house in order. 我曾多次指出，如果没有税收法案或削减支出，明年的赤字将再次达到约两百亿美元。我强调过需要在支出中设定严格优先事项。我强调过，不采取行动——不迅速果断地采取行动——将使全世界对美国维持财政秩序的意愿产生强烈质疑。
Yet Congress has not acted. And tonight we face the sharpest financial threat in the postwar era -- a threat to the dollar's role as the keystone of international trade and finance in the world. 然而国会并未采取行动。今晚我们面临战后时代最严峻的金融威胁——对美元作为国际贸易和金融基石地位的威胁。
Last week, at the monetary conference in Stockholm, the major industrial countries decided to take a big step toward creating a new international monetary asset that will strengthen the international monetary system. And I'm very proud of the very able work done by Secretary Fowler and Chairman Martin of the Federal Reserve Board. But to make this system work, the United States just must bring its balance of payments to -- or very close to -- equilibrium. 上周，在斯德哥尔摩的货币会议上，主要工业国家决定朝着创建一种新的国际货币资产迈出一大步，这将加强国际货币体系。我为福勒部长和联邦储备委员会主席马丁所做的出色工作感到非常自豪。但要使这个体系运作，美国必须使其国际收支达到或非常接近平衡。
We must have a responsible fiscal policy in this country. The passage of a tax bill now, together with expenditure control that the Congress may desire and dictate, is absolutely necessary to protect this nation's security, and to continue our prosperity, and to meet the needs of our people. 我国必须实施负责任的财政政策。现在通过税收法案，连同国会可能希望和规定的支出控制，对于保护国家安全、延续繁荣、满足人民需求是绝对必要的。
Now, what is at stake is seven years of unparalleled prosperity. In those seven years, the real income of the average American, after taxes, rose by almost 30 percent -- a gain as large as that of the entire preceding 19 years. So the steps that we must take to convince the world are exactly the steps that we must take to sustain our own economic strength here at home. 现在，利害攸关的是七年前所未有的繁荣。在这七年中，美国人的平均实际税后收入增长了近百分之三十——这一增幅与前十九年的总增幅相当。因此，我们必须采取的说服世界的措施，恰恰是我们必须采取的维持国内经济实力的措施。
In the past eight months, prices and interest rates have risen because of our inaction. We must therefore now do everything we can to move from debate to action, from talking to voting and there is, I believe -- I hope there is -- in both Houses of the Congress a growing sense of urgency that this situation just must be acted upon and must be corrected. 在过去八个月中，由于我们的不作为，价格和利率已经上涨。因此，我们现在必须竭尽全力从辩论转向行动，从谈论转向投票。我相信——我希望——国会两院都有一种日益增长的紧迫感，认为这种情况必须得到处理和纠正。
My budget in January, we thought, was a tight one. It fully reflected our evaluation of most of the demanding needs of this nation. But in these budgetary matters, the President does not decide alone. The Congress has the power, and the duty, to determine appropriations and taxes. And the Congress is now considering our proposals, and they are considering reductions in the budget that we submitted. 我在一月提出的预算，我们认为是一个紧缩的预算。它充分反映了我们对国家大多数迫切需求的评估。但在预算事务上，总统并非独自决定。国会有权力和责任决定拨款和税收。国会正在审议我们的提案，也在考虑削减我们提交的预算。
As part of a program of fiscal restraint that includes the tax surcharge, I shall approve appropriate reductions in the January budget when and if Congress so decides that that should be done. One thing is unmistakably clear, however. Our deficit just must be reduced. Failure to act could bring on conditions that would strike hardest at those people that all of us are trying so hard to help. 作为包括税收附加在内的财政紧缩计划的一部分，如果国会决定如此，我将批准对一月预算的适当削减。然而有一件事是毋庸置疑的。我们的赤字必须削减。不采取行动可能带来这样的局面：打击最严重的恰恰是我们所有人都在努力帮助的那些人。
So these times call for prudence in this land of plenty. And I believe that we have the character to provide it, and tonight I plead with the Congress and with the people to act promptly to serve the national interest and thereby serve all of our people. 因此，这个时代呼唤这片富饶土地上的审慎。我相信我们有品格来提供这种审慎，今晚我恳求国会和人民迅速行动，服务于国家利益，从而服务于我们所有人民。
Now let me give you my estimate of the chances for peace -- the peace that will one day stop the bloodshed in South Vietnam; that will -- all the Vietnamese people be permitted to rebuild and develop their land; that will permit us to turn more fully to our own tasks here at home. 现在让我给你谈谈我对和平机会的估计——那种终将有一天停止南越流血的和平；让所有越南人民被允许重建和发展他们土地的和平；让我们能更充分转向国内自身任务的和平。
I cannot promise that the initiative that I have announced tonight will be completely successful in achieving peace any more than the 30 others that we have undertaken and agreed to in recent years. But it is our fervent hope that North Vietnam, after years of fighting that has left the issue unresolved, will now cease its efforts to achieve a military victory and will join with us in moving toward the peace table. 我无法承诺今晚宣布的举措在实现和平方面会完全成功，就像我们近年来着手和同意的其他三十多个举措一样。但我们热切希望，经过多年战斗仍未解决问题的北越，现在将停止其谋求军事胜利的努力，与我们一起走向谈判桌。
And there may come a time when South Vietnamese -- on both sides -- are able to work out a way to settle their own differences by free political choice rather than by war. As Hanoi considers its course, it should be in no doubt of our intentions. It must not miscalculate the pressures within our democracy in this election year. We have no intention of widening this war. But the United States will never accept a fake solution to this long and arduous struggle and call it peace. 也许终会有一天，南越双方能够通过自由的政治选择而非战争来解决他们之间的分歧。当河内考虑其行动方针时，不应怀疑我们的意图。它绝不能误判今年选举年我们民主制度内部的压力。我们无意扩大这场战争。但美国绝不会接受对这场漫长而艰苦斗争的虚假解决方案并称之为和平。
No one can foretell the precise terms of an eventual settlement. Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective -- taking over the South by force -- could not be achieved. We think that peace can be based on the Geneva Accords of 1954, under political conditions that permit the South Vietnamese -- all the South Vietnamese -- to chart their course free of any outside domination or interference, from us or from anyone else. 没有人能预见最终解决方案的确切条款。我们在南越的目标从来不是消灭敌人。而是让河内认识到其通过武力吞并南方的目标无法实现。我们认为，和平可以建立在1954年日内瓦协议的基础上，其政治条件允许南越人——所有南越人——免受我们或任何其他人的外部统治或干涉，自由规划自己的道路。
So tonight, I reaffirm the pledge that we made at Manila: that we are prepared to withdraw our forces from South Vietnam as the other side withdraws its forces to the North, stops the infiltration, and the level of violence thus subsides. Our goal of peace and self-determination in Vietnam is directly related to the future of all of Southeast Asia, where much has happened to inspire confidence during the past 10 years. And we have done all that we knew how to do to contribute and to help build that confidence. 因此今晚，我重申我们在马尼拉做出的承诺：我们准备从南越撤军，条件是另一方将其部队撤回北方、停止渗透，从而暴力水平随之下降。我们在越南的和平和自决目标与整个东南亚的未来直接相关。在过去十年中，那里发生了很多鼓舞人心的事情。我们已经尽我们所知所能去贡献和帮助建立这种信心。
A number of its nations have shown what can be accomplished under conditions of security. Since 1966, Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in all the world, with a population of more than 100 million people, has had a government that's dedicated to peace with its neighbors and improved conditions for its own people. 该地区一些国家已经展示了在安全条件下可以取得的成就。自1966年以来，印度尼西亚——世界第五大国，拥有一亿多人口——拥有了一个致力于与邻国和平相处、改善本国人民条件的政府。
Political and economic cooperation between nations has grown rapidly. And I think every American can take a great deal of pride in the role that we have played in bringing this about in Southeast Asia. We can rightly judge -- as responsible Southeast Asians themselves do -- that the progress of the past three years would have been far less likely, if not completely impossible, if America's sons and others had not made their stand in Vietnam. 各国之间的政治和经济合作迅速增长。我认为每个美国人都可以为我们在东南亚促成这一局面的作用感到非常自豪。我们可以正确地判断——正如负责任的东南亚人自己所判断的那样——如果美国的子弟和其他人没有在越南做出坚守，过去三年的进步即使不是完全不可能，也远远不会如此可能实现。
At Johns Hopkins University about three years ago, I announced that the United States would take part in the great work of developing Southeast Asia, including the Mekong valley, for all the people of that region. Our determination to help build a better land -- a better land for men on both sides of the present conflict -- has not diminished in the least. Indeed, the ravages of war, I think, have made it more urgent than ever. 大约三年前，在约翰斯·霍普金斯大学，我宣布美国将参与开发东南亚的伟大事业，包括湄公河流域，造福该地区所有人民。我们帮助建设一片更好土地的决心——为当前冲突双方人民建设更好的土地——丝毫未减。事实上，战争的破坏使这件事变得更加紧迫。
So I repeat on behalf of the United States again tonight what I said at Johns Hopkins -- that North Vietnam could take its place in this common effort just as soon as peace comes. Over time, a wider framework of peace and security in Southeast Asia may become possible. The new cooperations of the nations of the area could be a foundation stone. Certainly friendship with the nations of such a Southeast Asia is what the United States seeks -- and that is all that the United States seeks. 因此，我今晚再次代表美国重申我在约翰斯·霍普金斯所说的话——北越可以在和平到来时加入这一共同努力。随着时间的推移，东南亚更广泛的和平与安全框架可能成为可能。该地区各国新的合作可以成为基石。与这样一个东南亚各国的友谊正是美国所寻求的——这也就是美国所寻求的全部。
One day, my fellow citizen, there will be peace in Southeast Asia. It will come because the people of Southeast Asia want it -- those whose armies are at war tonight; those who, though threatened, have thus far been spared. Peace will come because Asians were willing to work for it and to sacrifice for it -- and to die by the thousands for it. But let it never be forgotten: peace will come also because America sent her sons to help secure it. 总有一天，我的同胞们，东南亚将迎来和平。它的到来是因为东南亚人民渴望它——那些今晚军队仍在交战的人民；那些虽受威胁但迄今为止幸免的人民。和平的到来是因为亚洲人愿意为之努力、为之牺牲——为之成千上万地献出生命。但永远不要忘记：和平的到来也因为美国派遣她的子弟去帮助守护它。
It has not been easy -- far from it. During the past four and a half years, it has been my fate and my responsibility to be Commander in Chief. I have lived daily and nightly with the cost of this war. I know the pain that it has inflicted. I know perhaps better than anyone the misgivings that it has aroused. And throughout this entire long period I have been sustained by a single principle: that what we are doing now in Vietnam is vital not only to the security of Southeast Asia, but it is vital to the security of every American. 这并不容易——远非如此。在过去四年半里，担任总司令一直是我的命运和责任。我日复一日、夜复一夜地承受着这场战争的代价。我知道它造成的痛苦。我也许比任何人都更了解它所引起的疑虑。在这整个漫长的时期里，支撑我的是一个原则：我们正在越南所做的事不仅对东南亚的安全至关重要，而且对每个美国人的安全都至关重要。
Surely, we have treaties which we must respect. Surely, we have commitments that we are going to keep. Resolutions of the Congress testify to the need to resist aggression in the world and in Southeast Asia. 当然，我们有必须遵守的条约。当然，我们有将要履行的承诺。国会的决议证明了对在世界和东南亚抵抗侵略的需要。
But the heart of our involvement in South Vietnam under three different presidents, three separate Administrations, has always been America's own security. And the larger purpose of our involvement has always been to help the nations of Southeast Asia become independent, and stand alone, self-sustaining as members of a great world community, at peace with themselves, at peace with all others. And with such a nation our country -- and the world -- will be far more secure than it is tonight. 但在三位不同总统、三届不同政府领导下，我们介入南越的核心始终是美国自身的安全。我们介入的更大目的始终是帮助东南亚各国实现独立、自立，成为世界大家庭的成员，与自身和他人和平相处。有了这样的国家，我们的国家和世界将比今晚安全得多。
I believe that a peaceful Asia is far nearer to reality because of what America has done in Vietnam. I believe that the men who endure the dangers of battle there, fighting there for us tonight, are helping the entire world avoid far greater conflicts, far wider wars, far more destruction, than this one. The peace that will bring them home someday will come. Tonight, I have offered the first in what I hope will be a series of mutual moves toward peace. 我相信，因为美国在越南所做的事，一个和平的亚洲更接近现实。我相信，那些在那里为我们而战、忍受战争危险的人，正在帮助整个世界避免比这场战争更大的冲突、更广泛的战争、更严重的破坏。终有一天，将他们带回家的和平会到来。今晚，我已经提出了我希望成为一系列迈向和平的相互举措中的第一步。
I pray that it will not be rejected by the leaders of North Vietnam. I pray that they will accept it as a means by which the sacrifices of their own people may be ended. And I ask your help and your support, my fellow citizens, for this effort to reach across the battlefield toward an early peace. 我祈祷北越领导人不会拒绝它。我祈祷他们会接受它，作为结束其人民牺牲的手段。我请求你们的帮助和支持，我的同胞们，为这一跨越战场、争取早日和平的努力。
Finally, my fellow Americans, let me say this: Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say -- and no man could say -- that no more will be asked of us. Yet I believe that now, no less than when the decade began, this "generation of Americans" is willing to "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival, and the success, of liberty." 最后，我的美国同胞们，让我说这些：多给予者，亦多被要求。我不能说——任何人也不能说——不会再向我们提出更多要求。然而我相信，现在与这十年开始时一样，这"一代美国人"愿意"付出任何代价，承担任何重担，迎接任何艰难，支持任何朋友，反对任何敌人，以确保自由的生存与成功。"
Since those words were spoken by John F. Kennedy, the people of America have kept that compact with mankind's noblest cause. And we shall continue to keep it. 自从约翰·肯尼迪说出这些话以来，美国人民一直信守着与人类最崇高事业的契约。我们将继续信守它。
Yet, I believe that we must always be mindful of this one thing -- whatever the trials and the tests ahead, the ultimate strength of our country and our cause will lie, not in powerful weapons or infinite resources or boundless wealth, but will lie in the unity of our people. 然而，我相信我们必须始终铭记一件事——无论前方有何考验和测试，我们国家和事业最终的实力不在于强大的武器、无限的资源或无尽的财富，而在于我们人民的团结。
This I believe very deeply. Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party -- in that order -- always and only. 这一点我深信不疑。在我整个公职生涯中，我一直遵循这样的个人信条：我是一个自由人、一个美国人、一个公仆、一个党员——按这个顺序——始终如此，仅此而已。
For 37 years in the service of our nation, first as a Congressman, as a Senator, and as Vice President, and now as your President, I have put the unity of the people first. I have put it ahead of any divisive partisanship. And in these times as in times before, it is true that a house divided against itself by the spirit of faction, of party, of region, of religion, of race, is a house that cannot stand. 在三十七年的国家服务中，先是作为众议员、参议员，然后作为副总统，现在是你们的总统，我始终把人民的团结放在首位。我把它置于任何分裂性的党派利益之上。在此时和过去一样，一个因派系、党派、地域、宗教、种族之灵而内部分裂的家庭，是一个无法立足的家庭。
There is division in the American house now. There is divisiveness among us all tonight. And holding the trust that is mine, as President of all the people, I cannot disregard the peril to the progress of the American people and the hope and the prospects of peace for all peoples. So, I would ask all Americans, whatever their personal interests or concern, to guard against divisiveness and all of its ugly consequences. 现在美国的家庭中存在分裂。今晚我们所有人之间都存在分歧。作为全体人民的总统，持有这份信任，我不能无视对美国人民进步的威胁和对所有人民和平前景的希望。因此，我请求所有美国人，无论其个人利益或关切如何，都要警惕分裂及其一切丑恶后果。
Fifty-two months and ten days ago, in a moment of tragedy and trauma, the duties of this office fell upon me. I asked then for your help and God's, that we might continue America on its course, binding up our wounds, healing our history, moving forward in new unity to clear the American agenda and to keep the American commitment for all of our people. 五十二个月零十天前，在悲剧和创伤的时刻，这个办公室的责任落到了我身上。那时我请求你们的帮助和上帝的帮助，让我们继续美国的航程，抚平我们的创伤，弥合我们的历史，以新的团结向前迈进，清除美国的议程，为所有人民信守美国的承诺。
United we have kept that commitment. And united we have enlarged that commitment. And through all time to come I think America will be a stronger nation, a more just society, a land of greater opportunity and fulfillment because of what we have all done together in these years of unparalleled achievement. 团结一致，我们信守了那份承诺。团结一致，我们扩大了那份承诺。在未来的所有时间里，我认为美国将是一个更强大的国家、一个更公正的社会、一片充满更大机会和成就的土地，因为我们在这些空前成就的岁月中共同所做的一切。
Our reward will come in the life of freedom and peace and hope that our children will enjoy through ages ahead. What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of our people. And believing this, as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. 我们的回报将体现在我们的子孙后代在未来岁月中将享有的自由、和平与希望的生活中。当我们所有人民团结一致时所赢得的一切，绝不能现在因任何人民之间的猜疑、不信任、自私和政治而丧失。基于这样的信念，我已得出结论：我不应允许总统职位卷入这一政治年中正在发展的党派分裂。
With American sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office -- the Presidency of your country. 美国子弟远在异乡战场，美国的未来在此地家中受到挑战，我们和世界对和平的希望每天都悬于一线，我不认为我应该把一小时或一天的时间投入到任何个人党派事业或任何职责之外，而应专注于这个办公室——你们国家总统职位的庄严职责。
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President. But let men everywhere know, however, that a strong and a confident and a vigilant America stands ready tonight to seek an honorable peace; and stands ready tonight to defend an honored cause, whatever the price, whatever the burden, whatever the sacrifice that duty may require. 因此，我将不寻求、也不会接受本党提名我连任你们的总统。但让各地的人们知道，一个强大、自信和警觉的美国今晚已准备好寻求体面的和平；今晚已准备好捍卫一项崇高的事业，无论代价如何、无论负担多重、无论职责要求何种牺牲。
Thank you for listening. Good night and God bless all of you. 感谢你们的聆听。晚安，愿上帝保佑你们大家。