Hello America! 你好，美国！
I want to thank all the speakers and performers today for reminding us, through song and through words, just what it is that we love about America. I want to thank all of you for braving the cold and the crowds and traveling in some cases thousands of miles to join us here today. Welcome to Washington, and welcome to this celebration of American renewal. 我要感谢今天所有的发言者和表演者，他们用歌声和语言提醒我们，我们究竟热爱美国的什么。我要感谢你们所有人，感谢你们顶着严寒、穿过人群，有的甚至跋涉数千英里来到这里与我们相聚。欢迎来到华盛顿，欢迎参加这场美国复兴的庆典。
In the course of our history, only a handful of generations have been asked to confront challenges as serious as the ones we face right now. Our nation is at war. Our economy is in crisis. Millions of Americans are losing their jobs and their homes. They're worried about how they'll afford college for their kids or pay the stack of bills on their kitchen table. And most of all, they're anxious and uncertain about the future -- about whether this generation of Americans will be able to pass on what's best about this country to our children and their children. 在我们的历史进程中，只有少数几代人被要求去面对像我们当下所面临的那样严峻的挑战。我们的国家正处于战争之中。我们的经济陷入危机。数以百万计的美国人正在失去工作和家园。他们担心如何供孩子上大学，如何付清餐桌上那一摞账单。而最令他们焦虑和不安的是未来——这一代美国人能否将这个国家最美好的一面传承给我们的子孙后代。
I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our resolve as a nation. 我不会假装应对这些挑战中的任何一项会轻而易举。它需要的时间不止一两个月或一两年，很可能需要许多年。在前行的路上，会有挫折，有徒劳的开始，也会有考验我们这个国家决心的日子。
But despite all this -- despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead -- I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our Founders will live on in our time. 但尽管如此——尽管前方的任务艰巨无比——我今天站在这里，依然满怀希望：美利坚合众国必将存续，必将凯旋，我们建国先辈的梦想必将在我们这个时代延续。
What gives me hope is what I see when I look out across this mall. For in these monuments are chiseled those unlikely stories that affirm our unyielding faith -- a faith that anything is possible in America. Rising before us stands a memorial to a man who led a small band of farmers and shopkeepers in revolution against the army of an empire, all for the sake of an idea. 让我心怀希望的，是我眺望这片广场时所看到的一切。因为在这些纪念碑上，镌刻着那些看似不可能的故事，它们印证了我们坚定的信念——一种在美国一切皆有可能的信念。矗立在我们面前的，是一座纪念一位伟人的纪念碑，他带领一小群农民和店主发动革命，反抗一个帝国的军队，这一切只为了一个理念。
On the ground below is a tribute to a generation that withstood war and depression -- men and women like my grandparents who toiled on bomber assembly lines and marched across Europe to free the world from tyranny's grasp. Directly in front of us is a pool that still reflects the dream of a King, and the glory of a people who marched and bled so that their children might be judged by their character's content. And behind me, watching over the union he saved, sits the man who in so many ways made this day possible. 在下方的大地上，是对经历过战争与萧条的那一代人的致敬——像我的祖父母那样的男男女女，他们在轰炸机装配线上辛勤劳作，在欧洲大陆上进军，把世界从暴政的魔爪中解放出来。正前方的那一池碧水，依然映照着一位国王的梦想，映照着一个民族的荣光，他们游行、流血，只为让他们的孩子能因品格的内涵而受到评判。而在我身后，凝视着他所拯救的联邦的，正是那位以诸多方式成就了今日的伟人。
And yet, as I stand here today, what gives me the greatest hope of all is not the stone and marble that surrounds us, but what -- what fills the spaces in between. It is you -- Americans of every race and region and station who came here because you believe in what this country can be and because you want to help us get there. 然而，当我今天站在这里，最让我满怀希望的，并不是环绕我们的石头和大理石，而是——是填充其间的那些东西。是你们——来自每个种族、每个地区、每个阶层的美国人，你们来到这里，是因为你们相信这个国家能够成为的样子，是因为你们愿意帮助我们到达那个彼岸。
It's the same thing that gave me hope from the day we began this campaign for the presidency nearly two years ago: a belief that if we could just recognize ourselves in one another and bring everyone together -- Democrats, Republicans, Independents; Latino, Asian and Native American; black and white, gay and straight, disabled and not -- then not only would we restore hope and opportunity in places that yearned for both, but maybe, just maybe, we might perfect our union in the process. 正是同样的东西，从将近两年前我们开始这场总统竞选之日起，就给了我希望：一种信念，只要我们能在彼此身上看到自己，只要我们能团结所有人——民主党人、共和党人、无党派人士；拉美裔、亚裔和原住民；黑人与白人，同性恋与异性恋，残障与非残障——那么我们不仅能在渴望希望与机遇的地方重塑这两者，而且也许，仅仅是也许，我们能在这个过程中完善我们的联邦。
This is what I believed, but you made this belief real. You proved once more that people who love this country can change it. And as I prepare to assume the presidency, yours are the voices I will take with me every day when I walk into that Oval Office -- the voices of men and women who have different stories but hold common hopes; who ask only for what was promised us as Americans -- that we might make of our lives what we will and see our children climb higher than we did. 这是我所相信的，而你们让这一信念成为现实。你们再次证明，热爱这个国家的人民能够改变它。在我准备就任总统之际，你们的呼声将伴随我每天走进椭圆形办公室——那是有着不同故事却怀有共同希望的男女的呼声；他们所求的，不过是作为美国人曾经被承诺的东西——我们能够主宰自己的人生，并看到我们的孩子攀登得比我们更高。
It is this thread that binds us together in common effort; that runs through every memorial on this mall; that connects us to all those who struggled and sacrificed and stood here before. It is how this nation has overcome the greatest differences and the longest odds -- because there is no obstacle that can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change. That is the belief with which we began this campaign, and that is how we will overcome what ails us now. 正是这根纽带，把我们团结在共同的努力之中；它贯穿这片广场上的每一座纪念碑；它把我们与所有曾经奋斗、牺牲并在此伫立的人联系在一起。这正是这个国家战胜最深刻的分歧、克服最悬殊的劣势的方式——因为没有任何障碍，能够阻挡千百万呼唤变革的声音。这是我们发起这场竞选时所怀的信念，也是我们将战胜当下困境的方式。
There is no doubt that our road will be long, that our climb will be steep. But never forget that the true character of our nation is revealed not during times of comfort and ease, but by the right we do when the moment is hard. I ask you to help reveal that character once more, and together, we can carry forward as one nation, and one people, the legacy of our forefathers that we celebrate today. 毫无疑问，我们的道路将漫长，我们的攀登将陡峭。但请永远不要忘记，我们国家真正的品格，不是在安逸顺遂之时显现，而是在艰难时刻我们所行的正义中得以彰显。我请求你们再次帮助彰显这种品格，团结一心，作为一个国家、一个民族，我们就能传承我们今天所颂扬的先辈的遗产。
Thank you, America. God bless you. 谢谢你，美国。愿上帝保佑你们。