Hello Springfield! Look at all of you. Look at all of you. Goodness. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Giving all praise and honor to God for bringing us here today. Thank you so much. I am so grateful to see all of you. You guys are still cheering back there? 你好，斯普林菲尔德！看看你们所有人。看看你们所有人。天哪。非常感谢。非常感谢。将一切赞美与荣耀归于上帝，感谢他今天把我们带到这里。非常感谢。能看到你们所有人，我深感荣幸。后面那边你们还在欢呼？
Let me begin by saying thanks to all you who've traveled, from far and wide, to brave the cold today. I know it's a little chilly -- but I'm fired up. 首先，我要感谢所有今天不远万里、从四面八方赶来、冒着严寒来到这里的人们。我知道天气有点冷——但我热血沸腾。
You know, we all made this journey for a reason. It's humbling to see a crowd like this, but in my heart I know you didn't just come here for me. You came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe that we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union. 大家知道，我们踏上这段旅程是有原因的。看到这样的人群令我受宠若惊，但我心里清楚，你们来到这里并不只是为了我。你们来到这里，是因为你们相信这个国家能够成为的样子。面对战争，你们相信和平可能实现。面对绝望，你们相信希望可能存在。面对一种将你们拒之门外、让你们安于现状、长期分裂我们的政治，你们相信我们能够成为一个民族，去追求可能，去建设那个更完善的联邦。
That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I'm not a native of this great state. I moved to Illinois over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college. I knew no one in Chicago when I arrived, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for the grand sum of 13,000 dollars a year. And I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea: that I might play a small part in building a better America. 这就是我们今天踏上的旅程。但让我告诉你们我是如何来到这里的。正如你们大多数人所知，我并非这个伟大州的原住民。二十多年前我搬到伊利诺伊州。那时我还是个年轻人，大学毕业才一年。我到达芝加哥时举目无亲，既没有钱也没有家族人脉。但一群教会给我提供了一份社区组织者的工作，年薪一万三千美元。我接受了这份工作，连地方都没看过，当时的动力源于一个简单而强大的信念：我或许能在建设一个更美好美国的进程中贡献一份微薄之力。
My work took me to some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods. I joined with pastors and lay-people to deal with communities that had been ravaged by plant closings. I saw that the problems people faced weren't simply local in nature, that the decisions to close a steel mill was made by distant executives, that the lack of textbooks and computers in a school could be traced to skewed priorities of politicians a thousand miles away, and that when a child turns to violence -- I came to realize that -- there's a hole in that boy's heart that no government alone can fill. 我的工作带我走进芝加哥一些最贫困的社区。我与牧师和信徒们合作，处理那些因工厂关闭而饱受摧残的社区。我看到人们面临的问题并非单纯的本地问题——关闭钢铁厂的决定是远在他乡的高管做出的，学校缺少教科书和电脑可以追溯到千里之外政客们扭曲的优先事项，而当一个孩子走向暴力时——我逐渐意识到——那个男孩心中有一个任何政府都无法单独填补的空洞。
It was in these neighborhoods that I received the best education that I ever had, and where I learned the meaning of my Christian faith. 正是在这些社区里，我接受了人生中最好的教育，也正是在这里，我领悟了我的基督教信仰的真谛。
After three years of this work, I went to law school, because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in need. I became a civil rights lawyer, and taught constitutional law, and after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality depend on the active participation of an awakened electorate. It was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a state Senator. 从事这项工作三年后，我进入法学院学习，因为我想要理解法律应如何为有需要的人服务。我成为一名民权律师，教授宪法学，一段时间后，我逐渐明白，我们珍视的自由与平等权利依赖于一个觉醒选民群体的积极参与。正是怀揣这些理念，我以州参议员的身份来到这座首府城市。
It was here, in Springfield, where I saw all that is America converge -- farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard. I made lasting friendships here, friends that I see here in the audience today. It was here where we learned to disagree without being disagreeable; that it's possible to compromise so long as you know those principles that can never be compromised; and that so long as we're willing to listen to each other, we can assume the best in people instead of the worst. 就是在这里，在斯普林菲尔德，我看到了美国万象的汇聚——农民与教师、商人与劳工，每个人都有自己的故事，每个人都渴望在决策桌上有一席之地，每个人都渴望被倾听。我在这里结下了持久的友谊，今天我在观众席中就能看到这些朋友。正是在这里，我们学会了意见相左而不伤和气；学会了只要坚守那些不可妥协的原则，妥协就是可能的；学会了只要我们愿意倾听彼此，就能以善意而非恶意揣度他人。
That's why we were able to reform a death penalty system that was broken; that's why we were able to give health insurance to children in need; that's why we made the tax system right here in Springfield more fair and just for working families; and that's why we passed ethics reform that the cynics said could never, ever be passed. 正因如此，我们才能够改革破败的死刑制度；正因如此，我们才能够为有需要的儿童提供医疗保险；正因如此，我们才让斯普林菲尔德这里的税收制度对工薪家庭更加公平正义；正因如此，我们才通过了那些愤世嫉俗者说永远无法通过的道德改革。
It was here, in Springfield, where North, South, East, and West come together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the American people -- where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful America. And that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still live, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America. 就是在这里，在斯普林菲尔德，在东西南北交汇之地，我重新感受到了美国人民本质的善良——在这里我开始相信，通过这份善良，我们能够建设一个更有希望的美国。正因如此，在旧州议会大厦的影子里，在林肯曾呼吁分裂之家团结一致的地方，在共同希望与共同梦想依然生生不息之处，我今天站在你们面前，宣布竞选美利坚合众国总统。
Now, listen, I thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 现在，听着，我感谢你们，谢谢，谢谢，谢谢，谢谢。
Look, I recognize that there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. 看，我认识到这件事带有某种自以为是，某种胆大妄为。我知道我没有花很多时间去学习华盛顿的那一套。但我在那里待的时间已经足够让我明白，华盛顿的那一套必须改变。
The genius of our Founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we've changed this country before. In the face of tyranny, a band of patriots brought an empire to its knees. In the face of secession, we unified a nation and set the captives free. In the face of Depression, we put people back to work and lifted millions out of poverty. 我们的建国先贤的天才之处在于，他们设计了一套可以改变的政府体制。我们应该振作起来，因为我们曾经改变过这个国家。面对暴政，一群爱国者让一个帝国屈膝。面对分裂，我们统一了国家，解放了被奴役的人。面对大萧条，我们让人民重新就业，使数百万人摆脱贫困。
We welcomed immigrants to our shores. We opened railroads to the west. We landed a man on the moon. And we heard a King's call to let "justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." 我们欢迎移民来到我们的海岸。我们铺设铁路通往西部。我们把人送上月球。我们响应了一位国王的呼唤，让"公义如大水滚滚，正直如江河滔滔"。
We've done this before: Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith -- that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. 我们曾经做到过：每一次，都有新一代崛起，完成需要完成的事。今天我们再次被召唤，是我们这一代回应这一召唤的时候了。因为这是我们坚定的信念——面对不可能的困难，热爱自己国家的人民能够改变它。
That's what Abraham Lincoln understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his skeptics. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It's because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we're no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It's because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people -- as Americans. 这正是亚伯拉罕·林肯所理解的。他曾有过疑虑。他曾有过挫败。他曾面对质疑者。他曾遭遇挫折。但凭借他的意志和言辞，他感动了一个国家，帮助解放了一个民族。正是因为数百万人响应他的事业，我们不再南北分裂、不再有奴隶与自由人之分。正是因为各行各业的男男女女，在林肯长眠之后仍继续为自由游行，今天我们才有机会作为一个民族——作为美国人——共同面对这个千禧年的挑战。
All of us know what those challenges are today: a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren't learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they can. We know the challenges. We've heard them. We've talked about them for years. 我们所有人都知道今天的挑战是什么：一场没有尽头的战争，一种威胁我们未来的石油依赖，一些有太多孩子无法学习的学校，以及一些尽管拼命工作却仍要靠薪水度日的家庭。我们了解这些挑战。我们听过。我们讨论了多年。
What's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics, the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle the big problems of America. 阻止我们应对这些挑战的，不是缺乏合理的政策和明智的计划。阻止我们的是领导的失败，是政治的狭隘，是我们轻易被琐碎小事分散注意力，是我们长期回避艰难决策，是我们偏好博取廉价的政治分数，而不是卷起袖子建立工作共识来解决美国的重大问题。
For the past six years we've been told that our mounting debts don't matter. We've been told that the anxiety Americans feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion. We've been told that climate change is a hoax. We've been told that tough talk and an ill-conceived war can replace diplomacy, and strategy, and foresight. And when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault. We're distracted from our real failures, and told to blame the other Party, or gay people, or immigrants. 过去六年里，我们被告知不断攀升的债务无关紧要。我们被告知美国人对飞涨的医疗费用和停滞的工资感到焦虑只是错觉。我们被告知气候变化是个骗局。我们被告知强硬的言辞和一场草率的战争可以取代外交、策略和远见。而当一切都失败时，当卡特里娜飓风发生，或伊拉克死亡人数攀升时，我们被告知我们的危机是别人的错。我们从真正的失败中被转移注意力，被教导去指责另一个政党，或同性恋者，或移民。
And as people have looked away in disillusionment and frustration, we know what's filled the void: the cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests -- who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play. They write the checks and you get stuck with the bill. They get the access while you get to write a letter. They think they own this government, but we're here today to take it back. The time for that kind of politics is over. It is through. It's time to turn the page right here and right now. 当人们在幻灭与沮丧中移开视线，我们知道什么填补了这一空白：愤世嫉俗者、说客、特殊利益集团——他们把我们的政府变成了一场只有他们玩得起的游戏。他们开支票，而你来埋单。他们获得接近权力的机会，而你只能写封信。他们以为这个政府是他们的，但我们今天来到这里就是要把它夺回来。那种政治的时代已经结束。它已经过去了。是时候在这里、在此时此刻翻开新的一页。
Now look -- Okay. Alright. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Look, look, we have made some progress already. I was proud to help lead the fight in Congress that led to the most sweeping ethics reforms since Watergate. But Washington has a long way to go, and it won't be easy. That's why we'll have to set priorities. We'll have to make hard choices. And although government will play a crucial role in bringing about the changes that we need, more money and programs alone will not get us to where we need to go. 现在听着——好的。好的。谢谢。谢谢。谢谢。看，看，我们已经取得了一些进展。我很自豪能领导国会中的斗争，促成了水门事件以来最全面的道德改革。但华盛顿还有很长的路要走，这不会容易。正因如此，我们必须设定优先事项。我们必须做出艰难的抉择。尽管政府将在带来我们所需的变革中发挥关键作用，但单靠更多的钱和项目无法把我们带到需要去的地方。
Each of us, in our own lives, will have to accept responsibility -- for instilling an ethic of achievement in our children, for adapting to a more competitive economy, for strengthening our communities, and sharing some measure of sacrifice. 我们每个人，在自己的生活中，都必须承担责任——在孩子们心中灌输进取的道德观，适应更具竞争力的经济，加强我们的社区，并分担某种程度的牺牲。
So let us begin. Let us begin this hard work together. Let us transform this nation. Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed. Let's recruit a new army of teachers, and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability. Let's make college more affordable, and let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America. We can do that. 所以让我们开始吧。让我们一起开始这项艰苦的工作。让我们改造这个国家。让我们成为重塑经济以在数字时代竞争的一代。让我们为学校设定高标准，并给予它们成功所需的资源。让我们招募一支新的教师大军，给予他们更高的薪酬和更多支持，以换取更多的问责。让大学更负担得起，让我们投资科学研究，让我们在全美内陆城市和乡村小镇的中心铺设宽带线路。我们能做到。
And as our economy changes, let's be the generation that ensures our nation's workers are sharing in our prosperity. Let's protect the hard-earned benefits their companies have promised. Let's make it possible for hardworking Americans to save for retirement. Let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle-class again. We can do that. 随着经济的转变，让我们成为确保我国工人共享繁荣的一代。让我们保护他们的公司所承诺的来之不易的福利。让辛勤工作的美国人能够为退休储蓄。让我们的工会及其组织者再次托起这个国家的中产阶级。我们能做到。
Let's be the generation that ends poverty in America. Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford child care so their kids can have a safe place to go when they work. We can do this. 让我们成为终结美国贫困的一代。每一个愿意工作的人都应该能够获得通往就业的职业培训，赚取能支付账单的生活工资，并负担得起儿童看护，以便他们上班时孩子有安全的地方可去。我们能做到。
And let's be the generation that finally, after all these years, tackles our health care crisis. We can control costs by focusing on prevention, by providing better treatment to the chronically ill, and using technology to cut the bureaucracy. Let's be the generation that says right here, right now: We will have universal health care in America by the end of the next President's first term. We can do that. 让我们成为终于解决这场医疗危机的一代。我们可以通过专注于预防、为慢性病患者提供更好的治疗、利用技术削减官僚主义来控制成本。让我们成为在这里、在此时此刻宣告的一代：在下一任总统的第一任期结束时，美国将实现全民医疗。我们能做到。
Let's be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil. We can harness homegrown, alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel-efficient cars. We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases. We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation, and job creation, and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world. Let's be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here. 让我们成为终于使美国摆脱石油暴政的一代。我们可以利用乙醇等本土替代燃料，推动生产更多节能汽车。我们可以建立温室气体总量控制体系。我们可以把这场全球变暖的危机转化为创新、就业创造的机遇，以及激励企业成为世界榜样的动力。让我们成为让后代为我们在此所做之事感到自豪的一代。
Most of all, let's be the generation that never forgets what happened on that September day and confront the terrorists with everything we've got. Politics doesn't have to divide us on this anymore; we can work together to keep our country safe. I've worked with the Republican Senator Dick Lugar to pass a law that will secure and destroy some of the world's deadliest weapons. We can work together to track down terrorists with a stronger military. We can tighten the net around their finances. We can improve our intelligence capabilities and finally get homeland security right. 最重要的是，让我们成为永远不忘那个九月之日所发生之事的一代，并倾尽一切对抗恐怖分子。政治不必再因此分裂我们；我们可以共同努力保障国家安全。我曾与共和党参议员迪克·卢格合作通过一项法律，将确保销毁世界上一些最致命的武器。我们可以合作，用更强大的军队追踪恐怖分子。我们可以收紧围绕他们财务的网。我们可以改进情报能力，最终把国土安全做好。
But let's also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will only come by rebuilding our alliances and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions of people around the globe. 但我们也要明白，只有重建我们的联盟，并向全球数百万人传递带来希望与机会的那些理想，才能取得对敌人的最终胜利。
We can do those things. 我们能做到这些事情。
But all of this cannot come to pass until we bring an end to this war in Iraq. Most of you know that I opposed this war from the start. I thought it was a tragic mistake. Today we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken, and the young lives that could have been. America, it is time to start bringing our troops home. It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war. 但除非我们结束伊拉克战争，否则这一切都无法实现。你们大多数人知道，我从一开始就反对这场战争。我认为这是一个悲剧性的错误。今天我们为失去亲人的家庭、为破碎的心、为那些本可能延续的年轻生命而哀痛。美国，是时候开始让我们的军队回家了。是时候承认，再多的美国生命也无法解决别人内战核心的政治分歧。
That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008. Letting the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last, best hope to pressure the Sunni and Shia to come to the table and find peace. 正因如此，我有一个计划，将在2008年3月前让我们的作战部队回家。让伊拉克人知道我们不会永远在那里，是我们向逊尼派和什叶派施压、促使他们坐到谈判桌前寻找和平的最后、也是最好的希望。
And there's one other thing that it's not too late to get right about this war, and that is the homecoming of the men and women, our veterans, who have sacrificed the most. Let us honor their courage by providing the care they need and rebuilding the military they love. Let us be the generation that begins that work. 关于这场战争，还有一件事现在纠正还为时不晚，那就是那些牺牲最多的男女军人——我们的退伍军人——的归国安置。让我们通过提供他们所需的照料、重建他们所热爱的军队来致敬他们的勇气。让我们成为开启这项工作的一代。
I know there are those who don't believe we can do all these things. I understand the skepticism. After all, every four years, candidates from both Parties make similar promises, and I expect this year will be no different. All of us running for President will travel around the country offering ten-point plans and making grand speeches; all of us will trumpet those qualities we believe make us uniquely qualified to lead this country. 我知道有人不相信我们能做成这些事。我理解这种怀疑。毕竟，每四年，两党的候选人都会做出类似的承诺，我预计今年也不会例外。我们所有竞选总统的人都将走遍全国，提出十点计划，发表宏大的演讲；我们所有人都会宣扬那些我们相信使自己独具资格领导这个国家的品质。
But too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and special interests move in, and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own. 但太多时候，选举结束、彩纸扫净之后，所有那些承诺都从记忆中消退，说客和特殊利益集团趁机而入，人们再次失望地转过身去，只能独自挣扎。
That's why this campaign can't only be about me. It must be about us. It must be about what we can do together. This campaign must be the occasion, the vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams. It will take your time, your energy, and your advice to push us forward when we're doing right, and let us know when we're not. This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change. 正因如此，这场竞选不能只关乎我。它必须关乎我们。它必须关乎我们能一起做什么。这场竞选必须成为你们希望与梦想的契机和载体。它需要你们的时间、精力和建议——当我们做对时推动我们前行，当我们做错时让我们知晓。这场竞选必须关乎重拾公民身份的意义，恢复我们共同目标的意识，并认识到几乎没有什么障碍能够抵挡千百万呼唤变革的声音的力量。
By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail. But the life of a tall, gangly, self-made Springfield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible. 靠我们自己，这场变革不会发生。分裂，我们注定失败。但一位高瘦、自学成才的斯普林菲尔德律师的一生告诉我们，一个不同的未来是可能的。
He tells us that there is power in words. 他告诉我们，言语中有力量。
He tells us that there's power in conviction. 他告诉我们，信念中有力量。
That beneath all the differences of race and region, faith and station, we are one people. 在种族与地域、信仰与身份的所有差异之下，我们是一个民族。
He tells us that there's power in hope. 他告诉我们，希望中有力量。
As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say this: "Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought to battle through." 当林肯组织起对抗奴隶制的力量时，人们听到他这样说："我们从四方八面聚集起奇异、不谐、甚至敌对的元素，结成阵线，奋战到底。"
That is our purpose here today. That is why I am in this race -- not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation. I want to win that next battle -- for justice and opportunity. I want to win that next battle -- for better schools, and better jobs, and better health care for all. I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union, and building a better America. 这就是我们今天的目的。这就是我参加这场竞选的原因——不只是为了担任一个职位，而是为了与你们一起改造一个国家。我想赢得下一场战斗——为了正义与机会。我想赢得下一场战斗——为了更好的学校、更好的工作、更好的全民医疗。我希望我们承担起完善联邦的未竟事业，建设一个更美好的美国。
And if you will join with me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, the future of endless possibility stretching out before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fears, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I am ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you -- today. 如果你们愿意与我一同步上这条不寻常的征途，如果你们感受到命运的召唤，并如我一般看到无限可能的未来在眼前展开；如果你们如我一般感觉到，是时候从沉睡中醒来，摆脱恐惧，偿还我们对过去和未来世代所欠的债务，那么我已准备好承担这一事业，与你们一同前进，与你们一同工作——就在今天。
Together we can finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth. 携手并肩，我们能够完成必须完成的工作，在这片土地上迎来自由的新生。
Thank you very much everybody -- let's get to work! I love you. Thank you. 非常感谢大家——让我们开始工作吧！我爱你们。谢谢。