Unto them I will give my house and within my walls a memorial and a name -- an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. 我要在我的殿中、在我的墙内赐给他们纪念和名号——一个永不泯灭的名号。
President Peres, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Chairman Shalev, Rabbi Lau -- thank you for sharing this house, this memorial, with me today. And thank you to the people of Israel for preserving the names of the millions taken from us, of blessed memory -- names that shall never be forgotten. 佩雷斯总统、内塔尼亚胡总理、沙莱夫主席、劳拉比——感谢你们今天与我一同来到这座殿堂、这座纪念馆。也感谢以色列人民保存那些离我们而去的数百万人的姓名；愿他们的记忆蒙福——这些姓名永远不会被遗忘。
This is my second visit to this living memorial. Since then, I’ve walked among the barbed wire and guard towers of Buchenwald. Rabbi Lau told me of his time there, and we reminisced about our good friend, Elie Wiesel, and the memories that he shared with me. I have stood in the old Warsaw ghetto, with survivors who would not go quietly. But nothing equals the wrenching power of this sacred place, where the totality of the Shoah is told. We could come here a thousand times, and each time our hearts would break. 这是我第二次来到这座鲜活的纪念馆。此后，我曾走过布痕瓦尔德集中营的铁丝网和岗楼之间。劳拉比向我讲述了他在那里度过的岁月，我们也一同追忆共同的挚友埃利·维瑟尔，以及他曾与我分享的记忆。我曾与那些不肯默默屈服的幸存者一起，站在昔日的华沙犹太区。然而，没有什么能比得上这片神圣之地撕裂人心的力量；这里讲述了犹太人大屠杀的全部惨痛。即使我们来上一千次，每一次也都会心碎。
For here we see the depravity to which man can sink; the barbarism that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and of life. We see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing, and how silence abetted a crime unique in human history. 因为在这里，我们看见人能堕落到何等境地；当我们开始把同胞视为低人一等，认为他们不配拥有尊严和生命时，野蛮便会蔓延。我们看到，当善良的人无所作为，邪恶如何一度得逞；也看到沉默如何助长了人类历史上绝无仅有的罪行。
Here we see their faces and we hear their voices. We look upon the objects of their lives -- the art that they created, the prayer books that they carried. We see that even as they had hate etched into their arms, they were not numbers. They were men and women and children -- so many children -- sent to their deaths because of who they were, how they prayed, or who they loved. 在这里，我们看见他们的面容，听见他们的声音。我们凝视他们生活中的物件——他们创作的艺术品、他们随身携带的祈祷书。即便仇恨被刻在他们的手臂上，他们也绝不是一串数字。他们是男人、女人和孩子——那么多的孩子——只因他们的身份、祈祷的方式或所爱之人，便被送去死亡。
And yet, here, alongside man’s capacity for evil, we also are reminded of man’s capacity for good -- the rescuers, the Righteous Among the Nations who refused to be bystanders. And in their noble acts of courage, we see how this place, this accounting of horror, is, in the end, a source of hope. 然而，在这里，伴随着人作恶的能力，我们也想起了人行善的能力——那些拒绝袖手旁观的营救者和“国际义人”。从他们高尚而勇敢的行动中，我们看到，这个清点恐怖罪行的地方，归根结底也是希望的源泉。
For here we learn that we are never powerless. In our lives we always have choices. To succumb to our worst instincts or to summon the better angels of our nature. To be indifferent to suffering to wherever it may be, whoever it may be visited upon, or to display the empathy that is at the core of our humanity. We have the choice to acquiesce to evil or make real our solemn vow -- "Never Again." 因为在这里，我们懂得自己从来并非无能为力。人生中，我们始终可以选择：是向最恶劣的本能屈服，还是唤起人性中更善良的天使；是漠视苦难，无论它发生在哪里、降临到谁的身上，还是展现出位于人性核心的同理心。我们可以选择向邪恶低头，也可以践行那句庄严誓言——“永不重演”。
We have the choice to ignore what happens to others, or to act on behalf of others and to continually examine in ourselves whatever dark places there may be that might lead to such actions or inactions. This is our obligation -- not simply to bear witness, but to act. 我们可以选择无视他人的遭遇，也可以为他人挺身而出，并不断审视自己内心可能导致这类作为或不作为的幽暗角落。这是我们的责任——不只是见证，更要行动。
For us, in our time, this means confronting bigotry and hatred in all of its forms, racism, especially anti-Semitism. None of that has a place in the civilized world -- not in the classrooms of children; not in the corridors of power. And let us never forget the link between the two. For our sons and daughters are not born to hate, they are taught to hate. So let us fill their young hearts with the same understanding and compassion that we hope others have for them. 对我们这个时代的人而言，这意味着直面一切形式的偏见与仇恨，直面种族主义，尤其是反犹主义。文明世界绝无这些事物的容身之地——无论是在孩子们的课堂，还是在权力的走廊。我们永远不要忘记二者之间的联系。我们的儿女并非生来就懂得仇恨，而是后来被教会仇恨。因此，让我们用自己也希望别人给予他们的理解与同情，充实他们年轻的心灵。
Here we hope. Because after you walk through these halls, after you pass through the darkness, there is light -- a glorious view of the Jerusalem Forest, with the sun shining over the historic homeland of the Jewish people; a fulfillment of the prophecy: "you shall live again upon your own soil." Here, on your ancient land, let it be said for all the world to hear: The State of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust. But with the survival of a strong Jewish State of Israel, such a Holocaust will never happen again. 在这里，我们心怀希望。因为走过这些展厅、穿过黑暗之后，前方就是光明——耶路撒冷森林的壮丽景色展现在眼前，阳光照耀着犹太人民历史悠久的故土；这正应验了那句预言：“你们将在自己的土地上重新生活。”在这片古老的土地上，让全世界都听到：以色列国并非因为大屠杀而存在；但只要一个强大的犹太国家以色列生存下去，这样的大屠杀就永远不会再次发生。
Here we pray that we all can be better; that we can all grow, like the sapling near the Children’s Memorial -- a sapling from a chestnut tree that Anne Frank could see from her window. The last time she described it in her diary, she wrote: "Our chestnut tree is in full bloom. It’s covered with leaves and is even more beautiful than last year." That’s a reminder of who we can be. But we have to work for it. We have to work for it here in Israel. We have to work for it in America. We have to work for it around the world -- to tend the light and the brightness as opposed to our worst instincts. 在这里，我们祈愿所有人都能变得更好，都能成长，就像儿童纪念馆附近的那株树苗——它来自安妮·弗兰克从窗前可以望见的一棵栗树。她最后一次在日记中写到那棵树时这样说：“我们的栗树正繁花盛开。它枝叶繁茂，甚至比去年更加美丽。”这提醒我们自己能够成为怎样的人。但我们必须为此努力。我们要在以色列为此努力，要在美国为此努力，也要在世界各地为此努力——守护光明与希望，抵制我们最恶劣的本能。
So may God bless the memory of the millions. May their souls be bound up in the bond of eternal life. And may each spring bring a full bloom even more beautiful than the last. 愿上帝赐福于那数百万人的记忆。愿他们的灵魂永结于永恒的生命。愿每一个春天都带来比上一个春天更加绚烂的繁花。
