To Mona and Marjorie, and to Senator Byrd's entire family, including those adorable great granddaughters that I had a chance to meet -- Michelle and I offer you our deepest sympathies. 致莫娜和玛乔丽，以及伯德参议员的全体家人——包括我有幸见到的那些可爱的曾孙女——米歇尔和我向你们致以最深切的哀悼。
To Senator Byrd's friends, including the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, the Republican Leader, President Clinton, Vice President Biden, Vicki Kennedy, Nick Rahall and all the previous speakers; Senator Rockefeller for the outstanding work that you've done for the state of West Virginia; to his larger family -- the people of West Virginia -- I want you all to know that all America shares your loss. 致伯德参议员的朋友们，包括众议院议长、多数党领袖、共和党领袖、克林顿总统、拜登副总统、维基·肯尼迪、尼克·拉霍尔以及所有先前发言的来宾；感谢洛克菲勒参议员为西弗吉尼亚州所做的杰出工作；致他更大的家人——西弗吉尼亚人民——我想让你们所有人都知道，整个美国与你们同悲。
May we all find comfort in a verse of Scripture that reminds me of our dear friend: "The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 愿我们都能从一节经文中找到安慰，这节经文让我想起我们亲爱的朋友："那美好的仗我已经打过了，当跑的路我已经跑尽了，所信的道我已经守住了。"
It's interesting that you've heard that passage from several speakers now, because it embodies somebody who knew how to run a good and long race, and somebody who knew how to keep the faith -- with his state, with his family, with his country and his Constitution. 有意思的是，现在你们已经从好几位发言者口中听到这段经文，因为它所描绘的，正是一位懂得如何跑完美好而漫长赛程的人，一位懂得如何坚守信仰的人——对他的州、他的家人、他的国家以及他的宪法始终如一。
Years from now, when I think of the man we memorialize today, I'll remember him as he was when I came to know him, his white hair full like a mane, his gait steadied with a cane. 多年以后，当我回忆起我们今天所纪念的这个人时，我会记得我刚认识他时的样子：白发如鬃毛般浓密，步履靠手杖稳住。
Determined to make the most of every last breath, the distinguished gentleman from West Virginia could be found at his desk until the very end, doing the people's business, delivering soul-stirring speeches, a hint of the Appalachians in his voice, stabbing the air with his finger, fiery as ever, years into his 10th decade. 这位来自西弗吉尼亚的杰出绅士决心善用每一口呼吸，直到生命最后时刻，人们仍能在他的办公桌前找到他，处理着人民的事务，发表着震撼心灵的演讲，声音中带着阿巴拉契亚的韵味，手指刺向空中，年过九旬依然激情如初。
He was a Senate icon. He was a Party leader. He was an elder statesman. And he was my friend. That's how I'll remember him. 他是参议院的象征。他是党派领袖。他是政界元老。他是我的朋友。这就是我将铭记他的方式。
Today we remember the path he climbed to such extraordinary peaks. Born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. -- Corny, he joked, for short -- his mother lost her life in the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. From the aunt and uncle who raised him, amid West Virginia's coal camps, he gained not only his Byrd name but a reverence for God Almighty, a love of learning that was nurtured at Mark Twain School. And there he met Erma, his sweetheart for over 70 years, by whose side he will now rest for eternity. 今天我们回顾他攀登至如此非凡高峰所走过的道路。他出生时原名小科尼利厄斯·卡尔文·塞尔——他打趣说自己简称"科尼"——他的母亲在1918年大流感中丧生。从抚养他长大的舅父母那里，在西弗吉尼亚的煤矿营地间，他不仅得到了伯德这个姓氏，更树立了对全能上帝的敬畏，以及在马克·吐温学校培育出的对学习的热爱。在那里他遇见了埃尔玛，他七十多年的爱人，如今他将在她身边长眠至永远。
Unable to afford college, he did what he could to get by, finding work as a gas station attendant, a produce salesman, a meat-cutter, and a welder in the shipyards of Baltimore and Tampa during World War II. Returning home to West Virginia after the war, he ran for the state House of Delegates, using his fiddle case as a briefcase, the better to stand out on the stump. 因无力负担大学学费，他尽力谋生，做过加油站服务员、农产品推销员、屠夫，二战期间还在巴尔的摩和坦帕的造船厂当过焊工。战后回到西弗吉尼亚，他竞选州众议院议员，把小提琴盒当作公文包用，好在竞选台上更加引人注目。
Before long, he ran for Congress, serving in the House before jumping over to the Senate, where he was elected nine times, held almost every leadership role imaginable, and proved as capable of swaying others as standing alone, marking a row of milestones along the way. Longest-serving member of Congress. Nearly 19,000 votes cast. Not a single loss at the polls -- a record that speaks to the bond that he had with you, the people of his state. 不久之后，他竞选国会议员，先在众议院任职，后转入参议院，九次当选，担任过几乎所有能想象的领导职务，既能说服他人，也能独当一面，沿途留下了一连串里程碑。任职时间最长的国会议员。投出近一万九千次票。在选举中从未失利——这一纪录印证了他与你们、与他州人民之间的纽带。
Transplanted to Washington, his heart remained here, in West Virginia, in the place that shaped him, with the people he loved. His heart belonged to you. Making life better here was his only agenda. Giving you hope, he said, was his greatest achievement. Hope in the form of new jobs and industries. Hope in the form of black lung benefits and union protections. Hope through roads and research centers, schools and scholarships, health clinics and industrial parks that bear his name. 虽迁居华盛顿，他的心却始终留在这里，留在西弗吉尼亚，留在塑造他的这片土地，留在他所热爱的人民中间。他的心属于你们。让这里的生活更美好是他唯一的追求。他说，给你们带来希望，是他最大的成就。希望以新的工作和产业的形式呈现。希望以黑肺病津贴和工会保护的形式呈现。希望通过那些以他命名的高速公路和研究中心、学校和奖学金、医疗诊所和工业园区呈现。
His early rival and late friend, Ted Kennedy, used to joke about campaigning in West Virginia. When his bus broke down, Ted got hold of the highway patrol, who asked where he was. And he said, "I'm on Robert Byrd highway." And the dispatcher said, "Which one?" 他早年的对手、后来的朋友特德·肯尼迪曾讲过在西弗吉尼亚竞选的趣事。当他的巴士抛锚时，特德联系了公路巡警，对方问他身在何处。他说："我在罗伯特·伯德公路上。"调度员问："哪一条？"
It's a life that immeasurably improved the lives of West Virginians. Of course, Robert Byrd was a deeply religious man, a Christian. And so he understood that our lives are marked by sins as well as virtues, failures as well as success, weakness as well as strength. We know there are things he said -- and things he did -- that he came to regret. I remember talking about that the first time I visited with him. He said, "There are things I regretted in my youth. You may know that." And I said, "None of us are absent some regrets, Senator. That's why we enjoy and seek the grace of God." 这是一段极大地改善了西弗吉尼亚人生活的传奇。当然，罗伯特·伯德是一位笃信宗教的人，一位基督徒。因此他明白，我们的生命既有美德也有罪过，既有成功也有失败，既有坚强也有软弱。我们知道，他说过的一些话、做过的一些事，后来令他深感遗憾。我记得第一次拜访他时曾谈起这个话题。他说："我年轻时有些事一直令我后悔。你们可能知道。"我说："参议员，没有人是没有遗憾的。正因如此，我们才享受并寻求上帝的恩典。"
And as I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent towards justice. Like the Constitution he tucked in his pocket, like our nation itself, Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen, a capacity to be made more perfect. 当我回顾他九十二年波澜壮阔的一生，在我看来，他的生命是趋向正义的。正如他揣在口袋里的宪法，正如我们的国家本身，罗伯特·伯德拥有那种典型的美国品质，那就是改变的能力、学习的能力、倾听的能力、变得更加完善的能力。
Over his nearly six decades in our Capitol, he came to be seen as the very embodiment of the Senate, chronicling its history in four volumes that he gave to me just as he gave to President Clinton. I, too, read it. I was scared he was going to quiz me. 在国会山近六十年的岁月里，他逐渐被视为参议院本身的化身，他撰写了四卷本的参议院史，就像送给克林顿总统一样，他也送给了我一套。我也读了。我还担心他会考我呢。
But as I soon discovered, his passion for the Senate's past, his mastery of even its most arcane procedures, it wasn't an obsession with the trivial or the obscure. It reflected a profoundly noble impulse, a recognition of a basic truth about this country that we are not a nation of men, we are a nation of laws. Our way of life rests on our democratic institutions. Precisely because we are fallible, it falls to each of us to safeguard these institutions, even when it's inconvenient, and pass on our republic more perfect than before. 但正如我很快发现的，他对参议院历史的热情，对甚至最冷僻程序的精通，并非对琐碎或冷门事物的痴迷。它反映了一种极其崇高的冲动，一种对这个国家基本真理的认知——我们不是人治的国家，我们是法治的国家。我们的生活方式建立在我们民主制度之上。正因我们会犯错，所以每个人都有责任去守护这些制度，即使在不便之时也是如此，并将比以往更完善的共和国传承下去。
Considering the vast learning of this self-taught Senator -- his speeches sprinkled with the likes of Cicero and Shakespeare and Jefferson -- it seems fitting to close with one of his favorite passages in literature, a passage from Moby Dick: 考虑到这位自学成才的参议员学识之渊博——他的演讲中点缀着西塞罗、莎士比亚和杰斐逊的引文——似乎应当用他最钟爱的一段文学作品来收尾，那是出自《白鲸》的一段话：
"And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than any other bird upon the plain, even though they soar." "有些灵魂中有一只卡茨基尔山鹰，它既能俯冲入最幽深的峡谷，也能从中腾飞而出，隐没于阳光灿烂的空域。即使它永远在峡谷中飞翔，那峡谷也是在群山之中；因此即便在它最低的俯冲中，山鹰仍然高于平原上任何其他飞鸟，纵然它们也在高飞。"
Robert Byrd was a mountain eagle, and his lowest swoop was still higher than the other birds upon the plain. 罗伯特·伯德就是一只山鹰，他最低的俯冲也仍然高于平原上的其他飞鸟。
May God bless Robert C. Byrd. May he be welcomed kindly by the righteous Judge. And may his spirit soar forever like a Catskill eagle, high above the Heavens. 愿上帝保佑罗伯特·C·伯德。愿公义的审判者仁慈地接纳他。愿他的灵魂如卡茨基尔山鹰般永远翱翔，高飞于诸天之上。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢大家。