Senator Dirksen, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Vice president, President Johnson, Vice president Humphrey, my fellow Americans-and my fellow citizens of the world community: 德克森参议员，首席大法官先生，副总统先生，约翰逊总统，汉弗莱副总统，各位美国同胞——以及世界大家庭的各位公民：
I ask you to share with me today the majesty of this moment. In the orderly transfer of power, we celebrate the unity that keeps us free. 我请你们今天与我一同分享这一庄严时刻的崇高意义。在有序的权力交接中，我们庆祝使我们保持自由的团结。
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.This can be such a moment. 历史上的每一刻都是短暂的时间，珍贵而独特。但有些时刻作为开端而格外突出，在这些时刻，决定未来数十年乃至数百年进程的方向被确立。今天就可能是这样的时刻。
Forces now are converging that make possible, for the first time, the hope that many of man's deepest aspirations can at last be realized. The spiraling pace of change allows us to contemplate, within our own lifetime, advances that once would have taken centuries. 各种力量正在汇聚，使人类许多最深刻的愿望最终得以实现的希望首次成为可能。飞速发展的变革步伐使我们能够在有生之年见证曾经需要数百年才能取得的进步。
In throwing wide the horizons of space, we have discovered new horizons on earth. 在拓展太空地平线的同时，我们在地球上发现了新的地平线。
For the first time, because the people of the world want peace, and the leaders of the world are afraid of war, the times are on the side of peace. 因为世界人民渴望和平，世界各国领导人害怕战争，所以时代首次站在了和平一边。
Eight years from now America will celebrate its 200th anniversary as a nation. Within the lifetime of most people now living, mankind will celebrate that great new year which comes only once in a thousand years--the beginning of the third millennium. 八年后，美国将庆祝其建国两百周年。在当今大多数人的有生之年，人类将迎来千年一遇的伟大新年——第三个千年的开端。
What kind of a nation we will be, what kind of a world we will live in, whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices. 我们将成为什么样的国家，我们将生活在什么样的世界，我们能否按照我们的希望塑造未来，这都取决于我们的行动和选择。
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America--the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization. 历史所能赐予的最高荣誉是「和平缔造者」的称号。这一荣誉现在正召唤着美国——这是一个帮助带领世界最终走出动乱之谷、踏上人类自文明之初就梦想的和平高地的机会。
If we succeed, generations to come will say of us now living that we mastered our moment, that we helped make the world safe for mankind. 如果我们成功，后世子孙将评价我们这一代人：我们掌握了我们的时代，我们帮助使世界对人类安全。
This is our summons to greatness. 这是伟大对我们的召唤。
I believe the American people are ready to answer this call. 我相信美国人民已准备好响应这一召唤。
The second third of this century has been a time of proud achievement. We have made enormous strides in science and industry and agriculture. We have shared our wealth more broadly than ever. We have learned at last to manage a modern economy to assure its continued growth. 本世纪的第二个三十年是一个成就辉煌的时代。我们在科学、工业和农业领域取得了巨大进步。我们比以往任何时候都更广泛地分享我们的财富。我们终于学会了管理现代经济，确保其持续增长。
We have given freedom new reach. We have begun to make its promise real for black as well as for white. 我们赋予了自由新的广度。我们开始使自由的承诺对黑人和白人同样成为现实。
We see the hope of tomorrow in the youth of today. I know America's youth. I believe in them. We can be proud that they are better educated, more committed, more passionately driven by conscience than any generation in our history. 我们在今天的青年身上看到了明天的希望。我了解美国的青年。我信任他们。我们可以自豪的是，他们比我们历史上任何一代人都受到更好的教育、更坚定的信念、更强烈的良知驱动。
No people has ever been so close to the achievement of a just and abundant society, or so possessed of the will to achieve it. And because our strengths are so great, we can afford to appraise our weaknesses with candor and to approach them with hope. 没有任何民族曾如此接近实现一个公正而富足的社会，或如此拥有实现这一目标的意志。正因为我们的力量如此强大，我们能够坦诚地评估我们的弱点，并满怀希望地加以解决。
Standing in this same place a third of a century ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a nation ravaged by depression and gripped in fear. He could say in surveying the Nation's troubles: "They concern, thank God, only material things." Our crisis today is in reverse. 三分之一世纪前，富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福站在同一个地方，向一个被大萧条蹂躏、被恐惧笼罩的国家发表演说。在审视国家的困境时，他可以说：「感谢上帝，它们只关乎物质事物。」而我们今天的危机恰恰相反。
We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but failing into raucous discord on earth. 我们发现自己物质富足，但精神贫乏；我们以惊人的精确性登上月球，却在地球上陷入刺耳的纷争。
We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them. 我们深陷战争，渴望和平。我们被分裂撕裂，渴望团结。我们看到周围是空虚的生活，渴望充实。我们看到需要完成的任务，等待有人去完成。
To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit. 面对精神危机，我们需要精神的答案。
And to find that answer, we need only look within ourselves. 而要找到这个答案，我们只需审视自己的内心。
When we listen to "the better angels of our nature," we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness. 当我们倾听「我们天性中更美好的天使」时，我们发现它们赞美简单的事物、基本的事物——如善良、体面、爱、仁慈。
Greatness comes in simple trappings. The simple things are the ones most needed today if we are to surmount what divides us, and cement what unites us. 伟大体现在质朴之中。如果我们要克服分裂我们的东西，巩固团结我们的东西，今天最需要的就是这些简单的事物。
To lower our voices would be a simple thing. 降低我们的声音将是一件简单的事。
In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. 在这些困难的岁月里，美国饱受言辞狂热之苦——那些承诺多于兑现的浮夸言辞；那些将不满煽动成仇恨的愤怒言辞；那些虚张声势而非说服人心的夸夸其谈。
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. 除非我们停止相互叫嚷，直到我们说话足够平静，使别人既能听到我们的声音，也能理解我们的话语，否则我们无法相互学习。
For its part, government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways--to the voices of quiet anguish, the voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart--to the injured voices, the anxious voices, the voices that have despaired of being heard. 就政府而言，我们将倾听。我们将努力以新的方式倾听——倾听那些无声的痛苦，倾听那些无需言语的声音，倾听心灵的声音——倾听受伤者的声音、焦虑者的声音、对被倾听感到绝望者的声音。
Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in. 那些被遗忘的人，我们将努力将他们纳入。
Those left behind, we will help to catch up. 那些落后的人，我们将帮助他们赶上。
For all of our people, we will set as our goal the decent order that makes progress possible and our lives secure. 为了我们所有人民，我们将把使进步成为可能、使我们的生活安全的良好秩序作为我们的目标。
As we reach toward our hopes, our task is to build on what has gone before--not turning away from the old, but turning toward the new. 在追求我们的希望时，我们的任务是在过去的基础上继续前进——不是背弃过去，而是迈向未来。
In this past third of a century, government has passed more laws, spent more money, initiated more programs than in all our previous history. 在过去的三分之一世纪里，政府通过的法律、花费的资金、发起的计划比我们以往所有历史时期的总和还要多。
In pursuing our goals of full employment, better housing, excellence in education; in rebuilding our cities and improving our rural areas; in protecting our environment and enhancing the quality of life--in all these and more, we will and must press urgently forward. 在追求充分就业、更好的住房、优质教育的目标；在重建我们的城市和改善我们的农村地区；在保护我们的环境和提高生活质量——在所有这些以及更多方面，我们将而且必须紧迫地向前推进。
We shall plan now for the day when our wealth can be transferred from the destruction of war abroad to the urgent needs of our people at home. 我们现在就为那一天做计划：届时我们的财富将从海外战争的破坏转移到国内人民的迫切需求。
The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep. 美国梦不会降临到那些沉睡的人身上。
But we are approaching the limits of what government alone can do. 但我们正在接近政府独自所能做的极限。
Our greatest need now is to reach beyond government, to enlist the legions of the concerned and the committed. 我们现在最大的需求是超越政府，动员成千上万关心和投入的人。
What has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at all. The lesson of past agony is that without the people we can do nothing--with the people we can do everything. 必须做的事情，必须由政府和人民共同完成，否则根本无法完成。过去痛苦的教训是：没有人民，我们什么也做不成；有了人民，我们可以做任何事情。
To match the magnitude of our tasks, we need the energies of our people--enlisted not only in grand enterprises, but more importantly in those small, splendid efforts that make headlines in the neighborhood newspaper instead of the national journal. 为了匹配我们任务的规模，我们需要人民的力量——不仅投身于宏伟的事业，更重要的是投身于那些在社区报纸而非全国性期刊上成为头条的微小而辉煌的努力。
With these, we can build a great cathedral of the spirit--each of us raising it one stone at a time, as he reaches out to his neighbor, helping, caring, doing. 凭借这些，我们可以建造一座伟大的精神大教堂——我们每个人伸出援手帮助邻居、关怀他人、付诸行动，一次砌一块石头。
I do not offer a life of uninspiring ease. I do not call for a life of grim sacrifice. I ask you to join in a high adventure--one as rich as humanity itself, and exciting as the times we live in. 我不提供平淡乏味的安逸生活。我不号召严峻的牺牲生活。我请你们参与一场伟大的冒险——一场与人类本身一样丰富、与我们生活的时代一样激动人心的冒险。
The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny. 自由的本质是我们每个人都参与塑造自己的命运。
Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole. 除非一个人投身于比自身更伟大的事业，否则他永远不会真正完整。
The way to fulfillment is in the use of our talents. We achieve nobility in the spirit that inspires that use. 实现自我的途径在于运用我们的天赋。我们在激励这种运用的精神中实现崇高。
As we measure what can be done, we shall promise only what we know we can produce; but as we chart our goals, we shall be lifted by our dreams. 在衡量我们能做什么时，我们将只承诺我们知道能够实现的事情；但在规划我们的目标时，我们将被我们的梦想所鼓舞。
No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together. 当他的邻居不自由时，没有人能完全自由。要前进，就必须共同前进。
This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience. What remains is to give life to what is in the law: to insure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before man. 这意味着黑人和白人共同前进，作为一个国家，而非两个。法律已经跟上了我们的良知。剩下的是赋予法律以生命：最终确保正如所有人在上帝面前生来尊严平等一样，所有人在人面前也生来尊严平等。
As we learn to go forward together at home, let us also seek to go forward together with all mankind. 当我们学会在国内共同前进时，让我们也寻求与全人类共同前进。
Let us take as our goal: Where peace is unknown, make it welcome; where Peace is fragile, make it strong; where peace is temporary, make it permanent. 让我们将此作为我们的目标：在和平未知的地方，欢迎和平；在和平脆弱的地方，巩固和平；在和平短暂的地方，使和平永久。
After a period of confrontation, we are entering an era of negotiation. 经过一段对抗时期，我们正在进入一个谈判的时代。
Let all nations know that during this administration our lines of communication will be open. 让所有国家知道，在本届政府期间，我们的沟通渠道将保持开放。
We seek an open world--open to ideas, open to the exchange of goods and people--a world in which no people, great or small, will live in angry isolation. 我们寻求一个开放的世界——对思想开放，对商品和人员交流开放——一个无论大国小国都不会生活在愤怒孤立之中的世界。
We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy. 我们不能指望让每个人都成为我们的朋友，但我们可以努力不让任何人成为我们的敌人。
Those who would be our adversaries, we invite to a peaceful competition--not in conquering territory or extending dominion, but in enriching the life of man. 那些可能成为我们对手的人，我们邀请他们进行和平竞争——不是在征服领土或扩张统治方面，而是在丰富人类生活方面。
As we explore the reaches of space, let us go to the new worlds together--not as new worlds to be conquered, but as a new adventure to be shared. 当我们探索太空的遥远疆域时，让我们共同前往新世界——不是作为有待征服的新世界，而是作为有待共享的新冒险。
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry. 与那些愿意加入的人一起，让我们合作减少军备负担，加强和平结构，帮助穷人和饥民。
But to all those who would be tempted by weakness, let us leave no doubt that we will be as strong as we need to be for as long as we need to be. 但对所有那些可能被软弱诱惑的人，让我们毫不怀疑：我们将在需要的时候变得足够强大。
Over the past 20 years, since I first came to this Capital as a freshman Congressman, I have visited most of the nations of the world. I have come to know the leaders of the world and the great forces, the hatreds, the fears that divide the world. 过去二十年来，自从我作为新当选的众议员首次来到这个首都以来，我访问了世界上大多数国家。我了解了世界各国的领导人以及分裂世界的伟大力量、仇恨和恐惧。
I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.I also know the people of the world. 我知道和平不是通过愿望就能实现的——耐心和长期的外交没有替代品。我也了解世界人民。
I have seen the hunger of a homeless child, the pain of a man wounded in battle, the grief of a mother who has lost her son. I know these have no ideology, no race. 我见过无家可归儿童的饥饿，见过战场上受伤男子的痛苦，见过失去儿子母亲的悲痛。我知道这些没有意识形态，没有种族。
I know America. I know the heart of America is good. 我了解美国。我知道美国的心是善良的。
I speak from my own heart, and the heart of my country, the deep concern we have for those who suffer and those who sorrow. 我发自内心、发自我的祖国的心，表达我们对那些受苦和悲伤者的深切关怀。
I have taken an oath today in the presence of God and my countrymen to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. To that oath I now add this sacred commitment: I shall consecrate my Office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations. 今天，我在上帝和同胞面前宣誓维护和捍卫美利坚合众国宪法。在这一誓言之上，我现在添加这一神圣承诺：我将奉献我的职位、我的精力和我所能召唤的全部智慧，致力于各国之间的和平事业。
Let this message be heard by strong and weak alike: 让这一信息被强者和弱者都听到：
The peace we seek--the peace we seek to win--is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings"; with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this earth to choose their own destiny. 我们寻求的和平——我们寻求赢得的和平——不是战胜任何其他民族的胜利，而是「带着医治翅膀」的和平；是对那些受苦者的同情；是对那些反对我们者的理解；是地球上所有人民选择自己命运的机会。
Only a few short weeks ago we shared the glory of man's first sight of the world as God sees it, as a single sphere reflecting light in the darkness. 就在短短几周前，我们共同见证了人类第一次以上帝所见的视角看到世界——一个在黑暗中反射光芒的单一球体。
As the Apollo astronauts flew over the moon's gray surface on Christmas Eve, they spoke to us of the beauty of earth-and in that voice so clear across the lunar distance, we heard them invoke God's blessing on its goodness. 当阿波罗宇航员在圣诞前夜飞越月球灰色的表面时，他们向我们讲述了地球的美丽——在跨越月球距离的清晰声音中，我们听到他们祈求上帝保佑地球的美好。
In that moment, their view from the moon moved poet Archibald MacLeish to write: "To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold--brothers who know now they are truly brothers." 在那一刻，他们从月球看到的景象感动了诗人阿奇博尔德·麦克利什写下：「看到地球的真实面貌，渺小、蔚蓝、美丽，在永恒的寂静中漂浮，就是看到我们自己作为地球上的共同骑手，在永恒寒冷中那明亮可爱之处的兄弟——现在真正认识到他们是兄弟的兄弟。」
In that moment of surpassing technological triumph, men turned their thoughts toward home and humanity-seeing in that far perspective that man's destiny on earth is not divisible; telling us that however far we reach into the cosmos, our destiny lies not in the stars but on earth itself, in our own hands, in our own hearts. 在那个超越技术胜利的时刻，人们将思绪转向家园和人类——从遥远的视角看到人类在地球上的命运是不可分割的；告诉我们无论我们向宇宙延伸多远，我们的命运不在于星辰，而在于地球本身，在于我们自己的手中，在于我们自己的心中。
We have endured a long night of the American spirit. But as our eyes catch the dimness of the first rays of dawn, let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us gather the light. 我们经历了美国精神的漫漫长夜。但当我们的眼睛捕捉到黎明第一缕微弱的光芒时，让我们不要诅咒残留的黑暗。让我们聚集光明。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it not in fear, but in gladness-and "riders on the earth together," let us go forward, firm in our faith, steadfast in our purpose, cautious of the dangers, but sustained by our confidence in the will of God and the promise of man. 我们的命运给予我们的不是绝望之杯，而是机遇之杯。所以让我们怀着喜悦而非恐惧抓住它——「作为地球上的共同骑手」，让我们坚定信念、坚守目标、谨慎应对危险，但在对上帝意志和人类承诺的信心支撑下，共同前进。