Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech 第二次民主党总统候选人提名接受演说
Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. 谢谢。非常感谢大家。谢谢。
Michelle, I love you so much. A few nights ago, everybody was reminded just what a lucky man I am. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, we are so proud of you. And yes, you do have to go to school in the morning. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the very best Vice President I could have ever hoped for, and being a strong and loyal friend. 米歇尔，我非常爱你。几天前，大家再次想起我是多么幸运的男人。前几天晚上，我想整个国家都看到了我是多么幸运。玛莉亚和萨莎，我们为你们感到无比自豪。当然，你们明天早上还是得去上学。乔·拜登，谢谢你成为我能期望的最优秀副总统，也谢谢你成为我坚强而忠诚的朋友。
Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for President of the United States. 主席女士、各位代表，我接受你们提名，成为美利坚合众国总统候选人。
Now, the first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man; a Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope -- not blind optimism, not wishful thinking, but hope in the face of difficulty; hope in the face of uncertainty, that dogged faith in the future which has pushed this nation forward, even when the odds are great, even when the road is long. 2004年我第一次在这次大会上发言时，还是个年轻人，一个来自伊利诺伊州、竞选参议员的人。我谈论的是希望——不是盲目的乐观，也不是一厢情愿，而是在困难面前的希望、在不确定性面前的希望，是那种顽强的未来信念，即使胜算渺茫、道路漫长，也推动着这个国家前进。
Eight years later, that hope has been tested -- by the cost of war, by one of the worst economic crises in history, and by political gridlock that’s left us wondering whether it’s still even possible to tackle the challenges of our time. 八年后，这份希望经受了考验：战争的代价、历史上最严重的经济危机之一，以及政治僵局，让我们怀疑这个时代的挑战是否还能够解决。
I know campaigns can seem small, even silly sometimes. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. The truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me, so am I. 我知道，竞选有时显得琐碎甚至可笑。小事变成巨大的干扰，严肃议题被压缩成一句句口号。真相被金钱和广告的洪流掩埋。如果你已经厌倦听我说“我批准这则广告”，相信我，我也一样厌倦。
But when all is said and done -- when you pick up that ballot to vote -- you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington -- on jobs, the economy, taxes and deficits, energy, education, war and peace -- decisions that will have a huge impact on our lives and our children’s lives for decades to come. 但尘埃落定、你拿起选票投票时，你将面对一代人以来最清晰的选择。未来几年，华盛顿将作出关于就业、经济、税收和赤字、能源、教育、战争与和平的重大决定，这些决定将在数十年里深刻影响我们的生活和孩子们的生活。
And on every issue, the choice you face won’t just be between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America; a choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future. Ours is a fight to restore the values that built the largest middle class and the strongest economy the world has ever known -- the values my grandfather defended as a soldier in Patton’s Army, the values that drove my grandmother to work on a bomber assembly line while he was gone. 在每一个问题上，你面对的选择不仅是两位候选人或两个政党之间的选择，而是美国两条不同道路、两个根本不同未来愿景之间的选择。我们要恢复那些建立起世界上最大中产阶级和最强经济体的价值观——我祖父作为巴顿将军麾下士兵所捍卫的价值观，也是祖母在祖父离家时到轰炸机装配线上工作的动力。
They knew they were part of something larger -- a nation that triumphed over fascism and depression, a nation where the most innovative businesses turned out the world’s best products, and everyone shared in that pride and success -- from the corner office to the factory floor. 他们知道自己属于更宏大的事业：一个战胜法西斯主义和大萧条的国家；一个最具创新力的企业生产世界最佳产品、每个人都分享骄傲与成功的国家，从办公室高层到工厂车间都是如此。
My grandparents were given the chance to go to college, buy their own -- their own home, and fulfill the basic bargain at the heart of America’s story: the promise that hard work will pay off, that responsibility will be rewarded, that everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules -- from Main Street to Wall Street to Washington, D.C. 我的祖父母有机会读大学、买自己的房子，实现美国故事核心的基本契约：努力工作会有回报，承担责任会得到奖赏，每个人都有公平机会，每个人都尽己之责，每个人都遵守同样的规则——从主街到华尔街，再到华盛顿特区。
And I ran for President because I saw that basic bargain slipping away. I began my career helping people in the shadow of a shuttered steel mill, at a time when too many good jobs were starting to move overseas. And by 2008, we had seen nearly a decade in which families struggled with costs that kept rising but paychecks that didn’t, folks racking up more and more debt just to make the mortgage or pay tuition, put gas in the car or food on the table. 我竞选总统，是因为我看到这份基本契约正在滑落。我职业生涯开始于一座关闭的钢铁厂阴影下，帮助那里的人们；那时太多好工作开始流向海外。到2008年，我们已经经历了近十年：家庭面对不断上涨的开支和停滞的工资，只能不断举债来还房贷、交学费、给汽车加油或把食物摆上餐桌。
And when the house of cards collapsed in the Great Recession, millions of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes, their life savings -- a tragedy from which we're still fighting to recover. 当这座纸牌屋在大衰退中倒塌时，数百万无辜美国人失去工作、房屋和毕生积蓄——这场悲剧我们至今仍在努力恢复。
Now, our friends down in Tampa at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan. And that’s because all they have to offer is the same prescriptions they’ve had for the last 30 years: "Have a surplus? Try a tax cut." "Deficit too high? Try another." "Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!" 共和党人在坦帕举行大会时，很乐意谈论他们认为美国哪里出了问题，却很少说明如何解决。他们想要你的选票，却不想让你知道他们的计划，因为他们能提供的仍是过去30年的老处方：“有盈余？减税。”“赤字太高？再减一次。”“感觉要感冒？吃两剂减税，撤销一些监管，早上再打电话给我们！”
Now, I’ve cut taxes for those who need it -- middle-class families, small businesses -- but I don’t believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores, or pay down our deficit. I don’t believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy, or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China. After all we’ve been through, I don’t believe that rolling back regulations on Wall Street will help the small businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his home. We have been there. 我已经为真正需要的人减税，包括中产家庭和小企业，但我不相信再给百万富翁一轮减税就能把好工作带回我们的海岸或偿还赤字。我不相信解雇教师、取消学生助学金能促进经济或帮助我们与中国的科学家和工程师竞争。经历了这一切，我不相信撤销华尔街监管能帮助小企业女老板扩张，或让下岗建筑工人保住家园。我们已经走过那条路。
We’ve tried that. And we’re not going back. We are moving forward, America. 我们试过了。我们不会回头。美国，我们正在向前迈进。
Now, I won't pretend the path I'm offering is quick or easy. I never have. You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It'll require common effort, shared responsibility, and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one. 我不会假装我提供的道路快速或轻松。我从未这样假装过。你们选我，不是为了听我说你们想听的话，而是为了听真话。真相是，解决几十年积累的挑战需要的不只是几年时间，需要共同努力、共同承担责任，以及富兰克林·罗斯福在唯一比这更严重的危机中所展现的大胆、持续试验精神。
And by the way, those of us who carry on his party's legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from Washington. 顺便说一句，继承罗斯福政党传统的人应当记住，并非每个问题都能靠另一个政府项目或华盛顿的命令解决。
But know this, America: Our problems can be solved. Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder but it leads to a better place, and I'm asking you to choose that future. I'm asking you to rally around a set of goals for your country, goals in manufacturing, energy, education, national security, and the deficit -- real, achievable plans that will lead to new jobs, more opportunity, and rebuild this economy on a stronger foundation. That's what we can do in the next four years, and that is why I am running for a second term as President of the United States. 但美国，请记住：我们能够解决问题，能够迎接挑战。我们的道路也许更艰难，但会通往更好的地方，我请求你们选择那样的未来。我请求你们围绕一组国家目标团结起来：制造业、能源、教育、国家安全和赤字方面的目标，是能带来新工作、更多机会、并让经济建立在更坚实基础上的真实可行计划。这就是我们未来四年能够做到的，也是我竞选连任美国总统的原因。
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics and doing what America's always done best. We are making things again. I've met workers in Detroit and Toledo who feared they'd never build another American car; and today they can't build them fast enough because we reinvented a dying auto industry that's back on the top of the world. 我们可以选择出口更多产品、外包更少工作的未来。在一个由购买和借贷定义的十年之后，我们正在回归基础，重新做美国一直最擅长的事：再次制造产品。我在底特律和托莱多见过工人，他们曾担心再也造不出美国汽车；如今他们忙得连生产速度都跟不上，因为我们重塑了濒临死亡的汽车产业，让它重新站到世界顶端。
I worked with business leaders who are bringing jobs back to America not because our workers make less pay, but because we make better products -- because we work harder and smarter than anyone else. I've signed trade agreements that are helping our companies sell more goods to millions of new customers, goods that are stamped with three proud words: "Made in America." And after a decade of decline, this country created over half a million manufacturing jobs in the last two-and-half years. 我与把工作带回美国的企业领导者合作，不是因为我们的工人薪水更低，而是因为我们制造更好的产品，因为我们比任何人都更勤奋、更聪明。我们签署的贸易协定帮助企业把更多商品卖给数百万新客户，这些商品印着三个自豪的词：“美国制造”。经过十年下滑，这个国家在过去两年半创造了超过50万个制造业岗位。
And now you have a choice: We can give more tax breaks to corporations that shift jobs overseas or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America. We can help big factories and small businesses double their exports. And if we choose this path, we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years. 现在你们有选择：可以给把工作转移海外的企业更多减税，也可以奖励在美国开设新工厂、培训新工人、创造新工作的企业。我们可以帮助大工厂和小企业将出口翻一番。如果选择这条路，未来四年我们能够创造一百万个新的制造业岗位。
You can make that happen. You can choose that future. 你们可以让它发生，可以选择那样的未来。
You can choose the path where we control more of our own energy. After 30 years of inaction, we raised fuel standards so that by the middle of the next decade, cars and trucks will go twice as far on a gallon of gas. We have doubled our use of renewable energy, and thousands of Americans have jobs today building wind turbines and long-lasting batteries. In the last year alone, we cut oil imports by one million barrels a day, more than any Administration in recent history. And today the United States of America is less dependent on foreign oil than at any time in the last two decades. 你们可以选择掌控更多自身能源的道路。经过30年的无所作为，我们提高了燃油标准，到下一个十年中期，汽车和卡车每加仑汽油行驶里程将翻倍。我们把可再生能源的使用量翻了一番，如今成千上万美国人从事风力涡轮机和长效电池制造。仅去年一年，我们就把石油进口量削减了每天100万桶，比近代任何一届政府都多。如今，美国对外国石油的依赖程度处于过去20年来最低水平。
So now you have a choice, between a strategy that reverses this progress or one that builds on it. We've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration in the last three years, and we'll open more. But unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan or endanger our coastlines or collect another four billion dollars in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. We're offering a better path. 所以现在你们有选择：是让这一进步倒退，还是在其基础上继续前进。过去三年我们为油气勘探开放了数百万英亩土地，还会继续开放。但与我的对手不同，我不会让石油公司书写国家能源计划、危害海岸线，也不会让它们再从纳税人那里拿走40亿美元企业福利。我们提供的是更好的道路。
We're offering a better path where we -- a -- a future where we keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal, where farmers and scientists harness new biofuels to power our cars and trucks, where construction workers build homes and factories that waste less energy, where -- where we develop a hundred-year supply of natural gas that's right beneath our feet. If you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000 new jobs in natural gas alone. 我们提供更好的道路：继续投资风能、太阳能和清洁煤；让农民和科学家利用新型生物燃料为汽车和卡车提供动力；让建筑工人建造节能的住宅和工厂；开发就在脚下、可供使用一百年的天然气。如果选择这条路，到2020年我们可以把石油进口量削减一半，仅天然气产业就能支持超过60万个新工作岗位。
And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it. 是的，我的计划将继续减少加热地球的碳污染，因为气候变化不是骗局。更多干旱、洪水和野火不是笑话，它们威胁着我们孩子的未来。在这次选举中，你们可以有所作为。
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. 你们可以选择一个未来，让更多美国人有机会获得竞争所需的技能，无论年龄多大、收入多少。
Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. It was -- It was the gateway for most of you. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life. For the first time in a generation, nearly every state has answered our call to raise their standards for teaching and learning. Some of the worst schools in the country have made real gains in math and reading. Millions of students are paying less for college today because we finally took on a system that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on banks and lenders. 教育是我通往机会的大门，也是米歇尔的，是你们大多数人的。如今，它比以往任何时候都更是通往中产阶级生活的大门。整整一代以来第一次，几乎每个州都响应我们的号召，提高教学和学习标准。全国一些最差的学校在数学和阅读方面取得了真正进步。数百万学生如今上大学花费更少，因为我们终于改革了一个把数十亿美元纳税人资金浪费在银行和贷款机构上的体系。
And now you have a choice. We can gut education, or we can decide that in the United States of America, no child should have her dreams deferred because of a crowded classroom or a crumbling school. No family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don't have the money. No company should have to look for workers overseas because they couldn't find any with the right skills here at home. That's not our future. That is not our future. 现在你们有选择。我们可以摧毁教育，也可以决定在美国，没有孩子会因为教室拥挤或学校破败而推迟梦想。没有家庭会因为没钱而不得不放弃大学录取通知。没有公司会因为在国内找不到合适技能的工人而到海外招人。那不是我们的未来，绝不是。
A government has a role in this -- but teachers must inspire; principals must lead; parents must instill a thirst for learning; and students, you've got to do the work. And together, I promise you we can out-educate and outcompete any nation on earth. 政府在这方面有作用，但教师必须启发学生，校长必须领导，家长必须培养求知欲，学生们必须努力。共同努力，我向你们保证，我们能够在教育和竞争力上超越地球上任何国家。
So help me. Help me recruit a hundred thousand math and science teachers within 10 years and improve early childhood education. Help give two million workers the chance to learn skills at their community college that will lead directly to a job. Help us work with colleges and universities to cut in half the growth of tuition costs over the next 10 years. We can meet that goal together. You can choose that future for America. That's our future. 请帮助我在十年内招募十万名数学和科学教师，改善幼儿教育；帮助两百万工人在社区大学学习能直接带来工作的技能；帮助我们与高校合作，把未来十年学费上涨幅度减半。我们能够共同实现目标。你们可以为美国选择那样的未来，那就是我们的未来。
You know, in a world of new threats and new challenges, you can choose leadership that has been tested and proven. Four years ago I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and we have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline; al-Qaida is on the path to defeat; and Osama bin Laden is dead. 在充满新威胁和新挑战的世界里，你们可以选择经过考验、得到证明的领导力。四年前我承诺结束伊拉克战争，我们做到了。我承诺把重点放在真正于9·11袭击我们的恐怖分子身上，我们做到了。我们削弱了塔利班在阿富汗的势头，2014年我们最长的战争将结束。纽约天际线上矗立起新的高塔；基地组织正走向失败；奥萨马·本·拉登已经死亡。
And tonight we pay tribute to the Americans who still serve in harm's way. We are forever in debt to a generation whose sacrifice has made this country safer and more respected. We will never forget you and so long as I'm Commander-in-Chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us, because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job or a roof over their heads or the care that they need when they come home. 今晚我们向仍在危险中服役的美国人致敬。我们永远亏欠这一代人，是他们的牺牲让这个国家更安全、更受尊敬。我们永远不会忘记你们，只要我还是三军总司令，我们就会维持世界上最强大的军事力量。当你们脱下军装，我们将像你们服务我们一样服务你们，因为没有任何为这个国家战斗的人，还应为一份工作、一个住所或回国后所需的照料而战斗。
Around the world, we've strengthened old alliances and forged new coalitions to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. We've reasserted our power across the Pacific and stood up to China on behalf of our workers. From Burma to Libya to South Sudan, we have advanced the rights and dignity of all human beings -- men and women, Christians and Muslims and Jews. 在世界各地，我们巩固了旧联盟并建立了新联盟，以阻止核武器扩散。我们重新确立了在太平洋的力量，并代表我们的工人向中国表明立场。从缅甸到利比亚到南苏丹，我们推动了全人类——男人和女人、基督徒、穆斯林和犹太人——的权利与尊严。
But for all the progress that we've made, challenges remain. Terrorist plots must be disrupted. Europe's crisis must be contained. Our commitment to Israel's security must not waver, and neither must our pursuit of peace. The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions. The historic change sweeping across the Arab world must be defined not by the iron fist of a dictator or the hate of extremists, but by the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people who are reaching for the same rights that we celebrate here today. 尽管我们取得了所有这些进展，挑战依然存在。恐怖阴谋必须被粉碎。欧洲的危机必须得到控制。我们对以色列安全的承诺不能动摇，我们对和平的追求也不能动摇。伊朗政府必须面对一个团结反对其核野心的世界。席卷阿拉伯世界的历史性变革不应由独裁者的铁拳或极端主义者的仇恨来定义，而应由正在争取我们今天在此庆祝的同等权利的普通人的希望与抱负来定义。
So now we have a choice. My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy. But from all that we've seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly. After all, you don't call Russia our number one enemy1 -- not al-Qaida, Russia -- unless you're still stuck in a Cold War mind warp. You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally. 现在我们面临选择。我的对手及其竞选伙伴在外交政策方面经验不足。从我们看到和听到的一切来看，他们想把美国带回那种虚张声势、屡屡犯错的时代，那曾让美国付出惨重代价。除非仍困在冷战思维中，否则不会把俄罗斯而非基地组织称为头号敌人；如果连参加奥运会都要侮辱最亲密盟友，也许还没准备好与北京进行外交。
My opponent -- My opponent said that it was tragic to end the war in Iraq. And he won't tell us how he'll end the war in Afghanistan. Well, I have, and I will. And while my opponent would spend more money on military hardware that our Joint Chiefs don't even want, I will use the money we're no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work -- rebuilding roads and bridges, and schools and runways, because after two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it's time to do some nation building right here at home. 我的对手说结束伊拉克战争是悲剧，却不告诉我们他将如何结束阿富汗战争。我已经结束一场，也会结束另一场。而我的对手要把更多钱花在连参谋长联席会议都不想要的军事装备上，我会把不再用于战争的钱用来偿还债务、让更多人重返工作岗位，重建道路、桥梁、学校和跑道。两场战争夺走数千条生命、耗费超过一万亿美元之后，是时候在国内建设国家了。
You can choose a future where we reduce our deficit without sticking it to the middle class. Independent experts say that my plan would cut our deficit by four trillion dollars. And last summer I worked with Republicans in Congress to cut a billion dollars in spending, because those of us who believe government can be a force for good should work harder than anyone to reform it so that it's leaner and more efficient and more responsive to the American people. 你们可以选择降低赤字而不让中产阶级承担代价的未来。独立专家说，我的计划能削减4万亿美元赤字。去年夏天我与国会共和党人合作削减了十亿美元开支，因为相信政府能发挥积极作用的人，更应努力改革政府，让它更精简、更高效、更回应人民。
I want to reform the tax code so it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over 250,000 dollars -- the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was President, the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history and a whole lot of millionaires to boot. 我希望改革税法，使其简单、公平，并要求年收入超过25万美元的最富裕家庭缴纳更高税率——这正是克林顿担任总统时的税率，那时我们的经济创造了近2300万个新岗位、历史上最大的盈余，也造就了大批百万富翁。
Now, I'm still eager to reach an agreement based on the principles of my bipartisan debt commission. No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. I want to get this done, and we can get it done. But when Governor Romney and his friends in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficits by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy, well -- what'd Bill Clinton call it? You do the arithmetic. You do the math. 我仍愿意依据两党债务委员会的原则达成协议。任何政党都不垄断智慧，没有妥协就没有民主。我想完成这件事，我们能做到。但当罗姆尼州长和国会里的朋友告诉我们，可以靠给富人新增数万亿美元减税来降低赤字时——算算看，做做数学题。
I refuse to go along with that, and as long as I'm President I never will. I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. I refuse to ask students to pay more for college or kick children out of Head Start programs to eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans who are poor and elderly or disabled -- all so those with the most can pay less. I'm not going along with that. 我拒绝接受这种做法，只要我还是总统，就永远不会接受。我拒绝让中产家庭放弃购房或抚养孩子的抵扣，只为支付另一个百万富翁的减税。我拒绝让学生支付更高学费，或让儿童退出启蒙计划，只为取消数百万贫困、老年或残障美国人的医保，让最富有的人缴更少的税。我不会接受。
And I will never -- I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and the dignity that they have earned. Yes, we will reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we'll do it by reducing the cost of health care, not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more. And we will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it, not by turning it over to Wall Street. 我永远不会把医疗保险变成代金券。任何美国人都不应在晚年任由保险公司摆布，他们应当带着应得的照护和尊严退休。我们会改革并强化医疗保险，让它长期持续，但我们会降低医疗成本，而不是让老年人多付数千美元。我们会以负责任的措施巩固社会保障的承诺，不会把它交给华尔街。
This is the choice we now face. This is what the election comes down to. Over and over, we've been told by our opponents that bigger tax cuts and fewer regulations are the only way, that since government can't do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you can't afford health insurance, hope that you don't get sick. If a company releases toxic pollution into the air your children breathe, well, that's the price of progress. If you can't afford to start a business or go to college, take my opponent's advice and borrow money from your parents. 这就是我们面临的选择，这就是选举归根结底的意义。对手一再告诉我们，更大减税和更少监管是唯一道路，因为政府不能做所有事，所以几乎什么都不该做。如果你买不起医保，就希望自己别生病；如果公司把有毒污染排进你孩子呼吸的空气，那就是进步的代价；如果你没钱创业或上大学，就听我的对手建议，向父母借钱。
You know what? That's not who we are. That's not what this country's about. As Americans, we believe we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, rights that no man or government can take away. We insist on personal responsibility and we celebrate individual initiative. We're not entitled to success. We have to earn it. We honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk-takers, the entrepreneurs who have always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system, the greatest engine of growth and prosperity that the world's ever known. 你知道吗？那不是我们，那不是这个国家的本质。作为美国人，我们相信造物主赋予我们不可剥夺的权利，任何人或政府都不能夺走。我们坚持个人责任，也赞美个人主动性。成功不是与生俱来的权利，我们必须靠努力赢得。我们尊敬奋斗者、梦想家、冒险者和企业家，他们一直是自由企业体系的驱动力，是世界所知最强大的增长与繁荣引擎。
But we also believe in something called "citizenship" -- citizenship, a word at the very heart of our founding, a word at the very essence of our democracy, the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations. 但我们也相信一种叫作“公民身份”的东西——它处于建国思想的核心、民主本质的中心：只有当我们彼此以及对未来世代承担某些义务时，这个国家才能运转。
We believe that when a CEO pays his autoworkers enough to buy the cars that they build, the whole company does better. 我们相信，当首席执行官给汽车工人足够的工资，让他们买得起自己制造的汽车，整个公司都会更好。
We believe that when a family can no longer be tricked into signing a mortgage they can't afford, that family's protected, but so is the value of other people's homes -- and so is the entire economy. 我们相信，当一个家庭不再被诱骗去签署自己负担不起的抵押贷款时，这个家庭得到保护，其他人的房产价值和整个经济也会得到保护。
We believe the little girl who's offered an escape from poverty by a great teacher or a grant for college could become the next Steve Jobs or the scientist who cures cancer or the President of the United States -- and it is in our power to give her that chance. 我们相信，一个贫困小女孩若因优秀教师或大学助学金获得出路，可能成为下一个史蒂夫·乔布斯、治愈癌症的科学家或美国总统，而给予她机会的力量就在我们手中。
We know that churches and charities can often make more of a difference than a poverty program alone. We don't want handouts for people who refuse to help themselves, and we certainly don't want bailouts for banks that break the rules. 我们知道，教会和慈善机构往往比单一扶贫项目发挥更大作用。我们不希望把救济给拒绝自助的人，更不希望为违反规则的银行纾困。
We don't think the government can solve all of our problems, but we don't think the government is the source of all of our problems -- any more than our welfare recipients or corporations or unions or immigrants or gays or any other group we're told to blame for our troubles -- because -- because America, we understand that this democracy is ours. 我们不认为政府能解决所有问题，但也不认为政府是所有问题的根源，就像不应把困境归咎于福利领取者、企业、工会、移民、同性恋者或任何被要求背锅的群体一样。因为美国，我们明白，这个民主国家属于我们。
We, the people, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks only, what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals and those who died in their defense. As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us together, through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That's what we believe. 我们人民既承认权利，也承认责任；我们的命运彼此相连。若自由只问“这对我有什么好处”，若自由不承诺对他人负责，没有爱、慈善、责任或爱国主义，那么这种自由就配不上我们的建国理想，也配不上那些为捍卫理想而牺牲的人。作为公民，我们明白美国不在于别人能为我们做什么，而在于我们能通过艰难、令人沮丧却不可或缺的自治工作共同做些什么。这就是我们的信念。
So you see, the election four years ago wasn't about me. It was about you. My fellow citizens: You were the change. 所以，四年前的选举不是关于我，而是关于你们。同胞们，你们就是改变的力量。
You're the reason there's a little girl with a heart disorder in Phoenix who'll get the surgery she needs because an insurance company can't limit her coverage. You did that. 正因为你们，凤凰城一个患心脏病的小女孩能够接受所需手术，因为保险公司不能限制她的保障。是你们做到的。
You're the reason a young man in Colorado who never thought he'd be able to afford his dream of earning a medical degree is about to get that chance. You made that possible. 正因为你们，科罗拉多州一个从未想过能负担医学学位的年轻人即将实现梦想。是你们让这一切成为可能。
You're the reason a young immigrant who grew up here and went to school here and pledged allegiance to our flag will no longer be deported from the only country she's ever called home; why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love; why thousands of families have finally been able to say to the loved ones who served us so bravely: "Welcome home." Welcome home. You did that. You did that. You did that. 正因为你们，一个在这里长大、在这里上学、向我们的国旗宣誓效忠的年轻移民，不会再被驱逐到她唯一称为家园的国家之外；无私的士兵不会因身份或所爱之人被赶出军队；数千个家庭终于能够对英勇服役的亲人说：“欢迎回家。”欢迎回家。是你们做到的，是你们，是你们。
If you turn away now -- If you turn away now, if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn't possible, well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void -- the lobbyists and special interests, the people with the 10 million dollar checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are trying to make it harder for you to vote, Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves. 如果你们现在转身离开，如果相信我们为之奋斗的改变不可能实现，改变就不会发生。如果你们放弃自己的声音能够带来不同的信念，其他声音就会填补空白：游说者和特殊利益集团、试图用千万美元支票买下这场选举的人，以及试图让你们更难投票的人；还有想决定你能与谁结婚、控制女性本应自行作出的医疗选择的华盛顿政客。
Only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward. 只有你们能确保这一切不发生。只有你们拥有推动我们前进的力量。
You know, I recognize that times have changed since I first spoke to this convention. Times have changed and so have I. I'm no longer just a candidate: I'm the President. And...that means I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I've held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs. If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. 我知道，自从我第一次在这次大会上发言，时代已经改变，我也改变了。我不再只是候选人，我是总统。这意味着我知道把年轻美国人送上战场是什么感觉，因为我曾抱着那些未能归来的人的父母。我与失去家园的家庭共同承受痛苦，也感受失去工作的工人的挫折。如果批评者说我所有决定都基于民调，那我一定不太会读民调。
And while I'm very proud of what we've achieved together, I'm far more mindful of my own failings -- knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, "I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go." 虽然我为我们共同取得的成就深感自豪，但我更清楚自己的不足，完全理解林肯所说的话：“我多次被压倒性的信念逼得跪下，因为我无处可去。”
But as I stand here tonight, I have never been more hopeful about America; not because I think I have all the answers; not because I'm naive about the magnitude of our challenges -- I'm hopeful because of you. 但今晚站在这里，我从未对美国如此充满希望。不是因为我以为自己拥有所有答案，也不是因为我不了解挑战的巨大，而是因为你们，我充满希望。
The young woman I met at a science fair who won national recognition for her biology research while living with her family at a homeless shelter -- she gives me hope. 我在科学展览会上遇到一位年轻女性，她和家人住在无家可归者收容所，却因生物学研究获得全国认可。她让我充满希望。
The auto worker who won the lottery after his plant almost closed, but kept coming to work every day, and bought flags for his whole town and one of the cars that he built to surprise his wife -- he gives me hope. 一名汽车工人在工厂差点关闭后中了彩票，却每天坚持上班，为全镇买了旗帜，还买了一辆自己制造的汽车给妻子惊喜。他让我充满希望。
The family business in Warroad, Minnesota, that didn't lay off a single one of their 4,000 employees when the recession hit, even when their competitors shut down dozens of plants, even when it meant the owner gave up some perks and some pay, because they understood that their biggest asset was the community and the workers who had helped build that business -- they give me hope. 明尼苏达州沃罗德的一家企业，在经济衰退来袭时没有解雇4000名员工中的任何一个，即使竞争对手关闭了几十家工厂，即使老板放弃了一些福利和薪水，因为他们明白最大的资产是社区以及帮助建立企业的工人。他们让我充满希望。
I think about the young sailor I met at Walter Reed Hospital still recovering from a grenade attack that would cause him to have his leg amputated above the knee. And six months ago we would watch him walk into a White House dinner honoring those who served in Iran [Iraq], tall and 20 pounds heavier, dashing in his uniform, with a big grin on his face, sturdy on his new leg. And I remember how a few months after that I would watch him on a bicycle, racing with his fellow wounded warriors on a sparkling spring day, inspiring other heroes who had just begun the hard path he had traveled. 我想起在沃尔特·里德医院遇到的年轻水兵，他仍在从一次手榴弹袭击中恢复，那次袭击使他不得不在膝盖以上截肢。六个月前，我们看到他走进白宫宴会，参加向在伊拉克服役者致敬的活动；他身材高大，比以前重了20磅，穿着英俊的制服，脸上带着灿烂笑容，稳稳地站在新腿上。几个月后，我又看到他骑自行车，在明媚春日与其他受伤战士竞速，激励那些刚刚踏上他曾走过的艰难道路的英雄。
He gives me hope. He gives me hope. 他让我充满希望。他让我充满希望。
I -- I don't know what party these men and women belong to. I don't know if they'll vote for me. But I know that their spirit defines us. They remind me, in the words of Scripture, that ours is a future filled with hope. And if you share that faith with me, if you share that hope with me, I ask you tonight for your vote. 我不知道这些男男女女属于哪个政党，也不知道他们是否会投票给我。但我知道，他们的精神定义了我们。他们让我想起《圣经》中的话：我们的未来充满希望。如果你与我分享这种信念、分享这种希望，我今晚请求你投我一票。
If you reject the notion that this nation's promise is reserved for the few, your voice must be heard in this election. 如果你拒绝相信这个国家的希望只属于少数人，你的声音必须在这次选举中被听见。
If you reject the notion that our government is forever beholden to the highest bidder, you need to stand up in this election. 如果你拒绝相信我们的政府永远听命于出价最高者，你就必须在这次选举中站出来。
If you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape, that new energy can power our future, that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers, if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November. 如果你相信新的工厂可以遍布大地、新能源可以驱动未来、新学校可以为这个梦想家的国度提供机会阶梯；如果你相信一个人人都有公平机会、人人尽己之责、人人遵守同样规则的国家，那么今年11月我需要你投票。
America, I never said this journey would be easy and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder but it leads to a better place. Yes, our road is longer but we travel it together. 美国，我从未说过这段旅程会轻松，现在也不会这样承诺。是的，我们的道路更艰难，但会通向更好的地方。是的，我们的路更漫长，但我们一起走。
We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon knowing that providence is with us and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on earth. 我们不回头，不让任何人掉队。我们彼此拉起对方。我们从胜利中汲取力量，从错误中学习，但始终注视遥远的地平线，相信上天眷顾我们，也深知成为地球上最伟大国家的公民是莫大的祝福。
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless these United States. 谢谢大家。愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。