Thank you very much, Mr. President. Today, we mourn the passing of Coretta Scott King. 非常感谢，议长先生。今天，我们哀悼科丽塔·斯科特·金的辞世。
And when I think about Coretta Scott King, I think about the little girl who walked five miles to school on those rural Alabama roads and felt the heat of racism each day she passed the door of the Whites-only school, so much closer to home. It didn't matter, because she studied and succeeded and excelled beyond most of her classmates, Black and White. She earned a college degree, and an acceptance to a prestigious graduate school up North. 当我想到科丽塔·斯科特·金时，我想到的是那个小女孩，她在阿拉巴马州乡间土路上步行五英里去上学，每天经过那所只接收白人学生的学校门口时都感受到种族主义的灼热——那所学校离家近得多。但这无关紧要，因为她努力学习，取得了成功，超越了大多数同学，无论是黑人还是白人。她获得了大学学位，并被北方一所著名的研究生院录取。
And one day she met a young preacher from Atlanta, and she fell in love with him. And he told her his dreams -- and she believed in those dreams. And she decided that she would help to make them real -- not just as a wife or as a friend, but as a partner in freedom's cause. 有一天，她遇到了一位来自亚特兰大的年轻牧师，她爱上了他。他向她倾诉了自己的梦想——而她相信那些梦想。她决定帮助将它们变为现实——不仅是作为妻子或朋友，而是作为自由事业的伙伴。
Over the next years, Coretta Scott King did that in so many ways we can't even imagine. She raised a family, she marched through the streets, she inspired through song, she led through speech -- even dodged the countless attempts on her family's life. 在接下来的岁月里，科丽塔·斯科特·金以我们难以想象的诸多方式做到了这一点。她养育了家庭，她走上街头游行，她用歌声激励人心，她用演讲引领方向——甚至躲过了无数次针对她家人的暗杀企图。
And when one of those attempts finally took her love from this world, she made the selfless decision to carry on. With no time to even cry or mourn, to wallow in anger or vengeance, Coretta Scott King took to the streets just four days after the assassination and led 50,000 through the streets of Memphis in a march for the kind of justice that her husband had given his life for. 当其中一次暗杀最终夺走了她的挚爱时，她做出了无私的决定，继续前行。没有时间哭泣或哀悼，没有时间沉溺于愤怒或复仇，科丽塔·斯科特·金在暗杀发生仅仅四天后就走上街头，带领五万人穿过孟菲斯的街道，为她丈夫用生命换来的那种正义而游行。
She spent the rest of her life marching for that same justice -- leading the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and spreading her family's message of hope to every corner of this world. 她用余生为同样的正义而奔走——领导亚特兰大的非暴力社会变革金中心，将她家族的希望信息传播到世界的每个角落。
You know, I had the great honor of knowing Mrs. King, and the occasion to visit with her in Atlanta last year. She was an extraordinarily gracious woman. We sat and chatted in her living room. She showed me an album of photographs of her and Dr. King and the children. And then she told me what her husband had said to her once, at a time when she was feeling burdened, understandably, by all the stress and strain that had been placed on the family as a consequence of his role in the Civil Rights Movement. She said her husband suggested that: 你们知道，我有幸结识金夫人，去年还有机会在亚特兰大拜访她。她是一位极其优雅的女性。我们坐在她的客厅里聊天。她给我看了一本影集，里面是她和金博士以及孩子们的合照。然后她告诉了我她丈夫曾经在某个时刻对她说过的话——那时她因金博士在民权运动中的角色而承受着家庭的重压，感到不堪重负，这是完全可以理解的。她说她丈夫曾这样对她建议：
When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone because you will have divine companionship and the support of good people. 当你愿意为一项伟大事业做出牺牲时，你永远不会孤独，因为你将拥有神圣的陪伴和善良之人的支持。
That was her husband's advice to her -- that when you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone. 这就是她丈夫对她的忠告——当你愿意为一项伟大事业做出牺牲时，你永远不会孤独。
Coretta Scott King died in her sleep last night. She certainly was not alone. She was joined by the companionship and support of a loving family and a grateful Nation -- inspired by her cause, dedicated to her work, and mournful of her passing. 科丽塔·斯科特·金昨晚在睡梦中离世。她当然并不孤独。她有充满爱的家人和感恩的国家相伴——被她的事业所激励，致力于她的工作，为她的离去而哀伤。
My thoughts, condolences today are with her children. 今天，我的思念和哀悼与她的孩子们同在。
And I ask that she and her husband now rest together in eternal peace. 我祈愿她和她的丈夫如今在永恒的安宁中安息。
