President Obama: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you so much. Please, please be seated. 奥巴马总统：谢谢。谢谢。谢谢！非常感谢。请，请坐下。
Audience Member: I love you, Obama! 观众：我爱你，奥巴马！
President Obama: Oh, I love Joplin! I love Joplin. To -- 奥巴马总统：哦，我爱乔普林！我爱乔普林。向——
Audience Member: We love Joplin! 观众：我们爱乔普林！
President Obama: We love Joplin. 奥巴马总统：我们爱乔普林。
Thank you, Governor, for that powerful message, but more importantly, for being here with and for your people every step of the way. 州长，谢谢您传达了如此有力的信息，但更重要的是，感谢您在这段艰难的旅程中始终陪伴在你的人民身边，与他们同行每一步。
We are grateful to you, to Reverend Gariss, Father Monaghan. I’m so glad you got in that tub. To Reverend Brown for that incredibly powerful message. 我们对您、加里斯牧师、莫纳汉神父心怀感激。我很高兴您躲进了那个浴缸。也感谢布朗牧师传达了如此震撼人心的信息。
To Senator Claire McCaskill, who’s been here, and Congressman Billy Long; Mayor Woolston. To Craig Fugate. It doesn’t get a lot of attention, but he heads up FEMA, our emergency response at the federal level. He’s been going from Tuscaloosa to Joplin and everywhere in between tirelessly doing outstanding work. We’re grateful for him. Gail McGovern, the President of the National Red Cross, which has contributed mightily to the rebuilding efforts here. 感谢一直在这里的克莱尔·麦卡斯基尔参议员、比利·朗众议员、伍尔斯顿市长。感谢克雷格·富盖特。他可能不太引人注目，但他领导着联邦紧急事务管理局，负责联邦层面的应急响应。他从塔斯卡卢萨到乔普林，辗转各地，不知疲倦地做着出色的工作。我们对他深表感激。还有美国红十字会会长盖尔·麦戈文，红十字会在这里的重建工作中做出了巨大贡献。
Most of all, to the family and friends of all those who’ve been lost and all those who’ve been affected. 最重要的是，感谢所有逝者的家人和朋友，以及所有受灾的人们。
Today we gather to celebrate the lives of those we’ve lost to the storms here in Joplin and across the Midwest, to keep in our prayers those still missing, to mourn with their families, to stand together during this time of pain and trial. 今天我们聚集在一起，缅怀在乔普林及中西部各地风暴中逝去的生命，为仍下落不明的人祈祷，与他们的家人一同哀悼，在这痛苦与考验的时刻并肩而立。
And as Reverend Brown alluded to, the question that weighs on us at a time like this is: Why? Why our town? Why our home? Why my son, or husband, or wife, or sister, or friend? Why? 正如布朗牧师所言，在这样的时刻，压在我们心头的问题是：为什么？为什么是我们的城镇？为什么是我们的家园？为什么是我的儿子、丈夫、妻子、姐妹或朋友？为什么？
We do not have the capacity to answer. We can’t know when a terrible storm will strike, or where, or the severity of the devastation that it may cause. We can’t know why we’re tested with the loss of a loved one, or the loss of a home where we’ve lived a lifetime. 我们没有能力回答这个问题。我们无法预知可怕的风暴何时来袭、在哪里登陆，也无法预知它可能造成的破坏有多严重。我们无法理解为什么我们要经受失去亲人的考验，也无法理解为什么我们生活了一辈子的家园会化为废墟。
These things are beyond our power to control. But that does not mean we are powerless in the face of adversity. How we respond when the storm strikes is up to us. How we live in the aftermath of tragedy and heartache, that’s within our control. And it’s in these moments, through our actions, that we often see the glimpse of what makes life worth living in the first place. 这些事情超出了我们的掌控能力。但这并不意味着在逆境面前我们无能为力。风暴来临时我们如何应对，取决于我们自己。在悲剧与心碎之后我们如何继续生活，这是我们能够掌控的。正是在这些时刻，通过我们的行动，我们常常能瞥见生命之所以值得活着的闪光。
In the last week, that’s what Joplin has not just taught Missouri, not just taught America, but has taught the world. I was overseas in the aftermath of the storm, and had world leaders coming up to me saying, let the people of Joplin know we are with them; we’re thinking about them; we love them. 在过去的一周里，乔普林不仅教会了密苏里州，不仅教会了美国，更教会了整个世界。风暴过后我在海外访问时，各国领导人纷纷走过来对我说，请转告乔普林人民，我们与他们同在；我们在牵挂他们；我们爱他们。
Because the world saw how Joplin responded. A university turned itself into a makeshift hospital. Some of you used your pickup trucks as ambulances, carrying the injured -- on doors that served as stretchers. Your restaurants have rushed food to people in need. Businesses have filled trucks with donations. You’ve waited in line for hours to donate blood to people you know, but also to people you’ve never met. And in all this, you have lived the words of Scripture: 因为全世界都看到了乔普林是如何应对的。一所大学把自己变成了临时医院。你们中有人用皮卡当救护车，用门板当担架运送伤员。你们的餐馆赶着为有需要的人送去食物。企业把卡车装满捐赠物资。你们排队数小时献血，不仅献给你们认识的人，也献给素不相识的人。在这一切之中，你们践行了《圣经》的话语：
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.... 我们四面受敌，却不被困住；心里困惑，却不至绝望；遭逼迫，却不被丢弃；打倒了，却不至死亡……
As the governor said, you have shown the world what it means to love thy neighbor. You’ve banded together. You’ve come to each other’s aid. You’ve demonstrated a simple truth: that amid heartbreak and tragedy, no one is a stranger. Everybody is a brother. Everybody is a sister. We can all love one another. 正如州长所说，你们向世界展示了爱邻如己的含义。你们团结在一起，互相伸出援手。你们证明了一个朴素的真理：在心碎与悲剧之中，没有谁是陌生人。每个人都是兄弟，每个人都是姐妹，我们都能彼此相爱。
As you move forward in the days ahead, I know that rebuilding what you’ve lost won’t be easy. I just walked through some of the neighborhoods that have been affected, and you look out at the landscape, and there have to be moments where you just say, where to begin? How to start? There are going to be moments where after the shock has worn off, you feel alone. But there’s no doubt in my mind what the people of this community can do. There’s no doubt in my mind that Joplin will rebuild. 在未来的日子里继续前行，我知道重建你们失去的一切不会容易。我刚走过一些受灾的街区，放眼望去那片景象，你一定会有这样的时刻：从何开始？如何着手？当震惊消退之后，你会感到孤独。但我毫不怀疑这个社区的人民能做什么。我毫不怀疑乔普林将会重建。
And as President, I can promise you your country will be there with you every single step of the way. We will be with you every step of the way. We’re not going anywhere. The cameras may leave. The spotlight may shift. But we will be with you every step of the way until Joplin is restored and this community is back on its feet. We’re not going anywhere. 作为总统，我可以向你们保证，你们的国家将一路陪伴你们走过每一步。我们将与你们同行每一步。我们不会离开。镜头可能会转移，聚光灯可能会移开。但我们将一路陪伴你们，直到乔普林恢复如初，直到这个社区重新站起来。我们不会离开。
That is not just my promise; that’s America’s promise. It’s a promise I make here in Joplin; it’s a promise I made down in Tuscaloosa, or in any of the communities that have been hit by these devastating storms over the last few weeks. 这不仅仅是我的承诺，这是美国的承诺。这是我在乔普林许下的承诺，也是我在塔斯卡卢萨许下的承诺，是在过去几周遭受这些毁灭性风暴袭击的每一个社区许下的承诺。
Now, there have been countless acts of kindness and selflessness in recent days. We’ve already heard the record of some of that. But perhaps none are as inspiring as what took place when the storm was bearing down on Joplin, threatening an entire community with utter destruction. And in the face of winds that showed no mercy, no regard for human life, that did not discriminate by race or faith or background, it was ordinary people, swiftly tested, who said, “I’m willing to die right now so that someone else might live.” 在最近的日子里，涌现了无数善举和无私奉献。我们已经听到了其中一些事迹。但也许没有比风暴逼近乔普林、整个社区面临彻底毁灭威胁时所发生的一切更令人振奋的了。面对毫不留情、不顾人命、不分种族、信仰或背景的狂风，是那些经受了迅速考验的普通人说出了"我愿意此刻赴死，好让别人活下来。"
It was the husband who threw himself over his wife as their house came apart around them. It was the mother who shielded her young son. It was Dean Wells, a husband and father who loved to sing and whistle in his church choir. Dean was working a shift at the Home Depot, managing the electrical department, when the siren rang out. He sprang into action, moving people to safety. Over and over again, he went back for others, until a wall came down on top of him. In the end, most of the building was destroyed, but not where Dean had directed his coworkers and his customers. 那是那位在房屋崩塌时扑到妻子身上的丈夫。那是那位用身体护住幼子的母亲。那是迪恩·韦尔斯，一位在教堂唱诗班热爱歌唱和吹口哨的丈夫和父亲。警报响起时，迪恩正在家得宝值班，管理电气部门。他立即行动起来，将人们转移到安全地带。他一次又一次地返回去救人，直到一面墙倒塌压在他身上。最终，大楼大部分被毁，但迪恩引导同事和顾客躲避的地方却没有坍塌。
There was a young man named Christopher Lucas who was 26 years old. Father of two daughters; third daughter on the way. Just like any other night, Christopher was doing his job as manager on duty at Pizza Hut. And then he heard the storm coming. 还有一位名叫克里斯托弗·卢卡斯的年轻人，年仅二十六岁。他是两个女儿的父亲，第三个女儿即将出生。就像任何一个平常的夜晚一样，克里斯托弗正在必胜客值班经理的岗位上工作。然后他听到了风暴来临的声音。
It was then when this former sailor quickly ushered everybody into the walk-in freezer. The only problem was, the freezer door wouldn’t stay closed from the inside. So as the tornado bore down on this small storefront on Range Line Road, Christopher left the freezer to find a rope or a cord or anything to hold the door shut. He made it back just in time, tying a piece of bungee cord to the handle outside, wrapping the other end around his arm, holding the door closed with all his might. 就在这时，这位前海军迅速将所有人引进了步入式冷库。唯一的问题是，冷库门从里面无法保持关闭。于是，当龙卷风逼近牧场路旁这间小店时，克里斯托弗离开冷库去找绳子或绳索或任何能把门拴住的东西。他及时赶了回来，将一根弹力绳绑在外面的把手上，另一端缠在自己的手臂上，拼尽全力把门拉住。
And Christopher held it as long as he could, until he was pulled away by the incredible force of the storm. He died saving more than a dozen people in that freezer. 克里斯托弗坚持了尽可能长的时间，直到被风暴惊人的力量卷走。他用生命换来了冷库里十几条获救的生命。
You see, there are heroes all around us, all the time. They walk by us on the sidewalk, and they sit next to us in class. They pass us in the aisle wearing an orange apron. They come to our table at a restaurant and ask us what we’d like to order. 你看，英雄就在我们身边，无时无刻不在。他们在人行道上与我们擦肩而过，他们在课堂上坐在我们旁边。他们穿着橙色围裙从过道经过。他们来到餐厅的桌前问我们想点什么菜。
Just as we can’t know why tragedy strikes in the first place, we may never fully understand where these men and women find the courage and strength to do what they did. What we do know is that in a split-second moment where there’s little time for internal reflection or debate, the actions of these individuals were driven by love -- love for a family member, love for a friend, or just love for a fellow human being. 正如我们无法预知悲剧为何降临一样，我们也许永远无法完全理解这些男女是从哪里找到了做出那些壮举的勇气和力量。我们所知道的是，在那个几乎没有时间进行内心反思或权衡的瞬间，驱使这些人行动的是爱——对家人的爱，对朋友的爱，或仅仅是对同胞的爱。
That’s good to know. In a world that can be cruel and selfish, it’s this knowledge -- the knowledge that we are inclined to love one another, that we’re inclined to do good, to be good -- that causes us to take heart. We see with fresh eyes what’s precious and so fragile and so important to us. We put aside our petty grievances and our minor disagreements. We see ourselves in the hopes and hardships of others. And in the stories of people like Dean and people like Christopher, we remember that each us contains reserves of resolve and compassion. There are heroes all around us, all the time. 知道这一点令人欣慰。在一个可能残酷而自私的世界里，正是这种认知——我们天生倾向于彼此关爱、行善、向善的认知——让我们感到鼓舞。我们用全新的眼光看到那些珍贵、脆弱而重要的事物。我们抛开琐碎的怨念和微小的分歧。我们在他人的希望与苦难中看到自己。在迪恩和克里斯托弗这样的人的故事中，我们想起每个人内心都蕴含着坚韧与同情的力量。英雄就在我们身边，无时无刻不在。
And so, in the wake of this tragedy, let us live up to their example -- to make each day count -- to live with the sense of mutual regard -- to live with that same compassion that they demonstrated in their final hours. We are called by them to do everything we can to be worthy of the chance that we’ve been given to carry on. 因此，在这场悲剧之后，让我们以他们为榜样——让每一天都有意义——以相互关怀的心生活——以他们在最后时刻所展现的同样同情心生活。他们在召唤我们竭尽全力，才不辜负继续活下去的机会。
I understand that at a memorial yesterday for Dean, his wife decided to play a recording of Dean whistling a song he loved -- Amazing Grace. The lyrics are a fitting tribute to what Joplin has been through. 我了解到，昨天在迪恩的追悼会上，他的妻子决定播放一段迪恩吹口哨的录音，那首歌叫《奇异恩典》。这首歌的歌词恰如其分地致敬了乔普林所经历的一切。
Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; 'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far and Grace will lead me home… 经过许多危险、劳苦和网罗，我已安然度过；是恩典领我平安到此，恩典将引我归家……
Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess within the veil, A life of joy and peace. 是的，当此肉身与心灵衰残，凡尘生命终结之时，我将在幔子之内，拥有喜乐与平安的生命。
May those we’ve lost know peace, and may Grace guide the people of Joplin home. 愿逝者安息，愿恩典引领乔普林的人民归家。
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. 愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。
