Thank you. Thank you, very much. 谢谢。非常感谢。
Chancellor Kohl, Governing Mayor Diepgen, ladies and gentlemen: 科尔总理、迪普根市长、女士们、先生们：
Twenty-four years ago, President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin, and speaking to the people of this city and the world at the city hall. Well since then two other presidents have come, each in his turn to Berlin. And today, I, myself, make my second visit to your city. 二十四年前，约翰·F·肯尼迪总统访问柏林，在市政厅向这座城市的人民和世界发表演讲。从那以后，又有两位总统来到柏林。今天，我本人第二次来到你们的城市。
We come to Berlin, we American Presidents, because it's our duty to speak in this place of freedom. But I must confess, we're drawn here by other things as well; by the feeling of history in this city -- more than 500 years older than our own nation; by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten; most of all, by your courage and determination. Perhaps the composer, Paul Linke, understood something about American Presidents. You see, like so many Presidents before me, I come here today because wherever I go, whatever I do: Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin. [I still have a suitcase in Berlin.] 我们来到柏林，我们这些美国总统，因为在这个自由之地发言是我们的职责。但我必须承认，我们也被其他东西吸引而来：被这座城市的历史感——比我们国家还要古老500多年；被格鲁内瓦尔德和蒂尔加滕公园的美景；最重要的是，被你们的勇气和决心。也许作曲家保罗·林克理解美国总统的某些特质。正如你们看到的，像我之前的许多总统一样，我今天来到这里是因为无论我走到哪里，无论我做什么：我在柏林还有一个行李箱。[Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin.]
Our gathering today is being broadcast throughout Western Europe and North America. I understand that it is being seen and heard as well in the East. To those listening throughout Eastern Europe, I extend my warmest greetings and the good will of the American people. To those listening in East Berlin, a special word: Although I cannot be with you, I address my remarks to you just as surely as to those standing here before me. For I join you, as I join your fellow countrymen in the West, in this firm, this unalterable belief: Es gibt nur ein Berlin. [There is only one Berlin.] 我们今天的集会正在向西欧和北美广播。我知道，东方也在观看和收听。向所有在东欧收听的人们，我致以最热烈的问候和美国人民的良好祝愿。向在东柏林收听的人们，我要说一句特别的话：虽然我不能和你们在一起，但我的讲话同样是对你们说的，就像对站在我面前的这些人一样。因为我与你们一起，与你们在西方的同胞一起，坚定地、不可改变地相信：柏林只有一个。[Es gibt nur ein Berlin.]
Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic South, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. 我身后的墙环绕着这座城市的自由区域，是横跨整个欧洲大陆的巨大隔离体系的一部分。从波罗的海向南，这些屏障像一道伤痕一样穿过德国，布满铁丝网、混凝土、警犬通道和瞭望塔。
Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same -- still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. 再往南，也许没有可见的、明显的墙。但仍然有武装守卫和检查站——仍然限制旅行的权利，仍然是将极权国家的意志强加于普通男女的工具。
Yet, it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. 然而，正是在柏林，这堵墙最为清晰地显现出来；在这里，它横穿你们的城市，新闻照片和电视屏幕已将这个大陆的残酷分裂深深地印刻在世界的脑海中。
Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German separated from his fellow men. 站在勃兰登堡门前，每个人都是一个与同胞分离的德国人。
Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar. 每个人都是一个柏林人，被迫面对一道伤痕。
President Von Weizsäcker has said, "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed." Well today -- today I say: As long as this gate is closed, as long as this scar of a wall is permitted to stand, it is not the German question alone that remains open, but the question of freedom for all mankind. 冯·魏茨泽克总统曾说："只要勃兰登堡门关闭着，德国问题就没有解决。"今天——今天我要说：只要这扇门关闭着，只要这道墙的伤痕被允许存在，不仅是德国问题没有解决，全人类的自由问题也没有解决。
Yet, I do not come here to lament. For I find in Berlin a message of hope, even in the shadow of this wall, a message of triumph. 然而，我不是来这里哀悼的。因为我在柏林找到了希望的信息，即使在这堵墙的阴影下，也有胜利的信息。
In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air-raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. And in 1947 Secretary of State -- as you've been told -- George Marshall announced the creation of what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Speaking precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos." 在1945年这个春天，柏林人民从防空洞中走出来，看到的是一片废墟。数千英里之外，美国人民伸出援手。1947年，正如你们所知，国务卿乔治·马歇尔宣布了后来被称为马歇尔计划的方案。就在四十年前的这个月，他说："我们的政策不是针对任何国家或主义，而是针对饥饿、贫穷、绝望和混乱。"
In the Reichstag a few moments ago, I saw a display commemorating this 40th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. I was struck by a sign -- the sign on a burnt-out, gutted structure that was being rebuilt. I understand that Berliners of my own generation can remember seeing signs like it dotted throughout the western sectors of the city. The sign read simply: "The Marshall Plan is helping here to strengthen the free world." 刚才在国会大厦，我看到了纪念马歇尔计划四十周年的展览。我被一个标志深深打动——一个正在重建的烧毁建筑物上的标志。我知道，和我同时代的柏林人还记得在城市西部区域到处看到这样的标志。标志上写着："马歇尔计划正在这里帮助巩固自由世界。"
A strong, free world in the West -- that dream became real. Japan rose from ruin to become an economic giant. Italy, France, Belgium -- virtually every nation in Western Europe saw political and economic rebirth; the European Community was founded. 一个强大、自由的西方世界——这个梦想变成了现实。日本从废墟中崛起，成为经济巨人。意大利、法国、比利时——西欧几乎每个国家都实现了政治和经济的重生；欧洲共同体成立了。
In West Germany and here in Berlin, there took place an economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder [Miracle on the Rhine]. Adenauer, Erhard, Reuter, and other leaders understood the practical importance of liberty -- that just as truth can flourish only when the journalist is given freedom of speech, so prosperity can come about only when the farmer and businessman enjoy economic freedom. The German leaders reduced tariffs, expanded free trade, lowered taxes. From 1950 to 1960 alone, the standard of living in West Germany and Berlin doubled. 在西德和柏林，发生了一场经济奇迹——莱茵河奇迹。阿登纳、艾哈德、罗伊特和其他领导人理解自由的实际重要性——正如真理只有在记者享有言论自由时才能繁荣一样，繁荣也只有在农民和商人享有经济自由时才能实现。德国领导人降低关税、扩大自由贸易、削减税收。仅从1950年到1960年，西德和柏林的生活水平就翻了一番。
Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany: busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of parkland. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. 四十年前还是废墟的地方，今天在西柏林已成为德国工业产出最高的城市：繁忙的办公楼、精美的住宅和公寓、气派的大道以及广阔的公园绿地。曾经文化似乎被摧毁的地方，今天有两所伟大的大学、管弦乐队和歌剧院、无数的剧院和博物馆。
Where there was want, today there's abundance -- food, clothing, automobiles -- the wonderful goods of the Kudamm. From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. Now the Soviets may have had other plans. But my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn't count on: Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze. [Berliner heart, Berliner humor, yes, and a Berliner Schnauze.] 曾经匮乏的地方，今天富足——食品、服装、汽车——库达姆大街上琳琅满目的商品。从毁灭中，从彻底的废墟中，你们柏林人在自由中重建了一座再次跻身世界伟大城市之列的城市。苏联人可能曾有其他计划。但我的朋友们，有几件事是苏联人没有预料到的：柏林的心、柏林的幽默，是的，还有柏林人的坚韧。[Berliner Herz, Berliner Humor, ja, und Berliner Schnauze.]
In the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind -- too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. 五十年代，赫鲁晓夫预言："我们将埋葬你们。"但今天在西方，我们看到一个自由世界达到了人类历史上前所未有的繁荣和福祉水平。在共产主义世界，我们看到失败、技术落后、健康水平下降，甚至最基本的需求都得不到满足——食物太少。即使今天，苏联仍然无法自给自足。
After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor. 四十年后，全世界面前有一个伟大而不可避免的结论：自由带来繁荣。自由用友好与和平取代了国家间古老的仇恨。自由是胜利者。
And now -- now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some political prisoners have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state control. 现在——现在苏联人自己可能在一定程度上开始理解自由的重要性。我们从莫斯科听到很多关于改革和开放的新政策。一些政治犯被释放。某些外国新闻广播不再被干扰。一些经济企业被允许在更大程度上摆脱国家控制运营。
Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. 这些是苏联国家深刻变革的开端吗？还是旨在在西方唤起虚假希望，或在不改变苏联体制的情况下加强它的象征性姿态？我们欢迎变革和开放；因为我们相信自由与安全相辅相成，人类自由的进步只能加强世界和平的事业。
There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. 苏联人可以做出一个明确无误的姿态，这将极大地促进自由与和平的事业。
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate. 戈尔巴乔夫总书记，如果你寻求和平，如果你寻求苏联和东欧的繁荣，如果你寻求自由化：来到这扇门前。
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. 戈尔巴乔夫先生，打开这扇门。
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! 戈尔巴乔夫先生，推倒这堵墙！
I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent, and I pledge to you my country's efforts to help overcome these burdens. To be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet expansion. So, we must maintain defenses of unassailable strength. Yet we seek peace; so we must strive to reduce arms on both sides. 我理解战争的恐惧和分裂的痛苦困扰着这片大陆，我向你们保证我国将努力帮助克服这些负担。当然，我们西方必须抵制苏联的扩张。因此，我们必须保持坚不可摧的防御力量。然而我们寻求和平；因此我们必须努力削减双方的军备。
Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles capable of striking every capital in Europe. The Western alliance responded by committing itself to a counter-deployment (unless the Soviets agreed to negotiate a better solution) -- namely, the elimination of such weapons on both sides. 十年前开始，苏联以一种严重的新威胁挑战西方联盟——数百枚新的、更致命的SS-20核导弹，能够打击欧洲每一个首都。西方联盟做出回应，承诺进行反部署（除非苏联同意谈判更好的解决方案）——即消除双方的此类武器。
For many months, the Soviets refused to bargain in earnestness. As the alliance, in turn, prepared to go forward with its counter-deployment, there were difficult days, days of protests like those during my 1982 visit to this city; and the Soviets later walked away from the table. 许多个月来，苏联拒绝认真谈判。当联盟准备推进反部署时，出现了困难的日子，就像我1982年访问这座城市时的那些抗议日子；后来苏联人离开了谈判桌。
But through it all, the alliance held firm. And I invite those who protested then -- I invite those who protest today -- to mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the table. Because we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the earth. 但自始至终，联盟坚定不移。我邀请当时抗议的人——我邀请今天抗议的人——记住这个事实：因为我们保持强大，苏联人回到了谈判桌。因为我们保持强大，今天我们有望不仅限制军备增长，而且首次从地球上消除一整类核武器。
As I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these weapons. At the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive weapons. And the Western allies have likewise made far-reaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical weapons. 就在我说话的时候，北约部长们正在冰岛开会，审查我们消除这些武器的提案进展。在日内瓦会谈中，我们还提出了大幅削减战略进攻性武器的建议。西方盟国也提出了影响深远的提案，以减少常规战争的危险并全面禁止化学武器。
While we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might occur. And in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiative -- research to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend; on systems, in short, that will not target populations, but shield them. 在我们追求这些军备削减的同时，我向你们保证我们将保持威慑苏联任何级别侵略的能力。美国正与许多盟国合作，推进战略防御倡议——研究将威慑建立在真正防御的基础上，而非进攻性报复的威胁；简而言之，建立不针对平民、而是保护平民的系统。
By these means we seek to increase the safety of Europe and all the world. But we must remember a crucial fact: East and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we mistrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. When President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled; Berlin was under siege. And today, despite all the pressures upon this city, Berlin stands secure in its liberty. And freedom itself is transforming the globe. 通过这些手段，我们寻求提高欧洲和全世界的安全。但我们必须记住一个关键事实：东西方互不信任不是因为我们拥有武器；我们拥有武器是因为我们互不信任。我们的分歧不在于武器，而在于自由。二十四年前肯尼迪总统在市政厅演讲时，自由被包围；柏林被围困。而今天，尽管这座城市面临种种压力，柏林依然在自由中屹立。自由本身正在改变世界。
In the Philippines, in South and Central America, democracy has been given a rebirth. Throughout the Pacific, free markets are working miracle after miracle of economic growth. In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place, a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications. 在菲律宾、南美和中美洲，民主获得了新生。在整个太平洋地区，自由市场创造了一个又一个经济增长的奇迹。在工业化国家，一场技术革命正在发生，这场革命以计算机和电信领域的快速、巨大进步为标志。
In Europe, only one nation and those it controls refuse to join the community of freedom. Yet in this age of redoubled economic growth, of information and innovation, the Soviet Union faces a choice: It must make fundamental changes, or it will become obsolete. 在欧洲，只有一个国家及其控制的地区拒绝加入自由共同体。然而在这个经济增长加倍、信息和创新蓬勃发展的时代，苏联面临一个选择：它必须做出根本改变，否则将变得过时。
Today, thus, represents a moment of hope. We in the West stand ready to cooperate with the East to promote true openness, to break down barriers that separate people, to create a safer, freer world. And surely there is no better place than Berlin, the meeting place of East and West, to make a start. 因此，今天代表着一个希望的时刻。我们西方准备与东方合作，促进真正的开放，打破分隔人们的壁垒，创造一个更安全、更自由的世界。当然，没有比柏林——东西方交汇之地——更好的起点了。
Free people of Berlin: Today, as in the past, the United States stands for the strict observance and full implementation of all parts of the Four Power Agreement of 1971. Let us use this occasion, the 750th anniversary of this city, to usher in a new era, to seek a still fuller, richer life for the Berlin of the future. Together, let us maintain and develop the ties between the Federal Republic and the Western sectors of Berlin, which is permitted by the 1971 agreement. 柏林的自由人民：今天，和过去一样，美国主张严格遵守和全面执行1971年《四国协定》的所有部分。让我们利用这座城市750周年庆典的机会，开创一个新时代，为未来的柏林寻求更加充实、丰富的生活。让我们共同维护和发展联邦共和国与柏林西部区域之间的联系，这是1971年协定所允许的。
And I invite Mr. Gorbachev: Let us work to bring the Eastern and Western parts of the city closer together, so that all the inhabitants of all Berlin can enjoy the benefits that come with life in one of the great cities of the world. 我邀请戈尔巴乔夫先生：让我们努力使城市的东西部更加紧密，以便柏林所有居民都能享受生活在世界伟大城市之一所带来的好处。
To open Berlin still further to all Europe, East and West, let us expand the vital air access to this city, finding ways of making commercial air service to Berlin more convenient, more comfortable, and more economical. We look to the day when West Berlin can become one of the chief aviation hubs in all central Europe. 为了让柏林进一步向整个欧洲——东方和西方——开放，让我们扩大通往这座城市的重要航空通道，找到使飞往柏林的商业航空服务更加便捷、舒适和经济的方法。我们期待西柏林成为中欧主要航空枢纽之一的那一天。
With our French and British partners, the United States is prepared to help bring international meetings to Berlin. It would be only fitting for Berlin to serve as the site of United Nations meetings, or world conferences on human rights and arms control, or other issues that call for international cooperation. 美国准备与我们的法国和英国伙伴一起，帮助将国际会议带到柏林。柏林作为联合国会议、人权和军备控制世界会议或其他需要国际合作的议题的举办地，将是非常合适的。
There is no better way to establish hope for the future than to enlighten young minds, and we would be honored to sponsor summer youth exchanges, cultural events, and other programs for young Berliners from the East. Our French and British friends, I'm certain, will do the same. And it's my hope that an authority can be found in East Berlin to sponsor visits from young people of the Western sectors. 没有比启迪年轻心灵更好的方式来建立未来的希望了，我们很荣幸赞助夏季青年交流、文化活动和其他面向东柏林青年的项目。我相信我们的法国和英国朋友也会这样做。我希望能在东柏林找到一个机构来赞助西部区域青年的访问。
One final proposal, one close to my heart: Sport represents a source of enjoyment and ennoblement, and you may have noted that the Republic of Korea -- South Korea -- has offered to permit certain events of the 1988 Olympics to take place in the North. International sports competitions of all kinds could take place in both parts of this city. And what better way to demonstrate to the world the openness of this city than to offer in some future year to hold the Olympic games here in Berlin, East and West. 最后一个提议，也是我内心深处的提议：体育代表着享受和崇高的源泉，你们可能已经注意到大韩民国——韩国——提出允许1988年奥运会的某些项目在北方举行。各种国际体育比赛可以在这座城市的两个部分举行。还有什么比在未来某个年份提议在这里——柏林的东部和西部——举办奥运会更好的方式来向世界展示这座城市的开放呢？
In these four decades, as I have said, you Berliners have built a great city. You've done so in spite of threats -- the Soviet attempts to impose the East-mark, the blockade. Today the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this wall. What keeps you here? Certainly there's a great deal to be said for your fortitude, for your defiant courage. 正如我所说，四十年来，你们柏林人建造了一座伟大的城市。尽管面临威胁——苏联试图强行推行东德马克、实施封锁——你们做到了。今天，尽管这堵墙的存在带来了挑战，这座城市依然繁荣。是什么让你们留在这里？当然，你们的坚韧、你们的反抗勇气值得大书特书。
But I believe there's something deeper, something that involves Berlin's whole look and feel and way of life -- not mere sentiment. No one could live long in Berlin without being completely disabused of illusions. Something, instead, that has seen the difficulties of life in Berlin but chose to accept them, that continues to build this good and proud city in contrast to a surrounding totalitarian presence, that refuses to release human energies or aspirations, something that speaks with a powerful voice of affirmation, that says "yes" to this city, yes to the future, yes to freedom. In a word, I would submit that what keeps you in Berlin -- is "love." 但我相信还有更深层的东西，涉及柏林的整个面貌、感觉和生活方式——不仅仅是情感。没有人能在柏林久居而不彻底摒弃幻想。相反，有些人看到了柏林生活的困难，但选择接受它们，继续在周围极权势力的对比中建设这座美好而自豪的城市，这种势力拒绝释放人类的能量和渴望，有些人用强有力的声音表达肯定，对这座城市说"是的"，对未来说"是的"，对自由说"是的"。一句话，我认为让你们留在柏林的——是"爱"。
Love both profound and abiding. 既深刻又持久的爱。
Perhaps this gets to the root of the matter, to the most fundamental distinction of all between East and West. The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront. 也许这触及了问题的核心，触及了东西方之间最根本的区别。极权世界产生落后，因为它对精神施加暴力，挫败人类创造、享受和崇拜的冲动。极权世界甚至将爱与崇拜的象征视为冒犯。
Years ago, before the East Germans began rebuilding their churches, they erected a secular structure: the television tower at Alexander Platz. Virtually ever since, the authorities have been working to correct what they view as the tower's one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every kind. Yet even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the cross. There in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be suppressed. 多年前，东德人开始重建教堂之前，他们建造了一座世俗建筑：亚历山大广场的电视塔。几乎从那时起，当局一直在努力纠正他们认为塔的一个主要缺陷：用各种油漆和化学物质处理塔顶的玻璃球。然而即使今天，当阳光照射到那个球体——那个高耸于柏林之上的球体时，光线形成了十字架的形状。在柏林，就像这座城市本身一样，爱的象征、崇拜的象征无法被压制。
As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: "This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality." 刚才我从国会大厦——德国统一的象征——向外望去，我注意到墙上粗糙的喷漆文字，也许是一个年轻的柏林人写的："这堵墙将会倒塌。信念变成现实。"
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall, for it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. 是的，在整个欧洲，这堵墙将会倒塌，因为它无法抵挡信仰；无法抵挡真理。这堵墙无法抵挡自由。
And I would like, before I close, to say one word. I have read, and I have been questioned since I've been here about certain demonstrations against my coming. And I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate so. I wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they're doing again. 在结束之前，我想说一句话。我读过一些报道，自从我来到这里，有人问到关于反对我来访的某些示威活动。我只想对那些示威者说一句话。我想知道他们是否曾问过自己，如果他们得到了他们显然寻求的那种政府，没有人能再做他们现在正在做的事情。
Thank you and God bless you all. Thank you. 谢谢大家，上帝保佑你们。谢谢。