I have taken for my subject, "The Crisis," because I believe that a crisis has come in our movement which, if recognized and the opportunity seized with vigor, enthusiasm and will, means the final victory of our great cause in the very near future. I am aware that some suffragists do not share this belief; they see no signs nor symptoms today which were not present yesterday; no manifestations in the year 1916 which differ significantly from those in the year 1910. 我选择"危机"作为我的主题，因为我相信我们的运动已经到来了一个危机，如果我们认识到这一点，并以活力、热情和决心抓住这个机会，这意味着我们伟大事业的最终胜利就在不远的将来。我知道一些女权主义者并不认同这一信念；他们认为今天没有任何昨天不存在的迹象或症状；1916年没有任何与1910年显著不同的表现。
To them, the movement has been a steady, normal growth from the beginning and must so continue until the end. I can only defend my claim with the plea that it is better to imagine a crisis where none exists than to fail to recognize one when it comes; for a crisis is a culmination of events which calls for new considerations and new decisions. A failure to answer the call may mean an opportunity lost, a possible victory postponed. 对他们来说，运动从一开始就是稳步、正常的增长，必须继续如此直到结束。我只能为我的主张辩护：与其在危机来临时未能认识到它，不如想象一个不存在的危机；因为危机是事件的高潮，需要新的考虑和新的决定。未能响应号召可能意味着机会的丧失，胜利的推迟。
The object of the life of an organized movement is to secure its aim. Necessarily, it must obey the law of evolution and pass through the stages of agitation and education and finally through the stage of realization. As one has put it: "A new idea floats in the air over the heads of the people and for a long, indefinite period evades their understanding but, by and by, when through familiarity, human vision grows clearer, it is caught out of the clouds and crystallized into law." 一个有组织运动的生命目标是实现其宗旨。它必然要遵循进化法则，经过鼓动和教育阶段，最后经过实现阶段。正如有人所说："一个新思想漂浮在人们头顶的空气中，在很长一段不确定的时期内逃避他们的理解，但随着时间的推移，当熟悉使人类的视野变得清晰时，它从云中被抓住并结晶为法律。"
Such a period comes to every movement and is its crisis. In my judgment, that crucial moment, bidding us to renewed consecration and redoubled activity has come to our cause. I believe our victory hangs within our grasp, inviting us to pluck it out of the clouds and establish it among the good things of the world. 这样的时期会来到每个运动面前，这就是它的危机。在我看来，那个要求我们重新奉献和加倍努力的关键时刻已经来到我们的事业面前。我相信胜利就在我们掌握之中，邀请我们将其从云中摘下，确立在世界的美好事物之中。
If this be true, the time is past when we should say: "Men and women of America, look upon that wonderful idea up there; see, one day it will come down." Instead, the time has come to shout aloud in every city, village and hamlet, and in tones so clear and jubilant that they will reverberate from every mountain peak and echo from shore to shore: "The woman's Hour has struck." 如果这是真的，我们说"美国的男女们，看看头顶上那个美妙的想法吧；看，总有一天它会降临"的时代已经过去。相反，现在已经到了在每一个城市、村庄和小镇大声呼喊的时候，用如此清晰和欢快的语调，让它们回荡在每一座山峰上，从海岸到海岸："女性时刻已经到来。"
Suppose suffragists as a whole do not believe a crisis has come and do not extend their hands to grasp the victory, what will happen? Why, we shall all continue to work and our cause will continue to hang, waiting for those who possess a clearer vision and more daring enterprise. On the other hand, suppose we reach out with united earnestness and determination to grasp our victory while it still hangs a bit too high? Has any harm been done? None! 假设女权主义者整体不相信危机已经到来，不伸出手去抓住胜利，会发生什么？那么，我们都会继续努力，我们的事业将继续悬而未决，等待那些拥有更清晰视野和更大胆事业的人。另一方面，假设我们以团结的热忱和决心伸出手去抓住仍悬得有点高的胜利？有什么伤害吗？没有！
Therefore, fellow suffragists, I invite your attention to the signs which point to a crisis and your consideration of plans for turning the crisis into victory. 因此，亲爱的女权主义者们，我邀请你们关注指向危机的迹象，并考虑将危机转化为胜利的计划。
First, we are passing through a world crisis. All thinkers of every land tell us so; and that nothing after the great war will be as it was before. Those who profess to know, claim that 100 millions of dollars are being spent on the war every day and that 2 years of war have cost 50 billions of dollars or 10 times more than the total expense of the American Civil War. Our own country has sent 35 millions of dollars abroad for relief expenses. 首先，我们正在经历一场世界危机。每个国家的所有思想家都告诉我们这一点；大战之后，一切都将不复从前。那些自称了解情况的人声称，每天有1亿美元被花在战争上，两年的战争花费了500亿美元，是美国内战总支出的10倍。我们自己的国家已经向国外发送了3500万美元用于救济开支。
Were there no other effects to come from the world's war, the transfer of such unthinkably vast sums of money from the usual avenues to those wholly abnormal would give so severe a jolt to organized society that it would vibrate around the world and bring untold changes in its wake. 即使世界战争没有其他影响，将如此难以想象的巨额资金从通常的渠道转移到完全不正常的渠道，也会给有组织的社会带来如此严重的冲击，使其震动全世界，并带来无数的变化。
But three and a half millions of lives have been lost. The number becomes the more impressive when it is remembered that the entire population of the American Colonies was little more than three and one-half millions. These losses have been the lives of men within the age of economic production. They have been taken abruptly from the normal business of the world. 但是，350万人的生命已经丧失。当人们想到整个美洲殖民地的人口也不过略多于350万时，这个数字就更加令人印象深刻。这些损失的是处于经济生产年龄的男性生命。他们被突然从世界的正常事务中夺走。
Every human activity from that of the humblest, unskilled labor to art, science and literature has been weakened by their loss. Millions of other men will go to their homes, blind, crippled and incapacitated to do the work they once performed. 从最卑微的非技能劳动到艺术、科学和文学的每一项人类活动都因他们的损失而削弱。数百万其他男性将回到家中，失明、残疾，无法从事他们曾经从事的工作。
The stability of human institutions has never before suffered so tremendous a shock. Great men are trying to think out the consequences but one and all proclaim that no imagination can find color or form bold enough to paint the picture of the world after the war. British and Russian, German and Austrian, French and Italian agree that it will lead to social and political revolution throughout the entire world. Whatever comes, they further agree that the war presages a total change in the status of women. 人类机构的稳定性从未遭受过如此巨大的冲击。伟大的人物们正在努力思考后果，但所有人都宣称，没有任何想象力能够找到足够大胆的色彩或形式来描绘战后世界的景象。英国人和俄罗斯人、德国人和奥地利人、法国人和意大利人一致认为，这将导致整个世界的社会和政治革命。无论发生什么，他们进一步一致认为，战争预示着妇女地位的彻底改变。
A simple-minded man in West Virginia, when addressed upon the subject of woman suffrage in that State, replied, "We've been so used to keepin' our women down, 'twould seem queer not to." He expressed what greater men feel but do not say. Had the wife of that man spoken in the same clear-thinking fashion, she would have said, "We women have been so used to being kept down that it would seem strange to get up. Nature intended women for door-mats." Had she so expressed herself, these two would have put the entire anti-suffrage argument in a nut-shell. 西弗吉尼亚州的一个头脑简单的人，在被问及该州的妇女选举权问题时回答说："我们一直习惯于让我们的妇女处于低下地位，不让她们起来似乎很奇怪。"他表达了伟大人物感受到但没有说出来的东西。如果那个人的妻子也以同样清晰的思维方式说话，她会说："我们妇女一直习惯于被置于低下地位，站起来似乎很奇怪。大自然注定妇女要做门垫。"如果她这样表达，这两个人就把整个反选举权论点说得一清二楚了。
In Europe, from the Polar Circle to the Aegean Sea, women have risen as though to answer that argument. Everywhere they have taken the places made vacant by men and in so doing, they have grown in self-respect and in the esteem of their respective nations. In every land, the people have reverted to the primitive division of labor and while the men have gone to war, women have cultivated the fields in order that the army and nation may be fed. No army can succeed and no nation can endure without food; those who supply it are a war power and a peace power. 在欧洲，从北极圈到爱琴海，妇女们站起来了，仿佛是在回答那个论点。到处都有妇女接替了男子留下的位置，在这样做的过程中，她们的自尊和各民族对她们的尊重都得到了增强。在每个国家，人们都回归到原始的劳动分工，当男子去打仗时，妇女耕种田地，以便军队和国家能够获得食物。没有食物，任何军队都无法成功，任何国家都无法生存；那些供应食物的人是战争力量和和平力量。
Women by the thousands have knocked at the doors of munition factories and, in the name of patriotism, have begged for the right to serve their country there. Their services were accepted with hesitation but the experiment once made, won reluctant but universal praise. An official statement recently issued in Great Britain announced that 660,000 women were engaged in making munitions in that country alone. 成千上万的妇女敲响了军工厂的大门，以爱国主义的名义恳求在那里为国家服务的权利。她们的服务起初被犹豫地接受，但一旦尝试，就赢得了不情愿但普遍的赞扬。英国最近发布的一份官方声明宣布，仅在该国就有66万妇女从事军火制造。
In a recent convention of munition workers, composed of men and women, a resolution was unanimously passed informing the government that they would forego vacations and holidays until the authorities announced that their munition supplies were sufficient for the needs of the war and Great Britain pronounced the act the highest patriotism. 在最近一次由男女组成的军火工人大会上，一致通过了一项决议，通知政府他们将放弃假期，直到当局宣布他们的军火供应足以满足战争需要，英国称这一行为是最高的爱国主义。
Lord Derby addressed such a meeting and said, "When the history of the war is written, I wonder to whom the greatest credit will be given; to the men who went to fight or to the women who are working in a way that many people hardly believed that it was possible for them to work." Lord Sydenham added his tribute. Said he, "It might fairly be claimed that women have helped to save thousands of lives and to change the entire aspect of the war. Wherever intelligence, care and close attention have been needed, women have distinguished themselves." 德比勋爵在这样的会议上发表讲话说："当战争的历史被书写时，我不知道最大的功劳会归于谁；是去战斗的人，还是以许多人几乎不相信她们能够做到的方式工作的妇女。"赛登汉姆勋爵也表示了敬意。他说："可以公平地说，妇女帮助挽救了数千人的生命，并改变了战争的整个面貌。在任何需要智慧、细心和密切关注的地方，妇女都表现出色。"
A writer in the London Times of July 18, 1916, said: "But, for women, the armies could not have held the field for a month; the national call to arms could not have been made or sustained; the country would have perished of inanition and disorganization." 1916年7月18日《伦敦时报》的一位作家说："但是，如果没有妇女，军队连一个月都无法坚守阵地；全国征兵号召无法发出或维持；国家将因虚弱和混乱而灭亡。"
If, indeed, it be true that the people have been one, it is because the genius of women has been lavishly applied to the task of reinforcing and complementing the genius of men. The qualities of steady industry, adaptability, good judgment and concentration of mind which men do not readily associate with women have been conspicuous features. 如果说人民确实团结一致，那是因为妇女的才华被慷慨地应用于加强和补充男子才华的任务中。男子不容易与妇女联系在一起的稳定勤奋、适应性、良好判断力和专注力等品质，已成为显著特征。
On fields of battle, in regular and improvised hospitals, women have given tender and skilled care to the wounded and are credited with the restoration of life to many, heroism and self-sacrifice have been frankly acknowledged by all the governments; but their endurance, their skill, the practicality of their service, seem for the first time, to have been recognized by governments as "war power". 在战场上，在正规和临时医院里，妇女们为伤员提供了温柔和熟练的护理，并被认为挽救了许多人的生命。所有政府都坦率地承认了她们的英雄主义和自我牺牲；但她们的耐力、技能和服务的实用性，似乎第一次被政府承认为"战争力量"。
So, thinking in war terms, great men have suddenly discovered that women are "war assets". Indeed, Europe is realizing, as it never did before, that women are holding together the civilization for which men are fighting. A great search-light has been thrown upon the business of nation-building and it has been demonstrated in every European land that it is a partnership with equal, but different responsibilities resting upon the two partners. 因此，用战争术语思考，伟大人物突然发现妇女是"战争资产"。事实上，欧洲正在意识到，它以前从未意识到，妇女正在维系着男子为之战斗的文明。一道巨大的探照灯投射在国家建设的事业上，在每个欧洲国家都证明了这是一种伙伴关系，两个伙伴承担着平等但不同的责任。
It is not, however, in direct war work alone that the latent possibilities of women have been made manifest. In all the belligerent lands, women have found their way to high posts of administration where no women would have been trusted two years ago and the testimony is overwhelming that they have filled their posts with entire satisfaction to the authorities. 然而，妇女潜在的可能性不仅仅在直接的战争工作中得到体现。在所有交战国，妇女已经走上了两年前不会信任妇女担任的高级行政职位，证据压倒性地表明她们出色地完成了自己的职责，令当局完全满意。
They have dared to stand in pulpits (once too sacred to be touched by the unholy feet of a woman) and there, without protest, have appealed to the Father of All in behalf of their stricken lands. They have come out of the kitchen where there was too little to cook and have found a way to live by driving cabs, motors and streetcars. 她们敢于站在讲坛上（曾经被认为太神圣，不容妇女不洁的脚触碰），在那里，毫无争议地代表她们受灾的土地向上帝祈祷。她们从食物太少的厨房里走出来，通过驾驶出租车、汽车和有轨电车找到了谋生的方式。
Many a woman has turned her hungry children over to a neighbor and has gone forth to find food for both mothers and both families of children and has found it in strange places and occupations. Many a drawing-room has been closed and the maid who swept and dusted it is now cleaning streets that the health of the city may be conserved. Many a woman who never before slept in a bed of her own making, or ate food not prepared by paid labor, is now sole mistress of parlor and kitchen. 许多妇女把饥饿的孩子交给邻居，自己出去为两位母亲和两个家庭的孩子寻找食物，并在陌生的地方和职业中找到了食物。许多客厅已经关闭，曾经打扫和擦拭它的女仆现在正在清扫街道，以维护城市的健康。许多以前从未睡过自己铺的床，或吃过非有偿劳动准备的食物的妇女，现在成为了客厅和厨房的唯一主人。
In all the warring countries, women are postmen, porters, railway conductors, ticket, switch and signal men. Conspicuous advertisements invite women to attend agricultural, milking and motor-car schools. They are employed as police in Great Britain and women detectives have recently been taken on the government staff. In Berlin, there are over 3,000 women streetcar conductors and 3,500 women are employed on the general railways. In every city and country, women are doing work for which they would have been considered incompetent two years ago. 在所有参战国，妇女担任邮递员、搬运工、铁路售票员、票务员、扳道工和信号员。醒目的广告邀请妇女参加农业、挤奶和汽车学校。在英国，她们被雇佣为警察，女侦探最近也被纳入政府工作人员。在柏林，有超过3000名女有轨电车售票员，3500名妇女受雇于普通铁路。在每个城市和国家，妇女都在从事两年前被认为不适合她们的工作。
The war will soon end and the armies will return to their native lands. To many a family, the men will never come back. The husband who returns to many a wife, will eat no bread the rest of his life save of her earning. 战争很快就会结束，军队将返回他们的祖国。对许多家庭来说，男子将永远不会回来。许多妻子迎接回来的丈夫，余生将只能靠她的收入为生。
What then, will happen after the war? Will the widows left with families to support cheerfully leave their well-paid posts for those commanding lower wages? Not without protest! Will the wives who now must support crippled husbands give up their skilled work and take up the occupations which were open to them before the war? Will they resignedly say: "The woman who has a healthy husband who can earn for her, has a right to tea and raisin cake, but the woman who earns for herself and a husband who has given his all to his country, must be content with butterless bread?" 那么，战争结束后会发生什么？肩负家庭重担的寡妇们会愉快地离开高薪职位去从事工资较低的工作吗？不会没有抗议！那些现在必须养活残疾丈夫的妻子们会放弃她们熟练的工作，去从事战争前对她们开放的职业吗？她们会顺从地说："有健康丈夫能够养活她的女人有权享用茶和葡萄干蛋糕，但为自己和为国家献出一切的丈夫而工作的女人，必须满足于没有黄油的面包吗？"
On the contrary, the economic axiom, denied and evaded for centuries, will be blazoned on every factory, counting house and shop: "Equal pay for equal work"; and common justice will slowly, but surely enforce that law. The European woman has risen. She may not realize it yet, but the woman "door-mat" in every land has unconsciously become a "door-jamb"! 相反，被否认和回避了几个世纪的经济公理将在每个工厂、账房和商店里闪耀："同工同酬"；共同的正义将缓慢但肯定地强制执行这项法律。欧洲妇女已经崛起。她可能还没有意识到，但每个国家的"门垫"妇女已经不知不觉地变成了"门框"！
She will have become accustomed to her new dignity by the time the men come home. She will wonder how she ever could have been content lying across the threshold now that she discovers the upright jamb gives so much broader and more normal a vision of things. The men returning may find the new order a bit queer but everything else will be strangely unfamiliar too, and they will soon grow accustomed to all the changes together. The "jamb" will never descend into a "door-mat" again. 到男人们回家时，她将已经习惯了她的新尊严。她会想知道，既然她发现直立的门框能让她对事物有更广阔、更正常的视野，她怎么会满足于躺在门槛上。回来的男人们可能会发现新秩序有点奇怪，但其他一切也会变得奇怪和陌生，他们很快就会一起适应所有的变化。"门框"再也不会变成"门垫"了。
The male and female anti-suffragists of all lands will puff and blow at the economic change which will come to the women of Europe. They will declare it to be contrary to Nature and to God's plan and that somebody ought to do something about it. Suffragists will accept the change as the inevitable outcome of an unprecedented world's cataclysm over which no human agency had any control and will trust in God to adjust the altered circumstances to the eternal evolution of human society. They will remember that in the long run, all things work together for good, for progress and for human weal. 各国的男性和女性反选举权主义者将对欧洲妇女即将发生的经济变化吹毛求疵。他们会宣称这违背自然和上帝的计划，应该有人对此采取行动。女权主义者会接受这种变化，将其视为一场前所未有的世界灾难的不可避免的结果，这场灾难不受任何人类机构的控制，并相信上帝会将变化后的环境调整到人类社会的永恒进化中。她们会记住，从长远来看，所有事情都为了善、为了进步和为了人类的福祉而共同作用。
The economic change is bound to bring political liberty. From every land, there comes the expressed belief that the war will be followed by a mighty, oncoming wave of democracy for it is now well known that the conflict has been one of governments, of kings and Czars, Kaisers and Emperors; not of peoples. The nations involved have nearly all declared that they are fighting to make an end of wars. 经济变化必然带来政治自由。每个国家都表达了这样的信念：战争之后将迎来一股强大的民主浪潮，因为现在众所周知，这场冲突是政府、国王和沙皇、皇帝和凯撒之间的冲突，而不是人民之间的冲突。参与的国家几乎都宣布，他们正在战斗以结束战争。
New and higher ideals of governments and of the rights of the people under them, have grown enormously during the past two years. Another tide of political liberty, similar to that of 1848, but of a thousandfold greater momentum, is rising from battlefield and hospital, from camp and munitions factory, from home and church which, great men of many lands, tell us, is destined to sweep over the world. On the continent, the women say, "It is certain that the vote will come to men and women after the war, perhaps not immediately but soon." 在过去两年中，关于政府和人民在政府下权利的新的更高理想得到了极大的发展。另一股政治自由的浪潮，类似于1848年的浪潮，但势头大一千倍，正在从战场和医院、从营地和军工厂、从家庭和教堂中升起，许多国家的伟大人物告诉我们，这股浪潮注定要席卷世界。在大陆上，妇女们说："战后，投票权肯定会到来，可能不会立即到来，但很快就会到来。"
In Great Britain, which was the storm centre of the suffrage movement for some years before the war, hundreds of bitter, active opponents have confessed their conversion on account of the war services of women. Already, three great provinces of Canada, Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, have given universal suffrage to their women in sheer generous appreciation of their war work. 在战争前几年一直是选举权运动风暴中心的英国，数百名激烈的积极反对者已经承认，由于妇女在战争中的服务，他们转变了立场。加拿大的三个大省——马尼托巴省、阿尔伯塔省和萨斯喀彻温省——已经纯粹出于对妇女战争工作的慷慨赞赏，给予了她们普选权。
Even Mr. Asquith, world renowned for his immovable opposition to the Parliamentary suffrage for British women, has given evidence of a change of view. Some months ago, he announced his amazement at the utterly unexpected skill, strength and resource developed by the women and his gratitude for their loyalty and devotion. 即使是世界著名的对英国妇女议会选举权持坚定反对态度的阿斯奎斯先生，也表现出了观点的改变。几个月前，他宣布对妇女展现出的完全意想不到的技能、力量和资源感到惊讶，并对她们的忠诚和奉献表示感激。
Later, in reply to Mrs. Henry Fawcett, who asked if woman suffrage would be included in a proposed election bill, he said that when the war should end, such a measure would be considered without prejudice carried over from events prior to the war. A public statement issued by Mr. Asquith in August, was couched in such terms as to be interpreted by many as a pledge to include women in the next election bill. 后来，在回答亨利·福塞特夫人关于拟议的选举法案是否会包括妇女选举权的问题时，他说，战争结束后，这样的措施将在不带战前事件偏见的情况下予以考虑。阿斯奎斯先生8月份发表的一份公开声明措辞如此，以至于许多人将其解释为承诺在下一次选举法案中包括妇女。
In Great Britain, a sordid appeal which may prove the last straw to break the opposition to woman suffrage, has been added to the enthusiastic appreciation of woman's patriotism and practical service and to the sudden comprehension that motherhood is a national asset which must be protected at any price. A new voters' list is contemplated. 在英国，除了对妇女的爱国主义和实际服务的热情赞赏，以及突然意识到母亲身份是必须不惜一切代价保护的国家资产之外，又增加了一个可能成为打破对妇女选举权反对的最后一根稻草的卑鄙诉求。一项新的选民名单正在考虑中。
A parliamentary election should be held in September but the voters are scattered far and wide. The whole nation is agitated over the questions involved in making a new register. At the same time, there is a constant anxiety over war funds, as is prudent in a nation spending 50 millions of dollars per day. 议会选举应在9月举行，但选民分散在四面八方。整个国家都在为制定新登记册所涉及的问题而感到焦虑。与此同时，人们对战争资金的焦虑持续不断，这对于一个每天花费5000万美元的国家来说是审慎的。
It has been proposed that a large poll tax be assessed upon the voters of the new lists, whereupon a secondary proposal of great force has been offered and that is, that twice as much money would find its way into the public coffers were women added to the voters' list. What nation, with compliments fresh spoken concerning women's patriotism and efficiency, could resist such an appeal? 有人提议对新名单上的选民征收大量投票税，随后提出了一项强有力的次要提议，即如果妇女被添加到选民名单中，将有两倍多的钱流入公共国库。哪个国家，在刚刚对妇女的爱国主义和效率表示赞扬之后，能够拒绝这样的诉求？
So it happens that above the roar of cannon, the scream of shrapnel and the whirr of aeroplanes, one who listens may hear the cracking of the fetters which have long bound the European woman to outworn conventions. It has been a frightful price to pay but the fact remains that a womanhood, well started on the way to final emancipation, is destined to step forth from the war. It will be a bewildered, troubled and grief-stricken womanhood with knotty problems of life to solve, but it will be freer to deal with them than women have ever been before. 因此，在大炮的轰鸣声、炮弹的尖叫声和飞机的嗡嗡声之上，细心聆听的人可能会听到长期束缚欧洲妇女于过时习俗的枷锁正在破裂的声音。这是一个可怕的代价，但事实是，一个已经在最终解放的道路上起步的妇女群体注定要从战争中走出来。这将是一个困惑、困扰和悲伤的妇女群体，有着棘手的生活问题需要解决，但她们将比以往任何时候都更自由地处理这些问题。
"The Woman's Hour has struck." It has struck for the women of Europe and for those of all the world. The significance of the changed status of European women has not been lost upon the men and women of our land; our own people are not so unlearned in history, nor so lacking in National pride that they will allow the Republic to lag long behind the Empire, presided over by the descendant of George the Third. "女性时刻已经到来。"它已经为欧洲的妇女和世界所有的妇女敲响了。欧洲妇女地位改变的意义没有被我们国家的男男女女忽视；我们自己的人民并不是那么不了解历史，也不是那么缺乏民族自豪感，以至于会允许共和国长期落后于由乔治三世后裔主持的帝国。
If they possess the patriotism and the sense of nationality which should be the inheritance of an American, they will not wait until the war is ended but will boldly lead in the inevitable march of democracy, our own American specialty. Sisters, let me repeat, the Woman's Hour has struck! 如果他们拥有美国人应该继承的爱国主义和民族意识，他们就不会等到战争结束，而是会大胆地在民主的不可阻挡的进程中引领潮流，这是我们自己的美国特色。姐妹们，让我再说一遍，女性时刻已经到来！
Second, as the most adamantine rock gives way under the constant dripping of water, so the opposition to woman suffrage in our own country has slowly disintegrated before the increasing strength of our movement. Turn backward the pages of our history! Behold, brave Abbie Kelley rotten-egged because she, a woman, essayed to speak in public. 其次，正如最坚硬的岩石在不断滴水之下也会屈服一样，我国对妇女选举权的反对也在我们运动日益增强的力量面前慢慢瓦解。让我们回顾我们的历史！看哪，勇敢的艾比·凯利因为作为女性敢于在公共场合演讲而被扔臭鸡蛋。
Behold the Polish Ernestine Rose startled that women of free America drew aside their skirts when she proposed that they should control their own property. Recall the saintly Lucretia Mott and the legal-minded Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned out of the World's Temperance convention in London and conspiring together to free their sex from the world's stupid oppressions. Remember the gentle, sweet-voiced Lucy Stone, egged because she publicly claimed that women had brains capable of education. 看哪，波兰的欧内斯汀·罗斯惊讶地发现，自由美国的妇女在她提议她们应该控制自己的财产时，纷纷避让。回想圣洁的卢克雷蒂娅·莫特和法律头脑的伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿，她们在伦敦的世界禁酒大会上被赶出来，并合谋一起将她们的性别从世界的愚蠢压迫中解放出来。记住温柔、声音甜美的露西·斯通，她因为公开声称妇女有能力接受教育而被扔鸡蛋。
Think upon Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, snubbed and boycotted by other women because she proposed to study medicine. Behold Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, standing in sweet serenity before an Assembly of howling clergymen, angry that she, a woman dared to attend a Temperance Convention as a delegate. Revere the intrepid Susan B. Anthony mobbed from Buffalo to Albany because she demanded fair play for women. These are they who builded with others the foundation of political liberty for American women. 想想伊丽莎白·布莱克韦尔博士，因为她提议学习医学而被其他妇女冷落和抵制。看哪，安托瓦内特·布朗·布莱克韦尔博士，在一群咆哮的牧师面前平静地站立着，他们愤怒的是，她作为女性敢于作为代表参加禁酒大会。崇敬无畏的苏珊·B·安东尼，她因为要求妇女获得公平待遇而从布法罗被围攻到奥尔巴尼。正是她们与其他人一起为美国妇女奠定了政治自由的基础。
Those who came after only laid the stones in place. Yet, what a wearisome task even that has been! Think of the wonderful woman who has wandered from village to village, from city to city, for a generation compelling men and women to listen and to reflect by her matchless eloquence. Where in all the world's history has any movement among men produced so invincible an advocate as our own Dr. Anna Howard Shaw? Those whom she has led to the light are Legion. 那些后来者只是把石头放在适当的位置。然而，即使是那项任务也多么令人厌倦！想想那位奇妙的妇女，她一代又一代地从村庄到村庄，从城市到城市，用她无与伦比的口才迫使男男女女倾听和反思。在世界历史上，有哪一个男性运动产生了像我们自己的安娜·霍华德·肖博士那样不可战胜的倡导者？被她引导到光明中的人不计其数。
Think, too, of the consecration, the self-denial, the never-failing constancy of that other noble soul set in a frail but unflinching body -- the heroine we know as Alice Stone Blackwell! A woman who never forgets, who detects the slightest flaw in the weapons of her adversary, who knows the most vulnerable spot in his armor, presides over the Woman's Journal and, like a lamp in a lighthouse, the rays of her intelligence, farsightedness and clear-thinking have enlightened the world concerning our cause. 同样，想想另一位高尚灵魂的奉献、自我否定和永不失败的坚定——我们所知的女英雄爱丽丝·斯通·布莱克韦尔！一位永不忘记的妇女，她能发现对手武器中最微小的缺陷，知道他盔甲中最脆弱的地方，她主持《妇女杂志》，像灯塔中的灯一样，她的智慧、远见和清晰思维的光芒照亮了世界，让人们了解我们的事业。
The names of hundreds of other brave souls spring to memory when we pause to review the long struggle. 当我们停下来回顾这场漫长的斗争时，数百名其他勇敢灵魂的名字涌上心头。
The hands of many suffrage master-masons have long been stilled; the names of many who laid the stones have been forgotten. That does not matter. The main thing is that the edifice of woman's liberty nears completion. It is strong, indestructible. All honor to the thousands who have helped in the building. 许多选举权大师泥瓦匠的手早已静止；许多铺设石头的人的名字已经被遗忘。这并不重要。主要的事情是，妇女自由的大厦即将完成。它坚固、不可摧毁。向成千上万帮助建造的人致敬。
The four Corner-stones of the foundations were laid long years ago. We read upon the first: "We demand for women education, for not a high school or college is open to her"; upon the second, "We demand for women religious liberty for in few churches is she permitted to pray or speak"; upon the third, "We demand for women the right to own property and an opportunity to earn an honest living. Only six, poorly-paid occupations are open to her, and if she is married, the wages she earns are not hers"; upon the fourth, "We demand political freedom and its symbol, the vote." 基础的四个基石是多年前铺设的。我们在第一个上读到："我们要求为妇女提供教育，因为没有一所高中或大学对她开放"；在第二个上读到："我们要求为妇女提供宗教自由，因为在很少的教堂里她被允许祈祷或说话"；在第三个上读到："我们要求妇女拥有财产权和获得诚实生活的机会。只有六种报酬微薄的职业对她开放，如果她已婚，她挣的工资不属于她"；在第四个上读到："我们要求政治自由及其象征——投票权。"
The stones in the foundation have long been overgrown with the moss and mould of time, and some there are who never knew they were laid. Of late, four cap-stones at the top have been set to match those in the base, and we read upon the first: "The number of women who are graduated from high schools, colleges and universities is legion"; upon the second, "The Christian Endeavor, that mighty, undenominational church militant, asks the vote for the women and the Methodist Episcopal Church, and many another, joins that appeal"; 基础中的石头早已被时间的苔藓和霉菌覆盖，有些人甚至不知道它们曾经被铺设过。最近，顶部设置了四个顶石来匹配底部的石头，我们在第一个上读到："从高中、学院和大学毕业的妇女人数不计其数"；在第二个上读到："基督教奋进会，那个强大的跨教派教会武装力量，要求给予妇女投票权，卫理公会主教教会和许多其他教会加入了这一呼吁"；
upon the third, "Billions of dollars worth of property are earned and owned by women; more than 8 millions of women are wage-earners. Every occupation is open to them"; upon the fourth: "Women vote in 12 States; they share in the determination of 91 electoral votes." 在第三个上读到："数十亿美元价值的财产由妇女赚取和拥有；超过800万妇女是工薪阶层。每一种职业都对她们开放"；在第四个上读到："妇女在12个州投票；她们分享91张选举人票的决定权。"
After the cap-stones and cornice comes the roof. Across the empty spaces, the rooftree has been flung and fastened well in place. It is not made of stone but of two planks -- planks in the platform of the two majority parties, and these are well supported by planks in the platforms of all minority parties. 顶石和檐口之后是屋顶。横跨空旷的空间，屋顶梁已经被抛起并牢固地固定在适当的位置。它不是由石头制成的，而是由两块木板制成的——两个多数党的政纲中的木板，这些木板得到了所有少数党政纲中木板的良好支持。
And we who are the builders of 1916, do we see a crisis? Standing upon these planks which are stretched across the top-most peak of this edifice of woman's liberty, what shall we do? Over our heads, up there in the clouds, but tantalizingly near, hangs the roof of our edifice -- the vote. What is our duty? 而我们作为1916年的建设者，我们看到危机了吗？站在横跨这座妇女自由大厦最顶峰的这些木板上，我们该做什么？在我们头顶上，在云中，但触手可及，悬挂着我们大厦的屋顶——投票权。我们的职责是什么？
Shall we spend time in admiring the capstones and cornice? Shall we lament the tragedies which accompanied the laying of the cornerstones? or, shall we, like the builders of old, chant, "Ho! all hands, all hands, heave to! All hands, heave to!" and while we chant, grasp the overhanging roof and with a long pull, a strong pull and a pull together, fix it in place forevermore? 我们应该花时间欣赏顶石和檐口吗？我们应该哀悼铺设基石时伴随的悲剧吗？或者，我们应该像古代的建造者一样，高呼："嘿！所有人，所有人，用力拉！所有人，用力拉！"，一边高呼，一边抓住悬垂的屋顶，用力拉，使劲拉，一起拉，将其永远固定在适当的位置？
Is the crisis real or imaginary? If it be real, it calls for action, bold, immediate and decisive. 危机是真实的还是想象的？如果是真实的，它要求采取行动，大胆、立即和果断的行动。
Let us then take measure of our strength. Our cause has won the endorsement of all political parties. Every candidate for the presidency is a suffragist. It has won the endorsement of most churches; it has won the hearty approval of all great organizations of women. It was won the support of all reform movements; it has won the progressives of every variety. The majority of the press in most States is with us. Great men in every political party, church and movement are with us. 那么，让我们衡量一下我们的力量。我们的事业赢得了所有政党的认可。每一位总统候选人都是女权主义者。它赢得了大多数教会的认可；赢得了所有伟大妇女组织的衷心赞同。它赢得了所有改革运动的支持；赢得了各种进步人士的支持。大多数州的媒体都支持我们。每个政党、教会和运动中的伟大人物都支持我们。
The names of the greatest men and women of art, science, literature and philosophy, reform, religion and politics are on our lists. We have not won the reactionaries of any party, church or society, and we never will. From the beginning of things, there have been Antis. The Antis drove Moses out of Egypt; they crucified Christ who said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself"; they have persecuted Jews in all parts of the world; they poisoned Socrates, the great philosopher; 艺术、科学、文学和哲学、改革、宗教和政治领域最伟大的男女的名字都在我们的名单上。我们没有赢得任何政党、教会或社会的反动分子，我们永远也不会。从事情的开始，就有反对者。反对者把摩西赶出埃及；他们把说"爱你的邻居如同爱你自己"的基督钉在十字架上；他们在世界各地迫害犹太人；他们毒害伟大的哲学家苏格拉底；
they cruelly persecuted Copernicus and Galileo, the first great scientists; they burned Giordano Bruno at the stake because he believed the world was round; they burned Savonarola who warred upon church corruption; they burned Eufame McIlyane because she used an anaesthetic; they burned Joan d'Arc for a heretic; they have sent great men and women to Siberia to eat their hearts out in isolation; they burned in effigy William Lloyd Garrison; they egged Abbie Kelley and Lucy Stone and mobbed Susan B. Anthony. 他们残酷迫害第一批伟大的科学家哥白尼和伽利略；他们因为相信地球是圆的而将乔尔丹诺·布鲁诺烧死在火刑柱上；他们烧死了与教会腐败作斗争的萨沃纳罗拉；他们烧死了使用麻醉剂的尤法姆·麦克伊尔莱恩；他们把圣女贞德当作异教徒烧死；他们将伟大的男女送往西伯利亚，让他们在孤立中伤心欲绝；他们烧毁了威廉·劳埃德·加里森的模拟像；他们向艾比·凯利和露西·斯通扔鸡蛋，围攻苏珊·B·安东尼。
Yet, in proportion to the enlightenment of their respective ages, these Antis were persons of intelligence and honest purpose. They were merely deaf to the call of Progress and were enraged because the world insisted upon moving on. Antis male and female there still are and will be to the end of time. Give to them a prayer of forgiveness for they know not what they do; and prepare for the forward march. 然而，与他们各自时代的启蒙程度相称，这些反对者都是有智慧和诚实目的的人。他们只是对进步的呼声充耳不闻，并因为世界坚持前进而感到愤怒。男性和女性反对者现在仍然存在，并将一直存在到时间的尽头。为他们祈祷宽恕，因为他们不知道自己在做什么；然后准备前进。
We have not won the ignorant and illiterate and we never can. They are too undeveloped mentally to understand that the institutions of today are not those of yesterday nor will be those of tomorrow. 我们没有赢得无知和文盲，我们永远也不会。他们的心智太不成熟，无法理解今天的制度不是昨天的，也不会是明天的。
We have not won the forces of evil and we never will. Evil has ever been timorous and suspicious of all change. It is an instinctive act of self-preservation which makes it fear and consequently oppose votes for women. As the Hon. Champ Clark said the other day: "Some good and intelligent people are opposed to woman suffrage; but all the ignorant and evil-minded are against it." 我们没有赢得邪恶势力，我们永远也不会。邪恶向来胆小多疑，对所有变化都持怀疑态度。害怕并因此反对妇女投票是一种本能的自我保护行为。正如尊敬的钱普·克拉克前几天所说："一些善良聪明的人反对妇女选举权；但所有无知和邪恶的人都反对它。"
These three forces are the enemies of our cause. 这三种力量是我们事业的敌人。
Before the vote is won, there must and will be a gigantic final conflict between the forces of progress, righteousness and democracy and the forces of ignorance, evil and reaction. That struggle may be postponed, but it cannot be evaded or avoided. There is no question as to which side will be the victor. 在赢得投票权之前，进步、正义和民主的力量与无知、邪恶和反动的力量之间必须而且将会发生一场巨大的最终冲突。这场斗争可能会推迟，但无法逃避或避免。哪一方将成为胜利者是毫无疑问的。
Shall we play the coward, then, and leave the hard knocks for our daughters, or shall we throw ourselves into the fray, bare our own shoulders to the blows, and thus bequeath to them a politically liberated womanhood? We have taken note of our gains and of our resources! and they are all we could wish. Before the final struggle, we must take cognizance of our weaknesses. Are we prepared to grasp the victory? 那么，我们应该扮演懦夫，把艰难的打击留给我们的女儿们，还是应该投身战斗，让自己的肩膀承受打击，从而将政治解放的妇女身份传给她们？我们已经注意到我们的成就和资源！它们都是我们所希望的。在最后的斗争之前，我们必须认识到我们的弱点。我们准备好抓住胜利了吗？
Alas, no! our movement is like a great Niagara with a vast volume of water tumbling over its ledge but turning no wheel. Our organized machinery is set for the propagandistic stage and not for the seizure of victory. Our supporters are spreading the argument for our cause; they feel no sense of responsibility for the realization of our hopes. Our movement lacks cohesion, organization, unity and consequent momentum. 唉，没有！我们的运动就像一个伟大的尼亚加拉大瀑布，巨大的水量从悬崖上倾泻而下，却没有转动任何轮子。我们的组织机制是为宣传阶段设置的，而不是为夺取胜利设置的。我们的支持者正在传播我们事业的论点；他们对实现我们的希望没有责任感。我们的运动缺乏凝聚力、组织性、统一性和随之而来的动力。
Behind us, in front of us, everywhere about us are suffragists -- millions of them, but inactive and silent. They have been "agitated and educated" and are with us in belief. There are thousands of women who have at one time or another been members of our organization but they have dropped out because, to them the movement seemed negative and pointless. 在我们身后、面前、周围到处都是女权主义者——数百万，但不活跃且沉默。他们已经被"鼓动和教育"，在信念上支持我们。有成千上万的妇女曾经是我们组织的成员，但她们已经退出，因为对她们来说，运动似乎是消极的和毫无意义的。
Many have taken up other work whose results were more immediate. Philanthropy, charity, work for corrective laws of various kinds, temperance, relief for working women and numberless similar public services have called them. Others have turned to the pleasanter avenues of clubwork, art or literature. 许多人从事了其他成果更直接的工作。慈善事业、各种矫正法律的工作、禁酒运动、为劳动妇女提供救济以及无数类似的公共服务都吸引了她们。其他人转向了更愉快的俱乐部工作、艺术或文学道路。
There are thousands of other women who have never learned of the earlier struggles of our movement. They found doors of opportunity open to them on every side. They found well-paid posts awaiting the qualified woman and they have availed themselves of all these blessings; almost without exception they believe in the vote but they feel neither gratitude to those who opened the doors through which they have entered to economic liberty nor any sense of obligation to open other doors for those who come after. 还有成千上万的妇女从未了解过我们运动早期的斗争。她们发现机会之门在她们身边敞开。她们发现高薪职位等待着合格的妇女，她们已经利用了所有这些祝福；几乎无一例外地，她们相信投票权，但她们既不感激那些为她们打开经济自由之门的人，也没有义务为后来者打开其他大门。
There are still others who, timorously looking over their shoulders to see if any listeners be near, will tell us they hope we will win and win soon but they are too frightened of Mother Grundy to help. There are others too occupied with the small things of life to help. They say they could find time to vote but not to work for the vote. There are men, too, millions of them, waiting to be called. 还有一些人，胆怯地回头看看是否有听众在附近，会告诉我们她们希望我们尽快获胜，但她们太害怕舆论了，不敢帮忙。还有一些人太忙于生活中的小事而无法帮忙。她们说她们可以抽出时间投票，但不能为投票权工作。还有男人，数百万的男人，等待着被召唤。
These men and women are our reserves. They are largely unorganized and untrained soldiers with little responsibility toward our movement. Yet these reserves must be mobilized. The final struggle needs their numbers and the momentum those numbers will bring. Were never another convert made, there are suffragists enough in this country, if combined, to make so irresistible a driving force that victory might be seized at once. 这些男人和女人是我们的后备军。他们大多是没有组织和训练的士兵，对我们的运动几乎没有责任感。然而，这些后备军必须被动员起来。最后的斗争需要他们的人数和这些人数将带来的动力。即使不再有一个皈依者，如果这个国家的女权主义者联合起来，也足以形成一股不可抗拒的驱动力，立即夺取胜利。
How can it be done? By a simple change of mental attitude. If we are to seize the victory, that change must take place in this hall, here and now! 这怎么可能做到？通过简单的心态转变。如果我们要夺取胜利，这种转变必须在这个大厅里，在这里，现在发生！
The old belief, which has sustained suffragists in many an hour of discouragement, "woman suffrage is bound to come," must give way to the new, "The Woman's Hour has struck." The long drawn out struggle, the cruel hostility which, for years was arrayed against our cause, have accustomed suffragists to the idea of indefinite postponement but eventual victory. 旧的信念，"妇女选举权一定会到来"，在许多令人沮丧的时刻支撑着女权主义者，必须让位于新的信念，"女性时刻已经到来。"漫长的斗争，多年来反对我们事业的残酷敌意，已经让女权主义者习惯于无限期推迟但最终胜利的想法。
The slogan of a movements sets its pace. The old one counseled patience; it said, there is plenty of time; it pardoned sloth and half-hearted effort. It set the pace of an educational campaign. The "Woman's Hour has struck" sets the pace of a crusade which will have its way. It says: "Awake, arise, my sisters, let your hearts be filled with joy -- the time of victory is here. Onward March." 运动的口号决定了它的节奏。旧口号建议耐心；它说，时间充裕；它原谅懒惰和半心半意的努力。它设定了教育运动的节奏。"女性时刻已经到来"设定了一场将按自己方式进行的圣战的节奏。它说："醒来吧，站起来吧，我的姐妹们，让你们的心充满喜悦——胜利的时刻已经到来。前进吧。"
If you believe with me that a crisis has come to our movement -- if you believe that the time for final action is now, if you catch the rosy tints of the coming day, what does it mean to you? Does it not give you a thrill of exaltation; does the blood not course more quickly through your veins; does it not bring a new sense of freedom, of joy and of determination? 如果你和我一样相信我们的运动已经到来了一个危机——如果你相信现在是采取最终行动的时候，如果你看到了即将到来的日子的玫瑰色彩，这对你意味着什么？它难道不给你一种兴奋的感觉吗？血液难道不会更快地流过你的血管吗？它难道不会带来一种新的自由、喜悦和决心感吗？
Is it not true that you who wanted a little time ago to lay down the work because you were weary with long service, now, under the compelling influence of a changed mental attitude, are ready to go on until the vote is won. The change is one of spirit! Aye, and the spiritual effect upon you will come to others. 你们中不久前因为长期服务而疲惫不堪，想要放下工作的人，现在在心态改变的强烈影响下，准备继续前进直到赢得投票权，这难道不是真的吗？改变在于精神！是的，你身上的精神效果也会传递给他人。
Let me borrow an expression from Honorable John Finlay: What our great movement needs now is a "mobilization of spirit" -- the jubilant, glad spirit of victory. 让我借用尊敬的约翰·芬利的一句话：我们伟大的运动现在需要的是"精神动员"——胜利的喜悦、欢欣的精神。
Then let us sound a bugle call here and now to the women of the Nation: "The Woman's Hour has struck." Let the bugle sound from the suffrage headquarters of every State at the inauguration of a State campaign. Let the call go forth again and, again and yet again. 那么，让我们现在就在这里向全国的妇女吹响号角："女性时刻已经到来。"让号角在每个州的选举权总部响起，在州竞选开始时响起。让号召一次又一次地发出。
Let it be repeated in every article written, in every speech made, in every conversation held. Let the bugle blow again and yet again. The Political emancipation of our sex calls you: Women of America, arise! Are you content that others shall pay the price of your liberty? 让它在每一篇文章中重复，在每一次演讲中重复，在每一次对话中重复。让号角一次又一次地吹响。我们性别的政治解放呼唤你们：美国的妇女们，站起来！你们是否满足于让别人为你们的自由付出代价？
Women in schools and counting house, in shops and on the farm, women in the home with babes at their breasts and women engaged in public careers will hear. The veins of American women are not filled with milk and water. They are neither cowards nor slackers. They will come. They only await the bugle call to learn that the final battle is on. 学校和账房里的妇女，商店和农场里的妇女，怀里抱着婴儿的家庭妇女，以及从事公共事业的妇女都会听到。美国妇女的血管里流淌的不是奶和水。她们既不是懦夫也不是懒汉。她们会来的。她们只等待号角响起，得知最后的战斗已经开始。