The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in this place have been crowded with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequence. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our political action. 自我上次站在这里以来，过去的四年充满了最关键的利益和后果的谋划与行动。在我们历史上，也许没有哪个同等时期能在经济和工业生活中产生如此多重要的改革，或在政治行动的精神和目标上发生如此多意义深远的变化。
We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our industrial life, liberate and quicken the processes of our national genius and energy, and lift our politics to a broader view of the people's essential interests. 我们深思熟虑地致力于整顿内务，纠正工业生活中较为严重的错误和弊端，解放并加速我们民族天赋和能量的进程，使我们的政治以更广阔的视野看待人民的根本利益。
It is a record of singular variety and singular distinction. But I shall not attempt to review it. It speaks for itself and will be of increasing influence as the years go by. This is not the time for retrospect. It is time rather to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future. 这是一份具有非凡多样性和非凡成就的记录。但我不打算回顾它。它本身足以说明问题，并且随着岁月的流逝将产生越来越大的影响。现在不是回顾的时候，而是表达我们对当下和不久的将来的想法和目标的时候。
Although we have centered counsel and action with such unusual concentration and success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago, other matters have more and more forced themselves upon our attention--matters lying outside our own life as a nation and over which we had no control, but which, despite our wish to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more irresistibly into their own current and influence. 尽管我们以非凡的专注和成功，将谋划和行动集中于四年前我们着手解决的国内立法重大问题上，但其他事务越来越多地迫使我们的关注——这些事务超出了我们作为一个国家自身的生活，我们也无法控制，但尽管我们希望置身事外，它们却越来越不可抗拒地将我们卷入其潮流和影响之中。
It has been impossible to avoid them. They have affected the life of the whole world. They have shaken men everywhere with a passion and an apprehension they never knew before. It has been hard to preserve calm counsel while the thought of our own people swayed this way and that under their influence. 这些问题不可能回避。它们影响了整个世界的生活。它们以人们前所未有的激情和忧虑震撼了各地的人们。当我们自己人民的思绪在其影响下摇摆不定时，很难保持冷静的谋划。
We are a composite and cosmopolitan people. We are of the blood of all the nations that are at war. The currents of our thoughts as well as the currents of our trade run quick at all seasons back and forth between us and them. The war inevitably set its mark from the first alike upon our minds, our industries, our commerce, our politics and our social action. To be indifferent to it, or independent of it, was out of the question. 我们是一个复合的、世界性的人民。我们是所有参战国家血脉的传承者。我们的思想潮流和贸易潮流一样，在各个季节快速地在我们和他们之间来回流动。战争从一开始就不可避免地在我们的思想、工业、商业、政治和社会行动上留下了印记。对它漠不关心或独立于它，都是不可能的。
And yet all the while we have been conscious that we were not part of it. In that consciousness, despite many divisions, we have drawn closer together. We have been deeply wronged upon the seas, but we have not wished to wrong or injure in return; have retained throughout the consciousness of standing in some sort apart, intent upon an interest that transcended the immediate issues of the war itself. 然而，一直以来我们都意识到自己不是其中的一部分。在这种意识中，尽管存在许多分歧，我们却走得更近了。我们在海上深受侵害，但我们不愿以牙还牙；我们始终保持着一种超然的意识，专注于超越战争本身直接问题的利益。
As some of the injuries done us have become intolerable we have still been clear that we wished nothing for ourselves that we were not ready to demand for all mankind--fair dealing, justice, the freedom to live and to be at ease against organized wrong. 当我们所遭受的某些侵害变得无法忍受时，我们仍然清楚，我们不愿为自己索取任何我们不愿为全人类要求的东西——公平对待、正义、免受有组织的邪恶侵害而自由生活和安逸的权利。
It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more and more aware, more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace. We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action. 正是本着这种精神和这种想法，我们越来越意识到，也越来越确信，我们希望扮演的是那些决心维护和巩固和平的人的角色。我们不得不武装自己，以维护我们对某些最低限度的权利和行动自由的诉求。
We stand firm in armed neutrality since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and cannot forget. We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or desire, to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association with the great struggle itself. 我们坚持武装中立，因为似乎只有这样才能表明我们所坚持的、无法忘却的立场。我们甚至可能被形势所迫——而非出于我们自己的目的或愿望——更积极地主张我们所认定的权利，并更直接地参与这场伟大的斗争本身。
But nothing will alter our thought or our purpose. They are too clear to be obscured. They are too deeply rooted in the principles of our national life to be altered. We desire neither conquest nor advantage. We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people. We always professed unselfish purpose and we covet the opportunity to prove our professions are sincere. 但没有什么能改变我们的想法或我们的目标。它们太清晰了，不会被遮蔽。它们太深植于我们民族生活的原则之中，不会被改变。我们既不渴求征服也不渴求利益。我们不希望获得任何只能以牺牲另一个民族为代价才能得到的东西。我们始终宣示无私的目标，我们渴望有机会证明我们的宣示是真诚的。
There are many things still to be done at home, to clarify our own politics and add new vitality to the industrial processes of our own life, and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve, but we realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things. 国内仍有许多事情要做，以澄清我们自己的政治，为我们生活的工业进程注入新的活力，我们将在时间和机会允许时去做这些事。但我们意识到，待完成的最伟大的事情必须以整个世界为舞台，与人类广泛而普遍的力量合作完成，我们正在为这些事情做好精神准备。
We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved whether we would have it so or not. 我们不再是乡野之民。我们刚刚经历的三十个月剧烈动荡的悲剧性事件，使我们成为世界公民。已经没有回头路可走。无论我们是否愿意，我们作为一个国家的命运都已牵涉其中。
And yet we are not the less Americans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind. These, therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace: 然而，我们并不会因此减少美国人的本色。如果我们忠于我们成长所依的原则，我们将更加美国化。这些原则不是某个省份或某个大陆的原则。我们一直以来都知道并引以为豪的是，它们是获得解放的人类的原则。因此，无论在战争还是和平时期，这些就是我们要坚持的东西：
That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples, and equally responsible for their maintenance; that the essential principle of peace is the actual equality of nations in all matters of right or privilege; that peace cannot securely or justly rest upon an armed balance of power. 所有国家同等地关心世界和平和自由民族的政治稳定，并同等地负有维护它们的责任；和平的基本原则是各国在一切权利或特权事务上的实际平等；和平不能安全或公正地建立在武装力量均势之上。
That governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the common thought, purpose or power of the family of nations; that the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples, under rules set up by common agreement and consent, and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible to all upon equal terms. 政府的一切正当权力来自被统治者的同意，各国大家庭的共同思想、目标或力量不应支持任何其他权力；在共同协议和同意制定的规则下，海洋对所有人民的使用应当同等地自由和安全，并在可行范围内，所有人在平等条件下都能进入。
That national armaments shall be limited to the necessities of national order and domestic safety; that the community of interest and of power upon which peace must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation the duty of seeing to it that all influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other states should be sternly and effectually suppressed and prevented. 国家军备应限于国家秩序和国内安全的需要；和平今后必须依赖的利益和权力共同体要求每个国家有义务确保其本国公民旨在鼓励或协助其他国家革命的一切影响得到严厉而有效的压制和阻止。
I need not argue these principles to you, my fellow countrymen; they are your own part and parcel of your own thinking and your own motives in affairs. They spring up native amongst us. Upon this as a platform of purpose and of action we can stand together. 同胞们，我不需要向你们论证这些原则；它们本身就是你们自己思考和行事务机的一部分。它们在我们中间自然生长。以此作为目标和行动的平台，我们可以站在一起。
And it is imperative that we should stand together. We are being forged into a new unity amidst the fires that now blaze throughout the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God's Providence, let us hope, be purged of faction and division, purified of the errant humors of party and of private interest, and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity of national pride and spirit. Let each man see to it that the dedication is in his own heart, the high purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. 而且我们必须站在一起。我们正在如今燃遍全世界的烈火中被锻造成新的统一体。在它们炽热的高温中，我们将在上帝的旨意下——让我们如此希望——被清除派系和分裂，被净化党派和私人利益的乖张习气，在未来的日子里以崭新的民族自豪和精神尊严挺身而出。让每个人都确保这种奉献在自己的心中，国家的崇高目标在自己的思想中，做自己意志和欲望的主人。
I stand here and have taken the high and solemn oath to which you have been audience because the people of the United States have chosen me for this august delegation of power and have by their gracious judgment named me their leader in affairs. 我站在这里，在你们面前宣读了庄严的誓词，因为美国人民选择我承担这一崇高的权力委托，并以他们仁慈的判断任命我为事务的领袖。
I know now what the task means. I realize to the full the responsibility which it involves. I pray God I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their counsel. 我现在知道这项任务意味着什么。我充分认识到它所涉及的责任。我祈求上帝赐予我智慧和审慎，以这个伟大人民的真正精神履行我的职责。我是他们的仆人，只有他们以信心和谋划来支持和引导我，我才能成功。
The thing I shall count upon, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail, is the unity of America--an America united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity and of service. 我所依靠的——没有它任何谋划或行动都将徒劳——是美国的团结：一个在情感、目标和责任、机遇与服务的愿景上团结一致的美国。
We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power. 我们要警惕所有那些将国家的任务和必需转变为私人利润，或利用它们建立私人权力的人。
United alike in the conception of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must now set our hand. For myself I beg your tolerance, your countenance and your united aid. 在对我们职责的构想和面对所有人履行职责的崇高决心中同样团结，让我们致力于我们现在必须着手进行的伟大任务。至于我自己，我请求你们的宽容、支持和大力的协助。
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled, and we shall walk with the light all about us if we be but true to ourselves--to ourselves as we have wished to be known in the counsels of the world and in the thought of all those who love liberty and justice and the right exalted. 笼罩在我们道路上的阴霾很快就会消散，只要我们忠于自己——忠于我们希望在世界协商中和所有热爱自由、正义和崇高权利的人们的思想中被认知的自己，我们将沐浴在光明中前行。