雙語|拜登就職:回顧美國總統就職演講中流傳甚廣的那些名言

美國當地時間1月20日,拜登正式宣誓就任美國第46任總統。在就職演講中,拜登呼籲國家團結,並承諾成爲“所有美國人的總統”。美國曆任總統的就職演講不乏經久不衰的名句,一起來回顧一下。

10. Joe Biden's inaugural address - 2021

2021年喬·拜登就職演講

"History, faith and reason show the way, the way of unity. We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect, we can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury."

歷史信仰理性爲我們指明道路。那是團結之路。我們可以把彼此視爲鄰居,而不是對手。我們可以有尊嚴地相互尊重。我們可以聯合起來,停止喊叫,減少憤怒。因爲沒有團結就沒有和平,只有痛苦和憤怒。

9. Theodore Roosevelt's second inaugural address - 1905

1905年西奧多·羅斯福第二次就職演講

"Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither."

我們被賦予的很多,期望於我們的自然也很多。我們對他人負有義務,對自己也負有義務;兩者都不能逃避。

8. Barack Obama's first inaugural address - 2009

2009年貝拉克·奧巴馬第一次就職演講

"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”

從今天起,我們必須振作起來,掃除我們身上塵土,重新開啓再造美國的事業

7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second inaugural address - 1937

1937年富蘭克林·羅斯福第二次就職演講

"Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned. We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics."

我們重溫古老真理,拋棄了謬誤。我們從來就知道毫無顧忌的自私自利是不道德的,我們現在知道它也是不合算的。

6. Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address - 1801

1801年托馬斯·傑斐遜第一次就職演講

"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."

但是,各種意見分歧並不都是原則分歧。我們以不同的名字呼喚同一原則的兄弟。我們都是共和黨人,我們都是聯邦黨人。

5. Bill Clinton's first inaugural address - 1993

1993年比爾·克林頓第一次就職演講

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

美國完全有能力自己解救自己。

4. Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address - 1981

1981年羅納德·里根第一次就職演講

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

就目前的危機而言,政府不能解決我們的問題,政府本身就是問題。

3. John F. Kennedy's first inaugural address - 1961

1961年約翰·肯尼迪第一次就職演講

"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

不要問國家能爲你們做些什麼,而要問你們能爲國家做些什麼。

2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address - 1933

1933年富蘭克林·羅斯福第一次就職演講

"This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

這個偉大的國家會一如既往地堅持下去,它會復興和繁榮起來。因此,讓我首先表明我的堅定信念:我們唯一恐懼的就是恐懼本身——一種莫名其妙、喪失理智的、毫無根據的恐懼,它把人轉退爲進所需的種種努力化爲泡影。

1. Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address - 1865

1865年亞伯拉罕·林肯第二次就職演講

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

我們對任何人也不懷惡意,我們對所有的人都寬大爲懷,堅持正義上帝既使我們認識正義,讓我們繼續努力向前,完成我們正在進行的事業;包紮起國家的創傷,關心那些爲戰爭作出犧牲的人,關心他們的遺孀孤兒——盡一切力量,以求在我們自己之間,以及我們和所有的國家之間實現並維護一個公正和持久的和平。