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Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice President, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Speaker, members of my family and friends, my countrymen, and the friends of my country,
主席先生，副總統(tǒng)先生，首席大法官先生，眾議院議長先生，我的親友們，同胞們及我們國家的朋友們：
wherever they may be, we meet again, as upon a like moment four years ago, and again you have witnessed my solemn oath of service to you.
盡管大家分散在各地，但我們又重新相聚，正如四年前的此刻一樣，你們再次親眼目睹我莊嚴(yán)宣誓為你們諸位服務(wù)。
I, too, am a witness, today testifying in your name to the principles and purposes to which we, as a people, are pledged.
今天，我也是一個見證人，對于我們作為一個民族而保證奉行的原則和目標(biāo)，我以你們的名義來作證。
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
首先，我們尋求全能的上帝保佑我們作為一個國家所做的共同努力。
And the hopes in our hearts fashion the deepest prayers of our whole people.
我們心中的希望造就了全體人民最深切的祝福。
May we pursue the right—without self-righteousness.
但愿我們追求正義而不自命公正。
May we know unity—without conformity.
但愿我們懂得在求同存異的基礎(chǔ)上保持團結(jié)。
May we grow in strength—without pride in self.
但愿我們的力量不斷壯大而杜絕驕傲自滿。
May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice.
但愿我們與世界各國人民交往時永遠(yuǎn)講真話和奉守公道。
And so shall America—in the sight of all men of good will prove true to the honorable purposes
這樣，美國將在一切懷有善良愿望的人們面前證明，它對各項光榮的目標(biāo)是忠誠不渝的。
that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.
在我們所經(jīng)歷的充滿考驗的整個時代里，我們作為一個民族受到這些目標(biāo)的制約和支配。
We live in a land of plenty, but rarely has this earth known such peril as today.
我們生活在一個富饒的國度，但是整個世界卻面臨從未有過的危機。
In our nation work and wealth abound.
在我們的國家里，人民各安其業(yè)，財富十分豐裕。
Our population grows. Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways.
我國的人口不斷增加。我們的河流、港口、鐵路和公路舟車云集，天空飛機穿梭，商業(yè)一派興旺繁盛。
Our soil is fertile, our agriculture productive. The air rings with the song of our industry
我國土地肥沃，農(nóng)業(yè)出產(chǎn)豐富。
rolling mills and blast furnaces, dynamos, dams, and assembly lines the chorus of America the bountiful.
天空里回蕩著工業(yè)奏出的樂章，這是一曲由軋鋼機、冶煉爐、發(fā) 電機、大水壩和裝配線所奏出的富足美國的大合唱。
This is our home—yet this is not the whole of our world.
這就是我們的國家。但這并不是我們世界的全部景象。
For our world is where our full destiny lies—with men, of all people, and all nations, who are or would be free.
因為我們的世界包括我們的全部命運所涉及的每一角落，已獲自由和即將獲得自由的國家和人民都在其中。
And for them—and so for us—this is no time of ease or of rest.
對他們說來，現(xiàn)在并不是悠閑自在和高枕無憂的時候。
In too much of the earth there is want, discord, danger.
對我們來說亦復(fù)如此。在這個地球的許多地方，還存在著貧困、紛爭和危險。
New forces and new nations stir and strive across the earth, with power to bring, by their fate, great good or great evil to the free world's future.
新的勢力和新興的國家在全球各地紛紛奮起抗?fàn)帲瑢ψ杂墒澜绲奈磥韥碚f，他們的力量注定不是帶來巨大的裨 益，就是造成巨大的災(zāi)難。
