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On each national day of inauguration since 1789, the people have renewed their sense of dedication to the United States.
1789年起．每逢總統(tǒng)就職典禮的全國性日子，人民都要賦予為合眾國作出奉獻以新的意義。
In Washington's day the task of the people was to create and weld together a nation.
在華盛頓就職時，人民的任務(wù)是創(chuàng)立和熔鑄成為一個國家。
In Lincoln's day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within.
在林肯就職時、人民的任務(wù)是維護這個國家，使它避免從內(nèi)部發(fā)生分裂。
In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without.
今天，人民的任務(wù)是挽救這個國家及其制度．使它避免因外部因素而瓦解。
To us there has come a time, in the midst of swift happenings, to pause for a moment and take stock
對我們來說，由于事態(tài)的急劇發(fā)展，現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)到了稍停片刻和作一番審查的時候
to recall what our place in history has been, and to rediscover what we are and what we may be.
重新想一想我們在歷史上占據(jù)了什么地位．重新看一看我們現(xiàn)在和可能扮演什么角色。
If we do not, we risk the real peril of isolation, the real peril are inact.
如果我們不這樣做，我們將因遲純而冒真正的危險。
Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.
國家的壽命并不是用年數(shù)的多少來確定的、而是用人類精神的生命力來確定的。
The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less.
人的壽命是70歲：有的人活得稍微長一些，有的人稍微短一些。
The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
國家的壽命則完全取決于它的生存意志。
There are men who doubt this. There are men who believe that democracy, as a form of Government and a frame of life,
有些人懷疑這一條。有些人認為：民主作為一種政體和生活制度，
is limited or measured by a kind of mystical and artificial fate that, for some unexplained reason,
受到神秘的和人為的命運的限制或制約；出于某種無法解釋的原因．
tyranny and slavery have become the surging wave of the future and that freedom is an ebbing tide.
暴政和奴隸制已成為未來的洶涌潮流；自由正在退潮。
But we Americans know that this is not true.
但是，我們美國人知道這不是真的。
Eight years ago, when the life of this Republic seemed frozen by a fatalistic terror, we proved that this is not true.
8年前， 當這個共和國的生命似乎由于命中注定的恐懼而停止時．我們已經(jīng)證明這不是真的。
