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It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more and more aware,
基于這種精神和這種思想，我們日益明確地感到，
more and more certain that the part we wished to play was the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace.
以前我們所希望充當的，乃是那些有意于維護與鞏固和平的人們所扮演的角色。
We have been obliged to arm ourselves to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action.
我們迫不得已，只有武裝自己，以求實現我們對某種最低限度的權利和行動自由所提出的要求。
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.
看來，我們似乎沒有其他什么途徑能夠表明，我們所堅持和難以忘懷的東西乃為何物，
We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or desire,
既然如此，我們就只有堅定不移地保持武裝中立，我們甚至有可能為形勢所迫，
to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association with the great struggle itself.
不得不更加積極地維護我們自己所理解的權利，更加直接地卷入這場重大的斗爭。
But nothing will alter our thought or our purpose. They are too clear to be obscured.
這當然決非我們的本意和愿望。但是，任何東西都不能改變我們的想法和目標。我們的想法和目標甚為清楚，不會遭到遮蔽；
They are too deeply rooted in the principles of our national life to be altered.
它們深深地植根于我們國民生活的各項原則之中，因而不會被改變。
We desire neither conquest nor advantage. We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people.
我們既無意進行征服，也不想從中漁利。對于任何只有犧牲他國人民的利益才能獲得的東西，我們都毫無興趣。
We always professed unselfish purpose and we covet the opportunity to prove our professions are sincere.
我們向來表白自己無意于自私自利，我們也渴望得到機會來證明我們的表白確實具有誠意。
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,
在國內，我們還有許多事情要去做。我們需要凈化我們自己的政治生活，為我們的工業生活補充新的活力。
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
只要有適宜的時機我們就要進行這些工作。我們也認識到，那些有待完成的最重大的事情，
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.
必須以整個世界為舞臺，在全人類各種力量的合作之下才能完成。目前我們正在為這些事情作好精神準備。
We are provincials no longer.
我們不再是地方性的居民。
The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world.
我們剛剛經歷的為時三十個月的巨大動蕩中所發生的種種悲劇性事件，已經使我們成為世界性的公民。
There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved whether we would have it so or not.
開弓已無回頭箭，我們作為一個國家的運氣，取決于我們自己要把它變成一個什么樣的國家。
And yet we are not the less Americans on that account.
不過，即便如此，我們也不會變得不像美國人。
We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred.
只要我們仍然忠實于滋養我們成長的各項原則，我們就會更像美國人。
They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent.
這些原則并非僅只屬于某個地區或某個大陸，
We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind.
我們向來都知道并始終引以為榮的是，這些原則屬于獲得了自由的整個人類。
These, therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace:
因此，無論是戰時還是和平時期，我們都要堅持下述原則。
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;
所有國家都對世界的和平與各自由民族的政治穩定擁有同等的利益，都同樣有責任對這兩者加以維護；
