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Four more years! ... I can't do that. Four more years! ...
連任！……我不能這樣。連任！……
This is where I learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved and they get engaged,
就是在這里我明白了只有普通人參與其中、熱情投入，變革才會真正發生。
and they come together to demand it.
他們會聚集起來，要求變革。
After eight years as your President, I still believe that.
八年總統生涯之后，我依然相信這一點。
And it's not just my belief.
這不僅僅是我的信仰。
It's the beating heart of our American idea -- our bold experiment in self-government.
人民自治的大膽試驗，這本來就是我們美國夢想一直跳動的脈搏。
It's the conviction that we are all created equal,
這是我們的信念，我們相信人人生而平等，
endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
造物者賦予我們不可剝奪的權利，包括生命權、自由權和追求幸福的權利。
It's the insistence that these rights, while self-evident, have never been self-executing;
我們堅持這些不言自明的權利不會自行生效；
that We, the People, through the instrument of our democracy, can form a more perfect union.
我們堅信，我們美國人民通過運用民主，可以組建完美的聯盟。
What a radical idea.
多么先進的理念啊。
A great gift that our Founders gave to us:
我們的國父給予我們最偉大的饋贈：
The freedom to chase our individual dreams through our sweat and toil and imagination,
用汗水、辛勞和想象追逐個人夢想的自由，
and the imperative to strive together, as well, to achieve a common good, a greater good.
以及共同奮斗、實現更偉大共同利益的責任。
For 240 years, our nation's call to citizenship has given work and purpose to each new generation.
240年以來，我們國家對公民使命的召喚使得每一代人都有每一代人的工作和目標。
