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We understand that the great arc of human history bends towards people coming together in ever greater numbers,
回顧歷史，歷史的車輪總是青睞于更大基數的集體，
from tribes to cities to nations -- to achieve things that we couldn't on our own.
從部落到城市到國家，實現了我們不能單獨做的事情。
We get that our greatest opportunities are now global -- we can be the generation that ends poverty, that ends disease.
我們認為現在最大的機遇就是全球性的，我們可以成為終結貧窮和結束疾病的一代人。
Now, we get that our greatest challenges need global responses too.
但同時我們也意識到我們面臨的巨大挑戰，那需要全球性的協作。
No country can fight climate change alone or prevent pandemics.
沒有一個國家可以單獨應對氣候變化或預防全球大瘟疫。
Progress now requires coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.
要想取得進步不能靠單個城市或國家，更是要團結全球的社會。
But we live in an unstable time.
我們生活在一個不穩定的時期。
There are people left behind by globalization across the whole world.
有人被全球化所拋棄。
And it's tough to care about people in other places if we don't first feel good about our lives here at home.
如果我們對我們自己的生活感到困擾，那么很難在別的地方照顧別人，
There's pressure to turn inwards.
因為有內在的壓力。
This is the struggle of our time.
這是我們時代的斗爭。
The forces of freedom, openness and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism.
有支持自由，開放和反對威權主義，孤立主義和民族主義勢力的力量。
Forces for the flow of knowledge, trade and immigration against those who would slow them down.
有支持知識流動，貿易和移民的。
This is not a battle of nations, it's a battle of ideas.
這不是一場國家之間的斗爭，而是一場思想的斗爭。
There are people in every country for more global connection and good people against it.
每個國家的人們都有支持和反對全球化的人。
And this isn't gonna be decided at the UN either.
這也不是能在聯合國做出的決定。
It's gonna happen at the local level,
這將在每個地區發生，
when enough of us feel a sense of purpose and stability in our own lives that we can start to open up and care about everyone else too.
當我們能感覺到我們自己的使命和穩定感，我們才可以開始關心其他人。
And the best way to do that is to start building local communities right now.
而最好的辦法就是開始建立當地的社群。
