[by:可可英語～www.ccdyzl.cn][00:00.00]Beginning with the earliest pioneers, Americans have always highly valued their freedoms, and fought hard to protect them.從最早的拓荒者開始，美國人就一直十分珍視自由，一直為捍衛自由而奮斗。[00:10.29]And yet, the author points out that there is a basic freedom which Americans are in danger of losing.然而，本文作者指出還有一個美國人正面臨著喪失危險的基本自由。[00:17.93]What is this endangered freedom?這一有喪失危險的自由是什么？[00:21.18]For what reasons could freedom-loving Americans possibly let this freedom slip away?為什么熱愛自由的美國人會讓這一自由悄悄溜走？[00:28.15]And what steps can they take to protect it --- their fifth freedom?他們能采取什么措施來捍衛這一自由--他們的第五自由？[00:34.88]The Fifth Freedom第五自由[00:36.70]by Seymour St.John西摩·圣約翰[00:39.11]More than three centuries ago a handful of pioneers crossed the ocean to Jamestown and Plymouth三百多年以前，少數拓荒者橫渡大洋來到詹姆斯敦和普利茅斯，[00:46.22]in search of freedoms they were unable to find in their own countries,尋求他們在自己國內無法找到的自由，[00:51.05]the freedoms of we still cherish today:也是我們今天仍然珍視的自由：[00:54.81]freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.免于匱乏的自由，免于恐懼的自由，言論自由及信仰自由。[01:01.96]Today the descendants of the early settlers, and those who have joined them since,今天，這些早期移民的后裔以及后來加入其行列的人們[01:07.45]are fighting to protect these freedoms at home and throughout the world.還在美國國內和全世界為捍衛這些自由而戰斗。[01:12.97]And yet there is a fifth freedom --- basic to those four ---然而還有一個我們正面臨著喪失危險的第五自由：[01:17.62]that we are in danger of losing: the freedom to be one's best.達到自己最佳水平的自由。而這一自由正是上述四大自由的基礎。[01:23.27]St. Exupery describes a ragged, sensitive-faced Arab child, haunting the streets of a North African town, as a lost Mozart:法國作家圣·埃克蘇佩里曾把一個衣衫襤褸但長相聰穎，常在北非某市街頭游蕩的阿拉伯少年描寫成一個被埋沒的莫扎特：[01:33.23]he would never be trained or developed.他決不會受到訓練或培養。[01:36.29]Was he free?這個孩子自由嗎？[01:38.25]"No one grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time;“也許你一生下來就具有成為詩人、音樂家或天文學家的才能，但在時間還不算太晚的時候，[01:42.49]and nought will awaken in you the sleeping poet or musician or astronomer that possibly inhabited you from the beginning."沒有人拉你一把，時機一過，就再也無法喚醒在你身上沉睡著的這些才能了。”[01:51.12]The freedom to be one's best is the chance for the development of each person to his highest power.達到自己最佳水平的自由就是讓每個人把自己的能力發展到最高水平的機會。