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Unit 9 Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptable Speech ——Al Gore
第九單元 阿爾·戈爾諾貝爾和平獎獲獎感言 ——阿爾·戈爾
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen,
尊貨的國王陛下，尊貴的各位殿下，尊敬的各位挪威諾貝爾學會的會員們，諸位閣下，女士們、先生們：
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.
我懷著一個目的來到這里，為了這個目的我已經奮斗多年。我曾向上帝祈禱，希望他能為我指出一條實現這一目標的道路。
Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life's work, unfairly labeling him the "Merchant of Death" because of his invention, dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.
有時，在毫無警告的情況下，未來會突然叩響我們的房門，讓我們看到寶貴而令人痛苦的未來景象。119年前，一位富有的發明家在自己去世數年前就在報上讀到了自己的訃告，是一家報紙誤登的。那家報紙誤以為發明家剛剛離世，對他的一生進行了非常嚴厲的批評，將他稱為“死亡商人”，因為他發明了炸藥。這一評價有失公允，但發明家卻因這指責而深受震動，做出了一個極為重要的決定——為和平而不懈努力。
Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.
七年之后，阿爾弗雷德·諾貝爾設立了諾貝爾和平獎，以及其他諸多以他的名字命名的獎項。
Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken, if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious, if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh, new ways to serve my purpose.
到明天就整整七年了，就在七年前，我在一則判決中讀到了我的政治生涯訃告，這訃告是殘忍和錯誤的，再說也為時過早。雖然令人痛苦，但這份不受歡迎的判決書也帶給我一份珍貴的禮物：一個尋求全新途徑來實現目標的機會。
Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray that what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, "We must act."
出乎我的意料，這一新的追求將我帶到了這里。盡管我此刻恐怕言不達意，但我祈求上帝將我心中所感清晰地傳達給大家，每一位聽眾聽完后都能說：“我們必須行動起來！”
