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Previous ages may not have had the wealth we enjoy. Their houses may have lacked electricity, and they squeezed their many kids into small homes without central heating. But those homes had no darkness, nor were they cold. They were lit bright with the glow of love and they were warmed snugly by the very heat of the human heart. Parents, undistracted by the lust for luxury and status, accorded their children primacy in their lives.
前人可能沒有我們現在所享有的財富，他們的房子里可能沒有電，很多孩子擠在沒有中央取暖設施的狹小房間里。但他們不會覺得黑暗，也不會覺得寒冷。愛的光芒照亮了他們的房間，熾熱的心靈溫暖了他們的身體。父母不會因貪求榮華富貴而分心，也不會因追求身份地位而心煩意亂，孩子才是他們生活中最重要的。
As you all know, our two countries broke from each other over what Thomas Jefferson referred to as "certain inalienable rights". And while we Americans and British might dispute the justice of his claims, what has never been in dispute is that children have certain inalienable rights, and the gradual erosion of those rights has led to scores of children worldwide being denied the joys and security of childhood.
我們都知道，我們兩國曾因托馬斯·杰斐遜提出的所謂“幾個不可剝奪的權利”而決裂。美國人和英國人也許會爭議杰斐遜的主張是否公正，但絕不會有人質疑兒童享有不可剝奪的權利，對這些權利的逐步剝奪已經導致世界上的很多兒童失去了童年的樂趣和安全保障。
I would therefore like to propose tonight that we install in every home a Childrenf#39;s Universal Bill of Rights, the tenets of which are:
因此，我建議今晚幰們就為每個家庭設立一部“世界兒童人權法案”，其條款如下：
1. The right to be loved without having to earn it.
1.不用去爭取就可以享受的被愛的權利。
2. The right to&.bsp;be protected, without having to deserve it.
2.不必乞求就可以享有的被保護的權利。
3. The right to feel valuable, even if you came into the world with nothing.
3. 即使來到這個世界時一無所有，也有被重視的權利。
4. The right to be listened to without having to be interesting.
4. 即使不引人注意也有被傾聽的權利。
5. The right to be read a bedtime story, without having to compete with the evening news or Eastenders.
5. 不需要與晚間新聞或《東區居民》抗爭，就有在睡覺前聽一段故事的權利。
