名校勵志英語演講 第119期:21世紀的挑戰(zhàn)(13)

[00:00.34]These are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years ago. 這些就是220年前美國立國的核心理想。 [00:08.07]These are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world stage. 這些理想指引我們跨越美洲大陸，走向世界舞臺。 [00:15.14]These are the ideals that Americans cherish today. 這些仍然是美國人民今天珍視的理想。 [00:21.09]As I said in my press conference with President Jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up to those ideals. 正如我在和江主席舉行的記者招待會上所說，我們美國人民正在不斷尋求實現這些理想。 [00:31.41]The people who framed our Constitution understood that we would never achieve perfection. 美國憲法的制定者了解，我們不可能做到盡善盡美。 [00:38.09]They said that the mission of America would always be "to form a more perfect union" 他們說，美國的使命始終是要“建設一個更為完美的聯(lián)邦。” [00:46.40]—in other words,that we would never be perfect, but we had to keep trying to do better. 換言之，我們永遠不可能盡善盡美，但我們必須不斷改進。 [00:54.02]The darkest moments in our history have come when we abandoned the effort to do better, 每當我們放棄不斷改進的努力，每當我們由于種族或宗教原因、 [01:00.08]when we denied freedom to our people because of their race or their religion, 由于是新移民，或者由于有人持不受歡迎的意見， [01:07.05]because there were new immigrants or because they held unpopular opinions. 而剝奪我們人民的自由，我們的歷史就出現最黑暗的時刻。 [01:12.52]The best moments in our history have come when we protected the freedom of people who held unpopular opinion, 每當我們保護持不受歡迎的意見者的自由， [01:22.58]or extended rights enjoyed by the many to the few who had previously been denied them, making, 或者將大多數人享受的權利給予以前被剝奪權利的人們， [01:31.45]therefore, the promises of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution more than faded words on old parchment. 從而實踐《獨立宣言》和《憲法》的諾言，而不是使其成為一紙空文，我們的歷史就出現最光明的時刻。

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