I am glad to come to Westminster College this afternoon, and am complimentedv. /ˈkɑːmplɪmentɪd/ 被恭维；感到荣幸 that you should give me a degree. The name “Westminster” is somehow familiar to me.
I seem to have heard of it before. Indeed, it was at Westminster that I received a very large part of my education in politics, dialecticn. /ˌdaɪəˈlektɪk/ 辩证术；辩证推理, rhetoricn. /ˈretərɪk/ 修辞学；辞令, and one or two other things. In fact we have both been educated at the same, or similar, or, at any rate, kindredadj. /ˈkɪndrəd/ 同宗的，类似的 establishmentsn. /ɪˈstæblɪʃmənts/ 机构，学府.
今天下午我很高兴来到威斯敏斯特学院，也很荣幸你们要授予我学位。「威斯敏斯特」这个名字对我来说有几分熟悉。
我似乎从前就听说过它。事实上，正是在威斯敏斯特，我接受了我在政治、辩证、修辞以及其他一两门学问上的大部分教育。事实上，我们双方都是在同一所——或相似的，或至少是同类的——学府里受的教育。
我似乎从前就听说过它。事实上，正是在威斯敏斯特，我接受了我在政治、辩证、修辞以及其他一两门学问上的大部分教育。事实上，我们双方都是在同一所——或相似的，或至少是同类的——学府里受的教育。
It is also an honour, perhaps almost uniqueadj. /juˈniːk/ 独一无二的，绝无仅有的, for a private visitor to be introduced to an academic audience by the President of the United States. Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities—unsought but not recoiledv. /rɪˈkɔɪld/ 退缩，畏避（recoil 的过去式） from—the President has travelled a thousand miles to dignifyv. /ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ/ 使有尊严，抬高身份 and magnifyv. /ˈmæɡnɪfaɪ/ 放大，彰显 our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too. The President has told you that it is his wish, as I am sure it is yours, that I should have full liberty to give my true and faithful counsel in these anxious and baffling times. I shall certainly availv. /əˈveɪl/ 利用，受益（avail oneself of） myself of this freedom, and feel the more right to do so because any private ambitions I may have cherishedv. /ˈtʃerɪʃt/ 怀有，珍视 in my younger days have been satisfied beyond my wildest dreams. Let me, however, make it clear that I have no official mission or status of any kind, and that I speak only for myself. There is nothing here but what you see.
对于一位私人访客来说，由美国总统向一个学术听众引介，这也是一种荣誉，也许是几乎绝无仅有的荣誉。总统先生肩负着沉重的负担、义务与责任——这些并非他所谋求，却也未被推卸——却远行一千英里，来为我们此地的聚会增添尊严与分量，并给我一个机会，向这个同宗的民族、向大洋彼岸我自己的同胞，或许也向其他一些国家讲话。总统已经告诉过你们，他希望——我相信你们也希望——我能在这焦虑而令人困惑的时刻，完全自由地给出我真实而忠实的忠告。我当然会运用这一自由，并且觉得更有权这样做，因为我在年轻时或许怀有的一切个人抱负，都已超出我最狂野的梦想而得到满足。然而，请让我讲明：我没有任何官方使命或任何性质的官方身份，我只代表我自己说话。这里除了你们所见到的，别无他物。
A shadown. /ˈʃædoʊ/ 阴影，阴霾 has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organisation intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansiveadj. /ɪkˈspænsɪv/ 扩张的，扩张性的 and proselytisingadj. /ˈprɑːsələtaɪzɪŋ/ 劝人改宗的；极力拉拢的 tendencies. I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiantadj. /ˈvæliənt/ 英勇的，勇敢的 Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin. There is deep sympathy and goodwill in Britain—and I doubt not here also—towards the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffsn. /rɪˈbʌfs/ 冷落，断然拒绝 in establishing lasting friendships. We understand the Russian need to be secure on her western frontiersn. /frʌnˈtɪrz/ 边境，边疆 by the removal of all possibility of German aggressionn. /əˈɡreʃn/ 侵略，侵犯. We welcome Russia to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. We welcome her flag upon the seas. Above all, we welcome constant, frequent and growing contacts between the Russian people and our own people on both sides of the Atlantic. It is my duty however, for I am sure you would wish me to state the facts as I see them to you, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe.
一片阴影已经落在了那些不久前还被盟军胜利照亮的场景之上。没有人知道苏联及其共产国际组织在最近的将来意图做什么，也不知道他们扩张与劝人改宗的倾向有没有限度——如果有的话。我对英勇的俄罗斯人民和我战时的同志斯大林元帅怀有强烈的钦佩与敬意。在英国——我相信在这里也一样——人们对全体俄罗斯人民怀有深切的同情与善意，并且决心在许多分歧与冷落之中坚持下去，以建立持久的友谊。我们理解俄国需要在其西部边境获得安全，即消除德国侵略的一切可能。我们欢迎俄国回到她在世界领导国家中的应有位置。我们欢迎她的旗帜出现在海洋上。最重要的是，我们欢迎俄罗斯人民与我们大西洋两岸的人民之间持续、频繁而且日益增长的联系。然而，我有责任——我相信你们也希望我如此——向你们陈述我所看到的事实，把关于欧洲当前局势的某些事实摆在你们面前。
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descendedv. /dɪˈsendɪd/ 降下，降临 across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet spheren. /sfɪr/ 势力范围，圈, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone—Greece with its immortaladj. /ɪˈmɔːrtl/ 不朽的，永存的 glories—is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian-dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroadsn. /ˈɪnroʊdz/ 侵入，侵犯（make inroads upon） upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievousadj. /ˈɡriːvəs/ 令人悲痛的，严重的 and undreamed-of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminencen. /priˈemɪnəns/ 显赫地位，出类拔萃 and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarianadj. /toʊˌtæləˈteriən/ 极权主义的 control. Police governments are prevailingv. /prɪˈveɪlɪŋ/ 盛行，占上风 in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy.
从波罗的海的斯德丁到的里雅斯特，一道铁幕已经降下，横贯整个大陆。在这条界线之后，坐落着中欧与东欧所有古老国家的首都。华沙、柏林、布拉格、维也纳、布达佩斯、贝尔格莱德、布加勒斯特和索菲亚——所有这些著名的城市以及它们周边的人口，都处在我必须称之为「苏联势力范围」的地区之内，并且都以某种形式，不仅受到苏联的影响，而且在许多情况下正受到来自莫斯科日益加深的高度控制。唯有雅典——拥有不朽荣光的希腊——得以自由地在英国、美国与法国观察下的选举中决定自己的未来。受俄国支配的波兰政府被鼓励对德国进行大规模且不正当的侵占，数以百万计的德国人正被大规模驱逐，其规模之惨烈、之超乎想象，正在当下发生。在这些东欧国家中原本规模很小的共产党，已被抬升到远远超出其人数的显赫地位与权力，并正到处谋求获得极权控制。警察政府几乎在所有地方占据上风；迄今为止，除捷克斯洛伐克之外，没有一个真正的民主政体。