President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends,
胡佛总统、首席大法官先生、我的朋友们：
This is a day of national consecrationn. /ˌkɑːnsɪˈkreɪʃn/ 奉献；神圣化, and I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candorn. /ˈkændər/ 坦诚，直率 and a decision which the present situation of our people impelsv. /ɪmˈpelz/ 迫使，驱使. This is preeminentlyadv. /priˈemɪnəntli/ 首要地，尤为 the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrinkv. /ʃrɪŋk/ 退缩，畏避 from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assertv. /əˈsɜːrt/ 断言，坚称 my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzesv. /ˈpærəlaɪzɪz/ 使瘫痪，使麻痹 needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigorn. /ˈvɪɡər/ 活力，魄力 has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
这是一个举国奉献的日子，我确信，我的美国同胞们期望我在就任总统之际，以坦诚和决断向他们讲话——我们人民的当前处境正要求如此。现在正是讲真话的时候，讲出全部真话，坦率而勇敢。我们也不必畏缩，而要诚实地面对我国今日的状况。这个伟大的国家将一如既往地坚持下去，将复兴，将繁荣。因此，首先请允许我表明我坚定的信念：我们唯一值得恐惧的，就是恐惧本身——那种无以名之、毫无理智、毫无根据的恐怖，它使人们把退却变为前进所需的种种努力陷于瘫痪。在我国生活的每一个黑暗时刻，坦诚而有力的领导都得到了人民自身的理解与支持，而这种理解与支持是胜利所不可或缺的。我深信，在这危急的日子里，你们会再次把这样的支持给予领导。
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunkenv. /ˈʃrʌŋkən/ （shrink 的过去分词）缩减，萎缩 to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailmentn. /kɜːrˈteɪlmənt/ 削减，缩减 of income; the means of exchangen. /ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ/ 交换；交易 are frozen in the currents of trade; the witheredadj. /ˈwɪðərd/ 枯萎的，凋零的 leaves of industrial enterprisen. /ˈentərpraɪz/ 企业；事业 lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their producen. /ˈproʊduːs/ 农产品; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
本着我和你们共有的这种精神，我们面对共同的困难。感谢上帝，这些困难只涉及物质方面。各种价值已缩水到离奇的程度；税负上升；我们的支付能力下降；各级政府的收入都面临严重削减；交换手段冻结在贸易的洪流之中；工业企业的枯枝败叶遍地皆是；农民找不到农产品的市场；千千万万家庭多年来的积蓄化为乌有。
More important, a hostn. /hoʊst/ 大量，许多 of unemployed citizens face the grimadj. /ɡrɪm/ 严峻的，令人沮丧的 problem of existence, and an equally great number toilv. /tɔɪl/ 辛苦劳作 with little return. Only a foolish optimistn. /ˈɑːptɪmɪst/ 乐观主义者 can deny the dark realities of the moment.
更重要的是，大批失业公民面临生存这一严峻问题，还有同样众多的人劳苦而所得甚微。只有愚蠢的乐观主义者才会否认此刻的黑暗现实。
Yet our distressn. /dɪˈstres/ 困苦，痛苦 comes from no failure of substancen. /ˈsʌbstəns/ 实质，物质. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perilsn. /ˈperəlz/ 危险，危难 which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bountyn. /ˈbaʊnti/ 慷慨的馈赠，丰饶 and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishesv. /ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪz/ 停滞，萎靡不振 in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicatedv. /ˈæbdɪkeɪtɪd/ 退位，放弃（职责）. Practices of the unscrupulousadj. /ʌnˈskruːpjələs/ 无所顾忌的，不择手段的 money changers stand indictedv. /ɪnˈdaɪtɪd/ 控告，起诉 in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
然而我们的困苦并非源于物质的匮乏。我们并未遭受蝗虫之灾。与我们的先辈因为信仰而不畏惧所战胜的种种危难相比，我们仍有太多值得感恩之处。大自然依然赐予丰饶，人类的努力又使之倍增。富足就在我们门前，但就在这供给眼前，对它的慷慨利用却停滞不前。这主要是因为，人类货物交换的统治者们由于自身的顽固和无能而失败了，他们承认了自己的失败，并已引咎退位。那些无所顾忌的货币兑换商的所作所为，已在舆论的法庭上受到指控，被世人的心灵与头脑所唾弃。
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outwornadj. /ˌaʊtˈwɔːrn/ 过时的，陈腐的 tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the luren. /lʊr/ 诱惑，诱饵 of profit by which to inducev. /ɪnˈduːs/ 诱使，引导 our people to follow their false leadership, they have resortedv. /rɪˈzɔːrtɪd/ 求助于（resort to） to exhortationsn. /ˌeɡzɔːrˈteɪʃnz/ 劝诫，规劝, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekersn. /ˌself ˈsiːkərz/ 追逐私利者. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perishv. /ˈperɪʃ/ 灭亡，消亡.
诚然他们也曾努力过，但他们的努力不过是套用过时的旧模式。面对信贷的崩溃，他们只提出借出更多的钱。当他们用以引诱人民追随其虚假领导的利润诱饵被剥夺之后，他们便转而求助于劝诫，声泪俱下地恳求恢复信心。他们只懂得一代自私自利者的规矩。他们没有远见，而人民没有远见就会灭亡。
The money changers have fledv. /fled/ 逃走（flee 的过去式） from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restorationn. /ˌrestəˈreɪʃn/ 恢复，复兴 lies in the extentn. /ɪkˈstent/ 程度，范围 to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetaryadj. /ˈmɑːnɪteri/ 货币的，金钱的 profit.
货币兑换商已从我们文明殿堂的高位上逃走了。我们现在可以把这座殿堂恢复到古老的真理上来。恢复的程度，取决于我们在多大程度上运用比单纯金钱利润更高尚的社会价值。
Happiness lies not in the mere possessionn. /pəˈzeʃn/ 拥有，占有 of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrilln. /θrɪl/ 激动，兴奋感 of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulationn. /ˌstɪmjuˈleɪʃn/ 激励，激发 of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescentadj. /ˌevəˈnesnt/ 转瞬即逝的 profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destinyn. /ˈdestəni/ 命运，使命 is not to be ministeredv. /ˈmɪnɪstərd/ 服侍，照料 unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
幸福不在于仅仅拥有金钱；幸福在于成就的喜悦，在于创造性努力的激动。工作的快乐与道德激励，绝不能再在疯狂追逐转瞬即逝的利润中被遗忘。如果这些黑暗的日子教会我们：我们真正的使命不是受人服侍，而是服侍自己和我们的同胞，那么它们所付出的代价就是值得的。
Recognition of the falsityn. /ˈfɔːlsəti/ 虚假，虚妄 of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonmentn. /əˈbændənmənt/ 抛弃，放弃 of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callousadj. /ˈkæləs/ 冷酷无情的 and selfish wrongdoingn. /ˈrɔːŋduːɪŋ/ 恶行，不义之举. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrivesv. /θraɪvz/ 兴旺，茁壮成长 only on honesty, on honor, on the sacrednessn. /ˈseɪkrɪdnəs/ 神圣 of obligationsn. /ˌɑːblɪˈɡeɪʃnz/ 义务，责任, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.
承认物质财富作为成功标准的虚妄，与抛弃这样一种错误信念是齐头并进的：即公职和高层政治地位只应以地位带来的骄傲和个人私利来衡量；同时，银行业和商业中的某种行为必须终结——这种行为常常把一项神圣的托付变得像冷酷自私的恶行。信心之所以萎靡不振并不奇怪，因为它只能依靠诚实、荣誉、义务的神圣、忠实的守护和无私的履行而存续；没有这些，它便无法生存。
Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethicsn. /ˈeθɪks/ 伦理，道德准则 alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.
然而，恢复所要求的并不只是伦理上的改变。这个国家要求行动，而且现在就要求行动。
Our greatest primaryadj. /ˈpraɪmeri/ 首要的，主要的 task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvableadj. /ʌnˈsɑːlvəbl/ 无法解决的 problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplishedv. /əˈkɑːmplɪʃt/ 完成，实现 in part by direct recruitingn. /rɪˈkruːtɪŋ/ 招募，招收 by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulatev. /ˈstɪmjuleɪt/ 刺激，促进 and reorganize the use of our natural resourcesn. /rɪˈsɔːrsɪz/ 资源.
我们最重要的首要任务，是让人们有工作。如果我们明智而勇敢地面对它，这并非无法解决的问题。这一任务可以部分地通过政府本身直接招募人员来完成，像对待战争紧急状态那样对待它；但与此同时，通过这种就业，完成亟需的工程，以刺激并重新组织我们自然资源的利用。
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalancen. /ˌoʊvərˈbæləns/ 过剩，失衡 of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistributionn. /ˌriːdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃn/ 重新分配, endeavorv. /ɪnˈdevər/ 努力，力图 to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. Yes, the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosuren. /fɔːrˈkloʊʒər/ 丧失抵押品赎回权 of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwithadv. /ˌfɔːrθˈwɪθ/ 立即，即刻 on the demand that their cost be drasticallyadv. /ˈdræstɪkli/ 大幅度地，激烈地 reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervisionn. /ˌsuːpərˈvɪʒn/ 监督，管理 of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilitiesn. /juːˈtɪlətiz/ 公用事业 which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.
与此同时，我们必须坦率承认我国工业中心人口过剩，并通过在全国范围内进行重新分配，努力为最适合土地的人更好地利用土地。是的，这项任务可以通过明确的努力来提高农产品价值、并借此提高城市产品的购买力而得到帮助。可以通过切实防止我们的小住宅和农场因丧失抵押赎回权而不断流失这一悲剧来得到帮助。可以通过坚持要求联邦、州和地方政府的开支必须立即大幅削减来得到帮助。可以通过统一今日往往分散、不经济且不公平的救济活动来得到帮助。可以通过对所有具有明确公共性质的运输、通讯和其他公用事业进行全国性规划与监管来得到帮助。有很多办法可以帮到它，但仅仅谈论它永远帮不到它。我们必须行动，而且要迅速行动。
Finally, in our progress toward a resumptionn. /rɪˈzʌmpʃn/ 恢复，重新开始 of work we require two safeguardsn. /ˈseɪfɡɑːrdz/ 保障措施 against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits: and investments, so that there will be an end to speculationn. /ˌspekjuˈleɪʃn/ 投机 with other people's money; and there must be provisionn. /prəˈvɪʒn/ 供应；规定 for an adequateadj. /ˈædɪkwət/ 适当的，足够的 but sound currencyn. /ˈkɜːrənsi/ 货币.
最后，在迈向恢复工作的过程中，我们需要两项保障，以防旧秩序的弊病卷土重来：必须对所有银行业务、信贷和投资实行严格监管，以杜绝用别人的钱进行投机；并且必须有适当而健全的货币供应。
These, my friends, are the lines of attack. I shall presently urgev. /ɜːrdʒ/ 力促，敦促 upon a new Congress, in special sessionn. /ˈseʃn/ 会议，会期, detailed measures for their fulfillmentn. /fʊlˈfɪlmənt/ 实现，履行, and I shall seek the immediate assistancen. /əˈsɪstəns/ 协助，援助 of the 48 States.
朋友们，这些就是进攻的路线。我将很快向特别会议中的新一届国会提出实现这些目标的详细措施，并将寻求 48 个州的立即协助。
Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgon. /ˈaʊtɡoʊ/ 支出，开销. Our international trade relations, though vastlyadv. /ˈvæstli/ 极大地 important, are in point of time and necessity secondaryadj. /ˈsekənderi/ 次要的，从属的 to the establishmentn. /ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt/ 建立，确立 of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustmentn. /ˌriːəˈdʒʌstmənt/ 重新调整, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishmentn. /əˈkɑːmplɪʃmənt/ 成就，完成.
通过这一行动计划，我们致力于把本国自己的家务整理好，使收入与支出相抵。我们的国际贸易关系虽然极为重要，但在时间上和必要性上都次于建立一个健全的国民经济。作为一种务实政策，我赞成把首要之事放在首位。我将不遗余力地通过国际经济调整来恢复世界贸易，但国内的紧急状况不能等待这一成就。
The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalisticadj. /ˌnæʃənəˈlɪstɪk/ 民族主义的. It is the insistencen. /ɪnˈsɪstəns/ 坚持，主张, as a first consideration, upon the interdependencen. /ˌɪntərdɪˈpendəns/ 相互依存 of the various elements in and parts of the United States — a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestationn. /ˌmænɪfeˈsteɪʃn/ 表现，体现 of the American spirit of the pioneern. /ˌpaɪəˈnɪr/ 拓荒者，先驱. It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurancen. /əˈʃʊrəns/ 保证，确信 that the recovery will endurev. /ɪnˈdʊr/ 持久，持续.
指导这些具体复兴手段的基本思想，并不是狭隘的民族主义。它所坚持的是，作为首要考虑，美国境内各种要素和各个部分之间相互依存——这是对拓荒者精神这一古老而永久重要的体现的承认。这是通往复兴之路。这是当下可行之路。这是复兴将得以持久的最有力保证。
In the field of world policy I would dedicatev. /ˈdedɪkeɪt/ 奉献，致力于 this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor — the neighbor who resolutelyadv. /ˈrezəluːtli/ 坚决地，果断地 respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others — the neighbor who respects his obligationsn. /ˌɑːblɪˈɡeɪʃnz/ 义务，责任 and respects the sanctityn. /ˈsæŋktəti/ 神圣不可侵犯 of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.
在世界政策领域，我愿把这个国家奉献给"好邻居"的政策——这样的邻居坚决尊重自己，并因此尊重他人的权利——这样的邻居尊重自己的义务，并在一个由邻国组成的世界中、与这样的世界一起尊重其协议的神圣性。
If I read the tempern. /ˈtempər/ 性情，情绪 of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrificev. /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/ 牺牲，献出 for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective. We are, I know, ready and willing to submitv. /səbˈmɪt/ 提交；使服从 our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. This I propose to offer, pledgingv. /pledʒɪŋ/ 保证，承诺 that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unityn. /ˈjuːnəti/ 统一，一致 of duty hithertoadv. /ˌhɪðərˈtuː/ 迄今为止 evokedv. /ɪˈvoʊkt/ 唤起，引发 only in time of armed strifen. /straɪf/ 冲突，纷争.
如果我对我国人民的性情解读无误，那么我们现在前所未有地认识到我们彼此相互依存；认识到我们不能只索取，还必须给予；认识到如果要前进，我们就必须像一支训练有素、忠诚的军队那样行动，愿意为共同纪律的福祉作出牺牲，因为没有这样的纪律，就不会有进步，任何领导都不会有效。我知道，我们已准备好并愿意把我们的生命和财产交付给这样的纪律，因为它使一种以更大善为目标的领导成为可能。我提议提供这样的领导，并保证这些更大的目标将作为一项神圣义务约束我们全体，其责任的统一程度，迄今只在武装冲突之时才被唤起。
With this pledge taken, I assumev. /əˈsuːm/ 承担，就任 unhesitatinglyadv. /ʌnˈhezɪteɪtɪŋli/ 毫不犹豫地 the leadership of this great army of our people dedicatedadj. /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/ 致力于……的 to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.
作出这一承诺之后，我毫不犹豫地承担起领导我们人民这支伟大军队的责任，致力于对我们共同的问题发起有纪律的进攻。
Action in this image and to this end is feasibleadj. /ˈfiːzəbl/ 可行的 under the form of government which we have inheritedv. /ɪnˈherɪtɪd/ 继承 from our ancestorsn. /ˈænsestərz/ 祖先. Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasisn. /ˈemfəsɪs/ 重点，侧重 and arrangement without loss of essential form. That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superblyadv. /suːˈpɜːrbli/ 卓越地 enduring political mechanismn. /ˈmekənɪzəm/ 机制，机构 the modern world has ever seen. It has met every stressn. /stres/ 压力，考验 of vast expansion of territoryn. /ˈterətɔːri/ 领土, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.
按照这种精神和这一目标采取行动，在我们从祖先那里继承下来的政府形式下是可行的。我们的宪法如此简单而实用，以至于总能通过重心的调整和安排的变动来满足非常之需，而不丧失其基本形式。这就是为什么我们的宪政体制已证明自己是现代世界所见过的最为卓越持久的政治机制。它经受住了领土大扩张、对外战争、激烈的内部冲突和世界关系的每一次考验。
It is to be hoped that the normal balance of Executive and legislativeadj. /ˈledʒɪsleɪtɪv/ 立法的 authorityn. /əˈθɔːrəti/ 权力，权威 may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedentedadj. /ʌnˈpresɪdentɪd/ 空前的 task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departuren. /dɪˈpɑːrtʃər/ 偏离，背离 from that normal balance of public proceduren. /prəˈsiːdʒər/ 程序，做法.
我们希望行政权与立法权的正常平衡足以应对我们面前的空前任务。但也可能，对毫不延迟的行动所提出的空前要求与需要，会要求暂时偏离公共程序的这种正常平衡。
I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommendv. /ˌrekəˈmend/ 建议，推荐 the measures that a stricken Nation in the midstn. /mɪdst/ 中间，当中 of a stricken world may require. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoptionn. /əˈdɑːpʃn/ 采纳，通过.
我已准备好在我的宪法职责之下，提出一个身处危难世界之中的危难国家可能需要的各项措施。这些措施，或国会凭其经验与智慧另行制定的其他措施，我将在我的宪法权限之内，力求使其迅速获得通过。
But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evadev. /ɪˈveɪd/ 回避，逃避 the clear course of duty that will then confrontv. /kənˈfrʌnt/ 面对，摆在……面前 me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrumentn. /ˈɪnstrəmənt/ 工具，手段 to meet the crisis—broad Executive power to wagev. /weɪdʒ/ 发动（战争） a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invadedv. /ɪnˈveɪdɪd/ 入侵 by a foreign foen. /foʊ/ 敌人.
但倘若国会未能采取这两条路线中的任何一条，而国家紧急状态依然危急，我将不会回避届时摆在我面前的明确职责。我将请求国会给予应对这场危机所剩下的唯一工具——广泛的行政权力，用以对这场紧急状态发动一场战争，其权力之大，就如同我们事实上遭到外敌入侵时所能赋予我的一样。
For the trust reposedv. /rɪˈpoʊzd/ 托付，寄予（repose in） in me I will return the courage and the devotionn. /dɪˈvoʊʃn/ 忠诚，献身 that befitv. /bɪˈfɪt/ 适合，相称 the time. I can do no less.
对于托付给我的信任，我将以与这个时代相称的勇气和忠诚来回报。我所能做的不会比这更少。
We face the arduousadj. /ˈɑːrdʒuəs/ 艰巨的，艰难的 days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with the clear consciousnessn. /ˈkɑːnʃəsnəs/ 意识，知觉 of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the sternadj. /stɜːrn/ 严格的，严峻的 performance of duty by old and young alike. We aim at the assurance of a rounded, a permanent national life.
我们以民族团结的温暖勇气，面对摆在面前的艰难岁月；怀着寻求古老而珍贵道德价值的清醒意识；怀着老幼同样严格履行责任所带来的纯粹满足。我们力求保证一种圆满而持久的国民生活。
We do not distrustv. /dɪsˈtrʌst/ 不信任，怀疑 the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandaten. /ˈmændeɪt/ 授权，委托 that they want direct, vigorousadj. /ˈvɪɡərəs/ 有力的，强健的 action. They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it.
我们并不怀疑本质民主的未来。美国人民并没有失败。在需要之时，他们已登记下一项授权，表明他们要直接而有力的行动。他们要求领导之下的纪律与方向。他们使我成为他们意愿的当下工具。我以接受这份馈赠的精神接受它。
In this dedication of a Nation we humblyadv. /ˈhʌmbli/ 谦卑地 ask the blessingn. /ˈblesɪŋ/ 祝福，赐福 of God. May He protect each and every one of us. May He guide me in the days to come.
在这次举国的奉献中，我们谦卑地祈求上帝的祝福。愿他保护我们每一个人。愿他在未来的日子里指引我。