Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Seventy-seventh Congress:
总统先生，议长先生，第七十七届国会的各位议员：
I addressv. /əˈdres/ 向……讲话 you, the Members of the Seventy-seventh Congress, at a moment unprecedentedadj. /ʌnˈpresɪdentɪd/ 前所未有的 in the history of the Union. I use the word “unprecedented,” because at no previous time has American securityn. /sɪˈkjʊrəti/ 安全，保障 been as seriously threatenedv. /ˈθretnd/ 威胁（threaten 的过去分词） from without as it is today.
我向你们——第七十七届国会的各位议员——讲话，此刻在联邦历史上是前所未有的。我之所以用“前所未有”这个词，是因为在以往任何时候，美国的安全都没有像今天这样受到来自外部的严重威胁。
Since the permanentadj. /ˈpɜːrmənənt/ 永久的，持久的 formationn. /fɔːrˈmeɪʃn/ 组成，建立 of our Government under the Constitution, in 1789, most of the periods of crisis in our history have related to our domesticadj. /dəˈmestɪk/ 国内的；家庭的 affairs. Fortunately, only one of these—the four-year War Between the States—ever threatened our national unityn. /ˈjuːnəti/ 统一，团结. Today, thank God, one hundred and thirty million Americans, in forty-eight States, have forgotten points of the compassn. /ˈkʌmpəs/ 指南针；范围 in our national unity.
自 1789 年我们的政府依宪法永久建立以来，我国历史上大多数的危机时期都与国内事务有关。幸运的是，其中只有一次——历时四年的南北战争——曾威胁到我们的国家统一。今天，感谢上帝，四十八个州的一亿三千万美国人已在国家统一中不再计较南北之分。
It is true that prior toprep. /ˈpraɪər tu/ 在……之前 1914 the United States often had been disturbed by events in other Continents. We had even engaged in two wars with European nations and in a number of undeclaredadj. /ˌʌndɪˈklerd/ 未宣战的 wars in the West Indies, in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific for the maintenancen. /ˈmeɪntənəns/ 维护，维持 of American rights and for the principles of peaceful commercen. /ˈkɑːmɜːrs/ 商业，贸易. But in no case had a serious threat been raised against our national safety or our continued independencen. /ˌɪndɪˈpendəns/ 独立.
诚然，在 1914 年之前，美国常常受到其他大陆事件的困扰。我们甚至与欧洲国家打过两场战争，并在西印度群岛、地中海和太平洋进行过若干场不宣而战的战争，以维护美国的权利与和平通商的原则。但在任何情况下，我们的国家安全或持续的独立都未曾受到严重威胁。
What I seek to conveyv. /kənˈveɪ/ 传达，表达 is the historic truth that the United States as a nation has at all times maintainedv. /meɪnˈteɪnd/ 保持，坚持 clear, definite oppositionn. /ˌɑːpəˈzɪʃn/ 反对，抵制, to any attempt to lock us in behind an ancient Chinese wall while the processionn. /prəˈseʃn/ 行列，进程 of civilization went past. Today, thinking of our children and of their children, we oppose enforcedadj. /ɪnˈfɔːrst/ 强加的，被迫的 isolationn. /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃn/ 孤立，隔离 for ourselves or for any other part of the Americas.
我要传达的是一个历史事实：作为一个国家，美国始终明确而坚定地反对任何企图把我们锁在万里长城之内、听任文明的进程从旁而过的做法。今天，想到我们的孩子和孩子的孩子，我们反对强加于我们自己或美洲任何其他部分的孤立。
That determinationn. /dɪˌtɜːrmɪˈneɪʃn/ 决心，决意 of ours, extending over all these years, was provedv. /pruːvd/ 证明（prove 的过去分词）, for example, during the quarter centuryphr. /ˈkwɔːrtər ˈsentʃəri/ 四分之一世纪，二十五年 of wars following the French Revolution.
我们这种延续多年的决心，例如在法国大革命之后四分之一世纪的历次战争中得到了证明。
While the Napoleonic struggles did threaten interests of the United States because of the French footholdn. /ˈfʊthoʊld/ 立足点，据点 in the West Indies and in Louisiana, and while we engaged in the War of 1812 to vindicatev. /ˈvɪndɪkeɪt/ 维护，证明正当 our right to peaceful trade, it is neverthelessadv. /ˌnevərðəˈles/ 然而，尽管如此 clear that neither France nor Great Britain, nor any other nation, was aiming at dominationn. /ˌdɑːmɪˈneɪʃn/ 统治，支配 of the whole world.
拿破仑战争确曾因法国在西印度群岛和路易斯安那的立足点而威胁到美国的利益，我们也曾为维护和平贸易的权利而投入 1812 年战争；但尽管如此，法国、英国或任何其他国家都并未企图统治全世界。
In like fashion from 1815 to 1914— ninety-nine years— no single war in Europe or in Asia constitutedv. /ˈkɑːnstɪtuːtɪd/ 构成，成为 a real threat against our future or against the future of any other American nation.
同样，从 1815 年到 1914 年——九十九年间——欧洲或亚洲没有任何一场战争对我们的未来、或对任何其他美洲国家的未来构成真正的威胁。
Except in the Maximilian interluden. /ˈɪntərluːd/ 插曲，间歇 in Mexico, no foreign power sought to establish itself in this Hemispheren. /ˈhemɪsfɪr/ 半球; and the strength of the British fleetn. /fliːt/ 舰队 in the Atlantic has been a friendly strength. It is still a friendly strength.
除了墨西哥马克西米利安那段插曲之外，没有任何外国势力试图在本半球立足；而英国舰队在大西洋的力量一直是一种友好的力量。它现在依然是一种友好的力量。
Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future. But, as time went on, the American people began to visualizev. /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ 想象，设想 what the downfalln. /ˈdaʊnfɔːl/ 垮台，倾覆 of democratic nations might mean to our own democracyn. /dɪˈmɑːkrəsi/ 民主，民主制度.
即使 1914 年世界大战爆发时，它似乎也只对我们美国自身的前途构成很小的危险威胁。但随着时间推移，美国人民开始看清民主国家的倾覆对我们自己的民主可能意味着什么。
We need not overemphasizev. /ˌoʊvərˈemfəsaɪz/ 过分强调 imperfectionsn. /ˌɪmpərˈfekʃnz/ 缺陷，不完善之处 in the Peace of Versailles. We need not harp onphr. /hɑːrp ɑːn/ 反复念叨，唠叨 failure of the democracies to deal with problems of world reconstructionn. /ˌriːkənˈstrʌkʃn/ 重建，复兴. We should remember that the Peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of “pacificationn. /ˌpæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/ 绥靖，平定” which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyrannyn. /ˈtɪrəni/ 暴政，专制 that seeks to spread over every continent today. The American people have unalterablyadv. /ʌnˈɔːltərəbli/ 不可更改地，坚决地 set their faces against that tyranny.
我们不必过分强调《凡尔赛和约》的缺陷。我们不必反复念叨民主国家未能处理好世界重建的问题。我们应当记住，1919 年的和约远不如那种甚至在慕尼黑之前就已开始、如今正以企图蔓延到每个大陆的暴政新秩序推行的“绥靖”那样不义。美国人民已不可更改地坚决反对那种暴政。
Every realistn. /ˈriːəlɪst/ 现实主义者 knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailedv. /əˈseɪld/ 攻击，抨击 in every part of the world—assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propagandan. /ˌprɑːpəˈɡændə/ 宣传 by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discordn. /ˈdɪskɔːrd/ 不和，纷争 in nations that are still at peace.
每个现实主义者都知道，民主的生活方式此刻在世界各地正直接遭受攻击——或是遭受武力的攻击，或是遭受那些企图破坏团结、在仍处于和平的国家中煽动不和的人秘密散播的恶毒宣传的攻击。
During sixteen long months this assaultn. /əˈsɔːlt/ 攻击，袭击 has blotted outphr. /ˈblɑːtɪd aʊt/ 抹去，遮蔽 the whole pattern of democratic life in an appallingadj. /əˈpɔːlɪŋ/ 令人震惊的 number of independent nations, great and small. The assailantsn. /əˈseɪlənts/ 攻击者 are still on the marchphr. /ɑːn ðə mɑːrtʃ/ 正在推进, threatening other nations, great and small.
在漫长的十六个月里，这场攻击已在数量惊人、大小不一的独立国家中抹去了民主生活的整个格局。攻击者仍在推进，威胁着其他大小国家。
Therefore, as your President, performing my constitutionaladj. /ˌkɑːnstɪˈtuːʃənl/ 宪法的，符合宪法的 duty to “give to the Congress information of the state of the Union,” I find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelminglyadv. /ˌoʊvərˈwelmɪŋli/ 压倒性地，极其 involved in events far beyond our bordersn. /ˈbɔːrdərz/ 边界，国界.
因此，作为你们的总统，在履行我“向国会报告联邦情况”的宪法职责时，我遗憾地发现，必须报告：我们国家和我们民主的前途与安全，已与远在我们国界之外的事件密不可分地牵涉在一起。
Armed defense of democratic existence is now being gallantlyadv. /ˈɡæləntli/ 英勇地，豪侠地 wagedv. /weɪdʒd/ 进行（战争等） in four continents. If that defense fails, all the population and all the resources of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia will be dominated by the conquerorsn. /ˈkɑːŋkərərz/ 征服者. Let us remember that the total of those populations and their resources in those four continents greatly exceedsv. /ɪkˈsiːdz/ 超过，大于 the sum total of the population and the resources of the whole of the Western Hemisphere-many times over.
对民主生存的武装保卫，此刻正在四大洲英勇进行。如果这一保卫失败，欧洲、亚洲、非洲和澳大拉西亚的全部人口与全部资源都将被征服者所支配。让我们记住，这四大洲人口与资源的总和，远远超过整个西半球人口与资源的总和——是许多倍。
In times like these it is immatureadj. /ˌɪməˈtʃʊr/ 不成熟的—and incidentallyadv. /ˌɪnsɪˈdentli/ 顺便一提, untrue—for anybody to bragv. /bræɡ/ 吹嘘，夸口 that an unprepared America, single-handedadj. /ˌsɪŋɡl ˈhændɪd/ 单枪匹马的, and with one hand tied behind its back, can hold offphr. /hoʊld ɔːf/ 抵挡，挡住 the whole world.
在这样的时刻，任何人若夸口说一个毫无准备的美国、单枪匹马、还捆着一只手，就能挡住全世界，那都是不成熟的——而且顺便说，也是不真实的。
No realistic American can expect from a dictator’s peace international generosityn. /ˌdʒenəˈrɑːsəti/ 慷慨，宽宏, or return of true independence, or world disarmamentn. /dɪsˈɑːrməmənt/ 裁军, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion -or even good business.
任何现实的美国人都不能指望从独裁者的和平中得到国际的慷慨、真正独立的恢复、世界裁军、言论自由或宗教自由——甚至连好生意也得不到。
Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors.
“Those, who would give up essentialadj. /ɪˈsenʃl/ 基本的，必不可少的 liberty to purchase a little temporaryadj. /ˈtempəreri/ 暂时的 safety, deservev. /dɪˈzɜːrv/ 值得，应得 neither liberty nor safety.”
这样的和平不会给我们或我们的邻国带来安全。
“那些为了换取一点暂时安全而放弃基本自由的人，既不配得到自由，也不配得到安全。”
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softheartedadj. /ˌsɔːftˈhɑːrtɪd/ 心肠软的; but we cannot affordv. /əˈfɔːrd/ 承担得起，经受得起 to be soft-headedadj. /ˌsɔːft ˈhedɪd/ 头脑糊涂的.
作为一个民族，我们可以为心地柔软而自豪；但我们经不起头脑发昏。
We must always be waryadj. /ˈweri/ 警惕的，小心的 of those who with sounding brassn. /bræs/ 铜管乐器；黄铜 and a tinkling cymbaln. /ˈsɪmbl/ 铙钹 preachv. /priːtʃ/ 鼓吹，宣讲 the “ism” of appeasementn. /əˈpiːzmənt/ 绥靖，姑息.
我们必须始终提防那些敲着响亮的铜管、敲着叮当作响的铙钹、鼓吹“绥靖”主义的人。
We must especially bewarev. /bɪˈwer/ 提防，当心 of that small group of selfish men who would clipv. /klɪp/ 剪掉，修剪 the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nestsphr. /ˈfeðər ðer oʊn nests/ 中饱私囊.
我们必须特别提防那一小撮自私的人，他们为了填满自己的巢穴，不惜剪掉美国之鹰的翅膀。
I have recently pointed out how quickly the tempon. /ˈtempoʊ/ 节奏，速度 of modern warfare could bring into our very midstn. /mɪdst/ 中间，当中 the physical attack which we must eventuallyadv. /ɪˈventʃuəli/ 最终，终究 expect if the dictator nations win this war.
我最近已指出，现代战争的节奏能多么迅速地把那种实际攻击带到我们中间——如果独裁国家赢得这场战争，这种攻击终究是我们必须预料到的。
There is much loose talk of our immunityn. /ɪˈmjuːnəti/ 豁免，免受 from immediate and direct invasionn. /ɪnˈveɪʒn/ 入侵，侵略 from across the seas. Obviously, as long as the British Navy retainsv. /rɪˈteɪnz/ 保持，保有 its power, no such danger exists. Even if there were no British Navy, it is not probable that any enemy would be stupid enough to attack us by landing troops in the United States from across thousands of miles of ocean, until it had acquiredv. /əˈkwaɪərd/ 取得，获得 strategicadj. /strəˈtiːdʒɪk/ 战略性的 bases from which to operate.
关于我们不会遭到来自海外的直接入侵，近来有许多轻率的说法。显然，只要英国海军保持其力量，就不存在这种危险。即使没有英国海军，任何敌人也不至于愚蠢到跨越数千英里大洋在美国登陆来攻击我们，除非它已取得可供作战的战略基地。
But we learn much from the lessons of the past years in Europe-particularly the lesson of Norway, whose essential seaportsn. /ˈsiːpɔːrts/ 海港 were captured by treacheryn. /ˈtretʃəri/ 背信弃义，背叛 and surprise built up over a series of years.
但我们从过去几年欧洲的教训中学到了很多——尤其是挪威的教训：它的重要海港是被多年间逐步积累的背信与突袭所夺取的。
The first phasen. /feɪz/ 阶段，时期 of the invasion of this Hemisphere would not be the landing of regular troopsphr. /ˈreɡjələr truːps/ 正规军. The necessary strategic points would be occupied by secret agentsn. /ˈeɪdʒənts/ 特工，代理人 and their dupesn. /duːps/ 受骗者，被利用的人- and great numbers of them are already here, and in Latin America.
对本半球入侵的第一阶段不会是正规军的登陆。必要的战略要点将由秘密特工及其受骗的帮手占领——其中许多人已经在这里，在拉丁美洲。
As long as the aggressorn. /əˈɡresər/ 侵略者 nations maintain the offensiven. /əˈfensɪv/ 攻势，进攻, they-not we—will choose the time and the place and the method of their attack.
只要侵略国保持攻势，选择攻击时间、地点和方式的将是他们——而不是我们。
That is why the future of all the American Republicsn. /rɪˈpʌblɪks/ 共和国 is today in serious danger.
这就是为什么今天所有美洲共和国的前途都处于严重危险之中。
That is why this Annualadj. /ˈænjuəl/ 一年一度的，年度的 Message to the Congress is uniqueadj. /juˈniːk/ 独一无二的 in our history.
这就是为什么这份致国会的年度咨文在我国历史上是独一无二的。
That is why every member of the Executiveadj. /ɪɡˈzekjətɪv/ 行政的，执行的 Branch of the Government and every member of the Congress faces great responsibility and great accountabilityn. /əˌkaʊntəˈbɪləti/ 问责，责任.
这就是为什么政府行政部门和国会的每一位成员都面临着巨大的责任和巨大的问责。
The need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devotedadj. /dɪˈvoʊtɪd/ 致力于……的，专注于……的 primarily-almost exclusivelyadv. /ɪkˈskluːsɪvli/ 仅仅，专门地—to meeting this foreign periln. /ˈperəl/ 危险，危难. For all our domestic problems are now a part of the great emergencyn. /ɪˈmɜːrdʒənsi/ 紧急状态，非常时期.
当前的需要是，我们的行动和政策应主要——几乎完全——用于应对这一外来危险。因为我们所有的国内问题现在都是这场大紧急状态的一部分。
Just as our national policy in internal affairs has been based upon a decentadj. /ˈdiːsnt/ 正当的，得体的 respect for the rights and the dignityn. /ˈdɪɡnəti/ 尊严 of all our fellow men within our gates, so our national policy in foreign affairs has been based on a decent respect for the rights and dignity of all nations, large and small. And the justice of moralityn. /məˈræləti/ 道德，道义 must and will win in the end.
正如我们在内政上的国策建立在对国门之内所有同胞权利与尊严的正当尊重之上，我们在外交上的国策也建立在对所有大小国家权利与尊严的正当尊重之上。而道德的正义必将、也终将在最后获胜。
Our national policy is this:
我们的国策如下：
First, by an impressiveadj. /ɪmˈpresɪv/ 令人印象深刻的，有力的 expression of the public will and without regard to partisanshipn. /ˈpɑːrtɪzənʃɪp/ 党派性，党派偏见, we are committedadj. /kəˈmɪtɪd/ 承诺的，致力于……的 to all-inclusiveadj. /ˌɔːl ɪnˈkluːsɪv/ 全面的，无所不包的 national defense.
第一，通过公众意志的明确表达，不分党派，我们致力于全面的国防。
Second, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to full support of all those resoluteadj. /ˈrezəluːt/ 坚决的，果敢的 peoples, everywhere, who are resisting aggressionn. /əˈɡreʃn/ 侵略，侵犯 and are therebyadv. /ˌðerˈbaɪ/ 因此，从而 keeping war away from our Hemisphere. By this support, we express our determination that the democratic cause shall prevailv. /prɪˈveɪl/ 获胜，占上风; and we strengthen the defense and the security of our own nation.
第二，通过公众意志的明确表达，不分党派，我们致力于全力支持各地一切坚决抵抗侵略、从而使战争远离本半球的人民。通过这种支持，我们表达我们的决心：民主事业必将取胜；我们也加强了自己国家的防御与安全。
Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the propositionn. /ˌprɑːpəˈzɪʃn/ 主张，命题 that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiescev. /ˌækwiˈes/ 默许，默认 in a peace dictatedv. /ˈdɪkteɪtɪd/ 支配，强加 by aggressors and sponsoredv. /ˈspɑːnsərd/ 赞助，支持 by appeasers. We know that enduringadj. /ɪnˈdʊrɪŋ/ 持久的，长久的 peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people’s freedom.
第三，通过公众意志的明确表达，不分党派，我们致力于这一主张：道德原则与对自身安全的考虑，绝不允许我们默许由侵略者支配、由绥靖者赞助的和平。我们知道，持久的和平不能用别人的自由作为代价来换取。
In the recent national election there was no substantialadj. /səbˈstænʃl/ 实质性的，重大的 difference between the two great parties in respect tophr. /ɪn rɪˈspekt tu/ 关于，就……而言 that national policy. No issue was fought out on this line before the American electoraten. /ɪˈlektərət/ 全体选民. Today it is abundantlyadv. /əˈbʌndəntli/ 十分，充分地 evident that American citizens everywhere are demanding and supporting speedy and complete action in recognition of obvious danger.
在最近的大选中，两大政党在这一国策上没有实质分歧。没有哪个议题是在这条线上向美国选民争辩的。今天，十分明显的是，各地的美国公民都在要求并支持采取迅速而全面的行动，以应对显而易见的危险。
Therefore, the immediate need is a swift and driving increase in our armamentn. /ˈɑːrməmənt/ 军备，武器装备 production.
因此，当前的需要是迅速而有力地增加我们的军备生产。
Leaders of industry and labor have responded to our summonsn. /ˈsʌmənz/ 召唤，传唤. Goals of speed have been set. In some cases these goals are being reached ahead of time; in some cases we are on schedulen. /ˈskedʒuːl/ 时间表，进度表; in other cases there are slightadj. /slaɪt/ 轻微的，微小的 but not serious delays; and in some cases—and I am sorry to say very important cases—we are all concerned by the slowness of the accomplishmentn. /əˈkɑːmplɪʃmənt/ 完成，实现 of our plans.
工业界和劳工界的领袖已响应我们的召唤。速度目标已经设定。在某些情况下，这些目标提前达到；在某些情况下，我们按计划进行；在另一些情况下，有轻微但不严重的延误；而在某些情况下——我很遗憾地说，是非常重要的情况——我们都为计划完成之缓慢而感到忧虑。
The Army and Navyn. /ˈneɪvi/ 海军, however, have made substantialadj. /səbˈstænʃl/ 重大的，可观的 progress during the past year. Actual experience is improving and speeding up our methods of production with every passing day. And today’s best is not good enough for tomorrow.
然而，陆军和海军在过去一年中取得了重大进展。实际经验正一天天改进并加快我们的生产方法。而今天的最好，对明天来说还不够好。
I am not satisfied with the progress thus farphr. /ðʌs fɑːr/ 迄今为止 made. The men in charge of the program represent the best in training, in ability, and in patriotismn. /ˈpeɪtriətɪzəm/ 爱国精神. They are not satisfied with the progress thus far made. None of us will be satisfied until the job is done.
我对迄今取得的进展并不满意。负责这一计划的人代表着训练、能力和爱国精神方面的最优秀者。他们对迄今取得的进展也不满意。在这项工作完成之前，我们谁都不会满意。
No matter whether the original goal was set too high or too low, our objectiven. /əbˈdʒektɪv/ 目标，目的 is quicker and better results. To give you two illustrationsn. /ˌɪləˈstreɪʃnz/ 例证，说明:
无论最初的目标定得过高还是过低，我们的目标都是更快、更好的结果。给你们举两个例子：
We are behind schedulephr. /bɪˈhaɪnd ˈskedʒuːl/ 落后于计划 in turning outphr. /ˈtɜːrnɪŋ aʊt/ 生产出，制造出 finished airplanes; we are working day and night to solve the innumerableadj. /ɪˈnuːmərəbl/ 无数的，数不清的 problems and to catch upphr. /kætʃ ʌp/ 赶上，追上.
我们在生产成品飞机方面落后于计划；我们正日夜工作，以解决无数的问题并赶上去。
We are ahead of schedule in building warshipsn. /ˈwɔːrʃɪps/ 军舰 but we are working to get even further ahead of that schedule.
我们在建造军舰方面提前于计划，但我们正努力进一步超前于那个计划。
To change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implementsn. /ˈɪmplɪmənts/ 工具，器具 of peace to a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task. And the greatest difficulty comes at the beginning of the program, when new tools, new plant facilitiesn. /fəˈsɪlətiz/ 设施，设备, new assembly linesn. /əˈsembli laɪnz/ 装配线，流水线, and new ship ways must first be constructed before the actual materieln. /məˌtɪriˈel/ 军用物资，装备 begins to flow steadily and speedily from them.
把一个国家的整个基础从和平时期生产和平工具，转变为战时生产战争工具，绝非小事。而最大的困难出现在计划的开始阶段：必须先建造新的工具、新的厂房设施、新的装配线和新的船台，实际的军用物资才能从中稳定而迅速地流出。
The Congress, of course, must rightly keep itself informedadj. /ɪnˈfɔːrmd/ 知情的，了解情况的 at all times of the progress of the program. However, there is certain information, as the Congress itself will readilyadv. /ˈredɪli/ 欣然，容易地 recognize, which, in the interests of our own security and those of the nations that we are supporting, must of needsphr. /əv niːdz/ 必然，必定 be kept in confidencephr. /ɪn ˈkɑːnfɪdəns/ 保密地.
国会当然理当时刻了解该计划的进展。然而，正如国会本身也会欣然认识到的那样，有些信息出于我们自身安全以及我们所支持国家安全的利益，必须予以保密。
New circumstances are constantly begettingv. /bɪˈɡetɪŋ/ 引起，产生 new needs for our safety. I shall ask this Congress for greatly increased new appropriationsn. /əˌproʊpriˈeɪʃnz/ 拨款，经费 and authorizationsn. /ˌɔːθərəˈzeɪʃnz/ 授权 to carry on what we have begun.
新的情况不断为我们的安全带来新的需要。我将请求本届国会大幅增加新的拨款和授权，以继续我们已经开始的事业。
I also ask this Congress for authorityn. /əˈθɔːrəti/ 权力，授权 and for funds sufficientadj. /səˈfɪʃnt/ 足够的，充分的 to manufacturev. /ˌmænjuˈfæktʃər/ 制造，生产 additional munitionsn. /mjuˈnɪʃnz/ 军火，弹药 and war supplies of many kinds, to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations.
我还请求本届国会授予足够的权力和资金，以制造更多种类的弹药和战争物资，转交给那些目前正与侵略国实际交战的国家。
Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenaln. /ˈɑːrsənl/ 兵工厂，军火库 for them as well as for ourselves. They do not need man powerphr. /ˈmæn ˌpaʊər/ 人力，劳动力, but they do need billions of dollars worth of the weapons of defense.
我们最有用、最直接的作用，就是既为我们自己、也为他们充当兵工厂。他们不需要人力，但他们确实需要价值数十亿美元的防御武器。
The time is near when they will not be able to pay for them all in ready cashphr. /ˈredi kæʃ/ 现款，现金. We cannot, and we will not, tell them that they must surrenderv. /səˈrendər/ 投降，屈服, merely because of present inabilityn. /ˌɪnəˈbɪləti/ 无力，不能 to pay for the weapons which we know they must have.
他们无法用现款全额支付的时候即将到来。我们不能、也不会仅仅因为他们目前无力支付我们明知他们必须拥有的武器，就告诉他们必须投降。
I do not recommendv. /ˌrekəˈmend/ 建议，推荐 that we make them a loann. /loʊn/ 贷款，借款 of dollars with which to pay for these weapons—a loan to be repaidv. /riˈpeɪd/ 偿还，偿付 in dollars.
我不建议我们向他们提供一笔美元贷款来支付这些武器——一笔要以美元偿还的贷款。
I recommend that we make it possible for those nations to continue to obtainv. /əbˈteɪn/ 获得，取得 war materials in the United States, fittingv. /ˈfɪtɪŋ/ 使适合，纳入 their orders into our own program. Nearly all their materiel would, if the time ever came, be useful for our own defense.
我建议我们让那些国家能够继续在美国获得战争物资，把他们的订单纳入我们自己的计划之中。如果那一天真的到来，他们几乎所有的军用物资都会对我们自己的防御有用。
Taking counseln. /ˈkaʊnsl/ 商议，咨询 of expert military and navaladj. /ˈneɪvl/ 海军的 authorities, considering what is best for our own security, we are free to decide how much should be kept here and how much should be sent abroad to our friends who by their determined and heroicadj. /həˈroʊɪk/ 英勇的 resistancen. /rɪˈzɪstəns/ 抵抗，反抗 are giving us time in which to make ready our own defense.
在咨询军事和海军专家的意见、并考虑什么最有利于我们自身安全之后，我们可以自由决定有多少应当留在这里，有多少应当送往国外给我们的朋友——他们正以坚定而英勇的抵抗，为我们争取做好准备我们自身防御的时间。
For what we send abroad, we shall be repaid within a reasonable time following the close of hostilitiesn. /hɑːˈstɪlətiz/ 敌对行动，战事, in similar materials, or, at our optionphr. /æt aʊr ˈɑːpʃn/ 由我们选择, in other goods of many kinds, which they can produce and which we need.
至于我们送往国外的物资，我们将在战事结束后的一段合理时间内得到偿还：以类似的物资偿还，或由我们选择，以他们能生产、而我们需要的许多其他货物偿还。
Let us say to the democracies:
“We Americans are vitallyadv. /ˈvaɪtəli/ 极其，至关重要地 concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forthphr. /ˈpʊtɪŋ fɔːrθ/ 使出，发挥 our energies, our resources and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regainv. /rɪˈɡeɪn/ 重新获得，夺回 and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose and our pledgen. /pledʒ/ 誓言，承诺.”
让我们对民主国家说：
“我们美国人与你们保卫自由的事业休戚相关。我们正投入我们的精力、资源和组织能力，给你们以重新获得并维持一个自由世界的力量。我们将以不断增加的数目，向你们送去舰船、飞机、坦克、火炮。这是我们的目的，也是我们的誓言。”
In fulfillmentn. /fʊlˈfɪlmənt/ 履行，实现 of this purpose we will not be intimidatedv. /ɪnˈtɪmɪdeɪtɪd/ 恐吓，威胁 by the threats of dictators that they will regard as a breachn. /briːtʃ/ 违反，破坏 of international law or as an act of war our aid to the democracies which dare to resist their aggression. Such aid is not an act of war, even if a dictator should unilaterallyadv. /ˌjuːnɪˈlætərəli/ 单方面地 proclaimv. /prəˈkleɪm/ 宣布，宣告 it so to be.
为实现这一目的，我们不会被独裁者的威胁所吓倒——他们声称我们援助那些敢于抵抗其侵略的民主国家，是违反国际法或构成战争行为。这种援助不是战争行为，即使某个独裁者单方面宣布它是。
When the dictators, if the dictators, are ready to make war upon us, they will not wait for an act of war on our part. They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands to commitv. /kəˈmɪt/ 做出，犯（错误等） an act of war.
当独裁者——如果独裁者——准备向我们开战时，他们不会等待我们这边先有战争行为。他们并没有等待挪威、比利时或荷兰做出战争行为。
Their only interest is in a new one-wayadj. /ˌwʌn ˈweɪ/ 单向的 international law, which lacks mutualityn. /ˌmjuːtʃuˈæləti/ 相互性，对等 in its observancen. /əbˈzɜːrvəns/ 遵守，奉行, and, therefore, becomes an instrument of oppressionn. /əˈpreʃn/ 压迫，压制.
他们唯一感兴趣的是新的单向国际法，这种法律在遵守上缺乏相互性，因而成为压迫的工具。
The happiness of future generationsn. /ˌdʒenəˈreɪʃnz/ 世代，一代人 of Americans may well depend upon how effectiveadj. /ɪˈfektɪv/ 有效的，奏效的 and how immediate we can make our aid felt. No one can tell the exact character of the emergency situations that we may be called upon to meet. The Nation’s hands must not be tied when the Nation’s life is in danger.
未来世世代代美国人的幸福，很可能取决于我们能让这种援助多么有效、多么迅速地为人所感受。没有人能说清我们可能被要求应对的紧急情况的确切性质。当国家的生命处于危险之中时，国家的手绝不能被捆住。
We must all prepare to make the sacrificesn. /ˈsækrɪfaɪsɪz/ 牺牲，代价 that the emergency-almost as serious as war itself—demands. Whatever stands in the way of speed and efficiencyn. /ɪˈfɪʃnsi/ 效率，效能 in defense preparations must give wayphr. /ɡɪv weɪ/ 让位，让步 to the national need.
我们都必须准备好做出这一紧急状态——几乎与战争本身同样严重——所要求的牺牲。任何妨碍防务准备速度与效率的东西，都必须让位于国家的需要。
A free nation has the right to expect full cooperationn. /koʊˌɑːpəˈreɪʃn/ 合作，协作 from all groups. A free nation has the right to look to the leaders of business, of labor, and of agriculture to take the leadphr. /teɪk ðə liːd/ 带头，率先 in stimulatingv. /ˈstɪmjuleɪtɪŋ/ 激励，促进 effort, not among other groups but within their own groups.
一个自由国家有权期望所有群体充分合作。一个自由国家有权指望商界、劳工界和农业界的领袖带头激励努力——不是激励其他群体，而是在他们自己的群体内部激励。
The best way of dealing with the few slackersn. /ˈslækərz/ 偷懒者，懈怠者 or trouble makers in our midstn. /mɪdst/ 中间，当中 is, first, to shamev. /ʃeɪm/ 使羞愧，使丢脸 them by patriotic example, and, if that fails, to use the sovereigntyn. /ˈsɑːvrənti/ 主权，统治权 of Government to save Government.
对待我们中间少数偷懒者或捣乱者的最好办法，首先是以爱国榜样使他们羞愧；如果这不行，就运用政府的主权来拯救政府。
As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone. Those who man our defenses, and those behind them who build our defenses, must have the staminan. /ˈstæmɪnə/ 耐力，持久力 and the courage which come from unshakableadj. /ʌnˈʃeɪkəbl/ 不可动摇的 belief in the manner of life which they are defending. The mightyadj. /ˈmaɪti/ 强大的，有力的 action that we are calling for cannot be based on a disregardn. /ˌdɪsrɪˈɡɑːrd/ 漠视，忽视 of all things worth fighting for.
正如人不是单靠面包活着，他们也不是单靠军备作战。那些操纵我们防御的人，以及他们身后建造我们防御的人，必须拥有耐力和勇气，而这来自对他们所捍卫的生活方式的不可动摇的信念。我们正在号召的这种强大行动，不能建立在对一切值得为之战斗之物的漠视之上。
The Nation takes great satisfactionn. /ˌsætɪsˈfækʃn/ 满足，满意 and much strength from the things which have been done to make its people conscious of their individual staken. /steɪk/ 利害关系，股份 in the preservationn. /ˌprezərˈveɪʃn/ 维护，保存 of democratic life in America. Those things have toughenedv. /ˈtʌfnd/ 使坚韧，磨砺 the fibren. /ˈfaɪbər/ 品格，质地 of our people, have renewed their faith and strengthened their devotionn. /dɪˈvoʊʃn/ 忠诚，献身 to the institutions we make ready to protect.
国家从那些使人民意识到自己在维护美国民主生活中有个人利害关系的事情中，获得了极大的满足和力量。这些事情磨砺了我们民族的品格，更新了他们的信念，加强了他们对我们要随时加以保护的制度的忠诚。
Certainly this is no time for any of us to stop thinking about the social and economic problems which are the root cause of the social revolution which is today a supremeadj. /suːˈpriːm/ 至高的，最重要的 factorn. /ˈfæktər/ 因素，要素 in the world.
当然，现在不是我们任何人停止思考社会与经济问题的时候——这些问题是当今世界一个至高无上的因素即社会革命的根源。
For there is nothing mysteriousadj. /mɪˈstɪriəs/ 神秘的，难以理解的 about the foundationsn. /faʊnˈdeɪʃnz/ 基础，根基 of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are:
因为一个健康而强大的民主的基础并没有什么神秘之处。我们人民对其政治和经济制度所期望的基本东西是简单的。它们是：
Equalityn. /ɪˈkwɑːləti/ 平等，均等 of opportunity for youth and for others.
青年和其他人享有平等的机会。
Jobs for those who can work.
为能够工作的人提供工作。
Security for those who need it.
为需要的人提供保障。
The ending of special privilegen. /ˈprɪvəlɪdʒ/ 特权，优待 for the few.
终结少数人的特权。
The preservation of civil libertiesn. /ˈsɪvl ˈlɪbərtiz/ 公民自由 for all.
维护所有人的公民自由。
The enjoymentn. /ɪnˈdʒɔɪmənt/ 享有，享受 of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of livingphr. /ˈstændərd əv ˈlɪvɪŋ/ 生活水准.
在更广泛且不断提高的生活水准中享受科学进步的成果。
These are the simple, basic things that must never be lost sight ofphr. /lɔːst saɪt əv/ 被忽视，被遗忘 in the turmoiln. /ˈtɜːrmɔɪl/ 动荡，混乱 and unbelievable complexityn. /kəmˈpleksəti/ 复杂性 of our modern world. The inner and abidingadj. /əˈbaɪdɪŋ/ 持久的，永恒的 strength of our economic and political systems is dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.
这些就是简单而基本的东西，在我们现代世界的动荡与令人难以置信的复杂中，绝不能被忽视。我们经济和政治制度内在而持久的力量，取决于它们在多大程度上实现这些期望。
Many subjects connected with our social economy call forphr. /kɔːl fɔːr/ 需要，要求 immediate improvement.
许多与社会经济有关的课题需要立即改善。
As examples:
例如：
We should bring more citizens under the coveragen. /ˈkʌvərɪdʒ/ 覆盖范围，承保范围 of old-age pensionsn. /ˈpenʃnz/ 养老金，抚恤金 and unemploymentn. /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ 失业 insurance.
我们应当让更多公民纳入养老金和失业保险的覆盖范围。
We should widenv. /ˈwaɪdn/ 扩大，拓宽 the opportunities for adequateadj. /ˈædɪkwət/ 充分的，足够的 medical care.
我们应当扩大获得充分医疗照护的机会。
We should plan a better system by which persons deservingadj. /dɪˈzɜːrvɪŋ/ 值得的，应得的 or needing gainfuladj. /ˈɡeɪnfl/ 有报酬的 employment may obtain it.
我们应当规划一个更好的制度，使值得获得或需要获得有酬就业的人能够得到它。
I have called for personal sacrifice. I am assured of the willingnessn. /ˈwɪlɪŋnəs/ 意愿，乐意 of almost all Americans to respond to that call.
我已号召个人做出牺牲。我相信几乎所有美国人都愿意响应这一号召。
A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. In my Budget Message I shall recommend that a greater portionn. /ˈpɔːrʃn/ 部分，份额 of this great defense program be paid for from taxationn. /tækˈseɪʃn/ 征税，税收 than we are paying today. No person should try, or be allowed, to get rich out of this program; and the principle of tax payments in accordance withphr. /ɪn əˈkɔːrdns wɪð/ 依照，根据 ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislationn. /ˌledʒɪsˈleɪʃn/ 立法，法规.
这种牺牲的一部分意味着缴纳更多的税。在我的预算咨文中，我将建议这一庞大的防务计划中有比今天更大的部分由税收支付。任何人都不应试图、也不应被允许从这个计划中发财；而按支付能力纳税的原则，应当始终摆在我们眼前，指导我们的立法。
If the Congress maintains these principles, the votersn. /ˈvoʊtərz/ 选民，投票人, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooksn. /ˈpɑːkɪtbʊks/ 钱包，经济利益, will give you their applausen. /əˈplɔːz/ 掌声，赞许.
如果国会坚持这些原则，选民们把爱国心置于钱包之上，将会给你们掌声。
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward tophr. /lʊk ˈfɔːrwərd tu/ 期待，盼望 a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
在我们力求使其安全的未来日子里，我们期待着一个建立在四项基本人类自由之上的世界。
The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
第一是言论和表达的自由——在世界各地。
The second is freedom of every person to worshipv. /ˈwɜːrʃɪp/ 敬拜，崇拜 God in his own way—everywhere in the world.
第二是每个人以自己的方式敬拜上帝的自由——在世界各地。
The third is freedom from wantn. /wɑːnt/ 匮乏，贫困—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitantsn. /ɪnˈhæbɪtənts/ 居民，住户-everywhere in the world.
第三是免于匮乏的自由——用世界性的话来说，这意味着经济上的谅解，使每个国家都能为其居民确保一种健康的和平时期生活——在世界各地。
The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reductionn. /rɪˈdʌkʃn/ 削减，减少 of armaments to such a point and in such a thoroughadj. /ˈθɜːroʊ/ 彻底的，全面的 fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighborn. /ˈneɪbər/ 邻国，邻居—anywhere in the world.
第四是免于恐惧的自由——用世界性的话来说，这意味着在全世界范围内把军备削减到这样一种程度、以这样一种彻底的方式，以致没有任何国家能够对任何邻国实施实际侵略行为——在世界任何地方。
That is no visionn. /ˈvɪʒn/ 幻象，愿景 of a distant millenniumn. /mɪˈleniəm/ 千禧年，太平盛世. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainableadj. /əˈteɪnəbl/ 可实现的，可达到的 in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesisn. /ænˈtɪθəsɪs/ 对立面，正相反 of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
这并非遥远千禧年的幻象。它是我们自己的时代和世代能够实现的那种世界的确定基础。那种世界，正是独裁者企图以炸弹的轰响创造的所谓暴政新秩序的对立面。
To that new order we oppose the greater conceptionn. /kənˈsepʃn/ 构想，观念—the moral order. A good society is able to face schemesn. /skiːmz/ 图谋，计划 of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
与那种新秩序相对，我们提出更宏大的构想——道德秩序。一个良好的社会能够无所畏惧地面对统治世界的图谋和外来革命这两者。
Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change—in a perpetualadj. /pərˈpetʃuəl/ 永久的，不断的 peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on steadilyadv. /ˈstedɪli/ 稳定地，持续地, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the concentration campn. /ˌkɑːnsnˈtreɪʃn kæmp/ 集中营 or the quick-limen. /ˈkwɪk laɪm/ 生石灰 in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilizedadj. /ˈsɪvəlaɪzd/ 文明的，开化的 society.
自美国历史开始以来，我们一直投身于变革——一场永不休止的和平革命——一场稳定进行、悄然自我调整以适应变化中的条件的革命——没有集中营，也没有沟渠里的生石灰。我们所寻求的世界秩序，是自由国家在一个友好而文明的社会中共同协作。
This nation has placed its destinyn. /ˈdestəni/ 命运，天命 in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacyn. /suːˈpreməsi/ 至高无上，优越 of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high conceptn. /ˈkɑːnsept/ 理念，概念 there can be no end saveprep. /seɪv/ 除……之外 victory.
这个国家已把它的命运交托给数百万自由男女的双手、头脑和心灵；并把它的信念交托给上帝指引下的自由。自由意味着人权在各地至高无上。我们的支持给予那些为争取或保有这些权利而奋斗的人。我们的力量在于我们目标的一致。对于这一崇高理念，除了胜利，别无结局。