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DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He is exactly the right man for the times.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他正是这个时代的正确人选。

It's the new century bursting with all kinds of wonderful expectations and new inventions and new ways of seeing things, and he's young, he's fresh.

这是一个充满各种美好期望、新发明和看待事物的新方式的新世纪，他很年轻，充满活力。

The country just embraced the whole idea of Theodore Roosevelt.

这个国家刚刚接受了西奥多·罗斯福的整个想法。

None of it was easy.

这一切都不容易。

Shadowed by illness, haunted by the deaths of those most dear to him, he learned early, he said, that ''Life was one long campaign where every victory merely leaves the ground free for another battle.'' ''Black care,'' he wrote, ''rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.''

他说，在疾病的阴影下，在最亲人的去世的阴影下，他很早就了解到，“生活是一场漫长的战役，每一次胜利都只是为另一场战斗留下了空地。”“黑人关怀，”他写道，“很少会站在步伐足够快的骑手身后。”

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : Asthma's a terrible thing.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：哮喘是一件可怕的事情。

It's a terrible, suffocating illness.

这是一种可怕的、令人窒息的疾病。

He would have to sit upright, bolt upright in bed and-- struggling for breath.

他必须坐直，在床上站直，然后——呼吸困难。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : It's as though you're being strangled to death.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：：就好像你被勒死了一样。

It is though you're being denied life suddenly and mysteriously, and it comes on you involuntarily.

就好像你突然而神秘地被剥夺了生命，它不由自主地降临到你身上。

Everybody around you is galvanized by the horror of this experience that you are going through.

你周围的每个人都被你正在经历的这段恐怖经历所激励。

You are-- it's as if they're attending a hanging, and you are being hanged.

你——就好像他们正在参加绞刑，而你正在被绞死。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : The father was very maternal in his way, because the father realized this little boy was dying in his own arms.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：父亲在他的方式上非常慈母，因为父亲意识到这个小男孩正在他自己的怀里死去。

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JAMES ROOSEVELT, Cousin: : His father would pick up him out of bed and-- and get the carriage harnessed up and drive through the streets of New York, hoping that, as the boy gulped in air, the breathing would clear and he would survive.

詹姆斯·罗斯福（堂兄）：他的父亲会把他从床上抱起来，然后给马车套上安全带，驶过纽约的街道，希望当男孩大口呼吸空气时，他的呼吸会变得清晰，他能活下来。

Theodore Roosevelt's father would be his guiding spirit, his source of inspiration and the yardstick by which he would measure himself his entire life.

西奥多·罗斯福的父亲将是他的指导精神、灵感源泉和衡量自己一生的标尺。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : Now, the father was called ''Great Heart.'' In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress , Great Heart is the Christian warrior, the protector.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者： 现在，父亲被称为“伟大的心”。在班扬的《天路历程》中，伟大的心是基督教战士、保护者。

The father would not tolerate deceit, would not tolerate cowardice.

父亲不能容忍欺骗，不能容忍怯懦。

Everybody had to measure up.

每个人都必须衡量。

He was God in his house.

他是他家里的上帝。

And, like God, you walked a little humbly in his presence.

而且，就像上帝一样，你在他面前表现得有点谦卑。

The immigrant poor lived crowded together in tenements just a few blocks from the Roosevelt family home.

移民穷人挤在一起住在距离罗斯福家仅几个街区的公寓里。

Theodore's father contributed to charities for homeless newsboys and orphans.

西奥多的父亲为无家可归的报童和孤儿的慈善事业做出了贡献。

He taught Sunday School and helped found the Children's Aid Society.

他在主日学校任教，并帮助成立了儿童援助协会。

He had what he called ''a troublesome conscience.''

他有所谓的“良心不安”。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : His father was an extremely moral man who believed in helping the poor, and so young Teddy was imbued with a sense of compassion on that level, or obligation more than compassion, shall we say.

历史学家威廉·哈博：他的父亲是一个非常有道德的人，他相信帮助穷人，所以年轻的泰迪充满了这种程度的同情心，或者我们可以说，义务大于同情心。

THEODORE ROOSEVELT IV, Great-grandson: : One time when Theodore Roosevelt Senior was trying to raise money, he brought some of his wealthiest friends in to have dinner.

西奥多·罗斯福四世，曾孙：：有一次，老西奥多·罗斯福试图筹集资金，他邀请了一些最富有的朋友来吃饭。

And he opens up the doors to the dining room and around this splendid rosewood table were a whole number of children who were crippled from diseases or unfortunate accidents.

他打开餐厅的门，这张华丽的红木桌子周围坐​​着许多因疾病或不幸事故而致残的孩子。

And people took a collective gasp of horror, and then he said, ''I now want money from you so that these children can benefit from the money you have,'' and out of that began some of his philanthropic work.

人们集体惊恐地倒吸一口凉气，然后他说：“我现在想要你的钱，这样这些孩子就可以从你的钱中受益。”然后他开始了一些慈善工作。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : The father said, ''Get action.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：父亲说：“采取行动。”

Seize the moment.

抓住时机。

Don't dwell on the inner darkness of yourself.

不要沉迷于自己内心的黑暗。

Reach out.

伸出手来。

Burst out.'' His little son, Theodore, adored him, worshipped him, and, I think, took his role as being that father's son entirely to heart, both with tremendous benefit and with difficulty.

他的小儿子西奥多崇拜他，崇拜他，而且，我认为，他把他作为父亲的儿子的角色完全放在心上，这既带来了巨大的好处，也带来了困难。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt was a southern belle.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：米蒂·布洛克·罗斯福是一位南方美女。

She was a gorgeous woman -- dark-haired, petite, effervescent.

她是一位美丽的女人——黑发、娇小、热情。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : And she always wore a gardenia or something behind her ear, tucked in her hair.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：她总是在耳后戴一朵栀子花或什么东西，塞在头发里。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : It was the first time, I believe, in the Roosevelt family -- at least in our line -- that somebody married out of the New York Dutch line.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：我相信，在罗斯福家族中——至少在我们的家族中——有人与纽约荷兰家族以外的人结婚，这是第一次。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : She came from a different world.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：：她来自不同的世界。

The South of Mittie Bulloch's life as a young woman was the South of plantations, the South of slavery.

米蒂·布洛赫（Mittie Bulloch）年轻时生活的南方是种植园的南方，奴隶制的南方。

She came from this sort of wild, romantic, sometimes violent, sometimes erratic family, and for her to come to New York and move into this stiff, rather phlegmatic Dutch burgher family that had been established so very long on the island of Manhattan was as different as if she'd come from a different planet.

她来自这样一个狂野、浪漫、有时暴力、有时不稳定的家庭，来到纽约，搬进这个在曼哈顿岛上建立了很长时间的僵硬、相当冷漠的荷兰市民家庭，对她来说就像来自另一个星球一样不同。

She is as responsible, if not more so, for the way Theodore turned out.

对于西奥多的表现，她同样负有责任，甚至更重要。

He's more a Bulloch than a Roosevelt.

他更像是布洛克而不是罗斯福。

The Roosevelts didn't have that energy.

罗斯福家族没有这样的精力。

The Roosevelts didn't have that vitality, the flamboyance, the love of poetry, the love of romance, the love of travel, the eccentricity.

罗斯福一家没有那样的活力、华丽、对诗歌的热爱、对浪漫的热爱、对旅行的热爱、古怪。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : In a society of the kind where the Roosevelts circulated and belonged, this was by no means shameful -- this was quite commonly done.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：在罗斯福家族流通和所属的社会中，这绝不是可耻的——这是很常见的事情。

But to the little boy raised on the heroics of adventure stories and on the heroics of his mother's family, this was very hard to explain, very difficult for him to accept.

但对于这个从小在冒险故事和母亲家族的英雄事迹中长大的小男孩来说，这很难解释，也很难接受。

Theodore was obsessed with natural history, made meticulous drawings, and dreamed of becoming a great naturalist.

西奥多痴迷于自然历史，画画细致，梦想成为一名伟大的博物学家。

He was a precocious, irrepressible, odd little boy.

他是一个早熟、难以抑制、古怪的小男孩。

He carried frogs in his hat, raised mice in the family icebox, kept snakes in his water pitcher, and began a collection of birds which he insisted on stuffing himself at home.

他在帽子里放青蛙，在家里的冰箱里养老鼠，在水罐里养蛇，并开始收集鸟类，并坚持把它们塞在家里。

He devoured grown-up books -- fiction, history, poetry, science -- and noisily reported everything he'd learned to anyone who would listen.

他如饥似渴地阅读成人书籍——小说、历史、诗歌、科学——并大声地向任何愿意听的人报告他所学到的一切。

But asthma continued to ravage him.

但哮喘继续折磨着他。

He was anxious and suffered from a recurring nightmare that a werewolf was loose in his bedroom.

他很焦虑，经常做噩梦，梦见一只狼人在他的卧室里游荡。

His desperate parents tried remedies recommended by the best doctors of the day.

他绝望的父母尝试了当时最好的医生推荐的治疗方法。

Theodore was dosed with a medicine to induce vomiting, made to swallow black coffee, even forced to smoke cigars.

西奥多被服用催吐药物，被迫吞下黑咖啡，甚至被迫抽雪茄。

At one point, he noted in his diary, his chest was rubbed so hard ''that the blood came out.'' When he was 11, his father took him aside.

他在日记中写道，有一次，他的胸部被用力摩擦，“血都流出来了。”当他 11 岁的时候，他的父亲把他拉到一边。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He said, ''You have been blessed with a wonderful mind, but you have to build your body.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他说：“你有幸拥有出色的头脑，但你必须增强你的身体。”

You have to take charge of your body.'' In a way-- in a larger way, he was saying, ''You have to take charge of your life.''

你必须掌控你的身体。”在某种程度上——从更大的意义上来说，他是在说，“你必须掌控你的生活。”

Slowly, Theodore's neck thickened, his chest expanded, he began to breathe a bit more easily, but even when he left home for Harvard, his asthma stubbornly hung on.

慢慢地，西奥多的脖子变粗了，胸部变宽了，呼吸开始变得轻松一些，但即使当他离开家去哈佛时，他的哮喘仍然顽固地持续着。

He was 17 years old and had never been away from his family before.

他今年17岁，以前从未离开过家人。

''As I saw the last of the train bearing you away,'' his father wrote him, ''I realized what a luxury it was to have a boy in whom I could place perfect trust and confidence.

“当我看到最后一列火车载着你离开时，”他的父亲写信给他，“我意识到拥有一个我可以完全信任和自信的男孩是多么奢侈。

Take care of your morals first, your health next, and, finally, your studies.'' At college, Theodore was a serious student with a growing sense that he was destined for great things.

首先要照顾好你的道德，其次是你的健康，最后是你的学业。”在大学里，西奥多是一个认真的学生，他越来越意识到自己注定会成就伟大的事情。

His classmates didn't know what to make of him.

他的同学不知道该怎么看待他。

He took an eight-mile walk every afternoon, ran from class to class, and couldn't seem to stop talking.

他每天下午步行八英里，从一个班级跑到另一个班级，而且似乎无法停止说话。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : There's a great moment where one of his professors turns and says, ''See here, Roosevelt, I'm running this class.''

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：有一个伟大的时刻，他的一位教授转身说：“看这里，罗斯福，我正在主持这门课。”

Shattered, for months he poured out his pain and bewilderment in his diary.

几个月来，他在日记中倾诉了自己的痛苦和困惑。

''How little use I am or ever shall be.'' ''If I had very much time to think, I believe I should almost go crazy.'' Along the shores of Long Island Sound, he sought relief in the natural world and in ceaseless physical exertion.

“我现在或将来是多么无用。”“如果我有很多时间思考，我相信我几乎要发疯了。”沿着长岛海峡的海岸，他在自然世界和不断的体力消耗中寻求解脱。

He ran, hiked, boxed, hunted, and swam, wrestled.

他跑步、远足、拳击、狩猎、游泳、摔跤。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : Exactly what his father had preached -- ''Get action, get out, do things.''

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：这正是他父亲所宣扬的——“采取行动，出去，做事。”

When Theodore returned to Harvard, he kept up his furious pace.

当西奥多回到哈佛时，他继续狂暴的步伐。

He joined nearly every club, began a book on naval history, and fought for the lightweight boxing championship of the school, which he lost.

他加入了几乎所有的俱乐部，开始写一本关于海军历史的书，并为学校的轻量级拳击冠军而战，但他输了。

Somehow Theodore also found the time to fall in love.

不知何故，西奥多也找到了坠入爱河的时间。

Her name was Alice Hathaway Lee, the tall, golden-haired cousin of a classmate.

她的名字叫爱丽丝·海瑟薇·李，是一位同学的表妹，身材高大，金发碧眼。

She was just 17.

她才17岁。

Her family called her ''Sunshine.''

她的家人称她为“阳光”。

''See that girl?'' Theodore told a friend soon after he'd met her, ''I'm going to marry her.

“看到那个女孩了吗？”西奥多见到她后不久就告诉朋友，“我要娶她。”

She won't have me, but I'm going to have her.''

她不会拥有我，但我会拥有她。”

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He was head over heels in love with Alice Lee.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)：他深深地爱上了爱丽丝·李。

She had wealth, background, she was very appealing, and she was unattainable.

她有钱，有背景，有魅力，而且高不可攀。

NANCY JACKSON, Granddaughter: : Anyway, he must have been kind of-- you know, he had this high voice, and he was no great shakes in looks, and he was all kinds of things.

南希·杰克逊，孙女：不管怎样，他一定是——你知道，他的声音很高，而且他的外表也没有什么大问题，而且他是各种各样的人。

And he didn't-- she didn't think he was suitable, I don't think, for her in any way-- probably didn't dance, for all I know, and I think she loved to dance.

据我所知，他不——她认为他不适合她，我认为，无论如何——可能没有跳舞，而且我认为她喜欢跳舞。

But it doesn't sound-- I'd have known-- never known a Roosevelt who was such a great dancer.

但听起来——我早就知道——从来没有听说过罗斯福是一位如此伟大的舞者。

They were married on October 27, 1880.

他们于 1880 年 10 月 27 日结婚。

On a high bluff overlooking Oyster Bay, they planned to build a big house.

他们计划在俯瞰牡蛎湾的高崖上建造一座大房子。

Theodore named it for his bride, Leeholm.

西奥多以他的新娘利霍尔姆 (Leeholm) 的名字命名它。

''There is hardly an hour of the 24 that we are not together,'' he wrote, ''and I am living in a dreamland.

“二十四小时里，我们几乎没有一个小时不在一起，”他写道，“我生活在梦境中。”

How I wish it could last forever.''

我多么希望它能永远持续下去。”

Theodore and Alice became prominent members of New York's most fashionable society.

西奥多和爱丽丝成为纽约最时尚社会的杰出成员。

Lavish dinners, theater parties, gala balls-- hardly a day went by without some glittering affair.

奢华的晚宴、戏剧派对、舞会——几乎每天都会发生一些闪闪发光的事件。

But to the wonder of most of his friends, Theodore was part of another world.

但令他的大多数朋友感到惊讶的是，西奥多是另一个世界的一部分。

He had decided to become a politician.

他决定成为一名政治家。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : In 1880, when Theodore Roosevelt graduated from Harvard College, gentlemen -- men of good birth and competence, money -- simply did not go into politics as a career.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆 (JOHN MORTON BLUM)：1880 年，西奥多·罗斯福 (Theodore Roosevelt) 从哈佛大学毕业时，绅士们——出身高贵、有能力、有钱的人——根本就没有从政作为职业。

Politics was for ''muckers.''

政治是为“混蛋”服务的。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He went into politics -- if initially, perhaps, only to see what it tasted like -- basically because he wanted to govern.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：他进入政界——也许最初只是为了看看它的味道——基本上是因为他想执政。

Roosevelt loved power.

罗斯福热爱权力。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He wore thick spectacles, and he had a rather high-pitched, patrician intonation.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：：他戴着厚厚的眼镜，语调相当高亢，带有贵族气息。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He would stand up there in the halls of the old Capital in Albany and say, ''Mistah Speakah, Mistah Speakah.''

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：他会站在奥尔巴尼旧首都的大厅里说：“Mistah Speakah，Mistah Speakah。”

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : When that squeaky voice began to make moralistic statements on the floor of the New York Assembly -- which was filled with country lawyers, morticians, saloon-keepers and the like -- well, the newspapermen made a lot of it, and they were the media then.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：当那个吱吱作响的声音开始在纽约议会的会场上发表道德言论时——那里挤满了乡村律师、殡葬师、酒吧老板等——嗯，报纸记者做了很多这样的事情，他们当时就是媒体。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : And there he is among some very tough, profane, colorful, rough characters.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)：：他属于一些非常强硬、亵渎、丰富多彩、粗暴的人物之一。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : What he wants to prove is that he himself and people like him -- in other words, children of privilege -- can hold their own-- can hold their own with the roughs of the world.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：他想证明的是，他本人和像他一样的人——换句话说，特权之子——能够坚持自己的立场——能够在世界的风雨中坚持自己的立场。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : He was so appealing that in spite of his greenness, in spite of challenging the Republican machine virtually the first day he was in the New York State Assembly, they didn't really dislike him, they didn't run him off.

威廉·哈博（WILLIAM HARBAUGH），历史学家：：他是如此有吸引力，以至于尽管他是新手，尽管他在纽约州议会的第一天就挑战了共和党机器，但他们并没有真正不喜欢他，也没有把他赶走。

They sensed that there was too much quality here to put this man completely aside, and, anyway, he wouldn't have let them do it, you see.

他们感觉到这里有太多的品质，不能完全把这个人放在一边，而且，无论如何，他不会让他们这样做，你看。

He was so vigorous.

他是如此的有活力。

In 1882 when a bill was introduced in the Assembly to protect cigar workers from exploitation by their employers, Theodore went to New York's Lower East Side to see for himself the conditions under which they lived.

1882 年，当议会提出一项保护雪茄工人免受雇主剥削的法案时，西奥多前往纽约下东区，亲眼看看他们的生活条件。

''I have always remembered one room in which two families were living,'' Theodore recalled.

“我一直记得一间房间里住着两个家庭，”西奥多回忆道。

''The tobacco was stowed about everywhere, alongside the foul bedding, and in a corner where there were scraps of food.

“烟草到处都是，在肮脏的被褥旁边，还有食物残渣的角落里。

The men, women and children worked by day and far into the evening, and they slept and ate there.''

男人、女人和孩子们白天工作到晚上，他们就在那里睡觉和吃饭。”

Brought up by his father to believe in private charity, now, for the first time, Theodore began to see how government could help in ways that philanthropy could not.

西奥多在父亲的熏陶下相信私人慈善事业，现在，他第一次开始看到政府如何以慈善事业无法提供的方式提供帮助。

He fought for the bill to protect the workers who made cigars at home, and it won, only to be ruled unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals, which insisted government had no right to interfere with business.

他为保护在家制作雪茄的工人的法案而奋斗，该法案获胜，但被纽约上诉法院裁定违宪，该法院坚称政府无权干涉商业。

Theodore delighted in politics, and everything seemed to be going his way.

西奥多热衷于政治，一切似乎都按他的意愿进行。

By 1884, he had been elected assemblyman three times, named a minority leader, and his wife was pregnant.

到1884年，他已三度当选议员，被任命为少数党领袖，而他的妻子也怀孕了。

He was just 25 years old.

他当时才25岁。

On the morning of February 13th, he was in Albany when he received a telegram from New York.

2月13日早上，他在奥尔巴尼收到了一封来自纽约的电报。

Alice had given birth to a baby girl.

爱丽丝生下了一个女婴。

A friend remembered he was ''full of life and happiness.''

一位朋友记得他“充满活力和幸福”。

But then a second, ominous telegram had sent him racing for the train.

但随后，第二封不祥的电报让他赶紧赶火车。

A thick fog had settled over the city.

浓浓的雾气笼罩着这座城市。

A morning paper called it ''suicide weather.'' Guided by street lamps that looks as though gray curtains had been drawn around them, he rushed to the family home.

一份晨报称其为“自杀天气”。在路灯的指引下，他冲向了家里，路灯看起来像是拉上了灰色的窗帘。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He pulls up in a carriage, gets down, goes up the stairs -- raining, the fog -- he's full of apprehension.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：他把一辆马车停了下来，下车，上楼梯——下着雨，大雾——他充满了忧虑。

And the door is suddenly flung open by his brother, who stands there in anguish, saying, ''Mother is dying, and your wife is, too.''

门突然被他的兄弟推开，他痛苦地站在那里，说道：“母亲快要死了，你的妻子也快死了。”

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : And the curtain came down for him.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)： 帷幕为他落下。

What more did he have to live for?

他还要活什么呢？

This tragedy, coming like sledgehammer blows, within hours on the same night-- he never got over it.

这场悲剧就像大锤一样在同一个晚上的几个小时内袭来——他从未从悲伤中走出来。

He never, ever got over it.

他从来没有克服过这个问题。

The baby survived.

婴儿活了下来。

Three days after her mother's death, his daughter was christened Alice, but Theodore showed no interest in her, [and] turned her over to the care of his sister.

母亲去世三天后，他的女儿被命名为爱丽丝，但西奥多对她没有表现出任何兴趣，并将她交给他的妹妹照顾。

No one ever heard him speak of his wife again, and never once, in all the coming years, would he mention Alice Lee to the daughter he had named in her memory.

没有人再听他提起他的妻子，在接下来的几年里，他也从来没有向他为纪念她命名的女儿提起爱丽丝·李。

After the death of his wife and mother, Theodore Roosevelt fled west to the Badlands in Dakota Territory.

妻子和母亲去世后，西奥多·罗斯福向西逃往达科他领地的荒地。

For the next two years, Roosevelt would throw himself into a life of almost constant action.

在接下来的两年里，罗斯福将自己投入到几乎不断行动的生活中。

''Black care,'' he wrote, ''rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.''

“黑人关怀，”他写道，“很少坐在速度足够快的骑手后面。”

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He goes to the Badlands of North Dakota, which are named because they are grim, they look bad.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)：他去了北达科他州的荒地，这些荒地之所以得名，是因为它们严峻，看起来很糟糕。

In one of his vivid figures of speech, he said, ''They look like Poe sounds.'' He wanted to find some manifestation in nature of this dark, tragic, overwhelming landscape within.

他用一种生动的修辞手法说道：“它们看起来像爱伦·坡的声音。”他想在自然界中找到这种黑暗、悲剧性、势不可挡的景观的某种表现形式。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : When he went west as a cowboy, he went all stops out.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)： 当他作为牛仔前往西部时，他全力以赴。

He had his spurs and his belt buckles and his pearl-handled revolvers all done for him by Tiffany.

他的马刺、皮带扣和珍珠柄左轮手枪都是蒂芙尼为他做的。

He had a woman make him a cowboy shirt with fringe and all that cost $100.

他让一个女人给他做了一件带流苏的牛仔衬衫，这一切花了 100 美元。

Well, that would be $1,000 or $1,500 today.

好吧，今天是 1,000 美元或 1,500 美元。

Imagine getting yourself up in a $1,000 cowboy shirt.

想象一下让自己穿上价值 1,000 美元的牛仔衬衫。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : They would go charging off by horseback, and he would shout over to them, ''Hasten forward quickly there.'' Well, they'd just about fall out of the saddle, it was so hilarious.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他们会骑马冲锋，他会对他们喊道：“快点儿往前走。”好吧，他们差点从马鞍上摔下来，真是太搞笑了。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : Theodore Roosevelt was not a very good shot, he wasn't a very good rider.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：西奥多·罗斯福不是一个很好的射手，他也不是一个很好的骑手。

It's just that he tried harder than everybody else.

只是他比其他人更努力而已。

He went on roundups, he braved every kind of weather.

他继续进行围捕，勇敢地面对各种天气。

In the winter, it was punishing, sometimes 35, 40, even 65 below zero.

冬天的气温非常严酷，有时零下35度、40度，甚至65度。

Gradually, this comic character who they had made such sport of became admired because he could take it.

渐渐地，这个被他们戏弄的喜剧人物变得受人钦佩，因为他能忍受。

There was an incident one night where a bully who'd been drinking heavily came at him in a bar, and this young Harvard fellow with the glasses and the strange way of talking decked him, knocked him cold, and, of course, that endeared him to his cowboys quite a lot.

一天晚上发生了一起事件，一个酗酒的恶霸在酒吧里向他冲来，这个戴着眼镜、说话方式奇怪的哈佛年轻人把他打扮得漂漂亮亮的，把他打晕了，当然，这让他很受牛仔们的喜爱。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He liked to say, ''There were all kinds of which I was afraid -- mean horses, gunfighters and grizzly bears -- but by acting as if I were not afraid -- wasn't afraid at all -- I found that I wasn't afraid.''

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛：他喜欢说，“我害怕的东西有很多——卑鄙的马、枪手和灰熊——但通过表现得好像我不害怕——一点也不害怕——我发现我并不害怕。”

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : The robust Theodore Roosevelt -- the man that we know who becomes president of the United States -- came out of the Badlands, returned to New York remade, physically, emotionally and mentally.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：坚强的西奥多·罗斯福——我们所熟知的美国总统——走出荒原，回到纽约，在身体、情感和精神上都得到了重塑。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : If it hadn't been for the time that he was in the Badlands, he never would have been president.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：如果他没有在荒地，他永远不会成为总统。

He knew that he had to carry on, and it took him quite a long time to decide how he was going to carry on.

他知道他必须继续下去，他花了很长时间才决定如何继续下去。

I think then he began to think more about my grandmother.

我想从那时起他开始更多地想念我的祖母。

KERMIT ROOSEVELT, Grandson: : Edith had lived just a few houses away from the Roosevelt family, and was virtually the same age as Theodore's sister Corrine.

克米特·罗斯福，孙子：：伊迪丝住在离罗斯福家族只有几栋房子的地方，几乎与西奥多的妹妹科琳同龄。

When Edith was about four years old, she developed a very strong attachment to Corrine's older brother Theodore, who was all of seven years old.

当伊迪丝大约四岁时，她对科林七岁的哥哥西奥多产生了非常强烈的依恋。

NANCY JACKSON, Granddaughter: : They used to write each other all the time.

南茜·杰克逊（NANCY JACKSON），孙女：：他们过去常常给对方写信。

He told her all about the bugs he'd collected -- it's so adorable.

他告诉她所有关于他收集的虫子的事情——太可爱了。

They really knew each other well.

他们真的很了解彼此。

KERMIT ROOSEVELT, Grandson: : His diary reflects spending virtually every day with her -- rowing one day, riding the next day, picnics, et cetera, et cetera -- and then, suddenly, two weeks after her 17th birthday, there's a reference to a meeting in the summerhouse and a squabble, a blowup.

孙子克米特·罗斯福：他的日记几乎记录了和她一起度过的每一天——一天划船，第二天骑马，野餐，等等，等等——然后，突然，在她 17 岁生日两周后，提到了在避暑别墅的一次会议，以及一场争吵、一场争吵。

And neither Edith nor Theodore ever told anybody what happened that afternoon.

伊迪丝和西奥多都没有告诉任何人那天下午发生的事情。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : He knew that Edith was a threat after Alice's death -- a threat, in his mind, to his idea that he would remain constant to his first wife -- and he instructed his sister than when he came back to New York from the West on his occasional visits to make sure that Edith wasn't around.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：他知道爱丽丝死后，伊迪丝是一个威胁——在他看来，这是对他对第一任妻子保持不变的想法的威胁——并且当他偶尔从西部回到纽约时，他指示他的妹妹确保伊迪丝不在身边。

Sisters don't always do what brothers tell them to do and, in fact, she had an entirely thing in mind.

姐妹们并不总是按照兄弟们的吩咐去做，事实上，她完全有自己的想法。

So after maybe his third or fourth trip, clearly not by accident, Edith was there at the top of the stairs when T.R.

因此，也许是在他的第三次或第四次旅行之后，显然这并非偶然，当 T.R. 出现时，伊迪丝就在楼梯顶上。

returned from the West, and it was all over from then on.

从西方回来，从此一切都结束了。

NANCY JACKSON, Granddaughter: : Immediately he sees Edith, all the old feelings surge up again, and he's passionately in love again.

南希·杰克逊，孙女：：他一看到伊迪丝，所有旧有的感觉又涌上心头，他又陷入了热烈的爱河。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : There are moments when others would hear him pacing the room upstairs, saying, ''I have no constancy, I have no constancy.'' He took himself very seriously.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者： 有时，其他人会听到他在楼上的房间里踱来踱去，说：“我没有恒心，我没有恒心。”他非常严肃地对待自己。

Edith and Theodore went to live in the hilltop house at Oyster Bay, which he renamed ''Sagamore Hill.'' Sagamore was an Abnaki Indian word for ''chieftain.'' Alice, Theodore's three-year-old daughter, was finally brought to live with her father, but both Theodore and Edith acted as if her real mother had never existed.

伊迪丝和西奥多搬到牡蛎湾的山顶房子里居住，他将其重新命名为“萨加莫尔山”。萨加莫尔在阿布纳基印第安语中意为“酋长”。西奥多三岁的女儿爱丽丝最终被带去和她的父亲住在一起，但西奥多和伊迪丝表现得好像她的亲生母亲从未存在过一样。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : Imagine raising a child, and you will not talk with that child about her own mother, tell her about her mother -- what did she look like, how did she speak, what was the sound of her voice, what was so wonderful about her, why did he love her so.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：想象一下，抚养一个孩子，你不会和那个孩子谈论她自己的母亲，告诉她她的母亲——她长什么样，她说话怎么样，她的声音是什么样的，她有什么美妙之处，他为什么这么爱她。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : She had a sort of a leveling influence on him.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：她对他有一种平衡的影响。

They were a perfectly suited couple, really, because they had very many different interests.

他们确实是一对非常合适的情侣，因为他们有很多不同的兴趣。

She loved music, he was tone-deaf.

她热爱音乐，他五音不全。

He, of course, loved the outdoors.

当然，他喜欢户外活动。

She didn't do any of the very active things that he did.

她没有做他做过的任何非常积极的事情。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : And I think she saw -- as well as perhaps anyone did -- what might be in store for him, that this really was an extraordinary human being, and there was very little limit to how far he could go.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛：我认为她看到了——也许其他人也看到了——他可能会面临什么，这确实是一个非凡的人，他能走多远几乎没有限制。

But Roosevelt couldn't stay away from public life.

但罗斯福无法远离公共生活。

In 1886, he ran in a three-way race for mayor of New York City, and finished third.

1886年，他参加了纽约市市长的三人竞选，并获得第三名。

Three years later, he went to Washington as a Civil Service Commissioner and made the most of it.

三年后，他前往华盛顿担任公务员专员，并充分利用了这一机会。

He even insisted on exposing fraud within the administration of the president who had appointed him, and then, in 1895, took on a new kind of corruption.

他甚至坚持揭露任命他的总统政府内部的欺诈行为，然后在 1895 年又揭露了一种新的腐败行为。

He was appointed one of four New York City police commissioners and spent the next two years noisily cleaning up the Police Department.

他被任命为纽约市四位警察局长之一，并在接下来的两年里忙于清理警察局。

He fired the chief, insisted that the law that closed saloons on Sundays be enforced against rich and poor alike, and he demanded that all New York City police meet certain standards.

他解雇了局长，坚持要求对富人和穷人一视同仁地执行周日关闭酒吧的法律，并要求所有纽约市警察都达到一定的标准。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : They had to be able to read and write, and they had to have training.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会：：他们必须能够读写，并且必须接受培训。

For example, there was no training in ordnance, in the use of guns, nor was there any required weapon -- you supplied your own pistol.

例如，没有军械、枪支使用方面的训练，也没有任何必需的武器——你提供自己的手枪。

So he introduced standard weapons, pistol practice, and that pistol school that he started is the basis of the present police academy, and was one of the first two schools for police training in the United States.

于是他引进了标准武器，手枪练习，他创办的手枪学校就是现在警察学院的基础，也是美国最早的两所警察训练学校之一。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : This is when the cartoonists really begin to take up Theodore Roosevelt -- moustache, glasses and teeth.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家： ：漫画家们此时才真正开始描绘西奥多·罗斯福——小胡子、眼镜和牙齿。

He is the cartoonist's dream, and this is what makes him the familiar figure.

他是漫画家的梦想，这也是他成为人们所熟悉的人物的原因。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Theodore Roosevelt wanted to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy because that's where the action was.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：西奥多·罗斯福想成为海军助理部长，因为那是行动的所在地。

He believed that no nation could be great -- could be truly great in the world -- unless it was great on the seas.

他相信，没有哪个国家能够伟大——世界上真正的伟大——除非它在海上伟大。

Faster ships, bigger ships -- this is where the great arms race is going on.

更快的船、更大的船——这就是军备竞赛正在进行的地方。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : In the 1880's and the 1890's, Asia, Africa, even parts of Latin America were being divided among the imperial powers.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：在 1880 年代和 1890 年代，亚洲、非洲，甚至拉丁美洲的部分地区都被帝国主义列强瓜分。

The British, the French and the Germans were very active, and Roosevelt feared that if the United States did not enter this race, we'd be left behind.

英国、法国和德国非常活跃，罗斯福担心如果美国不参加这场竞赛，我们就会被抛在后面。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : It was a matter for him of national pride and of his curious concept of manliness.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆：对他来说，这事关民族自豪感和他对男子气概的好奇观念。

Manliness, as a virtue, involved a willingness to fight, not to be a bully necessarily -- he didn't like that word -- but a willingness to stand up and assert yourself.

男子气概作为一种美德，意味着愿意战斗，不一定是欺负人——他不喜欢这个词——而是愿意站出来维护自己的权利。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : Roosevelt felt that a war would be good for the country.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：罗斯福认为战争对国家有利。

It would stir up the blood.

它会搅动血液。

It would bring us together.

它会让我们走到一起。

It was a noble aspiration, rather than the kind of self-serving, grimy business of commerce and the mercantile ambitions of the country.

这是一种崇高的愿望，而不是那种自私、肮脏的商业行为和国家的商业野心。

Roosevelt would have the chance to put his theory of war to the test in the jungles of Cuba.

罗斯福将有机会在古巴丛林中检验他的战争理论。

For two years, Cuban revolutionaries had been struggling to overthrow the Spanish, who had ruled the island for centuries.

两年来，古巴革命者一直在努力推翻统治该岛几个世纪的西班牙人。

Roosevelt sided with the Cuban people and set out to convince President McKinley to strike at the Spanish empire in both Cuba and in the Philippines.

罗斯福站在古巴人民一边，并着手说服麦金莱总统打击古巴和菲律宾的西班牙帝国。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : The Spanish empire had been declining for generations.

沃尔特·拉菲伯（Walter LaFEBER），历史学家：西班牙帝国几代人以来一直在衰落。

It was simply sitting there, waiting to be taken, and Roosevelt understood that Spain would be an easy victory.

它只是坐在那里，等待被攻克，罗斯福明白西班牙将是一场轻松的胜利。

But in spite of the lurid headlines, it was not at all clear what had caused the Maine to explode, and McKinley hesitated to declare war.

尽管有这些耸人听闻的头条新闻，但根本不清楚是什么原因导致缅因号爆炸，麦金莱对宣战犹豫不决。

Privately, Roosevelt said that the President had the backbone of a chocolate eclair.

罗斯福私下里说，总统的骨干就像巧克力闪电泡芙。

''We will have this war,'' Roosevelt said, and he didn't hesitate to reach beyond his authority to prepare for it.

“我们将会爆发这场战争，”罗斯福说道，他毫不犹豫地超出了他的权力范围，为这场战争做好了准备。

On February 25, 1898, when Roosevelt's boss, Secretary of the Navy John D.

1898 年 2 月 25 日，罗斯福的上司、海军部长约翰·D.

Long, took the day off, Roosevelt cabled squadron commanders all over the world, putting them in state of high alert.

罗斯福休假一天后，给世界各地的中队指挥官发了电报，让他们处于高度戒备状态。

One cable ordered Commodore George Dewey to prepare to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines in case of war.

一封电报命令乔治·杜威准将准备在发生战争时攻击在菲律宾的西班牙舰队。

''The very devil seemed to posses Roosevelt yesterday,'' Long said when he returned.

“昨天，罗斯福似乎被恶魔附身了，”朗回来后说道。

Outraged, Long told the President what Roosevelt had done, but McKinley let Roosevelt's order to Dewey stand.

朗愤怒地告诉总统罗斯福的所作所为，但麦金莱维持了罗斯福对杜威的命令。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : McKinley was going to war, all right, but he was doing it on his own time, and he was going to insure that the American people were behind him.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：麦金莱即将参战，没错，但他是在自己的时间里这样做的，他将确保美国人民支持他。

And I think that it's a commentary on Roosevelt that McKinley was going to war, but he wasn't going to war fast enough for Theodore Roosevelt.

我认为这是对罗斯福的评论，麦金莱即将参战，但对于西奥多·罗斯福来说，他参战的速度不够快。

When the Spanish-American War began, Roosevelt was 39, the father of a boisterous swarm of children.

美西战争爆发时，罗斯福 39 岁，是一群喧闹孩子的父亲。

His sixth child had just been born.

他的第六个孩子刚刚出生。

He and Edith named him Quentin.

他和伊迪丝给他起名叫昆汀。

He delighted in his family, reveled in his job at the Navy Department, was proud of his growing reputation as an author, but he was willing to risk it all for the chance of glory in battle.

他对他的家庭感到高兴，对他在海军部的工作感到高兴，对自己作为作家日益增长的声誉感到自豪，但他愿意冒着一切风险去争取在战斗中获得荣耀的机会。

''I had determined that if a war came,'' somehow or other I was going to the front,'' he wrote.

“我已经决定，如果战争来临，”我会以某种方式前往前线，”他写道。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He was going to see combat himself.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：他将亲眼目睹战斗。

He said, ''I have been advocating expansion, I have been advocating this war.

他说，“我一直主张扩张，我一直主张这场战争。”

I've got to practice what I preach.''

我必须言行一致。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He was absolutely determined that he was going to fight, no matter what.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：：他绝对决心无论如何都要战斗。

He said he would have left his wife's deathbed in order to go and fight.

他说他会离开妻子的临终床去战斗。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : His father had not gone to war.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：：他的父亲没有参加过战争。

I don't think there's any denying that was at the root of the decision.

我不认为有人否认这是这个决定的根源。

He would do what his father hadn't done, because his father might approve of that, but also because he could do something his father had never done and, in that way, outdo the father.

他会做他父亲没有做过的事情，因为他的父亲可能会赞同这一点，但也因为他可以做一些他父亲从未做过的事情，从而超越父亲。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He was terribly myopic.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：他非常短视。

He was going into battle with vision that would have not been permitted in the Second World War of a private.

他带着第二次世界大战中的二等兵所不允许的远见投入战斗。

On June 8, 1898, Roosevelt and his Rough Riders began boarding ships in Tampa, Florida for the short journey to Cuba.

1898 年 6 月 8 日，罗斯福和他的狂野骑士开始在佛罗里达州坦帕登船，开始前往古巴的短途旅行。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He had reporters along, he had photographers, and he also had a couple of movie cameramen, very early movie cameramen.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：：他有记者，有摄影师，还有几个电影摄影师，非常早期的电影摄影师。

In fact, he deliberately made room-- there was some protest from some of the Army brass, but he made room to make that they come along.

事实上，他故意腾出空间——一些陆军高层提出了一些抗议，但他腾出了空间让他们加入。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : There were often orchestras, small stringed orchestras playing on the ships, and there are accounts we have of these wonderful moonlit nights as the soldiers are anticipating covering themselves with glory, listening to this music as they sail into battle.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯 (Walter LaFEBER)：船上经常有管弦乐队、小型弦乐队演奏，我们有关于这些美妙的月夜的记载，士兵们在驶入战场时聆听着这种音乐，期待着为自己披上荣耀。

It was a wonderful, romantic notion, and, of course, Roosevelt personified this kind of romantic notion of war.

这是一个美妙而浪漫的想法，当然，罗斯福就是这种浪漫的战争观念的化身。

He thought that war could be glorious.

他认为战争是光荣的。

Twelve miles away, the Spanish were fortifying the hills surrounding the city of Santiago.

十二英里外，西班牙人正在圣地亚哥市周围的山上加固防御工事。

An American victory on the hills overlooking the city would end the war.

如果美国在俯瞰这座城市的山上取得胜利，战争就会结束。

As Roosevelt led the Rough Riders inland through the dense undergrowth, they were caught in an ambush.

当罗斯福率领狂野骑士穿过茂密的灌木丛向内陆进发时，他们遭到伏击。

Roosevelt gave chase, and the Spanish retreated.

罗斯福追击，西班牙人撤退。

Eight Rough Riders were killed, 34 more were wounded.

8 名狂野骑士被杀，另有 34 人受伤。

Roosevelt was enjoying every minute of it.

罗斯福很享受其中的每一分钟。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : One evening within the range of Spanish snipers, he took his swagger stick, the emblem of his colonel's rank, and walked back and forth in the twilight with the enemy shooting at him.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家： 一天晚上，在西班牙狙击手的射程内，他拿着他大摇大摆的手杖，这是他上校军衔的标志，在暮色中来回走动，敌人向他开枪。

His tent-mate said to him when he got back, he said, ''Colonel, didn't you realize you could be killed?'' And Roosevelt said, ''Of course, I realized it, but that's been the trouble all afternoon.

当他回来时，他的帐篷伙伴对他说，“上校，你没有意识到你可能会被杀吗？”罗斯福说，“当然，我意识到了，但这一直是整个下午的麻烦。”

We were getting licked because the men were afraid of being killed.

我们被打败了，因为这些人害怕被杀。

I was going to show them there was nothing to be afraid of.'' Well, that was Theodore Roosevelt.

我要让他们知道没有什么可害怕的。”好吧，那是西奥多·罗斯福。

Most of us are afraid of being killed.

我们大多数人都害怕被杀。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : This was to be his crowded hour, his great moment, and they're about to take the hill, and he says, ''Gentlemen, charge.''

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：这将是他最忙碌的时刻，他最伟大的时刻，他们即将攻占这座山头，他说：“先生们，冲锋。”

The Rough Riders took the hill, but Roosevelt kept going.

狂野骑士占领了这座山，但罗斯福继续前进。

He led another charge up a second hill -- San Juan Hill.

他带领另一次冲锋登上了第二座山——圣胡安山。

It was, he said, ''the great day of my life.

他说，这是“我一生中最伟大的一天”。

I am quite content to go now and to leave my children at least an honorable name.''

我很高兴现在就走，至少给我的孩子们留下一个光荣的名字。”

The Santiago garrison fell, the Spanish surrendered.

圣地亚哥驻军陷落，西班牙人投降。

What remained of the 400-year-old empire that began with Columbus had been destroyed in less than 50 days.

从哥伦布开始的拥有 400 年历史的帝国的残余部分在不到 50 天的时间里就被摧毁了。

American soldiers were heading home.

美国士兵正在回家的路上。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : Secretary of State John Hay called it ''the splendid little war,'' but in many respects, it was a very cheap, romantic war.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：国务卿约翰·海伊称其为“精彩的小战争”，但从许多方面来看，这是一场非常廉价、浪漫的战争。

The United States won essentially an empire to the accompaniment of stringed orchestras in about six weeks.

在大约六周的时间里，美国在弦乐团的伴奏下基本上赢得了一个帝国。

Roosevelt thought that this was going to be the way of war in the future, and he never believed that there would be the kind of terror and horror and bloodshed that finally occurred in 1914 and '15.

罗斯福认为这将是未来的战争方式，他从来不相信会有最终发生在1914年和15年的那种恐怖和流血。

It was a very different kind of war.

这是一场非常不同的战争。

Just 33 days after Roosevelt returned from Cuba, Platt summoned him to the Fifth Avenue Hotel and offered him the Republican nomination for governor, but the party boss was worried.

罗斯福从古巴回来后仅33天，普拉特就将他召集到第五大道酒店，并向他提出共和党州长提名，但党魁却很担心。

He didn't like Theodore Roosevelt's record as a reformer, and wanted to make certain that the unpredictable war hero would be a loyal soldier in the Republican ranks.

他不喜欢西奥多·罗斯福作为改革家的记录，并希望确保这位不可预测的战争英雄成为共和党队伍中的忠诚士兵。

Platt and Roosevelt struck a deal.

普拉特和罗斯福达成协议。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He promised to consult the machine in making appointments.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：：他承诺在预约时会参考机器。

He didn't promise always to take the machine's recommendation, but he was saying, ''I'm not going to be an independent, I'm going to be a good Republican, and we're going to work together at this.''

他并没有承诺总是接受机器的建议，但他说，“我不会成为一名独立人士，我会成为一名优秀的共和党人，我们将在这方面共同努力。”

His reputation as a war hero and the sheer force of his personality won him a narrow victory.

他作为战争英雄的声誉和他的人格力量为他赢得了一场微弱的胜利。

''I have played it with bull luck this summer,'' he wrote a friend, ''first to get into the war, then to get out it, then to get elected.''

“今年夏天我运气很好，”他给一位朋友写信说，“首先是参战，然后是摆脱战争，然后是当选。”

Boss Platt soon found that he had made a terrible mistake.

普拉特老板很快发现他犯了一个可怕的错误。

As governor, Roosevelt refused to be controlled.

作为州长，罗斯福拒绝受到控制。

He challenged Platt's nominees for office, supported regulation of factories and tenement workshops, fought to preserve state forests, even worked closely with some labor leaders.

他挑战普拉特的公职提名人，支持对工厂和廉价公寓作坊的监管，为保护国有森林而奋斗，甚至与一些劳工领袖密切合作。

''I want to get rid of the bastard,'' Platt said, ''I don't want him raising hell in my state any longer.

“我想除掉这个混蛋，”普拉特说，“我不想让他再在我的州制造麻烦。”

I want to bury him.''

我想埋葬他。”

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Roosevelt had a sense of what was necessary for social justice which didn't run quite with the business interests who were supporting Platt, so Platt thought it would be a lot safer for the New York machine if he could kick Roosevelt upstairs to the vice presidency.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：罗斯福深知社会正义的必要性，而这与支持普拉特的商业利益并不完全一致，因此普拉特认为，如果他能把罗斯福推上副总统职位，对纽约机器来说会安全得多。

March 4, 1901 -- Inauguration Day.

1901 年 3 月 4 日——就职日。

William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt had won in a landslide, the biggest Republican triumph in more than a quarter century.

威廉·麦金利和西奥多·罗斯福以压倒性优势获胜，这是共和党二十五年来最大的胜利。

Boss Platt was in the crowd.

普拉特老板就在人群中。

He wanted, he said, to see Theodore ''take the veil.'' He was certain he had ended Roosevelt's political career forever, but others were not so sure.

他说，他希望看到西奥多“摘下面纱”。他确信自己已经永远结束了罗斯福的政治生涯，但其他人则不太确定。

McKinley's closest adviser warned, ''There's only one life between this madman and the presidency.''

麦金莱最亲密的顾问警告说：“这个疯子和总统之间只有一条命。”

He strode to the office on his first day, September 22, 1901, a torrent of energy, moving quickly to make the presidency his own.

1901 年 9 月 22 日，他在上任的第一天，精力充沛，大步走上办公室，很快就登上了自己的总统职位。

''It is a dreadful thing to come in this way,'' Roosevelt wrote a friend, ''but it would be a far worse thing to be morbid about it.'' He greeted a steady stream of visitors.

“以这种方式到来是一件可怕的事情，”罗斯福在给一位朋友的信中写道，“但如果对此感到病态的话，那就更糟糕了。”他迎接了源源不断的访客。

When one man worried about his safety, Roosevelt cocked his fists and said he knew how to protect himself.

当一名男子担心自己的安全时，罗斯福举起拳头说他知道如何保护自己。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : The change with Theodore Roosevelt becoming president is almost instantaneous.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：西奥多·罗斯福就任总统后发生的变化几乎是瞬间发生的。

The temperature of politics, the radiance of politics, everything with public affairs just rises almost instantaneously.

政治的温度，政治的光辉，一切与公共事务有关的事物，几乎是瞬间就升高了。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : You have to remember all those sort of bland, overfed, not-very-interesting presidents who had preceded him, Democrats and Republicans alike.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：你必须记住在他之前的所有那些平淡无奇、吃得太多、不太有趣的总统，无论是民主党还是共和党。

I mean, this was a big breath of fresh air.

我的意思是，这是一大口新鲜空气。

By the turn of the century, America had been transformed from a rural republic into a mighty industrial power.

到世纪之交，美国已经从一个农村共和国转变为一个强大的工业强国。

The benefits to the country were enormous.

给国家带来的好处是巨大的。

But those who did the everyday work of building the new America did not fully share in those benefits, and their anger was growing.

但那些每天致力于建设新美国的人并没有完全分享这些好处，他们的愤怒与日俱增。

Vast fortunes were being made by the men who controlled American industry.

控制美国工业的人正在创造巨大的财富。

They were not regulated by government.

他们不受政府监管。

There were no restraints on their power.

他们的权力没有任何限制。

Roosevelt saw it as his duty to try to head off the violent confrontation he feared was coming.

罗斯福认为，他有责任阻止他担心即将发生的暴力冲突。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : He thought that the rich were making too much, the lower classes were making too little.

历史学家威廉·哈博：他认为富人赚得太多，下层阶级赚得太少。

He feared that the long-term consequence of this would be social revolution.

他担心这样做的长期后果将是社会革命。

Within just five months of taking office, Roosevelt acted to stave off that day.

罗斯福上任后仅五个月，就采取行动避免了这一天的发生。

He struck without warning at the single most powerful financier in America, J.

他毫无征兆地攻击了美国最有权势的金融家 J.

Pierpont Morgan.

皮尔庞特·摩根.

Morgan was an international investment banker who could command resources worth more than all the gold and silver in the United States Treasury, almost 10 times what the federal government spent each year.

摩根是一位国际投资银行家，他掌握的资源价值超过了美国财政部所有的黄金和白银，几乎是联邦政府每年支出的10倍。

''Under his piercing gaze,'' one observer said, ''the boldest man was likely to become timid.

“在他锐利的目光下，”一位观察家说道，“即使是最勇敢的人也可能会变得胆怯。

There seemed to radiate something that forced the complex of inferiority upon all around him.''

似乎散发着某种东西，迫使他周围的人产生自卑感。”

In industry after industry, Morgan had combined hosts of small companies into giant monopolies -- trusts -- United States Steel, International Harvester, General Electric, all under the financial control of just this man.

在一个又一个的行业中，摩根将许多小公司合并成巨型垄断企业——信托——美国钢铁公司、国际收割机公司、通用电气公司，所有这些都在这个人的财务控制之下。

Trusts like Morgan's dominated American life at the turn of the century.

像摩根这样的信托在世纪之交主导了美国的生活。

They manipulated prices, destroyed competition, bought and sold politicians.

他们操纵价格、破坏竞争、买卖政客。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : There is a great deal of public discontent.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：公众有很多不满。

Middle class people, small businessmen, working people are really getting bothered by this.

中产阶级、小商人、工人阶级确实对此感到困扰。

They believe the trusts are controlling their lives, they believe that they're paying them low wages, and they believe that they're just taking too big a share of the national pie.

他们相信信托正在控制他们的生活，他们相信他们付给他们的工资很低，他们相信他们只是在国家蛋糕上分了太大的份额。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : These guys were very worried about Roosevelt.

皮尔庞特·摩根：这些人非常担心罗斯福。

Roosevelt has showed himself already to be a maverick and a kind of uncontrollable force.

罗斯福已经表现出他是一个特立独行者和一种无法控制的力量。

He's not going to go along with business as usual.

他不会像往常一样行事。

They look on him as kind of a time bomb.

他们把他视为定时炸弹。

They just do not know what he's going to do.

他们只是不知道他要做什么。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : He has been very used to getting inside information from Washington, and, in fact, Washington has sought his advice on most of what it has done in economic and business matters.

皮尔庞特·摩根：他非常习惯从华盛顿获取内幕信息，事实上，华盛顿在经济和商业事务上所做的大部分事情都征求了他的建议。

And all of a sudden, here's a president who isn't asking his advice and who prosecutes him as a criminal, and Morgan is just beside himself.

突然之间，这位总统没有征求他的建议，而是将他当作罪犯起诉，摩根简直疯了。

He comes right down to Washington with a couple of his lawyers and advisers and brings a couple of friendly senators into the White House and says to Roosevelt, ''Why didn't you warn me?'' Roosevelt says, ''Warning you was just what we didn't want to do.'' Then Morgan says, ''If we've done anything wrong, why don't you just send your man'' -- meaning the attorney general -- ''to my man'' -- meaning his own lawyer, who was often called his attorney general-- ''Just send your man to my man, and we'll fix it up.''

他带着几位律师和顾问直接来到华盛顿，并带来了几位友好的参议员进入白宫，对罗斯福说，“你为什么不警告我？”罗斯福说，“警告你正是我们不想做的事。”然后摩根说，“如果我们做错了什么，你为什么不派你的人来”——意思是司法部长——“到我的人那里”——意思是他自己的律师，通常被称为他的司法部长——“只要把你的人派给我的人，我们就会解决问题。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Roosevelt responded, ''That cannot be done.'' The point for him was that nobody -- nobody, no interest, no private interest -- can presume to be the sovereign equal of the U.S. government.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：罗斯福回答说，“这是不可能的。”对他来说，没有人——没有人、没有利益、没有私人利益——可以被认为是与美国政府同等的主权。

No tycoon can be the equal of the President of the United States.

没有哪个大亨可以与美国总统相媲美。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : Roosevelt, with a brilliant sense of symbolism and timing, establishes right off the bat that he's going to be in charge here, that he's, in effect, waving his big stick in the face of these Wall Street plutocrats and saying, ''I'm running this country, you're not.''

皮尔庞特·摩根：罗斯福具有出色的象征意义和时机意识，他立即就确定了他将负责这里，实际上，他是在面对这些华尔街富豪挥舞着他的大棒，并说：“我在管理这个国家，你不是。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : T.R.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：：T.R.

believes the supremacy of the public interest has to be asserted.

认为必须维护公共利益至上。

If you're going to have big business, you're going to have to have bigger government in order to control it and regulate it.

如果你想拥有大企业，就必须有更大的政府来控制和监管它。

Americans had never seen anyone quite like him.

美国人从未见过像他这样的人。

He was noisy, colorful, unstoppable.

他喧闹、多彩、势不可挡。

When a trolley car struck his carriage in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, one newspaper reported that the President was hurled into the street ''like a football.'' Just an hour later, his face bruised and swollen, he was back preaching to the crowd again.

当一辆无轨电车在马萨诸塞州皮茨菲尔德撞上他的马车时，一份报纸报道说，总统“像足球一样”被扔到街上。仅仅一个小时后，他的脸又青又肿，再次向人群布道。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He has got messages he wants to get out to the American people -- the need to avoid class divisions and conflicts, the need to rise above material interests.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：他想向美国人民传达一些信息——需要避免阶级分裂和冲突，需要超越物质利益。

He wants us not to become flabby, not to be timid.

他希望我们不要变得软弱，不要胆怯。

He wants the country to remake itself, to transform itself after the fashion that he had done with himself.

他希望这个国家能够按照他对自己所做的那样进行改造、改造。

He had lifted himself up from being a sickly, timid boy to being a manly, outgoing, strong, energetic person who serves the greater good.

他从一个体弱多病、胆怯的男孩成长为一个有男子气概、外向、坚强、精力充沛、为更大利益服务的人。

He wants our country to do that.

他希望我们的国家这样做。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He thought that what would destroy America was the ''prosperity at any price'' attitude, the love of what he called ''soft living,'' and a get-rich-quick theory of life.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他认为，“不惜一切代价追求繁荣”的态度、对他所谓的“软生活”的热爱以及快速致富的生活理论将摧毁美国。

''Americanism,'' he would insist, ''is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not of creed or birthplace.'' ''The test of our worth,'' he said, ''is the service we render.''

他坚持认为，“美国主义是精神、信念和目的的问题，而不是信条或出生地的问题。”“对我们价值的考验，”他说，“是我们提供的服务。”

Somebody once said of him that if you took all of Theodore and put it in a pot and boiled it down and down, what you've have at the bottom of the pot after that all was over was the preacher-militant.

有人曾经这样评价他，如果你把西奥多的全部放入锅中，不断地煮沸，那么一切结束后，锅底就是传教士激进分子。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Before his presidency, Roosevelt had frequently expressed his distaste for radical unions -- unions that seemed to him to be threatening stability in industrial relations -- but he recognized that to conserve American society as he valued it, there would have to be changes made so as to control the excesses of great wealth.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆：在就任总统之前，罗斯福经常表达他对激进工会的厌恶——在他看来，工会威胁着劳资关系的稳定——但他认识到，要保持他所珍视的美国社会，就必须做出改变，以控制巨额财富的过剩。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : The mine workers wanted higher wages, shorter working hours, some safety regulations, and they also wanted recognition of their union, and the mine owners were absolutely intransigent on all of those counts.

皮尔庞特·摩根：煤矿工人想要更高的工资、更短的工作时间、一些安全规定，他们还希望他们的工会得到承认，而矿主在所有这些问题上都绝对不妥协。

The strike is something that terrifies the owners, the managers and many people in Washington, because strikes to them mean violence, anarchy, revolution, [and] class struggle.

罢工让业主、经理和华盛顿的许多人感到恐惧，因为罢工对他们来说意味着暴力、无政府状态、革命和阶级斗争。

Social unrest made Roosevelt extremely nervous.

社会动荡让罗斯福极度紧张。

While he hated the lazy rich plutocrats on the one side, he was terrified of the democratic mob on the other side.

他一方面憎恨懒惰的富豪，另一方面又害怕民主暴民。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : He takes a very unusual step.

皮尔庞特·摩根：他迈出了非常不寻常的一步。

He calls the mine owners and the union representatives to the White House.

他将矿主和工会代表召集到白宫。

The owners are completely intransigent and brutal and, Roosevelt later said, stupid.

罗斯福后来说，业主们完全不妥协、残酷，而且愚蠢。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Indeed, the owners' spokesman said that God, in His infinite wisdom, had given control of property in the United States to the owners of coal mines.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆：确实，矿主发言人表示，上帝以其无限的智慧，将美国的财产控制权交给了煤矿所有者。

Roosevelt thought otherwise.

罗斯福却不这么认为。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : He went secretly to the commander of the Army, told him that he should get so many thousand troops ready and use them to seize the industry.

历史学家威廉·哈博：他秘密去找陆军司令，告诉他应该准备好数千名军队，并用他们来夺取工业。

Faced with the threat of federal intervention, the mine owners backed down.

面对联邦干预的威胁，矿主们做出了让步。

The coal strike of 1902 was over.

1902 年的煤矿罢工结束了。

The miners went back to work.

矿工们又回去工作了。

Although their union was still not recognized, they got a 10-percent wage increase and a nine-hour work day.

尽管他们的工会仍未得到承认，但他们的工资增加了 10%，并且每天工作 9 小时。

Roosevelt saw the settlement as simple justice.

罗斯福认为和解只是简单的正义。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : It's the birth of what Roosevelt calls the square deal -- he really wants to see the government offering fair terms in disputes like this between capital and labor, but when he says it's a square deal, management didn't need a square deal, labor did.

皮尔庞特·摩根：这就是罗斯福所说的公平交易的诞生——他真的希望看到政府在资本和劳工之间的此类争端中提供公平的条款，但当他说这是公平交易时，管理层不需要公平交易，劳工需要。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : It was an extraordinary act for the presidency, since never before had the President of the United States come down so solidly on behalf of labor, particularly on behalf of union labor.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆：对于总统而言，这是一项非同寻常的举动，因为美国总统以前从未如此坚定地代表劳工，特别是代表工会劳工。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : The country just embraced the whole idea of Theodore Roosevelt in the White House.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)：：整个国家刚刚接受了西奥多·罗斯福入主白宫时的整个想法。

He puts the presidency back in business as it had not been since Lincoln, and he gives it vitality, he gives it strength, and he gives the country a sense that it's a good thing to have a good man who wants to do good things in that office.

他让总统职位恢复了自林肯以来从未有过的状态，他赋予总统活力，赋予总统力量，他让这个国家感觉到，有一个愿意做好事的好人担任总统是一件好事。

His face and name were everywhere.

他的脸和名字到处都是。

There was even a movie made about him in which he was portrayed as the hero of a bizarre version of ''Goldilocks and the Three Bears.''

甚至还有一部关于他的电影，其中他被描绘成奇异版“金发姑娘和三只熊”的英雄。

And then there was the Teddy Bear.

然后是泰迪熊。

When the President went hunting in Mississippi and refused to shoot a bear cub, reporters made it big news, and an enterprising Brooklyn toymaker began turning out stuffed bears -- Teddy Bears.

当总统去密西西比州打猎并拒绝射杀一只小熊时，记者们将这件事炒成了大新闻，布鲁克林一家有进取心的玩具制造商开始生产毛绒玩具熊——泰迪熊。

Millions were soon being sold all around the world.

很快，数以百万计的产品就销往世界各地。

Crowds called Roosevelt ''Teddy.'' His real friends did not.

人们称罗斯福为“泰迪”，但他真正的朋友却没有。

''Outrageous impertinence,'' he cried, when an indiscreet lawyer dared try.

当一位不检点的律师胆敢尝试时，他喊道：“真是无礼无礼。”

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : Theodore Roosevelt was really the first true intellectual in the White House since John Quincy Adams.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会：：西奥多·罗斯福确实是自约翰·昆西·亚当斯以来白宫第一位真正的知识分子。

He read Italian, Portuguese, Latin and Greek.

他阅读意大利语、葡萄牙语、拉丁语和希腊语。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He could recite all of The Song of Roland in its original archaic French, and, if you wished, he might recite it for you a second time, too.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他可以用原始的古法语背诵《罗兰之歌》的全部内容，如果你愿意，他也可以为你背诵第二遍。

He could read two books a night, and quote from them five years later.

他可以一个晚上读两本书，五年后还能引用其中的内容。

He was interested in history, interested in biography, he was a big game hunter.

他对历史感兴趣，对传记感兴趣，他是一个大猎手。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : And, as John Burroughs said, he was a many-sided man and every side was like an electric battery.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会： 正如约翰·巴勒斯所说，他是一个多面的人，每一面都像一块电池。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He was the great exponent of what he called the strenuous life -- vigor, vitality, exercise, being fit.

大卫·麦卡洛，传记作者：：他是他所谓的艰苦生活的伟大倡导者——活力、活力、锻炼、健康。

He was a horseback rider and a hiker.

他是一名骑马者和徒步旅行者。

He brought boxers to the White House to box with him, Japanese wrestlers to wrestle with him.

他带拳击手到白宫与他一起拳击，带日本摔跤手与他摔跤。

He was the first president photographed in action.

他是第一位被拍到行动照片的总统。

He had himself photographed jumping on horseback, and when the photographer said that he didn't get the shot after the President jumped over a rather high railing, he said, ''I'll do it again.''

他曾拍过自己骑马跳跃的照片，当摄影师说总统跳过相当高的栏杆后他没有拍到这张照片时，他说：“我会再拍一次。”

He didn't need the spin doctors and advertising advisers and public relations specialists.

他不需要媒体顾问、广告顾问和公共关系专家。

He had an innate genius for calling attention to himself.

他有一种与生俱来的吸引别人注意的天赋。

He had done that all of his life.

他一生都在这样做。

It was natural for him.

这对他来说是很自然的事。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : I really don't think Theodore Roosevelt ever took a trip or made a public appearance where he was not accompanied by a photographer.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：我真的不认为西奥多·罗斯福在没有摄影师陪同的情况下进行过旅行或公开露面。

One thing I know where he drew the line was he would not be photographed playing or dressed to play tennis.

我知道他的底线是，他不会被拍到打网球或穿着打网球的照片。

The reason was tennis was supposed to be effete.

原因是网球被认为是无效的。

This was supposed to be the upper class.

这应该是上层阶级。

It wasn't a good, sweaty, physical contact sport.

这不是一项好的、出汗的、身体接触的运动。

It doesn't fit his image.

这不符合他的形象。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : His braggadocio, his broad-shouldered, smack-'em-on-the-back style was only part of the man, because underneath that was a real sense of life's pathos and life's tragedy and loss.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他的自吹自擂、宽肩、拍背的风格只是这个人的一部分，因为在这背后是对生活的悲伤、悲剧和失落的真实感受。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : The public face of Roosevelt was exuberance, but in private, in the inner man, there was in Roosevelt an extraordinary sense of the evil and the grief inherent in life.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：罗斯福在公众面前显得精力充沛，但在私下里，在他的内心深处，罗斯福对生命中固有的邪恶和悲伤有着非凡的感觉。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He would retire at night to his room privately to read the great American poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, who is both the poet of great humor and also of loneliness.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛 (DAVID McCULLOGH)： 晚上，他会独自回到自己的房间，阅读伟大的美国诗人埃德温·阿灵顿·罗宾逊 (Edwin Arlington Robinson) 的作品，这位诗人既是一位幽默感十足的诗人，也是一位孤独的诗人。

Owen Wister, who was his great friend, understood Theodore Roosevelt, I think, as well or better than anybody, and he writes somewhere-- he said Theodore had to hold onto his optimism very tight; otherwise he couldn't get through the shadows, the darknesses surrounding him.

我认为，他的好朋友欧文·威斯特（Owen Wister）对西奥多·罗斯福的理解与任何人一样好，甚至比任何人都更好，他在某处写道——他说西奥多必须非常坚定地保持他的乐观态度；否则他就无法穿过周围的阴影和黑暗。

If you look at the Sargent portrait -- John Singer Sargent's great portrait of Theodore Roosevelt -- you see in the eyes, you see in that face a wistfulness, a melancholy, and Wister said that was the best portrait ever made of Theodore Roosevelt, as did others who knew him.

如果你看萨金特的肖像——约翰·辛格·萨金特为西奥多·罗斯福绘制的伟大肖像——你会看到他的眼睛、脸上的渴望、忧郁，威斯特说这是西奥多·罗斯福有史以来最好的肖像，认识他的其他人也是如此。

While Roosevelt was expanding the power of the President at home, he was also expanding the country's power abroad.

罗斯福在国内扩大总统权力的同时，也在国外扩大国家权力。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Theodore Roosevelt wants the United States to act in the world the way that he believes he acts in his personal life -- honorable, strong, ready to defend your interests, prepared.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：西奥多·罗斯福希望美国在世界上的行事方式与他认为自己在个人生活中的行事方式一样——正直、强大、准备好捍卫自己的利益、做好准备。

In the next eight years, Roosevelt would make the American battleship fleet one of the largest in the world, and make sure the world took notice of it.

在接下来的八年里，罗斯福将使美国战列舰舰队成为世界上最大的战舰舰队之一，并确保全世界都注意到它。

He was fond of quoting an old African proverb, ''Speak softly, and carry a big stick.''

他喜欢引用一句古老的非洲谚语：“轻言细语，手拿大棒。”

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Roosevelt recognized that it had become a very small world, even by 1901, and he was, as ever, concerned to prevent chaos or serious instability in any part of the world where that instability might threaten what he thought were American interests.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：罗斯福认识到，即使到了 1901 年，世界已经变得非常小，他一如既往地关心防止世界任何地方发生混乱或严重不稳定，因为这种不稳定可能会威胁到他认为的美国利益。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : The one thing he did not want to happen was for Latin America to turn into another Africa or Asia where the imperial powers were struggling for position and where, indeed, the Germans, the British, the French were carving up parts of Africa and Asia.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：他不希望发生的一件事是拉丁美洲变成另一个非洲或亚洲，在那里，帝国主义列强正在争夺地位，事实上，德国人、英国人、法国人正在瓜分非洲和亚洲的部分地区。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : He says the Europeans should stay out, but the United States has the right to go in in order to exercise police power to keep the Europeans out.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：他说欧洲人应该置身事外，但美国有权介入，以行使警察权力将欧洲人拒之门外。

It's a very neat twist.

这是一个非常巧妙的转变。

At the same time, he was already planning to use American power in another Latin American nation to realize a centuries-old dream -- the building of a path between the seas that would link the Atlantic and the Pacific.

与此同时，他已经计划在另一个拉丁美洲国家利用美国的力量来实现一个数百年的梦想——在海洋之间修建一条连接大西洋和太平洋的通道。

To achieve it, Roosevelt would have to mislead the American public, foster a revolution and conquer geography itself, all to build the Panama Canal.

为了实现这一目标，罗斯福必须误导美国公众，推动一场革命并征服地理本身，所有这些都是为了修建巴拿马运河。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : The distance at that time from New York to San Francisco -- you had to go around the tip of South America -- was something like 13,600 miles, and in order to move the American fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific in case there was a war, say, in the Pacific, would take an extraordinary amount of time.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：当时从纽约到旧金山的距离（必须绕过南美洲的尖端）约为 13,600 英里，如果发生战争（例如太平洋战争），要将美国舰队从大西洋转移到太平洋，需要花费大量时间。

With the canal, the distance is reduced to about 5,000 miles.

有了运河，距离缩短至约 5,000 英里。

The building of a great navy and the building of a canal were all parts of the same foreign policy, and without the canal, the rest of the foreign policy would not fall into place.

建设一支伟大的海军和修建一条运河都是同一个外交政策的一部分，没有运河，其余的外交政策就无法落实。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : The Colombians wanted much more than $10 million, they wanted a good part of that $40 million that the United States had promised the canal company.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯 (WALTER LaFEBER)：哥伦比亚人想要的远不止 1000 万美元，他们想要美国向运河公司承诺的 4000 万美元中的很大一部分。

Roosevelt said he was not going to be shaken down this way.

罗斯福表示他不会被这样动摇。

Roosevelt knew that rebels in Panama were planning to declare their independence from Colombia and would happily give him rights to the canal for $10 million.

罗斯福知道巴拿马叛乱分子正计划宣布从哥伦比亚独立，因此很乐意以 1000 万美元的价格授予他运河使用权。

The rebel spokesman was a Frenchman named Phillipe Bunau-Varilla.

叛军发言人是一位法国人，名叫菲利普·布瑙-瓦里拉（Phillipe Bunau-Varilla）。

He was also a major stockholder in the French canal company.

他还是法国运河公司的主要股东。

On October 10, 1903, Roosevelt invited him to the White House.

1903年10月10日，罗斯福邀请他到白宫。

Bunau-Varilla wanted Roosevelt's assurance that the United States would not oppose the Panamanian rebellion.

布瑙-瓦里拉希望罗斯福保证美国不会反对巴拿马叛乱。

In the discreet language of diplomacy, the President would give him exactly what he wanted.

总统会用谨慎的外交语言，给他他想要的东西。

''What is going to be the outcome of the present situation?'' Roosevelt asked.

“目前的情况会产生什么结果？”罗斯福问道。

''Mr. President,'' Bunau-Varilla replied, ''a revolution.'' Roosevelt pretended to be surprised, but he raised no objections.

''先生。总统先生，”布瑙-瓦里拉回答说，“一场革命。”罗斯福假装惊讶，但没有提出异议。

The President's visitor had what he had come for -- tacit encouragement from the President of the United States to lead a rebellion in Panama.

总统的来访者得到了他来此的目的——美国总统默许他领导巴拿马的叛乱。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : Roosevelt didn't put anything on paper that the United States was going to help this uprising, but there was certainly what we might call at that time a gentlemen's understanding that if the Panamanians did rise up against Colombia, Roosevelt was going to help the rebellion.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：罗斯福没有在纸上写下任何内容表明美国将帮助这场起义，但当时我们肯定有一种绅士的理解，即如果巴拿马人确实起来反抗哥伦比亚，罗斯福将帮助叛乱。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : Roosevelt's position was that the Panamanian uprising against the Colombians was in the good old American tradition of 1776, and that the United States had every right in the world to help these kinds of nationalist uprisings.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯 (Walter LaFEBER)：罗斯福的立场是，巴拿马人反抗哥伦比亚人的起义符合 1776 年美国的优良传统，美国在世界上完全有权利帮助此类民族主义起义。

The interesting thing, of course, was that there had been earlier Panamanian uprisings, and the United States had helped put them down.

当然，有趣的是，巴拿马早些时候曾发生过起义，美国帮助镇压了这些起义。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He tried to defend himself, argue what the legality of it was, and finally later on, in a speech he made in California, he said, ''I took Panama and let Congress debate that while I went ahead and built the canal.''

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他试图为自己辩护，争论其合法性，最后，在加利福尼亚州的一次演讲中，他说：“我占领了巴拿马，让国会对此进行辩论，而我则继续修建运河。”

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He walked everywhere, talked to everyone, saw everything.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他到处走走，与每个人交谈，看到了一切。

He was up and down the line in his white linen suit, in the mud, up on the equipment to see how it worked, talking to the fellows who were doing the actual digging at every turn, and he adored it.

他穿着白色亚麻套装，在泥泞中走来走去，站在设备上看看它是如何工作的，每次都与正在实际挖掘的人交谈，他很喜欢这样。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He thought it was the most important, the grandest, most historic accomplishment of his presidency.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他认为这是他总统任期内最重要、最伟大、最具历史意义的成就。

He was quite certain that it was what he would be remembered for.

他非常确定这就是他会被人们铭记的原因。

And he put his stamp all over it, just as he did everything else he ever touched.

他在上面打上了自己的印记，就像他所做的其他事情一样。

Other presidents would be in office before the canal was finished, but it's Theodore Roosevelt's canal.

其他总统都会在运河竣工之前就任，但这是西奥多·罗斯福的运河。

We all know that.

我们都知道这一点。

KERMIT ROOSEVELT, Grandson: : It was ornate, bulbous, heavily frescoed, dark -- the worst of Victorian.

克米特·罗斯福（Kermit Roosevelt），孙子：：它华丽、球状、壁画丰富、黑暗——是维多利亚时代最糟糕的。

Alice Roosevelt described it [as] ''late Grant, early Pullman.'' It had been altered repeatedly and architecturally it was an abomination.

爱丽丝·罗斯福将其描述为“已故的格兰特，早期的普尔曼”。它被反复修改，在建筑上令人厌恶。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : She said she didn't like living above the store, because, you know, all the offices and all the business of the presidency were done in the main part of the White House, and it was Mrs. Roosevelt who completely renovated the main building.

西奥多·罗斯福协会约翰·盖博：她说她不喜欢住在商店上面，因为，你知道，总统的所有办公室和所有事务都在白宫的主体部分进行，而罗斯福夫人对主楼进行了彻底的翻修。

P.

P。

JAMES ROOSEVELT, Cousin: : It was far from being the sort of solemn, quiet place it had in the past.

詹姆斯·罗斯福（表弟）：这里远非过去那种庄严、安静的地方了。

There was laughter, there was action, there was gaiety.

有欢笑，有行动，有欢乐。

My own father, for example, remembers going up and down on stilts on the stairway, sliding down the banister into a formal diplomatic reception.

例如，我自己的父亲记得在楼梯上踩着高跷上下，滑下栏杆进入正式的外交招待会。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : Somebody once asked T.R.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：有人曾经问过 T.R.

why he didn't keep her under control, and he said, ''I can either run the country or control Alice, but I'll never be able to do both.''

为什么他不控制她，他说，“我可以管理国家或控制爱丽丝，但我永远无法两者兼得。”

Then there was the youngest, Quentin.

然后是最小的昆汀。

His father called him ''Quinikins.'' ''He is the quaintest, funniest little fellow imaginable,'' his father wrote.

他的父亲称他为“奎尼金斯”。“他是你能想象到的最古怪、最有趣的小家伙，”他的父亲写道。

A reporter once tried to ply Quentin for information about the President.

一名记者曾试图向昆汀询问有关总统的信息。

''I see him sometimes,'' the seven-year-old replied, ''but I know nothing of his family life.'' Quentin, his older brother Archie, and their friends called themselves ''the White House gang,'' and delighted in tormenting the staff.

“我有时会看到他，”七岁的孩子回答道，“但我对他的家庭生活一无所知。”昆汀、他的哥哥阿奇和他们的朋友称自己为“白宫帮派”，并以折磨工作人员为乐。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : The Secret Service and police were particular victims, and the children loved to play all kinds of things, for example, dropping water balloons on them, or springing at them from outside of cabinets, or crawling around under dining room tables.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：特勤局和警察是特别的受害者，孩子们喜欢玩各种各样的东西，例如，向他们扔水气球，或者从柜子外面跳向他们，或者在餐桌下爬行。

P.

P。

JAMES ROOSEVELT, Cousin: : One time Archie was sick, and Quentin knew that what would cure him would be a visit from his favorite pony.

詹姆斯·罗斯福（表弟）： 有一次阿奇生病了，昆汀知道治愈他的方法就是他最喜欢的小马的到来。

So he brought the pony into the White House, put him in the elevator, took him up to Archie's sickroom.

于是他把小马带进白宫，放进电梯，带到阿奇的病房。

Well, Archie did recover, so perhaps it worked.

好吧，阿奇确实康复了，所以也许它有效。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : You can imagine this rambunctious group of several children, all their rambunctious friends, and the biggest of the rambunctious children, T.R.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：你可以想象这群吵闹的几个孩子，他们所有吵闹的朋友，以及最大的吵闹的孩子，T.R.

himself.

他自己。

By November 1904, Roosevelt had been in office for three and a half years -- an accidental president who had been brought to power by McKinley's assassination.

到 1904 年 11 月，罗斯福已经就任三年半了，他是一位因麦金莱遇刺而意外上台的总统。

Now he was running for president for the first time.

现在他第一次竞选总统。

Conservative Republicans opposed him, but they could not deny him the nomination.

保守派共和党人反对他，但他们不能拒绝他的提名。

With his intervention in the coal strike, his victory over the trusts, the Panama Canal, his popularity had never been higher, and his Democratic opponent, Alton B.

随着他对煤炭罢工的干预、对托拉斯、巴拿马运河的胜利，他的受欢迎程度空前高涨，而他的民主党对手奥尔顿·B.

Parker, was so colorless that one newspaper said that he had ''all the salient qualities of a sphere.''

帕克是如此平淡无奇，以至于有一家报纸称他具有“球体的所有显着品质”。

But tradition demanded that a president not actively campaign, and as Election Day neared, Roosevelt was haunted by the black foreboding that so often overcame him when he was unable to act.

但传统要求总统不要积极竞选，随着选举日的临近，罗斯福被一种不祥的预感所困扰，当他无法采取行动时，这种预感常常笼罩着他。

On November 3rd, he confessed his fears in a letter to his 14-year-old son.

11 月 3 日，他在给 14 岁儿子的信中承认了自己的恐惧。

''Dear Kermit, I naturally tend to become a little worried.

“亲爱的克米特，我自然会变得有点担心。

If the Democrats sweep all the doubtful states, why, I am beaten.

如果民主党横扫所有可疑州，那我就输了。

In any event, I shall feel -- and I want you to feel -- that I have been very fortunate to have had the career I have had.

无论如何，我会感到——我希望你们也感到——我非常幸运能够拥有现在的职业生涯。

I have enjoyed being President.

我很享受当总统的经历。

It was a great thing for all of us to have had the experience here.''

对我们所有人来说，能够在这里经历都是一件很棒的事情。”

Roosevelt's fears proved groundless.

事实证明，罗斯福的担心毫无根据。

He won the largest popular vote any candidate had ever won.

他赢得了有史以来候选人赢得的最多的民众选票。

It was, as one newspaper put it, ''an illustrious personal triumph.'' A joyful Roosevelt told his wife, ''I am no longer a political accident.''

正如一家报纸所说，这是“一次辉煌的个人胜利。”高兴的罗斯福告诉他的妻子，“我不再是一个政治意外。”

When he first became President, Roosevelt had written a friend, ''Do you know that at the end of my term, I shall be exactly the age Father was when he died.'' Now Roosevelt was approaching that age -- almost 47.

罗斯福刚就任总统时曾写信给一位朋友，“你知道吗，在我的任期结束时，我将达到父亲去世时的年龄。”现在罗斯福已经接近这个年龄了——快47岁了。

Never in all his life had he been more satisfied.

他一生中从未如此满足过。

But on Election night, at the very pinnacle of his success -- as if he were suddenly unable to imagine life beyond the age at which his father had died -- Roosevelt committed one of the greatest blunders in presidential history.

但在选举之夜，在他成功的巅峰之际——就好像他突然无法想象父亲去世后的生活一样——罗斯福犯下了总统历史上最大的错误之一。

He was still young and there was then no legal limit to the number of terms he might have served, but he gathered a group of reporters and told them, ''Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.''

他还很年轻，当时法律对他的任期没有限制，但他聚集了一群记者，告诉他们，“在任何情况下，我都不会成为候选人或接受另一项提名。”

With a single sentence, he had volunteered to relinquish the presidency in four years.

他一句话，就主动辞去了四年后的总统职位。

He said he was honoring the two-term tradition set by George Washington.

他说他尊重乔治·华盛顿制定的两届任期传统。

Edith, who was standing nearby, flinched.

站在附近的伊迪丝退缩了。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : Not in public, but later, my grandmother said to him, ''You know, Theodore, that was not a wise thing to say.''

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：不是在公开场合，但后来，我的祖母对他说，“你知道，西奥多，这不是一个明智的说法。”

Roosevelt was in high spirits, stamping his feet to the music, waving greetings to the cowboys and Civil War veterans who paraded in his honor.

罗斯福情绪高昂，随着音乐跺着脚，向为他举行游行的牛仔和内战老兵挥手致意。

Seven-year-old Quentin Roosevelt balanced on the shoulders of a Supreme Court justice to get a better view.

七岁的昆汀·罗斯福站在最高法院法官的肩膀上，以便看得更清楚。

When his oldest daughter Alice waved too enthusiastically at the crowd, Roosevelt ordered her to stop.

当他的大女儿爱丽丝向人群过于热情地挥手时，罗斯福命令她停下来。

''This is my inauguration,'' he told her.

“这是我的就职典礼，”他告诉她。

It was a perfect day.

这是完美的一天。

''How I wish Father could have lived to see it, too,'' Roosevelt said.

“我多么希望父亲也能活着看到这一切，”罗斯福说。

But even as he began his first full term in office, Roosevelt knew that it would also be his last.

但即使在罗斯福开始他的第一个完整任期时，他也知道这也将是他的最后一个任期。

He had pledged to serve just four years.

他曾承诺只服役四年。

If, as he believed, he was destined to achieve greatness, he had little time to do great things.

如果像他所相信的那样，他注定要取得伟大的成就，那么他就没有时间去做伟大的事情了。

He would begin by renewing his battle with the trusts.

他将首先与信托公司重新展开斗争。

''The dull purblind folly of the rich, their greed and arrogance and corruption have produced a very unhealthy condition,'' Roosevelt wrote, and his impatience mirrored the mood of the country.

罗斯福写道：“富人的愚蠢愚昧、他们的贪婪、傲慢和腐败造成了一种非常不健康的状况。”他的不耐烦反映了这个国家的情绪。

Many Americans were demanding an end to the unfettered powers of big business.

许多美国人要求结束大企业不受约束的权力。

Farmers wanted relief from railroads charging high prices.

农民希望摆脱铁路高价的困扰。

Consumers wanted protection from rancid, disease-ridden meat and from patent medicine companies selling drugs laced with narcotics and alcohol.

消费者希望免受腐败、患病的肉类以及专利药品公司销售含有麻醉剂和酒精的药物的侵害。

A crusading press exposed corporate greed and corruption that outraged ordinary Americans.

十字军媒体揭露了企业的贪婪和腐败，激怒了普通美国人。

They looked to the federal government for help.

他们向联邦政府寻求帮助。

The President was outraged, too.

总统也很愤怒。

He charged those he called ''malefactors of great wealth'' with arrogantly ignoring the public welfare, and he proposed a series of laws to regulate industry, but to get those laws through Congress, he would have to fight the members of his own party.

他指责那些被他称为“巨额财富的犯罪分子”的人傲慢地无视公共福利，并提出了一系列监管工业的法律，但要让这些法律在国会获得通过，他必须与自己党派的成员作斗争。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : The Republican Party was divided essentially into two factions.

威廉·哈博（WILLIAM HARBAUGH），历史学家：共和党基本上分为两个派别。

One -- and by far the strongest -- was the conservative faction.

其中之一——也是迄今为止最强大的——是保守派。

The other was a progressive faction.

另一个是进步派。

To get something through the Congress, there had to be some bending on both sides, and Roosevelt, as President, was the man who tried to persuade each group to bend.

为了让国会通过一些事情，双方都必须做出一些让步，而作为总统的罗斯福就是试图说服双方让步的人。

To protect farmers from railroads charging excessive rates, he called for strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission.

为了保护农民免受铁路收取过高费用的影响，他呼吁加强州际商业委员会。

To protect consumers from filthy conditions in stockyards and food-processing plants, he championed federal meat inspection, and he moved to insure the purity and safety of drugs, medicine and food with the Pure Food and Drug Act.

为了保护消费者免受牲畜饲养场和食品加工厂肮脏环境的影响，他支持联邦肉类检查，并通过《纯净食品和药品法案》确保药品、药品和食品的纯度和安全性。

While Roosevelt battled Republican conservatives, he grew impatient with Republican progressives when they refused to compromise.

当罗斯福与共和党保守派斗争时，当共和党进步派拒绝妥协时，他对他们变得不耐烦。

He was willing to weaken reform bills in order to insure their passage through Congress.

他愿意削弱改革法案以确保其在国会获得通过。

His public moralizing was matched by shrewd political realism.

他的公开说教与精明的政治现实主义相匹配。

''I believe in men who take the next step,'' he wrote, ''not those who theorize about the 200th step.''

“我相信迈出下一步的人，”他写道，“而不是那些对第 200 步进行理论分析的人。”

Roosevelt was wary of reformers, especially the crusading journalists who had fueled the country's fever for change.

罗斯福对改革者持谨慎态度，尤其是那些煽动国家变革热潮的十字军记者。

He belittled them as ''muckrakers,'' adding a phrase to the political lexicon.

他贬低他们为“揭黑幕的人”，并在政治词典中添加了一个短语。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : When Theodore Roosevelt uses the term ''muckrake,'' it is a very pejorative term he's using.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：：当西奥多·罗斯福使用“muckrake”一词时，他使用的是一个非常贬义的术语。

What he's saying is that these people who are exposing these various ills, they're being too negative, they are exciting the public.

他的意思是，这些揭露各种弊病的人太消极了，他们让公众兴奋不已。

JEAN STROUSE, Biographer of J.

JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : He thought that the reporters were doing this were only interested in uncovering evil and depravity and corruption and graft, and that they weren't interested in saying anything of what was good about America.

皮尔庞特·摩根：他认为记者这样做只是对揭露邪恶、堕落、腐败和贪污感兴趣，而对谈论美国的好处不感兴趣。

He thought that it was actually a very potent force for evil, this stirring up of hysterical, anti-government, anti-American feeling.

他认为这实际上是一种非常强大的邪恶力量，这种煽动歇斯底里、反政府、反美国的情绪。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He thinks that the ''propah'' kind of reform is the kind that is led by people like himself, by educated people with a larger vision, that they know what's right, that they won't go too far, they won't be irresponsible.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：他认为“propah”类型的改革是由像他这样的人、受过教育、有远见的人领导的，他们知道什么是正确的，他们不会走得太远，他们不会不负责任。

He believes that he ought to be controlling the reform very carefully himself.

他认为他自己应该非常谨慎地控制改革。

There was only one issue on which he would not compromise -- conservation.

只有一个问题他不会妥协——保护。

''Dear Kermit,'' he wrote his son.

“亲爱的克米特，”他写信给儿子。

''Mother and I have just come home from a lovely trip to Pine Knot.

“我和妈妈刚刚结束了一次愉快的松节之旅回来。

It is really a perfectly delightful little place.

这确实是一个非常令人愉快的小地方。

In the morning, I fried bacon and eggs, while Mother boiled the kettle for tea and laid the table.

早上，我煎了培根和鸡蛋，妈妈则烧水壶泡茶，摆好桌子。

It was lovely to sit and hear the birds by daytime and at night the whipporwills and owls and little forest folk.'' In 1905, Edith Roosevelt paid $195 for a cabin deep in the woods, east of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

白天坐下来听鸟儿叫，晚上听威帕威、猫头鹰和小森林居民的叫声，真是太棒了。”1905 年，伊迪丝·罗斯福 (Edith Roosevelt) 花费 195 美元在弗吉尼亚州蓝岭山脉以东的树林深处买了一间小屋。

She called it Pine Knot.

她称之为松结。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : It was very simple.

孙女伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯：：非常简单。

It was bare bones.

这是赤裸裸的骨头。

There was no running water, no facilities of any kind, no electricity, and they went there to be away.

那里没有自来水，没有任何设施，没有电，他们去那里是为了离开。

It was their retreat.

这是他们的撤退。

THEODORE ROOSEVELT IV, Great-grandson: ; He takes great pride in identifying a large number of birds, and, indeed, when John Burroughs comes down, they have a race through the woods to see who can see and identify the most birds.

西奥多·罗斯福四世，曾孙：；他对识别出大量鸟类感到非常自豪，事实上，当约翰·巴勒斯下来时，他们在树林里进行了一场比赛，看看谁能看到并识别出最多的鸟类。

It's probably not birding in the conventional system, 'cause he's just charging through the woods at full speed.

这可能不是传统系统中的观鸟，因为他只是全速冲过树林。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Historian: : He probably knew more about the natural world, had a greater interest in natural history than any president since Jefferson.

历史学家大卫·麦卡洛：他可能比杰斐逊以来的任何一位总统更了解自然世界，对自然历史更感兴趣。

To save America's natural resources and protect the wild areas that meant so much to him, Roosevelt would stretch the power of the presidency to the limit.

为了拯救美国的自然资源并保护对他来说意义重大的荒野，罗斯福将总统的权力发挥到了极限。

''We must handle the water, the wood, the grasses,'' he wrote, ''so that we will hand them on to our children and children's children in better and not worse shape than we got them.''

“我们必须处理好水、木材和草，”他写道，“这样我们才能将它们以比我们得到它们时更好而不是更差的状态传给我们的孩子和孩子的孩子。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Conservation is the one real cause for Theodore Roosevelt when he first becomes President.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：：环境保护是西奥多·罗斯福第一次就任总统时的真正原因。

It is the only thing in domestic affairs where he gets out in front, even of reformers.

这是他在国内事务中唯一能走在前面的事情，甚至在改革派中也是如此。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : Congress was refusing to make the Grand Canyon into a national park, and the reason was because the developers were coming along, and they were going to ''improve'' it.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：国会拒绝将大峡谷变成国家公园，原因是开发商正在加入，他们要“改进”它。

What T.R.

什么T.R.

did is he realized that he had the power to make national monuments and the power to make game reserves, and so he declared the sides of the canyon a national monument and the base of it a game reserve, and he said, ''Congress will come to its senses eventually.''

他所做的就是意识到他有权力建立国家纪念碑和设立禁猎区，因此他宣布峡谷两侧为国家纪念碑，峡谷底部为禁猎区，他说，“国会最终会明白过来。”

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : Told that there was none, he said, ''Very well, I so declare it.''

威廉·哈博（WILLIAM HARBAUGH），历史学家：当被告知没有这个存在时，他说：“很好，我就这样宣布。”

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : He pushed the limits of the presidency in terms of conservation, or, really, what he did was he pushed the limits of the law.

历史学家威廉·哈博：他在保护方面突破了总统职位的极限，或者说，实际上，他所做的是突破了法律的极限。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : This is in utter, blatant defiance of the will of Congress, and he gloried in what he did.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：这完全是对国会意愿的公然蔑视，而他却为自己的所作所为感到自豪。

He said, ''When others dithered and prevented action, I took it.''

他说：“当其他人犹豫不决并阻止采取行动时，我就采取了行动。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : For him, it really is a moral issue.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：：对他来说，这确实是一个道德问题。

We need to preserve the wilderness.

我们需要保护荒野。

He believes that when life begins to get too easy and the elements of danger and of risk and of hardship are removed, we have to expose ourselves to those again, and we need to preserve the places where we can do that.

他认为，当生活开始变得过于轻松，危险、风险和困难的因素被消除时，我们必须再次将自己暴露在这些因素之下，并且我们需要保护我们可以做到这一点的地方。

You need the challenge.

你需要挑战。

And he's deeply worried that, in a sense, we won't be good soldiers.

他非常担心，从某种意义上说，我们不会成为好士兵。

Men, especially, won't have the opportunity to develop the physical and the moral qualities that will make them soldiers and citizens and do the things-- in other words, to make them be like him.

尤其是男人，将没有机会发展身体和道德品质，使他们成为士兵和公民并做事——换句话说，让他们像他一样。

The President's family continued to fascinate the nation.

总统的家人继续让全国着迷。

The older children were now often away from home.

年龄较大的孩子现在经常不在家。

Increasingly, Quentin became the focus of his parents' attention.

昆汀逐渐成为父母关注的焦点。

''Quentin is a roly-poly, happy-go-lucky personage,'' Roosevelt wrote, ''the brightest of any of the children.''

“昆汀是一个身材魁梧、无忧无虑的人物，”罗斯福写道，“他是所有孩子中最聪明的一个。”

NANCY JACKSON, Granddaughter: : He was the baby.

南希·杰克逊（NANCY JACKSON），孙女：：他是个婴儿。

Everybody has a special feeling for the baby, and they just adored him because I think that he had somewhat some of the things that Grandmother loved in Grandfather.

每个人都对这个孩子有一种特殊的感情，他们很喜欢他，因为我认为他身上有一些祖母喜欢祖父的东西。

Roosevelt delighted in everything Quentin did.

罗斯福对昆汀所做的一切感到高兴。

When the boy dropped a four-foot snake in the lap of the attorney general, then trotted into the adjoining room to present it to four waiting congressmen, the President could barely restrain his laughter.

当男孩把一条四英尺长的蛇放在司法部长的腿上，然后小跑到隔壁房间把它呈现给四名等待的国会议员时，总统几乎无法抑制他的笑声。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : Even as a child, I think T.R.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：即使在孩童时期，我就认为 T.R.

knew that there was something special about Quentin, and that of all his children, Quentin, in many ways, had the most promise.

知道昆汀有一些特别之处，而且在他所有的孩子中，昆汀在很多方面都是最有前途的。

And in many ways, he was so like his father that T.R., I think, thought that Quentin might well be the one that followed in his footsteps.

在很多方面，他非常像他的父亲，我认为 T.R. 认为昆汀很可能会追随他的脚步。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : Roosevelt thought Asia was very important to the United States.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：罗斯福认为亚洲对美国非常重要。

He thought that the United States was entering into what he called ''the Pacific century,'' and he believed that the United States had to dominate the Pacific in the 20th century.

他认为美国正在进入他所谓的“太平洋世纪”，并认为美国必须在20世纪称霸太平洋。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : Roosevelt watches this and understands that what is emerging here is a new Japan, a Japan that is in the position, essentially, to dominate Asian politics, a Japan which was now becoming militarily paramount on the mainland of Asia, especially in Korea and South Manchuria.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：罗斯福看到了这一点，并明白这里正在出现的是一个新日本，一个基本上能够主宰亚洲政治的日本，一个现在在亚洲大陆，特别是在朝鲜和南满洲，在军事上变得至关重要的日本。

And there began to be a fear in the United States in 1905 that the next place that Japan might move might be the Philippines, which the United States, of course, had taken in 1898.

1905年，美国开始担心日本下一个可能占领的地方可能是菲律宾，当然，美国已于1898年占领了菲律宾。

And, as a consequence, Roosevelt believed that we had to come to terms with Japan.

结果，罗斯福认为我们必须与日本达成协议。

The eyes of the world focused on Alice as she was showered with gifts and attention.

全世界的目光都集中在爱丽丝身上，因为她被赋予了礼物和关注。

''The Japanese were firmly convinced,'' the American ambassador wrote, ''that Alice was the princess royal of America.

“日本人坚信，”美国大使写道，“爱丽丝是美国的皇室公主。

While the women bowed double again and again, Alice clutched my arm and exclaimed, 'I love it!

当女人们一次又一次地鞠躬时，爱丽丝抓住了我的手臂，大声说道：“我喜欢它！”

I love it!'''

我喜欢它！'''

From her reception by the emperor to her tour of his private gardens, the press reported every detail of Alice's triumph.

从受到皇帝的接待到参观他的私人花园，媒体报道了爱丽丝胜利的每一个细节。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : This is a bad mistake because, as they're following Alice around, Taft sits down with the Japanese prime minister and secretly they work out a deal.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：这是一个严重的错误，因为当他们跟踪爱丽丝时，塔夫脱与日本首相坐下来，秘密地达成了一项协议。

And the deal is that the United States will recognize that Japan can take over Korea and, in return, it is understood that Japan will not touch the Philippines.

协议内容是，美国将承认日本可以接管韩国，作为回报，日本不会触及菲律宾。

It is so secret that Taft and Roosevelt keep it secret.

它是如此秘密，以至于塔夫脱和罗斯福都保守秘密。

It's not revealed for another 20 years.

又过了20年才揭晓。

I think that they're ashamed of what they did to Korea -- they essentially sold the Koreans out to the Japanese.

我认为他们为自己对韩国所做的事情感到羞耻——他们实质上是把韩国人出卖给了日本人。

The Russians were weary of war.

俄罗斯人厌倦了战争。

The Japanese were weary, too, and now they knew that they were free to take Korea.

日本人也很疲倦，现在他们知道他们可以自由地占领朝鲜了。

But Roosevelt could still not be certain of a settlement.

但罗斯福仍不能确定是否能达成和解。

''I have led the horses to water,'' Roosevelt wrote a friend, ''but heaven only knows whether they will drink or start kicking one another beside the trough.''

“我已经把马牵到了水边，”罗斯福在给一位朋友的信中写道，“但只有天知道它们是会喝水还是会在水槽旁边互相踢腿。”

Officially, the President played no part in the negotiations, but he remained active behind the scenes, pushing and prodding the negotiators toward a settlement.

表面上，总统没有参与谈判，但他在幕后仍然活跃，推动和敦促谈判代表达成和解。

''I'm having my hair turn gray,'' he wrote his son.

“我的头发正在变白，”他写信给儿子。

''The Japanese ask too much, but the Russians are ten times worse than the Japs, because they are so stupid and won't tell the truth.'' ''What I really want to do,'' he confided to a friend, ''is to give utterance to whoops of rage and jump up and knock their heads together.

“日本人要求太多，但俄罗斯人比日本人糟糕十倍，因为他们太愚蠢了，不会说实话。”“我真正想做的，”他向一位朋友吐露道，“就是发出愤怒的呼喊，然后跳起来，把他们的头撞在一起。”

Well, all I can hope for is that self-repression will be ultimately good for my character.''

好吧，我所能希望的就是自我压抑最终对我的性格有好处。”

The future of Asia was at stake.

亚洲的未来岌岌可危。

The bickering and bargaining grew heated.

争吵和讨价还价变得越来越激烈。

But after three tense weeks, the delegates agreed to end the war.

但在紧张的三周之后，代表们同意结束战争。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : The settlement was essentially fair.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：：和解基本上是公平的。

It accomplished Roosevelt's purpose.

罗斯福的目的就达到了。

It re-established the balance of power in Asia, which is what he'd set about to do.

它重新建立了亚洲的力量平衡，这正是他所要做的。

In late 1905, Alice Roosevelt again made headlines for her father.

1905 年末，爱丽丝·罗斯福再次因其父亲而成为头条新闻。

Following her triumph in Japan, ''Princess Alice'' announced her engagement to Congressman Nicholas Longworth.

在日本取得胜利后，“爱丽丝公主”宣布与国会议员尼古拉斯·朗沃斯订婚。

''Alice is really in love,'' Edith Roosevelt told a friend.

“爱丽丝真的恋爱了，”伊迪丝·罗斯福告诉一位朋友。

America was swept up in the romance.

美国沉浸在浪漫之中。

The Roosevelts were relieved.

罗斯福一家松了口气。

Alice's eccentric, erratic behavior had made life difficult for the President and the First Lady.

爱丽丝古怪、反复无常的行为给总统和第一夫人带来了困难。

Alice had been an insecure child, always clamoring for attention.

爱丽丝是一个缺乏安全感的孩子，总是吵闹着寻求关注。

In the close-knit Roosevelt family, she was always an outsider.

在关系密切的罗斯福家族中，她始终是一个局外人。

''Father doesn't care for me,'' she once confided to her diary, ''one-eighth as much as he does for the other children.'' Alice had been told nothing about her own mother, because her father never could bring himself to speak about the death of his beloved first wife.

“父亲不关心我，”她曾经在日记中透露，“只有他对其他孩子的关心程度的八分之一。”爱丽丝对自己的母亲一无所知，因为她的父亲从来没有勇气谈论他心爱的第一任妻子的去世。

But Americans knew none of this.

但美国人对此一无所知。

On the day of the wedding, long lines waited outside the White House for a glimpse of the bride and groom.

婚礼当天，白宫外排起了长队，等待一睹新郎新娘的风采。

Hundreds of guests crowded into the East Room, and reporters peeking through the door were encouraged to cover every detail.

数百名客人挤进东厅，记者从门外偷看，被鼓励报道每一个细节。

Alice's cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, arranged the train of her gown for the official wedding photograph.

爱丽丝的表弟富兰克林·罗斯福为她的正式结婚照安排了礼服的裙裾。

''My father always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral,'' Alice once said, but at her own wedding, she made sure she remained the center of attention, even borrowing a sword from one of the President's military aides to cut the wedding cake.

“我的父亲总是想成为每次婚礼上的新娘和每次葬礼上的尸体，”爱丽丝曾经说过，但在她自己的婚礼上，她确保自己仍然是关注的焦点，甚至从总统的一位军事助手那里借了一把剑来切婚礼蛋糕。

The marriage would be a failure, but the wedding was a spectacular success.

这场婚姻虽然失败了，但婚礼却非常成功。

Thanks to the press and the President's eagerness to cooperate with it, millions of Americans had been made to feel as if they had attended it as privileged guests.

感谢媒体和总统与其合作的渴望，让数百万美国人感觉自己就像是作为尊贵的客人参加了这次会议。

At the traditional New Year's Day reception on January 1, 1907, thousands of ordinary citizens turned out to shake the President's hand.

1907 年 1 月 1 日，在传统的元旦招待会上，数千名普通公民前来与总统握手。

Roosevelt delighted in the task, pumping 50 hands a minute, 3,000 an hour.

罗斯福对这项任务很满意，每分钟抽水 50 人，每小时抽水 3,000 人。

Midway through his second term in office, he was at the height of his power and popularity, and America was at the height of prosperity.

在他第二个任期的中期，他正处于权力和声望的顶峰，美国也处于繁荣的顶峰。

On that same New Year's Day, the Washington Evening Star reported that the country's wealth ''has been rolling up at the rate of $4.6 billion per year.'' As Roosevelt put it, ''we are the mightiest republic on which the sun ever shone.''

同一天元旦，《华盛顿晚星报》报道称，美国的财富“以每年 46 亿美元的速度增长”。正如罗斯福所说，“我们是有史以来最强大的共和国。”

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JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : Everybody's prospering.

皮尔庞特·摩根：：每个人都在繁荣。

There's a lot of speculation on Wall Street.

华尔街有很多猜测。

There's actually been a boom for the years between 1904 and 1907.

1904 年至 1907 年间实际上出现了繁荣。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Everything has gone right up to that point.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：：一切都已经到了那一步。

He's put through major legislation, he's mediated the Russo-Japanese War.

他推动了重大立法，调解了日俄战争。

He's done all of these great things.

他做了所有这些伟大的事情。

Things are going great.

事情进展顺利。

From there on -- as far as politics goes, as far as effectiveness goes -- it's downhill for him, and it's downhill fast.

从那时起——就政治而言，就有效性而言——对他来说就在走下坡路，而且走下坡路的速度很快。

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JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : There was an unstable underlying economic situation, but if people hadn't gotten terrified and all tried to get their money out of the banks at once, it wouldn't have mattered.

皮尔庞特·摩根（Pierpont Morgan）：潜在的经济形势不稳定，但如果人们没有感到害怕并且所有人都试图立即将钱从银行取出，那么这并不重要。

Roosevelt isn't paying a lot of attention to this part of his job.

罗斯福并没有过多关注他的这部分工作。

It's just not really been thought of as part of his job.

只是他并没有真正将其视为工作的一部分。

He's interested in politics, in his policies with conservation and against the trusts, but economics was never his strong suit.

他对政治、他的保护政策和反对信托的政策感兴趣，但经济从来不是他的强项。

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Pierpont Morgan: : His policies that were trying to regulate the railroads, trying to bust up some of the trusts, trying to put food and drug regulations they thought were hampering business.

皮尔庞特·摩根：他的政策试图监管铁路，试图摧毁一些信托公司，试图制定他们认为阻碍商业发展的食品和药品法规。

That was actually not the case, and Roosevelt said so.

事实上并非如此，罗斯福也是这么说的。

He pointed out very carefully that this was a worldwide situation.

他非常仔细地指出，这是一个世界性的情况。

But Roosevelt had become vulnerable.

但罗斯福已经变得脆弱了。

For more than five years, he had skillfully manipulated Congress.

五年多来，他巧妙地操纵了国会。

Now, with the end of his presidency in sight, old guard Republicans rejected his leadership.

现在，随着他的总统任期即将结束，保守派共和党人拒绝了他的领导。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : His power on the Hill began to wane because he wasn't going to run in 1908.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆 (JOHN MORTON BLUM)：由于 1908 年他不打算参选，他在国会山的影响力开始减弱。

Congressmen no longer had to worry about looking over their shoulder at the White House.

国会议员不再需要担心回头看白宫。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : The criticism that he himself was sensitive to is that he's power-grabber.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：：他本人很敏感的批评是他是权力攫取者。

His critics are always leveling that at him, and with some justification.

他的批评者总是这样指责他，而且有一定的道理。

I mean, this is a man who dearly loved power and sought it and aggrandized it.

我的意思是，这是一个热爱权力、寻求权力并强化权力的人。

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JEAN STROUSE，J. 传记作者

Pierpont Morgan: : Roosevelt has a great many critics at this time, partly because he's so autocratic and takes himself as the measure of value -- he is the state, he is going to decide what the government should do and what it shouldn't do.

皮尔庞特·摩根：罗斯福此时受到了很多批评，部分原因是他太专制了，并以自己为价值衡量标准——他就是国家，他将决定政府应该做什么和不应该做什么。

He did have the charisma and the force to make the executive office more powerful.

他确实拥有让行政办公室变得更加强大的魅力和力量。

It's also what caused him a lot of trouble.

这也是给他带来很多麻烦的原因。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : His critics believe he's gone too far.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：他的批评者认为他走得太远了。

They believe that he has been interfering with the economy too much, that he has been grasping radical ideas, and he runs into this brick wall of opposition from the conservatives of his own party.

他们认为，他对经济的干预太多了，他一直在抓住激进的想法，他遇到了本党保守派的反对墙。

What they do is effectively stymie any further domestic initiatives that he tries.

他们所做的实际上阻碍了他尝试的任何进一步的国内举措。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : T.R.

威廉·哈博 (WILLIAM HARBAUGH)，历史学家：：T.R.

knew that he was a lame duck president.

知道他是个跛脚鸭总统。

He knew that he could not get much through the Congress of the United States, and I think that that partly explain the almost frenzied quality of these last two years in office.

他知道他无法在美国国会获得太多通过，我认为这部分解释了他在任的最后两年近乎疯狂的品质。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : In Theodore Roosevelt there is this combative element, there's this joy in struggle, joy in combat.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：：西奥多·罗斯福身上有这种好斗的元素，有斗争中的快乐、战斗中的快乐。

In all of American history, there's nobody else I can think of who more fits that term ''the happy warrior,'' somebody who just genuinely enjoyed a good scrap.

在整个美国历史上，我想不出谁更适合“快乐战士”这个词，一个真正享受美好时光的人。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He goes much further in this progressive reformist direction than he has gone before.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：他在进步改良主义方向上比以前走得更远。

I think part of it is frustration.

我认为部分原因是沮丧。

It is frustration with the opposition, the stymieing that it's happening from the conservative barons on Capitol Hill.

这是对反对派的失望，是国会山保守派大亨的阻碍。

He is also sensitive to the rising tide of reform in the country.

他对国内改革浪潮也很敏感。

I think there may be another element, too.

我认为可能还有另一个因素。

I think there may be a personal element in it.

我认为这里面可能有个人因素。

He sees the end of his presidency approaching, and he's beginning to think about what he has and, especially, has not accomplished.

他看到自己的总统任期即将结束，他开始思考自己已经取得的成就，尤其是尚未取得的成就。

T.R.'s great role model, ideal and standard of comparison is Abraham Lincoln, and what he's seeing is that he's had a successful presidency, but a presidency not in greatly demanding times -- not with a war, not with a great cause.

T.R.的伟大榜样、理想和比较标准是亚伯拉罕·林肯，他所看到的是，他有一个成功的总统任期，但他的总统任期不是在要求很高的时代——不是在战争中，不是在伟大的事业中。

I think it's hard to miss a tone of regret there, that, ''I didn't have that,'' you know, ''I wish I had.''

我认为很难忽视其中的遗憾语气，“我没有那个”，你知道，“我希望我有。”

Roosevelt's presidency was coming to a close.

罗斯福的总统任期即将结束。

He was nearly 50 years old.

他已经快50岁了。

His wrists and knuckles now swelled painfully when he wrestled, and a blow he received while boxing left him blind in one eye, a tightly-held White House secret.

现在，当他摔跤时，他的手腕和指关节肿胀得很厉害，拳击时受到的打击导致他一只眼睛失明，这是白宫严格保守的秘密。

''Three or four persons close to the President have assured me,'' one observer reported, ''that for the first time even he complains of fatigue.'' As the election drew near, Roosevelt felt bound by his promise four years earlier not to run again.

“三四个与总统关系密切的人向我保证，”一位观察家报告说，“连他也第一次抱怨疲劳。”随着选举的临近，罗斯福感到自己必须遵守四年前不再参选的承诺。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : I think he was much saddened by the fact that he was leaving office.

威廉·哈博（WILLIAM HARBAUGH），历史学家：我认为他对即将离任感到非常难过。

He was tired, but only to a point.

他很累，但只是到了一定程度。

I think that he would have liked to have continued as President of the United States.

我认为他希望继续担任美国总统。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He hated to leave the presidency.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆：他不愿意离开总统职位。

It also forced him to look for a successor.

这也迫使他寻找继任者。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : Roosevelt and Taft liked each other very much.

威廉·哈博，历史学家：：罗斯福和塔夫脱非常喜欢彼此。

They trusted each other.

他们互相信任。

I think that Roosevelt believed that Taft was more attuned to him than he was, because Taft would acquiesce, he was a loyal subordinate.

我认为罗斯福认为塔夫脱比他更适合他，因为塔夫脱会默许，他是一个忠诚的下属。

At the Republican Convention, Roosevelt secured Taft his party's nomination for President, although not until after a 49-minute demonstration in favor of a third term for Roosevelt himself.

在共和党大会上，罗斯福获得了塔夫脱党内的总统提名，尽管是在经过 49 分钟支持罗斯福本人第三次连任的示威之后。

Then, as the campaign got under way, Roosevelt lent him support and counsel.

然后，随着竞选活动的进行，罗斯福向他提供了支持和建议。

''Hit them hard, old man,'' he told him, ''and don't,'' he warned, ''let the photographers take your picture on the golf course.'' But the good-natured Taft didn't object.

“狠狠地打他们，老伙计，”他告诉他，“别，”他警告说，“让摄影师在高尔夫球场上给你拍照。”但好心的塔夫脱并没有反对。

''Let the audience see you smile,'' Roosevelt advised, ''because I feel that your nature shines out so transparently when you do smile, you big, generous, high-minded fellow.''

“让观众看到你微笑，”罗斯福建议道，“因为我觉得当你微笑时，你的本性会如此透明地闪耀出来，你这个高大、慷慨、高尚的家伙。”

Taft won the election by the largest popular majority until that time except for one presidential candidate, Roosevelt himself.

塔夫脱以当时最大的多数票赢得了选举，只有一位总统候选人罗斯福本人除外。

It was, for Roosevelt, the perfect victory.

对于罗斯福来说，这是一次完美的胜利。

The President-elect sent him his thanks.

当选总统向他表示感谢。

''The first letter I wish to write is to you, because my selection and election are chiefly your work.'' Never again would the two men be so close.

“我想写的第一封信是给你的，因为我的选择和当选主要是你的工作。”这两个人再也不会如此亲密了。

As Roosevelt's final days as President wound down, White House reporters were openly upset.

随着罗斯福总统任期的最后几天，白宫记者公开感到不安。

Most of them genuinely liked the President, and he made such good copy.

他们中的大多数人真的很喜欢总统，他的文案非常好。

His seven and a half years in office all came floating back: the battles with the trusts; the coal strike; the regulation of the railroads and the food and drug industries; the Panama Canal; the interventions in Latin America; the conservation program; the Nobel Prize.

他在任的七年半时间全部都浮现了出来：与托拉斯的斗争；煤矿罢工；铁路、食品和药品行业的监管；巴拿马运河；对拉丁美洲的干预；保护计划；诺贝尔奖。

''I have enjoyed myself in the White House,'' Roosevelt said.

“我在白宫过得很愉快，”罗斯福说。

"I am going to enjoy myself thoroughly when I leave the White House.''

“当我离开白宫时，我会尽情享受。”

February 1909 -- with only 10 days left in office, Roosevelt made his last dramatic show of presidential power.

1909 年 2 月——在任期仅剩 10 天时，罗斯福最后一次戏剧性地展示了总统权力。

Fourteen months earlier, Roosevelt had sent the fleet around the world to display American might and impress the Japanese.

十四个月前，罗斯福派遣舰队到世界各地展示美国的实力并给日本留下深刻印象。

Congress had refused to allocate the funds, but Roosevelt ignored them.

国会拒绝分配资金，但罗斯福无视它们。

He told the enraged congressmen he would send the ships to the Pacific, anyway.

他告诉愤怒的国会议员，无论如何，他都会将船只派往太平洋。

It would be up to them to provide the money to get them back.

他们有责任提供资金让他们回来。

Now, after steaming 46,000 miles, the Great White Fleet was returning home.

现在，在航行了 46,000 英里之后，大白舰队正在返航。

''It was essential,'' Roosevelt wrote, ''that we should have it clearly understood that the Pacific was as much our home waters as the Atlantic.'' Roosevelt knew that the Japanese had not been especially impressed by the Great White Fleet, but he was keeping that knowledge to himself.

罗斯福写道：“至关重要的是，我们应该清楚地了解，太平洋和大西洋一样是我们的祖国水域。”罗斯福知道日本人对大白舰队并没有特别印象深刻，但他把这一点保密了。

The ships boomed their salutes, the crowds cheered, and the entire nation rejoiced.

船只鸣响礼炮，人群欢呼，举国欢腾。

''I could not ask,'' the President said, ''a finer concluding scene to my administrations.''

总统说：“我不能要求我的政府有一个更好的结局。”

On March 4, 1909, the day of Taft's inauguration, a bitter winter storm cut Washington off from the rest of the world.

1909 年 3 月 4 日，塔夫脱就职当天，一场严酷的冬季风暴切断了华盛顿与世界其他地方的联系。

T.R.

T.R.

took the oath, then promised to preserve and enforce his predecessor's reforms.

宣誓后承诺维护并执行前任的改革。

''God bless you, old man,'' Roosevelt said afterwards.

“上帝保佑你，老人，”罗斯福事后说道。

''It is a great state document.''

“这是一份伟大的国家文件。”

But Roosevelt's brave exterior masked deep disappointment.

但罗斯福勇敢的外表掩盖了深深的失望。

''My dear fellow,'' he told a friend, ''for heaven's sake, don't talk about my having a future.

“我亲爱的朋友，”他对一位朋友说，“看在老天爷的份上，别再谈论我的未来了。”

My future is in the past.''

我的未来已经过去了。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : This man, when he left the White House, was only 50 years old, younger when he left the White House than all but four men have been when they entered the White House.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：这个人离开白宫时只有 50 岁，比入主白宫时除四人以外的所有人都要年轻。

What's Theodore Roosevelt going to do with the rest of his life?

西奥多·罗斯福的余生打算做什么？

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : He hated to leave the White House, and he hated giving up all that power and that center-stage role that he had.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：他讨厌离开白宫，也讨厌放弃他所拥有的所有权力和中心舞台角色。

So what does he do?

那么他做什么呢？

He goes off to hunt big game in Africa.

他去非洲狩猎大型动物。

Get action, seize the moment, as his father said so often.

采取行动，抓住时机，就像他父亲经常说的那样。

The former President wanted to be known simply as ''Colonel Roosevelt,'' but he did not object when his porters called him ''Bwana Mkubwa'' -- ''Great Master.''

这位前总统希望被简单地称为“罗斯福上校”，但当他的搬运工称他为“布瓦纳·姆库布瓦”——“伟大的大师”时，他并没有反对。

THEODORE ROOSEVELT IV, Great-grandson: : He had a huge number of bearers with him to carry all the equipment.

西奥多·罗斯福四世，曾孙：：他有大量的搬运工来搬运所有设备。

The logistics of this was an extraordinary undertaking.

这是一项非凡的后勤工作。

It was not unlike getting ready for a major military expedition.

这与准备一次大型军事远征没有什么不同。

A whole arsenal of arms came with him, too -- shotguns, revolvers, rifles.

他还带着一整套武器——霰弹枪、左轮手枪、步枪。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : But perhaps his most impressive weapon that he took was a Holland & Holland 450-500 Nitro Express elephant gun, and this was some gun.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙： ：但他所携带的最令人印象深刻的武器也许是一把 Holland & Holland 450-500 Nitro Express 象枪，而且这是一把枪。

It is reputed to give bystanders nosebleeds.

据说它会让旁观者流鼻血。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : Many people wondered whether T.R.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：许多人想知道 T.R.

was a good shot.

打得很好。

In fact, one of the newspaper reporters asked him, ''Sir, are you a good shot?'' And he said, ''No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.''

事实上，一名报纸记者问他：“先生，你的枪法好吗？”他说：“不，我枪法不好，但我经常射击。”

Although he was no longer President, Roosevelt was still big news.

尽管罗斯福不再担任总统，但他仍然是大新闻。

Even movie audiences enjoyed his adventures.

甚至电影观众也喜欢他的冒险经历。

''The people follow your African wanderings,'' a friend wrote, ''as if you were a new Robinson Crusoe.''

“人们追随你的非洲漫游，”一位朋友写道，“就好像你是新的鲁滨逊漂流记。”

Roosevelt had promised to keep out of things political, but he did not like what he was reading in the newspapers.

罗斯福曾承诺不介入政治事务，但他不喜欢他在报纸上读到的内容。

Taft was having a difficult time holding the Republican Party together.

塔夫脱在维持共和党团结方面遇到了困难。

With the progressive wing pushing for reform, Taft had begun siding with the conservatives.

随着进步派推动改革，塔夫脱开始站在保守派一边。

But, deep in the African interior, Roosevelt had little choice but to remain aloof from politics, although he had begun to think of coming home.

但是，在非洲内陆深处，罗斯福别无选择，只能远离政治，尽管他已经开始考虑回国。

''Oh, sweetest of all sweet girls,'' he wrote Edith, ''last night I dreamed that I was with you, and that our separation was but a dream.

“哦，所有可爱的女孩中最可爱的，”他写信给伊迪丝，“昨晚我梦见我和你在一起，而我们的分离只是一场梦。”

And when I woke up, it was almost too hard to bear.

当我醒来时，这几乎难以忍受。

Well, one must pay for everything.

嗯，一切都必须付出代价。

You have made the real happiness of my life, and so it is natural and right that I should constantly be more and more lonely without you.

你让我的生活真正幸福，所以没有你我会越来越孤独，这是自然而正确的。

Darling, I love you so.

亲爱的，我是如此爱你。

In a very little over four months, I shall see you.''

再过四个多月，我就会见到你了。”

Edith traveled to Africa in March 1910 to be reunited with her husband.

1910 年 3 月，伊迪丝前往非洲与丈夫团聚。

He had gone for almost a year.

他已经走了快一年了。

Together, they enjoyed the wonders of the desert, traveled down the Nile to Cairo, then set off for Europe where, once again, Roosevelt would claim the world's attention.

他们一起欣赏沙漠奇观，沿着尼罗河前往开罗，然后出发前往欧洲，在那里，罗斯福再次引起了全世界的关注。

Roosevelt toured Europe for nearly three months, delighted to see that he had not been forgotten.

罗斯福访问了欧洲近三个月，很高兴看到他没有被遗忘。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : It was a tremendous, triumphal tour.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：这是一次伟大而胜利的旅行。

At the time, he was the most popular man in the world, and the kings and queens of the various European countries were vying to get him to come.

当时，他是世界上最受欢迎的男人，欧洲各国的国王和王后都争着要他来。

While Roosevelt was touring Europe, King Edward VII of England died, and the former president represented the United States at the funeral.

罗斯福在欧洲访问期间，英国国王爱德华七世去世，这位前总统代表美国参加了葬礼。

It was the last great gathering of the crowned heads of Europe.

这是欧洲国王最后一次盛大聚会。

As the royals anxiously jockeyed for pride of place in the funeral procession, Roosevelt walked behind, proud to be an ordinary American citizen.

当王室成员在送葬队伍中焦急地争夺着自己的位置时，罗斯福走在后面，为自己是一名普通的美国公民而感到自豪。

By the time King Edward had been safely buried, the Colonel was ready to leave for home.

当爱德华国王安全下葬时，上校已准备好启程回家。

He had seen enough of Old World royalty and yearned to be back in the thick of the action.

他已经看够了旧世界的皇室成员，渴望回到最激烈的活动中。

''I felt,'' he said, ''if I met another king, I should bite him.''

“我觉得，”他说，“如果我遇到另一位国王，我应该咬他。”

On June 18, 1910, after 15 months abroad, Roosevelt came home to a reception worthy of a head of state.

1910 年 6 月 18 日，在国外呆了 15 个月后，罗斯福回到家乡，受到了国家元首应有的招待会。

''If there is to be a great crowd,'' he had written a friend, ''do arrange so that the whole crowd has a chance to see me.'' There was a great crowd, one of the greatest crowds in the history of New York City, including his niece Eleanor and her husband, Franklin Roosevelt.

“如果有一大群人，”他写信给一位朋友，“一定要安排好，让所有的人都有机会看到我。”那里有一大群人，纽约市历史上最伟大的人群之一，其中包括他的侄女埃莉诺和她的丈夫富兰克林·罗斯福。

Franklin had come to ask the former president's blessing as he began his own political career.

富兰克林在这位前总统开始自己的政治生涯时前来请求他的祝福。

Theodore Roosevelt was Franklin's hero, too.

西奥多·罗斯福也是富兰克林的英雄。

Naval guns thundered, whistles shrieked, the bands played.

海军炮轰鸣，汽笛尖叫，乐队演奏。

Roosevelt was back.

罗斯福回来了。

A former aide observed, ''He is bigger, broader, capable of greater good or greater evil, I don't know which.''

一位前助手评论道，“他更大、更宽广，能够做更大的善事或更大的恶事，我不知道是哪一个。”

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : When Theodore Roosevelt comes back in 1910, the people who knew him best said Theodore was not the same person.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀 (JOHN MILTON COOPER)： 1910 年西奥多·罗斯福回来时，最了解他的人说西奥多不是同一个人。

I think Africa gave him a time to brood and to brood more about his place in history, about what he believed he had not accomplished as President.

我认为非洲给了他一个时间来沉思，更多地思考他在历史上的地位，以及他认为自己作为总统没有完成的事情。

''I've missed my great moment in history, or have I?''

“我已经错过了历史上的伟大时刻，是吗？”

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : Taft was a man of considerable ability, but of what I would call limited imagination.

威廉·哈博（WILLIAM HARBAUGH），历史学家：塔夫脱是一个具有相当能力的人，但我称之为有限的想象力。

He lacked the expansive quality of Roosevelt's mind.

他缺乏罗斯福那样开阔的胸怀。

Taft was not, in any sense, as gifted politically as Roosevelt was, and Taft simply could not bridge the gap between the progressives and the conservatives.

从任何意义上说，塔夫脱都不像罗斯福那样有政治天赋，而且塔夫脱根本无法弥合进步派和保守派之间的差距。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Once Roosevelt was out of office, he probably would have found reasons to object to what any of his successors might have done, but as it was, he and Taft disagreed on certain principles.

历史学家约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆：一旦罗斯福下台，他可能会找到理由反对他的任何继任者可能做的事情，但事实上，他和塔夫脱在某些原则上存在分歧。

They had disagreements about environmental policy -- Taft was less of an environmentalist than Roosevelt -- and most of all, they disagreed about how to handle trust policy, where Taft tended to look to the judiciary for solutions and Roosevelt to administrative agencies.

他们在环境政策上存在分歧——塔夫脱不像罗斯福那样是环保主义者——最重要的是，他们在如何处理信托政策方面存在分歧，塔夫脱倾向于向司法部门寻求解决方案，而罗斯福则倾向于向行政机构寻求解决方案。

But those differences, in and of themselves, don't explain the degree to which their falling out led to brutal recriminations mutually on both sides.

但这些差异本身并不能解释他们的争吵在多大程度上导致了双方的残酷相互指责。

In Kansas, Roosevelt called for a ''New Nationalism,'' bringing cheers from the crowd and alarming conservative Republicans and his hand-picked successor in the White House.

在堪萨斯州，罗斯福呼吁“新民族主义”，引起了人群的欢呼，并令保守派共和党人和他精心挑选的白宫继任者感到震惊。

''The New Nationalism,'' he declared, ''implies far more governmental interference with social and economic conditions.

“新民族主义，”他宣称，“意味着政府对社会和经济状况进行更多的干预。

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use.''

每个人所拥有的财产都受到社区管理其使用的一般权利的约束。”

Everywhere he went, the former President drew huge crowds.

这位前总统所到之处，都吸引了大批人群。

In St. Louis, he was invited for a ride on a biplane built by the Wright brothers.

在圣路易斯，他被邀请乘坐莱特兄弟制造的双翼飞机。

Thousands watched as Roosevelt soared 200 feet above the ground.

数千人观看罗斯福在距地面 200 英尺的高空翱翔。

The pilot, afraid of upending the plane, had to ask Roosevelt to stop waving to the crowd cheering below.

飞行员担心飞机会被掀翻，不得不要求罗斯福停止向下面欢呼的人群挥手。

Back on the ground, he attacked the courts as pro-business, advocated taxes on income and inherited wealth, stronger conservation measures, workman's compensation laws, the prohibition of child labor.

回到现场后，他攻击法院有利于企业，主张对收入和继承财富征税，采取更强有力的保护措施，制定工人赔偿法，禁止童工。

Taft had been expecting his former benefactor's endorsement.

塔夫脱一直期待着他的前恩人的支持。

Instead, Roosevelt was demanding reform on almost every front.

相反，罗斯福几乎要求在各个方面进行改革。

Taft was hurt, and he was angry.

塔夫脱很受伤，他很生气。

When he heard that Roosevelt had attacked the courts, he flung his golf club across the fairway.

当他听说罗斯福袭击球场时，他将高尔夫球杆扔到球道对面。

In private, Taft berated Roosevelt's ''ego,'' his ''swell-headedness,'' his ''wild ideas.'' ''I could not subordinate my administration to him and retain my self-respect,'' Taft told an aide, ''but it is hard, very hard to see a devoted friendship going to pieces like a rope of sand.''

私下里，塔夫脱斥责罗斯福的“自负”、他的“自以为是”、他的“疯狂想法”。塔夫脱对一名助手说，“我不能让我的政府服从于他，也不能保持我的自尊，但是很难、非常很难看到一段忠诚的友谊像沙绳一样支离破碎。”

A bruising Democratic victory in the mid-term elections postponed a confrontation between the two men.

民主党在中期选举中惨败，推迟了两人之间的对抗。

The Republicans were overwhelming, including candidates the Colonel had personally endorsed.

共和党人势不可挡，其中包括上校亲自支持的候选人。

For Roosevelt, it was a crushing defeat.

对于罗斯福来说，这是一场惨败。

''Since the election,'' he wrote a friend, ''I have been almost ashamed of my emotions.'' ''The one comfort,'' he said, ''is that I think it prevents my having to face the very unpleasant task of deciding whether or not to accept the Republican nomination in 1912.''

“自从选举以来，”他写信给一位朋友，“我几乎为自己的情绪感到羞愧。”他说，“唯一的安慰是，我认为这让我不必面对决定是否接受 1912 年共和党提名的非常不愉快的任务。”

Downcast, he returned to Sagamore Hill, torn about his own political future.

他沮丧地回到萨加莫尔山，对自己的政治前途感到左右为难。

Should he challenge Taft for the presidential nomination in 1912, or wait?

他应该挑战塔夫脱 1912 年的总统提名，还是等待？

Many friends and advisers urged caution.

许多朋友和顾问敦促谨慎行事。

Confronting a sitting President, they warned him, could shatter his own party.

他们警告他，与现任总统对抗可能会瓦解他自己的政党。

But former Cabinet members, newspapermen, progressive politicians and ordinary citizens appealed to him from across the country.

但前内阁成员、新闻工作者、进步政治家和普通公民从全国各地向他发出呼吁。

They all wanted just one thing -- Roosevelt in 1912.

他们都只想要一件事——1912 年的罗斯福。

One old Rough Rider dared to tell his former colonel that if he did not lead them into political battle, he would be ''yellow.'' Finally, after a year of vacillation, Roosevelt made the most difficult decision of his political career: he would oppose Taft for the Republican nomination.

一位老粗骑士竟敢对他的前上校说，如果他不带领他们进行政治斗争，他就是“黄种人”。最终，在犹豫了一年之后，罗斯福做出了他政治生涯中最艰难的决定：他将反对塔夫脱获得共和党提名。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : It was a very difficult and wrenching decision.

历史学家威廉·哈博：这是一个非常困难和痛苦的决定。

And his wife was upset by it, all of his intimates were upset by it.

他的妻子为此感到不安，他所有的密友也因此而感到不安。

He himself was upset by it, because he liked Taft more than he liked any other human being, except his wife.

他本人对此感到不安，因为他喜欢塔夫脱胜过喜欢任何其他人，除了他的妻子。

Campaigning for the Republican nomination, Roosevelt roared through the 12 states that then held primaries.

在竞选共和党提名的过程中，罗斯福在当时举行初选的 12 个州中大获全胜。

Taft was President, but Roosevelt was determined to prove that the people wanted him.

塔夫脱当上了总统，但罗斯福决心证明人民需要他。

Roosevelt's decision came as a heavy blow to the man in the White House.

罗斯福的决定对白宫的人来说是一个沉重的打击。

Taft still hoped to remain close to Roosevelt and even announced that he would refrain from personal attack and denunciation, but it was not to be.

塔夫脱仍希望与罗斯福保持密切关系，甚至宣布不再进行人身攻击和谴责，但事实并非如此。

The campaign quickly degenerated into a brawl between two old friends, wounding their party and each other.

这场运动很快演变成两个老朋友之间的争吵，伤害了他们的政党和彼此。

Roosevelt called Taft a ''puzzlewit,'' ''fathead,'' with ''brains less than a guinea pig.'' Taft branded Roosevelt a ''dangerous egotist,'' a ''demagogue,'' ''a man who can't tell the truth.''

罗斯福称塔夫脱为“智者”、“笨蛋”、“脑子还不如豚鼠”。塔夫脱称罗斯福为“危险的自我主义者”、“煽动者”、“一个不能说实话的人”。

As the campaign wore on, Taft grew convinced that he would not be re-elected President, but he refused to quit.

随着竞选活动的进行，塔夫脱越来越确信自己不会再次当选总统，但他拒绝退出。

He told a crowd in Maryland, ''Even a rat will fight when he is driven into a corner.'' The strain on Taft was proving unbearable.

他对马里兰州的人群说：“即使是老鼠，当他被逼到墙角时也会反抗。”塔夫脱身上的压力被证明是难以忍受的。

In Boston, reporters found him alone and depressed in his private railway car.

在波士顿，记者发现他独自一人坐在私人火车车厢里，心情郁闷。

''Roosevelt was my closest friend,'' he told them, and then the President broke down and wept.

“罗斯福是我最亲密的朋友，”他告诉他们，然后总统崩溃了并哭泣。

When the primaries were over, Roosevelt had overwhelmed his former friend, even beating Taft in his own home state of Ohio.

初选结束后，罗斯福压倒了他的前朋友，甚至在他自己的家乡俄亥俄州击败了塔夫脱。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : T.R.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会：：T.R.

swept the primaries, and therefore the had the mandate of the majority of Republican voters, the vast majority of Republican voters.

横扫初选，因此获得了大多数共和党选民的授权，绝大多数共和党选民的支持。

He often beat Taft in those primaries two and three to one.

他经常在初选中以二比三和三比一击败塔夫脱。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : There were almost no Republican voters in the South, but there were delegates sent to the Republican Convention based on the population of the South, not on the percentage of Republican voters, and almost all of those delegates were postmasters and federal appointees, so that Taft started off with that situation, having almost the entire South in his pocket.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会：南方几乎没有共和党选民，但是派去参加共和党代表大会的代表是根据南方的人口，而不是共和党选民的比例，而且几乎所有这些代表都是邮政局长和联邦任命的人员，所以塔夫脱从这种情况开始，几乎把整个南方都收入囊中。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : There were near-riot conditions on the floor of the Republican Convention.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会：共和党代表大会现场几乎发生了骚乱。

They had put barbed wire around the speaker's platform, covered it over with bunting in order to protect the chairman from being rushed.

他们在演讲台周围设置了铁丝网，并用彩旗覆盖，以保护主席免遭冲撞。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : It's a steal, it's an absolute steal.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀 (JOHN MILTON COOPER)：这是一次偷窃，绝对是一次偷窃。

It infuriates the Roosevelt supporters -- they denounce it.

这激怒了罗斯福的支持者——他们予以谴责。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He is willing to bolt the party.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：：他愿意退出该党。

This is a major step -- he's always been a party regular up to this point.

这是重要的一步——到目前为止，他一直是派对的常客。

The whole notion of ever leaving the Republican Party, and the Republican Party is like a religion for him.

离开共和党的整个想法，共和党对他来说就像一种宗教。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Moved by personal ambition, moved by pride, he was cracking the Republican Party wide open, thus crippling the institution to which he had given his political life.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：在个人野心和骄傲的推动下，他正在向共和党敞开大门，从而削弱了他为之奉献政治生命的机构。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He had always stood at Armageddon, he had always battled for the Lord.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：：他总是站在哈米吉多顿，他总是为主而战。

The Ten Commandments were his platform almost from youth, and all that moral fervor was instilled into the party.

十诫几乎从年轻时起就是他的纲领，所有的道德热情都被灌输到了党内。

Indeed, the delegates, as their marching song, sang ''Onward, Christian Soldiers.''

事实上，代表们唱着“前进，基督教士兵”作为他们的进行曲。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : He came out for a social welfare program far more advanced than anything the nation was going to know until the 1930's.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆 (JOHN MORTON BLUM)，历史学家：：他提出了一项社会福利计划，该计划比 1930 年代之前这个国家所知道的任何计划都先进得多。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : Here is the inception, you might say, of Social Security, even of Medicare in that platform.

历史学家威廉·哈博 (WILLIAM HARBAUGH)：您可能会说，这就是社会保障甚至医疗保险在该平台上的起源。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Woodrow Wilson is the best adversary Theodore Roosevelt ever had.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：伍德罗·威尔逊是西奥多·罗斯福有史以来最好的对手。

He's cool to Roosevelt's hot.

他对罗斯福的热情很冷淡。

He's restrained to Roosevelt's expansive-- if you could compare the musical instruments, I think the way that they perform is Wilson's a violin and Roosevelt's kind of like a ukelele.

他对罗斯福的扩张有所限制——如果你可以比较一下乐器，我认为他们的演奏方式是威尔逊的小提琴，而罗斯福的有点像尤克里里。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : When Woodrow Wilson was nominated, the Democratic Party had picked a relatively progressive candidate, so the contest was not going to be progressivism against conservatism, it was going to be what kind of progressivism.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：伍德罗·威尔逊被提名时，民主党选择了一位相对进步的候选人，所以竞争不是进步主义与保守主义的较量，而是什么样的进步主义的较量。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He stays in the race, frankly, because he knows he hasn't got a chance, but he wants to spoil it for Roosevelt.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：坦率地说，他留在竞选中，因为他知道自己没有机会，但他想破坏罗斯福的机会。

He wants to make sure Roosevelt doesn't win.

他想确保罗斯福不会获胜。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : He knows he can't win.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：：他知道自己赢不了。

He knows this is not going to come off, but he believes -- for the sake of his ideas, for the sake of the people who are following him -- this is something that he needs to do.

他知道这不会成功，但他相信——为了他的想法，为了追随他的人——这是他需要做的事情。

He does something hopeless.

他做了一些没有希望的事。

I mean, he does something really hopeless.

我的意思是，他做了一些非常无望的事情。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : There was no possibility whatever that the Progressive Party could actually win the election.

威廉·哈博（WILLIAM HARBAUGH），历史学家：：进步党实际上不可能赢得选举。

It's simply inconceivable that, on its first run, a third party should have polled enough votes.

令人难以置信的是，在第一次选举中，第三方就获得了足够的选票。

Roosevelt would have been much better advised to have sat out 1912, and then run behind a consolidated Republican Party in 1916.

罗斯福最好在 1912 年袖手旁观，然后在 1916 年支持巩固的共和党。

He felt that he had no alternative, that it had become his obligation to run as a progressive.

他觉得自己别无选择，作为进步人士参选已成为他的义务。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Roosevelt characteristically gave it the good try.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：罗斯福典型地对此进行了良好的尝试。

He campaigned with ardor, with enthusiasm, and all over the country that he could reach, and campaigned on this remarkably reformist platform.

他满腔热情地在他能到达的全国各地进行竞选活动，并在这个显着的改革主义纲领上进行竞选活动。

THEODORE ROOSEVELT (archival): : We stand for a living wages.

西奥多·罗斯福（档案）：：我们主张生活工资。

Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time and energy to industrial occupation.

如果不能为那些将时间和精力投入到工业职业中的人提供生计，工资就会低于正常水平。

A standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit a reasonable saving for old age.

一个足够高的标准，足以使道德成为可能，提供教育和娱乐，照顾不成熟的家庭成员，在疾病期间维持家庭，并为老年提供合理的储蓄。

We hold the seven-day working week is abnormal and hold that one day of rest in seven should be provided by law.

我们认为每周工作7天是不正常的，并认为法律应规定7天休息1天。

JOHN GABLE, Theodore Roosevelt Association: : He once said, ''I am in the prophet business,'' and so he was a prophet in 1912, laying down the agenda for the future.

约翰·盖博，西奥多·罗斯福协会：：他曾经说过，“我从事先知事业”，因此他在 1912 年成为一名先知，为未来制定了议程。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Theodore Roosevelt could give free rein to the crusader, to the agitator in him.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：西奥多·罗斯福可以让十字军战士、他内心的煽动者自由发挥。

He doesn't have to worry about the practical politics, about how it's going to appeal to this side or that group.

他不必担心实际的政治，担心它将如何吸引这一派或那派。

He can really let it out.

他确实可以发泄出来。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : My mother said it was the most exciting year of their life.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：我母亲说这是他们一生中最激动人心的一年。

The enthusiasm was so great.

热情如此之高。

I guess you either loved him or hated him, but there were a great many more people who loved him.

我猜你要么爱他，要么恨他，但还有更多的人爱他。

Even a madman's bullet couldn't stop him.

即使是疯子的子弹也无法阻止他。

On October 14th, in Milwaukee, Roosevelt was on his way to deliver a speech when a man lurched out of the crowd, pointed a revolver at Roosevelt's heart and fired.

10月14日，在密尔沃基，罗斯福在前往发表演讲的途中，一名男子从人群中突然冲出，用左轮手枪指着罗斯福的心脏并开枪。

The bullet tore through his overcoat, pierced the manuscript of his speech, flattened his steel spectacle case, and drove into his flesh.

子弹撕裂了他的大衣，刺穿了他的演讲稿，压扁了他的钢制眼镜盒，射进了他的肉里。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : And he's bleeding, and the crowd is aghast, horrified, and he insists on making his speech.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：：他在流血，人群惊愕、恐惧，但他坚持要发表演讲。

P.

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JAMES ROOSEVELT, Cousin: : The crowd at first thought he was cracking a joke and laughed, so with that, he opened his coat and revealed this bloody shirt, and then they gasped -- I mean, ''Ah'' -- and he says, ''But it takes more than a bullet to stop a bull moose.''

詹姆斯·罗斯福（堂弟）：人群一开始以为他是在开玩笑，然后大笑起来，于是他打开外套，露出了这件血淋淋的衬衫，然后他们倒吸一口冷气——我是说，“啊”——他说，“但是要阻止一头公驼鹿需要的不仅仅是一颗子弹。”

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : No, I think he really wanted to die at that moment.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：不，我认为他那一刻真的很想死。

I think he saw that as the greatest exit there had ever been in American political life.

我认为他认为这是美国政治生活中最伟大的退出。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : The bullet came within practically a millimeter of his lungs, and one of the side comments of the doctor is that he had said he had never seen such a powerful chest before in any other man, and that, of course, saved his life.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：子弹距离他的肺部几乎只有一毫米，医生的旁白之一是他说他以前从未在任何其他人身上见过如此强大的胸部，这当然救了他的命。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : When the party came back together again, it was the old guard that controlled it, not the progressives, and the Republican Party was rapidly going to become the ''stand pat'' party in American politics, which Roosevelt never would have wanted.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：当共和党重新团结起来时，控制它的是守旧派，而不是进步派，共和党很快就会成为美国政治中“袖手旁观”的政党，这是罗斯福永远不会想要的。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : The loss in 1912 put Theodore Roosevelt into the political wilderness.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀 (JOHN MILTON COOPER)，历史学家： 1912 年的失败使西奥多·罗斯福陷入了政治荒野。

They hated him for what he tried to do to the party.

他们恨他试图对党做的事。

He tried to destroy the party in 1912.

1912年，他试图摧毁该党。

I mean, this guy's an apostate, and he's-- you know, he's betrayed them.

我的意思是，这家伙是个叛教者，他——你知道，他背叛了他们。

After 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's life takes a tragic turn.

1912年后，西奥多·罗斯福的生活发生了悲惨的转变。

The rest of his life, the qualities that had made him so constructive, so successful and so great turn on him.

在他的余生中，那些使他如此有建设性、如此成功、如此巨大的品质对他产生了巨大的影响。

With his son Kermit at his side, Roosevelt headed into the jungle toward the unexplored river, collecting animal and botanical specimens along the way.

罗斯福在儿子克米特的陪伴下，走进丛林，前往未开发的河流，沿途收集动物和植物标本。

After 40 days, they reached their destination, the headwaters of a river churning with mile after mile of treacherous whitewater.

40 天后，他们到达了目的地，一条河流的源头，一英里又一英里的激流翻腾着。

The Brazilians called it ''the River of Doubt.''

巴西人称其为“怀疑之河”。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : A river that wasn't supposed to be there, and had never been mapped, nobody knew where it went.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：一条不应该在那里的河流，也从未被绘制在地图上，没有人知道它流向何处。

It was complete wilderness and unknown.

那是完全的荒野和未知。

And this 55-year-old man, who was many, many pounds overweight and clearly not in good physical condition, took off on one of the wildest adventures of his career.

这位 55 岁的男子体重超重很多很多，而且身体状况显然不佳，但他开始了他职业生涯中最疯狂的冒险之一。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : The river itself is extremely dangerous, with rapids of the most fierce kind.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：这条河本身极其危险，有着最猛烈的急流。

The boats they were in were these huge dugout canoes -- weighed 2,500 to 3,000 pound each -- very hard to maneuver, and very difficult to go down the rapids, so they had to be portaged about these rapids.

他们乘坐的船只是巨大的独木舟，每艘重 2,500 至 3,000 磅，非常难以操纵，也很难顺流而下，因此他们必须在这些急流周围搬运。

We're talking about a 2,500- to 3,000-pound wooden canoe that had to be moved only with block and tackle on the long roads that they built and used rollers of logs that they cut.

我们谈论的是一艘重 2,500 到 3,000 磅的木制独木舟，在他们建造的长路上只能用滑轮组移动，并使用他们切割的原木滚筒。

It might take them four, five, six days to portage around one rapid.

他们可能需要四、五、六天的时间才能绕过一个急流。

And then they would get back in their boats, load them up again, start down the river, and maybe 15 minutes later come to another rapid where they had to start it all over again, and they did this 36 times.

然后他们会回到船上，再次装载，开始顺流而下，也许 15 分钟后，他们会到达另一个急流，在那里他们必须重新开始，他们这样做了 36 次。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : T.R.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：T.R.

had to spring into the water to try to save one of the canoes, and banged his leg quite seriously on a rock, reactivating an old bone infection.

他不得不跳入水中试图拯救其中一艘独木舟，结果他的腿严重撞到了岩石上，导致旧骨感染重新激活。

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : This began to get worse and worse.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：情况开始变得越来越糟。

His temperature went up to well over 105.

他的体温远高于105度。

Some nights Kermit didn't believe he'd live through the night.

有些晚上，克米特不相信自己能活过这一夜。

Unable to walk, in agony, he begged to be left behind.

他无法行走，痛苦不堪，请求留下。

''I feel I am only a burden to the party,'' he told his son.

“我觉得我只是党的负担，”他告诉儿子。

Delirious, he recited poetry, the same line over and over-- ''In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.''

他神志不清，背诵着诗歌，一遍又一遍地吟诵着同样的诗句——“忽必烈汗在上都颁布了一项庄严的享乐圆顶法令。”

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : He said that, ''Whenever I went on an expedition like this, I always used to take enough morphine with me to kill myself if I found myself facing a lingering death.'' And he said, ''There was only one time I thought about using that morphine, and that was in the Brazilian trip.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：他说，“每当我进行这样的探险时，我总是随身携带足够的吗啡，以便在我发现自己面临生命垂危时自杀。”他说，“我只有一次考虑过使用吗啡，那就是在巴西之行。

And the only reason I didn't do it,'' he said, ''is I realized that my son Kermit would take me out dead or alive, and it was marginally easier to take me out alive.''

我没有这么做的唯一原因，”他说，“是我意识到我的儿子科米特会带我出去，不管是死是活，而且把我活着带出去要容易一些。”

TWEED ROOSEVELT, Great-grandson: : It began to look worse and worse as each time they thought they'd come to the end of the rapids, they'd go a little further and find a whole 'nother of them again, but pure pluck and perseverance pulled them through.

特威德·罗斯福，曾孙：：情况开始变得越来越糟，因为每次他们以为自己已经到达了急流的尽头，他们就会走得更远，然后又发现了另一个人，但纯粹的勇气和毅力让他们渡过了难关。

But Roosevelt's powerful body would never be the same again.

但罗斯福强大的身体再也不会像以前那样了。

''The Brazilian wilderness,'' a friend wrote, ''stole away 10 years of his life.'' Barely able to walk, still suffering from malaria, he had lost 50 pounds in six weeks.

“巴西的荒野，”一位朋友写道，“夺走了他十年的生命。”他几乎无法行走，而且还患有疟疾，六周内体重减轻了 50 磅。

''At your age,'' a friend asked, ''why did you do such a thing?'' ''I had to go,'' he said.

“在你这个年纪，”一位朋友问道，“为什么要做这样的事？”“我必须走，”他说。

''It was my last chance to be a boy.''

“这是我成为男孩的最后机会。”

In the spring of 1914, Roosevelt returned to the United States.

1914年春，罗斯福回到美国。

Still suffering from malaria, he recuperated at Sagamore Hill.

他仍然患有疟疾，在萨加莫尔山休养。

''I am now an old man,'' he said.

“我现在是个老人了，”他说。

On August 1st, Roosevelt wrote a letter to a friend.

8月1日，罗斯福给朋友写了一封信。

''As I am writing, the whole question of peace and war trembles in the balance, and at the very moment, our insincere chief, Mr. Wilson, is prattling about the steps he is taking to procure universal peace.

“就在我写这篇文章的时候，整个和平与战争问题的平衡正在颤抖，就在此刻，我们虚伪的酋长威尔逊先生正在喋喋不休地谈论他为实现普遍和平而采取的步骤。

It is not a good thing for a country to have a college president as head of state.''

对于一个国家来说，由大学校长担任国家元首并不是一件好事。”

Three days later, Germany invaded Belgium and drove toward France.

三天后，德国入侵比利时并向法国进军。

Britain and Russia rallied to the aid of the beleaguered French.

英国和俄罗斯联合起来援助陷入困境的法国。

Austria-Hungary came in on the side of the Germans.

奥匈帝国站在了德国一边。

America, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed, would remain neutral.

伍德罗·威尔逊总统宣称，美国将保持中立。

World War I had begun.

第一次世界大战开始了。

The Great War would embroil Roosevelt in his last struggle, and darken the final days of his life.

第一次世界大战将罗斯福卷入他最后的斗争，并使他生命的最后日子变得黑暗。

At first, Roosevelt thought World War I would be just another ''bully fight.'' War had always lifted his spirits.

起初，罗斯福认为第一次世界大战只是另一场“恶霸之战”。战争总是让他精神振奋。

''I am nearly sure as can be,'' he wrote a friend, ''that England and France will benefit immensely by the war.

“我几乎可以肯定，”他写信给一位朋友，“英国和法国将从战争中受益匪浅。

Perhaps it is necessary that their manhood should be tried and purged in the ordeal of this dreadful, fiery furnace.''

也许他们的男子气概有必要在这个可怕的烈火熔炉的考验中受到考验和净化。”

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Roosevelt, in his heart, of course, remained, as ever, convinced that war did something for urban industrialized man, that the act of fighting somehow restored the right spirit.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家： 当然，罗斯福在内心深处仍然一如既往地坚信，战争对城市工业化的人们有所帮助，战斗行为以某种方式恢复了正确的精神。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : In his eyes, the United States simply was not strong militarily.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家： 在他眼中，美国在军事上根本就不强大。

We needed a bigger navy.

我们需要一支更强大的海军。

We needed a bigger and more efficient and modernized army.

我们需要一支更大、更高效、现代化的军队。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Theodore Roosevelt hated Woodrow Wilson, he just plain hated him, and I think the major element in that hatred was that Woodrow Wilson was in the place that he thought he ought to be.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀，历史学家：西奥多·罗斯福讨厌伍德罗·威尔逊，他只是简单地讨厌他，我认为这种仇恨的主要因素是伍德罗·威尔逊处于他认为他应该处于的位置。

Theodore Roosevelt believed that great crises call forth great leaders.

西奥多·罗斯福相信，伟大的危机召唤伟大的领导人。

This should have been his moment in world history.

这本应该是他在世界历史上的时刻。

Instead, this ''cold fish,'' this ''hypocrite,'' this ''deceiver''-- that man is in place.

相反，这个“冷鱼”、这个“伪君子”、这个“骗子”——那个人就位了。

What he said, ''It's as if we were in the Civil War with Buchanan as President, instead of Lincoln.'' Definitely, there's jealousy, but it's not petty jealousy, it is grand jealousy.

他说，“这就好像我们正处于内战之中，总统是布坎南，而不是林肯。”当然，有嫉妒，但不是小嫉妒，而是大嫉妒。

It's the jealousy of one great man for another.

这是一个伟人对另一个伟人的嫉妒。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : Now the Germans had done something to us.

历史学家约翰·米尔顿·库珀：现在德国人对我们做了一些事情。

They had tarnished our honor.

他们玷污了我们的荣誉。

For Theodore Roosevelt, it's his chance to cast off restraints.

对于西奥多·罗斯福来说，这是他摆脱束缚的机会。

The election of 1916 might have been Roosevelt's chance to confront Wilson head-on, but the Republicans could not forgive him for splitting the party four years earlier.

1916年的选举或许是罗斯福与威尔逊正面对抗的机会，但共和党人无法原谅他四年前分裂党派的行为。

Instead of Roosevelt, they chose Supreme Court justice Charles Evans Hughes.

他们没有选择罗斯福，而是选择了最高法院法官查尔斯·埃文斯·休斯。

Roosevelt campaigned for Hughes, but privately called him ''the bearded lady.''

罗斯福为休斯竞选，但私下称他为“大胡子女士”。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : And, of course, I can't help thinking that he was thinking to himself, if he'd only cooled it, somehow stayed out of it in 1912, he would have been sitting pretty for the 1916 nomination.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：当然，我不禁认为他在心里想，如果他只是冷静下来，以某种方式在 1912 年置身事外，那么他在 1916 年的提名中就可以轻松地获得提名。

It would have been his.

本来就是他的。

I mean, that can't help but rankle and eat at him.

我的意思是，这不能不激怒他并吞噬他。

But with German U-boats torpedoing American merchant ships on April 6, 1917, just one month after Woodrow Wilson's second inauguration, the President suppressed his private doubts and took America into the war.

但 1917 年 4 月 6 日，即伍德罗·威尔逊第二次就职一个月后，德国潜艇用鱼雷击沉了美国商船，总统压制住了私下的疑虑，将美国带入了战争。

Just four days later, Roosevelt traveled to Washington to meet with the President.

仅仅四天后，罗斯福就前往华盛顿会见总统。

He wanted to fight in France at the head of a volunteer division much like his Rough Riders.

他想率领一支志愿部队前往法国作战，就像他的“狂野骑士”一样。

At 58, he dreamed of leading one last crusade.

58 岁时，他梦想领导最后一场十字军东征。

''I think I could do this country most good,'' he had written a friend, ''by dying in a reasonably honorable fashion.

“我认为我可以为这个国家做出最大的贡献，”他写信给一位朋友，“以一种相当光荣的方式死去。”

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : Roosevelt was blind in one eye, he was partially crippled, he was overweight.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆，历史学家：：罗斯福一只眼睛失明，部分残疾，体重超重。

He wasn't old by the standards of our time, but he was by the standards of that time, and further, he was an amateur.

以我们这个时代的标准来看，他并不老，但以那个时代的标准来看，他已经很老了，而且，他还是一个业余爱好者。

WALTER LaFEBER, Historian: : And President Wilson kept trying to explain to Roosevelt that we now have professionals doing this kind of thing.

历史学家沃尔特·拉菲伯：威尔逊总统一直试图向罗斯福解释说，我们现在有专业人员在做这种事情。

We don't send amateurs like you over to refight the wars of 1898.

我们不会派像你这样的业余爱好者去重新打 1898 年的战争。

Now war was very dirty.

现在战争非常肮脏。

It was the trench warfare the killed off a generation of Englishmen and Germans and French.

正是堑壕战杀死了一代英国人、德国人和法国人。

It needed professional skills, and it needed the professional insights that Roosevelt didn't have.

它需要专业技能，需要罗斯福所不具备的专业洞察力。

This was not the 1898 war where soldiers sailed off into the glorious battles with a stringed orchestra playing on the decks of the ships.

这不是1898年的战争，当时士兵们在船甲板上演奏着弦乐团，驶入光荣的战斗。

This is something very different.

这是非常不同的事情。

Quite clearly, he was an anachronism by 1917 and 1918.

很明显，到 1917 年和 1918 年，他已经不合时宜了。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : And the President says no, and I really think it was at that moment that something -- some light in him -- went out.

传记作者大卫·麦卡洛：总统说不，我真的认为就在那一刻，某些东西——他身上的一些光芒——熄灭了。

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : That was the first thing that broke his heart.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：这是让他心碎的第一件事。

He wanted to go so badly.

他非常想去。

He never forgave President Wilson for that.

为此他从未原谅威尔逊总统。

In fact, we none of us have.

事实上，我们都没有。

Quentin would be the last to leave home.

昆汀将是最后一个离开家的人。

His father had found a place for him in flight training school.

他的父亲在飞行训练学校为他找到了一个位置。

He was only 19 and recently engaged to be married.

他当时只有 19 岁，最近订婚了。

Edith still thought of him as her baby.

伊迪丝仍然把他当作自己的孩子。

His last night at Sagamore Hill, his mother went upstairs to tuck him in.

在萨加莫尔山的最后一晚，他的母亲上楼给他盖被子。

The next morning, Quentin left for France.

第二天早上，昆汀动身前往法国。

''They have all gone away from the house on the hill,'' Edith wrote, ''but it is all quite right and best.''

“他们都离开了山上的房子，”伊迪丝写道，“但这一切都很好，也是最好的。”

Tired, aging, half-blind, often in pain from malarial fever, Roosevelt threw himself into his last campaign, this time for the American war effort.

疲倦、年老、半盲、经常承受疟疾热病的痛苦，罗斯福全身心投入到他的最后一次竞选活动中，这一次是为了美国的战争努力。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : A lot of Americans went war-mad after we entered World War I, and Theodore Roosevelt spoke to and for them.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：：参加第一次世界大战后，许多美国人陷入了战争狂潮，西奥多·罗斯福向他们讲话并为他们讲话。

He is the one who is calling for an all-out war effort.

他是呼吁全面战争的人。

The Germans are ''evil Huns.'' ''Fight them to the end,'' ''unconditional surrender'' -- riproaring, total war effort.

德国人是“邪恶的匈奴人”。“与他们战斗到底”、“无条件投降”——激怒的全面战争努力。

Suddenly, this man that everybody had left for political dead is speaking for the American people.

突然间，这个被大家视为政治死亡的人开始为美国人民发声了。

He becomes very respectable again.

他再次变得非常受人尊敬。

His own enemies within the Republican Party -- those conservative who were ''anybody but Roosevelt'' in 1916 -- are coming around.

他在共和党内的敌人——那些 1916 年“除罗斯福之外的任何人”的保守派——正在改变立场。

They're coming around.

他们正在过来。

Several of them are supporting him, saying, ''He should be our nominee in 1920.''

他们中的一些人支持他，说：“他应该成为我们 1920 年的提名人。”

This is one of the most amazing political comebacks in American history, this resurrection of Theodore Roosevelt.

这是美国历史上最令人惊奇的政治复出之一，西奥多·罗斯福的复活。

If Theodore Roosevelt had been the Republican nominee in 1920, he would have won.

如果西奥多·罗斯福是 1920 年的共和党候选人，他就会获胜。

He would have been President again.

他本来可以再次担任总统。

JOHN MORTON BLUM, Historian: : And this took a rather ugly turn.

约翰·莫顿·布鲁姆（JOHN MORTON BLUM），历史学家：：这发生了一个相当丑陋的转变。

Roosevelt took the view that, ''He who is not with us is against us,'' and he began to make a lot of what was then called ''hypenism,'' of the question of loyalty on the part of immigrants who were German-American or Irish-American.

罗斯福认为，“不支持我们的人就是反对我们的”，他开始对德裔美国人或爱尔兰裔美国人的忠诚问题提出很多当时所谓的“过度主义”。

WILLIAM HARBAUGH, Historian: : He was so obsessed with 100-percent Americanism that he actually favored the abolition of the teaching of the German language in the public schools.

历史学家威廉·哈博 (WILLIAM HARBAUGH)：他如此痴迷于百分百的美国主义，以至于他实际上赞成废除公立学校的德语教学。

JOHN MILTON COOPER, Historian: : The qualities that had made him great, that had been so constructive in his earlier career show this dark and ugly side.

约翰·米尔顿·库珀（JOHN MILTON COOPER），历史学家：：那些使他伟大的品质，在他早期的职业生涯中具有建设性的品质，展现了他黑暗而丑陋的一面。

The virulence that Theodore Roosevelt shows after we get into the war -- that's the tragedy.

西奥多·罗斯福在我们卷入战争后表现出的恶毒——这就是悲剧。

Pride mingled with envy as, one by one, his sons proved their courage in the face of danger.

骄傲与嫉妒交织在一起，他的儿子们一一证明了他们面对危险的勇气。

Archie won the Croix de Guerre after leading his platoon in an attack against the German lines that left him severely wounded.

阿奇率领他的排对德军防线发起攻击，并受重伤，因此赢得了十字勋章。

Kermit was awarded the British Military Cross.

克米特被授予英国军事十字勋章。

Ted survived a poison gas attack to win the Distinguished Service Cross.

泰德在毒气袭击中幸存下来，赢得了杰出服役十字勋章。

Only 21-year-old Quentin remained untested.

只有 21 岁的昆汀尚未接受考验。

On July 5th, he saw action for the first time -- a dogfight over France.

7 月 5 日，他第一次目睹了实战——法国上空的一场混战。

A few days later, he downed his first German plane.

几天后，他击落了第一架德国飞机。

''Of course, we are immensely excited by the press reports of Quentin's feat,'' Roosevelt wrote his daughter.

“当然，我们对昆汀壮举的新闻报道感到非常兴奋，”罗斯福写信给他的女儿。

''Whatever now befalls Quentin, he has had his crowded hour.'' Then, on the morning of July 14th, Quentin took off and headed for the German lines.

“无论昆汀现在遭遇什么，他的拥挤时刻都已经过去了。”然后，7 月 14 日早上，昆汀出发前往德军前线。

Three days later, an Associated Press reporter knocked at the door at Sagamore Hill and asked to see the ex-President.

三天后，一名美联社记者敲开了萨加莫尔山的门，要求见见这位前总统。

There were tears in the reporter's eyes.

记者的眼里含着泪水。

Quentin was dead, he told Roosevelt, shot down behind enemy lines.

昆廷死了，他告诉罗斯福，是在敌后被击落的。

Roosevelt was standing beneath a portrait of his father when he received the news.

当罗斯福收到消息时，他正站在他父亲的肖像下。

He paced back and forth, struggling to restrain himself.

他来回踱步，努力克制住自己。

''But Mrs. Roosevelt,'' he said.

“但是罗斯福夫人，”他说。

''How am I going to break it to her?''

“我该如何向她透露呢？”

EDITH DERBY WILLIAMS, Granddaughter: : It was a shattering experience, just shattering.

伊迪丝·德比·威廉姆斯，孙女：：这是一次令人心碎的经历，简直就是心碎。

It broke his heart.

这伤了他的心。

DAVID McCULLOUGH, Biographer: : All of his old romantic ideas about war as the great chance to be a man and to serve your country and to be heroic-- all of that was destroyed.

传记作者戴维·麦卡洛：他所有关于战争的古老浪漫观念都被摧毁了，战争是成为一个男人、为国家服务和成为英雄的绝佳机会——所有这些都被摧毁了。

And he must have understood how much of what he'd felt and believed in was ultimately proven wrong.

他一定明白他的感受和信念有多少最终被证明是错误的。

As he steeled himself to carry on, he spent more and more time with his grandchildren.

当他鼓起勇气继续生活时，他花越来越多的时间陪伴孙子们。

Early one morning, a servant came upon him staring into the distance, murmuring, ''Poor Quinikins.

一天清晨，一名仆人来到他面前，目光凝视着远方，低声说道：“可怜的奎尼金斯。”

Poor Quinikins.''

可怜的奎尼金。”

On January 5, 1919, less than six months after Quentin's death, Theodore Roosevelt kissed Edith good night and went to bed.

1919 年 1 月 5 日，昆汀去世后不到六个月，西奥多·罗斯福亲吻伊迪丝道晚安，然后上床睡觉。

In the morning, he was dead.

早上，他死了。

The man who had courted death on San Juan Hill, defied an assassin's bullet and survived the River of Doubt died quietly at home in his sleep.

那个在圣胡安山上找死、顶住刺客子弹、在怀疑之河中幸存下来的人，在睡梦中在家中安静地死去。

He was just 60 years old.

他当时才 60 岁。

Archie cabled his surviving brothers.

阿奇给他幸存的兄弟们打了电报。

''The old lion is dead.''

“老狮子死了。”

Theodore Roosevelt was buried in a plain oak casket on a hillside near Sagamore Hill.

西奥多·罗斯福被安葬在萨加莫尔山附近山坡上的一个普通橡木棺材里。

Edith, as was the custom of the day, remained at home reading the funeral service.

按照当时的惯例，伊迪丝留在家里阅读葬礼。

Among the mourners was the man he had wounded so deeply, and who had loved him so much -- William Howard Taft.

哀悼者中有一个被他深深伤害、又如此爱他的人——威廉·霍华德·塔夫脱。

After everyone else had left, Taft stood over his grave, weeping.

其他人都离开后，塔夫脱站在坟墓前哭泣。

Earlier, Quentin's favorite prayer had been read -- ''Oh, Lord, protect us all the day long of this troublous life until the shadows lengthen and the busy world is hushed, the fever of life over, and our work done.''

早些时候，昆汀最喜欢的祈祷被读到了——“哦，主啊，请在这充满麻烦的生活中整天保护我们，直到阴影拉长，繁忙的世界归于平静，生活的狂热结束，我们的工作完成。”

Towards the end of his life, Roosevelt had written his friend, the poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.

在他生命的最后时刻，罗斯福给他的朋友、诗人埃德温·阿灵顿·罗宾逊写了一封信。

''There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell.

“我们中间没有一个人心里不住着魔鬼。

At some time on some point, that devil masters each of us.

有时候，某个时候，那个魔鬼会控制我们每个人。

It is not having been in the dark house, but having left it that counts.''

重要的不是进入黑暗的房子，而是离开它。”

Historian John Blum comments on Theodore Roosevelt's career in this excerpted interview.

历史学家约翰·布鲁姆在这段采访摘录中评论了西奥多·罗斯福的职业生涯。

TR calls on Americans to participate in political life.

TR 呼吁美国人参与政治生活。

The American foreign policy statement that provided the basis for Roosevelt's military intervention in Latin America.

美国外交政策声明为罗斯福军事干预拉丁美洲提供了基础。

Roosevelt lashes out against lying political attacks, calling for honesty and sanity in public discourse.

罗斯福猛烈抨击虚假的政治攻击，呼吁公共言论保持诚实和理智。

Read some of Theodore Roosevelt's letters to his children.

阅读西奥多·罗斯福写给他孩子们的一些信。

Historian and biographer David McCullough discusses Theodore Roosevelt.

历史学家和传记作家大卫·麦卡洛讨论了西奥多·罗斯福。

He was a best-selling author.

他是一位畅销书作家。

He was a big game hunter, a cowboy.

他是一名大型狩猎者，也是一名牛仔。

There are so many different facets to the life of Theodore Roosevelt that make him a fascinating figure to cover.

西奥多·罗斯福的一生有很多不同的方面，这使他成为一个令人着迷的人物。

In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt came out for women's suffrage and became the great champion of women's rights.

1912年，西奥多·罗斯福为妇女争取选举权，成为伟大的女权斗士。

Historian Walter LaFeber comments on aspects of Theodore Roosevelt's career.

历史学家沃尔特·拉费伯对西奥多·罗斯福职业生涯的各个方面进行了评论。

Rough Riders.

粗暴的骑手。

Trust busting.

信任破坏。

And more.

还有更多。

Historian John Cooper comments on Theodore Roosevelt.

历史学家约翰·库珀对西奥多·罗斯福的评论。

Shortly after taking office, TR said of the Panama Canal that, "No single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent is as of such consequence to the American people."

上任后不久，TR 在谈到巴拿马运河时表示，“在这片大陆上，没有任何一项有待开展的伟大物质工作对美国人民产生如此大的影响。”

Theodore Roosevelt altered American foreign and domestic policy in ways that would influence the nation for decades to come.

西奥多·罗斯福改变了美国的外交和国内政策，影响了这个国家未来几十年。