Address to Congress - 9/11 Response (2001)
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Tempore, Members of Congress, and fellow Americans:
议长先生、临时总统先生、国会议员和美国同胞们：
In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this Chamber to report on the state of the Union.
在正常情况下，总统们会来到这个会议厅报告国情。
Tonight, no such report is needed.
今晚，不需要这样的报告。
It has already been delivered by the American people.
美国人民已经交付了。
We have seen it in the courage of passengers, who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground, passengers like an exceptional man named Todd Beamer.
我们从乘客们的勇气中看到了这一点，他们冲向恐怖分子，拯救地面上的其他人，乘客们就像一位名叫托德·比默的杰出人物。
And would you please help me to welcome his wife, Lisa Beamer, here tonight.
请您帮我欢迎他的妻子丽莎·比默今晚来到这里。
[ Applause ]
[鼓掌]
We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion.
我们从救援人员的忍耐力和疲惫不堪的工作中看到了我们联盟的状况。
We have seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
我们看到旗帜升起、蜡烛点燃、献血、用英语、希伯来语和阿拉伯语祈祷。
We have seen the decency of a loving and giving people who have made the grief of strangers their own.
我们看到了一个充满爱心和奉献精神的人们的正派，他们将陌生人的悲伤视为自己的悲伤。
My fellow citizens, for the last 9 days, the entire world has seen for itself the state of our Union, and it is strong.
我的同胞们，在过去的 9 天里，全世界亲眼目睹了我们联邦的状况，它是强大的。
Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.
今晚，我们的国家意识到了危险，并呼吁捍卫自由。
Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution.
我们的悲伤已转化为愤怒，愤怒已化为决心。
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
无论我们将敌人绳之以法，还是将敌人绳之以法，正义都会得到伸张。
I thank the Congress for its leadership at such an important time.
我感谢国会在如此重要的时刻发挥的领导作用。
All of America was touched, on the evening of the tragedy, to see Republicans and Democrats joined together on the steps of this Capitol, singing "God Bless America." And you did more than sing; you acted, by delivering $40 billion to rebuild our communities and meet the needs of our military.
在悲剧发生的那天晚上，看到共和党人和民主党人在国会大厦的台阶上齐声高唱“上帝保佑美国”，整个美国都被感动了。你所做的不仅仅是唱歌；你们采取了行动，提供了 400 亿美元来重建我们的社区并满足我们军队的需求。
Speaker Hastert, Minority Leader Gephardt, Majority Leader Daschle, and Senator Lott, I thank you for your friendship, for your leadership, and for your service to our country.
哈斯特议长、少数党领袖格普哈特、多数党领袖达施勒和洛特参议员，我感谢你们的友谊、你们的领导以及你们对我们国家的服务。
And on behalf of the American people, I thank the world for its outpouring of support.
我代表美国人民感谢全世界的大力支持。
America will never forget the sounds of our national anthem playing at Buckingham Palace, on the streets of Paris, and at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
美国永远不会忘记在白金汉宫、巴黎街头和柏林勃兰登堡门奏响的国歌声。
We will not forget South Korean children gathering to pray outside our Embassy in Seoul, or the prayers of sympathy offered at a mosque in Cairo.
我们不会忘记韩国儿童聚集在我们驻首尔大使馆外祈祷的情况，也不会忘记在开罗清真寺进行的同情祈祷。
We will not forget moments of silence and days of mourning in Australia and Africa and Latin America.
我们不会忘记澳大利亚、非洲和拉丁美洲的默哀时刻和哀悼日。
Nor will we forget the citizens of 80 other nations who died with our own: dozens of Pakistanis; more than 130 Israelis; more than 250 citizens of India; men and women from El Salvador, Iran, Mexico, and Japan; and hundreds of British citizens.
我们也不会忘记与我们一起死去的 80 个其他国家的公民：数十名巴基斯坦人；超过130名以色列人；超过 250 名印度公民；来自萨尔瓦多、伊朗、墨西哥和日本的男女；以及数百名英国公民。
America has no truer friend than Great Britain.
美国没有比英国更忠实的朋友了。
Once again, we are joined together in a great cause—so honored the British Prime Minister has crossed an ocean to show his unity with America.
我们再一次为了一项伟大的事业而团结在一起——英国首相远渡重洋来表达他与美国的团结，我们感到非常荣幸。
Thank you for coming, friend.
谢谢你的到来，朋友。
On September 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country.
9 月 11 日，自由的敌人对我国发动了战争行为。
Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941.
美国人对战争了如指掌，但在过去的 136 年里，除了 1941 年的一个星期日外，这些战争都是在外国土地上发生的。
Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great city on a peaceful morning.
美国人了解战争的伤亡情况，但不知道在一个和平的早晨在一座大城市的中心。
Americans have known surprise attacks, but never before on thousands of civilians.
美国人曾遭遇过突然袭击，但从未有过针对数千平民的袭击。
All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack.
这一切都是在一天之内发生的，夜幕降临在另一个世界，一个自由本身受到攻击的世界。
Americans have many questions tonight.
今晚美国人有很多问题。
Americans are asking, who attacked our country?
美国人问，谁袭击了我们的国家？
The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as Al Qaida.
我们收集到的证据都指向一个松散附属的恐怖组织“基地”组织。
They are some of the murderers indicted for bombing American Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and responsible for bombing the U.S.S.
他们是被指控炸毁美国驻坦桑尼亚和肯尼亚大使馆以及炸毁美国海军航空母舰的凶手之一。
Cole.
油菜。
Al Qaida is to terror what the Mafia is to crime.
基地组织之于恐怖，正如黑手党之于犯罪。
But its goal is not making money.
但它的目标不是赚钱。
Its goal is remaking the world and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.
它的目标是重塑世界，并将其激进的信仰强加给世界各地的人们。
The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics, a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.
恐怖分子实行的是一种边缘形式的伊斯兰极端主义，这种形式已被穆斯林学者和绝大多数穆斯林神职人员所拒绝，这是一种歪曲伊斯兰教和平教义的边缘运动。
The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans, and make no distinctions among military and civilians, including women and children.
恐怖分子的指令命令他们杀死基督徒和犹太人，杀死所有美国人，并且不区分军人和平民，包括妇女和儿童。
This group and its leader, a person named Usama bin Laden, are linked to many other organizations in different countries, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
该组织及其领导人乌萨马·本·拉登与不同国家的许多其他组织有联系，包括埃及伊斯兰圣战组织和乌兹别克斯坦伊斯兰运动。
There are thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries.
这些恐怖分子有数千人，遍布60多个国家。
They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan, where they are trained in the tactics of terror.
他们是从自己的国家和邻里招募的，并被带到阿富汗等地的营地，在那里接受恐怖战术的训练。
They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around the world to plot evil and destruction.
他们被送回自己的家园，或被送往世界各地隐藏，策划邪恶和破坏。
The leadership of Al Qaida has great influence in Afghanistan and supports the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country.
基地组织领导层在阿富汗有很大影响力，支持塔利班政权控制该国大部分地区。
In Afghanistan, we see Al Qaida's vision for the world.
在阿富汗，我们看到了基地组织对世界的愿景。
Afghanistan's people have been brutalized.
阿富汗人民遭受了残酷的对待。
Many are starving, and many have fled.
许多人正在挨饿，许多人已经逃离。
Women are not allowed to attend school.
妇女不得上学。
You can be jailed for owning a television.
您可能会因拥有电视机而被判入狱。
Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dictate.
宗教只能按照其领袖的指示进行实践。
A man can be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough.
在阿富汗，如果一个人的胡子不够长，他可能会被监禁。
The United States respects the people of Afghanistan—after all, we are currently its largest source of humanitarian aid—but we condemn the Taliban regime.
美国尊重阿富汗人民——毕竟，我们目前是阿富汗最大的人道主义援助来源——但我们谴责塔利班政权。
It is not only repressing its own people; it is threatening people everywhere by sponsoring and sheltering and supplying terrorists.
它不仅镇压自己的人民，而且还镇压自己的人民。它通过赞助、庇护和供应恐怖分子来威胁世界各地的人民。
By aiding and abetting murder, the Taliban regime is committing murder.
通过协助和教唆谋杀，塔利班政权正在实施谋杀。
And tonight the United States of America makes the following demands on the Taliban: Deliver to United States authorities all the leaders of Al Qaida who hide in your land.
今晚，美利坚合众国向塔利班提出以下要求： 将隐藏在你们土地上的所有基地组织领导人交给美国当局。
Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens, you have unjustly imprisoned.
释放所有被你们不公正监禁的外国人，包括美国公民。
Protect foreign journalists, diplomats, and aid workers in your country.
保护贵国的外国记者、外交官和援助人员。
Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, and hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure to appropriate authorities.
立即永久关闭阿富汗境内的所有恐怖分子训练营，并将每名恐怖分子及其支持机构中的每一个人移交给有关当局。
Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps, so we can make sure they are no longer operating.
允许美国完全进入恐怖分子训练营，这样我们就可以确保它们不再运作。
These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.
这些要求不容谈判或讨论。
The Taliban must act and act immediately.
塔利班必须采取行动，并且立即采取行动。
They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate.
他们要么交出恐怖分子，要么分享他们的命运。
I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world.
今晚我还想直接向世界各地的穆斯林讲话。
We respect your faith.
我们尊重您的信仰。
It's practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends.
数以百万计的美国人以及数以百万计的美国视为朋友的国家都在自由地实践着这一点。
Its teachings are good and peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name of Allah.
它的教义是善良与和平的，那些以安拉之名行恶的人亵渎了安拉的名字。
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
恐怖分子是他们信仰的叛徒，他们实际上试图劫持伊斯兰教本身。
The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends.
美国的敌人不是我们众多的穆斯林朋友；而是我们的穆斯林朋友。这不是我们的许多阿拉伯朋友。
Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.
我们的敌人是由恐怖分子和支持他们的每个政府组成的激进网络。
Our war on terror begins with Al Qaida, but it does not end there.
我们的反恐战争从基地组织开始，但并没有结束。
It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.
直到每一个影响全球的恐怖组织都被找到、阻止和击败为止，这场战争才会结束。
Americans are asking, why do they hate us?
美国人在问，为什么他们恨我们？
They hate what we see right here in this Chamber, a democratically elected government.
他们讨厌我们在这个会议厅看到的民主选举的政府。
Their leaders are self-appointed.
他们的领导人是自我任命的。
They hate our freedoms—our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.
他们讨厌我们的自由——我们的宗教自由、言论自由、投票、集会和表达不同意见的自由。
They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.
他们想要推翻许多穆斯林国家的现有政府，例如埃及、沙特阿拉伯和约旦。
They want to drive Israel out of the Middle East.
他们想把以色列赶出中东。
They want to drive Christians and Jews out of vast regions of Asia and Africa.
他们想将基督徒和犹太人赶出亚洲和非洲的广大地区。
These terrorists kill not merely to end lives but to disrupt and end a way of life.
这些恐怖分子杀人不仅是为了结束生命，也是为了破坏和结束一种生活方式。
With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends.
他们希望美国因每一次暴行而变得恐惧，从世界上撤退并抛弃我们的朋友。
They stand against us, because we stand in their way.
他们反对我们，因为我们阻碍了他们。
We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety.
我们不会被他们假装的虔诚所欺骗。
We have seen their kind before.
我们以前见过他们的同类。
They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century.
他们是20世纪所有凶残意识形态的继承者。
By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism and nazism and totalitarianism.
通过牺牲人类生命来服务于他们的激进愿景，通过放弃除权力意志之外的一切价值观，他们走上了法西斯主义、纳粹主义和极权主义的道路。
And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends, in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.
他们将沿着这条路一路走下去，直到终点，在历史上被抛弃的谎言的无名坟墓中。
Americans are asking, how will we fight and win this war?
美国人在问，我们将如何打赢这场战争？
We will direct every resource at our command—every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war—to the disruption and to the defeat of the global terror network.
我们将调动我们掌握的一切资源——一切外交手段、一切情报工具、一切执法手段、一切金融影响力和一切必要的战争武器——来瓦解和击败全球恐怖网络。
This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion.
这场战争不会像十年前的伊拉克战争那样，果断解放领土并迅速结束。
It will not look like the air war above Kosovo 2 years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat.
这不会像两年前科索沃上空的空战那样，当时没有使用地面部队，也没有一名美国人在战斗中丧生。
Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes.
我们的反应远远超出了即时报复和孤立打击。
Americans should not expect one battle but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.
美国人不应该期待一场战斗，而是一场漫长的战役，这与我们见过的任何其他战役不同。
It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.
它可能包括电视上可见的戏剧性打击，以及即使成功也秘密进行的秘密行动。
We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.
我们将使恐怖分子缺乏资金，让他们互相攻击，将他们从一个地方驱赶到另一个地方，直到他们无处可逃，也无处安息。
And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism.
我们将追捕向恐怖主义提供援助或庇护所的国家。
Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
每个地区的每个国家现在都必须做出决定：要么与我们站在一起，要么与恐怖分子站在一起。
From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.
从今天起，任何继续窝藏或支持恐怖主义的国家都将被美国视为敌对政权。
Our Nation has been put on notice: We are not immune from attack.
我们的国家已收到通知：我们无法免受攻击。
We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans.
我们将采取防御措施打击恐怖主义，以保护美国人。
Today dozens of Federal departments and agencies, as well as State and local governments, have responsibilities affecting homeland security.
如今，数十个联邦部门和机构以及州和地方政府都有影响国土安全的责任。
These efforts must be coordinated at the highest level.
这些努力必须在最高层进行协调。
So tonight I announce the creation of a Cabinet-level position reporting directly to me, the Office of Homeland Security.
因此，今晚我宣布设立一个直接向我报告的内阁级职位，即国土安全办公室。
And tonight I also announce a distinguished American to lead this effort to strengthen American security, a military veteran, an effective Governor, a true patriot, a trusted friend, Pennsylvania's Tom Ridge.
今晚我还宣布一位杰出的美国人来领导这项加强美国安全的努力，他是一位退伍军人、一位高效的州长、一位真正的爱国者、一位值得信赖的朋友，他就是宾夕法尼亚州的汤姆·里奇。
He will lead, oversee, and coordinate a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard our country against terrorism and respond to any attacks that may come.
他将领导、监督和协调一项全面的国家战略，以保护我国免受恐怖主义侵害并应对可能发生的任何袭击。
These measures are essential.
这些措施是必不可少的。
But the only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it, and destroy it where it grows.
但击败恐怖主义对我们生活方式的威胁的唯一方法是制止它、消除它并在其滋长之处摧毁它。
Many will be involved in this effort, from FBI agents to intelligence operatives to the reservists we have called to active duty.
许多人将参与这项工作，从联邦调查局特工到情报人员，再到我们征召入伍的预备役军人。
All deserve our thanks, and all have our prayers.
所有人都值得我们感谢，所有人都值得我们祈祷。
And tonight, a few miles from the damaged Pentagon, I have a message for our military: Be ready.
今晚，在距离受损的五角大楼几英里的地方，我向我们的军队传达了一条信息：做好准备。
I've called the Armed Forces to alert, and there is a reason.
我已经向武装部队发出警报，这是有原因的。
The hour is coming when America will act, and you will make us proud.
美国采取行动的时刻即将到来，你们将使我们感到自豪。
This is not, however, just America's fight, and what is at stake is not just America's freedom.
然而，这不仅仅是美国的斗争，受到威胁的也不仅仅是美国的自由。
This is the world's fight.
这是世界之战。
This is civilization's fight.
这是文明之战。
This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom.
这是所有相信进步、多元化、宽容和自由的人的斗争。
We ask every nation to join us.
我们请求每个国家加入我们。
We will ask, and we will need, the help of police forces, intelligence services, and banking systems around the world.
我们将请求并且需要世界各地警察部队、情报部门和银行系统的帮助。
The United States is grateful that many nations and many international organizations have already responded with sympathy and with support, nations from Latin America to Asia, to Africa, to Europe, to the Islamic world.
美国感谢许多国家和许多国际组织已经从拉丁美洲到亚洲、非洲、欧洲和伊斯兰世界，给予了同情和支持。
Perhaps the NATO Charter reflects best the attitude of the world: An attack on one is an attack on all.
也许《北约宪章》最能体现世界的态度：对一个人的攻击就是对所有人的攻击。
The civilized world is rallying to America's side.
文明世界正在团结到美国一边。
They understand that if this terror goes unpunished, their own cities, their own citizens may be next.
他们明白，如果这种恐怖行为不受惩罚，他们自己的城市、他们自己的公民可能就是下一个受害者。
Terror, unanswered, can not only bring down buildings, it can threaten the stability of legitimate governments.
如果不采取应对措施，恐怖活动不仅会摧毁建筑物，还会威胁合法政府的稳定。
And you know what?
你知道吗？
We're not going to allow it.
我们不会允许这样做。
Americans are asking, what is expected of us?
美国人在问，我们对我们有什么期望？
I ask you to live your lives and hug your children.
我请求你们过好自己的生活并拥抱你们的孩子。
I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat.
我知道今晚许多公民都感到恐惧，我请求你们即使面对持续的威胁也要保持冷静和坚决。
I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here.
我请你们维护美国的价值观，并记住为什么这么多人来到这里。
We are in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them.
我们正在为我们的原则而奋斗，我们的首要责任就是遵守这些原则。
No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.
任何人都不应因为种族背景或宗教信仰而受到不公平对待或不友善的言语。
I ask you to continue to support the victims of this tragedy with your contributions.
我请求你们继续为这场悲剧的受害者提供捐助。
Those who want to give can go to a central source of information, libertyunites.org, to find the names of groups providing direct help in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
那些想要捐赠的人可以访问中央信息源 libertyunites.org，查找在纽约、宾夕法尼亚州和弗吉尼亚州提供直接帮助的团体的名称。
The thousands of FBI agents who are now at work in this investigation may need your cooperation, and I ask you to give it.
现在正在调查这项调查的数千名联邦调查局特工可能需要您的合作，我请求您给予合作。
I ask for your patience with the delays and inconveniences that may accompany tighter security and for your patience in what will be a long struggle.
我请求您对加强安全措施可能带来的延误和不便保持耐心，并在这场漫长的斗争中保持耐心。
I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy.
我请求您继续参与并保持对美国经济的信心。
Terrorists attacked a symbol of American prosperity.
恐怖分子袭击了美国繁荣的象征。
They did not touch its source.
他们没有触及它的源头。
America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.
美国之所以成功，是因为我们人民的辛勤工作、创造力和进取心。
These were the true strengths of our economy before September 11th, and they are our strengths today.
这些是 9 月 11 日之前我们经济的真正优势，也是我们今天的优势。
And finally, please continue praying for the victims of terror and their families, for those in uniform, and for our great country.
最后，请继续为恐怖袭击的受害者及其家人、为那些军人、为我们伟大的国家祈祷。
Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.
祈祷安慰了我们的悲伤，并帮助我们在未来的旅程中坚强起来。
Tonight I thank my fellow Americans for what you have already done and for what you will do.
今晚，我感谢我的美国同胞们已经所做的事情以及你们将要做的事情。
And ladies and gentlemen of the Congress, I thank you, their representatives, for what you have already done and for what we will do together.
国会的女士们、先生们，我感谢你们，他们的代表，感谢你们已经所做的事情以及我们将共同做的事情。
Tonight we face new and sudden national challenges.
今晚我们面临新的、突发的国家挑战。
We will come together to improve air safety, to dramatically expand the number of air marshals on domestic flights and take new measures to prevent hijacking.
我们将齐心协力改善航空安全，大幅增加国内航班空警人数，并采取新措施防止劫机。
We will come together to promote stability and keep our airlines flying, with direct assistance during this emergency.
在这一紧急情况下，我们将齐心协力，提供直接援助，促进稳定并保持我们的航空公司正常飞行。
We will come together to give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home.
我们将齐心协力，为执法部门提供追查国内恐怖活动所需的额外工具。
We will come together to strengthen our intelligence capabilities, to know the plans of terrorists before they act and find them before they strike.
我们将齐心协力，加强我们的情报能力，在恐怖分子行动之前了解他们的计划，并在他们发动袭击之前找到他们。
We will come together to take active steps that strengthen America's economy and put our people back to work.
我们将齐心协力，采取积极措施，增强美国经济，让我们的人民重返工作岗位。
Tonight we welcome two leaders who embody the extraordinary spirit of all New Yorkers, Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
今晚，我们欢迎两位体现了所有纽约人非凡精神的领导人，乔治·帕塔基州长和鲁道夫·朱利安尼市长。
As a symbol of America's resolve, my administration will work with Congress and these two leaders to show the world that we will rebuild New York City.
作为美国决心的象征，我的政府将与国会和这两位领导人合作，向世界表明我们将重建纽约市。
After all that has just passed, all the lives taken and all the possibilities and hopes that died with them, it is natural to wonder if America's future is one of fear.
在这一切刚刚过去之后，所有的生命都被夺走，所有的可能性和希望也随之消失，人们很自然地想知道美国的未来是否充满恐惧。
Some speak of an age of terror.
有人谈到恐怖时代。
I know there are struggles ahead and dangers to face.
我知道前面还有斗争和危险要面对。
But this country will define our times, not be defined by them.
但这个国家将定义我们的时代，而不是被他们定义。
As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world.
只要美利坚合众国坚定、强大，这就不会是一个恐怖的时代；无论是在这里还是全世界，这都将是一个自由的时代。
Great harm has been done to us.
对我们造成了很大的伤害。
We have suffered great loss.
我们遭受了巨大的损失。
And in our grief and anger, we have found our mission and our moment.
在我们的悲伤和愤怒中，我们找到了我们的使命和我们的时刻。
Freedom and fear are at war.
自由和恐惧正在交战。
The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us.
人类自由的进步、我们这个时代的伟大成就和每个时代的伟大希望，现在取决于我们。
Our Nation—this generation—will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future.
我们的国家——这一代人——将消除来自我们人民和我们未来的黑暗暴力威胁。
We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage.
我们将通过我们的努力和勇气将世界团结起来致力于这一事业。
We will not tire; we will not falter; and we will not fail.
我们不会疲倦；我们不会动摇；我们不会失败。
It is my hope that in the months and years ahead, life will return almost to normal.
我希望在未来的岁月里，生活将几乎恢复正常。
We'll go back to our lives and routines, and that is good.
我们会回到我们的生活和日常生活中，这很好。
Even grief recedes with time and grace.
即使悲伤也会随着时间和恩典而消退。
But our resolve must not pass.
但我们的决心决不能通过。
Each of us will remember what happened that day and to whom it happened.
我们每个人都会记得那天发生的事情以及发生在谁身上。
We'll remember the moment the news came, where we were, and what we were doing.
我们会记住消息传来的那一刻、我们在哪里、我们在做什么。
Some will remember an image of a fire or a story of rescue.
有些人会记得火灾的图像或救援的故事。
Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.
有些人会带着永远消失的面孔和声音的记忆。
And I will carry this: It is the police shield of a man named George Howard, who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others.
我会带着这个：这是一个名叫乔治·霍华德的人的警察盾牌，他在世贸中心为拯救他人而丧生。
It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son.
这是他的妈妈阿琳送给我的，作为对她儿子的骄傲纪念。
It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.
这是我对已结束的生命和尚未结束的任务的提醒。
I will not forget this wound to our country and those who inflicted it.
我不会忘记我们的国家和那些造成这种伤害的人。
I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.
我不会屈服；我不会休息；我将毫不松懈地为美国人民的自由和安全而进行这场斗争。
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain.
这场冲突的过程尚不清楚，但其结果是确定的。
Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
自由与恐惧、正义与残酷一直处于交战状态，我们知道上帝在它们之间并不是中立的。
Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come.
同胞们，我们将以耐心的正义来应对暴力，确保我们事业的正确性并对即将到来的胜利充满信心。
In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom, and may He watch over the United States of America.
在我们面前的一切中，愿上帝赐予我们智慧，愿他看顾美利坚合众国。
Note: The President spoke at 9 p.m.
注：总统于晚上 9 点发表讲话。
in the House Chamber of the Capitol.
在国会大厦的众议院会议厅。
In his remarks, he referred to Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom.
他在讲话中提到了英国首相托尼·布莱尔。