Second Inaugural Address (1865)
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first.
在第二次宣誓就任总统时，与第一次相比，延长讲话的机会较少。
Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper.
然后，对要采取的方针进行一些详细的陈述似乎是合适和恰当的。
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
现在，四年过去了，在这场仍然吸引着全国注意力、耗费全国精力的伟大竞赛的每一个要点和每一个阶段上不断地发出公开声明，但几乎没有什么新的东西可以提出。
The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all.
我们的武器进步是其他一切主要依靠的，公众和我自己都知道，而且我相信，这对所有人来说都是相当令人满意和鼓舞的。
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
由于对未来抱有很高的希望，因此不冒险做出任何预测。
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war.
四年前，在与此相对应的时刻，所有的想法都焦急地指向即将到来的内战。
All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.
所有人都害怕它，所有人都试图避免它。
While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war-seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation.
虽然就职演说是从这里发表的，完全致力于在不战争的情况下拯救联邦，但叛乱分子却在这座城市寻求在不战争的情况下摧毁它，寻求解散联邦并通过谈判分割影响。
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
双方都反对战争，但其中一方愿意发动战争而不是让国家生存，另一方则接受战争而不是让国家灭亡，于是战争就来了。
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it.
总人口的八分之一是有色奴隶，他们并不普遍分布在联邦各地，而是集中在联邦南部地区。
These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest.
这些奴隶构成了一种特殊而强大的利益。
All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
所有人都知道，这种利益在某种程度上是战争的原因。
To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
为了加强、延续和扩大这种利益，叛乱分子甚至会通过战争来分裂联邦，而政府却声称除了限制其领土扩张之外没有权利做更多的事情。
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.
双方都没有预料到战争会达到如此规模和持续时间。
Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease.
两人都没有预料到冲突的起因可能会随着冲突本身的结束而停止，甚至在冲突本身结束之前就结束。
Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
每个人都希望获得更容易的胜利，而不是那么根本性和令人震惊的结果。
Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.
两人都读同一本圣经，向同一位上帝祈祷，并且各自祈求上帝的帮助来对抗对方。
It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
任何人都敢于请求公正的上帝帮助从别人脸上的汗水中榨取面包，这似乎很奇怪，但让我们不要评判，以免我们被评判。
The prayers of both could not be answered.
两人的祈祷都未能得到回应。
That of neither has been answered fully.
两者的问题都没有得到充分的回答。
The Almighty has His own purposes.
全能者有他自己的目的。
"Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
“世界因冒犯而有祸了；因为冒犯必然会发生，但冒犯的人却有祸了。”如果我们假设美国奴隶制是按照上帝的旨意必须出现的罪行之一，但在他指定的时间里，他现在愿意消除这些罪行，并且他给北方和南方带来了这场可怕的战争，作为那些冒犯者所应得的祸患，那么我们是否可以在其中看出与永生上帝的信徒总是归于他的那些神圣属性的任何背离呢？
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
我们衷心希望、热切祈祷，这场巨大的战争祸害能够迅速过去。
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
然而，如果上帝希望这种情况继续下去，直到奴隶两百五十年无回报的辛劳所积累的所有财富都被沉没，直到用鞭子抽出的每一滴血都将由用剑抽出的每一滴血偿还，正如三千多年前所说的那样，那么仍然必须说“耶和华的审判是真实而公义的”。
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
让我们怀着对任何人的恶意，对所有人的仁慈，对上帝赋予我们看到正义的正义的坚定，让我们努力完成我们正在从事的工作，包扎国家的伤口，照顾将要参加战斗的人以及他的遗孀和孤儿，尽一切努力实现和珍惜我们之间以及与所有国家之间的公正和持久的和平。
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