First Inaugural Address (1933)
President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, My Friends:
胡佛总统、首席大法官先生、我的朋友们：
This is a day of national consecration.
这是国家奉献的一天。
And, I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels.
而且，我确信，在这一天，我的美国同胞们期望在我就任总统时，我将根据我们人民的现状做出坦率的决定。
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.
现在正是坦率、大胆地说出真相、全部真相的最佳时机。
Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
我们也无需回避诚实地面对我国当今的状况。
This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.
这个伟大的国家将一如既往地持续下去，将会复兴并繁荣。
So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
因此，首先，让我坚定地相信，我们唯一需要恐惧的就是恐惧本身——一种无名的、不合理的、不合理的恐惧，它使转退为进所需的努力瘫痪。
In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory.
在我们国家生活的每一个黑暗时刻，坦率和充满活力的领导都得到了人民本身的理解和支持，这是胜利所必需的。
And]I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
并且]我相信，在这些关键的日子里，您将再次向领导层提供支持。
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties.
我和你们本着这样的精神，我们面对着共同的困难。
They concern, thank God, only material things.
感谢上帝，他们只关心物质事物。
Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
价值观已经缩水到了不可思议的水平；税收增加了；我们的支付能力下降了；各类政府都面临收入严重缩减的问题；交换手段在贸易流通中被冻结；工业企业的枯叶遍地都是；农民的产品找不到市场；成千上万个家庭多年的积蓄化为乌有。
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.
更重要的是，大批失业公民面临着严峻的生存问题，同样大量的人劳作却收效甚微。
Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
只有愚蠢的乐观主义者才能否认当下的黑暗现实。
And yet, our distress comes from no failure of substance.
然而，我们的痛苦并非来自实质上的失败。
We are stricken by no plague of locusts.
我们没有遭受蝗灾。
Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.
与我们的祖先因相信、无所畏惧而战胜的危险相比，我们仍然有很多值得感恩的地方。
Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.
大自然仍然给予她丰富的馈赠，而人类的努力则使其倍增。
Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.
我们家门口就有充足的资源，但在供应充足的情况下，对资源的大量使用却受到了削弱。
Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated.
这主要是因为人类商品交换的统治者由于自己的顽固和无能而失败了，他们承认了自己的失败并退位了。
Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
不择手段的货币兑换商的行为受到舆论法庭的起诉，受到人心的谴责。
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition.
诚然，他们已经尝试过，但他们的努力却是基于一种过时的传统模式。
Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money.
面对信贷失败，他们只建议放贷更多的钱。
Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence.
由于失去了诱使我们的人民追随他们错误领导的利润诱惑，他们只能诉诸劝告，含泪恳求恢复信心。
They only know the rules of a generation of self-seekers.
他们只知道一代自私者的规则。
They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
他们没有远见，没有远见，人民就会灭亡。
Yes, the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization.
是的，货币兑换商已经逃离了我们文明殿堂的高位。
We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
我们现在可以将这座寺庙恢复到古老的真理。
The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
恢复的衡量标准在于我们在多大程度上运用比单纯的金钱利润更高尚的社会价值观。
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
幸福不在于仅仅拥有金钱，而在于拥有金钱。它在于成就的喜悦，在于创造性努力的兴奋。
The joy and the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
在疯狂追逐转瞬即逝的利润的过程中，工作的快乐和道德激励不再被遗忘。
These dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
我的朋友们，如果这些黑暗的日子教会我们，我们真正的命运不是为他人服务，而是为我们自己和我们的同胞服务，那么我们付出的一切代价都是值得的。
Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing.
认识到将物质财富作为成功标准的错误，与放弃仅以地位和个人利益的标准来评价公职和高级政治职位的错误信念是齐头并进的；银行业和商业领域的行为必须终止，这种行为常常使神圣的信托变得冷酷无情和自私的不法行为。
Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance.
毫不奇怪，信心日渐衰弱，因为信心只有在诚实、荣誉、神圣义务、忠实保护和无私表现的基础上才能蓬勃发展。
Without them it cannot live.
没有它们，它就无法生存。
Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone.
然而，复兴不仅仅需要道德上的改变。
This Nation is asking for action, and action now.
这个国家正在要求采取行动，而且是现在就采取行动。
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.
我们最重要的首要任务是让人们工作。
This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.
如果我们明智而勇敢地面对它，这并不是无法解决的问题。
It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our great natural resources.
它可以部分地通过政府本身直接招募来完成，像对待战争紧急情况一样对待这项任务，但同时，通过这种雇用，完成急需的项目，以刺激和重组我们丰富的自然资源的使用。
Hand in hand with that we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land.
与此同时，我们必须坦率地认识到我们工业中心的人口失衡，并通过在全国范围内进行重新分配，努力为最适合土地的人提供更好的土地利用。
Yes, the task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities.
是的，通过明确努力提高农产品的价值以及购买我们城市产品的能力可以帮助完成这项任务。
It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms.
通过切实防止因取消我们的小房屋和农场的赎回权而造成的损失不断扩大的悲剧，可以有所帮助。
It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced.
坚持要求联邦、州和地方政府根据大幅降低成本的要求立即采取行动，会有所帮助。
It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, unequal.
统一救灾活动可以起到帮助作用，而这些活动如今往往是分散的、不经济的、不平等的。
It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities that have a definitely public character.
对所有形式的交通、通信和其他具有明确公共性质的公用事业的国家规划和监督可以对此有所帮助。
There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it.
有很多方法可以帮助它，但仅仅通过谈论它永远无法帮助它。
We must act.
我们必须采取行动。
We must act quickly.
我们必须迅速采取行动。
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments.
最后，在恢复工作的过程中，我们需要采取两项保障措施，防止旧秩序的罪恶卷土重来：必须对所有银行、信贷和投资进行严格监管。
There must be an end to speculation with other people's money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
必须停止用别人的钱进行投机活动；必须制定充足而稳健的货币。
These, my friends, are the lines of attack.
我的朋友们，这些就是攻击线。
I shall presently urge upon a new Congress, in special session, detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the forty-eight States.
我很快将敦促新一届国会在特别会议上制定实现这些目标的详细措施，并且我将寻求四十八个州的立即援助。
Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo.
通过这一行动纲领，我们致力于让我们自己的国家秩序井然有序，实现收入平衡。
Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy.
我们的国际贸易关系虽然非常重要，但从时间和必要性来看，其重要性仅次于建立健全的国民经济。
I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first.
我赞成把要事放在第一位作为一项实际政策。
I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.
我将不遗余力地通过国际经济调整来恢复世界贸易，但国内的紧急情况不能等待这一成果。
The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic.
指导这些具体的民族复兴手段的基本思想并不是狭隘的民族主义。
It is the insistence, as a first considerations, upon the interdependence of the various elements in and parts of the United States of America—a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer.
作为首要考虑因素，它坚持美利坚合众国各个组成部分和部分地区的相互依存关系，这是对美国先驱者精神古老且永久重要的体现的承认。
It is the way to recovery.
这是康复之道。
It is the immediate way.
这是直接的方法。
It is the strongest assurance that recovery will endure.
这是复苏将持续的最有力保证。
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others—the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.
在世界政策领域，我将把这个国家奉献给好邻居的政策——这个邻居坚决尊重自己，并因此尊重他人的权利——这个邻居尊重他的义务，尊重他在邻居世界中以及与邻居之间达成的协议的神圣性。
If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize as we have never realized before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take but we must give as well; that if we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline no progress can be made, no leadership becomes effective.
如果我正确地理解了我们人民的脾气，我们现在意识到我们以前从未意识到我们彼此之间的相互依赖；我们不能仅仅索取，还必须给予；如果我们要前进，我们就必须作为一支训练有素、忠诚的军队，愿意为了共同纪律而牺牲，因为没有这种纪律，就不可能取得进展，领导也不会有效。
We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and our property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at the larger good.
我知道，我们已经准备好并愿意将我们的生命和财产置于这样的纪律之下，因为它使以更大利益为目标的领导成为可能。
This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us, bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in times of armed strife.
我提议提出这一点，并保证更大的目标将约束我们，约束我们所有人，作为一项神圣的义务，迄今为止只有在武装冲突时期才会引起的统一责任。
With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.
做出这一承诺后，我将毫不犹豫地领导我们这支伟大的人民军队，致力于有纪律地解决我们的共同问题。
Action in this image, action to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors.
按照这种形象采取行动，在我们从祖先那里继承下来的政府形式下，为此目的采取的行动是可行的。
Our Constitution is so simple, so practical, that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.
我们的宪法是如此简单，如此实用，以至于总是可以通过改变重点和安排来满足特殊需要，而不失本质形式。
That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has ever seen.
这就是为什么我们的宪政制度已被证明是现代世界有史以来最持久的政治机制。
It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.
它遇到了领土大面积扩张、对外战争、激烈的内乱和国际关系的各种压力。
And, it is to be hoped that the normal balance of Executive and legislative authority may be wholly equal, wholly adequate, to meet the unprecedented task before us.
并且，希望行政权和立法权的正常平衡能够完全平等、完全充分，以完成我们面前前所未有的任务。
But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.
但前所未有的要求和立即采取行动的需要可能会要求暂时偏离公共程序的正常平衡。
I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken Nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.
我准备根据我的宪法义务，建议一个处于受灾世界中的受灾国家可能需要采取的措施。
These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.
我将在宪法授权范围内寻求尽快通过这些措施，或国会根据其经验和智慧制定的其他措施。
But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me.
但如果国会未能采取这两个方针之一，如果国家紧急状态仍然严峻，我将不会逃避我将面临的明确职责。
I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.
我将要求国会提供应对危机的唯一手段——广泛的行政权力，以针对紧急情况发动战争，其权力与如果我们实际上遭到外国敌人入侵时将给予我的权力一样大。
For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time.
为了回报对我的信任，我将回报与时俱进的勇气和奉献精神。
I can do no less.
我能做的也不少。
We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity; with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values; with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike.
我们以民族团结的温暖勇气，面对面前的艰难日子；具有追寻古老而珍贵的道德价值的清晰意识；老老少少都严格履行职责，从中获得了干净的满足感。
We aim at the assurance of a rounded, a permanent national life.
我们的目标是确保国民生活全面、永久。
We do not distrust the future of essential democracy.
我们并不怀疑基本民主的未来。
The people of the United States have not failed.
美国人民没有失败。
In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action.
为了满足他们的需要，他们提出了一项要求采取直接、有力行动的授权。
They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership.
他们要求在领导下遵守纪律和指导。
They have made me the present instrument of their wishes.
他们让我成为他们实现愿望的工具。
In the spirit of the gift, I take it.
本着这份礼物的精神，我接受了它。
In this dedication of a Nation we humbly ask the blessing of God.
在这个国家的奉献中，我们谦卑地祈求上帝的祝福。
May He protect each and every one of us.
愿他保护我们每一个人。
May He guide me in the days to come.
愿他在未来的日子里指引我。
APP Note: As delivered, this address differed in some respects from the version published in the Public Papers, which was "as prepared." Ordinarily, the American Presidency Project attempts to reproduce the text of the Public Papers as originally published.
APP 注：在交付时，该地址在某些方面与公共文件中发布的版本有所不同，后者是“准备好的”。通常，美国总统项目会尝试复制最初发布的公共文件的文本。
But in this case, we have generated a transcript based on video of the speech widely available online.
但在这种情况下，我们根据网上广泛传播的演讲视频生成了一份文字记录。
The FDR papers included a number of "after the fact" explanatory notes and comments from FDR which are not incorporated here.
罗斯福文件包括一些罗斯福的“事后”解释性说明和评论，此处未纳入其中。
[keywords: Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address; "what we have to fear"]
[关键词：罗斯福第一次就职演说； “我们必须害怕什么”]
Franklin D.
富兰克林·D.
Roosevelt, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T.
罗斯福在线就职演说，作者：格哈德·彼得斯 (Gerhard Peters) 和约翰·T.
Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208712
伍利，美国总统项目 https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208712
The American Presidency Project John Woolley and Gerhard Peters Contact
美国总统项目 约翰·伍利 (John Woolley) 和格哈德·彼得斯 (Gerhard Peters) 联系方式
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