Farewell Address (1953)
I am happy to have this opportunity to talk to you once more before I leave the White House.
我很高兴在离开白宫之前有机会再次与你们交谈。
Next Tuesday, General Eisenhower will be inaugurated as President of the United States.
下周二，艾森豪威尔将军将就任美国总统。
A short time after the new President takes his oath of office, I will be on the train going back home to Independence, Missouri.
新总统宣誓就职后不久，我将乘火车返回密苏里州独立市。
I will once again be a plain, private citizen of this great Republic.
我将再次成为这个伟大共和国的普通公民。
That is as it should be.
这是应该的。
Inauguration Day will be a great demonstration of our democratic process.
就职日将是我们民主进程的一次伟大展示。
I am glad to be a part of it-glad to wish General Eisenhower all possible success, as he begins his term--glad the whole world will have a chance to see how simply and how peacefully our American system transfers the vast power of the Presidency from my hands to his.
我很高兴能成为其中的一部分——很高兴祝愿艾森豪威尔将军在就任之初取得一切可能的成功——很高兴全世界将有机会看到我们的美国制度如何简单、如何和平地将总统职位的巨大权力从我手中移交给他。
It is a good object lesson in democracy.
这是民主方面的一堂很好的实物课。
I am very proud of it.
我对此感到非常自豪。
And I know you are, too.
我知道你也是。
During the last 2 months I have done my best to make this transfer an orderly one.
在过去的两个月里，我尽了最大努力使这次转移有条不紊地进行。
I have talked with my successor on the affairs of the country, both foreign and domestic, and my Cabinet officers have talked with their successors.
我已经与我的继任者讨论了国家的外交和国内事务，我的内阁官员也与他们的继任者进行了交谈。
I want to say that General Eisenhower and his associates have cooperated fully in this effort.
我想说的是，艾森豪威尔将军和他的同僚在这一努力中给予了充分合作。
Such an orderly transfer from one party to another has never taken place before in our history.
如此有序地从一党转向另一党，在我们的历史上从未发生过。
I think a real precedent has been set.
我认为这是一个真正的先例。
In speaking to you tonight, I have no new revelations to make--no political statements-no policy announcements.
今晚对你们讲话时，我没有新的启示——没有政治声明——没有政策公告。
There are simply a few things in my heart that I want to say to you.
我心里只有几句话想对你说。
I want to say "goodby" and "thanks for your help." [See APP note.] And I want to talk to you a little while about what has happened since I became your President.
我想说“再见”和“谢谢你的帮助”。 [参见应用程序注释。] 我想和你们谈谈自从我成为你们的总统以来发生的事情。
I am speaking to you from the room where I have worked since April 12, 1945.
我是在自 1945 年 4 月 12 日以来一直工作的房间里对你们讲话的。
This is the President's office in the West Wing of the White House.
这是位于白宫西翼的总统办公室。
This is the desk where I have signed most of the papers that embodied the decisions I have made as President.
我在这张办公桌上签署了大部分文件，这些文件体现了我作为总统所做的决定。
It has been the desk of many Presidents, and will be the desk of many more.
它曾经是多位总统的办公桌，也将是更多总统的办公桌。
Since I became President, I have been to Europe, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands--Wake Island and Hawaii.
自从我担任总统以来，我去过欧洲、墨西哥、加拿大、巴西、波多黎各以及维尔京群岛——威克岛和夏威夷。
I have visited almost every State in the Union.
我几乎访问过美国的每个州。
I have traveled 135,000 miles by air, 77,000 by rail, and 17,000 by ship.
我乘飞机旅行了 135,000 英里，乘火车旅行了 77,000 英里，乘船旅行了 17,000 英里。
But the mail always followed me, and wherever I happened to be, that's where the office of the President was.
但邮件总是跟着我，无论我在哪里，总统办公室就在那里。
The greatest part of the President's job is to make decisions--big ones and small ones, dozens of them almost every day.
总统工作中最重要的部分是做出决策——无论是大决策还是小决策，几乎每天都会做出数十个决策。
The papers may circulate around the Government for a while but they finally reach this desk.
这些文件可能会在政府内部流传一段时间，但最终还是到达了这个办公桌。
And then, there's no place else for them to go.
然后，他们就没有其他地方可去了。
The President--whoever he is--has to decide.
总统——无论他是谁——必须做出决定。
He can't pass the buck to anybody.
他不能把责任推给任何人。
No one else can do the deciding for him.
没有人可以替他做决定。
That's his job.
那是他的工作。
That's what I've been doing here in this room, for almost 8 years.
这就是我近八年来一直在这个房间里所做的事情。
And over in the main part of the White House, there's a study on the second floor--a room much like this one--where I have worked at night and early in the morning on the papers I couldn't get to at the office.
在白宫的主要部分，二楼有一个书房——一个很像这个房间的房间——我晚上和一大早都在那里工作，处理我在办公室拿不到的文件。
Of course, for more than 3 years Mrs. Truman and I were not living in the White House.
当然，杜鲁门夫人和我已经不住在白宫三年多了。
We were across the street in the Blair House.
我们在街对面的布莱尔宫。
That was when the White House almost fell down on us and had to be rebuilt.
就在那时，白宫差一点就倒塌了，不得不重建。
I had a study over at the Blair House, too, but living in the Blair House was not as convenient as living in the White House.
我也在布莱尔宫学习过，但是住在布莱尔宫不像住在白宫那么方便。
The Secret Service wouldn't let me walk across the street, so I had to get in a car every morning to cross the street to the White House office, again at noon to go to the Blair House for lunch, again to go back to the office after lunch, and finally take an automobile at night to return to the Blair House.
特勤局不让我过马路，所以我每天早上都要坐车过马路去白宫办公室，中午再去布莱尔宫吃午饭，吃完午饭再回办公室，最后晚上坐汽车返回布莱尔宫。
Fantastic, isn't it?
太棒了，不是吗？
But necessary, so my guards thought--and they are the bosses on such matters as that.
但这是必要的，所以我的警卫认为——他们是这类事情的老板。
Now, of course, we're back in the White House.
当然，现在我们又回到了白宫。
It is in very good condition, and General Eisenhower will be able to take up his residence in the house and work right here.
它的状况非常好，艾森豪威尔将军将能够在这所房子里居住并在这里工作。
That will be much more convenient for him, and I'm very glad the renovation job was all completed before his term began.
这对他来说会方便得多，我很高兴在他任期开始之前装修工作就全部完成了。
Your new President is taking office in quite different circumstances than when I became President 8 years ago.
你们的新总统上任时的情况与八年前我就任总统时的情况截然不同。
On April 1945, I had been presiding over the Senate in my capacity as Vice President.
1945 年 4 月，我以副总统的身份主持参议院。
When the Senate recessed about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, I walked over to the office of the Speaker of the House, Mr. Rayburn, to discuss pending legislation.
下午 5 点左右参议院休会时，我走到众议院议长雷伯恩先生的办公室，讨论悬而未决的立法。
As soon as I arrived, I was told that Mr. Early, one of President Roosevelt's secretaries, wanted me to call.
我一到达，就被告知罗斯福总统的秘书厄尔尔先生要我打电话。
I reached Mr. Early, and he told me to come to the White House as quickly as possible, to enter by way of the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance, and to come to Mrs. Roosevelt's study.
我找到了厄尔利先生，他让我尽快到白宫，从宾夕法尼亚大道入口进入，然后到罗斯福夫人的书房。
When I arrived, Mrs. Roosevelt told me the tragic news, and I felt the shock that all of you felt a little later--when the word came over the radio and appeared in the newspapers.
当我到达时，罗斯福夫人告诉了我这个悲惨的消息，当这个消息通过广播和报纸出现时，我感受到了你们所有人稍后所感受到的震惊。
President Roosevelt had died.
罗斯福总统去世了。
I offered to do anything I could for Mrs. Roosevelt, and then I asked the Secretary of State to call the Cabinet together.
我主动提出为罗斯福夫人做任何力所能及的事情，然后我请国务卿召集内阁。
At 7:09 p.m.
晚上 7:09
I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Stone in the Cabinet Room.
我在首席大法官斯通的主持下在内阁室宣誓就任总统。
Things were happening fast in those days.
那些日子里事情发生得很快。
The San Francisco conference to organize the United Nations had been called for April 25th.
组织联合国的旧金山会议定于 4 月 25 日举行。
I was asked if that meeting would go forward.
有人问我该会议是否会继续进行。
I announced that it would.
我宣布会的。
That was my first decision.
这是我的第一个决定。
After attending President Roosevelt's funeral, I went to the Hall of the House of Representatives and told a joint session of the Congress that I would carry on President Roosevelt's policies.
参加完罗斯福总统的葬礼后，我前往众议院大厅，在国会联席会议上表示，我将继承罗斯福总统的政策。
On May 7th, Germany surrendered.
5月7日，德国投降。
The announcement was made on May 8th, my 61st birthday.
这个消息是在 5 月 8 日宣布的，那天是我 61 岁生日。
Mr. Churchill called me shortly after that and wanted a meeting with me and Prime Minister Stalin of Russia.
此后不久，丘吉尔先生打电话给我，希望与我和俄罗斯总理斯大林会面。
Later on, a meeting was agreed upon, and Churchill, Stalin, and I met at Potsdam in Germany.
后来商定会面，我和丘吉尔、斯大林在德国波茨坦会面。
Meanwhile, the first atomic explosion took place out in the New Mexico desert.
与此同时，第一次原子弹爆炸在新墨西哥州沙漠发生。
The war against Japan was still going on.
对日战争仍在继续。
I made the decision that the atomic bomb had to be used to end it.
我决定必须使用原子弹来结束它。
I made that decision in the conviction it would save hundreds of thousands of lives--Japanese as well as American.
我做出这个决定是因为相信这将拯救数十万人的生命——包括日本人和美国人。
Japan surrendered, and we were faced with the huge problems of bringing the troops home and reconverting the economy from war to peace.
日本投降了，我们面临着遣军回国、经济由战争转为和平的巨大问题。
All these things happened within just a little over 4 months--from April to August 1945.
所有这些事情都发生在短短 4 个多月的时间内——从 1945 年 4 月到 8 月。
I tell you this to illustrate the tremendous scope of the work your President has to do.
我告诉你们这些是为了说明你们的总统必须做的工作范围之广。
And all these emergencies and all the developments to meet them have required the President to put in long hours--usually 17 hours a day, with no payment for overtime.
所有这些紧急情况以及应对这些紧急情况的所有事态发展都要求总统投入很长时间——通常每天 17 个小时，而且没有加班费。
I sign my name, on the average, 600 times a day, see and talk to hundreds of people every month, shake hands with thousands every year, and still carry on the business of the largest going concern in the whole world.
我平均每天签名 600 次，每个月与数百人会面并交谈，每年与数千人握手，并且仍然经营着全世界最大的持续经营企业的业务。
There is no job like it on the face of the earth--in the power which is concentrated here at this desk, and in the responsibility and difficulty of the decisions.
地球上没有任何工作能与它相比——权力集中在这张办公桌上，决策的责任和难度也更大。
I want all of you to realize how big a job, how hard a job, it is--not for my sake, because I am stepping out of it--but for the sake of my successor.
我希望你们所有人都意识到这是一项多么艰巨的工作，一项多么艰难的工作——不是为了我，因为我正在摆脱它——而是为了我的继任者。
He needs the understanding and the help of every citizen.
他需要每一位公民的理解和帮助。
It is not enough for you to come out once every 4 years and vote for a candidate, and then go back home and say, "Well, I've done my part, now let the new President do the worrying." He can't do the job alone.
你每四年出来投票一次，然后回家说：“好吧，我已经尽了我的职责，现在让新总统来处理这些令人担忧的事情，这是不够的。”他无法独自完成这项工作。
Regardless of your politics, whether you are Republican or Democrat, your fate is tied up with what is done here in this room.
无论你的政治立场如何，无论你是共和党还是民主党，你的命运都与这个房间里所做的事情息息相关。
The President is President of the whole country.
总统是全国的总统。
We must give him our support as citizens of the United States.
作为美国公民，我们必须支持他。
He will have mine, and I want you to give him yours.
他会拥有我的，我希望你把你的也给他。
I suppose that history will remember my term in office as the years when the "cold war" began to overshadow our lives.
我想历史会记住我的任期，因为“冷战”开始笼罩我们的生活。
I have had hardly a day in office that has not been dominated by this all-embracing struggle-this conflict between those who love freedom and those who would lead the world back into slavery and darkness.
我在任期间几乎没有一天不被这种包罗万象的斗争所支配——这种斗争是那些热爱自由的人和那些将世界带回奴隶制和黑暗的人之间的冲突。
And always in the background there has been the atomic bomb.
而原子弹总是在幕后。
But when history says that my term of office saw the beginning of the cold war, it will also say that in those 8 years we have set the course that can win it.
但当历史说我的任期见证了冷战的开始时，它也会说，在这八年里，我们已经制定了能够赢得战争的路线。
We have succeeded in carving out a new set of policies to attain peace--positive policies, policies of world leadership, policies that express faith in other free people.
我们成功地制定了一套新的实现和平的政策——积极的政策、世界领导的政策、表达对其他自由人民的信心的政策。
We have averted world war III up to now, and we may already have succeeded in establishing conditions which can keep that war from happening as far ahead as man can see.
到目前为止，我们已经避免了第三次世界大战，而且我们可能已经成功地创造了条件，阻止这场战争在人类所能预见的未来发生。
These are great and historic achievements that we can all be proud of.
这些都是值得我们自豪的伟大历史性成就。
Think of the difference between our course now and our course 30 years ago.
想想我们现在的课程和30年前的课程有什么不同。
After the First World War we withdrew from world affairs--we failed to act in concert with other peoples against aggression--we helped to kill the League of Nations--and we built up tariff barriers that strangled world trade.
第一次世界大战后，我们退出了世界事务——我们未能与其他国家人民一致行动反对侵略——我们帮助扼杀了国际联盟——我们建立了扼杀世界贸易的关税壁垒。
This time, we avoided those mistakes.
这一次，我们避免了这些错误。
We helped to found and sustain the United Nations.
我们帮助建立和维持联合国。
We have welded alliances that include the greater part of the free world.
我们已经建立了包括自由世界大部分地区在内的紧密联盟。
And we have gone ahead with other free countries to help build their economies and link us all together in a healthy world trade.
我们已经与其他自由国家一起帮助他们建设经济，并通过健康的世界贸易将我们所有人联系在一起。
Think back for a moment to the 1930's and you will see the difference.
回想一下 1930 年代，您就会发现其中的差异。
The Japanese moved into Manchuria, and free men did not act.
日本人进入满洲，自由民没有采取行动。
The Fascists moved into Ethiopia, and we did not act.
法西斯分子进入埃塞俄比亚，我们没有采取行动。
The Nazis marched into the Rhineland, into Austria, into Czechoslovakia, and free men were paralyzed for lack of strength and unity and will.
纳粹进军莱茵兰、奥地利、捷克斯洛伐克，自由民因缺乏力量、团结和意志而陷入瘫痪。
Think about those years of weakness and indecision, and the World War II which was their evil result.
想想那些年的软弱和优柔寡断，以及第二次世界大战，这是他们的邪恶结果。
Then think about the speed and courage and decisiveness with which we have moved against the Communist threat since World War II.
然后想想自二战以来我们对抗共产主义威胁的速度、勇气和果断。
The first crisis came in 1945 and 1946, when the Soviet Union refused to honor its agreement to remove its troops from Iran.
第一次危机发生在 1945 年和 1946 年，当时苏联拒绝履行从伊朗撤军的协议。
Members of my Cabinet came to me and asked if we were ready to take the risk that a firm stand involved.
我的内阁成员来找我，询问我们是否准备好承担坚定立场的风险。
I replied that we were.
我回答说我们是。
So we took our stand--we made it clear to the Soviet Union that we expected them to honor their agreement--and the Soviet troops were withdrawn from Iran.
因此，我们表明了自己的立场——我们向苏联明确表示，我们希望他们遵守协议——苏联军队从伊朗撤军。
Then, in early 1947, the Soviet Union threatened Greece and Turkey.
然后，1947 年初，苏联威胁希腊和土耳其。
The British sent me a message saying they could no longer keep their forces in that area.
英国人给我发来消息说他们不能再在那个地区驻军了。
Something had to be done at once, or the eastern Mediterranean would be taken over by the Communists.
必须立即采取行动，否则东地中海将被共产党占领。
On March 12th, I went before the Congress and stated our determination to help the people of Greece and Turkey maintain their independence.
3月12日，我在国会面前表达了我们帮助希腊和土耳其人民保持独立的决心。
Today, Greece is still free and independent; and Turkey is a bulwark of strength at a strategic corner of the world.
今天，希腊仍然是自由和独立的；土耳其是世界战略角落的力量堡垒。
Then came the Marshall plan which saved Europe, the heroic Berlin airlift, and our military aid programs.
然后是拯救欧洲的马歇尔计划、英勇的柏林空运和我们的军事援助计划。
We inaugurated the North Atlantic Pact, the Rio Pact binding the Western Hemisphere together, and the defense pacts with countries of the Far Pacific.
我们签署了《北大西洋公约》、将西半球结合在一起的《里约公约》以及与远太平洋国家的防务公约。
Most important of all, we acted in Korea.
最重要的是，我们在韩国演出。
I was in Independence, Missouri, in June 1950, when Secretary Acheson telephoned me and gave me the news about the invasion of Korea.
1950 年 6 月，我在密苏里州独立城，当时艾奇逊国务卿打电话给我，告诉我有关入侵朝鲜的消息。
I told the Secretary to lay the matter at once before the United Nations, and I came on back to Washington.
我告诉国务卿立即向联合国提出此事，然后我就回到了华盛顿。
Flying back over the flatlands of the Middle West and over the Appalachians that summer afternoon, I had a lot of time to think.
那个夏天的下午，飞回中西部平原和阿巴拉契亚山脉时，我有很多时间思考。
I turned the problem over in my mind in many ways, but my thoughts kept coming back to the 1930's--to Manchuria, to Ethiopia, the Rhineland, Austria, and finally to Munich.
我在脑海中多次思考这个问题，但我的思绪不断回到1930年代——满洲、埃塞俄比亚、莱茵兰、奥地利，最后回到慕尼黑。
Here was history repeating itself.
历史再次重演。
Here was another probing action, another testing action.
这是另一个探测动作，另一个测试动作。
If we let the Republic of Korea go under, some other country would be next, and then another.
如果我们让大韩民国垮台，下一个就会是其他国家，然后是另一个国家。
And all the time, the courage and confidence of the free world would be ebbing away, just as it did in the 1930's.
自由世界的勇气和信心一直在消退，就像 1930 年代那样。
And the United Nations would go the way of the League of Nations.
联合国将走国际联盟的道路。
When I reached Washington, I met immediately with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and General Bradley, and the other civilian and military officials who had information and advice to help me decide on what to do.
当我到达华盛顿时，我立即会见了国务卿、国防部长、布拉德利将军以及其他文职和军事官员，他们提供的信息和建议可以帮助我决定该怎么做。
We talked about the problems long and hard.
我们对这些问题进行了长时间而艰难的讨论。
We considered those problems very carefully.
我们非常仔细地考虑了这些问题。
It was not easy to make the decision to send American boys again into battle.
让美国男孩再次上战场的决定并不容易做出。
I was a soldier in the First World War, and I know what a soldier goes through.
我是第一次世界大战中的一名士兵，我知道一名士兵所经历的一切。
I know well the anguish that mothers and fathers and families go through.
我非常了解父母和家庭所经历的痛苦。
So I knew what was ahead if we acted in Korea.
所以我知道如果我们在韩国采取行动，未来会发生什么。
But after all this was said, we realized that the issue was whether there would be fighting in a limited area now or on a much larger scale later on--whether there would be some casualties now or many more casualties later.
但话说回来，我们意识到问题在于，现在是在有限的范围内发生战斗，还是以后发生更大规模的战斗，是现在有一些伤亡，还是以后有更多的伤亡。
So a decision was reached--the decision I believe was the most important in my time as President of the United States.
于是做出了一个决定——我认为这是我担任美国总统期间最重要的决定。
In the days that followed, the most heartening fact was that the American people clearly agreed with the decision.
接下来的日子里，最令人振奋的事实是，美国人民明确同意了这一决定。
And in Korea, our men are fighting as valiantly as Americans have ever fought-because they know they are fighting in the same cause of freedom in which Americans have stood ever since the beginning of the Republic.
在朝鲜，我们的士兵像美国人一样英勇地战斗——因为他们知道，他们是在为自由事业而战，而美国人自共和国成立以来就一直为之奋斗。
Where free men had failed the test before, this time we met the test.
以前自由人未能通过考验，而这一次我们通过了考验。
We met it firmly.
我们坚定地相遇了。
We met it successfully.
我们成功地遇到了它。
The aggression has been repelled.
侵略已被击退。
The Communists have seen their hopes of easy conquest go down the drain.
共产党人已经看到他们轻松征服的希望落空了。
The determination of free people to defend themselves has been made clear to the Kremlin.
自由人民保卫自己的决心已经向克里姆林宫表明了。
As I have thought about our worldwide struggle with the Communists these past 8 years--day in and day out--I have never once doubted that you, the people of our country, have the will to do what is necessary to win this terrible fight against communism.
当我在过去的八年里日复一日地思考我们在世界范围内与共产党人的斗争时，我从未怀疑过你们，我们国家的人民，有意愿采取必要行动来赢得这场反对共产主义的可怕斗争。
I know the people of this country have that will and determination, and I have always depended on it.
我知道这个国家的人民有这样的意愿和决心，我一直依赖它。
Because I have been sure of that, I have been able to make necessary decisions even though they called for sacrifices by all of us.
因为我确信这一点，所以我能够做出必要的决定，即使它们需要我们所有人做出牺牲。
And I have not been wrong in my judgment of the American people.
我对美国人民的判断并没有错。
That same assurance of our people's determination will be General Eisenhower's greatest source of strength in carrying on this struggle.
对我们人民决心的同样保证将成为艾森豪威尔将军进行这场斗争的最大力量源泉。
Now, once in a while, I get a letter from some impatient person asking, why don't we get it over with?
现在，偶尔我会收到一些不耐烦的人的来信，问我为什么不把这件事结束呢？
Why don't we issue an ultimatum, make all-out war, drop the atomic bomb?
我们为什么不发出最后通牒，发动全面战争，投下原子弹？
For most Americans, the answer is quite simple: We are not made that way.
对于大多数美国人来说，答案很简单：我们生来不是这样的。
We are a moral people.
我们是有道德的人。
Peace is our goal, with justice and freedom.
和平、正义和自由是我们的目标。
We cannot, of our own free will, violate the very principles that we are striving to defend.
我们不能出于自己的自由意志而违反我们努力捍卫的原则。
The whole purpose of what we are doing is to prevent world war III.
我们所做的一切的全部目的是为了防止第三次世界大战。
Starting a war is no way to make peace.
发动战争并不是缔造和平的方法。
But if anyone still thinks that just this once, bad means can bring good ends, then let me remind you of this: We are living in the 8th year of the atomic age.
但如果有人仍然认为这一次，坏手段可以带来好结果，那么让我提醒你：我们生活在原子时代的第八个年头。
We are not the only nation that is learning to unleash the power of the atom.
我们并不是唯一正在学习释放原子力量的国家。
A third world war might dig the grave not only of our Communist opponents but also of our own society, our world as well as theirs.
第三次世界大战不仅可能为我们的共产主义对手挖坟墓，也可能为我们自己的社会、我们的世界以及他们的世界挖坟墓。
Starting an atomic war is totally unthinkable for rational men.
对于理性的人来说，发动原子战争是完全不可想象的。
Then, some of you may ask, when and how will the cold war end?
那么，有人可能会问，冷战何时结束、如何结束？
I think I can answer that simply.
我想我可以简单地回答这个问题。
The Communist world has great resources, and it looks strong.
共产主义世界资源丰富，看上去也很强大。
But there is a fatal flaw in their society.
但他们的社会有一个致命的缺陷。
Theirs is a godless system, a system of slavery; there is no freedom in it, no consent.
他们的制度是无神论的制度，是奴隶制的制度；其中没有自由，没有同意。
The Iron Curtain, the secret police, the constant purges, all these are symptoms of a great basic weakness--the rulers' fear of their own people.
铁幕、秘密警察、持续的清洗，所有这些都是一个巨大的基本弱点的症状——统治者对自己人民的恐惧。
In the long run the strength of our free society, and our ideals, will prevail over a system that has respect for neither God nor man.
从长远来看，我们自由社会的力量和我们的理想将战胜一个既不尊重上帝也不尊重人的制度。
Last week, in my State of the Union Message to the Congress--and I hope you will all take the time to read it--I explained how I think we will finally win through.
上周，在我向国会发表的国情咨文中——我希望你们都能花时间阅读它——我解释了我认为我们最终将如何获胜。
As the free world grows stronger, more united, more attractive to men on both sides of the Iron Curtain--and as the Soviet hopes for easy expansion are blocked--then there will have to come a time of change in the Soviet world.
随着自由世界变得更加强大、更加团结、对铁幕两边的人们都更具吸引力——并且随着苏联轻松扩张的希望被阻止——那么苏联世界将不得不迎来一个变革的时刻。
Nobody can say for sure when that is going to be, or exactly how it will come about, whether by revolution, or trouble in the satellite states, or by a change inside the Kremlin.
没有人能确切地说出这种情况何时会发生，或者具体如何发生，无论是通过革命，还是卫星国家的麻烦，还是通过克里姆林宫内部的变化。
Whether the Communist rulers shift their policies of their own free will--or whether the change comes about in some other way-I have not a doubt in the world that a change will occur.
无论共产党统治者是否自愿改变政策——或者这种改变是否以其他方式发生——我毫不怀疑世界将会发生改变。
I have a deep and abiding faith in the destiny of free men.
我对自由人的命运有着深刻而持久的信念。
With patience and courage, we shall some day move on into a new era--a wonderful golden age--an age when we can use the peaceful tools that science has forged for us to do away with poverty and human misery everywhere on earth.
凭借耐心和勇气，有一天我们将进入一个新时代——一个美好的黄金时代——一个我们可以利用科学为我们打造的和平工具来消除地球上各地的贫困和人类苦难的时代。
Think what can be done, once our capital, our skills, our science--most of all atomic energy--can be released from the tasks of defense and turned wholly to peaceful purposes all around the world.
想想看，一旦我们的资本、我们的技能、我们的科学——尤其是原子能——能够从防御任务中解放出来，并完全用于世界各地的和平目的，我们能做些什么。
There is no end to what can be done.
可以做的事情是没有止境的。
I can't help but dream out loud just a little here.
我忍不住在这里大声做梦。
The Tigris and Euphrates Valley can be made to bloom as it did in the times of Babylon and Nineveh.
底格里斯河和幼发拉底河谷可以像巴比伦和尼尼微时代那样繁荣。
Israel can be made the country of milk and honey as it was in the time of Joshua.
以色列可以像约书亚时代一样成为奶与蜜的国家。
There is a plateau in Ethiopia some 6,000 to 8,000 feet high, that has 65,000 square miles of land just exactly like the corn belt in northern Illinois.
埃塞俄比亚有一个高约 6,000 至 8,000 英尺的高原，拥有 65,000 平方英里的土地，与伊利诺伊州北部的玉米带一模一样。
Enough food can be raised there to feed a hundred million people.
那里可以生产足够养活一亿人的食物。
There are places in South America--places in Colombia and Venezuela and Brazil-just like that plateau in Ethiopia--places where food could be raised for millions of people.
南美洲的一些地方——哥伦比亚、委内瑞拉和巴西的地方——就像埃塞俄比亚的高原一样——可以为数百万人筹集粮食。
These things can be done, and they are self-liquidating projects.
这些事情是可以做的，而且是自我清算的项目。
If we can get peace and safety in the world under the United Nations, the developments will come so fast we will not recognize the world in which we now live.
如果我们能够在联合国的领导下实现世界的和平与安全，事态的发展将会如此之快，以至于我们将无法承认我们现在生活的世界。
This is our dream of the future--our picture of the world we hope to have when the Communist threat is overcome.
这是我们对未来的梦想——当共产主义威胁被克服时，我们希望拥有的世界图景。
I've talked a lot tonight about the menace of communism--and our fight against it-because that is the overriding issue of our time.
今晚我谈了很多关于共产主义的威胁以及我们反对它的斗争，因为这是我们这个时代最重要的问题。
But there are some other things we've done that history will record.
但我们所做的其他一些事情将被历史记录。
One of them is that we in America have learned how to attain real prosperity for our people.
其中之一是，我们美国已经学会了如何为我们的人民实现真正的繁荣。
We have 62 1/2 million people at work.
我们有 62.5 亿人在工作。
Businessmen, farmers, laborers, white-collar people, all have better incomes and more of the good things of life than ever before in the history of the world.
商人、农民、工人、白领，都比世界历史上任何时候都拥有更好的收入和更多的生活美好事物。
There hasn't been a failure of an insured bank in nearly 9 years.
近九年来，没有一家受保银行倒闭。
No depositor has lost a cent in that period.
在此期间，没有储户损失一分钱。
And the income of our people has been fairly distributed, perhaps more so than at any other time in recent history.
我们人民的收入分配很公平，也许比近代历史上任何时候都更加公平。
We have made progress in spreading the blessings of American life to all of our people.
我们在向全体人民传播美国生活的祝福方面取得了进展。
There has been a tremendous awakening of the American conscience on the great issues of civil rights--equal economic opportunities, equal rights of citizenship, and equal educational opportunities for all our people, whatever their race or religion or status of birth.
美国良心在公民权利的重大问题上有了巨大的觉醒——为我们所有的人民提供平等的经济机会、平等的公民权利和平等的教育机会，无论其种族、宗教或出生状况如何。
So, as I empty the drawers of this desk, and as Mrs. Truman and I leave the White House, we have no regret.
因此，当我清空这张桌子的抽屉，当杜鲁门夫人和我离开白宫时，我们并不后悔。
We feel we have done our best in the public service.
我们觉得我们在公共服务方面已经尽力了。
I hope and believe we have contributed to the welfare of this Nation and to the peace of the world.
我希望并相信我们为这个国家的福祉和世界和平做出了贡献。
When Franklin Roosevelt died, I felt there must be a million men better qualified than I, to take up the Presidential task.
当富兰克林·罗斯福去世时，我觉得一定有一百万人比我更有资格承担总统的任务。
But the work was mine to do, and I had to do it.
但工作是我要做的，我必须做。
And I have tried to give it everything that was in me.
我已经尽力把我的一切都奉献给它。
Through all of it, through all the years that I have worked here in this room, I have been well aware I did not really work alone-that you were working with me.
通过这一切，通过我在这个房间里工作的所有这些年，我很清楚我并不是真正独自工作——你在和我一起工作。
No President could ever hope to lead our country, or to sustain the burdens of this office, save as the people helped with their support.
如果没有人民的支持，任何一位总统都不可能希望领导我们的国家，或者承担这个职位的负担。
I have had that help--you have given me that support--on all our great essential undertakings to build the free world's strength and keep the peace.
在我们建设自由世界的力量和维护和平的所有伟大的基本事业中，我得到了这种帮助——你们给了我这种支持。
Those are the big things.
这些都是大事。
Those are the things we have done together.
这些是我们一起做过的事情。
For that I shall be grateful, always.
为此，我将永远心存感激。
And now, the time has come for me to say good night--and God bless you all.
现在，我该说晚安了——愿上帝保佑你们大家。
Broadcast from the President's office in the White House at 10:30 p.m.
晚上 10 点 30 分从白宫总统办公室播出。
APP Note: The version of this speech published in the Public Papers of the Presidents used the spelling "goodby" rather than "goodbye." The spelling used is not obviously an error although it is relatively uncommon.
APP 注：总统公开文件中发表的这篇演讲的版本使用了拼写“goodby”而不是“goodbye”。尽管相对不常见，但所使用的拼写并不是明显的错误。
Harry S Truman, The President's Farewell Address to the American People Online by Gerhard Peters and John T.
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