I've Been to the Mountaintop -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thank you very kindly, my friends.
非常感谢你们，我的朋友们。
As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.
当我听着拉尔夫·阿伯内西和他雄辩而慷慨的介绍，然后想到我自己时，我想知道他在谈论谁。
It's always good to have your closest friend and associate to say something good about you.
让您最亲密的朋友和同事为您说些好话总是件好事。
And Ralph Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world.
拉尔夫·阿伯内西是我在世界上最好的朋友。
I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning.
尽管有暴风雨警告，我很高兴今晚能在这里见到你们。
You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow.
你表明无论如何你都决心继续下去。
Something is happening in Memphis; something is happening in our world.
孟菲斯正在发生一些事情；我们的世界正在发生一些事情。
And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" I would take my mental flight by Egypt and I would watch God's children in their magnificent trek from the dark dungeons of Egypt through, or rather across the Red Sea, through the wilderness on toward the promised land.
你知道，如果我站在时间的起点，有可能对迄今为止的整个人类历史有一个总体的、全景的看法，全能的上帝对我说：“马丁·路德·金，你想生活在哪个时代？”我会在精神上飞越埃及，看着上帝的孩子们从埃及黑暗的地牢穿过，或者更确切地说穿过红海，穿过旷野，走向应许之地。
And in spite of its magnificence, I wouldn't stop there.
尽管它很宏伟，但我不会就此止步。
I would move on by Greece and take my mind to Mount Olympus.
我会继续前行，途经希腊，然后思念奥林匹斯山。
And I would see Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Euripides and Aristophanes assembled around the Parthenon.
我会看到柏拉图、亚里士多德、苏格拉底、欧里庇得斯和阿里斯托芬聚集在帕台农神庙周围。
And I would watch them around the Parthenon as they discussed the great and eternal issues of reality.
我会在帕特农神庙周围观看他们讨论现实中伟大而永恒的问题。
But I wouldn't stop there.
但我不会就此止步。
I would go on, even to the great heyday of the Roman Empire.
我会继续下去，甚至到罗马帝国的鼎盛时期。
And I would see developments around there, through various emperors and leaders.
我会通过不同的皇帝和领导人看到那里的发展。
But I wouldn't stop there.
但我不会就此止步。
I would even come up to the day of the Renaissance, and get a quick picture of all that the Renaissance did for the cultural and aesthetic life of man.
我什至会回到文艺复兴时期，快速了解文艺复兴为人类文化和审美生活所做的一切。
But I wouldn't stop there.
但我不会就此止步。
I would even go by the way that the man for whom I am named had his habitat.
我什至会顺便说一下，以我的名字命名的那个人有他的栖息地。
And I would watch Martin Luther as he tacked his ninety-five theses on the door at the church of Wittenberg.
我会看着马丁·路德将他的九十五条论纲钉在维滕贝格教堂的门上。
But I wouldn't stop there.
但我不会就此止步。
I would come on up even to 1863, and watch a vacillating President by the name of Abraham Lincoln finally come to the conclusion that he had to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
我什至会一直走到 1863 年，看着一位名叫亚伯拉罕·林肯的犹豫不决的总统最终得出结论，他必须签署《解放奴隶宣言》。
But I wouldn't stop there.
但我不会就此止步。
I would even come up to the early thirties, and see a man grappling with the problems of the bankruptcy of his nation.
我什至会在三十出头的时候，看到一个人正在努力解决国家破产的问题。
And come with an eloquent cry that we have nothing to fear but "fear itself." But I wouldn't stop there.
并大声疾呼，除了“恐惧本身”，我们没有什么可害怕的。但我不会就此止步。
Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy."
奇怪的是，我会对全能的上帝说：“如果你允许我在20世纪下半叶再活几年，我会很高兴。”
Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up.
现在，这是一个奇怪的说法，因为世界已经一团糟了。
The nation is sick.
国家生病了。
Trouble is in the land; confusion all around.
土地上有麻烦；周围一片混乱。
That's a strange statement.
这是一个奇怪的说法。
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
但我知道，不知何故，只有当天足够黑时，你才能看到星星。
And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding.
我看到上帝在二十世纪这个时期的工作方式是人类以某种奇怪的方式做出的回应。
Something is happening in our world.
我们的世界正在发生一些事情。
The masses of people are rising up.
人民群众正在奋起。
And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee -- the cry is always the same: "We want to be free."
今天他们聚集在任何地方，无论是在南非约翰内斯堡；肯尼亚内罗毕；加纳阿克拉；纽约市；佐治亚州亚特兰大；密西西比州杰克逊；或者田纳西州的孟菲斯——口号总是一样的：“我们想要自由。”
And another reason that I'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it.
我很高兴生活在这个时期的另一个原因是，我们被迫到了一个地步，我们将不得不解决人类在历史上一直试图解决的问题，但这些要求并没有迫使他们这样做。
Survival demands that we grapple with them.
生存要求我们与它们搏斗。
Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace.
多年来，人们一直在谈论战争与和平。
But now, no longer can they just talk about it.
但现在，他们已经不能只是说说而已了。
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence.
这个世界不再是暴力与非暴力的选择，而是暴力与非暴力的选择。这是非暴力或不存在。
That is where we are today.
这就是我们今天的处境。
And also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed.
同样在人权革命中，如果不采取行动，而且不尽快采取行动，使世界上有色人种摆脱长期的贫困、长期的伤害和忽视，整个世界就注定要失败。
Now, I'm just happy that God has allowed me to live in this period to see what is unfolding.
现在，我很高兴上帝让我生活在这个时期，看看正在发生的事情。
And I'm happy that He's allowed me to be in Memphis.
我很高兴他允许我来到孟菲斯。
I can remember -- I can remember when Negroes were just going around as Ralph has said, so often, scratching where they didn't itch, and laughing when they were not tickled.
我记得——我记得黑人就像拉尔夫经常说的那样四处走动，在不痒的地方抓挠，在不痒的地方大笑。
But that day is all over.
但那一天已经结束了。
We mean business now, and we are determined to gain our rightful place in God's world.
我们现在是认真的，我们决心在上帝的世界中获得我们应有的地位。
And that's all this whole thing is about.
这就是整个事情的全部内容。
We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody.
我们没有与任何人进行任何消极的抗议和任何消极的争论。
We are saying that we are determined to be men.
我们说我们决心成为男人。
We are determined to be people.
我们决心做人。
We are saying -- We are saying that we are God's children.
我们说——我们说我们是上帝的孩子。
And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
我们是上帝的孩子，我们不必像被迫那样生活。
Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history?
现在，这一切在这段伟大的历史时期意味着什么？
It means that we've got to stay together.
这意味着我们必须呆在一起。
We've got to stay together and maintain unity.
我们必须在一起并保持团结。
You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it.
你知道，每当法老想要延长埃及的奴隶制时期时，他都有一个最喜欢的公式来做到这一点。
What was that?
那是什么？
He kept the slaves fighting among themselves.
他让奴隶们互相争斗。
But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery.
但每当奴隶聚集在一起时，法老的宫廷就会发生一些事情，他不能奴役奴隶。
When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery.
当奴隶们聚集在一起时，那就是摆脱奴隶制的开始。
Now let us maintain unity.
现在让我们保持团结。
Secondly, let us keep the issues where they are.
其次，让我们把问题留在原处。
The issue is injustice.
问题是不公正。
The issue is the refusal of Memphis to be fair and honest in its dealings with its public servants, who happen to be sanitation workers.
问题在于孟菲斯拒绝公平和诚实地对待其公务员，而这些公务员恰好是环卫工人。
Now, we've got to keep attention on that.
现在，我们必须对此保持关注。
That's always the problem with a little violence.
一点点暴力总是会带来问题。
You know what happened the other day, and the press dealt only with the window-breaking.
你知道前几天发生了什么，媒体只报道了窗户被打破的事件。
I read the articles.
我读了这些文章。
They very seldom got around to mentioning the fact that one thousand, three hundred sanitation workers are on strike, and that Memphis is not being fair to them, and that Mayor Loeb is in dire need of a doctor.
他们很少提及这样的事实：一千、三百名环卫工人正在罢工，孟菲斯对他们不公平，勒布市长急需一名医生。
They didn't get around to that.
他们没有抽出时间来解决这个问题。
Now we're going to march again, and we've got to march again, in order to put the issue where it is supposed to be -- and force everybody to see that there are thirteen hundred of God's children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights wondering how this thing is going to come out.
现在我们要再次游行，我们必须再次游行，以便将这个问题放在它应该在的地方——并迫使每个人看到这里有一千三百名上帝的孩子正在受苦，有时挨饿，正在经历黑暗和沉闷的夜晚，想知道这件事将如何发生。
That's the issue.
这就是问题所在。
And we've got to say to the nation: We know how it's coming out.
我们必须对全国说：我们知道结果如何。
For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
因为当人们追随正确的道路并愿意为此做出牺牲时，除了胜利就没有止境。
We aren't going to let any mace stop us.
我们不会让任何狼牙棒阻止我们。
We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
我们是解除警察武装的非暴力运动的大师；他们不知道该怎么办。
I've seen them so often.
我经常见到他们。
I remember in Birmingham, Alabama, when we were in that majestic struggle there, we would move out of the 16th Street Baptist Church day after day; by the hundreds we would move out.
我记得在阿拉巴马州的伯明翰，当我们在那里进行那场雄伟的斗争时，我们会日复一日地搬出第十六街浸信会教堂；数百人我们将搬出。
And Bull Connor would tell them to send the dogs forth, and they did come; but we just went before the dogs singing, "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around."
布尔·康纳会告诉他们把狗送出去，他们确实来了。但我们只是在狗唱着“不会让任何人让我转身”之前走了。
Bull Connor next would say, "Turn the fire hoses on." And as I said to you the other night, Bull Connor didn't know history.
布尔·康纳接下来会说：“打开消防水龙带。”正如我那天晚上对你说的，布尔·康纳不懂历史。
He knew a kind of physics that somehow didn't relate to the transphysics that we knew about.
他知道一种物理学，但不知何故与我们所知道的超物理学无关。
And that was the fact that there was a certain kind of fire that no water could put out.
这就是事实，有某种火是水无法扑灭的。
And we went before the fire hoses; we had known water.
我们走到消防水带前；我们知道水。
If we were Baptist or some other denominations, we had been immersed.
如果我们是浸信会或其他一些教派，我们就已经被浸入水中了。
If we were Methodist, and some others, we had been sprinkled, but we knew water.
如果我们是卫理公会和其他一些人，我们就会被洒水，但我们知道水。
That couldn't stop us.
这并不能阻止我们。
And we just went on before the dogs and we would look at them; and we'd go on before the water hoses and we would look at it, and we'd just go on singing "Over my head I see freedom in the air." And then we would be thrown in the paddy wagons, and sometimes we were stacked in there like sardines in a can.
我们就走到狗前面，看着它们。我们会继续走到水管前，看着它，然后继续唱“在我头顶上，我看到空气中的自由”。然后我们就会被扔进稻谷车里，有时我们就像罐头里的沙丁鱼一样堆在那里。
And they would throw us in, and old Bull would say, "Take 'em off," and they did; and we would just go in the paddy wagon singing, "We Shall Overcome." And every now and then we'd get in jail, and we'd see the jailers looking through the windows being moved by our prayers, and being moved by our words and our songs.
他们会把我们扔进去，老布尔会说，“把他们脱掉”，他们就这么做了；我们就坐在稻车里唱着“我们一定会克服的”。时不时地，我们会进监狱，看到狱卒透过窗户往外看，被我们的祈祷所感动，被我们的话语和歌曲所感动。
And there was a power there which Bull Connor couldn't adjust to; and so we ended up transforming Bull into a steer, and we won our struggle in Birmingham.
那里有一种布尔·康纳无法适应的力量；所以我们最终把公牛变成了公牛，我们赢得了伯明翰的斗争。
Now we've got to go on in Memphis just like that.
现在我们必须在孟菲斯继续这样下去。
I call upon you to be with us when we go out Monday.
当我们周一出去时，我呼吁你和我们在一起。
Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we're going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction.
现在关于禁令：我们有一项禁令，明天早上我们将上法庭反对这项非法、违宪的禁令。
All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions.
我们对美国说的就是“忠实于纸上所说”。如果我生活在中国，甚至俄罗斯，或者任何极权国家，也许我可以理解其中一些非法禁令。
Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there.
也许我可以理解对某些基本第一修正案特权的否认，因为他们在那里没有承诺这样做。
But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly.
但我在某处读到过集会自由。
Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech.
我在某处读到言论自由。
Somewhere I read of the freedom of press.
我在某处读到新闻自由。
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.
我在某处读到，美国的伟大之处在于为正义而抗议的权利。
1 And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around.
1 正如我所说，我们不会让狗或水管改变我们的立场，我们不会让任何禁令改变我们的立场。
We are going on.
我们正在继续。
We need all of you.
我们需要你们所有人。
And you know what's beautiful to me is to see all of these ministers of the Gospel.
你知道，对我来说最美妙的事情就是看到所有这些福音传道人。
It's a marvelous picture.
这是一幅奇妙的图画。
Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher?
谁应该比传教士更能表达人们的渴望和愿望呢？
Somehow the preacher must have a kind of fire shut up in his bones.
不知何故，传教士的骨头里一定有一种火焰。
And whenever injustice is around he tell it.
每当出现不公正现象时，他都会说出来。
Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and saith, "When God speaks who can but prophesy?" Again with Amos, "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." Somehow the preacher must say with Jesus, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me," and he's anointed me to deal with the problems of the poor."
不知何故，传道人一定是阿摩司派，他说：“当神说话时，谁能不发预言呢？”阿莫斯再次说道，“让正义如水滚滚，正义如滔滔江水”。传道人必须以某种方式与耶稣一起说：“主的灵在我身上，因为他膏了我，”并且他膏了我来处理穷人的问题。”
And I want to commend the preachers, under the leadership of these noble men: James Lawson, one who has been in this struggle for many years; he's been to jail for struggling; he's been kicked out of Vanderbilt University for this struggle, but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people.
我要赞扬在这些高尚人士领导下的传道人：詹姆斯·劳森（James Lawson），多年来一直在这场斗争中；他因挣扎而入狱；他因这场斗争而被范德比尔特大学开除，但他仍在继续为人民的权利而战。
Reverend Ralph Jackson, Billy Kiles; I could just go right on down the list, but time will not permit.
拉尔夫·杰克逊牧师、比利·凯尔斯；我可以直接从清单上往下看，但时间不允许。
But I want to thank all of them.
但我要感谢他们所有人。
And I want you to thank them, because so often, preachers aren't concerned about anything but themselves.
我希望你们感谢他们，因为传道人常常只关心自己，不关心任何事情。
And I'm always happy to see a relevant ministry.
我总是很高兴看到相关部门。
It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism.
谈论“那边长长的白袍”的所有象征意义是可以的。
But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here!
但最终人们想要一些西装、连衣裙和鞋子在这里穿！
It's all right to talk about "streets flowing with milk and honey," but God has commanded us to be concerned about the slums down here, and his children who can't eat three square meals a day.
谈论“流着奶与蜜的街道”是可以的，但上帝命令我们要关心这里的贫民窟，以及他的孩子们，他们不能吃一日三餐。
It's all right to talk about the new Jerusalem, but one day, God's preacher must talk about the new New York, the new Atlanta, the new Philadelphia, the new Los Angeles, the new Memphis, Tennessee.
谈论新耶路撒冷是可以的，但是有一天，神的传道人必须谈论新纽约、新亚特兰大、新费城、新洛杉矶、新田纳西州孟菲斯。
This is what we have to do.
这是我们必须要做的。
Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal.
现在我们要做的另一件事是：始终将我们的外部直接行动与经济撤退的力量挂钩。
Now, we are poor people.
现在，我们都是穷人了。
Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America.
就个人而言，当你将我们与美国的白人社会进行比较时，我们是贫穷的。
We are poor.
我们很穷。
Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine.
永远不要停下来忘记，作为一个集体——这意味着我们所有人在一起——我们比世界上除九个国家以外的所有国家都富裕。
Did you ever think about that?
你有想过吗？
After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world.
离开美国、苏联、英国、西德、法国以及我能说出的其他国家之后，美国黑人总体上比世界上大多数国家都富有。
We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada.
我们每年的收入超过三百亿美元，这比美国所有的出口还要多，也比加拿大的国家预算还要多。
Did you know that?
你知道吗？
That's power right there, if we know how to pool it.
如果我们知道如何集中力量，这就是力量。
We don't have to argue with anybody.
我们不必与任何人争论。
We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words.
我们不必咒骂或到处做坏事。
We don't need any bricks and bottles.
我们不需要任何砖块和瓶子。
We don't need any Molotov cocktails.
我们不需要任何燃烧弹。
We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say,
我们只需要走遍这些商店，以及我们国家的这些大型工业，然后说，
"God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right.
“上帝派我们来这里，是为了告诉你，你没有正确对待他的孩子们。
And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned.
我们来这里是要请你们将你们议程上的第一个项目放在公平对待上帝的孩子身上。
Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow.
现在，如果您不准备这样做，我们确实有一个必须遵循的议程。
And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you."
我们的议程要求撤回你们的经济支持。”
And so, as a result of this, we are asking you tonight, to go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis.
因此，因此，我们今晚要求您出去告诉您的邻居不要在孟菲斯购买可口可乐。
Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk.
过去告诉他们不要买 Sealtest 牛奶。
Tell them not to buy -- what is the other bread?
告诉他们不要买——另一个面包是什么？
-- Wonder Bread.
——神奇面包。
And what is the other bread company, Jesse?
杰西，另一家面包公司是什么？
Tell them not to buy Hart's bread.
告诉他们不要买哈特的面包。
As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain; now we must kind of redistribute the pain.
正如杰西·杰克逊所说，到目前为止，只有垃圾工感受到了痛苦；现在我们必须重新分配痛苦。
We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike.
我们选择这些公司是因为他们的招聘政策不公平；我们选择他们是因为他们可以开始表示他们将支持这些罢工者的需求和权利。
And then they can move on town -- downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.
然后他们可以前往城镇 - 市中心并告诉勒布市长做正确的事情。
But not only that, we've got to strengthen black institutions.
但不仅如此，我们还必须加强黑人机构。
I call upon you to take your money out of the banks downtown and deposit your money in Tri-State Bank.
我呼吁您将钱从市中心的银行取出并存入三州银行。
We want a "bank-in" movement in Memphis.
我们希望在孟菲斯开展“银行存款”运动。
Go by the savings and loan association.
前往储蓄和贷款协会。
I'm not asking you something that we don't do ourselves at SCLC.
我并不是在问你一些 SCLC 自己不做的事情。
Judge Hooks and others will tell you that we have an account here in the savings and loan association from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
胡克斯法官和其他人会告诉你，我们在南方基督教领袖会议的储蓄和贷款协会有一个账户。
We are telling you to follow what we are doing.
我们告诉您要遵循我们正在做的事情。
Put your money there.
把你的钱放在那里。
You have six or seven black insurance companies here in the city of Memphis.
孟菲斯市有六七家黑人保险公司。
Take out your insurance there.
在那里拿出你的保险。
We want to have an "insurance-in."
我们希望有一个“保险”。
Now these are some practical things that we can do.
现在这些是我们可以做的一些实际的事情。
We begin the process of building a greater economic base.
我们开始建立更大的经济基础。
And at the same time, we are putting pressure where it really hurts.
与此同时，我们也在真正痛处施加压力。
I ask you to follow through here.
我请你继续看这里。
Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end.
现在，在我得出结论时，请允许我说，我们必须全身心投入这场斗争，直到最后。
Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis.
没有什么比在孟菲斯此时停下来更悲惨的了。
We've got to see it through.
我们必须坚持到底。
And when we have our march, you need to be there.
当我们举行游行时，你需要在那里。
If it means leaving work, if it means leaving school -- be there.
如果这意味着离开工作，如果这意味着离开学校——那就去吧。
Be concerned about your brother.
关心你的兄弟。
You may not be on strike.
你可能没有罢工。
But either we go up together, or we go down together.
但要么我们一起上，要么我们一起下。
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
让我们培养一种危险的无私。
One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life.
有一天，一个人来到耶稣面前，他想就一些人生重大问题提出一些问题。
At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base....
有时他想欺骗耶稣，让他知道他知道的比耶稣多一点，然后让他离开基地……
Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate.
现在，这个问题很容易陷入哲学和神学辩论。
But Jesus immediately pulled that question from mid-air, and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho.
但耶稣立即把这个问题从半空中拉了出来，并将其置于耶路撒冷和耶利哥之间的危险曲线上。
And he talked about a certain man, who fell among thieves.
他谈到了一个人，他落入了盗贼的行列。
You remember that a Levite and a priest passed by on the other side.
你记得有一个利未人和一个祭司从对岸经过。
They didn't stop to help him.
他们没有停下来帮助他。
And finally a man of another race came by.
最后，一个不同种族的人走过来。
He got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy.
他从他的野兽身上下来，决定不再通过代理人来表现同情心。
But he got down with him, administered first aid, and helped the man in need.
但他还是和他一起进行了急救，并帮助了这个有需要的人。
Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the "I" into the "thou," and to be concerned about his brother.
耶稣最后说，这是好人，这是伟人，因为他有能力将“我”投射到“你”中，并关心他的兄弟。
Now you know, we use our imagination a great deal to try to determine why the priest and the Levite didn't stop.
现在你知道了，我们大量地运用我们的想象力来试图确定为什么祭司和利未人没有停下来。
At times we say they were busy going to a church meeting, an ecclesiastical gathering, and they had to get on down to Jerusalem so they wouldn't be late for their meeting.
有时我们说他们正忙着去参加教堂聚会，教会聚会，他们必须前往耶路撒冷，这样他们就不会在聚会上迟到。
At other times we would speculate that there was a religious law that "One who was engaged in religious ceremonials was not to touch a human body twenty-four hours before the ceremony." And every now and then we begin to wonder whether maybe they were not going down to Jerusalem -- or down to Jericho, rather to organize a "Jericho Road Improvement Association." That's a possibility.
有时我们会推测，有一条宗教法规定“参加宗教仪式的人在仪式前二十四小时不得触摸人体”。我们时不时地开始怀疑，他们是否不会去耶路撒冷——或者去杰里科，而是组织一个“杰里科道路改善协会”。这是有可能的。
Maybe they felt that it was better to deal with the problem from the causal root, rather than to get bogged down with an individual effect.
也许他们觉得最好从因果根源来解决问题，而不是陷入个体效应的泥潭。
But I'm going to tell you what my imagination tells me.
但我要告诉你我的想象力告诉我的。
It's possible that those men were afraid.
那些人可能是害怕了。
You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road.
你看，耶利哥路是一条危险的路。
I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem.
我记得金夫人和我第一次来到耶路撒冷时。
We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho.
我们租了一辆车，从耶路撒冷开往耶利哥。
And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, "I can see why Jesus used this as the setting for his parable." It's a winding, meandering road.
我们一踏上那条路，我就对妻子说：“我明白为什么耶稣用这里作为他的比喻的背景了。”这是一条蜿蜒曲折的路。
It's really conducive for ambushing.
实在是太利于伏击了。
You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles -- or rather 1200 feet above sea level.
您从耶路撒冷出发，那里海拔约 1200 英里，或者更准确地说是海拔 1200 英尺。
And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you're about 2200 feet below sea level.
十五或二十分钟后，当您到达杰里科时，您已位于海平面以下约 2200 英尺。
That's a dangerous road.
那是一条危险的路。
In the days of Jesus it came to be known as the "Bloody Pass." And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around.
在耶稣时代，它被称为“血腥通道”。你知道，祭司和利未人可能看着地上的那个人，想知道强盗是否还在附近。
Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking.
又或许，他们觉得地上的那个人只是装的。
And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure.
而且他表现得就像是被抢劫了，被伤害了一样，就是为了抓住他们，引诱他们到那里，以便快速轻松地抓住他们。
And so the first question that the priest asked -- the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by.
所以祭司问的第一个问题——利未人问的第一个问题是，“如果我停下来帮助这个人，我会发生什么？”但随后好心的撒玛利亚人过来了。
And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
他反过来问：“如果我不停下来帮助这个人，他会发生什么？”
That's the question before you tonight.
这是今晚摆在你们面前的问题。
Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to my job.
不是，“如果我停下来帮助环卫工人，我的工作会怎样。
Not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?" The question is not, "If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?" That's the question.
不是，“如果我停下来帮助环卫工人，我作为牧师每天和每周在办公室度过的所有时间会怎样？”问题不是“如果我停下来帮助这个有需要的人，我会发生什么？”问题是，“如果我不停下来帮助环卫工人，他们会怎么样？”这就是问题所在。
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness.
让我们今晚以更加充分的准备站起来。
Let us stand with a greater determination.
让我们以更大的决心站起来。
And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be.
让我们在这些充满力量、充满挑战的日子里继续前进，让美国成为它应有的样子。
We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
我们有机会让美国成为一个更好的国家。
And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.
我想再次感谢上帝允许我和你们在一起。
You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written.
你知道，几年前，我在纽约为我写的第一本书签名。
And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up.
当我坐在那里给书签名时，一位精神错乱的黑人妇女走了过来。
The only question I heard from her was, "Are you Martin Luther King?" And I was looking down writing, and I said, "Yes." And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest.
我从她那里听到的唯一问题是：“你是马丁·路德·金吗？”我低头写着，我说：“是的。”下一分钟我就感觉到有什么东西在我的胸口上跳动。
Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman.
在我意识到之前，我已经被这个疯狂的女人刺伤了。
I was rushed to Harlem Hospital.
我被紧急送往哈莱姆医院。
It was a dark Saturday afternoon.
那是一个漆黑的星期六下午。
And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery.
那片刀片已经穿过了，X射线显示刀片的尖端位于我的主动脉（主动脉）的边缘。
And once that's punctured, your drowned in your own blood -- that's the end of you.
一旦被刺穿，你就会被自己的鲜血淹没——那就是你的终结。
It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had merely sneezed, I would have died.
第二天早上《纽约时报》报道说，如果我只是打喷嚏，我就会死。
Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital.
嗯，大约四天后，他们允许我在手术后，在我的胸腔被打开，刀片被取出后，在医院里坐在轮椅上走动。
They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states and the world, kind letters came in.
他们允许我阅读一些收到的邮件，来自各州和世界各地的善意的来信。
I read a few, but one of them I will never forget.
我读过一些，但其中一本我永远不会忘记。
I had received one from the President and the Vice-President.
我收到了总统和副总统寄来的一封。
I've forgotten what those telegrams said.
我忘了那些电报说了什么。
I'd received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I've forgotten what that letter said.
我收到了纽约州州长的来访和一封信，但我忘记了信中的内容。
But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School.
但还有一封信是来自一个小女孩，一个年轻的女孩，她是怀特普莱恩斯高中的学生。
And I looked at that letter, and I'll never forget it.
我看了那封信，我永远不会忘记它。
It said simply,
它简单地说，
I am a ninth-grade student at the White Plains High School."
我是怀特普莱恩斯高中九年级的学生。”
"While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I'm a white girl.
“虽然这不重要，但我想提一下，我是一个白人女孩。
I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering.
我在报纸上读到了你的不幸和痛苦。
And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died.
我读到如果你打喷嚏，你就会死。
And I'm simply writing you to say that I'm so happy that you didn't sneeze."
我写信给你只是想告诉你，我很高兴你没有打喷嚏。”
And I want to say tonight -- I want to say tonight that I too am happy that I didn't sneeze.
今晚我想说——今晚我想说我也很高兴我没有打喷嚏。
Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters.
因为如果我打喷嚏，1960 年我就不会出现在这里，当时南方各地的学生开始坐在午餐柜台前。
And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
我知道，当他们坐下来时，他们确实是在为美国梦中最好的东西挺身而出，并带领整个国家回到开国元勋们在《独立宣言》和《宪法》中深挖的民主大井。
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1961, when we decided to take a ride for freedom and ended segregation in inter-state travel.
如果我打喷嚏，我就不会在 1961 年来到这里，当时我们决定搭上自由的顺风车，结束了州际旅行中的种族隔离。
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been around here in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up.
如果我打喷嚏，我就不会在 1962 年来到这里，当时佐治亚州奥尔巴尼的黑人决定挺直背部。
And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent.
每当男人和女人挺直背部时，他们就要去某个地方，因为除非你的背部弯曲，否则男人无法骑在你的背上。
If I had sneezed -- If I had sneezed I wouldn't have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill.
如果我打喷嚏——如果我打喷嚏，我就不会在 1963 年来到这里，当时阿拉巴马州伯明翰的黑人唤醒了这个国家的良知，并制定了《民权法案》。
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had.
如果我打了喷嚏，那年晚些时候，即八月，我就没有机会尝试向美国人讲述我的一个梦想。
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great Movement there.
如果我打喷嚏，我就不会去阿拉巴马州塞尔玛观看那里伟大的运动。
If I had sneezed, I wouldn't have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering.
如果我打喷嚏，我就不会在孟菲斯看到围绕那些受苦的兄弟姐妹举行的社区集会。
And they were telling me --.
他们告诉我——。
Now, it doesn't matter, now.
现在，没关系，现在。
It really doesn't matter what happens now.
现在发生什么真的并不重要。
I left Atlanta this morning, and as we got started on the plane, there were six of us.
我今天早上离开亚特兰大，当我们登机时，我们有六个人。
The pilot said over the public address system, "We are sorry for the delay, but we have Dr. Martin Luther King on the plane.
飞行员通过公共广播系统说：“我们对延误感到抱歉，但飞机上有马丁·路德·金博士。
And to be sure that all of the bags were checked, and to be sure that nothing would be wrong with on the plane, we had to check out everything carefully.
为了确保所有行李都经过检查，并确保飞机上不会出现任何问题，我们必须仔细检查所有物品。
And we've had the plane protected and guarded all night." And then I got into Memphis.
我们整晚都对飞机进行了保护和看守。”然后我进入了孟菲斯。
And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out.
有些人开始说出威胁，或者谈论已经发出的威胁。
What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
我们的一些生病的白人兄弟会对我造成什么影响？
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
嗯，我不知道现在会发生什么。
We've got some difficult days ahead.
我们接下来的日子会很艰难。
But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.
但现在这对我来说真的不重要了，因为我已经到过山顶了。
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life.
和其他人一样，我也想长寿。
Longevity has its place.
长寿有它的一席之地。
But I'm not concerned about that now.
但我现在不关心这个。
I just want to do God's will.
我只想遵行上帝的旨意。
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
他允许我上山。
And I've looked over.
我已经看过了。
And I've seen the Promised Land.
我已经看到了应许之地。
I may not get there with you.
我可能无法和你一起到达那里。
But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
但今晚我想让你们知道，我们作为一个民族，一定会到达应许之地！
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!
我的眼睛看见了主再来的荣耀！！
Book/CDs by Michael E.
Michael E. 的书籍/CD
Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008)
艾登米勒 (Eidenmuller)，麦格劳-希尔 (McGraw-Hill) 出版 (2008)
1 Some transcripts represent this textual moment as "rights" instead of "right".
1 一些抄本将这个文本时刻表示为“权利”而不是“正确”。
Four related possibilities, each with two conditions.
四种相关的可能性，每种都有两个条件。
Reverend King: 1) stated "right" but meant "rights" 2) stated and meant "right" 3) stated "rights" but meant "right"; stated and meant "rights".
Reverend King： 1) 表述“正确”，但意思是“权利” 2) 表述并意思是“正确” 3) 表述“权利”，但意思是“正确”；声明并表示“权利”。
Available audio and audio/video is inconclusive on the first condition of each possibility.
可用的音频和音频/视频对于每种可能性的第一个条件是不确定的。
Readers are encouraged to offer opinions/clarifications at: owner@americanrhetoric.com.
我们鼓励读者通过以下方式提出意见/澄清：owner@americanrhetoric.com。
Thanks to S.R.
感谢 S.R.
Gilbert for bringing this matter to my attention.
吉尔伯特让我注意到这件事。
Also in this database : Martin Luther King, Jr: "I Have a Dream"
此数据库中还有：马丁·路德·金：“我有一个梦想”
Audio Source : Linked directly to the Internet Archive External Link : http://www.thekingcenter.org/ Page Updated : 1/18/25 U.S. Copyright Status : Text and Images = Restricted, seek permission.
音频来源：直接链接到互联网档案馆 外部链接：http://www.thekingcenter.org/ 页面更新：1/18/25 美国版权状态：文本和图像 = 受限，寻求许可。
Copyright inquiries and permission requests may be directed to: Intellectual Properties Management (IPM), the exclusive licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. at permissions@ipmlicensing.com or 404-526-8968.
版权查询和许可请求可发送至：Intellectual Properties Management (IPM)，马丁·路德·金遗产公司的独家许可方，邮箱为permissions@ipmlicensing.com，电话：404-526-8968。
� Copyright 2001-Present.
� 版权所有 2001 年至今。
American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。
HTML transcription by Joseph M.
HTML 转录由 Joseph M.
Yarbrough & Michael E.
亚伯勒和迈克尔·E.
Eidenmuller.
艾登米勒。