The Crisis -- Carrie Chapman Catt
delivered 7 September 1916, Atlanta, Georgia
1916 年 9 月 7 日交付于佐治亚州亚特兰大
I have taken for my subject, "The Crisis," because I believe that a crisis has come in our movement which, if recognized and the opportunity seized with vigor, enthusiasm and will, means the final victory of our great cause in the very near future.
我选择“危机”作为我的主题，因为我相信我们的运动已经出现了一场危机，如果我们认识到这一危机，并以活力、热情和意志抓住机遇，就意味着我们伟大事业在不久的将来取得最终胜利。
I am aware that some suffragists do not share this belief; they see no signs nor symptoms today which were not present yesterday; no manifestations in the year 1916 which differ significantly from those in the year 1910.
我知道一些妇女参政论者并不认同这一信念。他们今天没有看到昨天没有出现的迹象或症状； 1916 年的表现与 1910 年没有显着不同。
To them, the movement has been a steady, normal growth from the beginning and must so continue until the end.
对他们来说，这场运动从一开始就是稳定、正常的增长，并且必须持续到最后。
I can only defend my claim with the plea that it is better to imagine a crisis where none exists than to fail to recognize one when it comes; for a crisis is a culmination of events which calls for new considerations and new decisions.
我只能通过这样的请求来捍卫我的主张：想象一场不存在的危机比在危机到来时没有意识到要好；因为危机是一系列事件的高潮，需要新的考虑和新的决定。
A failure to answer the call may mean an opportunity lost, a possible victory postponed.
未能响应号召可能意味着失去机会，可能的胜利被推迟。
The object of the life of an organized movement is to secure its aim.
有组织的运动的生命目标是确保其目标。
Necessarily, it must obey the law of evolution and pass through the stages of agitation and education and finally through the stage of realization.
必然要遵循进化的规律，经过鼓动、教育的阶段，最后经过实现的阶段。
As one has put it: "A new idea floats in the air over the heads of the people and for a long, indefinite period evades their understanding but, by and by, when through familiarity, human vision grows clearer, it is caught out of the clouds and crystallized into law." Such a period comes to every movement and is its crisis.
正如有人所说：“一种新的想法漂浮在人们头顶的空气中，在很长一段时间里，人们无法理解它，但是，渐渐地，当通过熟悉，人类的视野变得更加清晰时，它就会从云端被捕捉到并结晶为法律。”每一个运动都会经历这样一个时期，也是它的危机。
In my judgment, that crucial moment, bidding us to renewed consecration and redoubled activity has come to our cause.
根据我的判断，那个要求我们重新奉献和加倍活动的关键时刻已经到来。
I believe our victory hangs within our grasp, inviting us to pluck it out of the clouds and establish it among the good things of the world.
我相信我们的胜利就在我们的掌握之中，邀请我们将它从云端中拉出来，并将其跻身于世界美好事物之列。
If this be true, the time is past when we should say: "Men and women of America, look upon that wonderful idea up there; see, one day it will come down." Instead, the time has come to shout aloud in every city, village and hamlet, and in tones so clear and jubilant that they will reverberate from every mountain peak and echo from shore to shore: "The woman's Hour has struck." Suppose suffragists as a whole do not believe a crisis has come and do not extend their hands to grasp the victory, what will happen?
如果这是真的，那么我们应该说：“美国的男男女女，看看上面那个美妙的想法；看，有一天它会落下来的时候已经过去了。”相反，现在是时候在每个城市、村庄和小村庄大声喊叫了，声音如此清晰和欢腾，以至于它们会在每一个山峰上回响，从一岸到另一岸回响：“女人的时刻已经到来。”假设整个选举权主义者不相信危机已经到来，也不伸出双手去抓住胜利，会发生什么？
Why, we shall all continue to work and our cause will continue to hang, waiting for those who possess a clearer vision and more daring enterprise.
所以，我们都要继续努力，我们的事业将继续悬垂，等待着那些拥有更清晰的视野和更大胆进取的人。
On the other hand, suppose we reach out with united earnestness and determination to grasp our victory while it still hangs a bit too high?
另一方面，假设我们以团结的热忱和决心，在胜利还悬在高处的时候抓住胜利呢？
Has any harm been done?
有没有造成任何伤害？
None!
没有任何！
Therefore, fellow suffragists, I invite your attention to the signs which point to a crisis and your consideration of plans for turning the crisis into victory.
因此，妇女参政论者们，我请你们注意危机的迹象，并考虑将危机转化为胜利的计划。
First, we are passing through a world crisis.
首先，我们正在经历一场世界危机。
All thinkers of every land tell us so; and that nothing after the great war will be as it was before.
世界各地的所有思想家都这样告诉我们；大战结束后一切都将不再像以前那样。
Those who profess to know, claim that 100 millions of dollars are being spent on the war every day and that 2 years of war have cost 50 billions of dollars or 10 times more than the total expense of the American Civil War.
那些自称知道的人声称，每天在战争上花费1亿美元，两年的战争花费了500亿美元，是美国内战总费用的10倍。
Our own country has sent 35 millions of dollars abroad for relief expenses.
我们国家已经向国外提供了3500万美元的救灾费用。
Were there no other effects to come from the world's war, the transfer of such unthinkably vast sums of money from the usual avenues to those wholly abnormal would give so severe a jolt to organized society that it would vibrate around the world and bring untold changes in its wake.
如果世界大战没有产生其他影响，那么将如此难以想象的巨额资金从通常的渠道转移到完全不正常的渠道，将会给有组织的社会带来如此严重的震动，以至于它会震动全世界，并带来难以言喻的变化。
But three and a half millions of lives have been lost.
但三百五十万人丧生。
The number becomes the more impressive when it is remembered that the entire population of the American Colonies was little more than three and one-half millions.
当我们想起美洲殖民地的总人口不过三百五十万时，这个数字就变得更加令人印象深刻。
These losses have been the lives of men within the age of economic production.
这些损失是经济生产时代人们的生命。
They have been taken abruptly from the normal business of the world and every human activity from that of the humblest, unskilled labor to art, science and literature has been weakened by their loss.
他们突然从世界的正常事务中被夺走，从最卑微的非熟练劳动到艺术、科学和文学的每一项人类活动都因他们的丧失而受到削弱。
Millions of other men will go to their homes, blind, crippled and incapacitated to do the work they once performed.
数以百万计的失明、残废和无能力的人将回到家中从事他们曾经从事的工作。
The stability of human institutions has never before suffered so tremendous a shock.
人类制度的稳定性从未遭受过如此巨大的冲击。
Great men are trying to think out the consequences but one and all proclaim that no imagination can find color or form bold enough to paint the picture of the world after the war.
伟人试图思考后果，但所有人都宣称，没有任何想象力能够找到足够大胆的色彩或形式来描绘战后世界的图景。
British and Russian, German and Austrian, French and Italian agree that it will lead to social and political revolution throughout the entire world.
英国和俄罗斯、德国和奥地利、法国和意大利一致认为，它将导致全世界的社会和政治革命。
Whatever comes, they further agree that the war presages a total change in the status of women.
无论发生什么，她们都进一步认为，战争预示着妇女地位的彻底改变。
A simple-minded man in West Virginia, when addressed upon the subject of woman suffrage in that State, replied, "We've been so used to keepin' our women down, 'twould seem queer not to." He expressed what greater men feel but do not say.
西弗吉尼亚州一位头脑简单的男子在谈到该州妇女选举权的问题时回答说：“我们已经习惯了压制我们的妇女，不这样做似乎很奇怪。”他表达了伟大人物的感受但没有说出来。
Had the wife of that man spoken in the same clear-thinking fashion, she would have said, "We women have been so used to being kept down that it would seem strange to get up.
如果那个男人的妻子也以同样清晰的方式说话，她一定会说：“我们女人已经习惯了被压制，站起来似乎很奇怪。
Nature intended women for door-mats." Had she so expressed herself, these two would have put the entire anti-suffrage argument in a nut-shell.
大自然希望女性成为门垫。”如果她如此表达自己的话，这两个人就会把整个反选举权争论概括为一句话。
In Europe, from the Polar Circle to the Aegean Sea, women have risen as though to answer that argument.
在欧洲，从极圈到爱琴海，女性的崛起似乎是为了回答这个论点。
Everywhere they have taken the places made vacant by men and in so doing, they have grown in self-respect and in the esteem of their respective nations.
无论到哪里，他们都取代了人类所空出的位置，通过这样做，他们的自尊和各自国家的尊重都得到了增长。
In every land, the people have reverted to the primitive division of labor and while the men have gone to war, women have cultivated the fields in order that the army and nation may be fed.
在每一个土地上，人们都恢复了原始的分工，当男人去打仗时，女人则耕种田地，以便养活军队和国家。
No army can succeed and no nation can endure without food; those who supply it are a war power and a peace power.
没有粮食，军队就不能成功；没有粮食，民族就不能生存；提供它的国家是战争国家和和平国家。
Women by the thousands have knocked at the doors of munition factories and, in the name of patriotism, have begged for the right to serve their country there.
成千上万的妇女敲开了军火工厂的大门，以爱国主义的名义，乞求在那里为国家服务的权利。
Their services were accepted with hesitation but the experiment once made, won reluctant but universal praise.
他们的服务被犹豫地接受了，但实验一旦进行，就赢得了不情愿但普遍的赞誉。
An official statement recently issued in Great Britain announced that 660,000 women were engaged in making munitions in that country alone.
英国最近发表的一份官方声明宣布，仅在该国就有 660,000 名妇女从事军火制造。
In a recent convention of munition workers, composed of men and women, a resolution was unanimously passed informing the government that they would forego vacations and holidays until the authorities announced that their munition supplies were sufficient for the needs of the war and Great Britain pronounced the act the highest patriotism.
在最近一次由男女组成的军火工人大会上，一致通过了一项决议，通知政府，他们将放弃休假和假期，直到当局宣布他们的军火供应足以满足战争的需要，并且英国宣布这一行为是最高的爱国主义。
Lord Derby addressed such a meeting and said, "When the history of the war is written, I wonder to whom the greatest credit will be given; to the men who went to fight or to the women who are working in a way that many people hardly believed that it was possible for them to work." Lord Sydenham added his tribute.
德比勋爵在一次会议上发表讲话说：“当战争历史被书写时，我想知道谁将获得最大的荣誉；那些参加战斗的男人，还是那些以一种许多人几乎不相信他们有可能工作的方式工作的妇女。”西德纳姆勋爵也表达了他的敬意。
Said he, "It might fairly be claimed that women have helped to save thousands of lives and to change the entire aspect of the war.
他说：“可以公平地说，妇女帮助拯救了数千人的生命，并改变了战争的整个方面。
Wherever intelligence, care and close attention have been needed, women have distinguished themselves." A writer in the London Times of July 18, 1916, said: "But, for women, the armies could not have held the field for a month; the national call to arms could not have been made or sustained; the country would have perished of inanition and disorganization.
凡是需要智慧、关怀和密切关注的地方，女性都能脱颖而出。” 1916 年 7 月 18 日《伦敦泰晤士报》的一位撰稿人说道：“但是，对于女性来说，军队不可能在战场上坚守一个月；全国的武装号召不可能发出或维持；国家将会因缺乏和组织混乱而灭亡。
If, indeed, it be true that the people have been one, it is because the genius of women has been lavishly applied to the task of reinforcing and complementing the genius of men.
如果说人民真的是一体的话，那是因为女性的天才被大量地运用到了加强和补充男性天才的任务中。
The qualities of steady industry, adaptability, good judgment and concentration of mind which men do not readily associate with women have been conspicuous features."
稳定的勤奋、适应能力、良好的判断力和专注力这些品质是男性不易与女性联系起来的，但这些品质却是女性的显着特征。”
On fields of battle, in regular and improvised hospitals, women have given tender and skilled care to the wounded and are credited with the restoration of life to many, heroism and self-sacrifice have been frankly acknowledged by all the governments; but their endurance, their skill, the practicality of their service, seem for the first time, to have been recognized by governments as "war power".
在战场上，在正规医院和临时医院中，妇女为伤员提供了温柔而熟练的护理，并被认为使许多人恢复了生命，英雄主义和自我牺牲精神得到了各国政府的坦率认可；但他们的耐力、技能和服务的实用性似乎第一次被各国政府承认为“战争力量”。
So, thinking in war terms, great men have suddenly discovered that women are "war assets".
因此，从战争的角度思考，伟人突然发现女性是“战争资产”。
Indeed, Europe is realizing, as it never did before, that women are holding together the civilization for which men are fighting.
事实上，欧洲前所未有地认识到，女性正在维系男性为之奋斗的文明。
A great search-light has been thrown upon the business of nation-building and it has been demonstrated in every European land that it is a partnership with equal, but different responsibilities resting upon the two partners.
国家建设事业受到了极大的关注，欧洲每一片土地都表明，这是一种伙伴关系，两个伙伴承担着平等但不同的责任。
It is not, however, in direct war work alone that the latent possibilities of women have been made manifest.
然而，妇女的潜在潜力并不仅仅在直接的战争工作中得到了体现。
In all the belligerent lands, women have found their way to high posts of administration where no women would have been trusted two years ago and the testimony is overwhelming that they have filled their posts with entire satisfaction to the authorities.
在所有交战地区，妇女都找到了担任高级管理职位的途径，而两年前，没有妇女会信任这些职位，而且压倒性的证据表明，她们的任职令当局完全满意。
They have dared to stand in pulpits (once too sacred to be touched by the unholy feet of a woman) and there, without protest, have appealed to the Father of All in behalf of their stricken lands.
他们敢于站在讲坛上（曾经太神圣了，不能被女人邪恶的脚触碰），并毫无抗议地代表他们受灾的土地向万有之父呼吁。
They have come out of the kitchen where there was too little to cook and have found a way to live by driving cabs, motors and streetcars.
他们走出了没有多少东西可以做饭的厨房，找到了靠驾驶出租车、汽车和有轨电车谋生的方式。
Many a woman has turned her hungry children over to a neighbor and has gone forth to find food for both mothers and both families of children and has found it in strange places and occupations.
许多妇女将饥饿的孩子交给邻居，然后出去为母亲和孩子的家庭寻找食物，并在陌生的地方和职业中找到食物。
Many a drawing-room has been closed and the maid who swept and dusted it is now cleaning streets that the health of the city may be conserved.
许多客厅已经关闭，负责清扫和除尘的女仆现在正在清洁街道，以维护城市的健康。
Many a woman who never before slept in a bed of her own making, or ate food not prepared by paid labor, is now sole mistress of parlor and kitchen.
许多以前从未睡过自己做的床、吃过非有偿劳动准备的食物的妇女，现在成了客厅和厨房的唯一女主人。
In all the warring countries, women are postmen [sic], porters, railway conductors, ticket, switch and signal men.
在所有交战国家，妇女担任邮递员、搬运工、铁路售票员、售票员、转辙员和信号员。
Conspicuous advertisements invite women to attend agricultural, milking and motor-car schools.
引人注目的广告邀请妇女去农业、挤奶和汽车学校上学。
They are employed as police in Great Britain and women detectives have recently been taken on the government staff.
她们在英国担任警察，最近也有女侦探被任命为政府工作人员。
In Berlin, there are over 3,000 women streetcar conductors and 3,500 women are employed on the general railways.
在柏林，有超过 3,000 名女性有轨电车售票员，3,500 名女性在普通铁路上工作。
In every city and country, women are doing work for which they would have been considered incompetent two years ago.
在每个城市和国家，女性正在从事两年前被认为无法胜任的工作。
The war will soon end and the armies will return to their native lands.
战争很快就会结束，军队也将返回故土。
To many a family, the men will never come back.
对于许多家庭来说，男人再也不会回来了。
The husband who returns to many a wife, will eat no bread the rest of his life save of her earning.
一个丈夫若回到许多妻子身边，他的余生除了妻子的收入外将没有面包吃。
What then, will happen after the war?
那么，战后会发生什么呢？
Will the widows left with families to support cheerfully leave their well-paid posts for those commanding lower wages?
那些需要养家糊口的寡妇会高高兴兴地离开高薪职位，转而去寻找工资较低的人吗？
Not without protest!
并非没有抗议！
Will the wives who now must support crippled husbands give up their skilled work and take up the occupations which were open to them before the war?
现在必须赡养残疾丈夫的妻子们会放弃她们的熟练工作并从事战前对她们开放的职业吗？
Will they resignedly say: "The woman who has a healthy husband who can earn for her, has a right to tea and raisin cake, but the woman who earns for herself and a husband who has given his all to his country, must be content with butterless bread?"
他们会无奈地说：“拥有一个健康的丈夫，能为自己挣钱的女人，有权喝茶和葡萄干蛋糕，但为自己挣钱的女人和一个为国家奉献一切的丈夫，就必须满足于没有黄油的面包吗？”
On the contrary, the economic axiom, denied and evaded for centuries, will be blazoned on every factory, counting house and shop: "Equal pay for equal work"; and common justice will slowly, but surely enforce that law.
相反，几个世纪以来一直被否认和回避的经济公理将在每家工厂、包括房屋和商店中得到印记：“同工同酬”；共同正义将缓慢但肯定地执行该法律。
The European woman has risen.
欧洲女人崛起了。
She may not realize it yet, but the woman "door-mat" in every land has unconsciously become a "door-jamb"!
她可能还没有意识到，每个地方的女人“门垫”，不知不觉中已经变成了“门框”！
She will have become accustomed to her new dignity by the time the men come home.
当男人们回家时，她就会习惯她新的尊严。
She will wonder how she ever could have been content lying across the threshold now that she discovers the upright jamb gives so much broader and more normal a vision of things.
她会想知道，既然她发现直立的门框给了人们如此广阔、更加正常的视野，那么她怎么可能满足于躺在门槛上。
The men returning may find the new order a bit queer but everything else will be strangely unfamiliar too, and they will soon grow accustomed to all the changes together.
回来的人可能会觉得新秩序有点奇怪，但其他一切也会奇怪地陌生，他们很快就会习惯所有的变化。
The "jamb" will never descend into a "door-mat" again.
“门框”再也不会变成“门垫”了。
The male and female anti-suffragists of all lands will puff and blow at the economic change which will come to the women of Europe.
世界各地的男性和女性反妇女权主义者都会对欧洲女性即将面临的经济变革吹嘘不已。
They will declare it to be contrary to Nature and to God's plan and that somebody ought to do something about it.
他们会宣称这违背了自然和上帝的计划，并且应该有人对此采取行动。
Suffragists will accept the change as the inevitable outcome of an unprecedented world's cataclysm over which no human agency had any control and will trust in God to adjust the altered circumstances to the eternal evolution of human society.
妇女参政论者将接受这一变化，将其视为史无前例的世界灾难的必然结果，而人类机构对此没有任何控制权，并相信上帝会调整改变的环境，以适应人类社会的永恒进化。
They will remember that in the long run, all things work together for good, for progress and for human weal.
他们会记住，从长远来看，万事齐心协力，造福人类、进步和人类福祉。
The economic change is bound to bring political liberty.
经济变革必然带来政治自由。
From every land, there comes the expressed belief that the war will be followed by a mighty, oncoming wave of democracy for it is now well known that the conflict has been one of governments, of kings and Czars, Kaisers and Emperors; not of peoples.
每个国家都表达了这样的信念：战争之后将会掀起一股强大的、即将到来的民主浪潮，因为现在众所周知，这场冲突是政府之间、国王与沙皇、皇帝与皇帝之间的冲突；不是人民的。
The nations involved have nearly all declared that they are fighting to make an end of wars.
相关国家几乎都宣称他们正在为结束战争而奋斗。
New and higher ideals of governments and of the rights of the people under them, have grown enormously during the past two years.
过去两年里，政府及其人民的权利的新的、更高的理想得到了极大的发展。
Another tide of political liberty, similar to that of 1848, but of a thousandfold greater momentum, is rising from battlefield and hospital, from camp and munitions factory, from home and church which, great men of many lands, tell us, is destined to sweep over the world.
另一场政治自由的浪潮，与1848年的浪潮相似，但势头要大上千倍，正在从战场和医院、营地和军火工厂、家庭和教堂升起，许多国家的伟人告诉我们，这场浪潮注定要席卷全世界。
On the continent, the women say, "It is certain that the vote will come to men and women after the war, perhaps not immediately but soon.
在非洲大陆，妇女们说：“可以肯定的是，战后男性和女性都会投票，也许不是立即，但很快。
In Great Britain, which was the storm centre of the suffrage movement for some years before the war, hundreds of bitter, active opponents have confessed their conversion on account of the war services of women.
在英国，战前几年一直是选举权运动的风暴中心，数百名激烈的反对者承认，由于妇女参战，她们转变了信仰。
Already, three great provinces of Canada, Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchawan [sic], have given universal suffrage to their women in sheer generous appreciation of their war work.
加拿大的三个大省，马尼托巴省、阿尔伯塔省和萨斯喀彻温省[原文如此]，已经给予妇女普选权，纯粹是出于对她们战争工作的慷慨赞赏。
Even Mr. Asquith, world renowned for his immovable opposition to the Parliamentary suffrage for British women, has given evidence of a change of view.
就连因坚决反对英国妇女获得议会选举权而闻名于世的阿斯奎斯先生也已经给出了观点改变的证据。
Some months ago, he announced his amazement at the utterly unexpected skill, strength and resource developed by the women and his gratitude for their loyalty and devotion.
几个月前，他宣布对这些女性所展现的完全出乎意料的技能、力量和资源感到惊讶，并对她们的忠诚和奉献表示感谢。
Later, in reply to Mrs. Henry Fawcett, who asked if woman suffrage would be included in a proposed election bill, he said that when the war should end, such a measure would be considered without prejudice carried over from events prior to the war.
后来，在回答亨利·福塞特夫人询问妇女选举权是否会纳入拟议的选举法案时，他说，当战争结束时，将在不影响战前事件的情况下考虑采取这样的措施。
A public statement issued by Mr. Asquith in August, was couched in such terms as to be interpreted by many as a pledge to include women in the next election bill.
阿斯奎斯先生八月份发表的公开声明的措辞被许多人解读为承诺将妇女纳入下一次选举法案中。
In Great Britain, a sordid appeal which may prove the last straw to break the opposition to woman suffrage, has been added to the enthusiastic appreciation of woman's patriotism and practical service and to the sudden comprehension that motherhood is a national asset which must be protected at any price.
在英国，一种肮脏的呼吁可能成为压垮反对妇女选举权的最后一根稻草，它增加了对妇女爱国主义和实际服务的热情赞赏，也增加了人们突然认识到母性是必须不惜一切代价保护的国家资产。
A new voters' list is contemplated.
正在考虑制定新的选民名单。
A parliamentary election should be held in September but the voters are scattered far and wide.
议会选举应该在九月举行，但选民却分散得很远。
The whole nation is agitated over the questions involved in making a new register.
全国人民都对制定新登记册所涉及的问题感到不安。
At the same time, there is a constant anxiety over war funds, as is prudent in a nation spending 50 millions of dollars per day.
与此同时，人们对战争资金一直存在担忧，这对于一个每天花费 5000 万美元的国家来说是谨慎的做法。
It has been proposed that a large poll tax be assessed upon the voters of the new lists, whereupon a secondary proposal of great force has been offered and that is, that twice as much money would find its way into the public coffers were women added to the voters' list.
有人提议对新名单上的选民征收大额人头税，随后又提出了一项强有力的第二项提议，即如果将妇女列入选民名单，公共金库将获得两倍的资金。
What nation, with compliments fresh spoken concerning women's patriotism and efficiency, could resist such an appeal?
哪个国家对妇女的爱国主义和效率不断表示赞赏，能够抗拒这样的呼吁呢？
So it happens that above the roar of cannon, the scream of shrapnel and the whirr of aeroplanes, one who listens may hear the cracking of the fetters which have long bound the European woman to outworn conventions.
因此，在大炮的轰鸣声、弹片的尖叫声和飞机的呼呼声中，倾听的人可能会听到长期将欧洲妇女束缚在陈旧习俗中的枷锁的断裂声。
It has been a frightful price to pay but the fact remains that a womanhood, well started on the way to final emancipation, is destined to step forth from the war.
这是一个可怕的代价，但事实仍然是，一个在最终解放之路上起步良好的女性注定要走出战争。
It will be a bewildered, troubled and grief-stricken womanhood with knotty problems of life to solve, but it will be freer to deal with them than women have ever been before.
这将是一个困惑、困扰和悲伤的女性时代，需要解决生活中的棘手问题，但处理这些问题将比以前的女性更自由。
"The Woman's Hour has struck." It has struck for the women of Europe and for those of all the world.
“女人的时刻已经到来。”这对欧洲和全世界的女性来说都是一个打击。
The significance of the changed status of European women has not been lost upon the men and women of our land; our own people are not so unlearned in history, nor so lacking in National pride that they will allow the Republic to lag long behind the Empire, presided over by the descendant of George the Third.
我们这片土地上的男人和女人并没有忽视欧洲妇女地位变化的重要性。我们自己的人民在历史上并没有那么无知，也没有那么缺乏民族自豪感，以至于他们会让共和国远远落后于乔治三世后裔所领导的帝国。
If they possess the patriotism and the sense of nationality which should be the inheritance of an American, they will not wait until the war is ended but will boldly lead in the inevitable march of democracy, our own American specialty.
如果他们拥有美国人应该继承的爱国主义和民族意识，他们就不会等到战争结束，而是勇敢地领导不可避免的民主进程，这是我们美国自己的特长。
Sisters, let me repeat, the Woman's Hour has struck!
姐妹们，让我再说一遍，女人的时刻已经到来！
Second, as the most adamantine rock gives way under the constant dripping of water, so the opposition to woman suffrage in our own country has slowly disintegrated before the increasing strength of our movement.
其次，正如最坚硬的岩石会在不断的滴水下崩塌一样，我们国内反对妇女选举权的声音在我们运动的力量日益增强之前已经慢慢瓦解了。
Turn backward the pages of our history!
把我们的历史翻过去！
Behold, brave Abbie Kelley rotten-egged because she, a woman, essayed to speak in public.
看哪，勇敢的艾比·凯利（Abbie Kelley）因为她作为一个女人而试图在公共场合发表演讲，所以她是个烂鸡蛋。
Behold the Polish Ernestine Rose startled that women of free America drew aside their skirts when she proposed that they should control their own property.
波兰人欧内斯汀·罗斯（Ernestine Rose）惊讶地发现，当自由美国的妇女建议她们应该控制自己的财产时，她把裙子拉到一边。
Recall the saintly Lucretia Mott and the legal-minded Elizabeth Cady Stanton, turned out of the World's Temperance convention in London and conspiring together to free their sex from the world's stupid oppressions.
回想一下圣洁的卢克丽霞·莫特和具有法律意识的伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿，他们退出了伦敦的世界禁酒大会，并共同密谋将她们的性别从世界上愚蠢的压迫中解放出来。
Remember the gentle, sweet-voiced Lucy Stone, egged because she publicly claimed that women had brains capable of education.
还记得温柔、声音甜美的露西·斯通(Lucy Stone)，因为她公开声称女性拥有能够受教育的大脑，所以受到怂恿。
Think upon Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, snubbed and boycotted by other women because she proposed to study medicine.
想想伊丽莎白·布莱克威尔博士，因为她提议学习医学而受到其他女性的冷落和抵制。
Behold Dr. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, standing in sweet serenity before an Assembly of howling clergymen, angry that she, a woman dared to attend a Temperance Convention as a delegate.
看看安托瓦内特·布朗·布莱克威尔博士，她甜蜜而平静地站在一群嚎叫的牧师面前，对她这个女人竟敢作为代表参加禁酒大会感到愤怒。
Revere the intrepid Susan B.
尊敬勇敢的 Susan B.
Anthony mobbed from Buffalo to Albany because she demanded fair play for women.
安东尼从布法罗围攻到奥尔巴尼，因为她要求女性公平竞争。
These are they who builded with others the foundation of political liberty for American women.
她们与其他人一起为美国妇女的政治自由奠定了基础。
Those who came after only laid the stones in place.
后来的人只是把石头放在适当的位置。
Yet, what a wearisome task even that has been!
然而，即便如此，这也是一项多么令人厌烦的任务啊！
Think of the wonderful woman who has wandered from village to village, from city to city, for a generation compelling men and women to listen and to reflect by her matchless eloquence.
想想这位出色的女性，她从一个村庄到另一个村庄，从一个城市到另一个城市，用她无与伦比的口才吸引了一代人的男人和女人去倾听和反思。
Where in all the world's history has any movement among men produced so invincible an advocate as our own Dr. Anna Howard Shaw?
世界历史上哪个地方的人类运动产生了像我们的安娜·霍华德·肖博士这样无敌的倡导者？
Those whom she has led to the light are Legion.
她带领的人们走向了光明，他们就是军团。
Think, too, of the consecration, the self-denial, the never-failing constancy of that other noble soul set in a frail but unflinching body -- the heroine we know as Alice Stone Blackwell!
还要想想，在脆弱但毫不畏缩的身体中，还有另一个高贵的灵魂——我们称之为爱丽丝·斯通·布莱克威尔（Alice Stone Blackwell）的女英雄——的奉献、克己和永不言败的坚定！
A woman who never forgets, who detects the slightest flaw in the weapons of her adversary, who knows the most vulnerable spot in his armor, presides over the Woman's Journal and, like a lamp in a lighthouse, the rays of her intelligence, farsightedness and clear-thinking have enlightened the world concerning our cause.
一位永远不会忘记的女性，她能发现对手武器中最细微的缺陷，她知道对手盔甲上最脆弱的地方，她主持《妇女杂志》，就像灯塔上的一盏灯一样，她的智慧、远见和清晰的思维光芒照亮了世界关于我们的事业。
The names of hundreds of other brave souls spring to memory when we pause to review the long struggle.
当我们停下来回顾这场长期斗争时，数百名其他勇敢灵魂的名字浮现在我们的记忆中。
The hands of many suffrage master-masons have long been stilled; the names of many who laid the stones have been forgotten.
许多选举权大师泥瓦匠的手早已停了下来。许多奠基者的名字已被遗忘。
That does not matter.
那没关系。
The main thing is that the edifice of woman's liberty nears completion.
最重要的是，妇女自由的大厦即将竣工。
It is strong, indestructible.
它很坚固，坚不可摧。
All honor to the thousands who have helped in the building.
向为这座建筑提供帮助的数千名人们致以崇高敬意。
The four Corner-stones of the foundations were laid long years ago.
根基的四块基石是多年前就奠定的。
We read upon the first: "We demand for women education, for not a high school or college is open to her"; upon the second, "We demand for women religious liberty for in few churches is she permitted to pray or speak"; upon the third, "We demand for women the right to own property and an opportunity to earn an honest living.
我们读到第一条：“我们要求女性接受教育，因为没有一所高中或大学向她开放”；第二个，“我们要求妇女享有宗教自由，因为很少有教堂允许她祈祷或讲话”；第三，“我们要求妇女拥有财产的权利和诚实谋生的机会。
Only six, poorly-paid occupations are open to her, and if she is married, the wages she earns are not hers"; upon the fourth, "We demand political freedom and its symbol, the vote."
只有六种低薪职业对她开放，如果她结婚了，她赚的工资就不是她的了”；第四个，“我们要求政治自由及其象征——投票权。”
The stones in the foundation have long been overgrown with the moss and mould of time, and some there are who never knew they were laid.
地基上的石头早已长满了青苔和霉菌，有些人根本不知道它们已经被铺设了。
Of late, four cap-stones at the top have been set to match those in the base, and we read upon the first: "The number of women who are graduated from high schools, colleges and universities is legion"; upon the second, "The Christian Endeavor, that mighty, undenominational church militant, asks the vote for the women and the Methodist Episcopal Church, and many another, joins that appeal"; upon the third, "Billions of dollars worth of property are earned and owned by women; more than 8 millions of women are wage-earners.
最近，顶部的四个顶石已被设置为与底部的顶石相匹配，我们读到第一个：“从高中、学院和大学毕业的女性人数众多”；第二个是“基督教奋进会，那个强大的、非宗派的教会激进分子，要求为妇女投票，卫理公会圣公会和许多其他教会也加入了这一呼吁”；第三条：“价值数十亿美元的财产是由妇女赚取和拥有的；超过 800 万妇女是工薪阶层。
Every occupation is open to them"; upon the fourth: "Women vote in 12 States; they share in the determination of 91 electoral votes."
每一个职业都向他们开放”；第四条：“妇女在 12 个州投票；她们共同决定 91 张选举人票。”
After the cap-stones and cornice comes the roof.
顶石和檐口之后是屋顶。
Across the empty spaces, the rooftree has been flung and fastened well in place.
屋顶树已被扔到空旷的地方并固定到位。
It is not made of stone but of two planks -- planks in the platform of the two majority parties, and these are well supported by planks in the platforms of all minority parties.
它不是石头做的，而是两块木板——两个多数党纲领中的木板，并且得到所有少数党纲领中的木板的有力支持。
And we who are the builders of 1916, do we see a crisis?
作为 1916 年的建设者，我们是否看到了危机？
Standing upon these planks which are stretched across the top-most peak of this edifice of woman's liberty, what shall we do?
站在这些横跨妇女自由大厦最高峰的木板上，我们该怎么办？
Over our heads, up there in the clouds, but tantalizingly near, hangs the roof of our edifice -- the vote.
在我们的头顶上方，在云端，但又近在咫尺，悬挂着我们大厦的屋顶——投票。
What is our duty?
我们的职责是什么？
Shall we spend time in admiring the capstones and cornice?
我们要花时间欣赏顶石和檐口吗？
Shall we lament the tragedies which accompanied the laying of the cornerstones?
我们是否应该为奠基石所发生的悲剧哀叹？
or, shall we, like the builders of old, chant, "Ho!
或者，我们是否应该像古代的建设者一样高呼：“嗬！
all hands, all hands, heave to!
所有的手，所有的手，举起手来！
All hands, heave to!" and while we chant, grasp the overhanging roof and with a long pull, a strong pull and a pull together, fix it in place forevermore?
全体手，举起！”当我们吟诵时，抓住悬垂的屋顶，用长拉、强力拉和拉在一起，将其永远固定到位？
Is the crisis real or imaginary?
这场危机是真实的还是想象的？
If it be real, it calls for action, bold, immediate and decisive.
如果这是真的，就需要采取大胆、立即和果断的行动。
Let us then take measure of our strength.
那么让我们衡量一下我们的实力。
Our cause has won the endorsement of all political parties.
我们的事业得到了各政党的支持。
Every candidate for the presidency is a suffragist.
每一位总统候选人都是选举权主义者。
It has won the endorsement of most churches; it has won the hearty approval of all great organizations of women.
赢得了大多数教会的认可；它赢得了所有伟大妇女组织的衷心认可。
It was won the support of all reform movements; it has won the progressives of every variety.
它赢得了所有改革运动的支持；它赢得了各个品种的进步。
The majority of the press in most States is with us.
大多数州的大多数媒体都支持我们。
Great men in every political party, church and movement are with us.
每个政党、教会和运动中的伟人都与我们同在。
The names of the greatest men and women of art, science, literature and philosophy, reform, religion and politics are on our lists.
艺术、科学、文学和哲学、改革、宗教和政治领域最伟大的男女的名字都在我们的名单上。
We have not won the reactionaries of any party, church or society, and we never will.
我们没有赢得任何政党、教会或社会的反动派的支持，我们也永远不会。
From the beginning of things, there have been Antis.
从一开始，就有安蒂斯。
The Antis drove Moses out of Egypt; they crucified Christ who said, "Love thy neighbor as thyself"; they have persecuted Jews in all parts of the world; they poisoned Socrates, the great philosopher; they cruelly persecuted Copernicus and Galileo, the first great scientists; they burned Giordano Bruno at the stake because he believed the world was round; they burned Savonarola who warred upon church corruption; they burned Eufame McIlyane because she used an anaesthetic; they burned Joan d'Arc for a heretic; they have sent great men and women to Siberia to eat their hearts out in isolation; they burned in effigy William Lloyd Garrison; they egged Abbie Kelley and Lucy Stone and mobbed Susan B.
安蒂斯人将摩西赶出了埃及；他们把基督钉在十字架上，基督说：“爱人如己”；他们在世界各地迫害犹太人；他们毒害了伟大的哲学家苏格拉底；他们残酷地迫害了最早的伟大科学家哥白尼和伽利略；他们把佐丹奴布鲁诺烧死在火刑柱上，因为他相信世界是圆的；他们烧死了反对教会腐败的萨沃纳罗拉；他们烧死了尤法梅·麦克伊利亚恩，因为她使用了麻醉剂；他们以异端罪名烧死了圣女贞德；他们派遣伟大的男女前往西伯利亚，在与世隔绝的环境中煎熬他们的心；他们焚烧了威廉·劳埃德·加里森的肖像；他们怂恿艾比·凯利和露西·斯通，并围攻苏珊·B.
Anthony.
安东尼.
Yet, in proportion to the enlightenment of their respective ages, these Antis were persons of intelligence and honest purpose.
然而，与他们各自时代的启蒙程度相比，这些安提人都是聪明而诚实的人。
They were merely deaf to the call of Progress and were enraged because the world insisted upon moving on.
他们只是对进步的号召充耳不闻，并因为世界坚持前进而感到愤怒。
Antis male and female there still are and will be to the end of time.
反之，男性和女性仍然存在，并且将会存在到时间的尽头。
Give to them a prayer of forgiveness for they know not what they do; and prepare for the forward march.
为他们祈祷，宽恕他们，因为他们不知道自己在做什么；并为前进做好准备。
We have not won the ignorant and illiterate and we never can.
我们没有赢得无知和文盲，而且永远也不能。
They are too undeveloped mentally to understand that the institutions of today are not those of yesterday nor will be those of tomorrow.
他们的心智太不发达，无法理解今天的机构不是昨天的机构，也不会是明天的机构。
We have not won the forces of evil and we never will.
我们还没有战胜邪恶势力，而且永远也不会。
Evil has ever been timorous and suspicious of all change.
邪恶对一切变化总是胆怯和怀疑。
It is an instinctive act of self-preservation which makes it fear and consequently oppose votes for women.
这是一种本能的自我保护行为，使其害怕并因此反对女性投票。
As the Hon.
作为阁下。
Champ Clark said the other day: "Some good and intelligent people are opposed to woman suffrage; but all the ignorant and evil-minded are against it."
钱普·克拉克日前表示：“一些善良而聪明的人反对妇女选举权；但所有无知和邪恶的人都反对。”
These three forces are the enemies of our cause.
这三种力量是我们事业的敌人。
Before the vote is won, there must and will be a gigantic final conflict between the forces of progress, righteousness and democracy and the forces of ignorance, evil and reaction.
在投票获胜之前，进步、正义、民主的力量与无知、邪恶、反动的力量之间必然会发生一场巨大的最终冲突。
That struggle may be postponed, but it cannot be evaded or avoided.
这场斗争可以推迟，但无法回避或避免。
There is no question as to which side will be the victor.
哪一方将成为胜利者是毫无疑问的。
Shall we play the coward, then, and leave the hard knocks for our daughters, or shall we throw ourselves into the fray, bare our own shoulders to the blows, and thus bequeath to them a politically liberated womanhood?
那么，我们应该扮演胆小鬼，把沉重的打击留给我们的女儿们，还是应该投身于战斗，裸露自己的肩膀承受打击，从而给她们留下政治上解放的女性气质？
We have taken note of our gains and of our resources!
我们已经注意到我们的收获和我们的资源！
and they are all we could wish.
这就是我们所希望的一切。
Before the final struggle, we must take cognizance of our weaknesses.
在最后的斗争之前，我们必须认识到自己的弱点。
Are we prepared to grasp the victory?
我们准备好迎接胜利了吗？
Alas, no!
唉，不！
our movement is like a great Niagara with a vast volume of water tumbling over its ledge but turning no wheel.
我们的运动就像一座巨大的尼亚加拉瀑布，大量的水从其壁架上翻滚，但轮子却没有转动。
Our organized machinery is set for the propagandistic stage and not for the seizure of victory.
我们的组织机构是为宣传舞台而设置的，而不是为夺取胜利而设置的。
Our supporters are spreading the argument for our cause; they feel no sense of responsibility for the realization of our hopes.
我们的支持者正在为我们的事业传播论据；他们对实现我们的希望没有任何责任感。
Our movement lacks cohesion, organization, unity and consequent momentum.
我们的运动缺乏凝聚力、组织、团结和随之而来的动力。
Behind us, in front of us, everywhere about us are suffragists -- millions of them, but inactive and silent.
在我们身后，在我们面前，我们周围到处都是妇女参政主义者——有数以百万计的人，但他们不活跃、沉默。
They have been "agitated and educated" and are with us in belief.
他们受到了“鼓动和教育”，并且相信我们。
There are thousands of women who have at one time or another been members of our organization but they have dropped out because, to them the movement seemed negative and pointless.
有成千上万的女性曾经是我们组织的成员，但她们退出了，因为对她们来说，这场运动似乎是消极的、毫无意义的。
Many have taken up other work whose results were more immediate.
许多人开始从事其他工作，其结果更为立竿见影。
Philanthropy, charity, work for corrective laws of various kinds, temperance, relief for working women and numberless similar public services have called them.
慈善事业、慈善事业、各种纠正法律的工作、禁酒、对职业妇女的救济以及无数类似的公共服务都被称为它们。
Others have turned to the pleasanter avenues of clubwork, art or literature.
其他人则转向更令人愉快的俱乐部工作、艺术或文学途径。
There are thousands of other women who have never learned of the earlier struggles of our movement.
还有成千上万的其他妇女从未了解我们运动的早期斗争。
They found doors of opportunity open to them on every side.
他们发现机会之门四面八方向他们敞开。
They found well-paid posts awaiting the qualified woman and they have availed themselves of all these blessings; almost without exception they believe in the vote but they feel neither gratitude to those who opened the doors through which they have entered to economic liberty nor any sense of obligation to open other doors for those who come after.
他们找到了高薪职位等待着合格的女人，并且他们利用了所有这些祝福。他们几乎无一例外地相信投票，但他们既不感谢那些为他们打开通往经济自由之门的人，也不觉得有义务为后来者打开其他大门。
There are still others who, timorously looking over their shoulders to see if any listeners be near, will tell us they hope we will win and win soon but they are too frightened of Mother Grundy to help.
还有一些人，胆怯地回头看看附近是否有听众，他们会告诉我们，他们希望我们能赢，而且很快就会赢，但他们太害怕格伦迪妈妈了，无法提供帮助。
There are others too occupied with the small things of life to help.
还有一些人太忙于生活中的小事，无暇提供帮助。
They say they could find time to vote but not to work for the vote.
他们说他们可以抽出时间投票，但不必为投票而工作。
There are men, too, millions of them, waiting to be called.
还有数以百万计的人在等待召唤。
These men and women are our reserves.
这些男人和女人是我们的后备力量。
They are largely unorganized and untrained soldiers with little responsibility toward our movement.
他们大多是无组织且未经训练的士兵，对我们的运动几乎不承担任何责任。
Yet these reserves must be mobilized.
然而，必须动员这些储备。
The final struggle needs their numbers and the momentum those numbers will bring.
最后的斗争需要他们的人数以及这些人数所带来的动力。
Were never another convert made, there are suffragists enough in this country, if combined, to make so irresistible a driving force that victory might be seized at once.
如果再没有人皈依，这个国家就有足够多的妇女参政主义者，如果他们联合起来，就会形成一股不可抗拒的推动力，可以立即夺取胜利。
How can it be done?
怎么办呢？
By a simple change of mental attitude.
通过简单的心理态度的改变。
If we are to seize the victory, that change must take place in this hall, here and now!
如果我们要取得胜利，这种改变就必须在这个大厅、此时此地发生！
The old belief, which has sustained suffragists in many an hour of discouragement, "woman suffrage is bound to come," must give way to the new, "The Woman's Hour has struck." The long drawn out struggle, the cruel hostility which, for years was arrayed against our cause, have accustomed suffragists to the idea of indefinite postponement but eventual victory.
“妇女选举权必然到来”这一旧信念，让妇女参政论者度过了许多灰心丧气的时刻，但现在必须让位于“妇女的时刻已经到来”这一新信念。多年来针对我们事业的长期斗争和残酷敌意，使妇女参政论者习惯了无限期推迟但最终取得胜利的想法。
The slogan of a movements sets its pace.
运动的口号决定了运动的节奏。
The old one counseled patience; it said, there is plenty of time; it pardoned sloth and half-hearted effort.
老者劝告要有耐心；上面说，时间还很充裕；它原谅懒惰和半心半意的努力。
It set the pace of an educational campaign.
它确定了教育活动的节奏。
The "Woman's Hour has struck" sets the pace of a crusade which will have its way.
“女人的时刻已经来临”，这为一场十字军东征奠定了基础。
It says: "Awake, arise, my sisters, let your hearts be filled with joy -- the time of victory is here.
它说：“醒来，起来，我的姐妹们，让你们的心充满喜悦——胜利的时刻已经到来。
Onward March."
前进三月。”
If you believe with me that a crisis has come to our movement -- if you believe that the time for final action is now, if you catch the rosy tints of the coming day, what does it mean to you?
如果你和我一样相信我们的运动已经面临危机——如果你相信现在是采取最后行动的时候了，如果你抓住了未来一天的乐观色彩，这对你意味着什么？
Does it not give you a thrill of exaltation; does the blood not course more quickly through your veins; does it not bring a new sense of freedom, of joy and of determination?
难道它不会给你带来一种兴奋的兴奋吗？血液在你的静脉中流动不是更快吗？难道它不会带来一种新的自由感、喜悦感和决心感吗？
Is it not true that you who wanted a little time ago to lay down the work because you were weary with long service, now, under the compelling influence of a changed mental attitude, are ready to go on until the vote is won.
你刚才因为厌倦了长期的服务而想放下工作，现在在精神态度改变的强烈影响下，准备继续工作，直到赢得选票，这不是真的吗？
The change is one of spirit!
改变是精神上的改变！
Aye, and the spiritual effect upon you will come to others.
是的，对你的精神影响也会对其他人产生影响。
Let me borrow an expression from Honorable John Finlay: What our great movement needs now is a "mobilization of spirit" -- the jubilant, glad spirit of victory.
借用约翰·芬莱阁下的一句话：我们伟大的运动现在需要的是“精神动员”——欢腾、高兴的胜利精神。
Then let us sound a bugle call here and now to the women of the Nation: "The Woman's Hour has struck." Let the bugle sound from the suffrage headquarters of every State at the inauguration of a State campaign.
那么，让我们此时此地向全国女性吹响号角：“女性的时刻已经到来。”让号角在州竞选开始时从每个州的选举总部吹响。
Let the call go forth again and, again and yet again.
让呼唤一次又一次地发出来。
Let it be repeated in every article written, in every speech made, in every conversation held.
让它在每一篇文章、每一次演讲、每一次谈话中重复出现。
Let the bugle blow again and yet again.
让号角一次又一次地吹响。
The Political emancipation of our sex calls you: Women of America, arise!
我们性别的政治解放呼唤你们：美国女性，起来！
Are you content that others shall pay the price of your liberty?
你是否满足于其他人为你的自由付出代价？
Women in schools and counting house, in shops and on the farm, women in the home with babes at their breasts and women engaged in public careers will hear.
学校、账房、商店和农场里的妇女、怀着婴儿的家庭妇女以及从事公共事业的妇女都会听到。
The veins of American women are not filled with milk and water.
美国女性的血管里充满的不是牛奶和水。
They are neither cowards nor slackers.
他们既不是胆小鬼，也不是懒鬼。
They will come.
他们会来的。
They only await the bugle call to learn that the final battle is on.
他们只等号角吹响，就知道最后的战斗已经开始。
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American Rhetoric.
美国修辞学。