1980 DNC Address -- Edward Moore Kennedy

1980 Democratic National Concession Address

1980 年民主党全国选战演说

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Thanks very much, Barbara Mikulski, for your very eloquent, your eloquent introduction.

非常感谢芭芭拉·米库斯基 (Barbara Mikulski) 雄辩的介绍。

Distinguished legislator, great spokeswoman for economic democracy and social justice in this country, I thank you for your eloquent introduction.

尊敬的立法者、这个国家经济民主和社会正义的伟大代言人，我感谢您雄辩的介绍。

Well, things worked out a little different from the way I thought, but let me tell you, I still love New York.

好吧，事情的发展与我想象的有点不同，但让我告诉你，我仍然喜欢纽约。

My fellow Democrats and my fellow Americans, I have come here tonight not to argue as a candidate but to affirm a cause.

我的民主党同胞和美国同胞们，今晚我来这里不是为了作为候选人辩论，而是为了确认一项事业。

I'm asking you -- I am asking you to renew the commitment of the Democratic Party to economic justice.

我要求你们重申民主党对经济正义的承诺。

I am asking you to renew our commitment to a fair and lasting prosperity that can put America back to work.

我请求你们重申我们对公平和持久繁荣的承诺，以使美国重返工作岗位。

This is the cause that brought me into the campaign and that sustained me for nine months across a 100,000 miles in 40 different states.

这就是我参加竞选的原因，也是我在 9 个月的时间里在 40 个不同的州行驶 100,000 英里的原因。

We had our losses, but the pain of our defeats is far, far less than the pain of the people that I have met.

我们有过损失，但我们失败所带来的痛苦远远小于我所遇到的人所承受的痛苦。

We have learned that it is important to take issues seriously, but never to take ourselves too seriously.

我们了解到，认真对待问题很重要，但永远不要太认真地对待自己。

The serious issue before us tonight is the cause for which the Democratic Party has stood in its finest hours, the cause that keeps our Party young and makes it, in the second century of its age, the largest political Party in this republic and the longest lasting political Party on this planet.

今晚摆在我们面前的严重问题是民主党在其最辉煌时期所坚持的事业，是使我们党保持年轻并使其在其成立的第二个世纪里成为这个共和国最大的政党和这个星球上最长寿的政党的事业。

Our cause has been, since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the cause of the common man and the common woman.

自托马斯·杰斐逊时代以来，我们的事业一直是普通男人和普通女人的事业。

Our commitment has been, since the days of Andrew Jackson, to all those he called "the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers." On this foundation we have defined our values, refined our policies, and refreshed our faith.

自安德鲁·杰克逊时代以来，我们的承诺一直是针对所有他所说的“社会中卑微的成员——农民、机械师和工人”。在此基础上，我们明确了价值观、完善了政策、更新了信念。

Now I take the unusual step of carrying the cause and the commitment of my campaign personally to our national convention.

现在，我采取了不同寻常的步骤，将我的竞选事业和承诺带到我们的全国代表大会上。

I speak out of a deep sense of urgency about the anguish and anxiety I have seen across America.

我对我在美国各地看到的痛苦和焦虑怀有深深的紧迫感。

I speak out of a deep belief in the ideals of the Democratic Party, and in the potential of that Party and of a President to make a difference.

我的发言是出于对民主党理想的坚定信念，以及对该党和总统做出改变的潜力的坚定信念。

And I speak out of a deep trust in our capacity to proceed with boldness and a common vision that will feel and heal the suffering of our time and the divisions of our Party.

我的发言是出于对我们有能力大胆前行和共同愿景的深深信任，这种共同愿景将感受到并弥合我们时代的苦难和我们党的分歧。

The economic plank of this platform on its face concerns only material things, but it is also a moral issue that I raise tonight.

这个平台的经济支柱表面上只涉及物质问题，但我今晚提出的也是一个道德问题。

It has taken many forms over many years.

多年来它采取了多种形式。

In this campaign and in this country that we seek to lead, the challenge in 1980 is to give our voice and our vote for these fundamental democratic principles.

在这场竞选活动中以及在我们寻求领导的这个国家中，1980 年的挑战是为这些基本民主原则表达我们的声音并投票。

Let us pledge that we will never misuse unemployment, high interest rates, and human misery as false weapons against inflation.

让我们承诺，我们永远不会滥用失业、高利率和人类苦难作为对抗通货膨胀的虚假武器。

Let us pledge that employment will be the first priority of our economic policy.

让我们承诺，就业将是我们经济政策的首要任务。

Let us pledge that there will be security for all those who are now at work, and let us pledge that there will be jobs for all who are out of work; and we will not compromise on the issues of jobs.

让我们保证所有正在工作的人都会有保障，让我们保证所有失业的人都会有工作；我们不会在就业问题上妥协。

These are not simplistic pledges.

这些并不是简单的承诺。

Simply put, they are the heart of our tradition, and they have been the soul of our Party across the generations.

简而言之，他们是我们传统的核心，是我们党历代以来的灵魂。

It is the glory and the greatness of our tradition to speak for those who have no voice, to remember those who are forgotten, to respond to the frustrations and fulfill the aspirations of all Americans seeking a better life in a better land.

为那些没有声音的人发声、记住那些被遗忘的人、回应挫折并满足所有美国人在更美好的土地上寻求更美好生活的愿望，是我们传统的荣耀和伟大。

We cannot let the great purposes of the Democratic Party become the bygone passages of history.

我们不能让民主党的伟大宗旨成为历史的过去。

We must not permit the Republicans to seize and run on the slogans of prosperity.

我们决不能允许共和党人抓住繁荣的口号，并以此为口号。

We heard the orators at their convention all trying to talk like Democrats.

我们听到大会上的演讲者都试图像民主党人一样说话。

They proved that even Republican nominees can quote Franklin Roosevelt to their own purpose.

他们证明，即使是共和党候选人也可以引用富兰克林·罗斯福的话来达到自己的目的。

The Grand Old Party thinks it has found a great new trick, but 40 years ago an earlier generation of Republicans attempted the same trick.

老党认为自己找到了一个伟大的新伎俩，但40年前，上一代共和党人就尝试过同样的伎俩。

And Franklin Roosevelt himself replied, "Most Republican leaders have bitterly fought and blocked the forward surge of average men and women in their pursuit of happiness.

富兰克林·罗斯福本人回答说：“大多数共和党领导人都曾苦苦挣扎，阻碍了普通男女追求幸福的前进。

Let us not be deluded that overnight those leaders have suddenly become the friends of average men and women."

我们不要误以为，一夜之间，这些领导人突然变成了普通男女的朋友。”

"You know," he continued, "very few of us are that gullible." And four years later when the Republicans tried that trick again, Franklin Roosevelt asked, "Can the Old Guard pass itself off as the New Deal?

“你知道，”他继续说道，“我们当中很少有人那么容易受骗。”四年后，当共和党再次尝试这一伎俩时，富兰克林·罗斯福问道：“老卫士能否冒充新政？

I think not.

我认为不是。

We have all seen many marvelous stunts in the circus, but no performing elephant could turn a handspring without falling flat on its back."

我们在马戏团里都看过许多奇妙的特技，但表演的大象不可能在转动手翻时不摔倒在背上。”

The 1980 Republican convention was awash with crocodile tears for our economic distress, but it is by their long record and not their recent words that you shall know them.

1980 年的共和党全国代表大会充满了鳄鱼为我们的经济困境而流下的眼泪，但你应该通过他们长期的记录而不是他们最近的言论来了解他们。

The same Republicans who are talking about the crisis of unemployment have nominated a man who once said, and I quote, "Unemployment insurance is a prepaid vacation plan for freeloaders." And that nominee is no friend of labor.

谈论失业危机的共和党人提名了一个人，他曾经说过，我引用一下，“失业保险是为贪图便宜者提供的预付假期计划。”这位提名人并不是工党的朋友。

The same Republicans who are talking about the problems of the inner cities have nominated a man who said, and I quote, "I have included in my morning and evening prayers every day the prayer that the Federal Government not bail out New York." And that nominee is no friend of this city and our great urban centers across this nation.

谈论内城区问题的共和党人提名了一位人士，他说：“我每天早上和晚上的祈祷中都祈祷联邦政府不要救助纽约。”这位提名者不是这座城市和我们全国伟大城市中心的朋友。

The same Republicans who are talking about security for the elderly have nominated a man who said just four years ago that "Participation in social security should be made voluntary." And that nominee is no friend of the senior citizens of this nation.

谈论老年人保障的共和党人提名了一位男子，他在四年前曾表示“参与社会保障应该是自愿的”。那个被提名者不是这个国家的老年人的朋友。

The same Republicans who are talking about preserving the environment have nominated a man who last year made the preposterous statement, and I quote, "Eighty percent of our air pollution comes from plants and trees." And that nominee is no friend of the environment.

谈论保护环境的共和党人提名了一位去年发表了荒谬言论的人，我引用的话，“我们百分之八十的空气污染来自植物和树木。”这位被提名者并不是环境的朋友。

And the same Republicans who are invoking Franklin Roosevelt have nominated a man who said in 1976, and these are his exact words, "Fascism was really the basis of the New Deal." And that nominee whose name is Ronald Reagan has no right to quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

援引富兰克林·罗斯福的同一批共和党人还提名了一位在 1976 年说过的人，这正是他的原话：“法西斯主义确实是新政的基础。”这位名叫罗纳德·里根的提名人无权引用富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福的话。

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past.

我们的对手提供的伟大冒险是一次回到过去的旅程。

Progress is our heritage, not theirs.

进步是我们的遗产，而不是他们的。

What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

对我们民主党人来说正确的事情也是民主党获胜的正确方法。

The commitment I seek is not to outworn views but to old values that will never wear out.

我追求的不是对过时的观点的承诺，而是对永远不会过时的旧价值观的承诺。

Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures.

程序有时可能会过时，但公平的理想永远存在。

Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue.

情况可能会改变，但同情心的工作必须继续下去。

It is surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them, but it is also correct that we dare not throw out our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference.

花钱解决不了问题固然是对的，但我们不敢把民族问题扔到不关心、漠不关心的废墟上，这也是对的。

The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs.

穷人可能不符合政治潮流，但他们并非没有人类的需求。

The middle class may be angry, but they have not lost the dream that all Americans can advance together.

中产阶级可能会愤怒，但他们并没有失去所有美国人都能共同进步的梦想。

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

1980年，我们人民的要求不是缩小政府或扩大政府，而是要求更好的政府。

Some say that government is always bad and that spending for basic social programs is the root of our economic evils.

有人说政府总是不好的，基本社会项目的支出是我们经济罪恶的根源。

But we reply: The present inflation and recession cost our economy 200 billion dollars a year.

但我们的回答是：目前的通货膨胀和经济衰退每年给我们的经济造成2000亿美元的损失。

We reply: Inflation and unemployment are the biggest spenders of all.

我们的回答是：通货膨胀和失业是最大的支出。

The task of leadership in 1980 is not to parade scapegoats or to seek refuge in reaction, but to match our power to the possibilities of progress.

1980年领导层的任务不是寻找替罪羊或在反动派中寻求庇护，而是使我们的力量与进步的可能性相匹配。

While others talked of free enterprise, it was the Democratic Party that acted and we ended excessive regulation in the airline and trucking industry, and we restored competition to the marketplace.

当其他人谈论自由企业时，是民主党采取了行动，我们结束了对航空和货运业的过度监管，并恢复了市场竞争。

And I take some satisfaction that this deregulation legislation that I sponsored and passed in the Congress of the United States.

我对我发起并在美国国会通过的这项放松管制立法感到满意。

As Democrats we recognize that each generation of Americans has a rendezvous with a different reality.

作为民主党人，我们认识到每一代美国人都会面对不同的现实。

The answers of one generation become the questions of the next generation.

一代人的答案成为下一代人的问题。

But there is a guiding star in the American firmament.

但美国的天空中有一颗指路之星。

It is as old as the revolutionary belief that all people are created equal, and as clear as the contemporary condition of Liberty City and the South Bronx.

它与人人生而平等的革命信念一样古老，与自由城和南布朗克斯的当代状况一样清晰。

Again and again Democratic leaders have followed that star and they have given new meaning to the old values of liberty and justice for all.

民主党领导人一次又一次地追随这颗星星，他们为所有人的自由和正义的旧价值观赋予了新的含义。

We are the Party -- We are the Party of the New Freedom, the New Deal, and the New Frontier.

我们是党——我们是新自由、新政和新前沿的党。

We have always been the Party of hope.

我们一直是希望之党。

So this year let us offer new hope, new hope to an America uncertain about the present, but unsurpassed in its potential for the future.

因此，今年让我们为目前不确定但未来潜力无与伦比的美国带来新的希望。

To all those who are idle in the cities and industries of America let us provide new hope for the dignity of useful work.

让我们为所有在美国城市和工业中无所事事的人提供新的希望，让他们获得有用工作的尊严。

Democrats have always believed that a basic civil right of all Americans is that their right to earn their own way.

民主党人始终认为，所有美国人的基本公民权利是他们以自己的方式谋生的权利。

The Party of the people must always be the Party of full employment.

人民的党必须始终是充分就业的党。

To all those who doubt the future of our economy, let us provide new hope for the reindustrialization of America.

对于所有怀疑我们经济未来的人，让我们为美国的再工业化提供新的希望。

And let our vision reach beyond the next election or the next year to a new generation of prosperity.

让我们的愿景超越下一次选举或明年，实现新一代的繁荣。

If we could rebuild Germany and Japan after World War II, then surely we can reindustrialize our own nation and revive our inner cities in the 1980's.

如果我们能够在二战后重建德国和日本，那么我们一定能够在 1980 年代实现我们国家的再工业化并复兴我们的内城区。

To all those who work hard for a living wage let us provide new hope that their price of their employment shall not be an unsafe workplace and a death at an earlier age.

对于所有为维持生活工资而努力工作的人，让我们提供新的希望，让他们的就业代价不会是不安全的工作场所和早逝。

To all those who inhabit our land from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf stream waters, let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers, and the natural resources that are the greatest gift of this continent.

对于所有居住在我们土地上的人们，从加利福尼亚州到纽约岛，从红木森林到墨西哥湾流水域，让我们提供新的希望，即繁荣不能通过毒害空气、河流和自然资源来换取，而这些是这片大陆最伟大的礼物。

We must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit a land which they can truly call America the beautiful.

我们必须坚持让我们的子孙后代继承一块他们可以真正称之为美丽的美国的土地。

To all those who see the worth of their work and their savings taken by inflation, let us offer new hope for a stable economy.

对于所有看到自己的工作和储蓄被通货膨胀夺走的价值的人们，让我们为稳定的经济带来新的希望。

We must meet the pressures of the present by invoking the full power of government to master increasing prices.

我们必须充分利用政府权力来控制不断上涨的物价，以应对当前的压力。

In candor, we must say that the Federal budget can be balanced only by policies that bring us to a balanced prosperity of full employment and price restraint.

坦率地说，我们必须说，联邦预算只能通过使我们实现充分就业和价格限制的平衡繁荣的政策来平衡。

And to all those overburdened by an unfair tax structure, let us provide new hope for real tax reform.

对于所有因不公平税收结构而负担过重的人，让我们为真正的税收改革带来新的希望。

Instead of shutting down classrooms, let us shut off tax shelters.

让我们关闭避税所，而不是关闭教室。

Instead of cutting out school lunches, let us cut off tax subsidies for expensive business lunches that are nothing more than food stamps for the rich.

让我们不要削减学校午餐，而是削减对昂贵的商务午餐的税收补贴，这些午餐只不过是富人的食品券。

The tax cut of our Republican opponents takes the name of tax reform in vain.

我们的共和党对手的减税是徒劳地冠以税制改革的名义。

It is a wonderfully Republican idea that would redistribute income in the wrong direction.

这是一个绝妙的共和党想法，它会将收入重新分配到错误的方向。

It's good news for any of you with incomes over 200,000 dollars a year.

这对于年收入超过 20 万美元的人来说是个好消息。

For the few of you, it offers a pot of gold worth 14,000 dollars.

对于你们几个人来说，它提供了一桶价值 14,000 美元的金子。

But the Republican tax cut is bad news for the middle income families.

但共和党的减税政策对于中等收入家庭来说是个坏消息。

For the many of you, they plan a pittance of 200 dollars a year, and that is not what the Democratic Party means when we say tax reform.

对于你们中的许多人来说，他们每年计划的收入只有微薄的200美元，而这并不是民主党所说的税收改革的意思。

The vast majority of Americans cannot afford this panacea from a Republican nominee who has denounced the progressive income tax as the invention of Karl Marx.

绝大多数美国人买不起这位共和党候选人提供的这种灵丹妙药，他谴责累进所得税是卡尔·马克思的发明。

I am afraid he has confused Karl Marx with Theodore Roosevelt -- that obscure Republican president who sought and fought for a tax system based on ability to pay.

我担心他把卡尔·马克思与西奥多·罗斯福混淆了——这位默默无闻的共和党总统寻求并为建立基于支付能力的税收制度而奋斗。

Theodore Roosevelt was not Karl Marx, and the Republican tax scheme is not tax reform.

西奥多·罗斯福不是卡尔·马克思，共和党的税收计划也不是税收改革。

Finally, we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society.

最后，如果没有公平的社会，我们就无法实现公平的繁荣。

So I will continue to stand for a national health insurance.

所以我会继续支持国民健康保险。

We must -- We must not surrender -- We must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level.

我们必须——我们绝不能投降——我们绝不能屈服于无情的医疗通货膨胀，这种通货膨胀几乎可以使任何人破产，并且可能很快就会打破各级政府的预算。

Let us insist on real controls over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of a family's wealth.

让我们坚持对医生和医院的收费进行真正的控制，让我们下定决心，家庭的健康状况永远不应取决于家庭财富的多少。

The President, the Vice President, the members of Congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives catch a little cold, the Capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot.

总统、副总统、国会议员都有一套完全满足他们需要的医疗计划，每当参议员和众议员有点感冒时，国会大厦的医生就会立即去看望他们，及时治疗，当场开药。

We do not get a bill even if we ask for it, and when do you think was the last time a member of Congress asked for a bill from the Federal Government?

即使我们要求法案，我们也得不到法案，您认为国会议员最后一次向联邦政府要求法案是什么时候？

And I say again, as I have before, if health insurance is good enough for the President, the Vice President, the Congress of the United States, then it's good enough for you and every family in America.

我再说一遍，就像我以前说过的那样，如果健康保险对美国总统、副总统、国会来说足够好，那么对你们和美国的每个家庭来说也足够好。

There were some -- There were some who said we should be silent about our differences on issues during this convention, but the heritage of the Democratic Party has been a history of democracy.

有些人说，我们应该在这次大会期间对我们在问题上的分歧保持沉默，但民主党的遗产是民主的历史。

We fight hard because we care deeply about our principles and purposes.

我们努力奋斗，因为我们深切关心我们的原则和宗旨。

We did not flee this struggle.

我们并没有逃避这场斗争。

We welcome the contrast with the empty and expedient spectacle last month in Detroit where no nomination was contested, no question was debated, and no one dared to raise any doubt or dissent.

我们欢迎这与上个月底特律空洞而权宜的景象形成鲜明对比，当时没有对提名提出异议，没有对任何问题进行辩论，也没有人敢提出任何怀疑或异议。

Democrats can be proud that we chose a different course and a different platform.

民主党人可以为我们选择不同的路线和不同的平台而感到自豪。

We can be proud that our Party stands for investment in safe energy, instead of a nuclear future that may threaten the future itself.

我们可以感到自豪的是，我们党主张投资安全能源，而不是可能威胁未来本身的核未来。

We must not permit the neighborhoods of America to be permanently shadowed by the fear of another Three Mile Island.

我们决不能让美国社区永远笼罩在另一个三哩岛的恐惧之下。

We can be proud that our Party stands for a fair housing law to unlock the doors of discrimination once and for all.

我们可以感到自豪的是，我们党主张制定公平住房法，以一劳永逸地打开歧视之门。

The American House will be divided against itself so long as there is prejudice against any American buying or renting a home.

只要对任何美国人购买或租赁房屋存在偏见，美国众议院就会内部分裂。

And we can be proud that our Party stands plainly and publicly and persistently for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

我们可以感到自豪的是，我们党明确、公开和坚持不懈地支持批准《平等权利修正案》。

Women hold their rightful place at our convention, and women must have their rightful place in the Constitution of the United States.

妇女在我们的大会上拥有其应有的地位，妇女也必须在美国宪法中拥有其应有的地位。

On this issue we will not yield; we will not equivocate; we will not rationalize, explain, or excuse.

在这个问题上我们不会让步；我们不会含糊其辞；我们不会合理化、解释或借口。

We will stand for E.R.A.

我们将支持 E.R.A.

and for the recognition at long last that our nation was made up of founding mothers as well as founding fathers.

并最终认识到我们的国家是由开国元勋和开国元勋组成的。

A fair prosperity and a just society are within our vision and our grasp, and we do not have every answer.

公平繁荣和公正社会就在我们的愿景和掌握之中，但我们并没有所有的答案。

There are questions not yet asked, waiting for us in the recesses of the future.

还有一些尚未提出的问题，在未来的深处等待着我们。

But of this much we can be certain because it is the lesson of all of our history: Together a President and the people can make a difference.

但这一点我们可以确定，因为这是我们所有历史的教训：总统和人民一起可以做出改变。

I have found that faith still alive wherever I have traveled across this land.

我发现无论我走过这片土地，信仰仍然存在。

So let us reject the counsel of retreat and the call to reaction.

因此，让我们拒绝撤退的建议和做出反应的呼吁。

Let us go forward in the knowledge that history only helps those who help themselves.

让我们继续前进，认识到历史只会帮助自助者。

There will be setbacks and sacrifices in the years ahead; but I am convinced that we as a people are ready to give something back to our country in return for all it has given to us.

未来的岁月里，会有挫折和牺牲；但我相信，作为一个民族，我们已经准备好回馈我们的国家，以回报它给予我们的一切。

Let this -- Let this be our commitment: Whatever sacrifices must be made will be shared and shared fairly.

让这成为我们的承诺：无论必须做出什么牺牲，都将公平地分担。

And let this be our confidence: At the end of our journey and always before us shines that ideal of liberty and justice for all.

让这成为我们的信心：在我们旅程的终点​​，并且始终在我们面前闪耀着人人享有自由和正义的理想。

In closing, let me say a few words to all those that I have met and to all those who have supported me at this convention and across the country.

最后，请允许我向所有我见过的人以及所有在这次大会上和全国各地支持我的人说几句话。

There were hard hours on our journey, and often we sailed against the wind.

我们的旅程充满艰辛，常常逆风航行。

But always we kept our rudder true, and there were so many of you who stayed the course and shared our hope.

但我们始终保持正确的方向，并且有很多人坚持到底并分享了我们的希望。

You gave your help; but even more, you gave your hearts.

你给予了你的帮助；但更重要的是，你付出了你的心。

And because of you, this has been a happy campaign.

因为有你们，这才成为一次愉快的竞选活动。

You welcomed Joan, me, and our family into your homes and neighborhoods, your churches, your campuses, your union halls.

你们欢迎琼、我和我们的家人来到你们的家、你们的社区、你们的教堂、你们的校园、你们的工会大厅。

And when I think back of all the miles and all the months and all the memories, I think of you.

当我回想起所有的里程、所有的月份和所有的记忆时，我就会想到你。

And I recall the poet's words, and I say: "What golden friends I had."

我想起诗人的话，我说：“我有多么黄金的朋友啊。”

Among you, my golden friends across this land, I have listened and learned.

在你们中间，我在这片土地上的黄金朋友，我倾听并学习。

I have listened to Kenny Dubois, a glassblower in Charleston, West Virginia, who has ten children to support but has lost his job after 35 years, just three years short of qualifying for his pension.

我听过肯尼·杜波依斯 (Kenny Dubois) 的说法，他是西弗吉尼亚州查尔斯顿的一名玻璃吹制工人，他要抚养 10 个孩子，但在 35 年后失业了，距离领取养老金仅差三年。

I have listened to the Trachta family who farm in Iowa and who wonder whether they can pass the good life and the good earth on to their children.

我听过在爱荷华州务农的特拉赫塔一家人的心声，他们想知道是否可以将美好的生活和美好的地球传给他们的孩子。

I have listened to the grandmother in East Oakland who no longer has a phone to call her grandchildren because she gave it up to pay the rent on her small apartment.

我听过东奥克兰的一位祖母的说法，她不再有电话给她的孙子打电话，因为她放弃了电话来支付她的小公寓的租金。

I have listened to young workers out of work, to students without the tuition for college, and to families without the chance to own a home.

我听过失业的年轻工人、没有上大学学费的学生以及没有机会拥有住房的家庭的心声。

I have seen the closed factories and the stalled assembly lines of Anderson, Indiana and South Gate, California, and I have seen too many, far too many idle men and women desperate to work.

我看到了印第安纳州安德森和加利福尼亚州南盖特关闭的工厂和停滞的装配线，我看到了太多、太多的无所事事的男人和女人渴望工作。

I have seen too many, far too many working families desperate to protect the value of their wages from the ravages of inflation.

我见过太多太多的工薪家庭迫切希望保护自己的工资免受通货膨胀的破坏。

Yet I have also sensed a yearning for a new hope among the people in every state where I have been.

然而，我也感受到了我去过的每个州的人民对新希望的渴望。

And I have felt it in their handshakes, I saw it in their faces, and I shall never forget the mothers who carried children to our rallies.

我从他们的握手中感受到了这一点，从他们的脸上看到了这一点，我永远不会忘记那些带着孩子参加我们集会的母亲们。

I shall always remember the elderly who have lived in an America of high purpose and who believe that it can all happen again.

我将永远记住那些生活在一个有着崇高目标的美国的老人，他们相信这一切都可以再次发生。

Tonight, in their name, I have come here to speak for them.

今晚，我以他们的名义来到这里为他们说话。

And for their sake, I ask you to stand with them.

为了他们，我请求你们与他们站在一起。

On their behalf I ask you to restate and reaffirm the timeless truth of our Party.

我代表他们请你们重申并重申我们党的永恒真理。

I congratulate President Carter on his victory here.

我在这里祝贺卡特总统取得胜利。

I am -- I am confident that the Democratic Party will reunite on the basis of Democratic principles, and that together we will march towards a Democratic victory in 1980.

我相信民主党将在民主原则的基础上重新团结，我们将共同迈向 1980 年民主党的胜利。

And someday, long after this convention, long after the signs come down and the crowds stop cheering, and the bands stop playing, may it be said of our campaign that we kept the faith.

有一天，在这次大会之后很久，在标语落下、人群停止欢呼、乐队停止演奏之后很久，我们的竞选活动可以说我们保持了信念。

May it be said of our Party in 1980 that we found our faith again.

可以说，1980年我们党又找到了信仰。

And may it be said of us, both in dark passages and in bright days, in the words of Tennyson that my brothers quoted and loved, and that have special meaning for me now:

愿我的兄弟们引用并喜爱丁尼生的话来评价我们，无论是在黑暗的时期还是在光明的日子里，这些话现在对我来说具有特殊的意义：

I am a part of all that I have met To [Tho] much is taken, much abides That which we are, we are -- One equal temper of heroic hearts Strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

我是我所遇到的所有人的一部分，我们所是的，我们所是的，我们是——一颗平等的英雄心，意志坚强，去奋斗，去寻找，去发现，而不是屈服。

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end.

对我来说，几个小时前，这场活动就结束了。

For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

对于所有我们关心的人来说，工作将继续，事业将持续，希望依然存在，梦想将永远不会消失。

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Video and Image = Fair Use.

视频和图像 = 合理使用。

� Copyright 2001-Present.

� 版权所有 2001 年至今。

American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。

HTML transcription by Michael E.

HTML 转录由 Michael E.

Eidenmuller.

艾登米勒。