Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address -- William Jefferson Clinton

Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Prayer Service Address

俄克拉荷马州爆炸案纪念祈祷服务地址

delivered 23 April 1995 in Oklahoma City, OK

1995 年 4 月 23 日在俄克拉荷马城交付

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Thank you very much, Governor Keating and Mrs. Keating, Reverend Graham, to the families of those who have been lost and wounded, to the people of Oklahoma City, who have endured so much, and the people of this wonderful state, to all of you who are here as our fellow Americans.

基廷州长和基廷夫人，格雷厄姆牧师，非常感谢你们，感谢那些失踪和受伤的人的家人，感谢经历了如此多苦难的俄克拉荷马城人民，感谢这个美好州的人民，感谢你们作为我们的美国同胞来到这里的所有人。

I am honored to be here today to represent the American people.

我很荣幸今天能够代表美国人民站在这里。

But I have to tell you that Hillary and I also come as parents, as husband and wife, as people who were your neighbors for some of the best years of our lives.

但我必须告诉你们，希拉里和我也是作为父母、作为丈夫和妻子、作为你们的邻居，度过了我们生命中最美好的时光。

Today our nation joins with you in grief.

今天，我们的国家与你们一起哀悼。

We mourn with you.

我们与你一起哀悼。

We share your hope against hope that some may still survive.

我们与你们一样抱有希望，但也希望有些人仍能幸存。

We thank all those who have worked so heroically to save lives and to solve this crime -- those here in Oklahoma and those who are all across this great land, and many who left their own lives to come here to work hand in hand with you.

我们感谢所有为拯救生命和侦破这一罪行而英勇奋斗的人们——俄克拉荷马州的人们以及这片伟大土地上的人们，以及许多献出自己生命来到这里与你们携手合作的人们。

We pledge to do all we can to help you heal the injured, to rebuild this city, and to bring to justice those who did this evil.

我们承诺将竭尽全力帮助你们治愈伤者，重建这座城市，并将那些作恶的人绳之以法。

This terrible sin took the lives of our American family, innocent children in that building, only because their parents were trying to be good parents as well as good workers; citizens in the building going about their daily business; and many there who served the rest of us -- who worked to help the elderly and the disabled, who worked to support our farmers and our veterans, who worked to enforce our laws and to protect us.

这种可怕的罪恶夺走了我们美国家庭的生命，夺走了那栋大楼里无辜孩子的生命，只是因为他们的父母试图成为好父母和好工人；大楼内进行日常事务的居民；还有许多人为我们其他人服务——他们努力帮助老年人和残疾人，他们努力支持我们的农民和退伍军人，他们努力执行我们的法律并保护我们。

Let us say clearly, they served us well, and we are grateful.

让我们明确地说，他们为我们提供了很好的服务，我们很感激。

But for so many of you they were also neighbors and friends.

但对于你们很多人来说，他们也是邻居和朋友。

You saw them at church or the PTA meetings, at the civic clubs, at the ball park.

你可以在教堂或 PTA 会议、公民俱乐部、棒球场看到他们。

You know them in ways that all the rest of America could not.

你对他们的了解是美国其他地方所无法做到的。

And to all the members of the families here present who have suffered loss, though we share your grief, your pain is unimaginable, and we know that.

对于在座的所有遭受损失的家庭成员，虽然我们与你们一样悲伤，但你们的痛苦是难以想象的，我们知道这一点。

We cannot undo it.

我们无法撤销它。

That is God's work.

那是神的工作。

Our words seem small beside the loss you have endured.

与您所遭受的损失相比，我们的言语显得微不足道。

But I found a few I wanted to share today.

但今天我发现了一些我想分享的内容。

I've received a lot of letters in these last terrible days.

在过去可怕的日子里我收到了很多信。

One stood out because it came from a young widow and a mother of three whose own husband was murdered with over 200 other Americans when Pan Am 103 was shot down.

其中一个之所以引人注目，是因为它来自一位年轻的寡妇和三个孩子的母亲，她自己的丈夫在泛美 103 飞机被击落时与其他 200 多名美国人一起被谋杀。

Here is what that woman said I should say to you today:

这就是那个女人说我今天应该对你说的话：

The anger you feel is valid, but you must not allow yourselves to be consumed by it.

你感到的愤怒是有道理的，但你不能让自己被它吞噬。

The hurt you feel must not be allowed to turn into hate, but instead into the search for justice.

决不能让你感受到的伤害变成仇恨，而应该让你寻求正义。

The loss you feel must not paralyze your own lives.

你所感受到的损失绝不能影响你自己的生活。

Instead, you must try to pay tribute to your loved ones by continuing to do all the things they left undone, thus ensuring they did not die in vain.

相反，你必须努力向你所爱的人致敬，继续做他们未完成的所有事情，从而确保他们不会白白死去。

You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything.

你失去了太多，但你还没有失去一切。

And you have certainly not lost America, for we will stand with you for as many tomorrows as it takes.

你们当然没有失去美国，因为无论需要多少个明天，我们都将与你们站在一起。

If ever we needed evidence of that, I could only recall the words of Governor and Mrs. Keating:

如果我们需要证据，我只能回忆起基廷州长和夫人的话：

If anybody thinks that Americans are mostly mean and selfish, they ought to come to Oklahoma.

如果有人认为美国人大多是卑鄙和自私的，他们应该来俄克拉荷马州。

If anybody thinks Americans have lost the capacity for love and caring and courage, they ought to come to Oklahoma.

如果有人认为美国人已经失去了爱、关怀和勇气的能力，他们应该来俄克拉荷马州。

To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil.

我要对这个大厅之外的所有美国同胞说，我们欠那些牺牲者的一件事就是有责任清除导致这种邪恶的黑暗势力。

They are forces that threaten our common peace, our freedom, our way of life.

它们是威胁我们共同和平、自由和生活方式的力量。

Let us teach our children that the God of comfort is also the God of righteousness: "Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind." 1 Justice will prevail.

让我们教导我们的孩子，安慰的神也是公义的神：“扰害己家的，必承受风。” 1 正义必胜。

Let us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of fear.

让我们让我们自己的孩子知道，我们将对抗恐惧的力量。

When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it.

当有人谈论仇恨时，让我们站出来反对它。

When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it.

当有人谈论暴力时，让我们站起来反对它。

In the face of death, let us honor life.

面对死亡，让我们尊重生命。

As St. Paul admonished us, Let us "not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." 2

正如圣保罗告诫我们的那样，“不要被恶所胜，反要以善胜恶”。 2

Yesterday, Hillary and I had the privilege of speaking with some children of other federal employees -- children like those who were lost here.

昨天，希拉里和我有幸与其他联邦雇员的一些孩子交谈——就像那些在这里失踪的孩子一样。

And one little girl said something we will never forget.

一位小女孩说了一些我们永远不会忘记的话。

She said, "We should all plant a tree in memory of the children." So this morning before we got on the plane to come here, at the White House, we planted that tree in honor of the children of Oklahoma.

她说：“我们都应该种一棵树来纪念孩子们。”因此，今天早上，在我们登上前往白宫的飞机之前，我们种下了那棵树，以纪念俄克拉荷马州的孩子们。

It was a dogwood with its wonderful spring flower and its deep, enduring roots.

这是一种山茱萸，春天开着美丽的花朵，根又深又长。

It embodies the lesson of the Psalms -- that the life of a good person is like a tree whose leaf does not wither.

它体现了诗篇的教训——一个好人的生活就像一棵叶子不枯萎的树。

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My fellow Americans, a tree takes a long time to grow, and wounds take a long time to heal.

我的美国同胞们，一棵树需要很长时间才能生长，伤口也需要很长时间才能愈合。

But we must begin.

但我们必须开始。

Those who are lost now belong to God.

那些失丧的人现在属于上帝。

Some day we will be with them.

有一天我们会和他们在一起。

But until that happens, their legacy must be our lives.

但在那之前，他们的遗产必须是我们的生活。

1 Proverbs 11:29 -- "He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart." (NKJV)

箴言 11:29 ——“祸害自己房屋的，必承受清风；愚昧人必作心中智慧人的仆人。” (NKJV)

2 Romans 12:21 -- "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (NIV)

2罗马书12:21——“不要被恶所胜，反要以善胜恶。” （新国际版）

3 Psalms 1:3 -- "Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

3诗篇1:3——“不从恶人的计谋，不站罪人的道路，不坐亵慢人的座位。

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

但他喜爱耶和华的律法，昼夜思想他的律法。

He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.

他就像一棵树栽在溪水旁，按时结果子，叶子也不枯干。

Whatever he does prospers." (NIV)

他所做的一切都会成功。” （新国际版）

See Also : Late Draft of the Speech w/ Edits.pdf

另请参阅：带有编辑的最新演讲草稿.pdf

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