Farewell Address to Congress -- (Gen) Douglas MacArthur
delivered 19 April 1951, Washington, D.C.
1951 年 4 月 19 日交付于华盛顿特区
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Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:
总统先生、议长先生、尊敬的国会议员们：
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride -- humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this forum of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.
我站在这个讲台上，怀着深深的谦卑和极大的自豪感——这种谦卑是因为那些在我之前站在这里的伟大的美国历史建筑师；我们感到自豪的是，这个立法辩论论坛以迄今为止最纯粹的形式代表了人类自由。
Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race.
这里集中了全人类的希望、愿望和信仰。
I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.
我站在这里并不是为了任何党派事业的倡导者，因为这些问题是根本性的，远远超出了党派考虑的范围。
They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected.
如果我们的方针要证明是正确的，我们的未来要受到保护，就必须在国家利益的最高层面上解决这些问题。
I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
因此，我相信，您会公正地接受我所说的话，因为我所说的只是表达了一位美国同胞经过深思熟虑的观点。
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
在生命即将消逝的暮色中，我向你们讲话，既没有怨恨，也没有痛苦，心中只有一个目的：为我的国家服务。
The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
这些问题是全球性的，而且相互关联，以至于只考虑一个部门的问题而忽视另一个部门的问题，只会给整个部门带来灾难。
While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.
虽然亚洲通常被称为欧洲的门户，但欧洲确实是亚洲的门户，一方的广泛影响力必然会对另一方产生影响。
There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide our effort.
有些人声称我们的力量不足以同时保护这两个战线，我们无法分担我们的努力。
I can think of no greater expression of defeatism.
我想不出比这更能体现失败主义的了。
If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort.
如果一个潜在的敌人能够将他的力量分在两条战线上，那么我们就应该反击他的努力。
The Communist threat is a global one.
共产主义威胁是全球性的。
Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector.
它在一个领域的成功推进可能会导致其他所有领域的毁灭。
You can not appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe.
你不可能在不同时破坏我们制止共产主义在欧洲前进的努力的情况下，安抚或以其他方式屈服于亚洲的共产主义。
Beyond pointing out these general truisms, I shall confine my discussion to the general areas of Asia.
除了指出这些普遍的真理之外，我将把我的讨论限制在亚洲的一般地区。
Before one may objectively assess the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which are -- which have marked her course up to the present.
在客观地评估那里目前存在的局势之前，他必须了解亚洲的过去以及正在发生的革命性变化，这些变化标志着她迄今为止的进程。
Long exploited by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity to achieve any degree of social justice, individual dignity, or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom.
长期受到所谓殖民列强的剥削，几乎没有机会实现任何程度的社会正义、个人尊严或更高的生活水平，例如我们在菲律宾的高贵政府所指导的那样，亚洲人民在刚刚过去的战争中找到了摆脱殖民主义枷锁的机会，现在看到了新机会的曙光，前所未有的尊严和政治自由的自尊。
Mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments.
这些民族聚集了地球上一半的人口和60%的自然资源，正在迅速凝聚一股新的道德和物质力量，以提高生活水平，并使现代进步的设计适应他们自己独特的文化环境。
Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped.
无论是否坚持殖民理念，这都是亚洲进步的方向，不可阻挡。
It is a corollary to the shift of the world economic frontiers as the whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.
这是世界经济前沿转移的必然结果，因为整个世界事务的中心又回到了它的发源地。
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.
在这种情况下，我们自己的国家必须根据这一基本的演变条件来制定政策，而不是无视殖民时代已经过去以及亚洲人民渴望塑造自己自由命运的权利这一现实。
What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support -- not imperious direction -- the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.
他们现在寻求的是友好的引导、理解和支持，而不是专横的指导，是平等的尊严，而不是征服的耻辱。
Their pre-war standard of life, pitifully low, is infinitely lower now in the devastation left in war's wake.
他们战前的生活水平低得可怜，现在由于战争造成的破坏，生活水平更是无限低下。
World ideologies play little part in Asian thinking and are little understood.
世界意识形态在亚洲思想中扮演的角色很少，也很少被理解。
What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom.
人民争取的是有机会让自己的肚子多一点食物，让自己背上多一点衣服，让自己有更坚实的栖身之所，并实现民族主义对政治自由的正常渴望。
These political-social conditions have but an indirect bearing upon our own national security, but do form a backdrop to contemporary planning which must be thoughtfully considered if we are to avoid the pitfalls of unrealism.
这些政治社会条件对我们自己的国家安全只有间接影响，但确实构成了当代规划的背景，如果我们要避免陷入不切实际的陷阱，就必须深思熟虑。
Of more direct and immediate bearing upon our national security are the changes wrought in the strategic potential of the Pacific Ocean in the course of the past war.
对我们国家安全影响更直接和直接的是过去战争过程中太平洋战略潜力的变化。
Prior thereto the western strategic frontier of the United States lay on the littoral line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway, and Guam to the Philippines.
在此之前，美国的西部战略边界位于美洲沿岸，有一个暴露的突出岛屿，穿过夏威夷、中途岛和关岛一直延伸到菲律宾。
That salient proved not an outpost of strength but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack.
事实证明，这个突出部分并不是一个力量前哨，而是一条弱点，敌人可以沿着这条道路发起进攻，而且确实也确实沿着这条道路发起攻击。
The Pacific was a potential area of advance for any predatory force intent upon striking at the bordering land areas.
太平洋是任何意图袭击邻近陆地地区的掠夺性力量的潜在前进地区。
All this was changed by our Pacific victory.
这一切都因我们在太平洋上的胜利而改变了。
Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire Pacific Ocean, which became a vast moat to protect us as long as we held it.
然后，我们的战略前沿转向了整个太平洋，只要我们占领它，它就成为保护我们的巨大护城河。
Indeed, it acts as a protective shield for all of the Americas and all free lands of the Pacific Ocean area.
事实上，它是整个美洲和太平洋地区所有自由土地的保护盾。
We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Mariannas held by us and our free allies.
我们通过一系列岛屿控制着它，从阿留申群岛到我们和我们的自由盟友控制的马里亚纳群岛，这些岛屿呈弧形延伸到亚洲海岸。
From this island chain we can dominate with sea and air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore -- with sea and air power every port, as I said, from Vladivostok to Singapore -- and prevent any hostile movement into the Pacific.
从这个岛链，我们可以用海上和空中力量控制从符拉迪沃斯托克到新加坡的每个亚洲港口——正如我所说，从符拉迪沃斯托克到新加坡的每个港口——并阻止任何敌对行动进入太平洋。
* Any predatory attack from Asia must be an amphibious effort.
*来自亚洲的任何掠夺性攻击都必须是两栖攻击。
* No amphibious force can be successful without control of the sea lanes and the air over those lanes in its avenue of advance.
* 如果不控制其前进道路上的海上航道和这些航道上空的制空权，任何两栖部队都无法取得成功。
With naval and air supremacy and modest ground elements to defend bases, any major attack from continental Asia toward us or our friends in the Pacific would be doomed to failure.
凭借海军和空中优势以及保卫基地的适度地面部队，亚洲大陆对我们或我们在太平洋的朋友的任何重大攻击都注定会失败。
Under such conditions, the Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader.
在这种情况下，太平洋不再是潜在入侵者的威胁途径。
It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake.
相反，它呈现出平静的湖泊友好的一面。
Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.
我们的防线是天然的，可以用最少的军事努力和费用来维持。
It envisions no attack against anyone, nor does it provide the bastions essential for offensive operations, but properly maintained, would be an invincible defense against aggression.
它设想不对任何人进行攻击，也不提供进攻行动所必需的堡垒，但如果维护得当，将是对侵略的无敌防御。
The holding of this littoral defense line in the western Pacific is entirely dependent upon holding all segments thereof; for any major breach of that line by an unfriendly power would render vulnerable to determined attack every other major segment.
这条西太平洋沿岸防线的守住完全取决于守住该防线的所有部分；因为任何一个不友好的国家对这条线的任何重大突破都会使其他所有主要部分都容易受到坚决的攻击。
This is a military estimate as to which I have yet to find a military leader who will take exception.
这是一个军事估计，我还没有找到一位会反对的军事领导人。
For that reason, I have strongly recommended in the past, as a matter of military urgency, that under no circumstances must Formosa fall under Communist control.
出于这个原因，我过去曾强烈建议，作为军事紧急事项，台湾在任何情况下都不应落入共产党的控制之下。
Such an eventuality would at once threaten the freedom of the Philippines and the loss of Japan and might well force our western frontier back to the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.
这种可能性将立即威胁到菲律宾的自由和日本的丧失，并很可能迫使我们的西部边境回到加利福尼亚州、俄勒冈州和华盛顿州的海岸。
To understand the changes which now appear upon the Chinese mainland, one must understand the changes in Chinese character and culture over the past 50 years.
要了解中国大陆现在发生的变化，就必须了解五十年来中国人的性格和文化的变化。
China, up to 50 years ago, was completely non-homogenous, being compartmented into groups divided against each other.
直到50年前，中国还是完全非同质的，被划分为相互对立的群体。
The war-making tendency was almost non-existent, as they still followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist culture.
战争倾向几乎不存在，因为他们仍然遵循儒家和平主义文化理想的信条。
At the turn of the century, under the regime of Chang Tso Lin, efforts toward greater homogeneity produced the start of a nationalist urge.
世纪之交，在张作霖政权的统治下，追求更大同质化的努力引发了民族主义的冲动。
This was further and more successfully developed under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek, but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on the character of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies.
这种思想在蒋介石的领导下得到了进一步、更加成功的发展，但在现政权下取得了最大的成果，以至于现在呈现出日益占主导地位和侵略倾向的统一民族主义的特征。
Through these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus become militarized in their concepts and in their ideals.
五十年来，中国人民的观念、理想已经军事化。
They now constitute excellent soldiers, with competent staffs and commanders.
他们现在已成为优秀的士兵，拥有称职的参谋和指挥官。
This has produced a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power normal to this type of imperialism.
这就在亚洲产生了一个新的主导力量，它为了自己的目的与苏维埃俄罗斯结盟，但它在自己的概念和方法上已经变得咄咄逼人的帝国主义，渴望扩张和增加权力，这是这种类型的帝国主义的正常现象。
There is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese make-up.
中国人的性格中几乎没有这样或那样的意识形态概念。
The standard of living is so low and the capital accumulation has been so thoroughly dissipated by war that the masses are desperate and eager to follow any leadership which seems to promise the alleviation of local stringencies.
生活水平如此之低，资本积累又被战争彻底消耗殆尽，以至于群众绝望并渴望追随任何似乎承诺缓解当地紧缩状况的领导。
I have from the beginning believed that the Chinese Communists' support of the North Koreans was the dominant one.
我从一开始就相信中国共产党对朝鲜的支持占主导地位。
Their interests are, at present, parallel with those of the Soviet.
目前，他们的利益与苏联的利益是一致的。
But I believe that the aggressiveness recently displayed not only in Korea but also in Indo-China and Tibet and pointing potentially toward the South reflects predominantly the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every would-be conqueror since the beginning of time.
但我相信，最近不仅在朝鲜，而且在印度支那和西藏表现出的侵略性，并可能指向南方，主要反映了同样的扩张权力的欲望，这种欲望自古以来就激励着每一个潜在的征服者。
The Japanese people, since the war, have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history.
战后，日本人民经历了近代史上最伟大的改革。
With a commendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity to understand, they have, from the ashes left in war's wake, erected in Japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of individual liberty and personal dignity; and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government committed to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.
他们以值得称道的意志、求知欲和卓越的理解能力，在战争的废墟中，在日本竖起了一座崇尚个人自由和个人尊严至高无上的大厦；在随后的过程中，创建了一个真正的代议制政府，致力于推进政治道德、经济企业自由和社会正义。
Politically, economically, and socially Japan is now abreast of many free nations of the earth and will not again fail the universal trust.
日本现在在政治、经济和社会上与世界上许多自由国家并驾齐驱，不会再辜负普遍的信任。
That it may be counted upon to wield a profoundly beneficial influence over the course of events in Asia is attested by the magnificent manner in which the Japanese people have met the recent challenge of war, unrest, and confusion surrounding them from the outside and checked communism within their own frontiers without the slightest slackening in their forward progress.
日本人民以出色的方式应对最近来自外部的战争、动乱和混乱的挑战，并在本国境内遏制共产主义，前进的步伐丝毫没有放缓，这证明了它可以对亚洲事态的进程产生深远的有益影响。
I sent all four of our occupation divisions to the Korean battlefront without the slightest qualms as to the effect of the resulting power vacuum upon Japan.
我将我们所有的四个占领师派往朝鲜前线，对于由此产生的权力真空对日本的影响没有丝毫疑虑。
The results fully justified my faith.
结果完全证明了我的信念。
I know of no nation more serene, orderly, and industrious, nor in which higher hopes can be entertained for future constructive service in the advance of the human race.
据我所知，没有哪个国家比它更宁静、更有秩序、更勤奋，也没有哪个国家能对未来为人类进步做出建设性贡献抱有更高的希望。
Of our former ward, the Philippines, we can look forward in confidence that the existing unrest will be corrected and a strong and healthy nation will grow in the longer aftermath of war's terrible destructiveness.
对于我们以前的管辖区菲律宾，我们可以满怀信心地期待，现有的骚乱将会得到纠正，一个强大而健康的国家将会在战争可怕的破坏性的长期后果中成长起来。
We must be patient and understanding and never fail them -- as in our hour of need, they did not fail us.
我们必须保持耐心和理解，永远不要让他们失望——就像在我们需要帮助的时候，他们没有让我们失望一样。
A Christian nation, the Philippines stand as a mighty bulwark of Christianity in the Far East, and its capacity for high moral leadership in Asia is unlimited.
作为一个基督教国家，菲律宾是基督教在远东的强大堡垒，其在亚洲发挥崇高道德领导作用的能力是无限的。
On Formosa, the government of the Republic of China has had the opportunity to refute by action much of the malicious gossip which so undermined the strength of its leadership on the Chinese mainland.
在台湾问题上，中华民国政府有机会以行动驳斥许多恶意的流言蜚语，这些流言蜚语削弱了中华民国在中国大陆的领导力。
The Formosan people are receiving a just and enlightened administration with majority representation on the organs of government, and politically, economically, and socially they appear to be advancing along sound and constructive lines.
台湾人民正在接受一个公正和开明的政府，在政府机构中拥有多数代表，并且在政治、经济和社会方面，他们似乎都在沿着正确和建设性的路线前进。
With this brief insight into the surrounding area s , I now turn to the Korean conflict.
在对周边地区进行了简要了解之后，我现在转向朝鲜冲突。
While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we -- as I said, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces.
虽然在总统决定进行干预以支持大韩民国之前没有征求我的意见，但从军事角度来看，这一决定被证明是一个明智的决定，正如我所说，当我们击退入侵者并消灭他的军队时，事实证明这是一个明智的决定。
Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.
当红色中国以数量上占优势的地面部队进行干预时，我们已经取得了彻底的胜利，我们的目标也触手可及。
This created a new war and an entirely new situation, a situation not contemplated when our forces were committed against the North Korean invaders; a situation which called for new decisions in the diplomatic sphere to permit the realistic adjustment of military strategy.
这造成了一场新的战争和一个全新的局势，这是我们的军队在对抗朝鲜侵略者时没有想到的；这种情况要求在外交领域做出新的决定，以便对军事战略进行现实的调整。
Such decisions have not been forthcoming.
此类决定尚未做出。
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old .
虽然任何一个头脑正常的人都不会主张派遣我们的地面部队进入中国大陆，而且从来没有考虑过这一点，但如果我们的政治目标是像打败旧敌人一样打败这个新敌人，那么新形势确实迫切需要对战略规划进行重大修改。
Apart from the military need, as I saw It, to neutralize the sanctuary protection given the enemy north of the Yalu, I felt that military necessity in the conduct of the war made necessary: first the intensification of our economic blockade against China; two the imposition of a naval blockade against the China coast; three removal of restrictions on air reconnaissance of China's coastal area s and of Manchuria ; four removal of restrictions on the forces of the Republic of China on Formosa, with logistical support to contribute to their effective operations against the common enemy.
正如我所看到的，除了军事需要，以消除鸭绿江以北敌人的庇护所保护外，我认为进行战争的军事需要也是必要的：首先，加强我们对中国的经济封锁；二、对中国沿海实施海上封锁；三是取消对中国沿海和满洲里的空中侦察限制；四是取消对中华民国军队在台湾的限制，提供后勤支援，以协助其有效对抗共同敌人。
For entertaining these views, all professionally designed to support our forces committed to Korea and bring hostilities to an end with the least possible delay and at a saving of countless American and allied lives, I have been severely criticized in lay circles, principally abroad, despite my understanding that from a military standpoint the above views have been fully shared in the past by practically every military leader concerned with the Korean campaign, including our own Joint Chiefs of Staff.
由于持有这些观点，所有这些观点都是专业设计的，旨在支持我们致力于朝鲜的军队，尽快结束敌对行动，并拯救无数美国人和盟国的生命，我受到了外行圈子的严厉批评，主要是在国外，尽管我理解，从军事角度来看，上述观点在过去得到了几乎所有与朝鲜战役有关的军事领导人的充分赞同，包括我们自己的参谋长联席会议。
I called for reinforcements but was informed that reinforcements were not available.
我呼叫增援，但被告知没有增援。
I made clear that if not permitted to destroy the enemy built-up bases north of the Yalu, if not permitted to utilize the friendly Chinese Force of some 600,000 men on Formosa, if not permitted to blockade the China coast to prevent the Chinese Reds from getting succor from without, and if there were to be no hope of major reinforcements, the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory.
我明确表示，如果不准许摧毁鸭绿江以北的敌军根据地，如果不准许动用台湾约60万的中国友军，如果不准许封锁中国海岸以防止中国红军从外援，如果没有希望获得大增援军，从军事角度来看，指挥部的立场就注定不会取得胜利。
We could hold in Korea by constant maneuver and in an approximate area where our supply line advantages were in balance with the supply line disadvantages of the enemy, but we could hope at best for only an indecisive campaign with its terrible and constant attrition upon our forces if the enemy utilized its full military potential.
我们可以通过不断的机动和在一个大致区域内坚守住朝鲜，使我们的补给线优势与敌人的补给线劣势相平衡，但是，如果敌人充分利用其军事潜力，我们最多只能希望进行一场优柔寡断的战役，对我们的部队造成可怕和持续的消耗。
I have constantly called for the new political decisions essential to a solution.
我一直呼吁做出新的政治决定，这对于解决问题至关重要。
Efforts have been made to distort my position.
有人试图歪曲我的立场。
It has been said, in effect, that I was a warmonger.
事实上，有人说我是一个战争贩子。
Nothing could be further from the truth.
事实并非如此。
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting.
我对战争的了解是现在活着的人中很少有的，对我来说，没有什么比这更令人厌恶的了。
I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
我长期以来一直主张彻底废除它，因为它对朋友和敌人都具有破坏性，使其无法作为解决国际争端的手段。
Indeed, on the second day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-five, just following the surrender of the Japanese nation on the Battleship Missouri, I formally cautioned as follows:
事实上，一千九百四十五年九月二号，就在日本在密苏里号战列舰上投降之后，我正式警告如下：
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.
人类自古以来就寻求和平。
Various methods through the ages have been attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations.
多年来，人们尝试了各种方法来制定国际程序来预防或解决国家之间的争端。
From the very start workable methods were found in so far as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful.
从一开始，就个体公民而言，就找到了可行的方法，但更大的国际范围的工具机制从未成功。
Military alliances, balances of power, Leagues of Nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war.
军事联盟、均势、国际联盟都相继失败，唯一的出路就是通过战争的严酷考验。
The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative.
战争的彻底破坏性现在阻止了这种选择。
We have had our last chance.
我们已经有了最后的机会。
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
如果我们不设计一些更伟大、更公平的制度，世界末日就会来临。
The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature, and all material and cultural developments of the past 2000 years.
这个问题基本上是神学的，涉及精神的复兴和人类品格的改善，这将与过去2000年来我们在科学、艺术、文学以及所有物质和文化方面几乎无与伦比的进步同步。
It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
如果我们要拯救肉体，就必须是灵。
B ut once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.
但一旦战争强加于我们，除了采取一切可用手段尽快结束战争之外，别无选择。
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.
战争的目的是胜利，而不是长期优柔寡断。
In war there is no substitute for victory.
在战争中，胜利是无可替代的。
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China.
有些人出于不同的原因会安抚红色中国。
They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.
他们对历史的明确教训视而不见，因为历史明确无误地强调绥靖政策只会引发新的、更血腥的战争。
It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace.
它没有指出任何一个例子表明，这一目的证明了这一手段的合理性，绥靖政策带来的不仅仅是虚假的和平。
Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
与勒索一样，它为新的、不断提高的要求奠定了基础，直到暴力成为唯一的选择，就像勒索一样。
"Why," my soldiers asked of me, "surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?" I could not answer.
“为什么，”我的士兵问我，“把军事优势拱手让给战场上的敌人？”我无法回答。
Some may say: to avoid spread of the conflict into an all-out war with China; others, to avoid Soviet intervention.
有人可能会说：避免冲突蔓延为与中国的全面战争；其他人则避免苏联干预。
Neither explanation seems valid, for China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit, and the Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves.
这两种解释似乎都站不住脚，因为中国已经在发挥其所能发挥的最大力量，而苏联不一定会将其行动与我们的行动结合起来。
Like a cobra, any new enemy will more likely strike whenever it feels that the relativity in military or other potential is in its favor on a world-wide basis.
就像眼镜蛇一样，任何新的敌人只要感觉军事或其他潜力的相对性在全球范围内对其有利，就会更有可能发起攻击。
The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits.
朝鲜的军事行动仅限于其领土范围内，这一事实进一步加剧了朝鲜的悲剧。
It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation.
它谴责我们的目的是拯救这个国家，使其遭受全面的海上和空中轰炸的破坏性影响，而敌人的庇护所却受到充分保护，免受这种攻击和破坏。
Of the nations of the world, Korea alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism.
迄今为止，在世界各国中，只有韩国是唯一一个冒着一切危险反对共产主义的国家。
The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
朝鲜人民的勇气和毅力的伟大是无法形容的。
They have chosen to risk death rather than slavery.
他们选择冒着死亡的危险而不是被奴役。
Their last words to me were: "Don't scuttle the Pacific!"
他们对我说的最后一句话是：“不要凿沉太平洋！”
I have just left your fighting sons in Korea.
我刚刚把你战斗的儿子们留在了韩国。
They have met all tests there , and I can report to you without reservation that they are splendid in every way.
他们已经通过了那里的所有测试，我可以毫无保留地向您报告，他们在各方面都非常出色。
It was my constant effort to preserve them and end this savage conflict honorably and with the least loss of time and a minimum sacrifice of life.
我不断努力保护它们，并以最少的时间损失和最少的生命牺牲，光荣地结束这场野蛮的冲突。
Its growing bloodshed has caused me the deepest anguish and anxiety.
越来越多的流血事件给我带来了最深的痛苦和焦虑。
Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers always.
这些英勇的人将经常留在我的脑海中并永远留在我的祈祷中。
I am closing my 52 years of military service.
我即将结束 52 年的兵役生涯。
When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams.
当我参军时，甚至在世纪之交之前，我所有的孩子气的希望和梦想就实现了。
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
自从我在西点军校的平原上宣誓以来，世界已发生了多次翻天覆地的变化，希望和梦想早已烟消云散，但我仍然记得当时最流行的军营歌谣之一的副歌，其中最自豪地宣称“老兵不死，他们只是消失”。
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.
就像那首民谣中的老士兵一样，我现在结束了我的军事生涯并逐渐消失，一个试图履行自己职责的老士兵，因为上帝给了他亮光让他看到了这一职责。
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)
Transcription Note : Artifact above modified on 1/07/08.
转录说明：上述工件于 2008 年 1 月 7 日修改。
Two instances of the term "literal" were changed to "littoral." Thanks to Yashiro Taketsugu for bringing these transcription errors to my attention.
术语“字面”的两个实例被更改为“滨海”。感谢 Yashiro Taketsugu 提醒我注意这些转录错误。
Also in this database : General Douglas MacArthur - "Duty, Honor, Country"
此数据库中还有：道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟将军 - “责任、荣誉、国家”
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页面更新时间：24 年 5 月 31 日美国版权状态：文本 = 公共领域。
Audio = Uncertain.
音频 = 不确定。
� 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。