American Rhetoric: Albert A. Gore - Nobel Lecture | algorenobellecture

delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

2007 年 12 月 10 日交付，挪威奥斯陆

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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen:

尊敬的陛下、殿下、尊敬的挪威诺贝尔委员会成员、各位阁下、女士们、先生们：

I have a purpose here today.

我今天来这里有一个目的。

It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years.

这是我多年来一直努力实现的目标。

I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.

我祈祷上帝能告诉我一种实现它的方法。

Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be.

有时，在没有任何警告的情况下，未来会带着对未来的宝贵而痛苦的憧憬敲响我们的大门。

One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death.

一百一十九年前，一位富有的发明家读到了自己在去世前几年错误发表的讣告。

Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life's work, unfairly labeling him "The Merchant of Death" because of his invention -- dynamite.

一家报纸错误地认为发明家刚刚去世，因此对他一生的工作进行了严厉的评价，因为他的发明——炸药，不公平地给他贴上“死亡商人”的标签。

Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.

受到这种谴责的震撼，发明家做出了为和平事业服务的命运选择。

Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.

七年后，阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔创立了这个奖项以及其他以他的名字命名的奖项。

Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken -- if not premature.

七年前的明天，我读到了自己的政治讣告，其中的判断在我看来是严厉且错误的——如果不是不成熟的话。

But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious, if painful, gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.

但这个不受欢迎的判决也带来了一份宝贵的、虽然痛苦的礼物：一个寻找新方法来实现我的目标的机会。

Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here.

没想到，这个任务把我带到了这里。

Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, "We must act."

尽管我担心我的言语无法与此时此刻相匹配，但我祈祷我内心的感受能够足够清楚地传达出来，让听到我的人会说：“我们必须采取行动。”

The distinguished scientists with whom it is the greatest honor of my life to share this award have laid before us a choice between two different futures -- a choice that to my ears echoes the words of an ancient prophet: "Life or death, blessings or curses.

我一生中最荣幸能与这些杰出的科学家分享这个奖项，他们让我们在两种不同的未来之间做出选择——这一选择在我耳中回响着一位古代先知的话语：“生或死，祝福或诅咒。

Therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." �

因此，选择生命，这样你和你的后裔都能活下去。” �

We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency -- a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here.

我们人类正面临着全球性的紧急情况——这是对我们文明生存的威胁，即使我们聚集在这里，这种威胁也正在积聚不祥和破坏性的潜力。

But there is hopeful news as well: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst -- though not all -- of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively, and quickly.

但也有令人充满希望的消息：如果我们采取大胆、果断、迅速的行动，我们就有能力解决这场危机，并避免最坏的后果——尽管不是全部——。

However, despite a growing number of honorable exceptions, too many of the world's leaders are still best described in the words Winston Churchill applied to those who ignored Adolf Hitler's threat (and I quote): "They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent."

然而，尽管有越来越多光荣的例外，世界上太多的领导人仍然可以用温斯顿·丘吉尔对那些无视阿道夫·希特勒威胁的人（我引用）的话来最好地描述：“他们继续陷入奇怪的悖论，决定只是犹豫不决，决心优柔寡断，顽固地随波逐流，坚定不移，强大却无能为力。”

So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer.

因此，今天，我们又向地球周围的薄薄大气层倾倒了 7000 万吨导致全球变暖的污染物，就好像它是露天下水道一样。

And tomorrow, we will dump a slightly larger amount, with the cumulative concentrations now trapping more and more heat from the sun.

明天，我们将倾倒稍多一点的量，累积浓度现在捕获越来越多的太阳热量。

As a result, the earth has a fever.

结果，地球发烧了。

And the fever is rising.

而且发烧还在上升。

The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself.

专家告诉我们，这不是一种短暂的痛苦，它不会自行痊愈。

We asked for a second opinion.

我们征求了第二意见。

And a third.

还有第三个。

And a fourth.

还有第四个。

And the consistent conclusion, restated with increasing distress, is that something basic is wrong.

一致的结论是，有一些基本的东西是错误的，并且随着越来越多的痛苦而重申。

We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.

我们就是错的，我们必须改正。

Last September 21st, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented alarm that the North Polar ice cap is in their words: "falling off a cliff." One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years.

去年9月21日，当北半球倾斜远离太阳时，科学家们空前震惊地报告说，北极冰盖用他们的话说就是“从悬崖上掉下来”。一项研究估计，这种现象可能会在不到 22 年的时间内在夏季完全消失。

Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years.

美国海军研究人员将于本周晚些时候发表的另一项新研究警告说，这种情况可能在短短 7 年内发生。

Seven years from now.

七年后。

In the last few months, it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter.

在过去的几个月里，人们越来越难以误解我们的世界正在失去平衡的迹象。

Major cities in North and South America, Asia and Australia, are nearly out of water due to massive droughts and melting glaciers.

由于严重干旱和冰川融化，北美、南美、亚洲和澳大利亚的主要城市几乎缺水。

Desperate farmers are losing their livelihoods.

绝望的农民正在失去生计。

Peoples in the frozen Arctic and on low-lying Pacific islands are planning evacuations of places they have long called home.

冰冻的北极和太平洋低洼岛屿上的人们正在计划从他们长期称之为家园的地方撤离。

Unprecedented wildfires have forced a half million people from their homes in one country and caused a national emergency that almost brought down the government in another.

前所未有的野火迫使一个国家50万人逃离家园，并引发全国紧急状态，几乎导致另一个国家政府垮台。

Climate refugees have migrated into areas already inhabited by people with different cultures, religions, and traditions -- increasing the potential for conflict.

气候难民已经迁移到已经有不同文化、宗教和传统的人们居住的地区，这增加了发生冲突的可能性。

Stronger storms in the Atlantic and the Pacific have threatened whole cities.

大西洋和太平洋更强的风暴威胁到了整个城市。

Millions have been displaced by massive flooding in South Asia, Mexico, and 18 countries in Africa.

南亚、墨西哥和非洲 18 个国家的大规模洪水导致数百万人流离失所。

As temperature extremes have increased, tens of thousands have lost their lives.

随着极端气温的加剧，数以万计的人失去了生命。

We are recklessly burning and clearing our forests and driving more and more species into extinction.

我们不顾一切地焚烧和砍伐森林，导致越来越多的物种灭绝。

The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed.

我们赖以生存的生命之网正在被撕裂和磨损。

We never intended to cause all this destruction, just as Alfred Nobel never intended that dynamite be used for waging war.

我们从来没有打算造成所有这些破坏，就像阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔从来没有打算用炸药来发动战争一样。

He had hoped his invention would promote human progress.

他曾希望他的发明能够促进人类进步。

We shared that same worthy goal when we began burning massive quantities of coal, then oil and natural gas.

当我们开始燃烧大量煤炭，然后是石油和天然气时，我们有着同样的崇高目标。

Even in Nobel's time, there were a few warnings of the likely consequences.

即使在诺贝尔时代，也曾对可能产生的后果发出过一些警告。

One of the very first winners of the Prize in chemistry worried that -- in his words -- "We are evaporating our coal mines into the air." After performing 10,000 equations by hand, Svante Arrhenius calculated that the earth's average temperature would increase by many degrees if we doubled the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

化学奖的第一批获奖者之一担心——用他的话说——“我们正在将我们的煤矿蒸发到空气中。”在手动执行 10,000 个方程后，斯万特·阿伦尼乌斯计算出，如果我们将大气中的二氧化碳含量增加一倍，地球的平均温度将会升高很多度。

Seventy years later, my teacher, Roger Revelle , and his colleague, Dave Keeling , began to precisely document the increasing CO2 levels day by day.

七十年后，我的老师罗杰·雷维尔 (Roger Revelle) 和他的同事戴夫·基林 (Dave Keeling) 开始精确记录日益增加的二氧化碳水平。

But unlike most other forms of pollution, CO2 is invisible, tasteless, and odorless -- which has helped keep the truth about what it is doing to our climate out of sight and out of mind.

但与大多数其他形式的污染不同，二氧化碳是看不见、无味、无臭的——这有助于让人们忽视它对我们气候造成的影响的真相。

Moreover, the catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented; and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

而且，现在威胁我们的灾难是前所未有的，我们经常将前所未有的事情与不可能的事情混为一谈。

We also find it hard to imagine making the massive changes that are now necessary to solve the crisis.

我们还发现很难想象现在要做出解决危机所需的大规模变革。

And when large truths are genuinely inconvenient, whole societies can, at least for a time, ignore them.

当重大事实确实令人不便时，整个社会至少在一段时间内可以忽视它们。

Yet as George Orwell reminds us: "Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield." �

然而，正如乔治·奥威尔提醒我们的那样：“错误的信念迟早会与坚实的现实发生冲突，通常是在战场上。” �

In the years since this prize was first awarded, the entire relationship between humankind and the earth has been radically transformed.

自该奖项首次颁发以来的这些年里，人类与地球之间的整个关系已经发生了根本性的变化。

And still, we have remained largely oblivious to the impact of our cumulative actions.

尽管如此，我们在很大程度上仍然没有意识到我们累积行动的影响。

Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself.

事实上，在没有意识到的情况下，我们已经开始对地球本身发动战争。

Now, we and the earth's climate are locked in a relationship familiar to war planners: " Mutually assured destruction ." More than two decades ago, scientists calculated that nuclear war could throw so much debris and smoke into the air that it would block life-giving sunlight from our atmosphere, causing a "nuclear winter." Their eloquent warnings here in Oslo helped galvanize the world's resolve to halt the nuclear arms race.

现在，我们和地球气候陷入了一种战争策划者所熟悉的关系：“必将毁灭”。二十多年前，科学家计算出，核战争可能会向空气中排放大量碎片和烟雾，从而阻挡我们大气中赋予生命的阳光，从而导致“核冬天”。他们在奥斯陆发出的雄辩警告有助于激发世界停止核军备竞赛的决心。

Now science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent "carbon summer." As the American poet Robert Frost wrote," Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice." Either, he notes, "would suffice." �

现在，科学警告我们，如果我们不迅速减少全球变暖污染，我们的星球通常会从大气中辐射出大量热量，而这种污染会捕获我们的星球，我们将面临造成永久性“碳夏季”的危险。正如美国诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特所写，“有人说世界将在火中终结，有人说世界将在冰中终结”。他指出，要么“就足够了”。 �

But neither need be our fate.

但我们的命运也不一定如此。

It is time to make peace with the planet.

是时候与地球和平相处了。

We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.

我们必须以前所未有的紧迫感和决心迅速动员我们的文明，这种紧迫感和决心只有在国家动员起来参战时才会出现。

These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11 th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope, and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal struggle.

当领导人在第 11 个小时发现话语释放出巨大的勇气、希望以及为持久而殊死的斗争而牺牲的准备时，这些先前的生存斗争就取得了胜利。

These were not comforting and misleading assurances that the threat was not real, not imminent; that it would afflict others but not ourselves; that ordinary life might be lived even in the presence of ordinary -- extraordinary threat; that Providence could be trusted to do for us what we would not do for ourselves.

这些并不是令人安慰和误导性的保证，即威胁不是真实的，也不是迫在眉睫的。它会折磨别人而不是我们自己；即使面临普通——非同寻常的威胁，也可以过普通的生活；可以相信上帝会为我们做我们自己不会做的事情。

No, these were calls to come to the defense of the common future.

不，这些呼吁是为了捍卫共同的未来。

They were calls upon the courage, generosity, and strength of entire peoples, citizens of every class and condition who were ready to stand against the threat once asked to do so.

它们呼吁各国人民、各个阶级和条件的公民拿出勇气、慷慨和力量，一旦受到要求，就准备好对抗威胁。

Our enemies in those times calculated that free people would not rise to the challenge; they were, of course, catastrophically wrong.

当时我们的敌人认为自由人民不会迎接挑战；当然，他们是灾难性的错误。

Now comes the threat of climate crisis -- a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal.

现在气候危机的威胁来了——这是一个真实的、不断上升的、迫在眉睫的、普遍的威胁。

Once again, it is the 11th hour.

又到了第十一点。

The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable.

忽视这一挑战的惩罚是巨大的，而且不断增加，在不久的将来将是不可持续和不可恢复的。

For now, we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

目前，我们仍然有选择命运的权力，剩下的问题只是：我们是否愿意及时采取有力行动，还是会继续被危险的幻想所囚禁？

Mahatma Gandhi awakened the largest democracy on earth and forged a shared resolve with what he called " Satyagraha " -- or "truth force." In every land, the truth -- once known -- has the power to set us free.

圣雄甘地唤醒了地球上最大的民主国家，并与他所谓的“非暴力抵抗”（Satyagraha）或“真理力量”结下了共同的决心。在每一个国家，真相一旦被人知晓，就有力量让我们获得自由。

Truth also has the power to unite us and bridge the distance between "me" and "we," creating the basis for common effort and shared responsibility.

真理也有能力团结我们，弥合“我”和“我们”之间的距离，为共同努力和分担责任奠定基础。

There is an African proverb that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone.

有一句非洲谚语说：“如果你想走得快，就一个人走。

If you want to go far, go together." We need to go far, quickly.

如果你想走得更远，就一起走吧。”我们需要走得更远、更快。

We must abandon the conceit that individual, isolated, private actions are the answer.

我们必须放弃认为个人、孤立、私人行动就是答案的想法。

They can and do help.

他们可以而且确实提供帮助。

But they will not take us far enough without collective action.

但如果不采取集体行动，他们就无法带领我们走得足够远。

At the same time, we must ensure that in mobilizing globally, we do not invite the establishment of ideological conformity and a new lock-step "ism." That means adopting principles, values, laws, and treaties that release creativity and initiative at every level of society in multifold responses originating concurrently and spontaneously.

与此同时，我们必须确保在全球动员时，我们不会导致意识形态的统一和新的步调一致的“主义”。这意味着采用原则、价值观、法律和条约，在同时自发的多重反应中释放社会各个层面的创造力和主动性。

This new consciousness requires expanding the possibilities inherent in all humanity.

这种新意识需要扩大全人类固有的可能性。

The innovators who will devise a new way to harness the sun's energy for pennies or invent an engine that's carbon negative may live in Lagos or Mumbai or Montevideo.

那些将设计一种利用太阳能换取廉价能源的新方法或发明一种负碳发动机的创新者可能居住在拉各斯、孟买或蒙得维的亚。

We must ensure that entrepreneurs and inventors everywhere on the globe have the chance to change the world.

我们必须确保全球各地的企业家和发明家都有机会改变世界。

When we unite for a moral purpose that is manifestly good and true, the spiritual energy unleashed can transform us.

当我们为了一个明显善良和真实的道德目标而团结起来时，释放的精神能量可以改变我们。

The generation that defeated fascism throughout the world in the 1940s found, in rising to meet their awesome challenge, that they had gained the moral authority and long-term vision to launch the Marshall Plan , the United Nations, and a new level of global cooperation and foresight that unified Europe and facilitated the emergence of democracy Japan, Germany, Italy and much of the world.

20世纪40年代在全世界击败法西斯主义的一代人发现，在奋起应对可怕挑战的过程中，他们获得了道德权威和长期愿景，可以启动马歇尔计划、联合国以及新水平的全球合作和远见，从而统一欧洲并促进日本、德国、意大利和世界大部分地区民主的出现。

One of their visionary leaders said, "It is time we steered by the stars and not by the lights of every passing ship." 4

他们的一位富有远见的领导人说：“现在是我们依靠星星而不是每艘过往船只的灯光来驾驶的时候了。” 4

In the last year of that war, you gave the Peace Prize to a man from my hometown of 2000 people, Carthage, Tennessee, in the USA.

在那场战争的最后一年，您将和平奖授予了一位来自我的家乡、美国田纳西州迦太基、有 2000 人人口的人。

Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations." He was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the Congress and the U.S. Senate and in his commitment to world peace and global cooperation.

科德尔·赫尔被富兰克林·罗斯福称为“联合国之父”。他是我父亲的灵感来源和英雄，他追随赫尔进入国会和美国参议院，致力于世界和平与全球合作。

My parents spoke often of Hull, always in tones of reverence and admiration.

我的父母经常谈到赫尔，语气总是充满崇敬和钦佩。

Eight weeks ago, when you announced this prize, the deepest emotion I felt was when I saw the headline in my hometown paper that simply noted I had won the same prize that Cordell Hull had won.

八周前，当你宣布这个奖项时，我感受到最深的情感是当我看到家乡报纸的标题时，上面简单地指出我赢得了与科德尔·赫尔赢得的相同奖项。

In that moment, I knew what my father and mother would have felt were they alive.

那一刻，我知道如果我的父亲和母亲还活着的话，他们会有什么感受。

Just as Hull's generation found moral authority in rising to solve the world crisis caused by fascism, so can we find our greatest opportunity in -- in rising to solve the climate crisis.

正如赫尔这一代人在奋起解决法西斯主义造成的世界危机中找到了道德权威一样，我们也能在奋起解决气候危机中找到我们最大的机会。

In the Kanji characters used in both Chinese and Japanese, "crisis" is written with two symbols, the first meaning "danger," the second "opportunity." By facing and removing the danger of the climate crisis, we have the opportunity to gain the moral authority and vision to vastly increase our own capacity to solve other crises that have been too long ignored.

在中文和日文汉字中，“危机”由两个符号书写，第一个表示“危险”，第二个表示“机会”。通过面对和消除气候危机的危险，我们有机会获得道德权威和远见，从而大大提高我们解决其他长期被忽视的危机的能力。

We must understand the connections between the climate crisis and the afflictions of poverty, hunger, HIV-Aids and other pandemics.

我们必须了解气候危机与贫困、饥饿、艾滋病毒和其他流行病的困扰之间的联系。

As these problems are linked, so too must be their solutions.

由于这些问题是相互关联的，因此它们的解决方案也必须是相互关联的。

We must begin by making the common rescue of the global environment the central organizing principle of the world community.

我们必须首先将共同拯救全球环境作为国际社会的核心组织原则。

Fifteen years ago, I made that case at the " Earth Summit " in Rio de Janeiro.

十五年前，我在里约热内卢的“地球峰会”上提出了这个观点。

Ten years ago, I presented it in Kyoto.

十年前，我在京都发表过它。

This week, I will urge the delegates in Bali to adopt a bold mandate for a treaty that establishes a universal global cap on emissions and uses the market in emissions trading to efficiently allocate resources to the most effective opportunities for speedy reductions.

本周，我将敦促巴厘岛代表们通过一项大胆的条约，建立全球普遍的排放上限，并利用排放交易市场有效地将资源分配给最有效的机会，以实现快速减排。

This treaty should be ratified and brought into effect everywhere in the world by the beginning of 2010 -- two years sooner than presently contemplated.

该条约应于 2010 年初在世界各地获得批准并生效——比目前预计的时间早了两年。

The pace of our response must be accelerated to match the accelerating pace of the crisis itself.

我们的应对步伐必须加快，以适应危机本身的加速步伐。

Heads of state should meet early next year to review what was accomplished in Bali and take personal responsibility for addressing this crisis.

各国元首应于明年初举行会议，回顾巴厘岛​​所取得的成就，并承担解决这场危机的个人责任。

It is not unreasonable to ask, given the gravity of our circumstances, that these heads of state meet every three months until this treaty is completed.

鉴于我们形势的严峻性，要求这些国家元首每三个月举行一次会议，直至该条约完成，并不是没有道理的。

We also need a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store carbon dioxide.

我们还需要暂停建设任何无法安全捕获和储存二氧化碳的燃煤新发电设施。

And most important of all, we need to put a price on carbon -- with a CO2 tax that is then rebated back to the people, progressively, according to the laws of each nation, in ways that shift the burden of taxation from employment to pollution.

最重要的是，我们需要对碳定价——征收二氧化碳税，然后根据每个国家的法律逐步将税收负担从就业转移到污染上返还给人民。

This is by far the most effective and simplest way to accelerate solutions to this crisis.

这是迄今为止加速解决这场危机的最有效、最简单的方法。

The world now needs an alliance -- especially of those nations that weigh heaviest in the scales where earth is in the balance.

世界现在需要一个联盟——特别是那些在地球平衡中权重最大的国家之间的联盟。

I salute Europe and Japan for the steps they've taken in recent years to meet the challenge, and the new government in Australia, which has made solving the climate crisis its first priority.

我向欧洲和日本近年来为应对挑战所采取的措施以及将解决气候危机作为首要任务的澳大利亚新政府表示敬意。

But the outcome will be decisively influenced by two nations that are now failing to do enough: the United States and China.

但结果将受到两个目前做得不够的国家的决定性影响：美国和中国。

While India is also growing fast in importance, it should be absolutely clear that it is the two largest CO2 emitters -- and most of all, my own country -- that will need to make the boldest moves, or stand accountable before history for their failure to act.

尽管印度的重要性也在快速增长，但应该绝对清楚的是，印度是两个最大的二氧化碳排放国——尤其是我自己的国家——需要采取最大胆的行动，否则就会在历史面前为自己的失败承担责任。

Both countries should stop using the other's behavior as an excuse for stalemate and instead develop an agenda for mutual survival in a shared global environment.

两国应停止以对方的行为作为僵局的借口，而应制定在共同的全球环境中共同生存的议程。

These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we must.

这是做出决定的最后几年，但如果我们采取我们必须采取的行动，它们可以成为光明和充满希望的未来的最初几年。

No one should believe a solution will be found without effort, without cost, without change.

没有人应该相信不付出努力、不付出代价、不改变就能找到解决方案。

Let us acknowledge that if we wish to redeem squandered time and speak again with moral authority, then these are the hard truths: The way ahead is difficult.

让我们承认，如果我们希望挽回浪费的时间并再次以道德权威说话，那么这些就是残酷的事实：前进的道路是艰难的。

The outer boundary of what we currently believe to be feasible is still far short of what we actually must do.

我们目前认为可行的外部边界与我们实际必须做的仍然相去甚远。

Moreover, between here and there, across the unknown, falls the shadow.

而且，在此处与彼处之间，跨越未知，落下阴影。

That is just another way of saying that we have to expand the boundaries of what is possible.

这只是我们必须扩大可能性边界的另一种说法。

In the words of the Spanish poet, Antonio Machado , "Pathwalker, there is no path.

用西班牙诗人安东尼奥·马查多的话来说，“行者，没有路。

You must make the path as you walk."

你必须在行走时开辟道路。”

We are standing at the most fateful fork in that path.

我们正站在这条道路上最致命的岔路口。

So I want to end as I began, with a vision of two futures -- each a palpable possibility -- and with a prayer that we will see with vivid clarity the necessity of choosing between those two futures, and the urgency of making the right choice now.

因此，我想像开始时一样，怀着对两种未来的愿景——每种未来都有明显的可能性——并祈祷我们能够清楚地看到在这两种未来之间做出选择的必要性，以及现在做出正确选择的紧迫性。

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen , wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now.

伟大的挪威剧作家亨利克·易卜生写道：“总有一天，年轻一代会来敲我的门。”未来现在正在敲我们的门。

Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions.

毫无疑问，下一代会问我们两个问题之一。

Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?"

他们要么会问：“你在想什么；为什么不采取行动？”或者他们会问：“你是如何找到勇气挺身而出并成功解决一场许多人认为不可能解决的危机的？”

We have everything we need to get started, save perhaps political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

我们拥有开始所需的一切，也许除了政治意愿，但政治意愿是一种可再生资源。

So let us renew it, and let us say together:

那么，让我们更新一下，让我们一起说：

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Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008) 1 Deuteronomy 30:19

艾登米勒 (Eidenmuller)，麦格劳-希尔 (McGraw-Hill) 出版 (2008) 1 申命记 30:19

3 "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.

3 “有人说世界将在火中终结，有人说世界将在冰中终结。

From what I�ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.

从我尝到的欲望来看，我对那些喜欢火的人持支持态度。

But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate to know that for destruction ice Is also great, and would suffice." -- Harpers Magazine , December, 1920.

但如果它必须毁灭两次，我想我对仇恨有足够的了解，知道冰对于毁灭来说也很棒，而且就足够了。” ——《哈珀斯杂志》，1920 年 12 月。

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美国版权状态：文本 = 不确定。

Image (screenshot) = Fair Use.

图片（屏幕截图）= 合理使用。

� Copyright 2001-Present.

� 版权所有 2001 年至今。

American Rhetoric.

美国修辞学。

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Eidenmuller.

艾登米勒。