American Rhetoric: Buck O'Neil - Address at the National Baseball Hall of Fame | buckoneilbaseballhalloffame

Speech at the at the National Baseball Hall of Fame

在国家棒球名人堂的演讲

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Alright, sit down.

好吧，坐下吧。

This is outstanding!

这非常出色！

I've been a lot of places.

我去过很多地方。

I've done a lot of things that I really liked doing.

我做了很多我真正喜欢做的事情。

I hit the homerun.

我击出了本垒打。

I hit the grand slam homerun.

我打出了大满贯本垒打。

I hit for the cycle.

我打了一个周期。

I've had a hole-in-one in golf.

我在高尔夫比赛中打过一杆进洞。

I've done a lot of things I liked doing.

我做了很多我喜欢做的事情。

I shook hands with President Truman.

我与杜鲁门总统握手。

Yeah.

是的。

Oh, man, I took -- Oh, [shook hands] with the other President and I...hugged his wife, Hillary.

哦，天哪，我和另一位总统[握手]，我……拥抱了他的妻子希拉里。

So I've done a lot of things I liked doing.

所以我做了很多我喜欢做的事情。

But I'd rather be right here, right now, representing these people that helped build a bridge across the chasm of prejudice -- not just the ones like Charlie Pride and me that later crossed it.

但我宁愿现在就在这里，代表这些帮助架起一座跨越偏见鸿沟的桥梁的人——而不仅仅是像查理·普莱德和我这样后来跨越了它的人。

Yeah.

是的。

This is quite an honor for me.

这对我来说是莫大的荣幸。

See, I played in the Negro Leagues .

看，我在黑人联盟打过球。

Tell you what: The Negro Leagues was nothing like Hollywood try to make it.

告诉你：黑人联盟与好莱坞试图打造的完全不同。

The Negro Leagues was the third largest black business in this country.

黑人联盟是这个国家第三大黑人企业。

Yeah.

是的。

First, black insurances to white insurances -- ten cent policy, just enough to bury us.

首先，黑人保险对白人保险——十美分保单，刚好够埋葬我们。

But the black insurances insured our crops, our homes, yeah, our stock.

但黑人保险为我们的农作物、我们的房屋，是的，我们的牲畜提供了保险。

They made millions.

他们赚了数百万美元。

Next, Madame C.J.

接下来，C.J. 女士

Walker -- cosmetology.

沃克——美容学。

You see that pretty hair over there?

你看到那边那漂亮的头发了吗？

Don't you see it on Mrs. Robinson?

你没在罗宾逊夫人身上看到这一点吗？

Tell you what.

告诉你什么。

Yeah.

是的。

That's right.

这是正确的。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

是的。

Madame C.

C女士

J.

J。

Walker was doing that a hundred years ago, and she made millions, to tell you the truth.

沃克一百年前就这么做了，说实话，她赚了数百万美元。

Madame C.

C女士

J.

J。

Walker was the first black woman millionaire in this country.

沃克是这个国家第一位黑人女性百万富翁。

And to tell you Madam C.J.

并告诉您 C.J. 女士

Walker might have been the first woman millionaire in the country that earned it.

沃克可能是该国第一位获得此殊荣的女性百万富翁。

They had other women millionaires but they inherited the money.

他们还有其他女性百万富翁，但她们继承了钱。

Madam C.J.

C.J.女士

Walker earned it.

沃克赚到了。

Next, Negro League baseball.

接下来是黑人联盟棒球。

All you needed was a bus, and we rode in some of the best buses money could buy, yeah, a couple of sets of uniforms.

你所需要的只是一辆公共汽车，我们乘坐的是一些最好的公共汽车，钱可以买到，是的，几套制服。

You could have 20 of the best athletes that ever lived.

你可以拥有 20 位有史以来最优秀的运动员。

And that�s who we are representing here today.

这就是我们今天在这里代表的人。

It was outstanding.

这是非常出色的。

And playing in the Negro leagues -- what a lot of you don�t know.

还有在黑人联赛中打球——你们很多人都不知道。

See, when I played in the Negro leagues -- I first came to the Negro leagues -- five percent of Major League ball players were college men because the major leaguers wanted them right out of high school, put them in the minor league, bring them on in.

看，当我在黑人联盟打球时——我第一次来到黑人联盟——美国职业棒球大联盟的球员中有百分之五是大学生，因为大联盟球员希望他们从高中毕业，把他们放入小联盟，让他们加入。

But Negro leagues, 40 percent of Negro leagues, leaguers, were college men.

但黑人联盟，40%的黑人联盟，联盟成员，都是大学生。

The reason that was, we always spring trained in a black college town and that�s who we played in spring training, the black colleges.

原因是，我们总是在黑人大学城进行春训，这就是我们在春训中扮演的角色，黑人大学。

So when school was out, they came and played baseball.

所以当学校放假时，他们就来打棒球。

When baseball season was over, they�d go back to teaching, to coaching, or to classes.

棒球赛季结束后，他们会回去教学、教练或上课。

That was Negro League baseball.

那是黑人联盟棒球。

And I'm proud to have been a Negro league ball player.

我很自豪自己是一名黑人联盟球员。

Yeah, yeah.

是啊是啊。

And I tell you what, they always said to me Buck, "I know you hate people for what they did to you or what they did to your folks." I said, "No, man, I -- I never learned to hate." I hate cancer.

我告诉你，他们总是对我巴克说，“我知道你讨厌人们对你或你的家人所做的事情。”我说：“不，伙计，我——我从来没有学会去恨。”我讨厌癌症。

Cancer killed my mother.

癌症夺去了我母亲的生命。

My wife died 10 years ago of cancer.

我的妻子十年前因癌症去世。

(I'm single, ladies.) A good friend of mine -- I hate AIDS.

（女士们，我是单身。） 我的一个好朋友——我讨厌艾滋病。

A good friend of mine died of AIDS three months ago.

我的一个好朋友三个月前死于艾滋病。

I hate AIDS.

我讨厌艾滋病。

But I can�t hate a human being because my God never made anything ugly.

但我不能恨一个人，因为我的上帝从未让任何东西变得丑陋。

Now, you can be ugly if you wanna, boy, but God didn�t make you that way.

现在，如果你愿意，你可以变得丑陋，孩子，但上帝并没有把你创造成这样。

Uh, uh.

呃，呃。

So, I want you to light this valley up this afternoon.

所以，我希望你今天下午照亮这个山谷。

Martin [Luther King] said " Agape " is understanding, creative -- a redemptive good will toward all men.

马丁（路德·金）说“Agape”是理解性的、创造性的——一种对所有人的救赎善意。

Agape is an overflowing love which seeks nothing in return.

Agape是一种满溢的爱，不求任何回报。

And when you reach love on this level, you love all men, not because you like 'em, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loved them.

当你达到这个层面上的爱时，你爱所有人，不是因为你喜欢他们，不是因为他们的方式吸引你，而是你爱他们，因为神爱他们。

And I love Jehovah my God with all my heart, with all my soul, and I love every one of you -- as I love myself.

我全心全意地爱耶和华我的上帝，我也爱你们每一个人，就像爱我自己一样。

Now, I want you to do something for me.

现在，我要你为我做一件事。

I�m fixin' to get off this stage now.

我现在正准备离开这个舞台。

I think I done my six minutes.

我想我已经完成了六分钟。

But I want you to do something for me.

但我想让你为我做点什么。

I want you to hold hands.

我要你牵着手。

Whoever�s next to you, hold a hand.

无论谁在你旁边，请握住你的手。

Come on, you Hall of Famers, hold hands.

来吧，你们名人堂成员，手牵着手。

All you people out there, hold hands.

所有在场的人，手牵着手。

Everybody hooked up?

大家都上钩了吗？

Everybody hooked up?

大家都上钩了吗？

Well then I tell you what.

那么我告诉你什么。

See, I know my brothers up here, my brothers over there -- I see some black brothers of mine and sisters out there -- I know they can sing.

看，我认识我这里的兄弟，那里的兄弟——我看到我的一些黑人兄弟和姐妹在那里——我知道他们会唱歌。

Can you white folks sing?

你们白人会唱歌吗？

I want you to sing after me:

我要你跟着我唱：

The greatest thing -- come on everybody --

最伟大的事情——大家来吧——

The greatest thing in all of my life is loving you.

我一生中最伟大的事情就是爱你。

The greatest thing in all of my life is loving you.

我一生中最伟大的事情就是爱你。

The greatest thing in all of my life is loving you.

我一生中最伟大的事情就是爱你。

The greatest thing in all my life is loving you.

我一生中最伟大的事情就是爱你。

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Thank you, folks.

谢谢你们，伙计们。

Thank you, folks.

谢谢你们，伙计们。

Thank you, folks.

谢谢你们，伙计们。

Thank you, folks.

谢谢你们，伙计们。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Thank you.

谢谢。

Now, sit down.

现在，坐下。

Now, sit down.

现在，坐下。

I could talk to you 10 minutes longer, but I got to go to the bathroom.

我可以再跟你聊10分钟，但我得去趟洗手间。

Book/CDs by Michael E.

Michael E. 的书籍/CD

Eidenmuller, Published by McGraw-Hill (2008) 1 = from the contemporary Christian praise song, The Greatest Thing by Mark Pendergrass, Sparrow Records (1977) See also : The Negro League Baseball Players Association and The Baseball Hall of Fame .

艾登穆勒 (Eidenmuller)，麦格劳-希尔 (2008) 出版 1 = 摘自马克·彭德格拉斯 (Mark Pendergrass) 创作的当代基督教赞美歌曲《最伟大的事》(The Greatest Thing)，Sparrow Records (1977) 另请参阅：黑人联盟棒球运动员协会和棒球名人堂。

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美国修辞学。

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Eidenmuller.

艾登米勒。