Online Speech Bank - William Jefferson Clinton - Farewell Address to the Nation (Jan 2001) | wjclintonfarewell
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio]
[真实性认证：以下文本版本直接从音频转录]
My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your President.
我的同胞们，今晚是我作为你们的总统在椭圆形办公室向你们讲话的最后机会。
I am profoundly grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serve, to work for you and with you to prepare our nation for the 21st century.
我非常感谢你们两次让我有幸为你们服务、工作并与你们一起为我们的国家迎接 21 世纪做好准备。
And I'm grateful to Vice President Gore, to my Cabinet secretaries, and to all those who have served with me for the last eight years.
我感谢戈尔副总统、我的内阁部长以及过去八年来与我一起服务的所有人员。
This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.
这是一个巨大转变的时期，你已经迎接每一个新的挑战。
You have made our social fabric stronger, our families healthier and safer, our people more prosperous.
你们使我们的社会结构更加强大，我们的家庭更加健康和安全，我们的人民更加繁荣。
You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.
你们，美国人民，使我们进入全球信息时代成为美国伟大复兴的时代。
In all the work I have done as president, every decision I have made, every executive action I have taken, every bill I have proposed and signed, I've tried to give all Americans the tools and conditions to build the future of our dreams, in a good society, with a strong economy, a cleaner environment, and a freer, safer, more prosperous world.
在我作为总统所做的所有工作中，我做出的每一个决定，我采取的每一项行政行动，我提出和签署的每一项法案，我都试图为所有美国人提供工具和条件，以建设我们梦想的未来，建设一个美好的社会，一个强大的经济，一个更清洁的环境，一个更自由、更安全、更繁荣的世界。
I have steered my course by our enduring values: opportunity for all, responsibility from all, a community of all Americans.
我以我们持久的价值观来引导我的道路：所有人的机会、所有人的责任、所有美国人的社区。
I have sought to give America a new kind of government, smaller, more modern, more effective, full of ideas and policies appropriate to this new time, always putting people first, always focusing on the future.
我一直致力于为美国打造一种新型政府，规模更小、更现代化、更有效，充满适合新时代的理念和政策，始终以人为本，始终着眼于未来。
Working together, America has done well.
通过共同努力，美国做得很好。
Our economy is breaking records, with more than 22 million new jobs, the lowest unemployment in 30 years, the highest home ownership ever, the longest expansion in history.
我们的经济正在打破记录，新增就业岗位超过 2200 万个，失业率达到 30 年来最低水平，住房拥有率达到历史最高水平，经济扩张时间也达到历史最长水平。
Our families and communities are stronger.
我们的家庭和社区更加强大。
35 million Americans have used the family leave law.
3500 万美国人使用了家庭休假法。
Eight million have moved off welfare.
八百万人不再享受福利。
Crime is at a 25-year low.
犯罪率处于 25 年来的最低水平。
Over 10 million Americans receive more college aids, and more people than ever are going to college.
超过 1000 万美国人获得了更多的大学援助，上大学的人也比以往任何时候都多。
Our schools are better.
我们的学校更好。
Higher standards, greater accountability and larger investments have brought higher test scores, and higher graduation rates.
更高的标准、更大的责任和更大的投资带来了更高的考试成绩和更高的毕业率。
More than three million children have health insurance now, and more than 7 million Americans have been lifted out of poverty.
目前，超过 300 万儿童拥有医疗保险，超过 700 万美国人摆脱了贫困。
Incomes are rising across the board.
收入全面增长。
Our air and water are cleaner.
我们的空气和水更清洁。
Our food and drinking water are safer.
我们的食物和饮用水更加安全。
And more of our precious land has been preserved, in the continental United States, than at any time in 100 years.
在美国大陆，我们宝贵的土地得到保护的程度比一百年来的任何时候都要多。
America has been a force for peace and prosperity in every corner of the globe.
美国一直是全球各个角落和平与繁荣的力量。
I'm very grateful to be able to turn over the reins of leadership to a new President, with America in such a strong position to meet the challenges of the future.
我非常感激能够将领导权移交给新总统，让美国处于应对未来挑战的有利地位。
Tonight, I want to leave you with three thoughts about our future.
今晚，我想留给大家关于我们未来的三个想法。
First, America must maintain our record of fiscal responsibility.
首先，美国必须维持我们的财政责任记录。
Through our last four budgets, we've turned record deficits to record surpluses, and we've been able to pay down 600 billion dollars of our national debt, on track to be debt free by the end of the decade for the first time since 1835.
通过我们过去的四份预算，我们已经将创纪录的赤字转变为创纪录的盈余，并且我们已经能够偿还 6000 亿美元的国债，有望在本世纪末实现自 1835 年以来的首次无债。
Staying on that course will bring lower interest rates, greater prosperity, and the opportunity to meet our big challenges.
坚持这条路线将带来更低的利率、更大的繁荣以及应对重大挑战的机会。
If we choose wisely, we can pay down the debt, deal with the retirement of the baby boomers, invest more in our future and provide tax relief.
如果我们做出明智的选择，我们就可以偿还债务、应对婴儿潮一代的退休问题、对未来进行更多投资并提供税收减免。
Second, because the world is more connected every day in every way, America's security and prosperity require us to continue to lead in the world.
其次，由于世界在各方面的联系日益紧密，美国的安全和繁荣要求我们继续引领世界。
At this remarkable moment in history, more people live in freedom than ever before.
在这个非凡的历史时刻，更多的人比以往任何时候都生活在自由之中。
Our alliances are stronger than ever.
我们的联盟比以往任何时候都更加强大。
People all around the world look to America to be a force for peace and prosperity, freedom and security.
世界各地的人们都期待美国成为和平与繁荣、自由与安全的力量。
The global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.
全球经济正在为我们自己的人民以及世界各地的数十亿人提供有尊严地工作、生活和养育家庭的机会。
But the forces of integration that have created these good opportunities also make us more subject to global forces of destruction, to terrorism, organized crime and narco-trafficking, the spread of deadly weapons and disease, the degradation of the global environment.
但创造这些良好机会的一体化力量也使我们更容易受到全球破坏力量、恐怖主义、有组织犯罪和毒品贩运、致命武器和疾病传播以及全球环境恶化的影响。
The expansion of trade hasn't fully closed the gap between those of us who live on the cutting edge of the global economy and the billions around the world who live on the knife's edge of survival.
贸易的扩张并没有完全弥合我们这些生活在全球经济最前沿的人们与世界各地数十亿生活在生存边缘的人们之间的差距。
This global gap requires more than compassion.
这种全球差距需要的不仅仅是同情心。
It requires action.
它需要行动。
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
全球贫困是一个火药桶，我们的冷漠可能会点燃它。
In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling alliances.
托马斯·杰斐逊在他的第一次就职演说中警告说，联盟要纠缠在一起。
But in our times, America cannot and must not disentangle itself from the world.
但在我们这个时代，美国不能也不应该脱离世界。
If we want the world to embody our shared values, then we must assume a shared responsibility.
如果我们希望世界体现我们共同的价值观，那么我们就必须承担共同的责任。
If the wars of the 20th century, especially the recent ones in Kosovo and Bosnia, have taught us anything, it is that we achieve our aims by defending our values and leading the forces of freedom and peace.
如果说 20 世纪的战争，特别是最近发生在科索沃和波斯尼亚的战争教会了我们什么的话，那就是我们通过捍卫我们的价值观并领导自由与和平的力量来实现我们的目标。
We must embrace boldly and resolutely that duty to lead, to stand with our allies in word and deed, and to put a human face on the global economy so that expanded trade benefits all people in all nations, lifting lives and hopes all across the world.
我们必须大胆而坚定地承担起领导责任，在言行上与我们的盟友站在一起，让全球经济更加人性化，从而使扩大的贸易惠及所有国家的所有人，改善全世界的生活和希望。
Third, we must remember that America cannot lead in the world unless here at home we weave the threads of our coat of many colors into the fabric of one America.
第三，我们必须记住，除非我们在国内将多种颜色的外套的线编织成一个美国的织物，否则美国无法领导世界。
As we become ever more diverse, we must work harder to unite around our common values and our common humanity.
随着我们变得越来越多元化，我们必须更加努力地团结在我们共同的价值观和共同的人性周围。
We must work harder to overcome our differences.
我们必须更加努力地克服分歧。
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation and regardless of when they arrived in our country, always moving toward the more perfect union of our founders' dreams.
在我们的心中和我们的法律中，我们必须公平和有尊严地对待我们所有的人民，无论他们的种族、宗教、性别或性取向，也无论他们何时来到我们的国家，始终朝着我们创始人梦想的更完美的结合迈进。
Hillary, Chelsea, and I join all Americans in wishing our very best to the next President, George W.
希拉里、切尔西和我与所有美国人一起向下一任总统乔治·W·布什致以最美好的祝愿。
Bush, to his family and his Administration in meeting these challenges and in leading freedom's march in this new century.
布什向他的家人和他的政府应对这些挑战并在新世纪领导自由进军表示敬意。
As for me, I'll leave the presidency more idealistic, more full of hope than the day I arrived and more confident than ever that America's best days lie ahead.
至于我，在离开总统职位时，我将比我上任之日更加理想化、更加充满希望，并且比以往任何时候都更有信心，相信美国最好的日子就在前方。
My days in this office are nearly through, but my days of service, I hope, are not.
我在这个办公室的日子即将结束，但我希望我的服务日子还没有结束。
In the years ahead, I will never hold a position higher or a covenant more sacred than that of President of the United States.
在未来的岁月里，我永远不会担任比美国总统更高的职位，也不会签订比美国总统更神圣的契约。
But there is no title I will wear more proudly than that of citizen.
但没有什么头衔比公民头衔更让我自豪了。
Thank you.
谢谢。
God bless you, and God bless America.
上帝保佑你们，上帝保佑美国。
Also in this database : William J.
此数据库中还有：William J.
Clinton - Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address
克林顿 - 俄克拉荷马州爆炸案纪念演讲
Audio and Image (Screenshot) Source : William J.
音频和图像（屏幕截图）来源：William J.
Clinton Presidential Library
克林顿总统图书馆
U.S. Copyright Status : This text and image = Property of A merican R hetoric.com.
美国版权状态：本文和图像 = American R hetoric.com 的财产。
Audio = Public domain.
音频=公共领域。
� 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。