【正文】 the spirit of service。a willingness to find meaning in something greater than yet, at this momentit is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest is the firefighter’s courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent’s willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our challenges may be instruments with which we meet them may be those values upon which our success dependsthese things are things are have been the quiet force of progress throughout our is demanded then is a return to these is required of us now is a new era of responsibilitythe knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain is the meaning of our liberty and our creedwhy men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy capital was enemy was snow was stained with a moment when the oute of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: “Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one mon danger, came forth to meet [it].” the face of our mon dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter。and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.第二篇：奧巴馬就職演說全文奧巴馬就職演說全文(中英文版)奧巴馬手按林肯當(dāng)年用《圣經(jīng)》宣誓就任美總統(tǒng)Barack Obama’s Inaugural AddressMy fellow citizens:I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this Americans have now taken the presidential words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of , every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding it has it must be with this generation of we are in the midst of crisis is now well nation is at war, against a farreaching network of violence and economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new have been lost。jobs shed。businesses health care is too costly。our schools fail too many。and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our landthey will be this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and this day, we e to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has e to set aside childish time has e to reaffirm our enduring spirit。to choose our better history。to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the Godgiven promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a must be journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for has not been the path for the faintheartedsome celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West。endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg。Normandy and Khe and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions。greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or is the journey we continue remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on workers are no less productive than when this crisis minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last capacity remains our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisionsnot only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our merce and bind us will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our we will transform our schools and colleges