【正文】 第一篇：2009年奧巴馬就職演講inaugural address of barack obama january 20,2009 my 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 and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our 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 decisionsthat the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it worksto spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of dayeven greater cooperation and understanding between will begin to responsibly leave iraq to its people, and forge a hardearned peace in old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken。you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a are a nation of christians and muslims, jews and hindusknow that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history。but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow。to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders。nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to the world has changed, and we must change with we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave americans who, at this very hour, patrol faroff deserts and distant have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in arlington whisper through the honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody 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 ：我今天站在這里，因?yàn)槊媲暗娜蝿?wù)而感到謙卑，因