【正文】 克林頓就職演講稿中英文對(duì)照Inaugural Address of George January 20 2001 President Clinton distinguished guests and my fellow citizens: The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history yet mon in our asimple oath we affirm old traditions and make new I begin I thank President Clinton for his service to our nation and I thank VicePresident Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with am honored and humbled to stand here where so many of Americas leaders havee before me and so many will have a place all of us in a long story we continue but whose end we willnot is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old a storyof a slaveholding society that became a servant of freedom the story of a power thatwent into the world to protect but not possess to defend but not to is theAmerican story of flawed and fallible people united across the generations bygrand and enduring grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promisethat everyone belongs that everyone deserves a chance that no insignificant person wasever are called upon to enact this promise in our lives and in our lawsand though our nation has sometimes halted and sometimes delayed we must follow noother much of the last century Americas faith in freedom and democracy was arock in a raging it is a seed upon the wind taking root in many faith is more than the creed of our country it is the inborn hope of ourhumanity an ideal we carry but do not own a trust we bear and pass along and evenafter nearly 225 years we have a long way yet to many of our citizens prosper others doubt the promise even the justice of ourown ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hiddenprejudice and the circumstances of their birth and sometimes our differences run so deepit seems we share a continent but not a do not accept this and we will notallow unity our union is the serious work of leaders and citizens in everygeneration and this is my solemn pledge I will work to build a single nation of justice know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger thanourselves who creates us equal in His image and we are confident in principles that uniteand lead us has never been united by blood or birth or are bound by ideals thatmove us beyond our backgrounds lift us above our interests and teach us what it meansto be child must be taught these citizen must uphold themand every immigrant by embracing these ideals makes our country more not we affirm a new mitment to live out our nations promise through civilitycourage passion and at its best matches a mitment toprinciple with a concern for civil society demands from each of us good will andrespect fair dealing and seem to believe that our politics can afford tobe petty because in a time of peace the stakes of our debates appear thestakes for America are never our country does not lead the cause of freedom itwill not be we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character wewill lose their gifts and undermine their we permit our economy to drift anddecline the vulnerable will suffer must live up to the calling we isnot a tactic or a is the determined choice of trust over cynicism of munityover mitment if we keep it is a way to shared at its best is also national courage has been clear in timesof depression and war when defending mon dangers defined our mon we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead ofpassing them on to future we will reclaim Americas schools before ignorance and apathy claim moreyoung lives we will reform Social Security and Medicare sparing our children fromstruggles we have the power to prevent we will reduce taxes to recover the momentumof our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans we will buildour defenses beyond challenge lest weakness invite challenge and we will confrontweapons of mass destruction so that a new century is spared new enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake America remainsengaged in the world by history and by choice shaping a balance of power that will defend our allies and our interests we will show purpose withoutarrogance we will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength and to allnations we will speak for the values that gave our nation at its best is the quiet of American conscience we knowthat deep persistent poverty is unworthy of our nations our views ofits cause we can agree that children at risk are not at and abuse arenot acts of God they are failures of proliferation of prisons however necessaryis no substitute for hope and order in our there is suffering there is in need are not strangers they are citizens not problems but priorities and allof us are diminished when any are has great responsibilities forpublic safety and public health for civil rights and mon passion is thework of a nation not just a needs and hurts are so deep they will onlyrespond to a mentors touch or a pastors and charity synagogue andmosque lend our munities their humanity and they will have an honored place in ourplans and in our in our country do not know the pain of poverty but we canlisten to those who can pledge our nation to a goal When we see that woundedtraveler on the road to Jericho we will not pass to the other at its best is a place where personal responsibility is valued and responsibility is not a search for scapegoats it is a call to it requires sacrifice it brings a deeper find the fullness of life notonly in options but in find that children and munity are themitments that set us public interest depends on private character on civicduty and family bonds and basic fairness on uncounted unhonored acts of decencywhich give direction to our in life we are called to do great a saint of our times has said every day we are called to do small things with great most important tasks of