【正文】 an America that didn t just reward wealth，but it rewarded work and the workers who created 39。m not ve seen it already,the same names and labels they always pin on everyone who doesn t agree with all their ideas,the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives, by pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy ,in the hopes that the media will play attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences ,to turn us against each other for pure political gain, to slice and dice this country into Red States and Blue States； blue collar and white collar； white, black, brown,young,old,rich,poorThis is the race we expect,no matter whether it39。s desire to no longer be defined by our differences, because no matter where I ve been in this country, whether it was the corn fields of Iowa or the textile mills of the Carolinas, the streets of San Antonio or the foothills of Georgia, I ve found that, while we may have different stories，we hold mon may not look the same or e from the same place，but we want to move in the same direction towards a better future for our children and our s why I39。s about securing your portion of the American t ever forget that we have a choice in this country, that we can choose not to be divided； that we can choose not to be afraid, that we can still choose this moment to finally e together and solve the problems we ve talked about all those other years in all those other time can be different than all the time we can face down those who say our road is too long, that our climb is too steep, that we can no longer achieve the change that we is our time to answer the call that so many generations of Americans have answered before, by insisting that, by hard work and by sacrifice，the American dream will you，and may God Bless the United States of America.第四篇：奧巴馬就職演講原文地址：奧巴馬總統(tǒng)就職演說(shuō)中英文對(duì)照全文作者：?jiǎn)汤诎屠藄 about your struggles，it39。s what we39。s economic policies that he claims have made great progress,these are nothing more than the failed policies of the his plan to win in November appears to e from the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after ，we know what39。t want to see homeless veterans on the streets,they don39。s slipping away for too many Americans, we can t afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush39。s possible to overe the same, old negative attacks that are always about scoring points and never about solving our 39。克林頓，在民主黨諸位候選人中領(lǐng)跑。（所謂“基調(diào)演講”，就是民主黨人闡述本黨的綱領(lǐng)和政策宣言，通常由本黨極有前途的政治新星來(lái)發(fā)表，1988年做“基調(diào)演講”的人就是時(shí)任阿肯色州州長(zhǎng)的克林頓。1992年和米歇爾奧巴馬祖籍肯尼亞，是美國(guó)歷史上第一位具有黑人血統(tǒng)的總統(tǒng)。a willingness to find meaning in something greater than yet, at this moment—a moment that will define a generation—it 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 depends—honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism—these 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 responsibility—a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult is the price and the promise of is the source of our confidence—the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain is the meaning of our liberty and our creed—why 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.”America!In 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。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 Hindus—and are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth。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 ofshortcuts or settling for has not been the path for the faintheartedsome celebrated but more often men and women obscure in t