【正文】 planet, and to whom we bear sacred must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from 。我們必須對自己的人民——對他們的工作和對他們的未來——增加投資，同時削減我們的巨額債務。同胞們，這是我們的時代，讓我們?nèi)肀?。and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our ，但是，在大多數(shù)人更加拼命地工作而收入?yún)s在減少的時候，在還有人根本找不到工作的時候，在衛(wèi)生保健費用使許多人傾家蕩產(chǎn)、使大大小小的企業(yè)行將倒閉的時候，在恐懼犯罪而使奉公守法的公民喪失自由的時候，在千百萬貧困兒童甚至難以想象我們正召喚他們?nèi)ミ^的那種生活的時候，我們卻還沒有使改革成為我們的朋友。and ambition for a better life is now earn our livelihood in peaceful petition with people all across the ，投資是流動性的，技術(shù)幾乎是神秘的，而要求改善生活的強烈愿望是全世界人民共同的。這個世界雖然沐浴在自由的陽光下，但仍然面臨著舊的仇恨和新的災禍的威脅。s ideals。ing out from behindlocked doors and shuttered windows to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime。saved the world from tyranny in two world wars and a long cold war。built unrivaled centers of learning and opened public schools to all。split the atom and explored the heavens。and time and again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of the way, Americans produced a great middle class andsecurity in old age。taking time out of our own lives to serve and every one of us, in our own way, must assume personal responsibilitynot only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and our nation.(Applause.)Our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of munity for a new any one of us to succeed, we mustsucceed as one challenge of our past remains the challenge of our futurewill we be one nation, one people, with one mon destiny, or not? Will we all e together, or e apart?The divide of race has been America s constant each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction are no different.(Applause.)These forces have nearly destro第三篇：克林頓1993年就職演講January 20, 1993, Inaugural Address of William （克林頓1993年就職演講）My fellow citizens :（同胞們）Today we celebrate the mystery of American ，我們慶祝振興美國這件令人感到異常驚奇的事。life, liberty, the pursuit of we march to the music of our time, our mission is generation of Americans must define what it means to be an ，向上帝宣布我們的目的時，他們知道，美國要長久地存在下去，就必須改革。Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world39。今天，我們美國人是和全世界人民在和平競爭中謀求我們的生計。We know we have to face hard truths and take strong we have not done , we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our ，我們必須正視嚴酷的現(xiàn)實并且采取有力的措施，但是，我們沒有這樣做。Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with ，還必須成為我們自我振興的發(fā)動機。在一個我們必須靠競爭才能獲得每個機會的世界上，我們一定要這樣做。我們也必須這樣做。為振興美國，我們必須給我們的民主制度帶來新的活力。讓我們把這個首都還給她所屬的人民。共產(chǎn)主義的崩潰激起了舊的仇恨和新的危險。But our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many the world, we see them embraced, and we hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and cause is America39。你們以前所未有的人數(shù)參加了投票。但是，任何一位總統(tǒng)，任何一個國會，任何一屆政府，都無法獨自承擔這一使命。An idea born in revolution and renewed through two centuries of idea tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate we, the fortunate and the unfortunate, might have been each idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity the deepest measure of idea infused with the conviction that America39。s help, we must answer the ，我們聽到山谷里傳來為國效力的召喚。s mightiest industrial power。a government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with where it can stand up for our values and interests in the world, and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not preeminent mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunity,not a guarantee, but a real opportunity to build better that, my fellow citizens, the future is up to founders taught us that the preservation of our liberty and our union depends upon responsible we need a new sense of responsibility for a new is work to do, work that government alone cannot do: teaching children to read。s permanent under class part of tomorrow39。s greatest democracy will lead a whole world of land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its nation where our grandparents have secure retirement and health care, and their grandchildren know we have made the reforms necessary to sustain those benefits for their nation that fortifies the world39。ing out from behind locked doors and shuttered windows to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime。and time and again, reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of the way, Americans produced a great middle class and security in old age。我們已經(jīng)換崗。一種經(jīng)受過這種認識錘煉的思想，即我們這些幸運者和不幸者，若非因為命運的安排，可能已經(jīng)變換位置。我要求新一代美國青年按照你們的理想行動起來，幫助困難兒童，同患難者休戚與共，把我們這個四分五裂的社會重新凝為一體，為祖國貢獻你們的力量。同胞們，是的，你們已經(jīng)促使春天提前到來了。在許多國家，美國的思想還是一種新生力量。While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities, of this new with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf ，我們不會在這個新世界的挑戰(zhàn)面前退縮，也不會坐失良機。the world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race。達官貴族們玩弄權(quán)術(shù)、爭名奪利，隨時都在擔心誰進誰出、誰升誰降，忘記了那些用辛勤和汗水把我們送到這里，并為我們承擔費用的人。后代是未來的世界。但是，我們能夠做到，而且能夠做得很好。And so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift。Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before ，但我們的力量也是可畏的。我們時代迫切需要解決的問題是，我們能否使改革成為我們的朋友，而不是我們的敵人。When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by , the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the ，消息緩慢地通過騎馬傳遍大陸和乘船漂洋過海