【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 est friend for the last 16 years the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation’s next first lady Michelle ，我今晚就不會站在這里，她是我過去16年來最好的朋友、是我們一家人的中堅和我一生的摯愛，更是我們國家的下一位第一夫人：米歇爾?奧巴馬(Michelle Obama)。Sasha and Malia I love you both more than you can you have earned the new puppythat39。s ing with us to the new White (Sasha)和瑪麗亞(Malia)，我愛你們超過你們的想象，你們已經(jīng)得到了一條新的小狗，它將與我們一起入駐白宮。And while she39。s no longer with us, I know my grandmother39。s watching, along with the familythat made me who I miss them know that my debt to them is beyond ，但我知道她與我的親人肯定都在看著我，因為他們，我才能擁有今天的成就。今晚，我想念他們，我知道自己欠他們的無可計量。To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much forall the support that you39。ve given am grateful to ，我的妹妹阿爾瑪，我的所有其他的兄弟姐妹們，感謝你們給了我這么多的一切支持，我感謝他們。And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe, the unsung hero of this campaign, who built thebestthe best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of，此次競選的無名英雄，我認為，是他打造了美利堅合眾國歷史上最好的——最好的政治競選。To my chief strategist David Axelrod who39。s been a partner with me every step of the ，這條道路上每一步都與我同行的伙伴。To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics you made this happen，and I am forever grateful for what you39。ve sacrificed to get it －－是你們成就了今天，我永遠感激你們?yōu)閷崿F(xiàn)今天的成就所做出的犧牲。But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs belongs to belongs to ，我永遠不會忘記這場勝利真正的歸屬－－它屬于你們。I was never the likeliest candidate for this didn39。t start with much money or many campaign was not hatched in the halls of began in thebackyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5and $10 and $20 to the 。一開始，我們沒有太多資金，也沒有得到太多人的支持。我們的競選活動并非誕生于華盛頓的高門華第之內(nèi)，而是始于得梅因、康科德、查爾斯頓這些地方的普通民眾家中。我們 的競選活動能有今天的規(guī)模，是因為辛勤工作的人們從自己的微薄積蓄中拿出錢來，捐出一筆又一筆5美元、10美元、20美元。It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation39。s apathywho left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less ，他們拒絕接受認為他們這代人冷漠的荒誕說法；他們離開家、離開親人，從事報酬微薄、極其辛苦的工作It drew strength from the notsoyoung people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heatto knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteeredand organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, bythe people, and for the people has not perished from the ，他們冒著嚴寒酷暑，敲開陌生人的家門進行競選宣傳；更源自數(shù)百萬的美國民眾，他們自動自發(fā)地組織起來，證明了在兩百多年以后，民有、民治、民享的政府并未從地球上消失。This is your 。And I know you didn39。t do this just to win an I know you didn39。t do it for ，我也知道你們做這一切并不是為了我。You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies even as wecelebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of ourlifetimetwo wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a 。因為即便我們今晚歡呼慶祝，我們也知道明天將面臨我們一生之中最為艱巨的挑戰(zhàn)－－兩場戰(zhàn)爭、一個面臨危險的星球，還有百年來最嚴重的金融危機。Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts ofIraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for ，我們知道伊拉克的沙漠里和阿富汗的群山中還有勇敢的美國士兵醒來，甘冒生命危險保護著我們。There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonderhow they39。ll make the mortgage or pay their doctors39。 bills or save enough for their child39。scollege ，擔心如何償還按揭月供、付醫(yī)藥費或是存夠錢送孩子上大學。There39。s new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats tomeet, alliances to 、創(chuàng)造新的工作機會；我們需要修建新學校，還要應對眾多威脅、修復與許多國家的 關(guān)系。The road ahead will be climb will be may not get there in one year oreven in one , America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that wewill get 。我們可能無法在一年甚至一屆任期之內(nèi)實現(xiàn)上述目標，但我從未像今晚這樣滿懷希望，相信我們會實現(xiàn)。I promise you, we as a people will get ，我們肯定可以。There will be setbacks and false are many who won39。t agree with every decisionor policy I make as we know the government can39。t solve every ，這一過程肯定還會出現(xiàn)挫折，甚至是不成功的開始。我作為總統(tǒng)所做出的決策，肯定也會有許多人并不贊同。我們知道政府并不能解決所有問題。But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we will listen to you，especially when we , above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remakingthis nation, the only way it39。s been done in America for 221 yearsblock by block, brickby brick, calloused hand by calloused 。我會認真聽從你們的建議，尤其是意見不一致的時候?？傊?，我邀請你們加入到國家再建的工作之中。221年來，我們的國家就是這樣一磚一瓦，一點一滴地建造起來的。What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn ，不會結(jié)束在今年的這個秋天的夜晚結(jié)束。This victory alone is not the change we is only the chance for us to make that that cannot happen if we go back to the way things －－這只是我們進行改變的機會。而且如果我們?nèi)匀话凑张f有方式行事，我們所尋求的改變不可能出現(xiàn)。It can39。t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of ，沒有一種新的服務精神，新的犧牲精神，它也不可能發(fā)生。So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves topitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each ，讓我們發(fā)揚新的愛國精神，樹立新的服務意識和責任感，讓我們每個人下定決心全情投入、更加努力地工作，并彼此關(guān)愛。Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it39。s that we cannot haveathriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers——In this country, we rise or fall as onenation, as one ：我們不可能在金融以外的領域備受煎熬的同時擁有繁榮興旺的華爾街－－在這個國家，我們患難與共。Let39。s resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness andimmaturity that has poisoned our politics for so ，避免重新回到令美國政治長期深受毒害的黨派紛爭和由此引發(fā)的遺憾和不成 熟表現(xiàn)。Let39。s remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of theRepublican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of selfreliance andindividual liberty and national are values that we all ，是這個州的一名男子第一次將共和黨的旗幟扛進了白宮，(共和黨是建立在自強自立、個人自由以及全民團結(jié)的價值觀上，這也是我們所有人都珍視的價值。And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure ofhumility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our ，但我們是以謙卑的態(tài)度和彌合阻礙我們進步的分歧的決心贏得這場勝利的。As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than