【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 , sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone。to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers our journey is not plete until our wives, ourmothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their journey is not plete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we mit to one another must be equal as journey is not plete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to journey is not plete until we find a better way to wele the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity。until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our journey is not plete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from is our generation’s task – to make these words, these rights, these values – of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – real for every true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life。it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to does not pel us to settle centurieslong debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our now decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat namecalling as reasoned must act, knowing that our work will be must act, knowing that today’s victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by others who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or faction – and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an immigrant realizes her oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with are the words of citizens, and they represent our greatest and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time – not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting mon effort and mon purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history, and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of you, God Bless you, and may He forever bless these United States of America.第二篇：2013奧巴馬就職演說(shuō)中英雙語(yǔ)版2013奧巴馬就職演講全文Vice President Biden, Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: 拜登副總統(tǒng)，最高法院首席大法官先生，美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)議員們，尊敬的客人們，同胞們： Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our affirm the promise of our recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: 當(dāng)我們每次聚集在一起為總統(tǒng)舉行就職典禮時(shí)，我們都是在見(jiàn)證美國(guó)憲法的不朽力量。我們是在又一次立下美國(guó)民主的承諾。我們?cè)俅翁嵝颜f(shuō)，把這個(gè)國(guó)家凝聚在一起的不是我們的膚色，不是信仰的教條，也不是我們的姓氏源于何處。使我們與眾不同——使我們成為美國(guó)人——的，是我們對(duì)一個(gè)在兩個(gè)多世紀(jì)以前發(fā)表的宣言中所表述的理念：―We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.‖―我們認(rèn)為這些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，他們都從他們的造物主那里被賦予了某些不可剝奪的權(quán)利，包括生命權(quán)、自由權(quán)和追求幸福的權(quán)利?！琓oday we continue a neverending journey, to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our history tells us that while these truths may be selfevident, they have never been selfexecuting。that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding ，我們?nèi)栽诶^續(xù)這個(gè)永恒的旅程，讓那些字句體現(xiàn)在我們這個(gè)時(shí)代的現(xiàn)實(shí)中。因?yàn)闅v史告訴我們，雖然這些真理是不言而喻的，但它們卻不會(huì)自動(dòng)實(shí)現(xiàn)；雖然自由是上帝給我們的禮物，但自由只能靠他在世間的子民的奮斗才能獲得。1776年愛(ài)國(guó)先驅(qū)們所進(jìn)行的斗爭(zhēng)并不是以少數(shù)人的特權(quán)或?yàn)鹾现姷慕y(tǒng)治來(lái)替代專(zhuān)制君主。他們?yōu)槲覀兙喸斓氖且粋€(gè)共和國(guó)，一個(gè)民有、民治、民享的政府，并將捍衛(wèi)這個(gè)建國(guó)理念的任務(wù)交給一代又一代的后人。For more than two hundred years, we ，我們做到了。Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive halfslave and made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward ，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)，建立在自由和平等原則之上的合眾國(guó)不能一半是蓄奴的，一半是自由的。我們?cè)』鹬厣?，我們發(fā)誓共同努力向前。Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and merce。schools and colleges to train our ，現(xiàn)代經(jīng)濟(jì)需要鐵路和公路，以加快旅行和商業(yè)，也需要中小學(xué)和大學(xué)來(lái)培訓(xùn)我們的工人。Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure petition and fair ，只有確保競(jìng)爭(zhēng)和公平的法規(guī)健全，自由市場(chǎng)才能欣欣向榮。Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and ，一個(gè)偉大國(guó)家必須關(guān)照弱者，并保護(hù)我們的人民免受生活中最嚴(yán)重的危險(xiǎn)和不幸。Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government celebration of initiative and enterprise。our insistence on hard work and personal responsibility, are constants in our ，我們從來(lái)沒(méi)有放棄對(duì)政府集中權(quán)力的懷疑，我們也沒(méi)有屈就于那種相信只靠政府就可以解決所有社會(huì)弊病的幻想。