【正文】
、信任和勇氣而走向和平, Almighty God has blessed our land in many 。He has given our people stout hearts and strong arms 他賦予我們的人民堅(jiān)強(qiáng)的意志和有力的雙手,with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and 。He has given to our country a faith 他賦予我們的國(guó)家一種信仰,which has bee the hope of all peoples in an anguished ,這種信仰已成為各國(guó)人民的希望。 we pray to Him now 因此,我們現(xiàn)在向上帝祈禱,for the vision to see our way clearly祈求它賜給我們遠(yuǎn)見(jiàn),讓我們看清我們的道路—to see the way that leads to a better life for ourselves and for all our fellow men一條使我們自己和全人類(lèi)通向更加美好的生活的道路—to the achievement of His will to peace on 。 Baines Jonhnson is a great pleasure to be here university has been coeducational since 1870, but I do not believe it was on the basis of your acplishments that a Detroit high school girl said(and I quote), ―In choosing a college, you first have to decide whether you want a coeducational school or educational school.‖ 今天很高興來(lái)到這里。這個(gè)大學(xué)從1870年以來(lái)一直是男女合校的,但是當(dāng)我引用一個(gè)來(lái)自底特律的高中女生的話說(shuō):“在選擇大學(xué)的時(shí)候,你首先要確定你想要的是一個(gè)男女合校的還是注重教育的大學(xué)”時(shí),我想她一定不是以貴校所取得的成就作為她考慮的基礎(chǔ)的。Well, we can find both here at Michigan, although perhaps at different came out here today very anxious to meet the Michigan student whose father told a friend of mine that his son’s education had been a real stopped his mother from bragging about ,我們?cè)诿苄髮W(xué)能同時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)男女合校和注重教育這兩個(gè)特點(diǎn),雖然可能是在不同的時(shí)候。我今天來(lái)也非常想要見(jiàn)一位密歇根大學(xué)的學(xué)生,他的父親告訴我的一個(gè)朋友說(shuō),他兒子得到的教育是貨真價(jià)實(shí)的,連孩子的母親也不再吹噓自己的兒子了。 have e today from the turmoil of your capital to the tranquility of your campus to speak about the future of your ,和你們談?wù)勥@個(gè)國(guó)家的未來(lái)。The purpose of protecting the life of our Nation and preserving the liberty of our citizens is to pursue the happiness of our 。Our success in that pursuit is the test of our success as a 。 a century we labored to settle and to subdue a ,以便在這塊大陸上安居立業(yè)并征服這個(gè)大陸。For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our 、勤奮不懈地工作,以便為我們?nèi)w人民創(chuàng)造一個(gè)富裕的社會(huì)。The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American ,我們能否利用這些財(cái)富來(lái)豐富和提高我們的國(guó)民生活并改善美國(guó)社會(huì)文明的質(zhì)量。 imagination and your initiative and your indignation will determine whether we build a society where progress is the servant of our needs, or a society where old values and new visions are buried under unbridled ,還是建立一個(gè)傳統(tǒng)價(jià)值和新知灼見(jiàn)被脫韁的增長(zhǎng)所掩埋的社會(huì),這取決于你們的想象力、你們的主創(chuàng)性和你們的奮發(fā)意氣。For in your time we have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great ,使你們不僅可以向前進(jìn)入一個(gè)富裕和強(qiáng)大社會(huì),而且可以向上邁入一個(gè)偉大的社會(huì)。 Great Society rests on abundance and liberty for 。It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally mitted in our ,這是我們這一代人全力以赴的一項(xiàng)任務(wù)。But that is just the 。 Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his ,每一個(gè)孩子都能獲取知識(shí)以豐富頭腦,增長(zhǎng)才干。It is a place where leisure is a wele chance to build and reflect, not a feared cause of boredom and ,閑暇時(shí)間受人歡迎,可以用來(lái)充實(shí)自己或靜思反省,而不會(huì)成為無(wú)聊和煩躁的可怕誘因。It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of merce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for ,城市不僅為人們的物質(zhì)需求和商業(yè)要求服務(wù),而且也為滿足人們對(duì)美的渴望和對(duì)社會(huì)交往的迫切愿望服務(wù)。It is a place where man can renew contact with ,人可以重新接近自然。It is a place which honors creation for its own sake and for what is adds to the understanding of the 。It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their 。 most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished ,偉大的社會(huì)不是一個(gè)安全的港灣,一個(gè)休息的地方,一個(gè)終極目標(biāo),一項(xiàng)完成了的工作。It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our ,吸引著我們向著我們的命運(yùn)前進(jìn),在那里,我們生命的意義和我們精彩的勞動(dòng)的成果是相匹配的。 I want to talk to you today about three places where we begin to build the Great Society – in our countryside, and in our ,今天我想和你們談?wù)勎覀兛梢詮娜齻€(gè)地方開(kāi)始建設(shè)我們偉大的社會(huì)—— 我們的城市,我們的農(nóng)村,和我們的教室。 of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million Americans – fourfifths of them in urban ,可能是50年以后,那時(shí)候美國(guó)將有4億人——其中五分之四在城市地區(qū)。In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes and highways and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first ,城市的人口將翻倍,城市的土地將翻倍,我們要建造的房屋、高速公路和設(shè)施,將和我們這個(gè)國(guó)家自從初次在此定居以來(lái)所造的一樣多。So in the next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United 。 said: ―Men e together in cities in order to live, but they remain together in order to live the good life.‖亞里士多德說(shuō):“人類(lèi)一起進(jìn)城是為了生存,但一起留在城里卻是為了美好的生活?!?It is harder and harder to live the good life in American cities 。The catalog of ills is long: there is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our :到處都看到城市的衰敗和對(duì)市郊的掠奪。人民沒(méi)有足夠的住房,交通沒(méi)有足夠的運(yùn)輸力。Open land is vanishing and old landmarks are ,標(biāo)志性的建筑被破壞。Worst of all expansion is eroding these precious and time honored values of munity with neighbors and munion with 。The loss of these values breeds loneliness and boredom and ,與自然相交融的價(jià)值觀的消失,滋生出的是孤獨(dú),無(wú)聊和冷漠。 our society will never be great until our cities are 。Today the frontier of imagination and innovation is inside those cities and not beyond their ,想象和發(fā)明所及仍局限于城市內(nèi),還沒(méi)有跨越城界。新的試驗(yàn)正在展開(kāi)。New experiments are already going will be the task of your generation to make the American city a place where future generations will e, not only to live, but to live the good ,讓美國(guó)的城市成為子孫后代都會(huì)到來(lái)的地方,不僅為了生存,更是為了美好的生活。And I understand that if I stayed here tonight I would see that Michigan students are really doing their best to live the good ,我將會(huì)看到密歇根的學(xué)子們正在為過(guò)上美好的生活盡他們最大的努力。 is the place where the Peace Corps was 。 is inspiring to see how all of you, while you are in this country, are trying so hard to live at the level of the ,如此努力地和人民生活在同一個(gè)水平上,同心同德,這真是振奮人心的。 second place where we begin to build the Great Society is in our 。We have always prided ourselves on being not only America the strong and America the fre