Hello, Chicago.
哈罗，芝加哥！
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a placewhere all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of ourfounders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of ourdemocracy, tonight is your answer.
如果外头还有人怀疑，美国是否真的是任何事都可能发生的地方，怀疑我们开国先贤的梦想今天是否依然存在，怀疑我们民主的力量；今夜，就是你们要的答案。
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools andchurches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waitedthree hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives,because they believed that this time must be different, that theirvoices could be that difference.
这是个用这个国家仅见，环绕学校、教堂的无数人龙，所说的答案。这些人，苦等三、四个小时，许多还是生平头一次，因为他们相信，这次一定要不一样，他们的声音就是明证。
It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat andRepublican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay,straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message tothe world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or acollection of red states and blue states.
这是个由不分老少、贫富、民主党、共和党；黑人、白人、拉丁裔、亚裔、美洲原住民；同性恋、异性恋人；肢障与四体健全者，大家共同诉说的答案。美国民众向全世界发出信息，我们绝非一盘散沙，也不是由红州、蓝州拼凑而成的集合体。
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
我们现在是，未来也永远是，美利坚合众国。
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so manyto be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to puttheir hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hopeof a better day.
这个是引领国人把手放在历史拱弧，再度让它指向明天会更美好希望的答案。长久以来，这些国人一直被许多人灌输，要嘲讽、害怕和怀疑我们自身的能力。
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did onthis date in this election at this defining moment change has come toAmerica.
这个答案迟迟未出现，但是今晚，由于我们在这个投票日关键时刻的所作所为，改变终于降临美国。
A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain.
今晚稍早，我接到马侃参议员打来，态度非常恳切的电话。
Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's foughteven longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has enduredsacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We arebetter off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.
马侃参议员已打完一场漫长艰苦的选战。他为这个他所热爱的国家所打的仗更久，更艰苦。他为美国的奉献牺牲，是我们多数同胞难以想像的。因为有他这位勇敢无私的领袖的奉献，我们才能过比较好的日子。
I congratulate him; I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they'veachieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew thisnation's promise in the months ahead.
我向他道贺；也向裴林州长道贺，为他们所成就的一切。我迫不及待想和他们携手协作，在未来数月更新这个国家的许诺。
I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned fromhis heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on thestreets of Scranton ... and rode with on the train home to Delaware,the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
我要感谢我的选举搭伴，这位先生全心全意竞选，为与他在史克兰顿街头一起长大的男男女女代言。在前往德拉瓦州的路上，和我一起以火车为家，他就是副总统当选人，拜登先生。
And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding supportof my best friend for the last 16 years ... the rock of our family, thelove of my life, the nation's next first lady ... Michelle Obama.
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Sasha and Malia ... I love you both more than you can imagine. And youhave earned the new puppy that's coming with us ...to the new WhiteHouse.
莎夏和玛利亚。我对你俩的爱远超过你们想像。你们已赢得即将和我们一起到新白宫作伴的新小狗。
And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching,along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. Iknow that my debt to them is beyond measure.
还有，虽然她已不在我们身边，但是我知道我外婆，也和造就今日之我的家族一起在看。今晚，我想念他们。我知道，我欠他们的，无法衡量。
To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters,thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I amgrateful to them.
我妹妹玛亚、艾玛、我的其他兄弟姊妹们，烧高香你们给我的所有支持。我很感谢他们。
And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe ... the unsung hero of thiscampaign, who built the best _ the best political campaign, I think, inthe history of the United States of America.
还有，我的竞选经理普罗费，这次竞选的无名英雄，我认为他营造了美国史上最佳的政治运动。
To my chief strategist David Axelrod ... who's been a partner with me every step of the way.
感谢我的首席竞选策略顾问艾索洛，一路走来，他一直是我的得力伙伴。
To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics ...you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you'vesacrificed to get it done.
感谢这个政治史上无出其右的最佳竞选团队，你们造就了这项成果，我对你们的牺牲奉献，永存感激。
But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.
总之，我绝不会忘记这个胜利真正属于谁。它属于你们大家。它是你们的。
I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't startwith much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched inthe halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines andthe living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It wasbuilt by working men and women who dug into what little savings theyhad to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.
我从来就不是这个职位最被看好的候选人。刚开端，我没什么钱，也没什么后援。我们参选的念头，并非始于华府大厅，而是来自第蒙市后院，康科市客厅和查尔斯敦的门廊，再经由众多男女，用他们从有限储蓄中拿出，依法所能捐献的五块、
It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of theirgeneration's apathy ... who left their homes and their families forjobs that offered little pay and less sleep.
经过那些拒绝承认他们是冷漠世代的迷思的年轻朋友加持，它成长茁壮，他们退出家，告别亲人，投入待遇菲薄，永远睡眠不足的任务。
It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bittercold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, andfrom the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and provedthat more than two centuries later a government of the people, by thepeople, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.
经过那些年纪不算轻的朋友加持，它成长茁壮，他们冒着寒风酷暑，挨家挨户向完全陌生的民众敲门；经过数百万民众自发性的组织，证明这个民有、民治、民享的政府，在两百多年之后，没有从地球上消失，仍在成长茁壮。
This is your victory.
这是你们的胜利。
And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.
我知道，你们这么做，不只是为了胜选。我也知道，你们这么做，不是为了我。
You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that liesahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges thattomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime _ two wars, aplanet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.
你们这么做，是因为你们了解，横在眼前的是千万斤的重担。因为即使我们今晚庆功，我们也明白，明天所要面临的是此生最大的挑战：两场战争，一个处于存亡之秋的地球，及百年仅见的金融危机。
Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans wakingup in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risktheir lives for us.
即使我们今晚站在此地，我们也知道，为了我们，美国的勇士们正在伊拉克沙漠巡逻，在阿富汗山区出生入死。
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the childrenfall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay theirdoctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.
许多父母，在子女进入梦乡后，仍辗转难眠，担心房贷、医疗帐单该怎么付，或该怎么存，才够支应子女的大学教育费用。
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.
新的能源要研发，新的任务机会要创造，新学校要建，不少威胁要对付，既有盟邦关系要修补。
The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not getthere in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never beenmore hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.
未来的路仍遥，路上的坡仍陡峭，我们可能没辙儿在一年，或一任内抵达。但是，美国，我从来没有像今晚的我，对我们的使命必达，更充满希望。
I promise you, we as a people will get there.
我向各位许诺，我们会团结一心，一齐抵达目的地。
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agreewith every decision or policy I make as president. And we know thegovernment can't solve every problem.
一开端，挫折和失误在所难免。有许多人不会同意我以总统身分所做的每一个决定或每一项政策。我们也知道政府无法解决所有问题。
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. Iwill listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I willask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it'sbeen done in America for 221 years _ block by block, brick by brick,calloused hand by calloused hand.
但我永远会把我们面对的挑战坦白告诉各位。，尤其是在我们看法不同的时候。最重要的是，我会邀请各位添加重塑这个国家的任务，以美国两百廿一年来采用的唯一方法：一砖一瓦，胼手胝足。
What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.
廿一个月前发轫于隆冬的，不会就在这个秋夜退出。
This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance forus to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the waythings were.
我们追求的改变，不仅仅是这个胜利。这个胜利只是给我们机会实现我们追求的改变。我们若走回头路，改变便不会发生。
It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.
少了你，少了新的服务精神，少了新的牺牲精神，改变就不会发生。
So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, whereeach of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not onlyourselves but each other.
所以，且让我们唤起新的爱国心、新的责任感，人人挽起衣袖，更加努力，照顾自己之外，更要彼此照顾。
Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it'sthat we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.
我们不要忘记，如果这次金融危机给了我们任何教训，那就是在寻常百姓生活困顿下，华尔街也不可能独自繁荣昌盛。
In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let'sresist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship andpettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
在这个国度，不论兴衰，都是全国与共，全民一体。我们一定要抗拒诱惑，不再靠已毒害我国政治许久的党派之私、褊狭和幼稚。
Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried thebanner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded onthe values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.
我们不可忘记，第一个把共和党旗帜带进白宫的男士，正是来自本州。共和党的建党根基则是自立、个人自由及全国统一团结等价值观。
Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party haswon a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility anddetermination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.
这些也是我们共享的价值观。虽然民主党今晚大胜，我们却始终谦冲自持，并决心弥合阻挠我们进步的裂缝。
As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are notenemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must notbreak our bonds of affection.
正如林肯向一个远比今天更分歧的美国所说的，我们不是敌人，是朋友。激情或曾使选情紧绷，却不容它破坏我们之间感情的链接。
And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not havewon your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And Iwill be your president, too.
我要向那些我仍须努力争取支持的美国同胞说，或许今晚我没能赢得各位的选票，但是我听到诸位的声音，我需要你们协助，我也会是你们的总统。
And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, fromparliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in theforgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but ourdestiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
对那些今晚在海外、从各地国会和宫殿观看美国选情的人士，在为世人遗忘的角落围绕着收音机的人们，我要说我们的故事各不相同，命运却是一体，美国新的领导就要出现了。
To those _ to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you.To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all thosewho have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight weproved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not fromthe might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduringpower of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyieldinghope.
对那些想撕裂这个世界的人，我要说：我们会打垮你。对那些追求和平安全的人，我要说：我们支持你。而对那些 怀疑美国这灯塔是否依然明亮的人，今晚我们再度证实，美国真正的国力不是来自船坚炮利、富甲天下，而是来自发乎我们理想、历久不衰的力量，这些理想是民 主、自由、机会和坚持到底的希望。
That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our unioncan be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what wecan and must achieve tomorrow.
这正是真正的美国精神：也就是美国能够改变。这个国家的结合可以更完善。我们已经成就的，让我们勇于企盼我们明天能够做到、也必须做到的。
This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told forgenerations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who casther ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others whostood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for onething: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
这次大选有许多创举和故事足供世世代代传颂。而今晚浮现在我脑海的，是在亚特兰大投票的一位妇人。她和这次大选无数排队投票以表达心声的选民没什么差别，不同的只有一点，安．尼克松．库柏已高龄一百零六。
She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were nocars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn'tvote for two reasons _ because she was a woman and because of the colorof her skin.
她出生于奴隶时代退出后那个世代；当时路上没有汽车，天上不见飞机；而她这样的人没有资格投票，原因有二：其一，她是女人，其二，她的肤色不对。
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her centuryin America _ the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress;the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed onwith that American creed: Yes we can.
但就在今晚，我想到她在美国这百年人生的阅历：心伤和希望；挣扎和进步；那些人告诉我们我们不能的时候，和那些高举着美国人「是的，我们做得到」的信念奋勇向前的人。
At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed,she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot.Yes we can.
身处女性声音受压制、希望被漠视的时代，她这一生亲眼看到女性站起来，表达心声，并争取到投票权。是的，我们做得到。
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land,she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a newsense of common purpose. Yes we can.
就在尘盆地带（指美国大草原的一部分，大致包含科劳拉多州东南部、堪萨斯州西南部、德州与奥克拉荷马州锅柄形冒尖地带）陷入绝望，大萧条席卷美国全境之际，她目睹一个国家以新政、新的任务机会、新的和衷共济精神克服了恐惧本身。是的，我们做得到。
When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, shewas there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy wassaved. Yes we can.
当炸弹落在我们的港口，暴政威胁世界之际，她亲眼看见一个世代巍然挺身而起，拯救了一个民主体制。是的，我们做得到。
She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, abridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that WeShall Overcome. Yes we can.
在蒙哥马里市（黑人）搭巴士抗争，伯明罕市的水龙（警察以强力水龙对付抗议者），赛尔玛城外的桥上（遭警察血腥镇压），来自亚特兰大的一位牧师告诉一个民族「我们终必得胜」时，她都在场。是的，我们做得到。
A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.
一个人登上了月球，柏林一道墙倒了，一个世界被我们自己的科学和想像链接了起来。
And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen,and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the bestof times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.
Yes we can.
而今年，在这次选举中，她用手指触碰屏幕，投下她的一票，因为在美国生活了一百零六年，尝遍酸甜苦辣之后，她知道美国能够有什么样的改变。是的，我们做得到。
America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is somuch more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves _ if our childrenshould live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so luckyto live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? Whatprogress will we have made?
美国，我们已经走了这么远。阅历了这么多。眼前却还有这么多事要做。所以，今晚让我们扪心自问，如果我们的子女能够活到下个世纪；如果我女儿有幸如安．尼克松．库柏般长寿，他们能看到什么改变？我们又促成了什么样的进步？
This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.
此际正是我们回应那个召唤的机会，这是我们的时刻。
This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors ofopportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the causeof peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamentaltruth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope.And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell usthat we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums upthe spirit of a people: Yes, we can.
就在此刻，我们大家要重新开端任务，为我们的孩 子打开希望之门；迎回繁荣并推展和平大业；重新拥抱美国梦并再次确立那基本的真理，也就是我们同舟一命，只要活着就怀抱希望。当旁人嘲讽、怀疑我们，告诉 我们我们办不到时，我们会回以那历久不衰、总结一个民族精神的信念：是的，我们做得到。
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
谢谢大家。愿上帝祝福你，求上帝祝福美国。
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奥巴马胜选演说·文言版
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芝城父老，别来无恙，
余尝闻世人有疑，不知当今美利坚凡事皆可成就耶？开国先贤之志方岿然于世耶？民主之伟力不减于昔年耶？凡存诸疑者，今夕当可释然。
今夕之释然，皆蒙美利坚民众之协力——学塾祠庙之外，市井乡野之间，万千父老心焦似焚，苦待竟日，愿献一票之力。其中，平生未尝涉国事者，数亦不少，而今有此义举，皆因一念不衰——今夫天下，非同既往，愿发吁天之声，必成动地之势。
今夕之释然，皆仰吾国同胞之齐心——何谈贫富老幼之差、党社宗族之异，惶论发肤肌体之别、志趣爱恶之分。吾国既以“合众”为名，吾辈则更无疏离之意，红蓝二党并肩而立，数十邦州挽手相合，无分你我，共称一家，昂然于世，齐声一呼，天下乃有此释然。
今夕之释然，皆因愤懑者之镇静，忧惧者之勇气，犹疑者之笃定——平素世间种种，消磨其志向，溃灭其梦想，而值此风云之际，除旧更新，当仁不让，倾力而动乾坤者，更何人哉！
俟之诚久，其志弥坚。幸天地明察，乃有今日，乃有此刻，乃有此一选举，乃有我亿万美利坚大好国民——吾邦之大变革，方得自兹而始也！
倾接参议员麦君凯恩电，虽未得晤，幸有一谈，其言谆谆，其意诚诚，鄙人感佩之至。选战期内，麦君劳碌几重，奔波几许，皆为国家计。诸般求索，时日良多，皆非余所能及。于国于民之惊人牺牲，亦非庸庸如吾辈者所可想见。以麦君之胆魄襟怀，能为吾邦所用，实国家之幸，万民之幸也。前途漫漫，其事未竟，余所盼瞩由衷者，唯共麦凯恩君、佩林君，及诸贤士比肩，会吾等之绵力，成吾邦之大业。
乔君拜登，亦吾所感铭至深者也。竞选之业，艰险不足与外人道，幸有乔君之辅佐，其诚天可鉴之。乔君其人，素言恳辞切，意笃情真，盖尝经斯兰克顿街乡邻之提命，饱聆特拉华州父老之晤教也。他日余既登总统之位，乔君必当副之。
拙荆米氏，追随鄙人凡一十六年，既为爱侣，更为挚友，既为吾阖家之基石，又乃余终生之至爱。鄙人尝自忖度，倘无贤妻若此，今朝阔论高谈于此处者，不知何人矣！
小女萨沙、玛丽，余素深喜之。昔日为父尝与汝等言，此番选战若得一胜，愿购小犬一头相赠，待阖家乔迁总统府邸之日，偕汝等同进吾宅。今当胜负已出，既有一诺在前，必自践行不欺也。
祖母大人虽已仙逝，料必有灵在天，俯察人寰，想应颔首开颜矣。吾奥巴马氏列祖列宗，亦当如是。今日今时，此情此景，鄙人追思之心，乌鸟之情，曷其有极！唯生死陌路，仙凡有别，虽怀反哺之心，而无答报之门也！
至若玛雅、艾玛二姐妹，以及吾家诸同胞，所惠我者，亦属良多，久沐恩德，此当拜谢。
大卫?普劳夫君，大卫?阿克塞罗德君，一为鄙人竞选事务之经理，一为鄙人国事韬略之智囊。余尝自喟叹，左右谋士，余所仰赖者，皆亘古未见之贤才。普阿二君，则更此中之翘楚。区区不才，有何德能，可得膀臂若此？当此功成之际，感荷之心，亦自拳拳。
至于鄙人铭之肺腑，须臾不敢忘怀者，则诸位也。盖今日鄙人之胜绩，实诸位之胜绩，鄙人之荣光，实诸位之荣光！
余素朴陋，虽有参选之心，并无必胜之志。谋事之初，银资乏匮，从者寥寥；起事之地，皆蔽寓荒斋，不在高阁；成事之基，无非寻常百姓，涓滴之献。
今日之胜，有赖一众热血青年，抛其家，别其室，不辞其苦，不计其酬，矻矻于此——“国中青年爱国之心已泯”之谬论，今可休矣！今日之胜，有赖壮志未已之诸前辈，无惧寒暑，行走奔波，劝说民众。今日之胜，乃数百万美利坚民众之胜，察其意，皆属踊跃为国，观其行，处处谨严有序，足堪告慰二百年前开国之先贤——民有、民治、民享之政体，未尝动摇也！
嗟夫！此实诸位之功也！
余知诸君之意非在此一选举，亦非在鄙人一身。盖瞻前路之艰辛，益知此任非同小可也。虽今夕欢贺于此，而明朝酒醒，大患仍自当前，不容有怠——两地烽烟熊熊而起，四海之内纷纷而乱，金融业界惶惶而不得宁。
