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first inaugural address of ronald reagan里根第一任总统就职演说

tuesday, january 20, 1981 第40任总统(1981年-1989年) （一）senator hatfield, mr. chief justice, mr. president, vice president bush,

vice

president mondale, senator baker, speaker oneill, reverend moomaw, and my fellow citizens: to a few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion;

and yet,

authority as called for in the constitution routinely takes place as it has for

almost two

centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. in the eyes of

many in the

world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a

miracle.

议员海特菲尔德先生、法官先生、总统先生、副总统布什、蒙代尔先生、议员贝克先

生、发言人奥尼尔先生、尊敬的摩麦先生，以及广大支持我的美国同胞们：今天对于我

们

中间的一些人来说，是一个非常庄严隆重的时刻。当然，对于这个国家的历史来说，却

是

一件普通的事情。按照宪法要求，政府权利正在有序地移交，我们已经如此“例行公事”

了

两个世纪，很少有人觉得这有什么特别的。但在世界上更多人看来，这个我们已经习以

为

常的四年一次的仪式，却实在是一个奇迹。

（二）mr. president, i want our fellow citizens to know how much you did to carry

on

this tradition. by your gracious cooperation in the transition process, you have

shown a

watching world that we are a united people pledged to maintaining a political

system which

guarantees individual liberty to a greater degree than any other, and i thank

you and your

people for all your help in maintaining the continuity which is the bulwark of

our republic.

总统先生，我希望我们的同胞们都能知道你为了这个传承而付出的努力。通过移交

程序中的通力合作，你向观察者展示了这么一个事实：我们是发誓要团结起来维护这样

一

个政治体制的团体，这样的体制保证了我们能够得到比其他政体更为广泛的个人自由。

同

时我也要感谢你和你的伙伴们的帮助，因为你们坚持了这样的传承，而这恰恰是我们共

和

国的根基。

the business of our nation goes forward. these united states are confronted with

an

economic affliction of great proportions. we suffer from the longest and one of

the worst

sustained inflations in our national history. it distorts our economic decisions,

penalizes

shatter the lives of millions of our people.

我们国家的事业在继续前进。合众国正面临巨大的经济困难。我们遭遇到我国历史上

历时最长、最严重之一的通货膨胀，它扰乱着我们的经济决策，打击着节俭的风气，压

迫

着正在挣扎谋生的青年人和收入固定的中年人，威胁着要摧毁我国千百万人民的生计。

（三）idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery

and

personal indignity. those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor

by a tax

system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.but great as our tax burden is, it has not kept pace with public

spending. for

decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our

childrens future

for the temporary convenience of the present. to continue this long trend is to

guarantee

tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.

停滞的工业使工人失业、蒙受痛苦并失去了个人尊严。即使那些有工作的人，也因税

收制度的缘故而得不到公正的劳动报酬，因为这种税收制度使我们无法在事业上取得成

就，

使我们无法保持充分的生产力。尽管我们的纳税负担相当沉重，但还是跟不上公共开支

的

增长。数十年来，我们的赤字额屡屡上升，我们为图目前暂时的方便，把自己的前途和

子

孙的前途抵押出去了。这一趋势如果长此以往，必然引起社会、文化、政治和经济等方

面

的大动荡。

（四）you and i, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but

for only

a limited period of time. why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation,

we are not

bound by that same limitation?we must act today in order to preserve tomorrow.

and let

there be no misunderstanding--we are going to begin to act, beginning today. away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. they will go away because

we, as americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs

to be

done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our ernment

is the