特朗普在美国自由大学的演讲(2012年9月24日) 要想成为赢家,你必须像赢家一样思考

1.To Be a Winner, You've Got To Think Like a Winner

要想成为赢家，你必须像赢家一样思考……………………在美国自由大学的演讲（2012年9月24日）

演讲背景

这是特朗普在美国自由大学（Liberty University，也音译为利伯缇大学）的演讲。演讲分两大部分，前一部分谈政治，后一部分谈成功学。特朗普在第一部分中生动地描绘了美国经济以及社会存在的各种问题，比如失业问题、移民问题、犯罪问题、贸易问题等等，毫不留情地抨击了美国政府以及包括奥巴马总统在内的政治家，这一部分的内容构成了他在3年后竞选总统的宣传纲领，可以说这是为以后的竞选总统做铺垫。从这一部分的演讲中，我们可以窥见特朗普的政治野心。特朗普在第二部分则应主办方要求向学生们现身说法，详细地阐述了自己的商业成功之道，包括渴望成功、遵守承诺、尊重直觉、热爱工作、承受压力、保持激情、向成功者学习等等。

美国自由大学是特朗普好朋友杰瑞•法威尔（Jerry Falwell）创办的私立大学，位于美国弗吉尼亚州。特朗普在演讲前被授予商学荣誉博士学位。

Thank you. Wow, what a place, what a place. You know1, Jerry took my speech, but I said winner really needs that stuff anyway. This is an amazing school. It's an amazing University. And I'll tell you something, all over the world they're talking about it -- Liberty University, what they've done and in such a short time. So you can be very very proud of yourself and your leaders. Amazing job.

You know your founder Jerry Farwell was a great man, and I was saying before that I met him on a number of occasions, so impressive, so smart, so tough when you had to be tough, but a man with a big beautiful heart, tremendous heart.

And I have to tell you that chancellor2Jerry Farwell Jr. Is an incredible guy. Now, I am in the real estate3business. A lot of you don't know this, but for about 20 years Jerry Farwell Jr. Was in central Virginia as a real estate developer. A friend of mine from the area sai d, “man, was he tough and smart and good.” You believe this? And now look what he's doing. But he was a tough, smart guy. And I want to just tell you, I'm glad he sort of 谢谢你。哇，真是个好地方，多么好的地方啊。你们知道吗？刚才杰瑞拿走了我的演讲稿，但我说过成功者真的需要那东西。这真是一所了不起的学校。这是一所了不起的大学。我告诉你们，全世界都在谈论你们自由大学，谈论你们在这么短的时间里所取得的成就。所以你们完全可以为你们自己和你们的校领导们感到骄傲。你们取得了了不起的成就。

你们知道贵校的创始人杰瑞•法威尔是个了不起的人，我以前说过我在很多场合见过他，他给人留下的印象非常深刻，他非常聪明，而且在必须强硬的时候他非常强硬，但他又是一个有着一颗美丽心灵的人，是一个有着大心脏的人。

我必须告诉你们，小杰瑞•法威尔校长是一个非常好的人。你们都知道我是做房地产生意的，但是你们很多人不知道，大约20年，小杰瑞•法威尔是作为一个房地产开发商在维吉尼亚州中部搞房地产的。我的一位来自该地区的朋友说：“老兄啊，他以前可是一个强悍、精明又不失善良的人。”你们相信吗？看看他现在做的事情吧。但

1You know这是特朗普的口头禅，也是很多美国人在日常对话时的口头禅，我们根据情况有时译出，有时忽略

2chancellor ['tʃænsəlɚ] n. 总理（德、奥等的）；（英）大臣；校长（美国某些大学的）；（英）大法官；（美）首席法官

3real estate n. 不动产，房地产

left the real estate business because Trump would be a distant number two. I can tell you that. It‟s true.

You know, when I got a call from Liberty, I said -- you know, I was confirmed4at First Presbyterian Church Jamaica Queens -- you don't know where Queens is. It's in New York –First Presbyterian and I said you have that certificate and you have that picture. I think they put it up because I actually sent it.

But I was a brat5. I was a terrible brat, actually. But you know I used to love going to Sunday school6. People don‟t know this about Trump. They think, …Oh, Trump, you know, Trump.‟ But the truth is, I went to Sunday school. And I loved going to Sunday school. And I did for years, and First Presbyterian Church which is one of the oldest in the country, was just a great place. I learned a lot. And I learned about God. And that was probably the greatest thing I ever learned, forget all the business stuff.

When I was asked to speak, I said you want me to speak -- you know these are in many cases young people that are going and they want to conquer the world and do well -- or you want me to talk politics. And they said, “well, maybe you talk about success, but you could mention a little bit about politics.”

Well, let's start by saying that our country is in serious trouble, in serious trouble.We have 17 trillion in debt. We have a real unemployment of 21%. Forget the 8.2%, nonsense. The real number is 21%. Youknow the numbers are such that you can‟t read 'em anymore. When you're looking for a job and then you give up, they take you off the unemployed, and your number doesn't show up. So we're anywhere from 16 to 21 percent.

The world is laughing at us. We’re like a bunch of patsies7. China is taking advantage of8us like 他以前是个强硬又精明的人。所以我只想告诉你们，我很高兴他离开了房地产行业，否则特朗普会被他远远地甩在后面成为行业老二。我可以告诉你们，这是真的。

当我接到自由大学打来电话的时候，我说——你们知道吗？我是在皇后区第一牙买加长老教会被施以坚信礼的——你们不知道皇后区在哪里吧？它在纽约市——至于第一长老会，我说过我有证书为证，还有那张照片为证。我想他们之所以把照片放在了网上是因为是我把这张照片送给了他们。

但我当时是一个小屁孩。我是一个混小子，真的。但你们知道吗？我曾经喜欢上主日学校。人们不了解特朗普的这一历史。他们总是这样想：“噢，特朗普，就是那个特朗普呗。”但事实是，我去主日学校上学。我喜欢上主日学校。我在主日学校学习了好几年，而第一长老教会是我国最古老的教会之一，那是个非常棒的地方。我在那里学到了很多东西。我知道了上帝。这可能是我学到过的最伟大的事情，一切商业行为都无法与之相比。

当我接到邀请要到这里演讲时，我说你们想让我讲——你们知道，大部分听众都是年轻人，他们想征服世界，想做得好——或许你们想让我谈谈政治。他们说：“好吧，也许你先讲讲成功学，然后你可以讲一点政治。”

好吧，让我们先说说我们国家的情况吧，我们国家现在遇到了大麻烦，问题很严重。我们有17万亿的债务。我们的实际失业率为21%。别理会8.2%的失业率，那是胡说。实际数字是21%。你们知道这些数字是如此之高，你们不能再看下去了。当你找工作的时候，如果你放弃，那么他们把你从失业人口中剔除出去，你的社会保障号码就不会出现在失业人口数据中。所以我们的失业率介于16%和21%之间。

4confirm[kən'fɝm]vt.确认；确定；证实；批准；使巩固；给…施坚信礼5brat [bræt] n. 乳臭未干的小孩；顽童

6Sunday school主日学校; 教堂在星期日对儿童进行基督教教育的课堂7patsy['pætsi] n. 懦夫（复数patsies）；容易受骗的人

8take advantage of利用；占便宜；欺负