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样，我要对下院说："我没什么可以奉献，有的，只是热血、辛劳、眼泪和汗水。We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.摆在我们面前的，是一场极为痛苦的严峻的考验。We have before us many, many months of struggle and suffering.在我们面前，有许多许多漫长的斗争和苦难的岁月。You ask, what is our policy?你们问：我们的政策是什么?I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air.我要说，在海上、陆地和空中进行战争。War with all our might and with all the strength God has given up, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.我们的政策就是用我们全部能力，用上帝所给予我们的全部力量，同一个在人类黑暗悲惨的罪恶史上所从未有过的穷凶极恶的暴政进行战争。That is our policy.这就是我们的政策。You ask, what is our aim?你们问：我们的目标是什么?I can answer in one word.我可以用一个词来回答：It is victory.那就是胜利。Victory at all costs;victory in spite of all terrors;victory, however long and hand the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.不惜一切代价，去赢得胜利；无论多么可怕，也要赢得胜利，无论道路多么遥远和艰难，也要赢得胜利，因为没有胜利，就不能生存。Let that be realized.大家必须认识到这一点。No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.没有胜利就不复有大英帝国，没有胜利就不复有大英帝国所象征的一切，没有胜利就不复有多少世纪以来的强烈要求和冲动：人类应当向自己的目标迈进。I take up my task in buoyancy and hope.但是当我挑起这个担子的时候，我是心情愉快、满怀希望的。I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men.我深信，人们不会听任我们的事业遭受失败。I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength."此时此刻，我觉得我有权利要求大家的支持，我要说："来吧，让我们同心协力，一道前进。"4\The Four Freedoms(Franklin D. Roosevelt)In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.我们力求安定的未来日子里,我们期待一个以人类四大基本自由为基础的世界.The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.第一是在全世界任何地方发表言论和表达意见的自由。The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.第二是在全世界任何地方，人人有以自己的方式来崇拜上帝的自由。The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world.第三是不虞匮乏的自由－－这种自由，就世界范围来讲，就是一种经济上的融洽关系，它将保证全世界每一个国家的居民都过健全的、和平时期的生活。The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.第四是免除恐惧的自由－－这种自由，就世界范围来讲，就是世界性的裁减军备，要以一种彻底的方法把它裁减到这样的程度：务使世界上没有一个国家有能力向全世界任何地区的任何邻国进行武力侵略。That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.这绝不是对遥远未来的幻想。在我们这个时代，我们这代人就可以在这一实实在在的基础之上，建立起一个新的世界。这个世界是与独裁者们想用炸弹炸出来的所谓暴政新秩序截然相反的。Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which