美国总统介绍词

2000 · 演讲 · 原文约 523 词

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美国宪法中心奠基典礼上，约翰·C·博格尔主席介绍美国总统

2000 年 9 月 17 日，星期日*

Introduction of the President of the United States By John C. Bogle, Chairman, National Constitution Center Groundbreaking Ceremony, Sunday, September 17, 2000* Hear the words of the preamble, a Constitution for “ourselves and our Posterity.” The more perfect union established by our Constitution was intended to establish justice, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, not merely to the Founders and their fellow-citizens, but “to ourselves and our Posterity.” It was a noble promise.

请听序言中的话语：一部“为我们自己和我们的后代”制定的宪法。我们的宪法所建立的更完美联邦，旨在建立正义、促进公共福利、确保自由的恩泽——不仅是对开国先贤及其同时代人，而是“对我们自己和我们的后代”。这是一项崇高的承诺。

It is simply not possible for those of us who represent this generation of citizens of this blessed land to look at the United States of America today without the knowledge certain that the promise made by the Founding Fathers 213 years ago has stood the test of time. Thanks to their wisdom and foresight, our nation leads the world, not only in things easily quantified—wealth, strength, commerce, agriculture, technology and innovation—but in blessings not so easily measured, but far greater importance—liberty, democracy, freedom, and generosity of spirit.

我们这些代表这片蒙福之地当代公民的人，绝无可能在凝望今日美利坚合众国时，心中不确知：开国先贤 213 年前许下的承诺，已然经受住了时间的考验。凭借他们的智慧与远见，我们的国家不仅在最容易量化的领域——财富、实力、商业、农业、技术与创新——引领世界，更在那些不易衡量却远为重要的福祉上独领风骚：自由、民主、解放与精神的慷慨。

It is we the people who, working together over two centuries, have been responsible for the rise of our nation to world pre-eminence. But turning noble intentions into concrete actions requires strong leadership. Our Constitution was both wise and clear on that point. In Article II, Section 1, it provides that “The executive power shall be vested in a President.” And during our Nation’s proud history, we have been well-served by an extraordinary succession of able, dedicated Presidents who have steadily led the nation to new heights.

正是“我们人民”，两个多世纪来携手努力，才使我们国家崛起为世界之巅。但将崇高意图转化为具体行动，需要强有力的领导。我们的宪法在这一点上既明智又明确。第二条第 1 款规定：“行政权力应赋予一位总统。”在我们国家自豪的历史进程中，一系列杰出、敬业的总统接连执掌大权，坚定地引领国家走向新的高度，我们深受其益。

It is particularly fitting that the current occupant of the nation’s highest office be with us today to lend us his authority as our chief executive at this memorable groundbreaking ceremony for the National Constitution Center. Under the extraordinary leadership of our President, America’s general welfare and our blessings of liberty and freedom—our global strength and our prosperity—have surged to levels without historic precedent.

今天，现任最高行政长官能与我们一起出席这个意义非凡的国家宪法中心奠基仪式，以首席行政官的身份给予我们权威支持，尤为恰逢其时。在我们总统非凡的领导力下，美国的公共福祉、自由的恩泽——我们的全球实力与繁荣——都高涨至史无前例的水平。

Our President honors us not only by his presence, but by his long-standing support of our mission and our mandate, and the vision of his Administration’s National Park Service. Without this support, I assure you, we would not be here today to honor, through the National Constitution Center, our generation’s obligation to fortify and preserve the blessings sought by our Founders for future generations—“ourselves and our posterity.”

我们的总统不仅以他的出席为我们增光，更以他对我们使命与职责的长期支持，以及他的政府国家公园管理局的愿景，让我们倍感荣耀。我向你们保证，没有这种支持，我们就不会在今天，通过国家宪法中心，履行我们这一代人的义务——巩固和捍卫开国先贤为子孙后代所追求的福祉，即“我们自己和我们的后代”。

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to present to you the 42nd President of the United States of America, William Jefferson Clinton. _____________  Each of the seven speakers at the ceremony was asked to focus his remarks on a specific phrase from the Preamble to the Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

女士们，先生们，我很荣幸向你们介绍美利坚合众国第 42 任总统——威廉·杰斐逊·克林顿。

The President’s theme was the final “do ordain and establish this Constitution” phrase in the Preamble.

_____________ * 仪式上的七位演讲者各被要求集中阐述宪法序言中的一个特定短语：“我们合众国人民，为建立更完善的联邦、树立正义、保障国内安宁、提供共同防务、促进公共福利，并确保我们自己和后代获得自由的恩泽，特为美利坚合众国制定并确立这部宪法。” 总统的主题是序言结尾的“制定并确立这部宪法”。注：本演讲所表达的观点不一定代表先锋集团现任管理层的看法。© 2001 版权所有，约翰·C·博格尔。