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I am happy to join with you today in what
will go down in history
as the greatest
demonstration for freedom in the history of our
nation.
Five
score
years
ago,
a
great
American,
in
whose
symbolic
shadow
we stand today,
signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
1
00
年前，一
位伟大的美国人签署了解放黑奴宣言，今天我们就
是在他的雕像前集会。
This
momentous
decree came as a great beacon light of hope to
millions
of Negro slaves who had been
seared in the flames of withering
injustice.
这一庄严宣言
犹如灯塔的光芒，
给千百万在那摧残生命的不义之火中受
煎熬的
黑奴带来了希望
It
came
as
a
joyous
daybreak
to
end
the
long
night
of
their captivity.
它之到来犹如欢乐的黎明，结束了束缚黑人的漫漫长夜。
But one hundred years
later, the Negro still is not free.
然而
100
年后的今天，
我们必须正视黑人还没有得到自由这一悲惨的事实。
One
hundred
years later, the
life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the
manacles of segregation and the chains
of discrimination.
100
年后
的今天，在种族隔离的镣铐和种族歧视的枷锁下，黑人的生活备受奴役。
One
hundred years later, the Negro
lives on a lonely island of poverty
in
the midst of a vast ocean of material
prosperity.
100
年后的今天，
黑人仍生活在物质充裕的海洋中一个穷困的孤岛上。
One hundred
years later,
the Negro is
still languished in the corners of
American
society and
finds
himself an exile in his own land.
100
年后的今天，黑人仍然萎缩在
美国社会的角落里，并且意识到自己是
故土家园中的流亡者。
And so we've come
here today to dramatize a shameful
condition.
今天我们在这里集会，就是要把这种骇人听闻的情况公诸于世。
In a sense
we've come to our nation's capital to cash a
check.
就某种意义而言，今天我们是为了要求兑现诺言而汇集到我们国家的首都
来的。
When the architects of
our republic wrote the magnificent words of
the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence, they were
signing a
promissory note to which every American was to
fall heir.
我们共和国的缔造者草拟宪法和独立宣言的气壮山河的词句时，
曾向每一个美国人许
下了诺言，
This
note
was
a
promise
that
all
men,
yes,
black
men
as
well
as
white
men, would be
guaranteed the
and the pursuit of Happi
ness.
他们承诺给予所有的人以生存、自由和追求幸
福的不
可剥夺的权利。
It is obvious today that America
has defaulted on
this
promissory
note,
insofar
as
her
citizens
of
color
are
concerned.
就有
色公民而论，美国显然没有实践她的诺言。美国没有履行这项神圣的义务
Instead
of honoring this sacred obligation, America has
given the
Negro people a bad check, a
check which has come back marked
，只是给黑人开了一张空头支票，支票上盖着
“
资金
不足
”
的戳子后便退了回来。
But we refuse to believe
that the bank of
justice is
bankrupt.
。
We refuse to
believe that there are
insufficient
funds
in
the
great
vaults
of
opportunity
of
this
nation.
但是我们不相信正义的银行已经破产，我们不相信，在这个国家巨大的机会之库里已
没有足够的储备
And
so,
we've
come
to
cash
this
check,
a
check
that
will
give
us
upon
demand
the
riches
of
freedom
and
the
security
of
justice.
因此今天我们要求将支票兑现
——
这张支票将给予
我们宝贵的自由和正义。
We have also come to this
hallowed spot to remind America of the
fierce urgency of Now.
我们来到这
个圣地也是为了提醒美国，现在是非常急迫
的时刻。
This
is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off
or to
take the tranquilizing drug of
gradualism.
。现在决非侈谈冷静下来或
服用渐进
主义的镇静剂的时候。
Now is the time to make real
the promises
of democracy.
现在是实现民主的诺言时候。
Now is the time
to rise from
the dark and desolate
valley of segregation to the sunlit path of
racial
justice.
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现在是从种族隔离的荒凉阴暗的深谷攀登种族平等的光明大道的
时
候，
Now
is
the
time
to
lift
our
nation
from
the
quicksands
of
racial
injustice to the
solid rock of brotherhood.
现
在是向上帝所有的儿女开
放机会之门的时候，
Now is
the time to make justice a reality for all
of God's children.
现在是把我们的国家
从种族不平等的流沙中拯救出来，置于
兄弟情谊的磐石上的时候。
It would be
fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of
the
moment.
如果美国忽
视时间的迫切性和低估黑人的决心，那么，这对美国来说，将
是致命伤。
This
sweltering
summer
of
the
Negro's
legitimate
discontent
will not pass until there is an
invigorating autumn of freedom and
equality.
自由和平等的爽
朗秋天如不到来，黑人义愤填膺的酷暑就不会过去。
Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but
a beginning.
1963
年并不意
味着斗争的结束，而是开始。
And those who hope
that the Negro needed to
blow off steam
and will now be content will have a rude awakening
if the nation returns to business as
usual.
有人希望，黑人只要撒撒气
就会满足；
如果国家安之若素，
毫无反应，
这些人必会大失所望的。
And
there
will
be
neither
rest
nor
tranquility
in
America
until
the
Negro
is
granted
his citizenship rights.
黑人得不到公民的权利，美国就不可能有安宁或平静，
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue
to shake the foundations of
our nation
until the bright day of justice emerges.
正义的光明的一
天不到来，叛乱的旋风就将继续动摇这个国家的地基。
But there
is something that I must say to my people, who
stand
on the warm threshold which leads
into the palace of justice:
但是
对于等候在正义之殿门口的心急如焚的人们，有些话我是必须说的。
In the
process of gaining our
rightful place, we must not be guilty of
wrongful deeds.
在争取合法地位的过程中，我们不要采取错误的做法。
Let
us
not seek to satisfy our thirst for
freedom by drinking from the cup
of
bitterness and hatred.
我们不要为
了满足对自由的渴望而抱着敌对和仇恨
之杯痛饮。
We
must forever conduct our struggle on the high
plane of
dignity and
discipline.
我们斗争时必须永远举止得体，纪律严明。
We must
not
allow
our
creative
protest
to
degenerate
into
physical
violence.
我们不能容许我们的具有崭新内容的抗议蜕变为暴力行动。
Again
and
again,
we
must
rise
to
the
majestic
heights
of
meeting
physical
force
with
soul
force.
我们要不断地升华到以精神力量对付物质力量的崇高境界中去。
The marvelous
new militancy which has engulfed the Negro
community must not lead us to a
distrust of all white people,
现在
黑人社会充满着了不起的新的战斗精神，但是不能因此而不信任所有的白人。
f
or
many
of
our
white
brothers,
as
evidenced
by
their
presence
here
today,
have
come to realize that their destiny is tied up with
our destiny.
因为我们的许多白人兄弟已经认识
到，他们的命运与我们的命运是紧密相连的，他们
今天参加游行集会就是明证。
And they have come to realize that their
freedom is inextricably bound to our
freedom.
他们的自由与我们的自由
是息息相关的。<
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We
cannot walk alone.
我们不能单独站立。
And
as
we
walk,
we
must
make
the
pledge
that
we
shall
always
march
ahead.
当我们行动时，我们必须保证向前进。
We cannot turn
back.
我们不能倒退。
There
are
those
who
are
asking
the
devotees
of
civil
rights,
will you
be satisfied?
现在有人问热心民权运动的人，
“
你们什么时候才能满
意？
”
We can never be satisfied as long as
the Negro is the victim of
the
unspeakable horrors of police
brutality.
只要黑人仍然遭受警察难
以形容的野蛮迫害，我们就绝不会满意。
We can never be
satisfied as long
as our bodies,
heavy
with the fatigue
of travel, cannot gain lodging
in the motels of the highways and the
hotels of the cities.
只要我
们在外奔波而疲乏的身躯不能在公路旁的汽车旅馆和城里的旅馆找到住宿之所，
我们
就绝不会满意。
We
cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic
mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a
larger one.
只要黑人的基本活
动范围只是从少数
民族聚居的小贫民区转移到大贫民区，
我们就绝不会满意。
We
can
never be satisfied as
long as our children are stripped of their
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