奥巴马每周电视讲话：美国总统奥巴马告别演讲(23)

My fellow Americans, it has been the honor¹ of my life to serve you. I won't stop.

我的同胞们，能够为你们服务是我的荣幸。我会一直为你们服务。

In fact, I will be right there with you, as a citizen, for all my remaining days.

事实上，在我以后的人生中，我会以一位普通公民的身份一直和你们在一起。

But for now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart,

而现在，无论你年轻与否，

I do have one final ask of you as your President, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago.

作为你们的总统我还有一个请求，八年前你们刚把我选上来时我提出过同样的请求。

I'm asking you to believe.

我请求你们继续保持信念。

Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.

不是相信我可以带来改变，而是相信你们自己的力量。

I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents;

我请求你们依然坚信在建国时我们写下的信念，

that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists;

那个奴隶和废奴主义者低语过的信念，

that spirit sung by immigrants² and homesteaders and those who marched for justice;

那个被移民和追求正义的人们吟诵过的信念；

that creed³ reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon;

我们胜利的星条旗，从国外的战场一路飘扬到月球表面，更加强化了这一信念；

a creed at the core⁴ of every American whose story is not yet written: Yes, we can.

它也将会是每一个还未开始书写自己故事的美国人的精神内核。

Yes, we did. Yes, we can.

是的，我们做到了。是的，我们可以做到。

Thank you. God bless you. May God continue to bless the United States of America. Thank you.

谢谢你们。上帝保佑你们，上帝继续保佑美利坚。谢谢你们。

1 honor   

n.光荣；敬意；荣幸；vt.给…以荣誉；尊敬

参考例句：

• I take your visit as a great honor.您的来访是我莫大的光荣。
• It is a great honor to receive that prize.能拿到那个奖是无上的光荣。

2 immigrants   

n.移民( immigrant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to regularize their position. 非法移民得到了使其身份合法化的机会。
• Immigrants from all over the world populate this city. 这个城市里生活着来自世界各地的移民。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 creed   

n.信条；信念，纲领

参考例句：

• They offended against every article of his creed.他们触犯了他的每一条戒律。
• Our creed has always been that business is business.我们的信条一直是公私分明。

4 core   

n.中心；核心；(苹果、梨等果实的)果心

参考例句：

• We didn't get to the core of the subject.我们没触及问题的核心。
• The pear is rotten to the core.这梨全烂了。