奥巴马告别演说

2017 年当地时间 1 月 10 日美国总统奥巴马回到他政治生涯的起点芝加哥发表“总统任期告别演说”1 开场Hello, Chicago! It's good to be home.嗨，芝加哥！回家的感觉真棒。(大家迟迟不肯坐下来）You can tell that I am a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions.看得出来我现在是个”跛脚鸭“了，因为都没人听我的My fellow Americans, Michelle and I have been so touched by all the well-wishes we'vereceived over the past few weeks. But tonight it's my turn to say thanks.我的美国同胞们，在过去的几周，米歇尔和我被收到的祝福深深感动。但今晚该轮到我对大家说感谢了。Whether we've seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, theAmerican people -- in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at dinersand on distant outposts -- are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept megoing.无论我们是否曾经观点一致或意见相左，我的谈话与你同在，美国人民 —— 无论你是在家里的客厅和学校，农场和工厂，在餐厅和遥远的前哨，是你们让我保持真诚，充满灵感，并不断前行。Every day, I learned from you. You made me a better President, and you made me abetter man.每天，我从你身上学到很多东西。是你们让我成为一个更好的总统，并让我成为一个更好的人。2 信念I first came to Chicago when I was in my early twenties, still trying to figure out who I was;still searching for a purpose to my life.我第一次来到芝加哥是二十多岁的时候，那时候我还在努力试图搞清楚我到底是谁；仍在为我的生活寻找一个意义。It was in neighborhoods not far from here where I began working with church groups inthe shadows of closed steel mills. It was on these streets where I witnessed the power offaith, and the quiet dignity of working people in the face of struggle and loss.就是在离这里不远的地方，我开始与教会团体一起工作，当时那些钢厂正在关闭的阴影下笼罩着。正是在这些街道上，我目睹了信仰的力量，以及这些工人阶级在面...