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Remarks by President Obama at the 2012 Alfred E. Smith DinnerWaldorf TowersNew York, New YorkOctober 18, 2012 奥巴马总统在2012年艾尔弗雷德·史密斯晚宴上的讲话纽约州 纽约市2012年10月18日 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Everyone, please take your seats -- otherwise Clint Eastwood will yell at them. 谢谢，谢谢，非常感谢，谢谢。各位请坐在椅子上，要不然伊斯特伍德又会吼向椅子了。 Thank you to Al and Ann. To Your Eminence; Governor, Mrs. Romney; Governor Cuomo; Mayor Bloomberg; Senator Schumer; all the distinguished guests who are here. 谢谢你们，阿尔和安。主教阁下，罗姆尼州长及夫人，科莫州长，布隆伯格市长，舒默参议员，所有在座的各位嘉宾： In less than three weeks, voters in states like Ohio and Virginia and Florida will decide this incredibly important election -- which begs the question, what are we doing here? 还有不到三周，俄亥俄、弗吉尼亚、佛罗里达等几个周的选民就要决定这场至关重要的大选了，这就引出了一个问题，我们在这里做什么？ Of course, New Yorkers also have a big choice to make -- you have to decide which one of us you want holding up traffic for the next four years. 当然了，纽约人也要做出重大抉择——你们要决定我俩谁在未来四年出行时管制封锁你们的交通。 Tonight I am here with a man whose father was a popular governor, and who knows what its like to run a major Northeastern state, and who could very well be president someday -- and Im hoping it is Andrew Cuomo. 今晚到场的一位先生，父亲是广受爱戴的州长，懂得如何治理东北部的大州，有朝一日可能成为总统，我希望的就是你，安德鲁·科莫。 This is the third time that Governor Romney and I have met recently. As some of you may have noticed, I had a lot more energy at our second debate. I felt really well rested after the nice, long nap I had in the first debate. 这是我跟你罗姆尼州长最近第三次会面了，有些人可能已经注意到了，第二场辩论时我精神多了，我休息的很好，因为首场辩论那晚，我在场上睡得特别香。 Although it turns out millions of Americans focused in on the second debate who didn’t focus in on the first debate -- and I happen to be one of them. 尽管现在看来大部分美国人更多关注了第二场辩论，并没有太关注首场辩论，我也是其中的一位。 I particularly want to apologize to Chris Matthews. Four years ago, I gave him a thrill up his leg -- this time around I gave him a stroke. 我特别想向马修说声抱歉，四年前我给他打了鸡血，这一次我差点让他中风。 And of course, theres a lot of things I learned from that experience. For example, I lear