2希拉里的退选演说全文(中英文对照).doc

希拉里的退选演说 伟大的民主精神---希拉里退选演说原稿及翻译 6月7日，美国民主党总统竞选人希拉里在华盛顿正式宣布停止竞选，转而支持竞争对手奥巴马成为总统。希拉里的推选演说内容可圈可点，赢得阵阵掌声，虽然选举失败，但离开得仍然如同一个胜者。这篇演讲稿是难得的翻译素材。 希拉里演讲稿原文 Transcript of Hillary Clinton Endorsement Speech Thank you very, very much. Well, this isnt exactly the party Id planned, but I sure like the company（客人，朋友；一群人）. (APPLAUSE) 非常非常感谢大家！这的确不是我曾经计划的派对，但我确实喜欢与你们同在。And I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you, to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets waving homemade signs, who scrimped （（较平时）节省着过日子，一点一滴地省钱；吝啬；克扣；节省，节缩，过度减少） and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and made calls, who talked, sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors... (APPLAUSE) ... who e-mailed and contributed（捐献，捐助，贡献出） online, who invested so much in our common enterprise, to the moms and dads who came to our events, who lifted their little girls and little boys on their shoulders and whispered in their ears, See, you can be anything you want to be. (APPLAUSE) 今天，首先我要表达我衷心地谢意，感谢所有为（我的）竞选倾注热情与希望的人们，你们驱车百里，排满街道，挥舞着自制标语，你们省吃省用、踊跃筹款，你们或登门拜访或拨打电话（邀集选民），有时你们甚至与你们的朋友邻居争论，你们通过电邮在线捐款，你们为了我们共同的事业奉献了太多太多；感谢那些带着孩子们加入我们盛举的父母们，他们将孩子们高举在肩头，并对他们轻声叮咛“看，（孩子），一切梦想，皆可成真” To the young people... (APPLAUSE) ... like 13-year-old Anne Riddell (ph) from Mayfield, Ohio, who had been saving for two years to go to Disney World and decided to use her savings instead to travel to Pennsylvania with her mom and volunteer there, as well. To the veterans（经验丰富的人，老兵；退伍军人）, to the childhood friends, to New Yorkers and Arkansans... (APPLAUSE) ... who traveled across the country, telling anyone who would listen why you supported me. And to all of those women in their 80s and their 90s... (APPLAUSE) ... born before women could vote, who cast（投，掷，加。。。于） their votes for our campaign. Ive told you before about Florence Stein (ph) of South Dakota（达科他州） who was 88 years old and insisted that her daughter bring an absentee（缺席者，旷课者，外住者） ballot（投票表决，选