历史学专业外语之-四大自由THE FOUR FREEDOMS SPECCH.docVIP

富兰克林.罗斯福:四大自由 The Four Freedoms Speech Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Seventy-seventh Congress: Even when the World War broke out in 1914, it seemed to contain only small threat of danger to our own American future. But, as time went on, the American people began to visualize what the downfall of democratic nations might mean to our own democracy. 世界大战在一九一四年骤然爆发的时候，这场战争对我们美国本身的前途似乎仅有轻微的威胁。但是，随着时间的推移，美国人民开始体会到各民主国家的沦陷对我们美国的民主制度会意味着什么。 We need not overemphasize imperfections in the Peace of Versailles. We need not harp on failure of the democracies to deal with problems of world reconstruction. We should remember that the Peace of 1919 was far less unjust than the kind of pacification which began even before Munich, and which is being carried on under the new order of tyranny that seeks to spread over every continent today. The American people have unalterably set their faces against that tyranny. 我们无须过分强调凡尔赛和约的缺陷。我们也无须反复谈论各民主国家处理世界性破坏问题的失效。我们应该记住，一九一九年的和约与早在慕尼黑会议以前就开始的「和解」相比，其不公正的程度要小得多；而在那力图向世界各大洲扩展的暴政新秩序下，这种「和解」仍在延续着。美国人民坚定不移地反对那种暴政。 Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world--assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace. 每一个现实主义者都明白，民主生活方式此刻正在世界各地遭受直接攻击──或因武装侵略，或因一些人秘密散布恶毒宣传，竭力在仍处于和平状态的国家中破坏团结，制造分裂 During sixteen long months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. The assailants are still on the march, threatening other nations, great and small. 在十六个月的时间内，这种攻击已在数目惊人的大大小小独立国家里摧毁了民主生活的整个模式。这些攻击者还在进军，威胁着其它大大小小的国家。 Therefore, as your President, performing my constitutional duty to give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, I find it, unhappily, necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involv