宋美龄美国国会演讲战争无法让中国屈膝（双语）.docxVIP

宋美龄美国国会演讲:战争无法让中国屈膝（双语） 宋美龄兼具中国古典气质和西方优雅风度，而又带有犀利、精明的作风，使西方人如醉如痴、又爱又恨。罗斯福、威尔基、陈纳德、马歇尔、麦克阿瑟、鲁斯都对宋美龄有着错综复杂、莫可名状的情结。蒋介石的抗日、“剿共“和保卫台湾，处处需要美国的助力，而有着孔宋家族强力支援与美国背景的宋美龄就是他获取美国物资援助与道义支持的最大本钱。她最大的贡献无疑是运用她对英美等国的熟悉，争取这些国家支持中国对抗日本的侵略。 宋美龄的演讲不时被掌声打断。她在结语中的一句话，获得了满堂彩，她斩钉截铁地说：“我中国人民根据五年又半之经验，确信光明正大之甘冒失败，较诸卑鄙可耻之接受失败，更为明智。“众院议事厅爆出了历久不歇的掌声，一位议员说他从来没有见过这样的场面，宋美龄差点让他掉下眼泪。 【双语文本】Members of the Congress of the United States: At any time it would be a privilege for me to address Congress, more especially this present august body which will have so much to do in shaping the destiny of the world. In speaking to Congress I am literally speaking to the American people. The Seventy-seventh Congress, as their representatives, fulfilled the obligations and responsibilities of its trust by declaring war on the aggressors. That part of the duty of the people’s representatives was discharged in 1941. The task now confronting you is to help win the war and to create and uphold a lasting peace which will justify the sacrifices and sufferings of the victims of aggression.美国众议院诸位议员：　无论何时，余得向贵国国会致词，实属荣幸；尤在今日，余得向一庄严伟大之团体，对于世界命运之形成有绝大影响如贵院者致词，尤属特别荣幸。余向贵国国会演说，实际上系向美国人民演说。贵国第七十七届国会，以代表美国人民之资格，对侵略者宣战，已尽其人民所信托之义务与责任。此为人民代表之一部分职责，早已在一九四一年履行。诸君当前之要务，乃协助争取胜利，并创建与维护一种永久之和平，俾此次遭受侵略者之一切牺牲与痛苦，具有意义。First of all, I want to assure you that the American people have every right to be proud of their fighting men in so many parts of the world. I am particularly thinking of those of your boys in the far-flung, out-of-the-way stations and areas where life is attended by dreary drabness—this because their duty is not one of spectacular performance and they are not buoyed up by excitement of battle. They are called upon, day after colorless day, to perform routine duties such as safeguarding defenses and preparing for possible enemy action. It has been said, and I find it true from personal experience, that it is easier to risk one’s life on the battlefield than it is to perform customary humble and humdrum duties which, how