奥巴马2014国情咨文（双语对照）

"My recovery has not been easy," he says. "Nothing in life that's worth anything is easy."

“我的康复很艰难。”他说，“生活中值得付出的事情没有什么是容易的。”

Cory is here tonight. And like the Army he loves, like the America he serves, Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg never gives up, and he does not quit.

瑞斯堡今晚就在现场。就像他热爱的军队，就像他为之服务的美国，一级中士克里从不放弃，从不退缩。

My fellow Americans, men and women like Cory remind us that America has never come easy. Our freedom, our democracy, has never been easy. Sometimes we stumble; we make mistakes; we get frustrated or discouraged. But for more than two hundred years, we have put those things aside and placed our collective shoulder to the wheel of progress - to create and build and expand the possibilities of individual achievement; to free other nations from tyranny and fear; to promote justice, and fairness, and equality under the law, so that the words set to paper by our founders are made real for every citizen. The America we want for our kids - a rising America where honest work is plentiful and communities are strong; where prosperity is widely shared and opportunity for all lets us go as far as our dreams and toil will take us - none of it is easy. But if we work together; if we summon what is best in us, with our feet planted firmly in today but our eyes cast towards tomorrow - I know it's within our reach.

同胞们，像瑞斯堡这样的男人和女人提醒我们美国的今日来之不易。我们的自由、民主来之不易。我们有时会步履蹒跚；我们有时会犯错；我们有时会感到沮丧或气馁。但超过两百年来，我们将这些阻碍弃之一边，汇集我们集体的力量推动着进步之轮——去创造、构建和拓展个人获得成就的可能性；去帮助别国的民众摆脱暴政和恐惧；去促进法制下的正义、公平和平等，让我们的开国者设为宪法的文字真正施惠给每一位公民。我们想为我们的孩子们留下这样的美国——一个不断进步的美国，在这里诚实劳动是主流，社区强大；在这里人们共享繁荣，人人机会均等；让我们追寻自己的梦想，让艰苦奋斗带我们前行——没有什么是容易的。但是，只要我们共同努力，只要我们拿出最好的自己，用我们的双手在今天辛勤耕耘，但将我们的眼睛投向明天——我知道我们必将成功。

Believe it.

请你们相信。

God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.

愿上帝保佑你们，愿上帝保佑美利坚合众国。

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