Ihaveadream(英文加译文).doc

I have a dream
By Martin Luther King,Jr
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree（法令 ）came as a great beacon（灯塔） light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared（灼伤） in the flames of withering（使…枯萎） injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity（禁锢）.
100年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。
But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic（悲惨的） fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled （使伤残）by the manacles （手铐；脚镣）of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing（受折磨） in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile （<被>流放<者>）in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize(把<书或故事>编成剧本) an appalling (骇人听闻的)condition.
然而，100年后，黑人依然没有获得自由。100年后，黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。100年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣瀚海的贫困孤岛上。100年后，黑人依然在美国社会中向隅而泣，依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials (磨练)and tribulations(苦难). Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells(牢房). Some of you have come from areas where your quest(追求) for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution (迫害)and staggered(蹒跚) by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans(熟手) of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned (无辜)suffering is redemptive(补救的).
我并非没有注意到你们有些人历尽艰难困苦来到这里。你们有些人刚刚走出狭小的牢房。有些人来自因追求自由而遭受迫害风暴袭击和警察暴虐狂飙摧残的地区。你们饱经风霜，历尽苦难。继续努力吧，要相信：无辜受苦终得拯救。
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums (贫民窟)and ghettos(贫民窟) of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow(沉沦) in the valley of despair.
回到密西西比去吧；回到亚拉巴马去吧；回到南卡罗来纳去吧；回到佐治亚去吧；回到路易斯安那去吧；回到我们北方城市中的贫民窟和黑人居住区去吧。要知道，这种情况能够而且将会改变。我们切不要在绝望的深渊里沉沦。
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
朋友们，今天我要对你们说，尽管眼下困难重重，但我依然怀有一个梦。这个梦深深植根于美国梦之中。
我梦想有一天，这个国家将会奋起，实现其立国信条的真谛：“我们认为这些真理不言而喻：人人生而平等。”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering (中暑)with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
我梦想有一天，在佐治亚州的红色山岗上，昔日奴隶的儿子能够同昔日奴隶主的儿子同席而坐，亲如手足。
我梦想有一天，甚至连密西西比州——一个非正义和压迫的热浪逼人的荒漠之州，也会改造成为自由和公正的青青绿洲。
I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with (说)the words of interposition (插话;干涉)and nullification(使无效;废除), will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.
我梦想有一天，我的四个小女儿将生活在一个不是以皮肤的颜色，而是以品格的优劣作为评判标准的国家里。
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，亚拉巴马州会有所改变——尽管该州州长现在仍滔滔不绝地说什么要对联邦法令提出异议和拒绝执行——在那里，黑人儿童能够和白人儿童兄弟姐妹般地携手并行。
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted(提升), every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough(坎坷的) places will be made plain, and the crooked (弯曲的)places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord(上帝) shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
我今天怀有一个梦。
我梦想有一天，深谷弥合，高山夷平，歧路化坦途，曲径成通衢，上帝的光华再现，普天下生灵共谒。
This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew(劈开) out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling(噪杂刺耳的) discords (争吵声)of our nation into a beautiful symphony(交响乐) of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
这是我们的希望。这是我将带回南方去的信念。有了这个信念，我们就能绝望之山开采出希望之石。有了这个信念，我们就能把这个国家的嘈杂刺耳的争吵声，变为充满手足之情的悦耳交响曲。有了这个信念，我们就能一同工作，一同祈祷，一同斗争，一同入狱，一同维护自由，因为我们知道，我们终有一天会获得自由。
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning,
"My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee(你们) I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's (最初移民的)pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious(巨大的)hilltops of New Hampshire.
从到了这一天，上帝的所有孩子都能以新的含义高唱这首歌：
我的祖国，可爱的自由之邦，我为您歌唱。这是我祖先终老的地方，这是早期移民自豪的地方，让自由之声，响彻每一座山岗。
如果美国要成为伟大的国家，这一点必须实现。因此，让自由之声响彻新罕布什尔州的巍峨高峰！
Let freedom ring from the mighty mount ains of New York.
让自由之声响彻纽约州的崇山峻岭！
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
让自由之声响彻宾夕法尼亚州的阿勒格尼高峰！
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
让自由之声响彻科罗拉多州冰雪皑皑的洛基山！
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
让自由之声响彻加利福尼亚州的婀娜群峰！
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
不，不仅如此；让自由之声响彻佐治亚州的石山！
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
让自由之声响彻田纳西州的望山！
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.
让自由之声响彻密西西比州的一座座山峰，一个个土丘！
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
让自由之声响彻每一个山岗！
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet(小村庄), from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews (犹太教徒)and Gentiles(非犹太教徒), Protestants (耶稣教徒)and Catholics(天主教徒), will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual(黑人灵歌), "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty(全能的), we are free at last!"
当我们让自由之声轰响，当我们让自由之声响彻每一个大村小庄，每一个州府城镇，我们就能加速这一天的到来。那时，上帝的所有孩子，黑人和白人，犹太教徒和非犹太教徒，耶稣教徒和天主教徒，将能携手同唱那首古老的黑人灵歌：“终于自由了！终于自由了！感谢全能的上帝，我们终于自由了！”