欧美名人演讲 第105期:美国总统川普首次国情咨文演讲(12)

Let's open great vocational schools so our future workers can learn a craft and realize their full potential.

让我们开立职业学校，我们未来的工人就能学一技之长，发现自己的潜力。

And let's support working families by supporting paid family leave.

让我们支持工人家庭，支持带薪休假。

As America regains¹ its strength, opportunity must be extended to all citizens.

随着美国恢复实力，这种机会必须让所有公民共享。

That is why this year we will embark² on reforming our prisons to help former inmates³ who have served their time get a second chance at life.

这就是为什么今年我们要改革制度，帮助刑满出狱的囚犯获得重启人生的机会。

Struggling communities, especially immigrant communities,

艰难的人们，尤其是移民群体，

will also be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interests of American workers and American families.

也会得到移民政策的帮助，这些政策看重美国工人和美国家庭的利益。

For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities.

几十年来，开放的边界纵容毒品和匪帮进入我们最脆弱的社区。

They've allowed millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs and wages against the poorest Americans.

他们让数以百万计的低薪劳动力与最贫穷的美国人争夺工作与工资。

Most tragically⁴, they have caused the loss of many innocent lives.

最悲惨的是，他们还夺走了许多无辜的生命。

Here tonight are two fathers and two mothers: Evelyn Rodriguez, Freddy Cuevas, Elizabeth Alvarado, and Robert Mickens.

今晚我们请来了两位父亲和两位母亲，艾福林·罗德里格斯，弗雷迪·奎瓦斯，伊丽莎白·艾尔瓦拉多，以及罗伯特·米肯斯。

Their two teenage daughters — Kayla Cuevas and Nisa Mickens — were close friends on Long Island.

他们有两个女儿，卡拉·奎瓦斯和妮萨·米肯斯，两人在长岛是好朋友。

But in September 2016, on the eve of Nisa's 16th birthday, such a happy time it should have been, neither of them came home.

但2016年9月，妮萨16岁生日前一天，这原本应该是个好日子，可她们都没回家。

These two precious girls were brutally⁵ murdered while walking together in their hometown.

两位花季少女在家乡散步时被谋杀。

Six members of the savage⁶ MS-13 gang have been charged with Kayla and Nisa's murders.

黑帮MS-13的六个残忍的成员被控谋杀的两个女孩。

1 regains   

复得( regain的第三人称单数 )； 赢回； 重回； 复至某地

参考例句：

• It will take a lot of repair work before the theatre regains its former splendour. 要想剧院重拾昔日的辉煌，必须进行大规模整修。
• He lays down the book and regains the consciousness. 他惊悸初定，掩卷细思。

2 embark   

vi.乘船，着手，从事，上飞机

参考例句：

• He is about to embark on a new business venture.他就要开始新的商业冒险活动。
• Many people embark for Europe at New York harbor.许多人在纽约港乘船去欧洲。

3 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 tragically   

adv. 悲剧地，悲惨地

参考例句：

• Their daughter was tragically killed in a road accident. 他们的女儿不幸死于车祸。
• Her father died tragically in a car crash. 她父亲在一场车祸中惨死。

5 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

6 savage   

adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人

参考例句：

• The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
• He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。