欧美名人演讲 第106期:美国总统川普首次国情咨文演讲(13)

Many of these gang members took advantage of glaring loopholes in our laws

许多这个黑帮的成员利用法律显而易见的漏洞，

to enter the country as illegal unaccompanied alien minors¹ and wound up in Kayla and Nisa's high school.

作为非法的、无监护人的外籍闲散青年进入了我们的国家，让凯拉和妮萨就读的高中陷入恐慌。

Evelyn, Elizabeth, Freddy, and Robert, tonight, everyone in this chamber² is praying for you.

艾福林、伊丽莎白、弗雷迪和罗伯特：今晚，所有这里的人为你们祈祷。

Everyone in America is grieving for you. Please stand. Thank you very much.

美国所有人为你们哀悼。我们全体起立，非常感谢。

I want you to know that 320 million hearts are right now breaking for you. We love you. Thank you.

我希望你们知道，三亿两千万美国人的心灵现在与你们同悲。我们爱你们。谢谢。

While we cannot imagine the depths of that kind of sorrow, we can make sure that other families never have to endure this kind of pain.

丧女之痛是的强烈我们无法想象的，但我们可以保证其他家庭不会再遭受这种痛苦。

Tonight, I am calling on Congress to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed MS-13, and other criminal gangs, to break into our country.

今晚，我呼吁国会最终堵上这些致命的漏洞，正是其纵容M13和其他罪犯闯入我们国家。

We have proposed new legislation that will fix our immigration laws,

我们提倡以新的立法修补我们的移民法律，

and support our ICE and Border Patrol agents, these are great people, these are great, great people that work so hard in the midst of such danger,

支持我们的移民海关执法和边境巡逻人员，这些都是很棒的人，很棒，很棒，他们在危险中努力执勤，

so that this can never happen again.

这样就能防止惨剧再度发生。

The United States is a compassionate⁴ nation.

美国是一个有同情心的国家。

We are proud that we do more than any other country anywhere in the world to help the needy⁵, the struggling, and the underprivileged all over the world.

我们很骄傲，我们比任何其他国家都做得多，帮助全世界贫穷困苦、无依无靠的人。

But as president of the United States, my highest loyalty⁶, my greatest compassion³, my constant concern

但作为美国总统，我至高的忠诚、我最大的同情、我日常的忧虑，

is for America's children, America's struggling workers, and America's forgotten communities.

都是为了美国的孩子们、美国挣扎的工人和我们被遗忘的人群。

1 minors   

n.未成年人( minor的名词复数 )；副修科目；小公司；[逻辑学]小前提v.[主美国英语]副修，选修，兼修( minor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors. 法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He had three minors this semester. 这学期他有三门副修科目。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

3 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。

4 compassionate   

adj.有同情心的，表示同情的

参考例句：

• She is a compassionate person.她是一个有同情心的人。
• The compassionate judge gave the young offender a light sentence.慈悲的法官从轻判处了那个年轻罪犯。

5 needy   

adj.贫穷的，贫困的，生活艰苦的

参考例句：

• Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷，但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
• They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。

6 loyalty   

n.忠诚，忠心

参考例句：

• She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
• His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。