美国语文第六册 第233期:马萨诸塞人和南卡罗来纳(3)（在线收听）

Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. She needs none.

总统先生，在没有发表赞辞的情况下，我开始说说马萨诸塞州。实际上，她不需要任何溢美之词。

There she is, behold her, and judge for yourselves.

所有的一切都显而易见。注视着她，由你自己做出判断。

There is her history; the world knows it by heart.

她的历史，世界都记在心里了。

The past, at least, is secure.

至少，过去的一切都是可靠的。

There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

波士顿、康科尔、莱克星顿，还有邦克山。它们会永远屹立在世人心中。

And, sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice,

先生，美国的自由精神在哪里发出最初的呐喊，

and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives,in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit.

那里的年轻人就会得到精神上的滋养，并将对自由的呐喊传承下去。还有一些生命，在他们的男子气概所彰显的力量中，充满了最初的精神。

If discord and disunion shall wound it; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it;

如果冲突与分裂伤害到它，如果党派之间的纷争和盲目的抱负抓住并撕扯它；

if folly and madness, if uneasiness under salutary restraint, shall succeed to separate it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure,

如果愚蠢的行为和疯狂之举，如果有益的限制下所产生的不适，通过确保它的存在成为单独的现象而成功地将它从联邦里分离出来，

it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked;

到头来它将站在它的童年颠沛流离中的摇篮旁边；

it will stretch forth its arm, with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gathered around it;

它会向前伸出胳膊，拼尽也许仅存的气力，够向围拢在四周的朋友；

and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amid the proudest monuments of its glory and on the very spot of its origin.

最终，它会倒在，如果它必然倒下的话，它的荣誉最值得骄傲自豪的纪念碑和记录它起源的特别之地中央。