美国语文第六册 第233期:马萨诸塞人和南卡罗来纳(3)

（单词翻译）

Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium¹ 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, behold² 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 Concord³, 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 nurtured⁴ 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 discord⁵ and disunion shall wound it; if party strife⁶ and blind ambition shall hawk⁷ 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 folly⁸ 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 infancy⁹ 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 forth¹⁰ its arm, with whatever of vigor¹¹ 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。