Former(前任的) President Bill Clinton's（克林顿） remarks（言论） to the Democratic（民主的）National（国）Convention（大会）（即民主党大会）, as prepared for delivery（投递，交货）（即准备稿）. Clinton veered（转向） from these prepared（预先准备） remarks（言论） multiple（众多）times throughout（贯穿） his speech.
We're here to nominate（提名）a President, and I've got one in mind.
I want to nominate（提名）a man whose own life（自己的生活中） has known（就已经知道） its fair share of（公平的份额） adversity（逆境，引申困难） and uncertainty（不确定）.
A man who ran for（竞选，过去时） President to change the course（过程） of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before the election（选举）, saw it suffer the biggest collapse（崩溃） since the Great（大） Depression（萧条）.
A man who stopped the slide（滑） into depression（萧条） and put us on the long road to recovery（复原）, knowing all the while(始终知道，倒装） that no matter how many jobs were created and saved, there were still millions more waiting, trying to feed（养活） their children and keep their hopes alive.
I want to nominate（提名） a man cool（冷静）on the outside but burning（燃烧） for America on the inside.
A man who believes we can build a new American Dream economy driven by innovation（改革）and creativity（创造性）, education and cooperation（合作）.
A man who had the good sense（明智的）to marry Michelle Obama.
I want Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States and I proudly（自豪地） nominate him as the standard bearer（旗手，引申领袖） of the Democratic Party（民主党）.
In Tampa（坦帕）, we heard a lot of talk about how the President and the Democrats（民主党人）don't believe in free enterprise（企业）and individual（个人的）initiative（主动权，引申积极性）, how we want everyone to be dependent（依赖）on the government, how bad we are for the economy.The Republican（共和党） narrative（叙述） is that all of us who amount to anything are completely（完全地）self-made（白手起家）. One of our greatest（最大的）Democratic（民主党） Chairmen（主席）, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician（政治家） wants you to believe he was born in a log（伐木） cabin（小屋） he built himself, but it ain't so.（但事实并非如此）
We Democrats（民主党人）think the country works better with a strong middle（中产）class（阶级）, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless（无情的）focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote（促进）growth（增长）and broadly shared prosperity（繁荣，引申共同富裕）. We think "we're all in this together（我们一起来）" is a better philosophy（哲学）than "you're on your own（你走你的路）."Who's right? Well since 1961, the Republicans（共和党人）have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our economy produced 66 million private sector（部门）jobs（工作）. What's the jobs score（成绩）? Republicans（共和党人）24 million, Democrats（民主党人）42 million!It turns out（证明）that advancing（促进）equal opportunity（机会平等）and economic empowerment（赋予经济权利） is both morally（道德上地）right and good economics, because discrimination（歧视）, poverty（贫困）and ignorance（愚昧）restrict（限制了）growth, while investments（投资）in education, infrastructure（基础设施）and scientific（科学）and technological research increase（增长了）it, creating more good jobs and new wealth（财富）for all of us.Though（尽管）I often disagree with Republicans（共和党人）, I never learned to hate them the way the far right（右派） that now controls their party seems to（似乎）hate President Obama and the Democrats（民主党人）. After all, President Eisenhower（艾森豪威尔） sent（派出）federal（联邦）troops（军队）to my home-state（家乡）to integrate（整合）Little Rock Central High（小石城中心高中）and built the interstate（洲际）highway system（高速公路系统）. And as governor（州长）, I worked with President Reagan（里根）on welfare（福利）reform（改革）and with President George H.W.Bush（老布什）on national（国民）education goals.I am grateful to（感激）President George W. Bush（布什）for PEPFAR（布什搞的机构）, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami（海啸）, Hurricane（飓风）Katrina（卡特里娜）and the Haitian（海地）earthquake（地震）.Through（通过） my foundation（基金会）, in America and around the world,
I work with Democrats（民主党人）, Republicans（共和党人）and Independents（无党派人士）who are focused on solving problems and seizing（抓住）opportunities, not fighting（争斗）each other.When times are tough（强硬）, constant（经常性的）conflict（冲突）may be good politics（政治）.but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all（毕竟）, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. All of us are destined（注定）to live our lives between those two extremes（极端）.Unfortunately, the faction（派系）that now dominates（主导）the Republican Party（共和党）doesn't see it that way. They think government is the enemy（敌人）,and compromise（妥协）is weakness（软弱的表现）.One of the main reasons America should re-elect（改选）. President Obama is that he is still committed（坚定的）to cooperation. He appointed（任命）Republican Secretaries（秘书）of Defense（国防）, the Army and Transportation（运输部长）. He appointed a Vice（副总统）President who ran against him in 2008, and trusted him to oversee（监督）the successful end of the war in Iraq and the implementation（实现）of the recovery（复
苏） act（法案）. And Joe Biden（乔.拜登）did a great job with both.
He appointed Cabinet（内阁）members who supported Hillary（希拉里）in the primaries（初选）. Heck（hell委婉说法，见鬼）, he even appointed Hillary! I'm so proud of her and grateful（感激）to our entire（整个）national security team（国家安全团队）for all they've done to make us safer and stronger and to build a world with more partners and fewer（更少的）enemies. I'm also grateful to the young men and women who serve（服务）our country in the military（军队）and to Michelle Obama and Jill Biden（拜登）for supporting military families when their loved ones are overseas（海外）and for helping our veterans（退伍军人）, when they come home bearing（承受）the wounds（创伤）of war, or needing help with education, housing, and jobs.
President Obama's record on national security（国家安全问题上的记录） is a tribute（证明）to his strength（力量）, and judgment, and to his preference（偏好）for inclusion（包容）and partnership（伙伴关系）over partisanship（引申党派合作）.
He also tried to work with Congressional（国会）Republicans（共和党人）on Health Care（卫生保健）, debt（债务）reduction（削减）, and jobs, but that didn't work out（实施）so well. Probably because, as the Senate（参议院）Republican（共和党）leader, in a remarkable（非凡的）moment（时刻）of candor（坦率）, said two years before the election, their number one priority（优先，连前引申首要任务）was not to put America back to work（意指解决就业）, but to put President Obama out of work. Senator（参议员）, I hate to break it to you（不喜欢这样告诉你）, but we're going to keep President Obama on the job!
In Tampa, the Republican（共和党）argument-against（反对）the President's re-election（连任）was pretty（相当）simple； we left him a total mess（我们一离开他们就要乱）, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.In order to look like an acceptable（接受的）alternative（替代）to President Obama, they couldn't say much about the ideas they have offered over（提过）the last two years. You see they want to go back to the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place； to cut taxes（税收）for high income Americans even more than President Bush did;；to get rid of（摆脱）those pesky（讨厌的）financial regulations（法规，引申制度）designed to prevent（防止）another crash and prohibit（禁止）future bailouts（救助）； to increase（增加）defense（国防）spending（开支）two trillion（兆）dollars more than the Pentagon（五角大楼）has requested（要求）without（没有）saying what they'll spend the money on;；to make enormous（庞大的）cuts（削减）in the rest of the budget（预算）, especially（特别是）programs（规划）that help the middle class and poor kids.
As another President once said ： there they go again（他们又来了）.I like the argument(辩论) for President Obama's re-election （连任）a lot better. He inherited（继承，引申接手）a deeply damaged（被摧毁）economy, put a floor under the crush（碎地铺板，引申救市）, began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation（基础）for a modern（现代的，引申全新的经济）, more well-balanced（均衡的）economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant（充满活力的）new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators（创新者）.
Are we where we want to be? No. Is the President satisfied（满意的）? No. Are we better off（更好）than we were when he took office（上任）, with an economy in free fall（自由落体）, losing 750,000 jobs a month. The answer is YES.I understand the challenge we face. I know many Americans are still angry and frustrated（沮丧）with the economy. Though（尽管）employment is growing, banks are beginning to lend and even housing prices are picking up a bit（一点起色）, too many people don't feel it.I experienced the same thing in 1994 and early 1995. Our policies（政策）were working and the economy was growing but most people didn't feel it yet. By 1996, the economy was roaring（咆哮，意指腾飞）, halfway（中途）through（穿过，引申创造了）the longest peacetime（和平时期）expansion（扩张）in American history.