我看视频整理出来的关于 “奥巴马感恩节演讲稿”(中
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20xx年感恩节
美利坚合众国总统公告
November 16， 2011
20xx年11月16日
One of our Nation’s oldest and most cherished traditions， Thanksgiving Day brings us closer to our loved ones and invites us to reflect on the blessings that enrich our lives. The observance recalls the celebration of an autumn harvest centuries ago， when the Wampanoag tribe joined the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony to share in the fruits of a bountiful season. The feast honored the Wampanoag for generously extending their knowledge of local game and agriculture to the Pilgrims， and today we renew our gratitude to all American Indians and Alaska Natives. We take this time to remember the ways that the First Americans have enriched our Nation’s heritage， from their generosity centuries ago
to the everyday contributions they make to all facets of American life. As we come together with friends， family， and neighbors to celebrate， let us set aside our daily concerns and give thanks for the providence bestowed upon us.
感恩节（Thanksgiving Day）是美国最悠久、最宝贵的传统之一。这个节日带给我们更浓郁的亲情，令我们反思给予我们丰富多彩的生活的万般恩典。这个传统上溯至几百年前万帕诺亚格部落（Wampanoag tribe）和普利茅斯殖民地（Plymouth Colony）清教徒移民分享秋收果实的欢庆时节。当时的盛宴表达了对万帕诺亚格部落向新移民传授当地狩猎和农作知识的慷慨友情的赞赏；今天，我们继续向所有美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民表示感恩。让我们值此时刻重温美国最早期的人们对我国文化传统的贡献——他们不仅在数百年前慷慨相助，而且每一天都在为 美国生活的各方各面作贡献。在我们与朋友、家人和邻居聚首欢庆的日子里，让我们抛开日常烦恼，为上帝对我们的
眷顾而感恩。
Though our traditions have evolved， the spirit of grace and humility at the heart of Thanksgiving has persisted through every chapter of our story. When President George Washington proclaimed our country’s first Thanksgiving， he praised a generous and knowing God for shepherding our young Republic through its uncertain beginnings. Decades later， President Abraham Lincoln looked to the divine to protect those who had known the worst of civil war， and to restore the Nation “to the full enjoyment of peace， harmony， tranquility， and union.”
虽然我们的传统与时俱进，但是作为感恩节核心的恩惠与谦卑精神贯穿于我们历史的各段篇章，始终如一。乔治·华盛顿 （George Washington）总统发表了美国第一个感恩日公告，感谢慷慨而全能的上帝护卫我们年轻的共和国度过风雨莫测的初始阶段。几十年后，亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln）总统祈求神灵保佑深领内战不幸的
人们，让国家重享完全的“和平、和谐、安宁与联邦团结”。
第二篇：奥巴马演讲稿发 中英结合
同胞们：
我今天站在这里，因为面前的任务而感到谦卑，因为你们的信任而心存感激，同时铭记先辈们做所出的巨大牺牲。感谢布什总统为这个国家做出的贡献，同时也谢谢他在整个政权交接期间表现出的慷慨与合作。
迄今已经有44名美国人宣誓就任总统。这些誓词曾出现在繁荣的上升趋势和如水般平静的和平中，当然，也经常会出现在乌云密布和狂风暴雨之时。在这各种时刻，美国一直在继续前行，这不仅仅是因为执政的技巧或者有先见之明，而是因为我们的人民一直在坚守先辈们的理想，忠实履行我们的建国宣言。过去是这样，这一代的美国人仍将会坚持这样做。 众所周知，我们目前正处在危机之中。我们的国家正在对暴力和仇恨宣战。我们的经济也被严重削弱，这是一些人贪婪和不负责任的后果，但在做出艰难选择和准备迎接新时代方面，我们出现了集体性的失误。房屋失去了；工作丢掉了；商业萧条了；我们的卫生保健耗资巨大；我们太多的学校不合格；每天都能找到更多的证据表明我们利用能源的方式使得对手更加强大，并且威胁到了我们整个星球。
这些数据和统计都是危机的表现特征。虽然无法具备测量，但产生的深远影响是我们的信心受到了侵蚀--担心美国的衰退不可避免，担心下一代会降低他们的期待。今天我要向你们说的是，我们面临的挑战是真实存在的。这些挑战很多，而且非常严重，它们不会轻易地或者在短时间内就能得以解决。但大家也必须认识到，美国，终将会解决这些困难。
今天，我们聚集在这里，是因为我选择用希望来战胜恐惧，用团结来战胜冲突与分歧。今天，我们来到这里将结束悲戚和错误的承诺，抛弃指责和教条主义这些扼杀我们政治的东西。我们仍然是一个年轻的国家，但现在应该摒弃充满孩子气的行为，重申我们不朽的精神；选择我们更好的历史；宏扬那些珍贵而且高尚的理念，并将这一代一代地传递下去。上帝认为天下众生皆平等，众生皆自由，而且都应该拥有追求幸福的机会。
在重申我们国家的伟大时，我们必须明白，伟大绝对不会是一种馈赠，而是要靠我们去努力争取。我们的征途从来没有捷径，也不属于那些胆怯懦弱、消谴工作或者只追求财富名利的人。为了我们，他们整理起自己不多的物品开始穿越大海寻找新的生活；为了我们，他们在血汗工厂辛苦劳作，忍受着皮鞭的抽打并且犁开坚硬的土地；为了我们，他们在诸如康科得、盖茨堡、诺曼底等等地方作战并献出生命。
这些男男女女们不停地奋斗和牺牲，一直工作直到双手生疼，目的只是为了过上更好一些的生活。在他们的眼中，美国比他们个人的报负更加重要，也比所有出身、财富或者宗派之间的差别更加重要。这就是我们今天仍在继续的征程。我们仍然是世界上最繁荣、最强大的国家。当这场危机开始后，我们工人的生产力并没有下降；我们的思想也没有失去创造力；我们现在需要的商品和服务，并没有比上周、上月或者去年减少；我们的生产力并没有降低。从今天开始，我们必须振作起来，拂去身上的灰尘，重新开始振兴美国。
环视周围，到处是要做的工作。目前的经济状况要求我们采取大胆和迅速的行动，我们将采取行动，不仅是创造新的工作岗位，而且是为经济的增长奠定新的基石。我们将建设道路和桥梁、电网和数字网络，它们将为我们的商业活动服务，把我们联系在一起。我们将使科学回归其位，应用科学技术来提高医疗的质量并降低其费用。我们将利用太阳能、风能、潮汐能来驱动我们的汽车，运营我们的工厂。我们将变革我们的学校、学院和大学以满足新时代的需求。这些是我们能够做的，我们将做这一切。
现在，有些人质疑我们的雄心壮志。他们称，我们的制度不能容忍太多宏伟的计划，他们很健忘，因为他们已忘记了这个国家曾经作过的事情，忘记了自由的男女在想像力和共同目标、必要性和勇气相结合的情况下所能取得的成就。
愤世嫉俗者未能理解的是，他们脚下的土地已发生了变动，过去那种消耗我们太长时间的陈腐的政治争论将不会重现。我们今天问的问题将不是我们的政府是过大或者过小，而是
它是否有效-它是否能帮助家庭找到可支付体面工资的工作，向他们提供可支付得起的医疗服务，提供有尊严的退休。当答案是肯定时，我们就会推动这一项目。当答案是否定时，我们就会结束这一项目。我们所有管理公共资金的人将在这一标准下工作-明智地花钱、改革坏习惯、使我们的活动透明化，因为只有这样，我们才能恢复人民和他们政府之间的至关重要的信任。
对于我们来说，市场是好是坏并不是一个问题，市场产生财富和扩展自由的能力是无以匹敌的。但这场危机提醒我们，没有有效的监管，市场会失控。当一个国家只青睐富人时，它的繁荣将无法持久。我们经济的成功不仅取决于我们国民生产总值的总量，而且取决于我们共享繁荣的范围，取决于我们将机会扩大至每个愿意抓住机会的人，这不仅是出于慈善之心，而是因为这是一条通往我们共同利益的最确切的道路。
就我们共同的防务而言，我们拒绝那种在我们的安全和我们的理想之间作出取舍的错误选择。我们的建国先辈曾面临我们几乎无法想像的危险，他们起草了确保法制和人权的宪章，数代美国人的鲜血扩展了这一宪章。这些理想仍然照亮着世界，我们将不会为了权宜之计而放弃它们。对于所有那些今天在观看就职典礼的世界其它各地的人民和政府，从宏伟的首都至我父亲所出生的那个小村庄，请明白，美国是所有国家、所有试图寻求和平和尊严男人、女人、儿童的朋友，我们已作好了再次担任领导者的准备。
我们回忆起前几辈的美国人，他们不仅仅是靠导弹和坦克击败法西斯主义，而且是靠紧密的联盟和持久的信念。他们明白，我们自身的力量不足以保护我们，也不会使我们为所欲为。相反，他们知道，我们的力量只有在谨慎使用的情况下才会增涨，我们的安全来源于我们事业的正义、我们榜样的力量、人性和克制的品格。
我们是这种遗产的继承者。这些原则将再次指引我们，我们可以应对那些需要更多努力的新威胁，这些新威胁需要国家之间进行更大程度的合作和理解。我们将负责任地把伊拉克交给它的人民，我们将在阿富汗推动负出重大代价才赢得的和平。我们将和老朋友和前敌手一起毫不松懈地削弱核威胁，应对全球变暖。我们将不会为我们的生活方式道歉，我们也不会放松我们的防务。对通过谋杀无辜者推动自己生活方式的人，我们对你们说，我们的精神更为强大，它无法被挫败，你们不可能消灭我们，我们将击败你们。
我们都知道，我们各类遗产的汇集是一种力量，而不是脆弱。美国是由信仰基督教、伊斯兰教、犹太教和印度教的人们以及无信仰人士组成的国家，来自地球上每一个角落的语言和文化在这里融汇。我们有过内战和种族隔离的惨痛经历，翻过黑暗的一页，我们因此变得更加强大、更加团结，我们因此坚信古老的仇恨总有一天会化解，部族之间的隔阂很快就会消除。我们坚信，随着世界变得越来越小，我们共有的人道精神将放出光芒，美国必须克尽己职，开创一个和平的新纪元。
对于穆斯林世界，我们将寻求新的共处之道，一种基于共同利益和相互尊重的方式。对于世界上那些播种冲突的种子或将自己社会的弊病归咎于西方的领导人，你们应该明白一点，你们的人民将根据你们所建设的而非破坏的来对你们作出评判。对于那些通过腐败、欺骗和镇压异见者来攫取权力的领导人，你们应该明白自己在违逆历史的潮流，但如果你们愿意松开拳头，我们将向你们提供帮助。
对于那些贫穷国家的人民，我们发誓将跟你们并肩战斗，让你们的农场繁茂、让洁净的水源流淌，让挨饿的身体获得营养、让饥渴的头脑获得食粮。对于那些像我们一样相对富有的国家，我们要说，我们再也不能对自己国界之外的苦难漠不关心，我们再也不能不顾后果地消耗世界的资源。这个世界已经改变，我们必须与之俱变。
当我们展望未来的路途，我们怀着谦卑的感激想起此时此刻正守卫在边远的沙漠和山区的勇敢的美国人。今天他们有话要对我们说，就像躺在阿林顿国家公墓里那些倒下的英雄的低语一样。我们之所以尊敬他们，不仅仅因为他们为我们的自由保驾护航，更是因为他们践
行着服务的精神，以及在比自身更宏伟的事物上寻找意义的崇高意愿。然而就在此时，这个将影响一代人的时刻，我们所有人需要的正是这种精神。
因为不论政府能做什么和必须做什么，最终这个国家都要依赖美国人民的信念和决心。它是当堤坝溃决后收留一个陌生人的仁善，它是那些宁愿减少自己的工时也不愿看见一位朋友失业、帮助我们度过黑暗时光的工人的大公无私，它是消防员们冲进浓烟滚滚的楼梯的勇气，也是那些养育小孩并最终决定我们的命运的父母们的意愿。
我们可能面临着全新的挑战，我们应对这些挑战的手段也可能是全新的，但是我们的成功所仰赖的价值标准却是古老的——勤劳、诚实、勇气、公正、忍耐、好奇、忠诚和爱国。这些东西都是真实的，它们在整个美国历史上一直是我们取得进步的背后推动力。现在所亟需的是回归这些真理，现在我们需要进入一个新的责任时代——需要每个美国人都认识到，我们对自己、对这个国家、对整个世界都负有责任，不是勉强接受的责任，而是当仁不让，应该彻底明白一点，即除非将我们的一切献给一项艰巨的任务，我们的精神无法获得满足、我们的人格也无法获得塑造。
这是作为一位公民的价值和承诺。
这是我们的信心之源，是上帝召唤我们去塑造一个不确定的命运。
这是我们的自由和信念的意义所在——为什么不同信仰、不同种族的男女老少能够在这个宏伟的大厅里欢聚一堂，以及为什么不到六十年前一个人的父亲还不能在当地餐馆里就餐、现在他却能够站在大家面前进行最庄严的宣誓。
让我们为这一天打上标记吧，用对我们是谁以及走过的旅程的回忆。在美国诞生的那一年，在最寒冷的季节，一小队爱国志士围着河边快要熄灭的篝火，此时河流已经冰封。首府被遗弃了。敌人在挺进。雪地上血迹斑斑。在革命成败茫然未知的时刻，我们的国父让人民听到了下面的话语：
“让未来的世界知道??在冰天雪地的寒冬里，当唯有希望和美德幸存的时候??这个城市和这个国家，在危险的警报响起之后，挺身迎向它们。”
美国。现在我们面临共同的危险，在这个艰苦卓绝的寒冬，让我们记起这些不朽的话语。怀着希望和美德，让我们再次迎击冰冷的湍流，忍受可能来临的风暴。让我们的孙辈这样讲述我们：当我们面临考验之时，我们拒绝让这段旅程中止，我们没有转过身去，也没有摇摆不定，而是眼睛坚定地望着前方，承蒙上帝的恩典，我们携带着自由的伟大礼物，安全地将它交付给我们的后代。
January 20, 2001
President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens:
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
As I begin, I thank President Clinton for his service to our nation; and I thank Vice President Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.
I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.
We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story. A story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born. Americans are called upon to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws; and though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.
Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations. Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along; and even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.
While many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice, of our own country. The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth; and sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent, but not a country. We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation; and this is my solemn pledge, "I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity." I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image and we are confident in principles that unite and lead us onward.
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them; and every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American.
Today, we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility,
courage, compassion and character. America, at its best, matches a commitment to principle with a concern for civility. A civil society demands from each of us good will and respect, fair dealing and forgiveness. Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small. But the stakes for America are never small. If our country does not lead the cause of freedom, it will not be led. If we do not turn the hearts of children toward knowledge and character, we will lose their gifts and undermine their idealism. If we permit our economy to drift and decline, the vulnerable will suffer most. We must live up to the calling we share. Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. This commitment, if we keep it, is a way to shared accomplishment.
America, at its best, is also courageous. Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defending common dangers defined our common good. Now we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives; we will reform Social Security and Medicare, sparing our children from struggles we have the power to prevent; we will reduce taxes, to recover the momentum of our economy and reward the effort and enterprise of working Americans; we will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge; and we will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.
The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake, America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests; we will show purpose without arrogance; we will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength; and to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth.
America, at its best, is compassionate. In the quiet of American conscience, we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy of our nation's promise. Whatever our views of its cause, we can agree that children at risk are not at fault. Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love. The proliferation of prisons, however necessary, is no substitute for hope and order in our souls. Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities, and all of us are diminished when any are hopeless. Government has great responsibilities for public safety and public health, for civil rights and common schools. Yet compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government. Some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer. Church and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our laws. Many in our country do not know the pain of poverty, but we can listen to those who do. I can pledge our nation to a goal, "When we see that wounded traveler on the road to Jericho, we will not pass to the other side."
America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected. Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. Though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment. We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments. We find that children and community are the commitments that set us free. Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom. Sometimes in life we are called to do great things. But as a saint of our times has said, every day we are called to do small things with great love. The most important tasks of a democracy are done by everyone. I will live and lead by these principles, "to advance my convictions with civility, to pursue the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and compassion, to call for responsibility and try to live it as well." In all of these ways, I will bring the values of our history to the care of our times.
What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.
Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it.
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?" Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The years and changes accumulate, but the themes of this day he would know, "our nation's grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity."
We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with His purpose. Yet His purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another. Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today; to make our country more just and generous; to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.
This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
God bless you all, and God bless America