First Inaugural Addre
by Barack Obama
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real.They are serious and they are many.They will not be met easily or in a short span of time.But know this, America—they will be met.
今天，我告诉大家，我们面临的挑战真实存在，并且严重而且多种多样。它们不可能在一个短时间内被轻易征服。但是，美国，请记住这句话——它们将被征服。
1.span [spæn] n.一段时间
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
我们今天聚集在这里是因为我们选择希望而不是恐惧，选择齐心协力而不是冲突对立。
2.discord [\'dɪskɔrd] n.冲突
On this day, we come to proclaiman end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminationsand worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
我们今天在这里宣告，让斤斤计较与虚假承诺就此结束，让窒息我国政治为时太久的相互指责和陈词滥调就此完结。
3.proclaim [prə\'klem] v.宣告，宣布4.pettya.心胸狭窄的
5.grievance [\'grivəns] n.不满，抱怨（grievevt.使悲伤，使苦恼）
6.recrimination n.反责7.worn outa.陈腐的8.dogman.教条
9.strangle [\'stræŋgl] vt.使窒息
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come toset aside childish things.The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit；to choose our better history；to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, paed on from generation to generation：the God-given promise that all are equal,
all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happine.我们仍是一个年轻的国家，但用《圣经》的话说，现在是抛弃幼稚的时候了。现在应是我们让永恒的精神发扬光大的时候，应是选择创造更佳历史伟绩的时候，应是将代代相传的宝贵财富、崇高理想向前发展的时候：上帝赋予所有人平等、所有人自由和所有人充分追求幸福的机会。
10.Scripturen.《圣经》11.set aside不顾，放弃
12.reaffirm v.重申，再肯定（affirmv.确认）
13.the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happine.上帝赋予所有人平等、所有人自由和所有人充分追求幸福的机会。
这句话来源于美国《独立宣言》，原文是：We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happine.我们认为这些真理是不言而喻的：人人生而平等，他们都从他们的“造物主”那儿被赋予了某些不可转让的权利，其中包括生命权、自由权和追求幸福的权利。
In reaffirming the greatne of our nation, we understand that greatne is never a given.It must be earned.Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for le.It has not been the path for the faint-hearted for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame.Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things—some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.
在重申我们国家之伟大精神的同时，我们懂得，伟大从非天生，而是必须去赢得。我们的历程从来不是走捷径或是退而求其次。它不是弱者的道路，它不属于好逸恶劳或只图名利享受的人；这条路属于冒险者、实干家、创造者——有些人享有盛名，但大多数是默默无闻地耕耘劳作的男女志士，是他们带我们走向通往繁荣和自由的漫长崎岖之路。
14.givenn.给出物（givenprep.如果有，假如，考虑到）15.short-cutn.捷径
16.faint-hearteda.胆怯的17.fame [fem] n.名声，名望（famousa.著名的）
18.obscure [əb\'skjur] vt.使变暗，使不明显19.rugged a.崎岖的
For us, they packed up their few worldly poeions and traveled acro oceans in search of a new life.
为了我们，他们打点起贫寒的行装上路，远涉重洋，追求新的生活。
20.pack up打包21.worldly [\'wɝldlɪ] a.世间的（worldn.世界）
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West, endured the whip and plowed the hard earth.
为了我们，他们在血汗工厂劳作，在西部原野拓荒，忍着鞭笞之痛在坚硬的土地上耕耘。
22.toilv.（喻）辛苦从事23.sweatshop n.血汗工厂（工作条件恶劣而工资低的工厂）
24.lash n.鞭打，抽打25.plow [plau] v.犁，耕
For us, they fought and died, in places likeConcord and Gettysburg；Normandy and Khe Sanh.
为了我们，他们奔赴疆场，英勇捐躯，长眠于康科德、葛底斯堡、诺曼底和溪山。
26.Concord and Gettysburg；Normandy and Khe Sanh
列克星敦和康科德战役（Battles of Lexington and Concord），发生在1775年4月19日的马萨诸塞州米德尔塞克斯县，是美国独立战争中发生的第一场军事冲突，标志着英国与其北美十三个殖民地正式爆发了战争。
链接：
盖茨堡之役 (Gettysburg)，1863年7月1日，十五万名士兵各自为了理想中的民主政治在美国盖兹堡打响了战役，有三分之一的人倒下了，这场战役成为美国南北战争的转折点。诺曼底登陆（Normandy Invasion）是第二次世界大战中的著名战役。1944年6月6日凌晨，美英盟军登陆部队在海空军的掩护下，横渡英吉利海峡，在法国西北部的诺曼底登陆，为第二战场向纵深发展奠定了基础。
溪山战役（Battle of Khe Sanh），发生在1968年1月到4月间的越南战争。在此战役中，越南人民军部队猛烈围攻了美国海军第3两栖作战部队和越南共和国陆军驻守的溪生基地。而美军则在优势空中火力的支援下坚守基地。最终越南人民军在激战77天后结束了对溪山
的围攻。
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life.They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions, greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
为了我们能够过上更好的生活，他们前赴后继，历尽艰辛，全力奉献，不辞劳苦，直至双手结起层层老茧。他们看到的美国超越了我们每一个人的雄心壮志，也超越了所有种族、财富或派系的差异。
27.time and again反复，多次
e.g.I\'ve told you time and again—make sure you look before you cro the road.我跟你说过多少次了，要三思而后行（过马路前一定要左右看一下）。
28.rawa.皮肤某处擦掉皮而疼痛的；生的；自然状态的29.factionn.派系；小集团；内讧
This is the journey we continue today.We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth.Our workers are no le productive than when this crisis began.Our minds are no le inventive, our goods and services no le needed than they were last week or last month or last year.Our capacity remains undiminished.But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions—that time has surely paed.Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
今天，作为后来者，我们踏上了这一未尽的旅程。我们依然是世界上最繁荣、最强大的国家。我们的劳动者的创造力并没有因为眼前的这场危机而减弱。我们的头脑依然像以往那样善于发明创新。我们的产品与服务仍旧像上星期、上个月或去年一样受人欢迎。我们的能力丝毫无损。但是，安于现状、保护狭隘的一己之私、推迟困难的抉择的时代无疑已成为过去。从今天起，我们必须振作起来，扫除我们身上的尘土，重新开启再造美国的事业。
30.undiminisheda.不减的，未衰的（diminishv.减少，变小）31.patn.轻拍
32.put off推迟；劝阻
e.g.Don\'t put off till tomorrow what can be done today.
今天事今日毕。
33.pick oneself up跌倒后爬起
e.g.The small girl slipped and fell, but quickly picked herself up.小女孩滑了一跤,但很快就爬了起来。
34.dust off除去……的灰尘；重新使用
e.g.She was dusting off the furniture.
她正在掸去家具上的灰尘。
