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Remarks by President Obama to Parliament in London
奥巴马在英国议会发表讲话 [视频]

US President Barack Obama reviews an honor guard with Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, during an official arrival ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London May 24, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

We are the allies who landed at Omaha and Gold, who sacrificed side by side to free a continent from the march of tyranny, and help prosperity flourish from the ruins of war. And with the founding of NATO -- a British idea -- we joined a transatlantic alliance that has ensured our security for over half a century.	我们是在奥马哈和戈尔德滩头登陆的盟友，我们以献身的精神并肩战斗，从暴政的铁蹄下解救了整个大陆，帮助人们在战争的废墟上建设繁荣。随着北约的创立——根据英国的建议——我们联合成了一个跨大西洋联盟，半个多世纪以来确保了我们的安全。
Together with our allies, we forged a lasting peace from a cold war. When the Iron Curtain lifted, we expanded our alliance to include the nations of Central and Eastern Europe, and built new bridges to Russia and the former states of the Soviet Union. And when there was strife in the Balkans, we worked together to keep the peace.	同我们的盟友一起，我们经历了冷战，缔造了持久和平。当铁幕被打破的时候，我们扩大了我们的联盟，纳入了东欧和中欧国家，建立了与俄罗斯和前苏联加盟共和国交往的新桥梁。在巴尔干地区燃起战火之时，我们共同努力维持和平。
Today, after a difficult decade that began with war and ended in recession, our nations have arrived at a pivotal moment once more. A global economy that once stood on the brink of depression is now stable and recovering. After years of conflict, the United States has removed 100,000 troops from Iraq, the United Kingdom has removed its forces, and our combat mission there has ended. In Afghanistan, we've broken the Taliban's momentum and will soon begin a transition to Afghan lead. And nearly 10 years after 9/11, we have disrupted terrorist networks and dealt al Qaeda a huge blow by killing its leader -- Osama bin Laden.	今天，在经历了从战争开始到以衰退为终点的艰难的10年后，我们两国又再次进入了一个关键时刻。曾经濒临萧条的全球经济现已趋于稳定并正在复苏。经过多年的战事，美国从伊拉克撤出了10万军队，英国也撤出了自己的军队，我们在伊拉克的作战任务已经结束。在阿富汗，我们遏阻了塔利班的扩张势头，不久将向由阿富汗主导的方向过渡。在 9.11 事件发生将近10年后，我们瓦解了恐怖主义网络，击毙了恐怖主义头子奥萨马∙本∙拉登给予“基地”组织沉重的打击。
Together, we have met great challenges. But as we enter this new chapter in our shared history, profound challenges stretch before us.	我们共同应对了重大的挑战。但在我们掀开两国共同历史这一新篇章的时刻，各种严峻的挑战展现在我们的面前。
In a world where the prosperity of all nations is now inextricably linked, a new era of cooperation is required to ensure the growth and stability of the global economy. As new threats spread across borders and oceans, we must dismantle terrorist networks and stop the spread of nuclear weapons, confront climate change and combat famine and disease. And as a revolution races through the streets of the Middle East and North Africa, the entire world has a stake in the aspirations of a generation that longs to determine its own destiny.	在一个各国的繁荣已不可分割地紧密相连的世界，必须开创合作的新时代确保全球经济的增长和稳定。随着新的威胁跨越国界和海洋四处蔓延，我们必须摧毁恐怖主义网络，制止核武器扩散；应对气候变化，抗击饥饿和疾病。当革命浪潮席卷中东和北非各国的街头之时，这一代人渴望自己决定命运的呼声与全世界息息相关。
These challenges come at a time when the international order has already been reshaped for a new century. Countries like China, India, and Brazil are growing by leaps and bounds. We should welcome this development, for it has lifted hundreds of millions from poverty around the globe, and created new markets and opportunities for our own nations.	这些挑战产生于一个新世纪的国际秩序已被重新塑造的时期。中国、印度和巴西等国家正在突飞猛进地发展。我们应该欢迎这一发展，因为它使全球亿万人民摆脱了贫困，并为我们自己的国家开拓了新市场和新机会。
And yet, as this rapid change has taken place, it's become fashionable in some quarters to question whether the rise of these nations will accompany the decline of American and European influence around the world. Perhaps, the argument goes, these nations represent the future, and the time for our leadership has passed.	然而，随着快速变化的发生，在某些地方出现了一些已成为时髦的质疑，声称伴随着这些国家崛起，美欧在全世界影响力是否会走向衰落。这种论点认为，也许这些国家代表着未来，我们发挥领导作用的时代已经过去。
That argument is wrong. The time for our leadership is now. It was the United States and the United Kingdom and our democratic allies that shaped a world in which new nations could emerge and individuals could thrive. And even as more nations take on the responsibilities of global leadership, our alliance will remain indispensable to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.	但这种论点是错误的。现在正是我们发挥领导作用的时候。正是美国、英国和我们的民主同盟国家塑造了新兴国家得以崛起和个人得以发展的世界。即便在更多国家能够承担全球领导责任之时，为了使这个世纪实现更和平、更繁荣和更公正的目标，我们的同盟依然必不可少。
At a time when threats and challenges require nations to work in concert with one another, we remain the greatest catalysts for global action. In an era defined by the rapid flow of commerce and information, it is our free market tradition, our openness, fortified by our commitment to basic security for our citizens, that offers the best chance of prosperity that is both strong and shared. As millions are still denied their basic human rights because of who they are, or what they believe, or the kind of government that they live under, we are the nations most willing to stand up for the values of tolerance and self-determination that lead to peace and dignity.	在威胁与挑战要求各国必须携手努力，相互协调之时，我们依然是全球行动最大的推动力量。在一个以商务和信息的迅速流通为特征的时代，我们的自由市场传统、我们的开放性，同时我们承诺保障我们公民的基本安全，以此作为坚强的后盾，为强大的共同繁荣创造了最好的机会。由于亿万人民因他们的身份、他们的信仰或统治他们的政府的属性而被剥夺了基本人权，我们这些国家最积极地要求维护有助于实现和平与尊严的包容和自决的价值观。