Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
感谢各位。非常感谢你们,我的朋友们。感谢你们在这个美好的夜晚,来到这里。
My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.
我的朋友们,我们已经,已经走完了这次漫长的旅程。美国人民已经说出了他们的决定,说得非常清楚。
A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Sen. Barack Obama to congratulate him.
刚才,我非常荣幸地给奥巴马参议员打电话,向他表示祝贺。
To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
祝贺他当选为这个国家的下一任总统,这个我们两个都无比热爱的国家的下一任总统。
我明白这次选举对于非洲裔美国人的特殊意义
This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.
I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Sen. Obama believes that, too.
我始终深信不疑,对于任何一个勤奋努力、勇于开拓的人,美国都会给予他机会。奥巴马参议员也深信这一点。
But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters.
一个世纪前,西奥多·罗斯福总统邀请Booker T. Washington(注:黑人教育家),到白宫共进晚餐。全国各地有许多人,认为这是一个骇人听闻的事件。
America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.
These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.
我们的国家正处在艰难时刻。奥巴马参议员将领导我们迎接挑战。今晚,我向他保证,我将尽我所能帮助他,
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.
It is natural. It's natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again.
We fought -- we fought as hard as we could. And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.
我们努力过了,尽了我们所能。虽然最后我们没有成功,但是失败是我的,不是你们的。
I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends.
The road was a difficult one from the outset, but your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.
I don't know -- I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.
This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life, and my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Sen. Obama and my old friend Sen. Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.
Tonight -- tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Sen. Obama -- whether they supported me or Sen. Obama.
I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
1.一个人总要走陌生的路,看陌生的风景,听陌生的歌,然后在某个不经意的瞬间,你会发现,原本是费尽心机想要忘记的事情真的就那么忘记了。
1. One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music. Then one day, you will find that the things you try hard to forget are already gone.
2.幸福,不是长生不老,不是大鱼大肉,不是权倾朝野。幸福是每一个微小的生活愿望达成。当你想吃的时候有得吃,想被爱的时候有人来爱你。
2. Happiness is not about being immortal nor having food or rights in one's hand. It’s about having each tiny wish come true, or having something to eat when you are hungry or having someone's love when you need love.
3.爱情是灯,友情是影子,当灯灭了,你会发现你的周围都是影子。朋友,是在最后可以给你力量的人。
3. Love is a lamp, while friendship is the shadow. When the lamp is off, you will find the shadow everywhere. Friend is who can give you strength at last.
4.我爱你不是因为你是谁,而是我在你面前可以是谁。
4.I love you not for who you are, but for who I am before you.
5.爱情,要么让人成熟,要么让人堕落。
5.Love makes man grow up or sink down.
6.举得起放得下的叫举重,举得起放不下的叫负重。可惜,大多数人的爱情,都是负重的。
6. If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down, it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
7.我们每个人都生活在各自的过去中,人们会用一分钟的时间去认识一个人,用一小时的时间去喜欢一个人,再用一天的时间去爱上一个人,到最后呢,却要用一辈子的时间去忘记一个人。
7. We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone.
8.一个人一生可以爱上很多的人,等你获得真正属于你的幸福之后,你就会明白一起的伤痛其实是一种财富,它让你学会更好地去把握和珍惜你爱的人。
8. One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
9.年轻的时候会想要谈很多次恋爱,但是随着年龄的增长,终于领悟到爱一个人,就算用一辈子的时间,还是会嫌不够。慢慢地去了解这个人,体谅这个人,直到爱上为止,是需要有非常宽大的胸襟才行。
9. When you are young, you may want several love experiences. But as time goes on, you will realize that if you really love someone, the whole life will not be enough. You need time to know, to forgive and to love. All this needs a very big mind.
10.当明天变成了今天成为了昨天,最后成为记忆里不再重要的某一天,我们突然发现自己在不知不觉中已被时间推着向前走,这不是静止火车里,与相邻列车交错时,仿佛自己在前进的错觉,而是我们真实的在成长,在这件事里成了另一个自己。
10. When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no more important in your memory, we suddenly realize that we r pushed forward by time. This is not a train in still in which you may feel forward when another train goes by. It is the truth that we've all grown up. And we become different.
11.离开我就别安慰我,要知道每一次缝补也会遭遇穿刺的痛。
11.If you leave me, please don't comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain.
12.曾经拥有的,不要忘记。不能得到的,更要珍惜。属于自己的,不要放弃。已经失去的,留作回忆。
12. Don’t forget the things you once you owned. Treasure the things you can’t get. Don't give up the things that belong to you and keep those lost things in memory.
13.我喜欢并习惯了对变化的东西保持着距离,这样才会知道什么是最不会被时间抛弃的准则。比如爱一个人,充满变数,我于是后退一步,静静的看着,直到看见真诚的感情。
13. I love and am used to keeping a distance with those changed things. Only in this way can I know what will not be abandoned by time. For example, when you love someone, changes are all around. Then I step backward and watching it silently, then I see the true feelings.
14.男人的爱是俯视而生,而女人的爱是仰视而生。如果爱情像座山,那么男人越往上走可以俯视的女人就越多,而女人越往上走可以仰视的男人就越少。
14. Men love from overlooking while women love from looking up. If love is a mountain, then if men go up, more women they will see while women will see fewer men.
15.好的爱情是你通过一个人看到整个世界,坏的爱情是你为了一个人舍弃世界。
15.Good love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person.
16.在自己面前,应该一直留有一个地方,独自留在那里。然后去爱。不知道是什么,不知道是谁,不知道如何去爱,也不知道可以爱多久。只是等待一次爱情,也许永远都没有人。可是,这种等待,就是爱情本身。
16. We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves. And then begin to love. Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how to love or how long it will be. Just wait for one love. Maybe no one will come out, but this kind of waiting is the love itself.
17.有谁不曾为那暗恋而痛苦?我们总以为那份痴情很重,很重,是世上最重的重量。有一天,暮然回首,我们才发现,它一直都是很轻,很轻的。我们以为爱的很深,很深,来日岁月,会让你知道,它不过很浅,很浅。最深和最重的爱,必须和时日一起成长。
17. Is there anyone who hasn't suffered for the secret love? We always think that love is very heavy, heavy and could be the heaviest thing in the world. But one day, when you look back, you suddenly realize that it's always light, light. We all thought love was very deep, but in fact it's very thin. The deepest and heaviest love must grow up with the time.
18.在这个世界上,只有真正快乐的男人,才能带给女人真正的快乐。
18.In this world, only those men who really feel happy can give women happiness
19.女人如果不性感,就要感性;如果没有感性,就要理性;如果没有理性,就要有自知之明;如果连这个都没有了,她只有不幸。
19. If a woman is not sexy, she needs emotion; if she is not emotional, she needs reason; if she is not reasonable, she has to know herself clearly. coz only she has is misfortune.
20.一段不被接受的爱情,需要的不是伤心,而是时间,一段可以用来遗忘的时间。一颗被深深伤了的心,需要的不是同情,而是明白。
21. An unacceptable love needs no sorrow but time- sometime for forgetting. A badly-hurt heart needs no sympathy but understanding.
22.我知道这世上有人在等我,但我不知道我在等谁,为了这个,我每天都非常快乐。
22. I know someone in the world is waiting for me, although I've no idea of who he is. But I feel happy every day for this.
23.一生至少该有一次,为了某个人而忘了自己,不求有结果,不求同行,不求曾经拥有,甚至不求你爱我。只求在我最美的年华里,遇到你。
23. In your life, there will at least one time that you forget yourself for someone, asking for no result, no company, no ownership nor love. Just ask for meeting you in my most beautiful years.
90.我不觉得人的心智成熟是越来越宽容涵盖,什么都可以接受。相反,我觉得那应该是一个逐渐剔除的过程,知道自己最重要的是什么,知道不重要的东西是什么。而后,做一个纯简的人。
90.I don't think that when people grow up, they will become more broad-minded and can accept everything. Conversely, I think it's a selecting process, knowing what's the most important and what's the least. And then be a simple man.
35.当你的心真的在痛,眼泪快要流下来的时候,那就赶快抬头看看,这片曾经属于我们的天空;当天依旧是那么的广阔,云依旧那么的潇洒,那就不应该哭,因为我的离去,并没有带走你的世界。
35. When you feel hurt and your tears are gonna to drop. Please look up and have a look at the sky once belongs to us. If the sky is still vast, clouds are still clear, you shall not cry because my leave doesn't take away the world that belongs to you.
lover 情人(不是“爱人”)
busboy 餐馆勤杂工(不是“公汽售票员”)
busybody 爱管闲事的人(不是“大忙人”)
dry goods (美)纺织品;(英)谷物(不是“干货”)
heartman 换心人(不是“有心人”)
mad doctor 精神病科医生(不是“发疯的医生”)
eleventh hour 最后时刻(不是“十一点”)
blind date (由第三者安排的)男女初次会面(并非“盲目约会”或“瞎约会”)
dead president 美钞(上印有总统头像)(并非“死了的总统”)
personal remark 人身攻击(不是“个人评论”)
sweet water 淡水(不是“糖水”或“甜水”)
confidence man 骗子(不是“信得过的人”)
criminal lawyer 刑事律师(不是“犯罪的律师”)
service station 加油站(不是“服务站”)
rest room 厕所(不是“休息室”)
dressing room 化妆室(不是“试衣室”或“更衣室”)
sporting house 妓院(不是“体育室”)
horse sense 常识(不是“马的感觉”)
capital idea 好主意(不是“资本主义思想”)
familiar talk 庸俗的交谈(不是“熟悉的谈话”)
black tea 红茶(不是“黑茶”)
black art 妖术(不是“黑色艺术”)
black stranger 完全陌生的人(不是“陌生的黑人”)
white coal (作动力来源用的)水(不是“白煤”)
white man 忠实可靠的人(不是“皮肤白的人”)
yellow book 黄皮书(法国政府报告书,以黄纸为封)(不是“黄色书籍”)
red tape 官僚习气(不是“红色带子”)
green hand 新手(不是“绿手”)
blue stocking 女学者、女才子(不是“蓝色长统袜”)
China policy 对华政策(不是“中国政策”)
Chinese dragon 麒麟(不是“中国龙”)
American beauty 红蔷薇(不是“美国美女”)
English disease 软骨病(不是“英国病”)
Indian summer 愉快宁静的晚年(不是“印度的夏日”)
Greek gift 害人的礼品(不是“希腊礼物”)
Spanish athlete 吹牛的人(不是“西班牙运动员”)
French chalk 滑石粉(不是“法国粉笔”)
2.成语类
pull one's leg 开玩笑(不是“拉后腿”)
in one's birthday suit 赤身裸体(不是“穿着生日礼服”)
eat one's words 收回前言(不是“食言”)
an apple of love 西红柿(不是“爱情之果”)
handwriting on the wall 不祥之兆(不是“大字报”)
bring down the house 博得全场喝彩(不是“推倒房子”)
have a fit 勃然大怒(不是“试穿”)
make one's hair stand on end 令人毛骨悚然—恐惧(不是“令人发指——气愤”)
be taken in 受骗,上当(不是“被接纳”)
think a great deal of oneself 高看或看重自己(不是“为自己想得很多”)
pull up one's socks 鼓起勇气(不是“提上袜子”)
have the heart to do (用于否定句)忍心做……不是“有心做”或“有意做”)
3.表达方式类
Look out! 当心!(不是“向外看”)
What a shame! 多可惜!真遗憾!(不是“多可耻”)
You don't say! 是吗!(不是“你别说”)
You can say that again! 说得好!(不是“你可以再说一遍”)
I haven't slept better. 我睡得好极了。(不是“我从未睡过好觉”)
You can't be too careful in your work. 你工作越仔细越好。(不是“你工作不能太仔细”)
It has been 4 years since I smoked. 我戒烟4年了。(不是“我抽烟4年了”)
All his friends did not turn up. 他的朋友没全到。(不是“他的朋友全没到”)
People will be long forgetting her. 人们在很长时间内会记住她的。(不是“人们会永远忘记她”)
He was only too pleased to let them go. 他很乐意让他们走。(不是“他太高兴了,不愿让他们走”)
It can't be less interesting. 它无聊极了。(不是“它不可能没有趣”)