CollegeEnglish--我们唯一恐惧的就是恐惧本身[含翻译]
第一篇：CollegeEnglish--我们唯一恐惧的就是恐惧本身[含翻译]
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itlf Speaker: Franklin Roovelt, January 30, 1882-April 12, 1945, the 32nd President of the United States
Date & Place: March 4, 1933, Washington D.C., USA
Background: First Inaugural Address with the nation in the grips of the Great Depression.The address is 1880 words and took 19 minutes to deliver, won 20 ovations, ranked3rd in The Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century.President Hoover, Mr.Chief Justice, my friends:
This is a day of national concration.And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the prent situation of our people impels.(Applau.)
This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.This great Nation will endure, as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.(Applau.)
So, first of all, let me asrt my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itlf-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.In every dark hour of our national life, a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themlves which is esntial to victory.And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in the critical days.(Applau.)
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties.They concern, thank God, only material things.Values have shrunk to fantastic levels;taxes have rin;our ability to pay has fallen;government of all kinds is faced by rious curtailment of income;the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade;the withered leaves of industrial enterpri lie on every side;farmers find no markets for their produce;and the
savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence and an equally great number toil with little return.Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.And yet our distress comes from no failure of substance.We are stricken by no plague of locusts.Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, becau they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for.Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it.Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous u of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.Primarily, this is becau the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated.Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.True, they have tried.But their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an out-worn tradition.Faced by failure of credit, they have propod only the lending of more money.Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their fal leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for re-st
ored confidence.They only know the rules of a generation of lf-ekers.They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.(Applau.)
Yes, the money changers have' fled from their high ats in the temple of our civilization.We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.(Applau.)The measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.Happiness lies not in the mere posssion of money;it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.The joy, the moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad cha of evanescent profits.The dark days, my friends, will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourlves, to our fellow men.(Applau.)
Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the fal belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit;and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sa
cred trust the likeness of callous and lfish wrong-doing.(Applau.)Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unlfish performance;without them it cannot live.Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone.This Nation is asking for action, and action now.(Applau.)
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.(Applau.)This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wily and 海鲜做法
courageously.It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itlf, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, b好看的剧推荐
ut at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing great--greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the u of our great natural resources.Hand in hand with that we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better u of the land for tho best fitted for the land.(Applau.)
Yes, the task can be helped by definite efforts to rai the values of agricultural products,
and with this the power to purcha the output of our cities.It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms.It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, the State, and the local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced.(Applau.)It ca戴笠墓
n be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, unequal.It can be helped by nation-al planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities that have a definitely public character.There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it.(Applau.)We must act.We must act quickly.And finally, in our progress towards a resumption of work, we require two safe-guards against a return of the evils of the old order.There must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments.(Applau.)There must be an end to speculation with other people's money.(Applau.)And there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.(Applau.)
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my friends, are the lines of attack.I shall prently urge upon a new Congress in s
pecial ssion detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall ek the immediate assistance of the 48 States.(Applau.)
Through this program of action we address ourlves to putting our own national hou in order and making income balance outgo.Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time, and necessity, condary to th怎么跟领导提离职
e establishment of a sound national economy.(Applau.)I favor, as a practical policy, the putting of first things first.I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment;but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.The basic thought that guides the specific means of national recovery is not nationally--narrowly nationalistic.It is the insistence, as a first consideration, up-on the interdependence of the various elements in and parts of the United States of America--a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer.It is the way to recovery.It is the immediate way.It is the strongest assurance that recovery will endure.In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor: the neighbor who resolutely respects himlf and, becau he does so, respect
s the rights of others;the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.(Applau.)
