Imagine if I let go of my habit of saving the world behind your back, 想像我放弃在你们背后拯救世界的习惯， of deliberating on the future of your work, your food, your schools, in places where you couldn't get past secu
I have walked through your towns and, while looking, failed to see. 当我经过你们的城镇，观赏时却什么也没看见。 I did notice in Stephenville, Texas, 我在德克萨斯州斯蒂芬威尔市注意到 that the town square was dominated by one lawyer's offic
June 29, 2016. My dear fellow citizen: 2016年6月29日，我亲爱的公民朋友们： I write to you today, to you who have lost in this era. 今天我在这向你们致辞，献给那些迷失在这个时代中的人们。 At this moment in our common life, 在我们平凡生活中的这个时刻， when
I heard all of these things, but I didn't listen. 这些事都经过了我的耳朵，可惜我没有去仔细倾听。 I looked but didn't see. I read, didn't understand. 我看了，但是没看见。我读了，可是没理解。 I paid attention only when you began to vote and shou
If and when your anger turns to hate, 如果当你的气愤转化为痛恨， please know that there is no space for that in our shared home. 请明白在我们共享的家园里没有容纳那些痛恨的空间。 But I will admit, fellow citizen, that I have discounted th
I did notice the news about those parts of London becoming ghost quarters, 我注意到了那些关于伦敦市区空洞化的新闻， where the global super-rich turn fishy money into empty apartments 在那儿，世界级富豪把现钱变为空洞公寓， and price lifelon
We create our "others." As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, 是我们创造了“其他人”的概念。作为家长，邻居，公民， we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being. 我们见证，有时也忽视他人的存在。 You were not born vengeful. 我们并非生来就复仇心
Language is one of the only things that we truly share, 语言是我们真正共有的唯几样事物之一， and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself; 而我有时候却用这共同的遗产，去混淆，去转移，去为自己辩护； to re-
So here we are, in a scary but not inexplicable moment of demagoguery, fracture, xenophobia, resentment and fear. 我们就是这样，身处一个可怕但并非莫名奇妙的，躁动的，受挫的，排外的，痛恨的，惧怕的时刻。 And I worry for us both if we continue do
I could fail to see change's consequences. 我可能忽视改变带来的后果， I could overlook the importance of roots, traditions, rituals, stability -- and belonging. 我可能忽视那些根源，传统，仪式，稳定性--归属感的重要性。 And the more fundament
Do you know that feeling you get when you know it's going to storm before it storms? 你们了解那种感觉吗？那种在暴风雨来临前的感觉？ Do you also feel that now, fellow citizen? 你们现在有这种感觉吗，我的公民朋友们？ That malaise and worry that
The Little Girl Lost 小女孩的迷失 In futurity 在未来的时日 I prophesy 我预先看到，宛如先知， That the earth from sleep 大地从睡眠中苏醒， (Grave the sentence deep) （把这句话牢牢记在心） Shall arise, and seek 将起身去寻觅 For her Maker meek; 她和善的上帝：
A Little Boy Lost 一个小男孩的迷失 'Nought loves another as itself, 没有人爱别人像爱他自己， Nor venerates another so, 也不会尊敬别人像对自己那样， Nor is it possible to thought 一个思想不可能去理解 A greater than itself to know. 另一个比它本身更伟大的思想；
Sleep is a map of glass 梦乡如玻璃地图 No matter where it leads 无论它通往何处 You are lost 你都会迷失踯躅 The night may speak to you with its wings 夜振翅向你招呼 Its songs made of silk 其歌若悠扬丝竹 Yet you know only in your dreams
A Little Girl Lost 一小女孩的迷失 Children of the future age, 未来时代的孩子们， Reading this indignant page, 读到这令人愤慨的一页； Know that in a former time 知道了在从前有个时候 Love, sweet love, was thought a crime. 爱情！甜蜜的爱情！被当作是罪孽!
