Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:
Among the vicissitudesn. /vɪˈsɪsɪtuːdz/ 世事变迁，盛衰荣枯 incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilectionn. /ˌpredlˈekʃn/ 偏爱，偏好, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutableadj. /ɪˈmjuːtəbl/ 不可更改的，恒定的 decision, as the asylumn. /əˈsaɪləm/ 庇护所，退隐安居之处 of my declining years--a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondencen. /dɪˈspɑːndəns/ 沮丧，灰心 one who (inheriting inferior endowmentsn. /ɪnˈdaʊmənts/ 天资，禀赋 from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliatedv. /ˈpælieɪtɪd/ 被减轻，被开脱（palliate 的过去分词） by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.
Among the vicissitudesn. /vɪˈsɪsɪtuːdz/ 世事变迁，盛衰荣枯 incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilectionn. /ˌpredlˈekʃn/ 偏爱，偏好, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutableadj. /ɪˈmjuːtəbl/ 不可更改的，恒定的 decision, as the asylumn. /əˈsaɪləm/ 庇护所，退隐安居之处 of my declining years--a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondencen. /dɪˈspɑːndəns/ 沮丧，灰心 one who (inheriting inferior endowmentsn. /ɪnˈdaʊmənts/ 天资，禀赋 from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliatedv. /ˈpælieɪtɪd/ 被减轻，被开脱（palliate 的过去分词） by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.
参议院和众议院的同胞们：
在人生难免的盛衰浮沉之中，没有哪一桩事能比本月十四日收到由诸位下令传达给我的那份通知，更使我忧惧交集了。一方面，祖国召唤我——她的声音我无论何时听见，都只能怀着崇敬与热爱——要我离开一处退隐之所：那是我在最深的偏爱之下选定的，并且，在我自许的希望之中，是以不可更改的决心选定的，作为我暮年的安身之地；习惯加之于偏好，健康的频繁侵扰加之于岁月对它渐渐的消磨，使这处退隐之地对我一日比一日更不可少，也一日比一日更觉亲切。另一方面，祖国之声召唤我去承担的那份重托，其重大与艰难，足以使她最睿智、最富经验的公民也要带着疑虑审视自己的才具；而对于一个天赋本不优厚、又未经民政事务历练、因而理应对自身的缺陷格外自觉的人，更不可能不叫他满心沮丧。在这样的情感交战之中，我敢断言的只有一点：我一直忠实地致力于从对可能影响职责的每一种情形的恰当估量中，去认识我的职责。我敢希冀的也只有一点：倘若在履行这项任务时，我过多地受了旧日恩遇的感戴之情的支配，过多地受了同胞们这一至高信任所激起的深情的牵引，因而过少地顾及自己对眼前这副沉重而未经尝试的担子的无能与不情愿，那么，我的过失或可由那误导了我的动机而得到几分开脱，而其后果也请祖国本着当初产生这些动机的那份偏爱来加以评判。
在人生难免的盛衰浮沉之中，没有哪一桩事能比本月十四日收到由诸位下令传达给我的那份通知，更使我忧惧交集了。一方面，祖国召唤我——她的声音我无论何时听见，都只能怀着崇敬与热爱——要我离开一处退隐之所：那是我在最深的偏爱之下选定的，并且，在我自许的希望之中，是以不可更改的决心选定的，作为我暮年的安身之地；习惯加之于偏好，健康的频繁侵扰加之于岁月对它渐渐的消磨，使这处退隐之地对我一日比一日更不可少，也一日比一日更觉亲切。另一方面，祖国之声召唤我去承担的那份重托，其重大与艰难，足以使她最睿智、最富经验的公民也要带着疑虑审视自己的才具；而对于一个天赋本不优厚、又未经民政事务历练、因而理应对自身的缺陷格外自觉的人，更不可能不叫他满心沮丧。在这样的情感交战之中，我敢断言的只有一点：我一直忠实地致力于从对可能影响职责的每一种情形的恰当估量中，去认识我的职责。我敢希冀的也只有一点：倘若在履行这项任务时，我过多地受了旧日恩遇的感戴之情的支配，过多地受了同胞们这一至高信任所激起的深情的牵引，因而过少地顾及自己对眼前这副沉重而未经尝试的担子的无能与不情愿，那么，我的过失或可由那误导了我的动机而得到几分开脱，而其后果也请祖国本着当初产生这些动机的那份偏爱来加以评判。
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplicationsn. /ˌsʌplɪˈkeɪʃnz/ 恳求，祈祷 to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providentialadj. /ˌprɑːvɪˈdenʃl/ 天意的，神佑的 aids can supply every human defect, that His benedictionn. /ˌbenɪˈdɪkʃn/ 祝祷，恩赐 may consecratev. /ˈkɑːnsɪkreɪt/ 使成神圣，奉献于 to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homagen. /ˈhɑːmɪdʒ/ 敬意，崇敬 to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presagev. /ˈpresɪdʒ/ 预示，预兆. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciouslyadv. /ɔːˈspɪʃəsli/ 吉祥地，顺遂地 commence.
既然我是在这样的感念之下应公众的召唤来到眼前的职位，那么在这第一项公务行为中，若不向那位统辖宇宙、主掌列国议事、其眷佑之助足以弥补一切人力不足的全能之主发出热切祈求——愿他的祝祷把这一由人民自己为着自由与幸福这些根本目的而设立的政府，奉献给这自由与幸福；愿他使每一个受雇于其行政事务的人，都能圆满履行分派给他的职责——便是格外不当的。在向一切公私美善的伟大创造者致上这一敬意时，我确信，它所表达的诸位的心意，不亚于我自己的；也不亚于我国全体同胞的心意。没有哪个民族比合众国的人民更应当承认并敬拜那只引导人间事务的无形之手。他们迈向独立国家地位的每一步，似乎都留有某种天意介入的印记；而刚刚在他们的联合政府体制中完成的这场重大变革——其事之成，出自如此众多彼此分立的共同体之平静审议与自愿同意——若拿来与多数政府赖以建立的那些手段相较，不能不令人油然生出虔敬的感恩，并谦卑地期盼往昔似乎在预示的种种未来福祉。这些因眼前时局而生的感想，涌上我心头，其势之强，使我无法抑止。我深信诸位会与我同感：没有任何思想的影响，能使一个新而自由的政府的进程更为吉祥地开端。
By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President “to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedientadj. /ɪkˈspiːdiənt/ 适宜得当的，合宜的.” The circumstances under which I now meet you will acquitv. /əˈkwɪt/ 使免除（责任、义务） me from entering into that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenialadj. /kənˈdʒiːniəl/ 相合的，意气相投的 with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectituden. /ˈrektɪtuːd/ 方正，正直, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animositiesn. /ˌænɪˈmɑːsətiz/ 敌意，党派仇怨, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissolubleadj. /ˌɪndɪˈsɑːljəbl/ 不可分解的，牢不可破的 union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimousadj. /mæɡˈnænɪməs/ 宽宏高尚的 policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitiousadj. /prəˈpɪʃəs/ 慈惠的，吉利的 smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
依据设立行政部门的条文，总统有职责「将他认为必要而适宜的措施提请诸位考虑」。我此刻与诸位相见的情势，可使我不必深入这一题目，只需提及诸位据以集会的那部伟大的宪章；它在界定诸位权力的同时，也指明了诸位应当留意的事项。与这些情势更为相符、也与我心中驱动我的情感更为相契的，是我不去逐条建议特定措施，而改向被推选来筹议并采纳这些措施者，致上他们应得的赞辞——赞其才华、方正与爱国心。从这些可敬的品质中，我看到了最可靠的保证：一方面，地方性的偏见与依恋、门户之见与党派仇怨，都不致误导那应当俯瞰这由众多共同体与利益聚合而成的伟大全体的周全而公允的眼光；另一方面，我们国家政策的根基，将奠定在私人道德那纯洁而不变的准则之上，而自由政府的优越，也将由一切足以赢得其公民爱戴、并赢得世人敬重的品质来昭示。我怀着对祖国炽热的爱所能激发的全部欣慰，流连于这一前景；因为没有任何真理比下面这一点更为确凿：在自然的运行与法则之中，德行与幸福之间、义务与利益之间、诚实而宽宏的政策之真谛与公共繁荣福乐之实报之间，存在着不可分解的联系；因为我们同样应当确信，一个无视上天自己所命定的永恒秩序与正义准则的国家，决不能指望得到上天慈惠的眷顾；也因为自由这圣火的保存，以及共和政体这一典范的命运，被公允地认为——或许可以说，同样深切地、同样终极地——系于托付在美国人民手中的这场实验。
Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedientadj. /ɪkˈspiːdiənt/ 适宜得当的，合宜的 at the present juncturen. /ˈdʒʌŋktʃər/ 关头，时刻 by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system, or by the degree of inquietuden. /ɪnˈkwaɪətjuːd/ 不安，焦虑 which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernmentn. /dɪˈsɜːrnmənt/ 洞察力，判断力 and pursuit of the public good; for I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnablyadv. /ɪmˈpreɡnəbli/ 牢不可破地，坚不可摧地 fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.
除提交诸位照料的日常事务之外，尚待诸位判断的是：鉴于针对这一体制所提出的种种反对的性质，或鉴于催生这些反对的不安情绪的程度，在目前这一关头行使宪法第五条所授予的适时权力，究竟适宜到何种地步。关于此题，我本无从官方职位所获得的见地可资依循，因而不拟提出具体建议，而愿再次全然托付于诸位的洞见与对公共利益的追求；因为我确信：诸位一面会审慎避免任何可能危及一个统一而有效政府之裨益的改动，也避免任何本当留待日后经验教训来决定的改动；一面又会凭着对自由民特有权利的崇敬与对公共和谐的顾念，足以影响诸位对下述问题的审议——前者能在何种程度上被牢不可破地巩固，后者又能在何种程度上被稳妥而有利地推进。
To the foregoingadj. /ˈfɔːrɡoʊɪŋ/ 前述的，上面的 observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduousadj. /ˈɑːrdʒuəs/ 艰巨的，艰苦的 struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renouncev. /rɪˈnaʊns/ 放弃，谢绝 every pecuniaryadj. /pɪˈkjuːnieri/ 金钱上的 compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed; and being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emolumentsn. /ɪˈmɑːljumənts/ 报酬，薪俸 which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.
在上述意见之外，我还要加上一条，它最宜于向众议院提出。它涉及我自己，因此我将尽可能从简。当初我首次蒙召为祖国效力时，祖国正处于为其自由而艰苦奋争的前夜；那时我对自身职责的理解，要求我放弃一切金钱上的报酬。这一决定我未曾有过一次背离；既仍怀着当初产生它的那些感念，我就必须谢绝——因为于我不适用——在行政部门常设经费中势必包含的任何个人俸禄份额，并据此请求：在我任期内，对我所处职位的金钱估算，仅限于公共利益所要求的实际支出。
Having thus impartedv. /ɪmˈpɑːrtɪd/ 倾诉，告知（impart 的过去分词） to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benignadj. /bɪˈnaɪn/ 仁慈的，宽厚的 Parent of the Human Race in humble supplicationphr. /ˈhʌmbl ˌsʌplɪˈkeɪʃn/ 谦卑的祈求 that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillityn. /træŋˈkwɪləti/ 安宁，平静, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimityn. /ˌjuːnəˈnɪməti/ 一致同意，全体同心 on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuousadj. /kənˈspɪkjuəs/ 明显的，昭著的 in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.
我既已把因这次聚会的机缘而激起的感想向诸位倾诉，现在就要向诸位告别了；但告别之前，我仍要再一次求告于人类的仁慈之父，谦卑地祈愿：他既已惠赐美国人民以在完全安宁中商议的机会，和以空前一致之心、为着巩固其联邦并增进其幸福而决定一种政府形式的心意，愿他的神圣祝福也同样昭著地体现于那宏阔的见识、审慎的商议与明智的措施之上——本政府的成败，正系于此。