○  奥巴马在911十周年纪念仪式的讲话  ○

ith children of their own. Those beautiful boys and girls just beginning to find their way who today would have been teenagers and young men and women looking ahead, imagining the mark they’d make on the world.

　　我们为从我们身边被夺走的生命祈祷——近3,000名无辜的亡灵。我们的心依然悲痛，因为他们的未来被无情地掠去，原来应该享有的生活被扼杀——作为祖父母，本应享受子孙绕膝之乐;作为父母，本应看到儿女毕业感到自豪;作为儿女，本应长大成人，也可能结婚并生儿育女;那些奔向花样年华的漂亮的男孩和女孩，本应成长为今天的翩翩少年或青春少女;那些年轻的男男女女本应憧憬着未来，想象着他们将给这个世界留下什么样的印记。

　　They left this Earth. They slipped from our grasp. But it was written, “What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.” What your families lost in the temporal, in the here and now, is now eternal. The pride that you carry in your hearts, the love that will never die, your loved ones’ everlasting place in America’s heart.

　　他们离开了这个世界。他们从我们的手中被夺走。但有人曾这样写道：“心中珍惜和挚爱的东西永远不会丢失。”你们的家庭暂时失去的，此时此刻已永世长存。你们心中承载的骄傲、永不消逝的爱、你们所爱的人永远活在美国的心中。

　　We pray for you, their families, who have known the awful depths of loss. And in the quiet moments we have spent together and from the stories that you’ve shared, I’m amazed at the will that you’ve summoned in your lives to lift yourselves up and to carry on, and to live and love and laugh again.

　　我们为你们祈祷，为他们的家人祈祷，你们深深体会到失去亲人的无限伤悲。在我们共同静默的时刻，通过你们讲述的故事，我感慨万分，你们在日常生活中表现了坚强意志，精神抖擞，兴微继绝;你们继续人生之路，重施仁爱，再展欢颜。

　　Even more than memorials of stone and water, your lives are the greatest tribute to those that we lost. For their legacy shines on in you -- when you smile just like him, when you toss your hair just like her, when you foster scholarships and service projects that bear the name of those we lost and make a better world. When you join the firehouse or you put on the uniform or you devote yourself to a cause greater than yourself, just like they did, that’s a testimony to them. And in your resilience you have taught us all there is no trouble we cannot endure and there is no calamity we c

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