双语对照：美国总统布什在清华大学的演讲

　　Vice President Hu,thank you very much for your kind and generous remarks. Thank you for welcoming me and my wife , laura, here.

　　非常感谢胡锦涛同志热情洋溢的欢迎致词，非常感谢您再这里接待我和我的夫人劳拉。

　　I see she is keeping pretty good company with the Secretary of State, Collin Powell.

　　我发现她和国务卿科林。鲍威尔先生相处的非常好。

　　It is good to see you, Mr. Secretary.

　　很高兴看到你国务卿先生。

　　And I see my National Security Adviser, Ms.Codoleezza Rice, who once was the provost of Stanford University, so she is comfortable on the university campuses such as this.

　　我也看到了我的国家安全顾问康多莉萨.赖斯女士，她曾经是斯坦福大学的校长，因此她回到校园是再合适不过了。

　　Thank you for being here ,Codin.

　　谢谢你能来，康迪。

　　I am so grateful for the hospitality and honored for the reception at one of China’s and the world’s great universities.

　　非常感谢各位对我的热情接待，很荣幸能够来到中国，甚至是世界最伟大的学府之一。

　　The standards and the reputation of this university are known around the world, and I know what an achievement it is to be here. So congratulations.

　　清华大学的治学标准和声望闻名于世，我也知道能考入这所大学本身就是一个很大的成就，祝贺你们。

　　My visit to China comes an important anniversary, as the vice president mentioned.Thirty years ago this week an American president arrived in China on an trip designed to end decades of estrangement and confront centuries of suspicious. President Richard Nixon showed that two vastly different government could meet on the grounds of common interests in the spirit of mutual respect.

　　我这次访华恰逢一个重要的纪念日，副主席刚才也谈到了，30年前的这一周，一位美国总统来到了中国，他访华之旅的目的是为了结速两国之间长达数十年的隔阂。，和数百年的相互猜疑。尼克松总统向世界表明了两个有重大差异的国家，本着互惠互利，互相尊重的精神是能够站在一起的。

　　As they left the airport that day, Premier Zhou En-Lai said this to President Nixon: “you handshake came over the vastest ocean in the world-25years of no communication.

　　那天他们离开机场的时候，周恩来对尼克松总统说了这样一番话，他说：“你与我的握手越过了世界上最为辽阔的海洋，这个还有就是互不交往的25年。”

　　During the 30 years since, America and China have exchanged many handshakes of friendship and commerce. And as we have had more contact with each other ,the citizens of both countries have gradually learned more about each other.

　　30年以来，美国和中国握过多次友谊之手和商业之手。随着我们两国间接触的日益频繁，我们两国的国民也加深了对彼此的了解，这是非常重要的。

　　It was my honor to visit China in 1975.Some of you were not even born then. It shows how old I am.

　　我在1975年有幸访问过中国，那时候在座的有些人可能还没有出生，这也表明我是多么老了。

　　And a lot has changed in your country since then. China has made amazing progress in openness and enterprise and economic freedom. And this progress previews China’s great potential. China has joined the World Trade Organization, and as you live up to its obligations, they inevitably will bring changes to Chinese leagal system. A morden China will have a consistent rule of law to govern commerce and secure the rights of its people.

　　从那时以来，贵国发生了很多变化。中国在开发，企业，经济自由方面都取得了惊人的成绩。这一成绩显示了中国的巨大潜能。中国已经加入了世贸组织，在各位旅行其义务的同时这些义务势必给中国的法律制度带来变化。一个现代化的中国将有着统一的法制来规范他们的商业生活和保障人民的利益。

　　The new China you generation is building will need the profound wisdom of your traditions. The lure of materialism challenges society in our country- and in many successful countries.

　　你们这一代人正在建设的中国也需要深远传统的智慧结晶。物质利益的诱惑对我们的社会造成了挑战-在我们的国家给我们的社会造成了调整，在很多发达国家也是。

　　All these changes will lead to a stronger, more confident China, a China that can astonish and enrich the world, a China that you generation will help create.

　　所以的这些变化将导致中国更强大，更自信，这个中国将使世界瞩目，也将使世界更加丰富。

　　This is one of the mose exciting times in the history of your country, a time when even the grandest hopes seem in your reach. My nation offers you our respect and our friendship.

　　这个这个就是诸位这一代帮助创立的中国。现在使中国历史上非常令人振奋的一个时期，此时此刻连最宏伟的梦想似乎也唾手可得。我的国度，对中国表示尊敬和友谊。

　　Six years from now, athletes from America and all around the world will come to you country for the Olympic Games, and I am confident they will find a China that is becoming a Daguo, a leading nation, at peace with its people and at peace with the world.

　　再过六年，来自美国和世界各地的运动员将到贵国参加奥运会，我坚信，他们能够见到的中国是一个正在变成大国的中国，一个走在世界前沿的国家，一个民心安定，与世界和平共处的国家。