I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen—a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world. 　　我来柏林之前，我的很多同胞已来过此地。今晚，我并不是以一名总统候选人的身份在这里发言，而是以一位公民—一位以美国为荣的公民和一位世界公民的身份跟大家讲话。 　　I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father—my grandfather—was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.　　我知道，我看上去并不像以前曾在这个伟大的城市演讲过的美国人。引领我来此地的那段历程在别人看来几乎是不可能实现的。我的母亲出生在美国的中部地区，而我父亲是一个在肯尼亚长大的放羊娃。他的父亲—我的祖父是一位厨师，一个英国家庭的仆人。 　　At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning—his dream—required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life. 　　在冷战冷战高峰时期，像许多其他被遗忘在世界各个角落的人们一样，父亲认定他的憧憬、他的梦想，需要西方所承诺的自由和机会。所以他一封接一封地给美国各大学写信，直到有人从某个地方回应了他对更美好生活的祈祷。 　　That is why I’m here. And you are here because you, too, know that yearning. This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better life.

　　这就是我来这里的原因。而你们之所以来这里，是因为你们也很清楚那个梦想。在所有的城市中，这座城市尤其懂得自由的梦想。你们清楚今晚我们站在这里的唯一原因—从我们两国走到一起来的男男女女，都为了更美好的生活而工作、奋斗和牺牲。