大独裁者

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world, there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
对不起，我不想成为什么帝王。我对那种事不感兴趣。我不想统治或征服任何人。如果可能的话，我希望帮助所有人——犹太人，非犹太人，黑人，白人……我们本就有帮助彼此的愿望，人类的本性如此。我们希望看到他人的快乐，而非他人的痛苦。我们不愿意彼此仇恨、彼此憎恶。这个世界有足够的空间容纳我们，富饶的土地可以滋养每一个人。生活本可以是自由而美好的，但我们迷失了方向。

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…
贪婪侵蚀了人类的灵魂，用仇恨在全世界筑起仇恨的壁垒，将我们一步步驱入了苦难与屠杀。我们飞速发展，但又做茧自缚。机器给了我们丰裕的物质，也使我们贪得无厌。我们的知识使我们愤世嫉俗，我们的聪明使我们冷酷无情。我们想得太多而感受得太少。比起机器，我们更需要人性。比起机巧，我们更需要仁慈和温柔。没有这些品质，生命会充满暴力、一切都会迷失。

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
飞机和收音机使我们更加靠近彼此。这些发明的本质，是在呼唤人类的良知，呼唤全人类的同胞情谊，呼唤我们所有人的团结。就在此刻，我的声音正传到数以百万的人耳中——数百万正在绝望中的男人、女人、小孩子，他们是同一个制度下的受害者，这个制度将人扭曲为折磨与囚禁无辜同胞的冷酷机器。

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…
我要对那些能听见我声音的人说：不要绝望。我们正在经历的苦难只是贪婪的阴影——是那些惧怕人类进步之人的怨毒。人的仇恨终会消散，独裁者终会死亡，他们从人民手中夺走的权力，终会回归人民。只要凡人终有一死，自由就永远不会陨灭。

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
战士们！不要把你们自己交托给野蛮的畜生——那些人鄙夷你、奴役你、视你的生命如同草芥、操控你的行为、操控你的思想、操控你的感受！他们利用你、压榨你、将你当做牛马一样驱使、送你去当炮灰。不要将你自己交托给这些反自然的变态狂——像冰冷机器一样的人，神志如机器一般、心也如机器一般！你们不是机器！你们不是牛马！你们是人！你们的心中闪耀着人性之爱！你们不会仇恨！只有那些没被爱过的人才会煽动仇恨——没被爱过的人，和丧心病狂的变态！战士们！不要为奴役而战！为自由而战！

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke, it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
路加福音第十七章写着：神的国就在人的心里——不是一个人，不是一小撮人，是在所有人心里！在你的心里！你们，人民，拥有力量，创造机器的力量，创造幸福的力量！你们，人民，拥有令此生自由而美好、使这生命成为精彩旅程的力量。

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
那么，以民主的名义，让我们使用这个权柄！让我们团结起来。让我们为一个新世界而奋斗，一个像样的世界，给人以工作的机会，给年轻人以未来，让人老有所养。过去，野蛮的畜生们打着这些承诺的旗号攫取权力。但他们满口谎言！他们才不会兑现这些承诺，他们永远不会！

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
独裁者们背信弃义、逃脱责任，却奴役人民！现在，让我们为了真正实现这承诺而战斗！让我们为了解放全世界而战斗！让我们打碎国界藩篱、袪除贪婪、消弥仇恨、解除狭隘。让我们为了一个理性的世界、一个科学与进步可以为全人类带来幸福的世界而战斗。战士们！以民主之名，让我们联合起来！