段落一：

　　The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality or universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important. For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger and disease. We still see run-down schools. We still see young people without prospects for the future. Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs, and are still persecuted for what they look like, and how they worship, and who they love. That is happening today.

　　在追求正式平等或普选权利方面取得胜利之后，这场斗争可能不像过去那样惊心动魄，其道义也不像过去那样泾渭分明，但其重要性并没有丝毫减弱。因为，今天在世界上许多地方，我们仍然看到孩子们遭受饥饿和病痛，我们仍然看到破旧的学校，我们仍然看到年轻人没有光明的未来。今天，在世界上许多地方，人们仍然由于其政治信念而被投入监狱，仍然由于他们的外貌、他们的宗教信仰和他们的性爱选择而受到迫害。这种情况在今天仍然继续发生。

　　段落二：

　　It’s not fair to businesses and middle-class families who play by the rules when we allow companies that are trying to undercut the rules to work in the shadow economy, to hire folks at lower wages or no benefits, no overtime, so that somehow they get a competitive edge from breaking the rules. That doesn’t make sense.

　　我们如果允许试图违法乱纪的公司在影子经济中运行，压低工资雇用人员或不提供福利，不付加班费，从而可以因破坏法纪获得竞争优势，这对遵纪守法的工商业和中产家庭就没有公平可言。这毫无合理之处。

　　It doesn’t make sense to have 11 million people who are in this country illegally without any incentive or any way for them to come out of the shadows, get right with the law, meet their responsibilities and permit their families then to move ahead. It’s not smart. It’s not fair. It doesn’t make sense. We have kicked this particular can down the road for too long.

　　在这个国家非法居留的1,100万人如果没有任何积极性或途径走出阴影，得到合法身份，履行自己的责任，然后兴家立业，这也毫无合理之处。这并不明智。这并不公平。这并不合理。我们在这个特定的问题上拖延已久。(缓兵之计、说说而已)

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