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We Choose to Go to the Moon

我们决定登月

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

约翰·费茨杰拉德·肯尼迪

September 12, 1962

1962年9月12日

Rice Stadium

赖斯（大学的）体育场

President Pitzer, President, Governor, Congressman Thomas, Senator

Wiley, and Congressman Miller, Mr. Webb, Mr. Bell, scientists, distinguished

guests, and ladies and gentlemen:

皮茨校长，副总统，州长，众议员托马斯，参议员维利，众议员米勒，韦伯先生，比

尔先生，科学家们，尊敬的来宾，女士们先生们：

I appreciate your president having made me an honorary visiting professor,

and I will assure you that my first lecture will be very brief.

我十分感激你们的校长授予我名誉客座教授的头衔，并且我向各位保证我的第一个演

讲会十分简洁。

I am delighted to be here and I'm particularly delighted to be here on this

occasion.

我很高兴来到这里，特别是在这个时候来到这里。

We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a

state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour

of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both

knowledge and ignorance.

我们在这个以知识闻名的大学，在这个以进步闻名的城市，在这个以实力闻名的州府

相会。并且我们需要它们全部三者，因为我们正处于一个变化与挑战的时刻，希望与恐惧

交织的十年，知识与愚昧并存的时代。

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

我们获取的知识越多，我们显露出的无知也就越多。

Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever

known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation's own

scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than

three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of