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1、The Truman DoctrineThe gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved. 今天全世界面临的局势之严重，促使我不得不出席国会的两院联席会议。这里将谈到我国的外交政策和国家安全的问题。One aspect of the present
2、 situation, which I present to you at this time for your consideration and decision, concerns Greece and Turkey. 我这想请你们考虑和决定现今情势中的一个局面，它是跟土耳其和希腊有关的。The United States has received from the Greek Government an urgent appeal for financial and economic assistance. 美国业已接到希腊政府有关财政和经济援助的紧急要求 The very exist
3、ence of the Greek state is today threatened by the terrorist activities of several thousand armed men, led by Communists, who defy the governments authority at a number of points, particularly along the northern boundaries.今天希腊这个国家的生存，受到共产党领导的数千武装人员恐怖活动的威胁，他们在很多地点，特别是沿着希腊北部边境，对抗政府的管辖Greece must have
4、 assistance if it is to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy. The United States must supply this assistance. We have already extended to Greece certain types of relief and economic aid. But these are inadequate. There is no other country to which democratic Greece can turn. No othe
5、r nation is willing and able to provide the necessary support for a democratic Greek government.希腊如果要成为一个自立自尊的民主国家，必须要有援助。而美国必须给予这种援助。我们已经给予希腊某种救济和经援，可是还不够。民主希腊没有别的国家可以求助了。也没有别的国家愿意并能够为民主希腊政府提供所需要的支持Greeks neighbor, Turkey, also deserves our attention. The future of Turkey, as an independent and eco
6、nomically sound state, is clearly no less important to the freedom-loving peoples of the world than the future of Greece.希腊的邻邦 土耳其，也值得我们关注。土耳其将来要成为一个独立的和经济上健全的国家，这一前途，对于全世界爱好自由的各民族来说，其重要性显然不亚于希腊的前途Since the war, Turkey has sought additional financial assistance from Great Britain and the United Stat
7、es for the purpose of effecting that modernization necessary for the maintenance of its national integrity. That integrity is essential to the preservation of order in the Middle East. 土耳其在战后，曾向英国和美国要求更多的财政援助，目的在推行维持它的国家完整所必需的现代化规划。土耳其的国家完整，对于中东秩序的维持，是必不可少的As in the case of Greece, if Turkey is to h
8、ave the assistance it needs, the United States must supply it. We are the only country able to provide that help.正如希腊的情形一样，如果土耳其要得到它所需的援助，就得由美国供给它。我们是能够提供那种援助的唯一国家One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will
9、 be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. This was a fundamental issue in the war with Germany and Japan. Our victory was won over countries which sought to impose their will, and their way of life, upon other nations.美国外交政策的主要目标之一，就是要造成一种局势，俾使我们和其它国家都能塑造出一种免于威胁的生活方式。在对德国和日本作战中，这是一个基本问题
10、。我们的胜利乃是战胜那些想把其意志和生活方式强加在别国头上的国家。To ensure the peaceful development of nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations. The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. We shall not realiz
11、e our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed upon free
12、 peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace, and hence the security of the United States.美国外交政策的主要目标之一，就是要造成一种局势，俾使我们和其它国家都能塑造出一种免于威胁的生活方式。在对德国和日本作战中，这是一个基本问题。我们的胜利乃是战胜那些想把其意志和生活方式强加在别国头上的国家。 为了保障各国和平发展，不受威胁，美国力主建立联合国。联合国的建立，在于使它的所有会员国都能享有永久的自由和独立。除非我
13、们愿意帮助各自由民族维护他们的自由制度和国家完整，对抗把极权政制强加于他们的那些侵略行动，否则我们将无从实现我们的各项目标。通过直接或间接的侵略强加在自由民族头上的极权政制，破坏了国际和平的基础，因而也破坏了美国的安全，这是显而易见的。 The peoples of a number of countries of the world have recently had totalitarian regimes forced upon them against their will. The Government of the United States has made frequent p
14、rotests against coercion and intimidation in violation of the Yalta agreement in Poland, Rumania, and Bulgaria. I must also state that in a number of other countries there have been similar developments.世界上许多国家的人民近来在违反其意愿的情况下，被迫接受极权政制。美国政府曾经屡次提出抗议，抗议在波兰、罗马尼亚和保加利亚使用压力和威胁，因为这违犯了雅尔塔协议。我还须指出，许多别的国家，也有相似
15、的发展。At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. 在世界历史的现阶段，几乎每一个民族都必须在两种生活方式之中选择其一。这种选择大都不是自由的选择。One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, repr
16、esentative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. 一种生活方式是基于多数人的意志，其特点为自由制度，代议制政府，自由选举，个人自由之保障，言论与信仰之自由，免于政治压迫。The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppr
