罗斯福：Four Freedoms

The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

Four Freedoms
 

4.attainable [əˈteinəbl] a.可达到的，可得到的

7.perpetual [pɚˈpɛtʃuəl] a. 永久的

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2.armament[ˈɑrməmənt] n.军备，武器

To that new order we oppose the greater conception -- the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

3.millennium [məˈlɛniəm] n. 黄金时代
富兰克林·罗斯福
自美国有史以来，我们一直在从事改革－－一种永久性的和平革命－－一种连续不断而静悄悄地适应环境变化的革命－－并不需要任何集中营或万人冢。我们所追求的世界秩序，是自由国家间的合作，以及在友好、文明的社会里共同努力。
这并不是对一个渺茫的黄金时代的憧憬，而是我们这个时代和我们这一代人可以实现的一种世界的坚实基础，这种世界，和独裁者想用炸弹爆炸来制造的所谓「新秩序」的暴政，是截然相反的。
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.

6.dictator [ˈdɪkˌtetɚ] n. 独裁者

四大自由（节选）
 

The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

 

1.legislation [ˌlɛdʒɪˈsleʃən] n. 立法

I have called for personal sacrifice, and I am assured of the willingness of almost all Americans to respond to that call. A part of the sacrifice means the payment of more money in taxes. In my budget message I will recommend that a greater portion of this great defense program be paid for from taxation than we are paying for today. No person should try, or be allowed to get rich out of the program, and the principle of tax payments in accordance with ability to pay should be constantly before our eyes to guide our legislation.

 

If the Congress maintains these principles the voters, putting patriotism ahead pocketbooks, will give you their applause.
发表于1941年1月6日

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called “new order” of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
在我们力求安定的未来的岁月里，我们期待一个建立在四项人类基本自由之上的世界。