The irreducible worth of every person, the insistence that every life is precious; the radical and necessary notion that we are part of a single human family -– that is the story that we all must tell.
That is why we come to Hiroshima. So that we might think of people we love — the first smile from our children in the morning; the gentle touch from a spouse over the kitchen table; the comforting embrace of a parent –- we can think of those things and know that those same precious moments took place here seventy-one years ago. Those who died -– they are like us. Ordinary people understand this, I think. They do not want more war. They would rather that the wonders of science be focused on improving life, and not eliminating it.
ブラックと言えばブラックマンデーを思い出す方が多いのでは。どうやらその感覚は間違っていないようです。いまわかっている限りでは、1869年9月24日がその日。Jay Gould と Jim Fiskというウォールストリートの腹黒2人が金を買いまくり、値を釣り上げて売り抜けて大儲けしようと企みました。この陰謀を知ったグラント大統領は国庫から金を大放出。相場は暴落して多くの資産家、企業がとんでもない被害を被ったといいます。
さていよいよキーフレーズの登場です。新聞各紙でもサブタイトルに引用されたあの一節。「恐怖の論理を逃れ…escape the logic or terror」の部分です。まあ、ひとまずさらっとどうぞ。
Still, every act of aggression between nations; every act of terror and corruption and cruelty and oppression that we see around the world shows our work is never done. We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil, so nations –- and the alliances that we’ve formed -– must possess the means to defend ourselves. But among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear, and pursue a world without them.
We may not realize this goal in my lifetime. But persistent effort can roll back the possibility of catastrophe. We can chart a course that leads to the destruction of these stockpiles. We can stop the spread to new nations, and secure deadly materials from fanatics.
「恐怖の論理を逃れる、脱する」の新しさをコロケーションで
この演説のキーフレーズともいえるescape the logic of terror。「恐怖の論理を逃れる、脱する」で訳としては〇です。でもちょっと待って。何か気になりませんか。logicとescapeという組み合わせ、見たことがない気がするのです。
Someday the voices of the hibakusha will no longer be with us to bear witness. But the memory of the morning of August 6th, 1945 must never fade. That memory allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our moral imagination. It allows us to change.
And since that fateful day, we have made choices that give us hope. The United States and Japan forged not only an alliance, but a friendship that has won far more for our people than we could ever claim through war. The nations of Europe built a Union that replaced battlefields with bonds of commerce and democracy. Oppressed peoples and nations won liberation. An international community established institutions and treaties that worked to avoid war and aspire to restrict and roll back, and ultimately eliminate the existence of nuclear weapons.
That is why we come to this place. We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see.
We listen to a silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war, and the wars that came before, and the wars that would follow.
Mere words cannot give voice to such suffering. But we have a shared responsibility to look directly into the eye of history and ask what we must do differently to curb such suffering again.
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