演講 | 英國前首相卡梅倫告別演講（中英對照）

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2010年5月的那個晚上，我第一次站在唐寧街時，曾經(jīng)說過，我們將帶領(lǐng)全國人民直面問題做出一個個艱難的抉擇，以期待，一切都將好轉(zhuǎn)。

這不是一段輕松的歷程，同樣的，我們做出的決定并不是每個都是正確的，然而，我確信，時至今日，我們的祖國正日益強(qiáng)大。

尤其是經(jīng)濟(jì)方面的好轉(zhuǎn)。財政赤字同比減少三分之二，新增就業(yè)人口數(shù)突破兩百五十萬人次，新增企業(yè)一百多萬所。這些都證明，我們經(jīng)濟(jì)的發(fā)展前景不可限量。點(diǎn)擊此處名師為你量身定制留學(xué)方案

政客們喜歡提及政策，然而其最終目的仍關(guān)乎民生。

我想到那些曾經(jīng)處于失業(yè)的人們?nèi)缃褚延泄ぷ鳌?br />
我想到那些先前僅存在于少數(shù)人心中的創(chuàng)業(yè)念頭，如今均已實現(xiàn)并為人們創(chuàng)造生計。

我想到那些辛苦勞作的家庭在國民生活保障金政策的幫助下納稅數(shù)目減少，工資上漲。

我想到救助中心里，那些可憐的孩子們?nèi)缃褚驯粣坌募彝ナ震B(yǎng)。

我想到那些以往無法負(fù)擔(dān)孩子教育費(fèi)用的父母如今已能夠?qū)⑺麄兊暮⒆铀屯�一流的學(xué)校,且學(xué)費(fèi)全免。

我想到20多萬年輕人參與了國民服務(wù)項目，這一項目已成為國際同類項目中發(fā)展最為迅猛的青年項目。而在六年前，這些我們想都不敢想。

我想到那些過去不被允許在一起的人們，現(xiàn)如今已可以結(jié)婚。

我還想到位于世界另一端的人們。過去，他們沒有干凈的飲用水，不能上學(xué)，甚至無法活下去。在我們對世界貧困人口及貧困國家的援助下，情況已有所好轉(zhuǎn)。

我們還在發(fā)展本國經(jīng)濟(jì)的基礎(chǔ)上投資了醫(yī)療服務(wù)建設(shè)。我上次去那的時候，有一萬八千人等待了一年多的時間，只為得到救治。而到了今天，只有800人了。但這個人數(shù)還太多了些，還有很長的路要走。

但我們的NHS系統(tǒng)是一筆國家財富，其所屬工作人員每天都在創(chuàng)造著奇跡。

我們還增強(qiáng)了國防力量，我們的船塢生產(chǎn)了一系列如潛艇，驅(qū)逐艦，護(hù)衛(wèi)艦，和航空母艦用以在這個危險的世界保衛(wèi)國家安全。

這些是我們做出的選擇與挑戰(zhàn)。

我想向這些年來支持我的人們表示感謝。

唐寧街十號的這只出色的團(tuán)隊，人民的公仆，以其敬業(yè)精神和公正無私成為我國最強(qiáng)大的力量之一。

還有我的政治顧問，他們之中的個別人從我成為黨魁開始已跟隨我11年之久。

我想謝謝我的孩子們，南希，阿爾文，還有弗洛倫絲，正因為他們的存在，在過去的六年時間里，唐寧街十號一直是一個溫馨的家。他們有時會踢踢滿是工作信件的紅色箱子。弗洛倫絲，有次在我出國公干前你還爬進(jìn)去了，還說“帶上我吧”。再也沒有箱子了。

我尤其要感謝薩曼塔，我此生摯愛。你讓我在茫然中保持理智，你是一位好妻子，好母親，優(yōu)秀的女商人，每周你都會做些佳肴，在我的身后，支持著我對這個國家的無聞奉獻(xiàn)。

不久我們將前往白金漢宮覲見女王陛下，我將遞交首相辭呈，并向女王提議任命特蕾莎.梅組建新政府。

我很高興，英國迎來了歷史上第二位女首相，而且，她也是一位保守黨人士。我相信特蕾莎將強(qiáng)健平穩(wěn)的貫徹實施我們競選時所提及的保守黨宣言。我希望她能盡可能的處理好英國脫歐的事項。

最后，讓我再說幾句。服務(wù)精神是這個國家最顯著的品格之一。

每天，我都在我們軍隊武裝力量，情報機(jī)關(guān)和政治的運(yùn)作中看到這樣的服務(wù)精神。作為首相，我直觀的看到了這些，也一直十分清楚，卻不得不忽視不談。

同時，致那些失去了深愛家人的家庭。這些話語是沉痛的，那些為捍衛(wèi)我們自由與生命而亡的人們似乎仍活著。我們必須銘記他們。

換個角度，我也曾在無數(shù)來往于我國的社區(qū)志愿者的杰出奉獻(xiàn)中見到了相同的服務(wù)精神，正因為有了他們，我們國家不斷壯大。

我感到十分榮幸，在過去兩年中，我每天都能使用首相辦公室，以一種非政治的方式去認(rèn)識、感謝“光點(diǎn)”中的近六百人，他們的服務(wù)激勵了我們所有人。

對我而言，政治是出于國家利益的公共服務(wù)。然而說起來簡單，做起來卻不易。

然而，使你持續(xù)這份工作的其中一個因素便是感覺，是的，我們的政治充滿了爭議，常成為熱點(diǎn)，但是不論做這個決定是多么的困難，一種英式公平對待的強(qiáng)烈感都存在著，這是一種默契感，許多人都盼著他們的首相好，并希望他們能專注于工作。

所以我想借此時機(jī)表達(dá)對你們的感謝，感謝那些寫信寫郵件支持我的人，那些我永遠(yuǎn)不會有機(jī)會私下見面、道謝的人。

我非常榮幸能擔(dān)任六年的首相，服務(wù)我國，也十分榮幸能擔(dān)任近十一年的黨魁。

在我們即將離開的最后時刻，我唯一的心愿便是希望這個我深愛的偉大國家能繼續(xù)繁榮昌盛。

謝謝。

-英文原文-

David Cameron’s Departing Words as Prime Minister
 

Downing Street, London

13 July 2016

Good afternoon!

When I first stood here in Downing Street on that evening in May 2010, I said we would confront our problems as a country and lead people through difficult decisions, so that together we could reach better times.

It’s not been an easy journey, and of course we have not got every decision right, but I do believe that today our country is much stronger.

Above all, it was about turning around the economy. And with the deficit cut by two-thirds, two and a half million more people in work and one million more businesses, there can be no doubt that our economy is immeasurably stronger.

Politicians like to talk about policies, but in the end, it is about people’s lives.

I think of the people doing jobs who were previously unemployed.

I think of the businesses that were just ideas in someone’s head and that today are making a go of it and providing people with livelihoods.

I think of the hard-working families paying lower taxes and getting higher wages because of the first ever National Living Wage.

I think of the children who were languishing in the care system and who have now been adopted by loving families.

I think of the parents now able to send their children to good and outstanding schools, including free schools that simply didn’t exist before.>>>>撥打免費(fèi)電話

I think of over 200,000 young people who have taken part in National Citizen Service, the fastest growing youth programme of its kind in the world, something that, again, wasn’t there 6 years ago.

I think of the couples who have been able to get married, who weren’t allowed to in the past.

And I think of the people on the other side of the world who wouldn’t have clean drinking water, the chance to go to school, or even be alive, were it not for our decision to keep our aid promises to the poorest people and the poorest countries in our world.

And we have used our stronger economy to invest in our health service. When I walked in there, there were 18,000 people waiting over a year for their operation. Today, it’s just 800. Too many. Still too long.

But our NHS is a national treasure, and one whose staff perform miracles as I’ve seen every day.

And we’ve strengthened our nation’s defences, with submarines, destroyers, and frigates and, soon, aircraft carriers, rolling out of our shipyards to keep our country safe in a dangerous world.

These are the choices and the changes that we have made.

And I want to thank everyone who’s given so much to support me personally over these years.

The incredible team in No10, the civil servants, whose professionalism and impartiality is one of our country’s greatest strengths.

And my political advisers, some of whom have been with me since the day I stood for my Party’s leadership eleven years ago.

I want to thank my children, Nancy, Elwen and Florence, for whom Downing Street has been a lovely home over these last six years. They sometimes kick the red boxes full of work. Florence, you once climbed into one, before a foreign trip, and said “take me with you”. No more boxes.

And above all, I want to thank Samantha, the love of my life. You have kept me vaguely sane and, as well as being an amazing wife, mother and businesswoman, you have done something every week in that building behind me to celebrate the best (spirit) of voluntary service in our country.

We will shortly be heading to Buckingham Palace to see Her Majesty the Queen, where I will tender my resignation as Prime Minister and I will advise Her Majesty to invite Theresa May to form a new administration.

I am delighted that for the second time in British history, the new Prime Minister will be a woman, and once again, a Conservative. I believe Theresa will provide strong and stable leadership in fulfilling the Conservative Manifesto on which we were elected, and I wish her well in negotiating the best possible terms for Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Let me finish by saying this. The spirit of service is one of this country’s most remarkable qualities.

I have seen that service, day in and day out, in the incredible work of our armed forces, our intelligence agencies and our police. It is something I always knew. But as Prime Minister you see it so directly that it blows you away.

And of course, writing those heart-breaking letters to the families who have lost loved ones is a poignant reminder of the profound scale of what these men and women give for us in the defence of our freedoms and our way of life. We must never forget that.

In a different way, I have seen that same spirit of service in the amazing contributions of countless volunteers in communities up and down our country who are making our society bigger and stronger.

And I am proud that every day for the past two years I have used the office of Prime Minister in a non-political way to recognise and thank almost 600 of them as Points of Light whose service can be an inspiration to us all.
 
For me, politics has always been about public service in the national interest. It is simple to say, but often hard to do.

But one of the things that sustains you in this job is the sense that, yes, our politics is full of argument and debate, and it can get quite heated, but no matter how difficult the decisions are, there is a great sense of British fair play, a quiet but prevailing sense that most people wish their Prime Minister well and want them to stick at it and get on with the job.

So I want to take this moment to say thank you to all those who have written letters and emails offering me that support, people who I will never get to meet and never get to thank personally.

It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve our country as Prime Minister over these last six years, and to serve as leader of my Party for almost eleven years.

And as we leave for the last time, my only wish is continued success for this great country that I love so very much.

Thank you.

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