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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
欢迎收听VOA慢速英语之建国史话节目，我是史蒂夫·恩伯。

This week in our series, we tell the story of the thirty-eighth president of the United States.
本周我们将讲述美国第38任总统的故事。

"Mr. Chief Justice, my dear friends, my fellow Americans,
“首席大法官、我亲爱的朋友们、我的美国同胞们，

the oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every president under the Constitution.
我所作的宣誓与乔治·华盛顿和宪法中规定的每一位总统所作的誓言一样。

But I assume the presidency under extraordinary circumstances, never before experienced by Americans."
但是，我是在美国人从未经历过的特殊情况下担任的总统。”

Gerald Ford was sworn into office on August ninth, nineteen seventy-four.
杰拉尔德·福特于1974年8月9日宣誓就职，

Ford was vice president to Richard Nixon, who had announced the day before that he would resign.
福特是理查德·尼克松的副总统，尼克松前一天宣布辞职。

If Nixon had not resigned, he might have been removed from office. Congress had been moving to charge him with corruption in the Watergate case.
如果尼克松没有辞职，他可能已经被免职。国会一直在起诉他在水门事件中的腐败行为。

At his swearing-in ceremony, the new president spoke about the nation's future.
在宣誓仪式上，新总统谈到了国家的未来。

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works.
“我的美国同胞们，我们漫长的民族噩梦结束了。我们的宪法有效，

Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule."
我们伟大的共和国是法治政府，而不是人治政府。在这里，人民当家作主。”

He went on to say:
他接着说：

"As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate -- more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars
“在我们承担水门事件的责任时，在这比外国战争更让人感到痛苦、更令人讨厌的时候，

-- let us restore the 'Golden Rule' to our political process and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate."
让我们恢复政治进程的‘黄金法则’，让兄弟之爱净化我们心中的猜疑和仇恨。”

Gerald Ford became the only leader in American history to have served both as vice president and president without being elected.
杰拉尔德·福特成为美国历史上唯一一位未经选举，就当上副总统和总统的人。

Richard Nixon chose him as vice president in October nineteen-seventy-three.
理查德·尼克松在1973年10月选择他为副总统。

That was when Nixon's former vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned because of criminal charges that he failed to pay his taxes.
当时，尼克松的前副总统斯皮罗·阿格纽因被指控未纳税而辞职。

When Nixon himself resigned, Ford became president.
尼克松本人辞职后，福特就出任总统。

Ford was a longtime congressman from the state of Michigan. He was well-liked by his congressional colleagues.
福特是密歇根州的常任国会议员，他深受国会同僚的爱戴。

His education was in economics and political science at the University of Michigan. Then he attended Yale Law School.
他在密歇根大学学习经济学和政治学，随后就读于耶鲁大学法学院。

During World War Two, he served as a Naval officer in the Pacific.
二战期间，他在太平洋地区担任海军军官。

After the war, Ford entered politics. He was a member of the Republican Party.
战后，福特进入政界，他是共和党党员，

He was first elected to the House of Representatives in nineteen forty-eight.
第一次当选为众议院在1948年，

He won re-election twelve times. Republicans in the House elected him the minority leader during the administration of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson.
12次连任。在民主党总统林登·约翰逊执政期间，众议院的共和党人选举他为少数党领袖。

Ford was still minority leader when Richard Nixon, a fellow Republican, was elected president in nineteen sixty-eight.
福特仍然是少数党领袖时，共和党人理查德·尼克松在1968年当选总统。

In his leadership position, Ford helped win approval of a number of Nixon's proposals.
福特任职期间，帮助尼克松使一些提议获得通过。

He became known for his strong loyalty to the president. It was no surprise, then, when Nixon named Ford as vice president.
他因对总统的忠诚而出名，尼克松任命福特为副总统也就不足为奇了。

Gerald Ford was an "accidental president." He came to office in a sudden turn of events.
杰拉尔德·福特是在偶然间成为总统的，他是在一次突发事件中上任的。

Almost as suddenly, he had to decide what to do about the former president.
几乎就是突然之间，他需要决定对前总统采取什么措施。

After Nixon left office, he could have been charged with crimes for his part in covering up the events of Watergate.
尼克松卸任后，他本可以因掩盖水门事件而被指控犯罪。

Instead, one month after Nixon resigned, President Ford settled the question. He pardoned Nixon for any crimes that he might have committed.
然而，在尼克松辞职一个月后，福特总统就把这个问题解决了。他赦免了尼克松可能犯下的任何罪行。

The pardoning of Nixon made many Americans angry. Some believed he should have been put on trial.
尼克松的赦免令许多美国人愤怒，有些人认为他应该受审，

They thought he might have answered more questions about Watergate if he had not been pardoned.
他们觉得如果他没有被赦免，可能会回答更多有关水门事件的问题。

Ford said he pardoned Nixon in an effort to unite the country. For a while, though, the pardon only seemed to intensify the divisions.
福特说，他赦免尼克松是为了团结国家。不过，有一段时间，赦免似乎只加剧了分歧。

"And I wondered if anyone had brought to your attention the fact that the Constitution specifically states that,
“我想知道是否有人提请你注意，宪法明确规定，

even though somebody is impeached, that person shall nonetheless be liable to punishment according to law."
即使有人被弹劾，当事人仍应依法受到惩罚。”

In October nineteen seventy-four, President Ford appeared before a congressional hearing on the pardon.
1974年10月，福特总统出席了国会关于特赦的听证会。

He gave a strong response to questioning by Democratic Representative Elizabeth Holtzman.
他对民主党代表伊丽莎白·霍尔茨曼的质询作出强烈回应。

"Mrs. Holtzman, I was fully cognizant of the fact that the president, on resignation, was accountable for any criminal charges.
“霍尔茨曼夫人，我完全认识到，总统一旦辞职，就要对任何刑事指控负责。

But I would like to say that the reason I gave the pardon was not as to Mr. Nixon himself.
但我想说的是，我赦免的原因并不是尼克松先生本人。

I repeat – and I repeat with emphasis: The purpose of the pardon was to try and get the United States,
我重申——强调地重申一次：赦免的目的是试图让美国、

the Congress, the president, and the American people focusing on the serious problems we have, both at home and abroad.
国会、总统和美国人民，关注我们在国内外面临的严重问题。

"And I was absolutely convinced then, as I am now, that if we had had this series
“我现在和那时的想法一样，我绝对相信，

– an indictment, a trial, a conviction, and anything else that transpired after that
如果我们有这一系列的指控、审判、定罪，以及这之后发生的所有事情，

– that the attention of the president, the congress, and the American people would have been diverted from the problems that we have to solve.
总统、国会和美国人民的注意力就会从我们必须解决的问题上转移开，

And that was the principal reason for my granting of the pardon."
这就是我批准赦免的主要原因。”

Anger about the pardon was still strong when President Ford made another controversial decision.
福特总统做出另一个有争议的决定时，人们对特赦的愤怒仍然强烈。

He pardoned men who had illegally avoided military service in the Vietnam War.
福特赦免了在越战中非法逃避兵役的人。

Most of them were not sent to prison. Instead, they were offered a chance to do work for their communities.
他们中的大多数人没有关进监狱，而是得到了为社区工作的机会。

Many of the men, however, did not accept the president's offer. Some stayed in Canada or other countries where they had fled to avoid the draft.
然而，许多人不接受总统的这项提议。一些人留在加拿大或其他国家，他们从那逃离，以逃避征兵。

President Ford received greater public support when he asked Congress to limit the activities of the nation's intelligence agencies.
福特总统要求国会限制国家情报机构的活动时，他得到了更多的公众支持。

He hoped better control would prevent future administrations from abusing the constitutional rights of Americans, as Nixon had done.
他希望更好地进行控制，能防止未来的政府像尼克松那样滥用美国人的宪法权利。

On another issue, Ford, while serving as vice president, had described inflation as America's "public enemy number one."
福特担任副总统期间还发生了另一件事，他曾将通货膨胀描述为美国的“头号公敌”，

He had supported several measures to fight it. As president, however, an economic recession forced him to cancel some of those measures.
曾支持多项措施来对抗通货膨胀。然而，作为总统，经济衰退迫使他取消了其中一些措施。

Inflation decreased during the recession, but unemployment increased.
在经济衰退期间，通货膨胀率下降，但失业率上升了。

On foreign policy issues, Ford kept Henry Kissinger as secretary of state.
在外交政策问题上，福特任命亨利·基辛格为国务卿。

Kissinger had won much praise for his service to Richard Nixon, including in the opening of diplomatic ties with Communist China.
基辛格为理查德·尼克松所做的贡献赢得了很多赞誉，包括在与共产主义中国建立外交关系方面。

But Kissinger had also received much criticism. Critics accused him of interfering with civil liberties in the name of national security.
但基辛格也受到了很多批评。批评者指责他以国家安全的名义干涉公民自由，

They also accused him of supporting the overthrow of the Marxist government of Salvador Allende in Chile.
还指责他支持推翻智利萨尔瓦多·阿连德的马克思主义政府。

By the time Ford became president, the United States and the Soviet Union had taken steps to try to limit the spread of nuclear weapons.
在福特成为总统时，美国和苏联已经采取措施试图限制核武器的扩散。

Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had signed two such agreements as part of the détente policy to ease Cold War tensions.
尼克松和苏联领导人列昂尼德·勃列日涅夫签署了两份这样的协议，作为缓和冷战紧张局势政策的一部分。

Relations with China were also less tense than before.
美国与中国的关系也不像以前那么紧张了。

American policy in Southeast Asia, however, had failed. Involvement in the Vietnam War had officially ended the year before Gerald Ford became president.
然而，美国在东南亚的政策却失败了。杰拉尔德·福特在越南战争正式结束前一年，就正式成为总统。

But fighting continued between South Vietnam and communist forces from the North.
但是，南越和北方的共产主义军队之间的战斗仍在继续。

The peace agreement signed by the United States and North Vietnam in nineteen seventy-three left South Vietnam to defend itself.
美国和北越在1973年签署的和平协议使南越不得不进行自卫。

By nineteen seventy-five, South Vietnamese forces were clearly in danger of defeat.
到1975年，南越军队明显处于失败的危险之中。

President Ford tried to prevent a communist takeover. He asked Congress to approve seven hundred million dollars in military aid for South Vietnam. Congress said no.
福特总统试图阻止共产党的接管，他要求国会批准向越南提供七亿美元的军事援助。

The American people were tired of paying for the war.
国会表示拒绝，美国人民厌倦了为战争买单。

Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, fell to communist forces on April thirtieth, nineteen seventy-five.
南越首都西贡，于1975年4月30日落入共产党军队手中。

President Ford ordered the rescue of American citizens and South Vietnamese who had supported the American efforts.
福特总统下令营救支持美国的美国公民和南越人，很少有人会忘记那一天。那些见证过为逃避西贡而苦苦挣扎的人，

Few people who saw those struggling to escape Saigon will ever forget that day.
很少有人会忘记这一天。

"Please stop pushing – one at a time."
“请不要推，一次一个。”

Terrified Vietnamese were screaming for help at the American Embassy. Everyone was pushing, trying to escape the city.
惊恐的越南人在美国大使馆旁尖叫着求救。每个人都在推，试图逃离这个城市。

Some held on to overloaded military helicopters as the aircraft tried to take off.
飞机试图起飞时，一些人抓住超载的军用直升机。

As a signal to American citizens to prepare to leave, Armed Forces Radio had played the song "White Christmas."
作为向美国公民发出准备离开的信号，武装部队电台播放着歌曲“白色圣诞节”。

Some were to go to an apartment building where a helicopter would pick them up from the roof.
一些人去了一栋公寓楼，那里有一架直升飞机从屋顶把他们接走。

But other people also tried to get onto the helicopter -- a scene captured in a famous news photo of the fall of Saigon.
但其他人也试图登上直升机，这是西贡陷落的一张著名新闻照片中的一幕。

The former South Vietnamese capital was renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
前南越首都改名为胡志明市。

In the Middle East, Henry Kissinger led negotiations after the nineteen seventy-three Arab-Israeli war. Israel agreed to give up some captured territory.
在中东，亨利·基辛格在1973年阿以战争后领导了谈判。以色列同意放弃一些被占领的领土。

In return, the United States promised not to recognize or deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization unless the PLO met certain conditions.
作为回报，美国承诺除非巴解组织满足某些条件，否则不会承认或处理巴勒斯坦解放组织。

In September nineteen seventy-five, Israel and Egypt signed an agreement that included permission for American civilians to act as observers along the ceasefire lines.
1975年9月，以色列和埃及签署了一项协议，其中包括允许美国平民在停火线沿线担任观察员。

Henry Kissinger was praised for his peacemaking efforts,
亨利·基辛格因其缔造和平的努力而受到赞扬，

though peace in the Middle East would remain a challenge for future administrations.
尽管中东的和平仍然是未来政府面临的挑战。

At home, things seemed better as the presidential election campaign of nineteen seventy-six began.
在国内，随着1976年总统竞选活动的开始，情况似乎有所好转。

That year marked the nation's two hundredth birthday.
那一年是美国建国二百周年。

The United States was not fighting any wars. Unemployment remained high, but inflation had eased.
美国不再打仗，失业率居高不下，但通货膨胀有所缓解。

Most importantly, Gerald Ford had led the country through the difficult period after Watergate.
最重要的是，杰拉尔德·福特带领美国度过了水门事件后的艰难时期。

The nineteen seventy-six election will be our story next week.
1976年的总统选举将是我们下周要讲述的故事。

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Some schools fail to set any homework.

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2.serve as 作为；担任

The museum will serve as a memorial to the millions who passed through Ellis Island.

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He was known for his poor grammar and punctuation.

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4.in an effort to 为了；为了完成

He finally left home in an effort to counter the tyranny of arranged marriage in the old society.

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