演讲 | 英国前首相卡梅伦告别演讲（中英对照）

2010年5月的那个晚上，我第一次站在唐宁街时，曾经说过，我们将带领全国人民直面问题做出一个个艰难的抉择，以期待，一切都将好转。
这不是一段轻松的历程，同样的，我们做出的决定并不是每个都是正确的，然而，我确信，时至今日，我们的祖国正日益强大。
尤其是经济方面的好转。财政赤字同比减少三分之二，新增就业人口数突破两百五十万人次，新增企业一百多万所。这些都证明，我们经济的发展前景不可限量。
政客们喜欢提及政策，然而其最终目的仍关乎民生。
我想到那些曾经处于失业的人们如今已有工作。
我想到那些先前仅存在于少数人心中的创业念头，如今均已实现并为人们创造生计。
我想到那些辛苦劳作的家庭在国民生活保障金政策的帮助下纳税数目减少，工资上涨。
我想到救助中心里，那些可怜的孩子们如今已被爱心家庭收养。
我想到那些以往无法负担孩子教育费用的父母如今已能够将他们的孩子送往一流的学校,且学费全免。
我想到20多万年轻人参与了国民服务项目，这一项目已成为国际同类项目中发展最为迅猛的青年项目。而在六年前，这些我们想都不敢想。
我想到那些过去不被允许在一起的人们，现如今已可以结婚。
我还想到位于世界另一端的人们。过去，他们没有干净的饮用水，不能上学，甚至无法活下去。在我们对世界贫困人口及贫困国家的援助下，情况已有所好转。
我们还在发展本国经济的基础上投资了医疗服务建设。我上次去那的时候，有一万八千人等待了一年多的时间，只为得到救治。而到了今天，只有800人了。但这个人数还太多了些，还有很长的路要走。
但我们的NHS系统是一笔国家财富，其所属工作人员每天都在创造着奇迹。
我们还增强了国防力量，我们的船坞生产了一系列如潜艇，驱逐舰，护卫舰，和航空母舰用以在这个危险的世界保卫国家安全。
这些是我们做出的选择与挑战。
我想向这些年来支持我的人们表示感谢。
唐宁街十号的这只出色的团队，人民的公仆，以其敬业精神和公正无私成为我国最强大的力量之一。
还有我的政治顾问，他们之中的个别人从我成为党魁开始已跟随我11年之久。
我想谢谢我的孩子们，南希，阿尔文，还有弗洛伦丝，正因为他们的存在，在过去的六年时间里，唐宁街十号一直是一个温馨的家。他们有时会踢踢满是工作信件的红色箱子。弗洛伦丝，有次在我出国公干前你还爬进去了，还说 带上我吧 。再也没有箱子了。
我尤其要感谢萨曼塔，我此生挚爱。你让我在茫然中保持理智，你是一位好妻子，好母亲，优秀的女商人，每周你都会做些佳肴，在我的身后，支持着我对这个国家的无闻奉献。
不久我们将前往白金汉宫觐见女王陛下，我将递交首相辞呈，并向女王提议任命特蕾莎.梅组建新政府。
我很高兴，英国迎来了历史上第二位女首相，而且，她也是一位保守党人士。我相信特蕾莎将强健平稳的贯彻实施我们竞选时所提及的保守党宣言。我希望她能尽可能的处理好英国脱欧的事项。
最后，让我再说几句。服务精神是这个国家最显著的品格之一。
每天，我都在我们军队武装力量，情报机关和政治的运作中看到这样的服务精神。作为首相，我直观的看到了这些，也一直十分清楚，却不得不忽视不谈。
同时，致那些失去了深爱家人的家庭。这些话语是沉痛的，那些为捍卫我们自由与生命而亡的人们似乎仍活着。我们必须铭记他们。
换个角度，我也曾在无数来往于我国的社区志愿者的杰出奉献中见到了相同的服务精神，正因为有了他们，我们国家不断壮大。
我感到十分荣幸，在过去两年中，我每天都能使用首相办公室，以一种非政治的方式去认识、感谢 光点 中的近六百人，他们的服务激励了我们所有人。
对我而言，政治是出于国家利益的公共服务。然而说起来简单，做起来却不易。
然而，使你持续这份工作的其中一个因素便是感觉，是的，我们的政治充满了争议，常成为热点，但是不论做这个决定是多么的困难，一种英式公平对待的强烈感都存在着，这是一种默契感，许多人都盼着他们的首相好，并希望他们能专注于工作。
所以我想借此时机表达对你们的感谢，感谢那些写信写邮件支持我的人，那些我永远不会有机会私下见面、道谢的人。
我非常荣幸能担任六年的首相，服务我国，也十分荣幸能担任近十一年的党魁。
在我们即将离开的最后时刻，我唯一的心愿便是希望这个我深爱的伟大国家能继续繁荣昌盛。
谢谢。

-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 dicit 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 bore.
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 dences, 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, bore 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 dence 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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