《The Newsroom》——The first step in solving any problem

《新闻编辑室》The Newsroom

What about the people ? Why is America...

谈谈国民如何 美国为什么

It's not the greatest country in the world ,Professor.

美国不是最伟大的国家教授

That's my answer.

这就是我的答案

You are saying...Yes.

你是说...没错

let's talk about ...

我们来谈

Fine.Sharon,the NEA is a loser.

莎伦艺术基金就是个败家子

Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck.

没错它是花不了多少税款

But he gets to hit you with it anytime he wants.

可却给他机会次次拿来咬你

It doesn't cost money , it costs votes.

你们吵来吵架去浪费的不是钱是投票数

It costs airtime and column inches.

浪费广告时间和专栏空间

You know why people don't like liberals?

为什么人们不喜欢自由派

Because they lose.

因为他们总输

If liberals are so fuckin' smart,

如果他们有那么聪明

how come they lose so goddamn always?

又怎么会次次都输

And with a straight face you're gonna tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome

而你居然好意思告诉学生我们美国已经牛逼透顶

that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom

是世界上唯一拥有自由的国家吗

Canada has freedom .Japan has freedom.

加拿大有自由日本有自由

The UK, France, Italy ,Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom.

英国法国意大利德国西班牙澳洲比利时都有自由

207 sovereign states in the world ,

全球207个主权国家中

like 180 of them have freedom.

大概有180个都有自由

All right ...And, yeah,you,sorority girl.

好了还有你联谊会女生

Just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day .

以免你以后不小心乱入了投票站

There are some things you should know，

有些事情你是要知道的

and one of them is absolutely no evidence to support the statement

比如你的问题根本毫无根据

 that we're the greatest country in the world.

美国是世界上最伟大的国家

We're seventh in literacy ,27th in math,

我们识字率排第7数学第27

22nd in science ,49th in life expectancy.

科学排第22预期寿命第49

178th in infant mortality,

婴儿死亡率排178

third in median household income,

平均家庭收入排第3

number four in labor force, and number four in exports.

劳动力排第4出口额排第4

We lead the world in only three categories:

只有三项我们是榜首

Number of incarcerate citizens per capita,

监禁人员所占总人口比重

number of adults who believe angels are real ,

相信天使的成年人数量

and defense spending

和国防开支

 where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined,

这项支出比后面26个国家的总和还多

25 of whom are allies .

其中25个还是盟国

Now ,none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student ,

这都不是你这个20岁大学生的错

but you nonetheless are without a doubt

但你却毋庸置疑

a member of the worst period generation period ever period .

是史上最差劲的这一代人的典型

So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world ,

所以当你问我是什么造就了这个伟大的国度

I don't know what the fuck you're talking about .

我真不懂你他妈在放什么狗屁

Yosemite ?

国家公园吗

We sure used to be.

我们曾经辉煌过

We stood up for what was right.

我们为正义而拼

We fought for moral reasons.

为道德而战

We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons.

因合乎道德而立良法因违背道德而废恶法

We waged wars on poverty ,not poor people.

我们要消灭的是贫穷不是穷人

We sacrificed . We cared about our neighbors.

我们甘愿牺牲关心邻里

We put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest.

勤劳踏实不空口说大话

We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances,

我们有过伟大的发明有过逆天的科学

explored the universe ,cured diseases,

探索太空治愈疾病

and we cultivated the world's greatest artists

还培养出过世界上最出色的艺术家

and the world's greatest economy.

和世界上最棒的经济体制

We reached for the stars, acted like men.

我们敢于挑战同时心怀谦逊

We aspired to intelligence. We didn't believe it.

我们崇尚智慧而非鄙视

It didn't make us feel inferior.

知识不会让我们觉得低人一等

We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election

不会以上届选举的投票选择来给自己定性左右派

and we didn't ...we didn't scare so easy.

我们也...我们也不会轻易畏惧

We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed.

之所以曾做到过这些是因为我们信息充足

By great men, men who were revered.

有受人尊敬的伟大人物告诉我们

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one.

解决问题的第一步是要承认问题的存在

America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

美国再也不是世界上最伟大的国家了