1、即使我们消除了物质的贫困，我们还面临一个更大的任务，那就是-满足的贫困，目标的贫困，尊严的贫困-还困扰着我们每一个人。在太长时间里，我们太注重物质的积累，而放弃了个人的美德和社会的价值。But even if we act to erase material poverty,there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty ofsatisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all.Too muchand for too long, we seemed to ha
2、ve surrendered personal excellenceand community values in the mere accumulation of materialthings.我们的国民生产总值现在已经超过八千亿美元，但这个国民生产总值-如果我们用它来衡量美国-这个国民生产总值包括了空气污染和香烟广告，以及为交通事故而奔忙的救护车。Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if wejudge the Unite
3、d States of America by that - that Gross NationalProduct counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, andambulances to clear our highways of carnage.它包括了我们装在门上的特种锁和关撬锁的人的监狱，包括了我们对红木森林的破坏和因城市无序蔓延而消失的自然奇观。它包括了凝固汽油弹，包括了核弹头，包括了警察用来应付城市骚乱的装甲车，包括了惠特曼步枪和斯佩克刀，包括了为了向孩子推销玩具而美化暴力的电视节目。It counts special lock
4、s for our doors and thejails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction ofthe redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl.It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars forthe police to fight the riots in our cities. It countsWhitmans rifle and Specks kn
5、ife, and thetelevision programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys toour children.然而，这个国民生产总值不包括我们孩子的健康，他们教育的质量和游戏的快乐。不包括我们诗歌的美丽，我们婚姻的坚强，我们公众辩论中的智慧，和我们官员的正直。Yet the gross national product does not allow forthe health of our children, the quality of their education or thejoy of their play.
6、It does not include the beauty of our poetry orthe strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our publicdebate or the integrity of our public officials.它不包括我们的机智和勇气，不包括我们的智慧和学问，不包括我们的同情心，不包括我们对国家的热爱。总之，它衡量一切，却把那些令人生有价值东西排除在外。它告诉我们美国的方方面面，却不能告诉我们为什么为她自豪。It measures neither our wit nor our courage,neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor ourdevotion to our country, it measures everything in short, exceptthat which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everythingabout America except why we are proud that we are Americans.
