卢比奥周三在雅典帕特农神庙前，向聚集的官员和记者发表讲话。卢比奥在希腊追溯历史，为特朗普的“美国优先”方针站台。在帕特农神庙的阴影下，这位国务卿对历史进行了选择性解读，并敦促欧洲“从沉睡中醒来”。美国国务卿马可·卢比奥周三发表了一场充满古典风格的辩护性演讲，为唐纳德·特朗普的“美国优先”外交政策正名。他在雅典帕特农神庙的背景下发表了这场宏大的演讲，如果他在2028年参选总统，这场演讲似乎正是为竞选广告量身打造的。
Rubio speaks to assembled officials and reporters in front of the Parthenon in Athens on Wednesday. Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’ The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a classically inspired apologia for Donald Trump’s “America first” foreign policy on Wednesday, giving a sweeping speech to the backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens that appeared tailor-made for campaign ads if he runs for president in 2028.
在演讲中，这位美国最高外交官从古代的开国者、哲学家和征服者身上寻找与当代美国精神的相似之处，也提及了自己家族移民美国的历程。他呼吁欧洲“从长期的沉睡中醒来”，拒绝“萎缩、奴役和衰落的未来”。
In the speech, the top US diplomat drew historical parallels from the founders, philosophers and conquerers of antiquity to the modern American spirit – as well as his family’s own journey to the United States – as he called on Europe to “awaken from its long slumber” and reject a “future of atrophy and servitude and decline”.
这场精心制作的演讲强烈反对特朗普所指责的全球化政治，认为正是这种政治导致了美国与欧洲的诸多问题，包括非法移民激增和制造业外流。卢比奥警告说，西方世界正处在一个“转折点”，并捍卫了美国“毫不妥协地追求国家实力”的做法。
The highly produced speech contained a forceful rejection of the kind of globalist politics that Trump has blamed for America’s and Europe’s ills, including growing illegal immigration and the outsourcing of manufacturing. In it, Rubio warned that the western world was at an “inflection point” and defended America’s “unapologetic pursuit of national power”.
“‘民族主义’这个词变成了贬义词，于是我们拆毁了自己的纪念碑，”卢比奥说。“我们谴责自己的历史，在许多地方，我们甚至教导自己的孩子为即将继承的国家感到羞耻。”他接着表示，如今西方世界已来到十字路口：要么“维持其世界领导地位”，要么“接受一个萎缩、奴役和衰落的未来”。
“The word nationalism became a dirty word, so we tore down our monuments,” Rubio said. “We condemned our own history, and in too many places, we taught our children to be ashamed of the country they would inherit.”Now, he said, the western world had found itself at a crossroads, where it either must “maintain its place at the head of the world or [resign] itself to a future of atrophy, servitude and decline”.
“在特朗普总统的领导下，美国已经做出了自己的选择，”鲁比奥继续说道，“我们选择毫不妥协地追求国家实力：夺回对我们关键供应链的控制权，重新工业化我们的经济，重建我们的国防，并为未来技术和产业的领先地位而奋斗。” 此次演讲发表之际，美国与欧洲的关系正面临诸多紧张局势，包括美国在伊朗的战争、华盛顿对乌克兰抵御俄罗斯防御的零散支持、北约内部的争端——其中包括特朗普近期要求对格陵兰岛拥有主权——以及由美国副总统JD·万斯等权势官员推动的日益加剧的意识形态分歧。
“Under President Trump, the United States has made its choice,” Rubio continued. “We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power: to take back control of our critical supply chains, to reindustrialise our economy, to rebuild our defense, to fight for dominance of the technologies and industries of the future.”The speech comes as relations between the US and Europe are facing numerous strains, including the US war in Iran, Washington’s scattershot support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia, disputes inside Nato including Trump’s recent demands for sovereignty over Greenland, and a growing ideological divide being driven by powerful officials including the US vice-president, JD Vance.
特朗普政府在国家实力运用方式上的转变，让许多欧洲盟友感到不安。这些盟友持续寻求妥协，以在支持乌克兰和通过欧盟开展经济合作等重大问题上维持与特朗普政府的合作。万斯很可能是2028年大选的候选人，他去年在慕尼黑安全会议上发表演讲时已向欧洲盟友发出警告，指责欧洲领导人“害怕自己的人民”，并警告称欧洲将面临来自内部的威胁，即可能拒绝与美国共同拥有的价值观。
The shift in the Trump administration’s use of national power has unsettled many European allies, who have continued to seek compromises in order to keep the Trump administration onside on major issues including support for Ukraine and economic cooperation through the European Union Vance, a likely contender in the 2028 elections, put European allies on notice last year in a speech at the Munich security conference, when he accused leaders of being “terrified of their own people” and warned about the “threat from within” that Europe would reject values it shared with the US.
鲁比奥则提出了一种相对不那么激进——但同样尖锐——的信息，呼吁以美国为首的欧洲力量共同对抗“文明消解”。
Rubio has developed a less aggressive – but nonetheless pointed – message of calling for European powers led by the US to fight against “civilisational erasure”.
鲁比奥在讲话中提及了紧张局势，并援引了亚伯拉罕·林肯于1861年内战前夕发表的首次就职演说，他说：“尽管激情有时可能使美国与欧洲之间的情感纽带受到考验，但我们绝不能允许这种纽带被彻底撕裂。”
Rubio addressed the tensions as he invoked Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address in 1861 on the eve of the civil war, saying: “Though passions may, at times, have strained the bonds of affection between the United States and Europe, it must not be allowed to break them.”
“我们必须共同加强联盟，以应对我们这个时代的威胁，”他说，并盛赞了美国、丹麦和格陵兰岛最近达成的协议。他声称该协议将“重塑北极地区，并增强整个北约的安全”。然而，周三的演讲表明，美国地缘政治权力的转变可能会延续到下一届总统任期，因为现任政府中两位最引人注目的共和党官员已向欧洲发出强烈声明，表示不会重蹈过去的政治模式。
“Together, we must strengthen an alliance capable of confronting threats of our age,” he said, extolling the recent agreement between the US, Denmark, and Greenland that he claimed will “reshape the Arctic and bolster the security of all of Nato.”But the speech on Wednesday indicates that the shift in US geopolitical power may remain through a following presidency, as two of the most prominent Republican officials in the current administration have delivered forceful declarations to Europe that there will not be a return to the politics of the past.
周三，鲁比奥在面向250名受邀的希腊及欧洲官员以及记者的讲话中，试图动员欧洲盟友。他表示，欧洲应效仿希腊现任政府，与美国在“从能源到移民再到国防等所有领域”建立伙伴关系，而“希腊在这方面一直是模范盟友”。
On Wednesday, speaking to a crowd of 250 invited Greek and European officials, as well as journalists, Rubio sought to rally European allies, saying they should follow the example of the current government of Greece to embrace a partnership with the US on everything from “everything from energy to migration to defense, where Greece has been a model ally”.
鲁比奥说：“我们相信，欧洲能够从长期的沉睡中觉醒，重新点燃在此地数千年前被点燃的火焰。”他列举了积极的趋势，包括欧洲国防开支的增加、制造业和生产的扩张，以及一系列新的伙伴关系和计划。
“We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago,” Rubio said, pointing to positive tendencies including increases in European defense spending, expanded manufacturing and production, and a “flurry” of new partnerships and programs.
为了加强自己的论点，鲁比奥从古代到现代进行了有选择的历史回顾。他说，古希腊人的价值观影响了后来的科学家和探险家，其中包括一些颇具争议的人物，如克里斯托弗·哥伦布和西班牙征服者埃尔南·科尔特斯，他们的历史遗产与拉丁美洲的殖民统治有关。
To bolster his case, Rubio delivered a selective reading of history from antiquity to the present, saying that the values of the Ancient Greeks imbued those of later scientists and explorers, including some controversial choices including Christopher Columbus and the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, whose legacies are associated with the subjugation of Latin America.
但鲁比奥表示，他们以及许多其他人，都继承了一种诞生于古代的开疆拓土精神。
But Rubio said they, as well as many others, carried a frontier spirit that was born in antiquity.
“每一代最杰出的美国人都继承了他们祖先鲜明的特征——诞生于雅典，受罗马文明塑造，在基督教世界受洗，在中世纪欧洲的熔炉中锤炼，并拥有英国人特有的自由精神，随后跨越大西洋，在一个新世界的海岸上重生，”他说。
“The greatest Americans of every generation have carried the unmistakable features of their forefathers – born in Athens, formed by Rome, baptized in Christendom, hardened in the furnace of medieval Europe, endowed with the English genius for liberty, and then carried across the Atlantic to be reborn on the shores of a new world,” he said.
这次在雅典卫城的演讲制作规格很高，动用了四台摄像机，其中一台安装在吊车上。对于一位国务卿而言，在冰岛、葡萄牙和希腊三国访问期间发表演讲，也显得非同寻常。
The Acropolis speech was heavily produced, with four cameras including one mounted on a crane, and was unusual for a secretary of state delivering a speech during a three-country swing through Iceland, Portugal and finally Greece.
作为美国最高外交官，鲁比奥还罕见地提及了自己的欧洲之旅，并将其与古代希腊人联系起来。
In an unusual aside for the US’s top diplomat, Rubio also linked his own journey back to Europe, and then back to the Greeks of antiquity as well.
“美国共和国建立两个半世纪之后，我如今站在这里——距离共和国的诞生地半个地球之遥——以该共和国国务卿的身份，以及一位从西班牙来到新世界的定居者的曾孙的身份，为一段无论时间如何流逝、空间如何遥远都无法抹去的责任作证，”他说。
“Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now – I stand here today as the secretary of state of that republic, and a great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish,” he said.