周三，我前往了普尼克山，这座山丘俯瞰着雅典卫城高耸的柱廊。在那里，我传达了一个简单的信息：西方正处在一个十字路口。未来十年我们所做的决定，将定义下一个世纪——也将决定我们的文明是继续屹立于世界之巅，还是屈从于奴役与衰落的未来。
On Wednesday, I traveled to the Pnyx, a hillside overlooking the towering columns of the Acropolis in Athens. There, I delivered a simple message: The West is at a crossroads. The decisions we make in the next decade will define the next century – and determine whether our civilization maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of servitude and decline.
数千年来，帕特农神庙一直是西方精神的象征，深深吸引着我们文明中的艺术家、哲学家和政要。美国开国元勋们对古典时代充满 fascination：《联邦党人文集》中最常被引用的作者是普鲁塔克，这位希腊传记作家记录了希腊和罗马最伟大的人物。古希腊的遗产甚至镌刻在我们首都的建筑之中，华盛顿特区著名的柱廊和圆顶便是最直观的体现。
For thousands of years, the Parthenon has stood as a testament to the Western spirit, captivating the imagination of our civilization’s artists, philosophers, and statesmen. The American Founding Fathers were fascinated by classical antiquity: The most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Greece and Rome’s greatest men. The legacy of ancient Greece is carved into the architecture of our capital city itself, immediately visible in the famous columns and domes of Washington, D.C.
我们都熟悉这段历史。雅典赋予了我们民主制度。柏拉图和亚里士多德为我们带来了西方哲学。希腊城邦塑造了我们对公民身份、法律和共和政府的理解。
We all know the familiar history. Athens gave us democracy. Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy. The Greek city-states shaped our ideas of citizenship, law and republican government.
鲁比奥在古希腊遗迹前发表演讲，抨击开放边境和全球主义，展现出竞选姿态。然而，我们对希腊的感激之情，远比任何特定的政治制度或理论更为深远。
RUBIO SOUNDS CAMPAIGN-READY AS HE RAILS AGAINST OPEN BORDERS, GLOBALISM IN SPEECH FROM ANCIENT GREEK RUINS But our debt to Greece runs deeper than any particular political system or theory.
古希腊是所有定义西方的核心品质的诞生地：强烈的个人主义与永不言败的雄心；永不停歇的好奇心、创造力与发明精神；以及对冒险、荣耀与探索的无尽渴望，不断挑战人类认知与行动的极限。
Ancient Greece was the birthplace of all the essential qualities that would come to define the West: fierce individuality and relentless ambition; restless curiosity, creativity, and invention; an insatiable desire for adventure, glory, and exploration, straining to test the limits of what man can know and do.
西方从古典希腊继承的，不仅仅是探索未知的雄心，更是一种信念——即未知是可以被认识的。
What the West inherited from classical Greece is not just the ambition to explore the unknown; it is the conviction that the unknown can be known.
希腊人相信世界是可以被观察、测量、绘制地图并理解的。这种信念成为西方科学、医学和哲学的基础。它为基督教得以生根并在欧洲繁荣起来创造了肥沃的土壤，并帮助形成一种文明，这种文明对真理、美德、美丽、责任和自然秩序有着独特的理解——它确立了人们应如何生活的准则，以及需要努力追求的客观标准和理想。
The Greeks believed the world could be observed, measured, mapped and understood. That conviction became the foundation of Western science, medicine and philosophy. It prepared the fertile soil for Christianity to take root and flourish into European Christendom, and helped form a civilization with a distinctive understanding of truth, virtue, beauty, duty and the natural order – carrying a code that dictates how men ought to live, and objective standards and ideals to strive towards.
美国自由的基石是在耶路撒冷奠定的古希腊人将他们的公民生活组织在对这些理想的追求之中。他们相信人们应该在体育、战争、艺术、哲学、治国和其他所有人类活动领域中 striving 和竞争，追求卓越。古典希腊城市成为伟大人物通过持续的竞争和斗争来检验和证明自己的舞台——成为最好、最强、最美丽的人，尽力超过所有先 predecessors。
THE BEDROCK OF AMERICAN LIBERTY WAS LAID IN JERUSALEM The ancient Greeks organized their civic life around the pursuit of those ideals. They believed men should strive and compete for excellence in athletics, war, art, philosophy, statecraft and every other field of human endeavor. The classical Greek city was an arena for great men to test and prove themselves through perpetual contest and struggle – to be the best, the strongest, the most beautiful, straining to surpass all those that came before.
为什么美国的下250年可以超过其前250年正是这些 qualities 塑造了西方文明，推动其后代创造和成就他人无法实现的事物，从而将我们与那些将稳定和生存视为生活最高目标的许多文化区别开来。
WHY AMERICA’S NEXT 250 YEARS CAN BE GREATER THAN ITS FIRST 250 These are the qualities that shaped the West, pushing its descendants to create and achieve things that others could not – distinguishing us from the many cultures of the world where stability and subsistence were the highest ends of life.
但如今，西方的许多地方越来越觉得为我们所为的那些使我们与众不同的事情感到羞 embarrassment。随着时间的推移，我们开始将我们的成就视为耻辱；我们的权力和繁荣成了内疚的来源。于是我们打开了边境，外包了我们曾经伟大的工业，并允许我们的军队衰弱和衰朦。并且每年，我们将更多的主权交给了我们无法控制的全球官僚机构。
But today, too much of the West has come to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. Over time, we began to view our achievements as an embarrassment; our power and prosperity became a source of guilt. So we opened our borders, outsourced our once-great industries, and allowed our militaries to wither and decay. And with every passing year, we transferred more of our sovereignty to global bureaucracies beyond our control.
为什么北约的防务支出不平衡持续了数十年其他国家都非常乐意填补我们因软弱而留下的真空。他们继续竞争领土、资源和影响力，用我们的名义积累财富和权力。
WHY NATO’S DEFENSE SPENDING IMBALANCE LASTED FOR DECADES Other nations were all too happy to fill the vacuum left by our weakness. They continued competing for territory, resources and influence, building up their own wealth and power in our stead.
今天，我们正处在一个关键的转折点——这不仅在美国，更在整个西方文明中都是如此。
Today, we find ourselves at an inflection point – not just in the United States, but across the whole of Western civilization.
坦维·拉特纳：欧洲称特朗普让美国变得不可靠。但真相更为严峻。在唐纳德·特朗普总统的领导下，美国选择重新掌控我们的国家命运：重建国防、重振工业，并努力主导那些将定义未来的技术和产业。我们真诚希望，西方其他国家也能选择同样的道路。
TANVI RATNA: EUROPE SAYS TRUMP MADE AMERICA UNRELIABLE. THE TRUTH IS TOUGHER Under President Donald Trump, the United States has chosen to take back control of our national destiny: rebuilding our defense, reindustrializing our economy, and fighting to dominate the technologies and industries that will define the future. It is our sincere hope that the rest of the West will choose the same path.
欧洲各地已有令人鼓舞的迹象。国防开支正在增加，制造业和工业产能正重新成为政治辩论的核心。欧洲各国开始意识到，主权、边界和军事力量并非无关紧要的过去遗迹，而是拥有体面未来的前提条件。
There are encouraging signs across Europe. Defense spending is rising. Manufacturing and industrial capacity are returning to the center of political debate. European nations are beginning to recognize that sovereignty, borders, and military power are not relics of an irrelevant past, but prerequisites for a decent future.
当美国迎来建国250周年之际，我们最辉煌的篇章仍在前方。我们认为，跨大西洋友谊不应是零和博弈。恰恰相反，我们的愿景是一个整体实力超越各部分之和的联盟。我们虽由众多国家组成，却同属一个文明——诞生于雅典，熔铸于罗马，在基督教世界中洗礼而成。我们必须携手共建一个能够应对时代威胁的联盟。
AS AMERICA MARKS 250 YEARS, OUR GREATEST CHAPTERS ARE STILL AHEAD OF US We do not believe the transatlantic friendship should be zero-sum. Quite the opposite: our vision is of an alliance whose strength is greater than the sum of its parts. We are many nations, but one civilization – born in Athens, forged in Rome, baptized in Christendom. Together, we must build an alliance capable of confronting the threats of our age.
文章。为此，我们必须重新发现建造帕特农神庙的那代人的精神，并重新点燃数千年前在雅典首次燃起的火焰。
To do so, we must rediscover the spirit of the men who built the Parthenon, and rekindle the fire that was first lit in Athens millennia ago.
古希腊不仅让我们得以一窥我们制度最初的形态，更映照出我们自身的形象。
Ancient Greece does not just offer a glimpse of our institutions in their earliest form; it shows us an image of ourselves.
它告诉我们，我们继承的是伟大英雄们的遗产，应当为此感到自豪——无比自豪。我们文明的故事，是人类有史以来最伟大的故事。但我们必须为之奋斗，捍卫它。
It shows us that ours is the inheritance of great heroes, and that we should be proud – fiercely proud – of where we came from. The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man. But we must fight to defend it.
西方各国若能携手合作，就能选择拒绝衰落，捍卫我们共同的遗产，并战胜时代的危险。关于国务卿马可·卢比奥的消息。
Together, the nations of the West can choose to reject decline, defend our shared heritage, and defeat the dangers of our time.