泰勒·佩格 特朗普于2021年给拜登留下了一封温暖的信，赞扬椭圆形办公室，并表示他知道拜登会忠于自己和美国人民。
Tyler Pager Trump left Biden a warm 2021 letter, praising the Oval Office and saying he knew Biden would be true to himself and the American people.
拜登表示，这封信体现了“两个特朗普”，此前特朗普公开攻击2020年大选，质疑选举结果，并缺席了拜登的就职典礼。
Biden says the letter shows “two Donald Trumps”, after Trump publicly attacked the 2020 election, challenged the result, and skipped Biden’s inauguration.
拜登的新书出版之际，他正与侵袭性前列腺癌作斗争并限制公开露面，而民主党人希望向前看，特朗普则重新执掌权力。
Biden’s new book comes as he battles aggressive prostate cancer and limits appearances, while Democrats look to move on and Trump returns to power.
AI生成 华盛顿——乔·拜登总统在就职第一周告诉记者，他的直接前任唐纳德·特朗普在椭圆形办公室给他留下了一封“非常慷慨的信”。此后，拜登一直拒绝讨论信件内容。
AI generated WASHINGTON – In his first week in office, President Joe Biden told reporters that his immediate predecessor, Donald Trump, had left him a “very generous letter” in the Oval Office. Since then, Biden has refused to discuss the contents.
但在他的新书《向美国承诺》中，拜登全文转录了这封信，据《纽约时报》获得的摘录报道。《纽约时报》还审阅了一份原信的复印件，该信日期为2021年1月20日，放在一封写着“致‘46’”的信封中——指拜登是第46任总统。
But in his new book, “Promise Me, America,” Biden reprints the letter in full, according to an excerpt obtained by The New York Times. The Times also reviewed a photocopy of the original letter, which was dated Jan 20, 2021, and left in an envelope addressed “To ‘46’” – a reference to Biden’s status as the 46th president.
这封信用白宫信纸书写，并用特朗普标志性的黑色马克笔签名，是一份引人注目的文件，因为它与特朗普关于拜登和2020年总统选举的公开评论格格不入。特朗普没有批评拜登，也没有质疑选举结果。
The letter, written on White House stationery with Trump’s signature black Sharpie, is a remarkable document for how discordant it is with Trump’s public comments about Biden and the 2020 presidential election. Trump did not criticize Biden or challenge the results of the election.
他没有这样做，而是几乎用诗意的笔触，写下自己在白宫工作的经历，以及他相信拜登“会对你自己和美国人民忠实”。
Instead, he wrote almost poetically about his experience working in the White House and how he believed that Biden “will be true to yourself and the American people.”
“许多总统来来去去，只是作为共和党人或民主党人执政，”特朗普写道。“大体上，他们没有改变历史，只是被历史那无情的潮流裹挟着前行。你不会这样，因为我知道你有多么热爱美国人民。”
“Many presidents have come and gone who simply governed as Republicans or Democrats,” Trump wrote. “Largely, they did not change history, they were just swept along in its relentless tide. This will not happen to you because I know how much you love the American people.”
在将于11月17日出版的书中，83岁的拜登写道，情况“仿佛有两个唐纳德·特朗普”。他说特朗普“严重动摇了我们的民主”，并且“没有提供总统之间的传统会面”。“但他却出现在这里，用温暖的语言表达祝福，听起来像是一位老朋友，”拜登写道。
In his book, which will be released on Nov 17, Biden, 83, writes that it was “as if there were two Donald Trumps.”He says Trump “deeply destabilized our democracy” and had “not offered the traditional meeting between presidents.”“But here he was, offering his best wishes in warm language that sounded like it was coming from an old friend,” Biden writes.
2020年竞选期间，特朗普不断攻击拜登。他称拜登是“美国历史上最差的候选人”，警告拜登当选将引发美国各地暴力事件，质疑他的精神能力，并指控他腐败。
During the 2020 campaign, Trump attacked Biden relentlessly. He called him “the worst candidate” in American history, warned that his election would unleash violence across US cities, questioned his mental faculties and accused him of corruption.
拜登赢得选举后，特朗普挑战选举结果，最终导致1月6日国会山袭击事件。此后，他拒绝出席拜登的就职典礼。
After Biden won the election, Trump challenged the results, culminating in the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. Afterward, he refused to attend Biden’s inauguration.
直到今天，特朗普仍虚假声称2020年选举被操纵，并将一系列问题归咎于拜登。白宫在11月10日再次表达了这一观点。
To this day, Trump still falsely claims the 2020 election was rigged and blames Biden for an array of problems, a note the White House struck again on Nov 10. “Joe Biden should have heeded the president’s wise words, but instead he tried to destroy this country and weaponize the justice system against his political enemies,” Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, said in a statement.
“乔·拜登本应听从总统的明智话语，但他却试图摧毁这个国家，并将司法系统武器化，用来对付他的政治对手，”白宫传播主任史蒂文·张在一份声明中说。“拜登是个耻辱，美国没有他担任总统会更好。”在11月9日发表于《大西洋月刊》的书摘中，拜登讲述了他在2024年大选获胜后与特朗普举行的“传统会面”。他描述了一个类似的特朗普版本，称特朗普“采用了一种如此友好的语气，让我以为他在跟我开玩笑”，这让他感到惊讶。
“Biden is a disgrace, and America is better off with him no longer as president.”In an excerpt from his book published on Nov 9 in The Atlantic, Biden recounts the “traditional meeting” he held with Trump after his 2024 election win. He described a similar version of Trump that “surprised me by adopting a tone so friendly that I thought he might be putting me on”. “You know, Joe, if it weren’t for politics, I believe we’d be good friends,” Trump told him, according to the book.
“你知道，乔，要不是因为政治，我相信我们会成为好朋友，”特朗普对他这样说，据该书所述。
For Biden, the book comes at a complicated moment.
对拜登来说，这本书问世的时机颇为复杂。许多民主党人渴望超越他，仍对他决定竞逐连任感到沮丧，认为这一决定为特朗普重返白宫铺平了道路。
Many Democrats are eager to move past him, still frustrated by his decision to run for a second term and how it paved the way for Trump to return to the White House. After leaving office, Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that spread to his bones.
卸任后，拜登被诊断出患有一种侵袭性强的前列腺癌，癌细胞已扩散至骨骼。他11月8日表示，癌症治疗将限制他为宣传新书而公开露面的次数。
He said on Nov 8 that his cancer treatment would limit the number of public appearances he would make to promote the book. “Some days are better than others. It hasn’t stopped me. But sometimes it slows me down,” Biden wrote on social media.
“日子好坏不一。这没有阻止我。但有时它会拖慢我的脚步，”拜登在社交媒体上写道。
“What that means is, unfortunately, I won’t be able to do as many conversations about my book as I’d hoped.”
“也就是说，不幸的是，我无法像我希望的那样进行那么多关于我书的讨论。”亨特·拜登，这位前总统的儿子，在夏天接受采访时说，他父亲的病情正在恶化，并让他感到疼痛。
Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, said in an interview over the summer that his father’s condition was worsening and causing him pain. The former president has made few public appearances since leaving the White House.
这位前总统自离开白宫以来很少公开露面。他曾被人在特拉华州与华盛顿之间的美铁列车上看到，出席过特拉华大学拜登研究所的活动，并发表过几场精选演讲，包括一场关于芝加哥社会保障的演讲和一场为南达科他州民主党举行的演讲。以下是《纽约时报》看到的复印件中特朗普信件的全文：亲爱的乔，每天来椭圆形办公室工作是一种难以想象的福分。
He has been spotted on Amtrak trains between Delaware and Washington, attended events at the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware and given select speeches, including one on Social Security in Chicago and one for the South Dakota Democratic Party. Here is the full text of Trump’s letter, as rendered in the photocopy viewed by the Times: Dear Joe, Coming to work every day in the Oval Office is a blessing beyond imagination.
历史从每一面墙、每一座雕像、每一幅美丽的画作和这个神奇地方的每个角落回响。每一段楼梯、每一条走廊、每扇门都通向另一扇门和另一段记忆，都是美国辉煌故事中的又一个转折点。
History resounds from every wall, every statue, every beautiful painting, and every corner of this magical place. Each staircase, hallway, and door leads to yet another door and memory, another inflection point in the glorious story of America.
我希望你每天都花一点时间，审视你所处的位置以及你之前的人们，那些塑造了人类事件进程的巨人。你现在有机会选择自己在历史中的位置，我知道你会对自己和美国人民忠诚。
I hope you take a moment every single day to take stock of where you are and the people who came before you, the titans who shaped the course of human events. You now have the opportunity to choose your place in history, and I know you will be true to yourself and the American people.
你不仅与过去相连，更肩负着整个国家的希望与梦想。这一事实的严重性始终伴随着你，它是支撑你每一个决定的锚。
Not only are you joined by the past, but you carry the hopes and dreams of the entire nation on your shoulders. The gravity of that fact never leaves you, it is the anchor that grounds every decision you make.
你的力量，你最深层的能量源泉，来自于知道数以百万计的人们都在依赖你。他们的抱负与期望，正是你在此处的原因，有如此之多人寄望于你的成功。愿上帝保佑你和吉尔，愿上帝保佑美国！此致，唐纳德·《纽约时报》。本文最初刊登于《纽约时报》。
Your strength, your deepest reservoir of energy, comes from the knowledge that millions upon millions of people are depending on you. Their ambitions and aspirations are the reason you are here, with so many counting on your success. May God bless you and Jill, and may God bless America! Sincerely, Donald NYTIMES. This article originally appeared in The New York Times.