他们是一个独立而自尊的民族。
但是,我来这里是要向你们说明:我国人民继承了为自由而奋斗的传统,我们是一个永不气馁的民族。
But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope.
我出生的民族有一个主张——人们应该由才智和努力决定他们的命运而不是让他们的出身决定他们的命运。
The nation where I live began as a notion that people should not have their lives determined by birth, but rather by their talents and efforts.
These implicitly make a claim to the generality--at the national scale, or in the racial sense-- the representativeness of this life.
而不是一个特定的人,这暗含了一种普遍性,在民族范围内或者在种族意义上来看-,来表现这种生活。
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