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Thank you very much, Mr. Chipman, and thanks to all of you for being here today. I also wish to acknowledge and thank Mr. Ronnie Chan, chairman of the Asia Society, and Mr. Norman Chan, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
十分感谢你，奇普曼先生，谢谢诸位今天光临。 我还感谢亚洲协会主席陈启宗先生和香港金融管理局总裁陈德霖先生。
And I am so pleased to be here and to have this opportunity to speak with you today, and it was made possible by the U.S., Hong Kong, and Macau chambers of commerce and the Asia Society. And I thank the chamber very much on a personal level for its support of the U.S. Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. I have been called the mother of the pavilion, which is actually one of the nicer things I’ve been called during my very long public career.
今天，我十分高兴来到这里并有此机会向诸位发表讲话。这项活动是由美国、香港和澳门商会成员和亚洲协会安排的。我个人向美国商会支持上海世博会美国馆表示十分感谢。我被称为美国馆之母，在我漫长的公共生涯中，这的确是一个比较令人喜欢的称呼之一。
And I am delighted to be back in Hong Kong, a city I have admired ever since I first visited about 30 years ago when my husband, who was then governor of Arkansas, led the first ever trade mission to East Asia from our small state. Hong Kong stood out then, as it does today, as a symbol of the open exchange of goods and ideas. People were drawn to this place from every part of the world, even far away Arkansas, as evidenced by a good friend of ours from Arkansas, Nancy Hernreich Bowen, who is here with us today.
很高兴再次来到香港。约30年前，我丈夫任阿肯色州州长时曾率领这个小州的第一个贸易代表团前往东亚访问，当时我首次访问了香港。自那时以来，我一直十分钦佩这个城市。当时，香港作为开放商品和思想交流的象征，具有十分重要的地位。今天，香港依然如此。人们从世界各地被吸引到这里来，甚至从遥远的阿肯色州，我们来自阿肯色的一位好朋友南希∙赫恩赖奇∙鲍恩今天也在座就证明了这一点。
Now, since that time, Hong Kong has changed a great deal. Certainly, the skyline attests to that. And after all, few things have stood still in East Asia. But one thing about Hong Kong has not changed — the principles that find a home here. Under the “one country, two systems” policy, this remains a city that bridges East and West and looks outward in all directions, a place where ideas become businesses, where companies compete on the merits, and where economic opportunity is palpable and real for millions of people, a place that defines the fierce and productive economic competition of our time.
从那时以来，香港发生了很大的变化。毫无疑问，香港的城市风景线就是明证。毕竟在东亚极少有固定不变的事物。但香港有一点没有变——这里深入人心的一些原则。在“一国两制”政策下，香港仍然是连接东西方的桥梁，依然是一座向四面八方开放的城市。在这里，各种构想转化为各种工商活动；公司凭自身的实力相互竞争；数百万人民切身受惠于实际的经济机会；通过激烈的经济竞争提高效益的时代特征得到充分体现。
That is why businessmen and women continue to flock to Hong Kong, and an opportunity to meet some of the Americans who have called Hong Kong home for 20, 25, even 30 years. And it is why I have come here today to talk about how the nations of this region and the United States can intensify our economic partnership on behalf of ourselves, each other, and the world, and how together we can work toward a future of prosperity and opportunity for people everywhere.
正因为如此，男女工商业者继续涌入香港，一些美国人也因此有机会在香港安居乐业长达20年、25年乃至30年。正因为如此，我今天来这里谈谈本地区国家和美国可如何为自己、为彼此、也为全世界加强我们的经济伙伴合作关系，如何共同为一个繁荣的未来和全世界人民获得机会而努力。
