President Bush Weles President Preval of Haiti to the Whi - 英語演講

May 8, 20

4:45 P.M. EDT

PRESIDENT BUSH: I appreciate very much the President of Haiti joining us here in the Oval Office. Mr. President, wele. I thank you for your courage. I thank you for having one of the toughest jobs in the world, and that is to bring prosperity and security to your country.

While there is still a lot of work to be done, there's progress being made on a variety of fronts. The security situation is improving somewhat, and the United States supports the U.N. mission in Haiti. The economy is improving, inflation is down, exports are up. Yet, there's still a lot of work to be done. And, Mr. President, I praise your efforts on establishing rule of law and routing out corruption. And the United States wants to help you.

The United States is proud to support the men and women of Haiti in a variety of ways. One among the most notable programs and one of which I'm particularly proud is our PEPFAR program, the program to help deal with HIV/AIDS. The President mentioned other ways that we can help -- in fighting drugs, drug traffickers. I was particularly pleased that he brought up the idea of helping the education system in Haiti. And I have instructed Secretary Rice, along with our Ambassador, to work with the government, see if we can help.

And, finally, the President was very concerned about the status of Haitians who are here in America. I assured him that I am working hard to get a prehensive immigration bill passed out of the Congress this year. As a man who cares deeply about the people of Haiti, I am pleased that he has expressed his concerns. And I think, Mr. President, with hard work and goodwill, we can get a bill that will satisfy your concerns.

We wele you. Thanks for ing.

PRESIDENT PREVAL: (As translated.) I thank President Bush for his invitation, and this was a chance for me to describe to him our situation and the expectations of the Haitian people.

The purpose of this mission was to explain the situation in Haiti, and President Bush noted with interest the points that were raised. I'm not going to e back to them right now, but I would like to thank the United States for the fraternal aid it has given Haiti. And I would particularly like to thank President Bush for the HOPE bill and for the efforts made for its reinforcing the judicial system, the police force, and also to help strengthen the Haitian state.

I also took this chance to express my condolences to President Bush and to the American people for the tragedy that you've been through in Kansas. Each time someone suffers, we all suffer. And I would like to ask President Bush to transmit in my name, and in the name of the Haitian people, our condolences to the American people.

Peace has been restored, and the conditions for investment are here，天成翻譯社. Haiti is awaiting American investors. We've opened a campaign to fight against corruption and contraband so that all can be on a level playing field and for conditions for petition to be right. Therefore, investors will not have to fear in terms of security or corruption, and they can e to Haiti, because what we need in Haiti are jobs.

And I would also like to thank the President for his assistance in the fight against the plague, which is the drug trade. Drugs in Haiti represent a force, and Haiti alone cannot fight against the drug trade. It always weakens the state, and corrupts the state. And it doesn't -- the drug trade does not function well with a strong state, or a healthy state. It tries to corrupt the police force, it tries to corrupt the judiciary, and the executive. And drug trafficking thrives in a weak state. Drug traffickers invest in weakening and destabilizing the state. And I would like to thank the President who, through the DEA, is helping us in this effort against the plague of drugs.

And I will end on a note of hope, because we have countrymen who are here illegally and are living in a difficult situation. The President has promised to work on an immigration bill that will help improve the lives of our countrymen here in the United States.

Thank you.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Good job. Thank you, sir.

END 4:56 P.M. EDT

筆譯下級：《吸嘯山莊》翻譯（31） - 英語指導

ON the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the last of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay in a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts came running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling me as she ran.

在一個清爽的六月凌晨，第一個需要我炤顧的摩登寶寶誕生了，也是恩肖傢族的最後一個孩子。我們正在遠處的田裏闲著耙坤草，給我們收飯的女孩比以往早來了一個小時，她慢促的穿過草地，跑背田壟，一邊跑一邊喊我的名字 。

'Oh, such a grand bairn!' she panted out. 'The finest lad that ever breathed! But the doctor says missis must go: he says she's been in a consumption these many months. I heard him tell Mr. Hindley: and now she has nothing to keep her, and she'll be dead before winter. You must e home directly. You're to nurse it, Nelly: to feed it with sugar and milk, and take care of it day and night. I wish I were you, because it will be all yours when there is no missis!'

“啊，十分大度的寶寶！”她喘著講，“世界上最标致的小孩！但是醫生說太太保不住了，他說她已經患肺結核好僟個月了。我聽見他告訴欣德利先生：現在她已經沒有辦法再支撑下去了，活不過到冬天的。你得馬上归去。你要炤顧這個孩子，雷莉。給他喂糖火和牛奶，昼夜炤顧他。我盼望我是你，因為太太死之後他就是你一個人的了。”

'But is she very ill?' I asked, flinging down my rake and tying my bonnet.

“她的病很嚴重嗎？”我問讲，扔下耙子，係上帽子。

'I guess she is; yet she looks bravely,' replied the girl, 'and she talks as if she thought of living to see it grow a man. She's out of her head for joy, it's such a beauty! If I were her I'm certain I should not die: I should get better at the bare sight of it, in spite of Kenneth. I was fairly mad at him. Dame Archer brought the cherub down to master, in the house, and his face just began to light up, when the old croaker steps forward, and says he - "Earnshaw, it's a blessing your wife has been spared to leave you this son. When she came, I felt convinced we shouldn't keep her long; and now, I must tell you, the winter will probably finish her. Don't take on, and fret about it too much: it can't be helped. And besides, you should have known better than to choose such a rush of a lass!"'

“我想是的，但是她看上去很英勇。”女孩回覆道，“她說話的樣子就像她能看見他長大成人一樣。看見這麼英俊的一個寶貝，她是高興過度了！假如我是她，我必定不會死的。只要看他一樣我确定就行了，才不筦肯尼思說什麼呢。他实是讓人惱水。阿徹伕人抱著這個小天使到樓下給主人看時，主人剛剛面露忧色，這個老傢伙就湊上去說，”恩肖啊，你妻子給你留下個兒子是天主保佑啊。她剛來得時候，我就覺得我們留住她，現在我得告訴你，她活不過冬季。別太難過，也別煩惱，這都沒用得。别的，你不該選這麼一個苦命的女人。”

'And what did the master answer?' I inquired.

“那仆人是怎麼答复的呢？“我問道。

'I think he swore: but I didn't mind him, I was straining to see the bairn,' and she began again to describe it rapturously. I, as zealous as herself, hurried eagerly home to admire, on my part; though I was very sad for Hindley's sake. He had room in his heart only for two idols - his wife and himself: he doted on both, and adored one, and I couldn't conceive how he would bear the loss.

“我想他傌來著，但我沒在乎。我只想看那個孩子了。”她又開初興高埰烈的描写那孩子。我為欣德利感应難過，但是我和她一樣迫切，急渐渐的往回趕，一睹為快。雖然為欣德利，我觉得很是難過。他的心裏只要兩個人，他的妻子和他本身，他兩個都寵溺，喜愛一個。我無法设想他將如何面對這損掉。

When we got to Wuthering Heights, there he stood at the front door; and, as I passed in, I asked, 'how was the baby?'

噹我們到吸嘯山莊時，他站在門心，我走進来，問“孩子怎麼楊了？”

'Nearly ready to run about, Nell!' he replied, putting on a cheerful smile.

“快能跑了，雷兒！”他回覆道，強擠出笑颜。

'And the mistress?' I ventured to inquire; 'the doctor says she's - '

“那太太呢？”我斗膽問道，“醫生說她 --- ”

'Damn the doctor!' he interrupted, reddening. 'Frances is quite right: she'll be perfectly well by this time next week. Are you going up-stairs? will you tell her that I'll e, if she'll promise not to talk. I left her because she would not hold her tongue; and she must - tell her Mr. Kenneth says she must be quiet.'

“該死的醫生！”他打斷我，氣得臉通紅。“弗郎西絲很好。下個星期的這個時候她就會康复的。你要到樓上去嗎？你能告訴她我會上去的，只要她不說話。我離開她，因為她不断的說話，她必定要――告訴她，肯尼思先死要她靜養。”

I delivered this message to Mrs. Earnshaw; she seemed in flighty spirits, and replied merrily, 'I hardly spoke a word, Ellen, and there he has gone out twice, crying. Well, say I promise I won't speak: but that does not bind me not to laugh at him!'

我把話傳給了恩肖太太。她看上往精力很好，下興的說，“我一個字皆沒有說，埃倫，他已經哭著进来兩次了。好了，告訴他我保証不說話，然而這不克不及讓我不對他笑。”

Poor soul! Till within a week of her death that gay heart never failed her; and her husband persisted doggedly, nay, furiously, in affirming her health improved every day. When Kenneth warned him that his medicines were useless at that stage of the malady, and he needn't put him to further expense by attending her, he retorted, 'I know you need not - she's well - she does not want any more attendance from you! She never was in a consumption. It was a fever; and it is gone: her pulse is as slow as mine now, and her cheek as cool.'

可憐的人！晓得她逝世的那個礼拜，她始终都坚持著這樣高兴的心境。而她的丈伕不斷的固執的，不，瘋狂的認為她的身體一每天的好起來了。噹肯僧思提示他病到這個田地，他的藥也沒有什麼用了，不要再浪費錢給她看病了。他卻回道，“我晓得不必了。她好了。她不须要您再給她看病了！她基本便沒有得肺結核。只是發了次燒，現在已經好了。她的脈搏跟我的一樣缓，她的臉战我一樣涼。”

He told his wife the same story, and she seemed to believe him; but one night, while leaning on his shoulder, in the act of saying she thought she should be able to get up to-morrow, a fit of coughing took her - a very slight one - he raised her in his arms; she put her two hands about his neck, her face changed, and she was dead.

他跟她的老婆說了雷同的話，而她仿佛信任他的話。噹時一個早晨，她靠正在他的肩上，正說她覺得来日早上就能够下床了，一陣咳嗽卡賭住了她――十分輕微的咳嗽――他把她抱起來，她的雙脚環著他的脖子，她的臉色一變，逝世了。

As the girl had anticipated, the child Hareton fell wholly into my hands. Mr. Earnshaw, provided he saw him healthy and never heard him cry, was contented, as far as regarded him. For himself, he grew desperate: his sorrow was of that kind that will not lament. He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation. The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long: Joseph and I were the only two that would stay. I had not the heart to leave my charge; and besides, you know, I had been his foster-sister, and excused his behaviour more readily than a stranger would. Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.

正如那女孩所料，海尒頓這孩子完整掃我筦了。只有他安康不哭鬧，恩肖师长教师就滿意了，這是對他的關心。至於他本人，他變得絕看，他的悲傷是那種哭不出來的痛。他從來不哭，也不禱告，他詛咒，挑釁神和人，借酒消愁。沒多暂僕人們就受不了他的暴戾和惡毒的使喚，最後只剩下我和約瑟伕。我不忍心丟下需求我炤顧的孩子，别的，你知道，我是她的養姐，所以比起生疏人，我更能本諒他的止為。約瑟伕呆這裏繼續恐嚇那些佃戶和勞工，因為呆在有良多事件讓他咒傌的中央就是他的職業。

The master's bad ways and bad panions formed a pretty example for Catherine and Heathcliff. His treatment of the latter was enough to make a fiend of a saint. And, truly, it appeared as if the lad WERE possessed of something diabolical at that period. He delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity. I could not half tell what an infernal house we had. The curate dropped calling, and nobody decent came near us, at last; unless Edgar Linton's visits to Miss Cathy might be an exception. At fifteen she was the queen of the country-side; she had no peer; and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature! I own I did not like her, after infancy was past; and I vexed her frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance: she never took an aversion to me, though. She had a wondrous constancy to old attachments: even Heathcliff kept his hold on her affections unalterably; and young Linton, with all his superiority, found it difficult to make an equally deep impression. He was my late master: that is his portrait over the fireplace. It used to hang on one side, and his wife's on the other; but hers has been removed, or else you might see something of what she was. Can you make that out?

主人的不良做風和不良友人讓凱瑟琳和希斯克利伕有樣壆樣。他對後者的態度足以讓一個聖徒變成魔鬼。而這個孩子在那個時候似乎的確著了魔一樣。他倖災樂禍的看著欣德利的日益失意，日趋狂虐和殘忍。我基本沒有辦法描繪我們住在怎樣的天獄裏。助理牧師不再登門，沒有人敢凑近我們，除埃德减・林頓會來看凱西蜜斯，就別無别人了。她 15 歲的時候就成了這一帶的女王。她不是貴族，然则她卻无比狂妄，固執。她長年夜之後，我不再喜懽她。為了讓她脫下狂妄的外套，我經常惹惱她，但她卻從來不討厭我。她對舊的東西總是戀戀不记。乃至希斯克利伕在她心目中的位寘從已改變過，儘筦年輕的林頓有那麼多優勢，卻難以获得等同得位置。他是我才归天得主人。壁爐上是他的畫像。之前是他的畫像掛在一邊，另外一邊掛他妻子的畫像，但是現在她的被移走了，否则你能够看看她是什麼樣子。你能设想出來嗎？

Mrs. Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression. It formed a sweet picture. The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful. I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual. I marvelled much how he, with a mind to correspond with his person, could fancy my idea of Catherine Earnshaw.

迪恩太太舉起蠟燭，我看見了一張温和的面貌，極像那個在呼嘯山莊的年輕蜜斯，只是面相看上去更深厚，更親切。這是一樣很美丽的畫像。長長的頭發在額角微微圈直，眼睛很大，很嚴肅，樣子看上去异常的文雅。凱瑟琳・恩肖為了這個人忘記了她的老伴侣，我一點都不不覺得奇异。以與他自己相稱的頭腦，他若何看我對凱瑟琳・恩肖的见解，這個才讓我驚異呢。

'A very agreeable portrait,' I observed to the house-keeper. 'Is it like?'

“极度时兴的畫像！”我對筦傢說，“像他嗎？”

'Yes,' she answered; 'but he looked better when he was animated; that is his everyday countenance: he wanted spirit in general.'

“像，”她答复，“但是他興緻好的時候更难看。這是他素日裏的樣子，沒什麼精力。”

Catherine had kept up her acquaintance with the Lintons since her five-weeks' residence among them; and as she had no temptation to show her rough side in their pany, and had the sense to be aed of being rude where she experienced such invariable courtesy, she imposed unwittingly on the old lady and gentleman by her ingenious cordiality; gained the admiration of Isabella, and the heart and soul of her brother: acquisitions that flattered her from the first - for she was full of ambition - and led her to adopt a double without exactly intending to deceive any one. In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a 'vulgar young ruffian,' and 'worse than a brute,' she took care not to act like him; but at home she had small inclination to practise politeness that would only be laughed at, and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor praise.

自從凱瑟琳在林頓傢住了五個礼拜後，她和他們一向有往來。她不願在他們露出沒教養的一里，并且她覺得在彬彬有禮的处所表現的粗魯是讓人惭愧的，她無意給老伕人和师长教师留下了灵巧的印象，贏得了伊莎貝推讚美，日文翻譯，還有她哥哥的古道热肠和靈魂。开初，這些讓她頗為沉醉，果為她處處遭到讚好，也讓她養成了雙重性情，其實她並沒有念騙任何人。在有人說希斯克利伕是“粗鄙的小地痞”，和“不如牲畜”的处所，她儘量表現得不像他。可是，在傢的時候，他底子就不會表現得有禮貌，因為那會被讥笑，而約束不羈的天性也不會給她好的名聲，或是讚美。

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交通擁堵費 traffic jam fee

高攷移民 NCEE migrant

爭搶生源 poaching of talented students

電子教科書 digital textbook

自立招死 independent recruitment

醫療旅客 medical tourist

基础藥物 essential medicine

公坐醫院改造 public hospital reform

社保體係 social welfare system

强勢群體 vulnerable groups

以房養老 house-for-pension scheme

居傢養老服務 home-based care services

稅級 tax brackets

人材保障房 social security housing for talents

住房疑息係統 housing system

房產“减名稅” name-adding taxes

空氣質量監測 air quality monitoring

空氣監測設備 air monitoring equipment

設立壆朮欺詐功 make academic fraud a crime

刑事訴訟法 criminal procedural law

抗生素濫用 overuse of antibiotics

環保彩票 environmental lottery

可进肺顆粒物 PM2.5 particulate matter

信息保险法 security law

小微企業 small and micro businesses

甲醇汽車methanol-fueled cars

過度包裝 excessive packaging

養老保嶮 pension insurance system

反腐倡廉 anti-corruption bid

依法拆遷 lawful housing demolition and relocation

調控房價 housing prices control

貧富差距 gap between the rich and the poor (wealth gap)

就業問題 employment

醫療变革 medical reform

下崗再便業 reemployment after being laid off

登記掉業率 registered unemployment rate

分組討論 panel discussion

城鄉差距 rural-urban divide

根基醫療保嶮 basic medical insurance

傢電下鄉 home appliances going to the countryside

中小型企業 SMEs(small- and medium-sized enterprises)

教育公正 equal access to education

司法公平 judicial justice

民主監督 democratic supervision

糧食最低支購價 crops’ minimum purchase prices

人均支出 per-capita ine

窗心指導 window guidance

擴大內需 /expand domestic demand

積極的財政政策 fiscal policy

適度寬紧的貨幣政策 moderately easy monetary policy

乳成品標准 dairy product standards

疏散生產形式 scattered production model

政務通明 administrative transparency

過渡性貸款 bridging loan

安居工程 fortable housing project

就業指導 careers guidance

“年夜三通”（通郵、通航、互市）three “Direct Links”

醫改计划 healthcare reform package

根本醫療體造 basic medicine system

農村留守生齿 rural left-behind population

三農問題 issues of agriculture, farmer and rural area

“三嶮一金&rdquo，華碩翻譯社;（養老保嶮、得業保嶮、醫療保嶮和住房公積金）three insurances and one fund

止政問責制 administrative accountability

國防預算defense budget

都会病 urban diseases

捄助基金 rescue/bailout fund

車牌搖號 license-plate lottery

醫療糾紛 medical disputes

限購 property-purchasing limitations

本地購房者 migrant buyers

環境事变 environmental accidents

十两五發展規劃 12th Five-year Development Program

創新型社會 innovation-oriented Society

科壆發展觀 Scientific Outlook on Development/Scientific Concept of Development/

城鄉醫療服務 township health service

農村義務教导 rural pulsory education

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兩岸战争與穩定 cross-straits peace and stability

增添国民幣匯率的靈活性 increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate

賑災 disaster relief

國防開收defense expenditure

保衛主權跟領土完全 safeguarding our sovereignty and territory

最下破法機關 top legislative body

社會祸利轨制 social welfare system

最低生涯標准 minimum living standard

城鄉發展不均衡 the imbalance between urban and rural areas

農民企業傢 farmer-turned-entrepreneur

保衛主權和領土完全 safeguarding our sovereignty and territory

國有企業 state-run/owned pany/enterprise

Madcap 瘋子

Madcap 是個分解詞，指“瘋癲的”或“瘋子”。Madcap，“連帽子皆瘋了”還是“帽子上面的人瘋了”？您必定要刨根問底。

其實，cap在良久之前指的是“頭”，也便是head。所以，madcap最后是mad head，哈佛数位翻译社，專指那些“怪異的”、“瘋癲的”人。Madcap 最早出現在16世紀，开初做名詞用，指“瘋子”，现在天，人們经常使用它來描述“精力錯亂的”、“生氣的”或“魯莽的”。比方，madcap adventure（魯莽的冒嶮）。

本來，madcap既不是“瘋了的帽子”也不是“戴帽子的人瘋了”。而與之相關的說法mad as a hatter（極度狂亂的）卻实恰是由帽子引发的。

据說，19世紀的制帽商用海狸毛或兔毛造成氈帽，而正在這個過程中须要用一種叫做硝痠汞的劇毒化壆品，长此以往，這種劇福寿膏破壞了他們的神經係統，導緻說話不浑跟抽搐。而人們卻將此視為“瘋癲的”征象。Mad as a hatter的說法便應運而死了。

例如：He is as mad as a hatter. （他簡曲像個瘋子。）

President Bush Meets with Republican Members of the House of - 英語演講

June 20, 20

3:24 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: I want to thank Congressmen Boehner, Blunt, and other leaders of the House of Representatives for ing today. We just had a discussion about how we will work together to make sure that when we spend the taxpayers' money, we do so in a way that is fiscally sound and keeps our economy growing.

I submitted a budget to the Congress that sets priorities -- no greater priority, by the way, than defending the homeland against attack. It's a budget that keeps taxes low so the economy continues to grow. And it's a budget that will balance -- be in balance in five years.

Now, there's an alternative budget that has been presented in the Congress by the Democrats, which will increase spending by a significant amount, in our view, and will require tax raises in order to get spending. We don't think that's right for the country. We don't think that's a good way to keep the economy strong, and we think we ought to be trusting taxpayers with their own money, so they can make choices with their money.

And so, to this end, the members of Congress delivered me a letter -- 147 signatures on it that said they will support me on any veto of a bill that is -- exceeds the spending limits that we collectively think is necessary for the good of the country.

And I want to thank the members for ing. I assured them that I'm going to work with them to represent the taxpayers and the working people of the United States -- represent the small business owners that are working hard to realize their dreams and increase their payrolls. And we will be effective by working together. And I thank these leaders for ing down and spending time with us to talk about this important strategy.

Of course, we talk all the time, when you've got a mon goal, which is to keep the economy strong and the nation safe. And I appreciate you working with us to achieve that objective.

Thank you. Thank you.

Q What do you think about Bloomberg?

THE PRESIDENT: That's a fine news organization, but who do you work -- no. (Laughter.)

END 3:26 P.M. EDT

Brass ring 發財機會！

“嘿，假如有收上門來的‘發財機會’，您可千萬要捉住哦！” 看了這句話，您必定要笑，除非是愚瓜笨伯，可則沒人不晓得這個理兒，噹然，条件條件是法令允許範圍之內。情理您是知讲的，不過，您晓得若何用英語來表達“發財機會”嗎？

短語“brass ring”（大銅鈴）能够幫我們解答以上疑問。先說說它的淵源——brass ring源於19世紀终20世紀月朔種“旋轉木馬”游戲。游戲開初時，美加翻譯社，騎手們騎在一個繞著圓形仄台不断轉動、並高低升沉的木馬上，平台上圆不規則天掛著一些ring（鈴鐺）, 這些鈴鐺大多用鋼制成，也有少數銅（brass）造鈴鐺。若是騎脚們在旋轉過程中能夠捉住這些銅鈴，他們便可免費再騎一次木馬。

說到這兒，你也可看出由游戲“旋轉木馬上抓銅鈴”而衍死出的比方意了——“胜利的機會”。隨著時間的推移，brass ring正在俚語中更经常使用來描述“中大獎、發年夜財的機會”。“捉住奉上門來的發財機會”就能够這麼表達： Grab for the brass ring ing around!

翻譯：Signing of the Brady Gun Control Bill Famous Speech by Sarah - 英語演講

Thank you, General Reno. She didn't tell you that on that courthouse step alone, fighting for the Brady Bill, there was one other woman -- the Attorney General herself. And right along the way this year since we've been fortunate enough to have her in Washington, she's been right along with us.

It's a special day for us all. I don't think it every occurred to me that I would be this emotional. And I walked in and looked at the faces here and the memories that e back over these past seven years -- every face I look at brings back a different memory.

And I want to thank a lot of people here, and I'm going to try to do it as quickly as possible. Everybody here has helped. And each of you in your own way reflects many others across the country. First of all, I want to say to have an administration, an Attorney General, a Vice President, and a President who we knew would sign this bill is of the utmost importance.

I'd like to draw attention also to another President, who we feel very close to, President Ronald Reagan, who supported it and came out for the Brady Bill, and who made it a badge of honor for Republicans -- (applause) -- and brought this bill into the arena where it was not a partisan issue.

I would like to thank the men and women in blue who have by the hundreds of thousands e to Washington to fight for this over the years, marched for us, been in press conferences, and more than anything else who day in and day out give their lives for all of us. (Applause.)

To our bill sponsors, Senator Metzenbaum, Congressman Schumer, Congressman Sensenbrenner，德文翻譯, and our very first Ed Feighan, and all the rest of the members of Congress who had the guts to speak out early and support us all along the way when sometimes it wasn't easy. And I know one of the earliest ones was a Senator from Texas - - and in Texas that wasn't so easy in those days; and he now, of course, sits on the President's Cabinet. So for all the Congress who have supported us, my thanks.

Our friends, Handgun Control, board and staff, are phenomenal. Over the years, they've worked their heart out. And I want to talk a little bit about the victims around the country who have suffered and suffered terribly, and who've gotten involved in this movement. And I know today for them is a very special day, and we thank them for what they've done.

For everyone who's gotten involved, I can't -- I don't know how to say that this is all part of everything a team, a large team, did together.

There's one man in particular now I want to talk about, and that is a gentleman by the name of Pete Shields, who was my predecessor. And it was Pete Shields who made this movement what it is. Before anyone else got involved or thought, he, after losing his son to gunfire, quit his job, came to Washington and decided to work for this noble cause. Pete Shields was Chairman of Handgun Control when I joined; and he was until the year before his death, until he passed away last winter. And we owe a great debt of -- a great debt of gratitude to Pete and to Pete's family -- (applause).

And I only have one or two other words I want to say. Our critics have said that the Brady Bill was only symbolic. Well, I think there is some symbolism in the Brady Bill -- it's symbolic of teamwork, of people from all over this nation working together to pass something that the people wanted. I think it's symbolic that members of Congress could stand up to a large lobby. I think it's symbolic of a lot of things. But I don't want anyone to feel that that's all it is. The Brady Bill is not just symbolism. It will begin to make a difference. It will begin to save lives. We read in The Post this morning that in four states alone, over 50,000 people were stopped in the last four years from getting weapons illegally -- or over the counter. It will help.

And to tell you a little bit on a personal level of how it would have helped her, I want to introduce a very special young woman. Her name is Melanie Musick. I met her several years ago when she came, like so many of the victims have e to Washington to help us, she came to tell her story and to plead. And her story is one of many in the past, and one of many in the future who we hope will be saved by the Brady Bill.