第6章：独立宣言（3/3）
他宣布我们已不属他保护之列，并对我们作战，从而放弃了在这里的政务。
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the Lives of our
他在我们的海域大肆掠夺，蹂躏我们沿海地区，焚烧我们的城镇，残害我们人民的生命。
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized
他此时正在运送大批外国佣兵来完成屠杀、破坏和肆虐的老勾当，这种勾当早就开始，其残酷卑劣甚至在最野蛮的时代都难以找到先例。他完全不配作为一个文明国家的元首。
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their
他在公海上俘虏我们的同胞，强迫他们拿起武器来反对自己的国家，成为残杀自己亲人和朋友的刽子手，或是死于自己的亲人和朋友的手下。
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, es and
他在我们中间煽动内乱，并且竭力挑唆那些残酷无情、没有开化的印第安人来杀掠我们边疆的居民;而众所周知，印第安人的作战律令是不分男女老幼，一律格杀勿论的。
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free
在这些压迫的每一阶段中，我们都是用最谦卑的言辞请愿改善;但屡次请求所得到的答复是屡次遭受损害。一个君主，当他的品格已打上了暴君行为的烙印时，是不配作自由人民的统治者的。
Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpation, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace
我们不是没有注意我们英国的弟兄。我们时常提醒他们，他们的立法机关企图把无理的管辖权横加到我们的头上。我们也曾把我们移民出这里和在这里定居的情形告诉他们。我们曾经向他们天生的正义感和雅量呼吁，我们恳求他们念在同种同宗的份上，弃绝这些掠夺行为，以免影响彼此的关系和往来。但是他们却对于这种正义和血缘的呼声一直充耳不闻。因此，我们实在不得不宣布和他们脱离，并且以对待世界上其它民族一样的态度对待他们:战即为敌;和则为友。
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred
因此，我们，在大陆会议上集会的美利坚合众国代表，以各殖民地善良人民的名义并经他们授权，向全世界最崇高的正义呼吁，说明我们的严正意向，同时郑重宣布;这些联合的殖民地是而且有权成为自由和独立的国家，它们取消一切对英国王室效忠的义务，它们和大不列颠国家之间的一切政治关系从此全部断绝，而且必须断绝;作为自由独立的国家，它们完全有权宣战、缔和、结盟、通商和独立国家有权去做的一切行动。为了支持这篇宣言，我们坚决信赖上帝的庇佑，以我们的生命、我们的财产和我们神圣的名誉，彼此宣誓。
JOHN HANCOCK, President
约翰·汉考克，zhuxi
Attested, CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary
鉴定无误，查尔斯·汤森，秘书
New Hampshire: JOSIAH BARTLETT, WILLIAM WHIPPLE, MATTHEW THORNTON
新罕布夏:约西亚·巴列特、威廉·卫普、马修·松顿
Massachusetts-Bay: SAMUEL ADAMS, JOHN ADAMS, ROBERT TREAT PAINE, ELBRIDGE GERRY
马萨诸塞:塞缪尔·亚当斯、约翰·亚当斯 、罗伯特·崔特·潘恩、艾尔布里吉·杰利
Rhode Island: STEPHEN HOPKINS, WILLIAM ELLERY
罗德岛州:史帝芬·霍普金斯、威廉·艾勒里
Connecticut: ROGER SHERMAN, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT
康涅狄格州:罗杰·谢尔曼、山缪·杭丁顿、威廉·威廉斯、奥利佛·渥寇特
Georgia: BUTTON GWINNETT, LYMAN HALL, WALTON
乔治亚:巴顿·格威内特、李曼·候尔、乔治·沃尔顿
Maryland: SAMUEL CHASE, WILLIAM PACA, THOMAS STONE, CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON
马里兰:山缪·却斯、威廉·帕卡、托马斯·史东、卡罗顿的查尔斯·卡罗
Virginia: GEORGE WYTHE, RICHARD HENRY LEE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, BENJAMIN HARRISON, THOMAS NELSON, , FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE, CARTER
维吉尼亚:乔治·怀勒、理查·亨利·李、托马斯·杰斐逊、本杰明·哈里森、小托马斯·尼尔森、法兰西斯·莱富特·李、卡特·布瑞斯顿
New York: WILLIAM FLOYD, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, FRANCIS LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS
纽约:威廉·佛洛依德、菲利普·李文斯顿、法兰西斯·路易斯、路易斯·莫里斯
Pennsylvania: ROBERT MORRIS, BENJAMIN RUSH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN MORTON, GEORGE CLYMER, JAMES SMITH, GEORGE TAYLOR, JAMES WILSON, GEORGE ROSS
宾夕法尼亚:罗伯特·莫里斯、本杰明·拉许、本杰明·富兰克林、约翰·莫顿、乔治·克莱谟、詹姆斯·史密斯、乔治·泰勒、詹姆斯·威尔森、乔治·罗斯
Delaware:GEORGEREAD, GUNNING BEDFORD, JOHN DICKINSON, RICHARD BASSETT, JACOB BROOM
特拉华:乔治·瑞德、小冈宁·贝德福德、约翰·迪金森、理查德·巴塞特、雅各布·布朗
North Carolina: WILLIAM HOOPER, JOSEPH HEWES, JOHN PENN
北卡罗莱那:威廉·霍普、约瑟夫·希维斯、约翰·潘恩
South Carolina: EDWARD RUTLEDGE, THOMAS HEYWARD, , THOMAS LYNCH, , ARTHUR MIDDLETON
南卡罗莱那:爱德华·拉特利奇、托马斯·黑华、小托马斯·林区、亚瑟·米窦顿
New Jersey: RICHARD STOCKTON, JOHN WITHERSPOON, FRANCIS HOPKINS, JOHN HART, ABRAHAM CLARK
新泽西:理查·史塔克顿、约翰·维斯朋、法兰西斯·霍普金斯、约翰·哈特、亚伯拉罕·克拉克