CNN News: 奥巴马最后一次国情咨文称美是最强国家

Last night was President Obama`s final State of the Union Address. He has reached his two-term presidential limit. So, that`s where we`re starting today on CNN STUDENT NEWS.

昨晚是美国总统奥巴马最后一次国情咨文。他已经达到了总统任期。这是今天CNN学生新闻头条。

There was some breaking news in the hours before the speech. The Middle Eastern nation of Iran captured 10 American sailors on two boats in the Persian Gulf. They were small craft like these. There were conflicting reports by different Iranian news agencies about whether the sailors were arrested or rescued by Iranian forces.

在演讲前数小时，数条爆炸性新闻。伊朗中东国家在波斯湾的2艘船上抓捕了10名美国船员。伊朗新闻机构报道对于这些船员是否被伊朗军队逮捕还是营救报道不一致。

But the U.S. sailors themselves and the Obama administration said they expected the Americans to be released this morning.

但是这些美国船员自己和奥巴马政府称希望早上释放这些美国公民。

While that was going on, President Obama headed toward the podium in the U.S. House of Representatives at 9:00 last night. His aim was to portray America as a nation on a rebound, as he started his last year in office.

事件发生的同时，奥巴马在昨晚9点也在朝美国众议院的主席台走去。他的目标是将美国建设成一个韧性的国家。这是他去年在白宫开始执政时陈述的。

We live on a time of extraordinary change, change that`s reshaping the way we live, the way we work, our planet, our place in the world.

我们生活在一个瞬息万变的时间，我们的生活方式、工作方式、我们的地球，我们所生活的世界，一切都在发生着改变。

It`s change that promises amazing medical breakthroughs but also economic disruptions that strain working families. It promises education for girls in the most remote villages, but also connects terrorists plotting an ocean away.

改变成就了重大的医学成就，同时经济危机也加剧了工薪家庭的负担，改变让偏远地区的女孩接受了教育，但同时恐怖主义海上犯案。

It`s change that can brought an opportunity, or widen inequality. And whether we like it or not, the pace of this change will only accelerate.

改变，会带来机遇，同时也会扩大不平等，但是无论我们喜欢与否，改变的速度只会加快。

The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world.

美国现在，是世界上经济实力最强大的国家。

We`re in the middle of the longest streak of private sector job creation in history.

我们处于私营企业创造了最多就业机会的历史长河之中。

More than 14 million new jobs, the strongest two years of job growth since the 1990s, an unemployment rate cut half.

自20世纪90年代起，新增就业岗位1400万，过去两年就业增长强劲，失业率减半。