独立宣言全文 独立宣言中英对照(3)

　　他同某些人勾结起来把我们置于一种不适合我们的体制且不为我们的法律所承认的管辖之下；他还批准那些人炮制的各种伪法案来达到以下目的：

　　For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

　　在我们中间驻扎大批武装部队；

　　For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

　　用假审讯来包庇他们，使他们杀害我们各州居民而仍然逍遥法外；

　　For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

　　切断我们同世界各地的贸易；

　　For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

　　未经我们同意便向我们强行征税；

　　For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

　　在许多案件中剥夺我们享有陪审制的权益；

　　For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

　　罗织罪名押送我们到海外去受审；

　　For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

　　在一个邻省废除英国的自由法制，在那里建立专制政府，并扩大该省的疆界，企图把该省变成既是一个样板又是一个得心应手的工具，以便进而向这里的各殖民地推行同样的极权统治；

　　For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

　　取消我们的宪章，废除我们最宝贵的法律，并且根本上改变我们各州政府的形式；

　　For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

　　中止我们自己的立法机关行使权力，宣称他们自己有权就一切事宜为我们制定法律。

　　He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

　　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 people.

　　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 nation.

　　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 Hands.

　　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, sexes and conditions.