【原編】英首相入院，女王發表緊急講話！至暗時刻，是祈禱時刻......

I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily lives of us all.

我在這一個前所未有的挑戰時刻跟你們講話。我知道疫情給英國帶來了前所未有的混亂：這種混亂給一些人帶來了悲痛，給許多人帶來了經濟困難，給我們所有人的日常生活帶來了巨大的變化。

I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all. I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.

我要感謝奮戰在NHS第一線的每一個人，以及護理人員和那些關鍵崗位的工作人員。你們無私地離家外出繼續他們的日常工作，以支持我們所有人。我深信全國人民將會和我一起向你們保證，你們所做的一切都值得我們的感激，你們每一個小時的辛勤工作都使我們朝著回歸更正常的生活秩序更近一步。

I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. Together we are tackling this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and resolute, then we will overcome it.

我還要感謝那些待在家裡的人，你們幫助保護了易受感染的弱勢群體，讓許多家庭免遭失去親人的痛苦。我們正在共同應對這次疫情，我想向你們保證，如果我們保持團結、堅定，我們就能戰勝它。

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any. That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country. The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.  

我希望在未來的歲月裡，每個人都能為自己應對疫情挑戰時候的表現感到自豪。我們的後代會說，這一代英國人和任何一代人一樣堅強，他們自律、充滿決心並且飽含深情。“我們是這樣的人”的驕傲不僅僅是我們過去一部分，也定義了我們的現在和未來。

The moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children. 

英國人民站在一起為我們的醫護人員和關鍵崗位工作人員鼓掌的時刻將作為我們民族精神的表現而被銘記;它的象徵將是那些孩子們所畫的彩虹。

Across the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming stories of people coming together to help others, be it through delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or converting businesses to help the relief effort.  

在英聯邦和世界各地，我們看到了人們團結一致幫助他人的感人故事，無論是通過分發食品包裹和藥品、檢查鄰居情況，還是通過改造企業生產來為救援工作盡一份力。

And though self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down, pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.

儘管自我隔離有時很難做到，但許多有著各種信仰和無信仰的人卻發現，在祈禱或冥想中，自我隔離為他們提供了一個放慢時間、停頓和反思的機會。

It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister. We, as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety. Today, once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right thing to do. 

這讓我想起了在1940年，我和我的妹妹完成第一次公開講話的情景：我們，作為孩子，在溫莎城堡對那些因戰爭而流離失所的孩子們發表講話。今天，許多人會再次感受到與所愛之人分離的痛苦。但我們從內心深處知道，我們在做正確的事情，就像當時一樣。

While we have faced challenges before, this one is different. This time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour, using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. We will succeed - and that success will belong to every one of us. 

以前雖然我們也面臨過挑戰，但這一次不同。這一次，我們與全球所有國家一同努力，利用科學的巨大進步和我們發自本能的同情心去戰勝疫情。我們將取得成功，而成功將屬於我們每一個人。

We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again.

我們應該感到安慰的是，雖然我們還要忍受許多的痛苦，但美好的日子將會歸來: 我們還會和朋友相聚；還將再次與家人團圓；等我們再相見。

But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.  

而現在，我要向你們所有人表達我的感謝以及最溫暖的祝願。