歌词与中文翻译
We've grown used to wonders in this century.
在当今这个世纪，我们都已对奇迹习以为常。
It's hard to dazzle us.
没有什么，能轻易使我们眼前一亮。
We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun.
甚至对宇宙的概念都不觉新奇，大概我们都已忘却，其实在这领域，我们不过是咿呀学语的稚嫩孩童。
We're still pioneers.
我们依然在无尽地开拓着。
Sometimes painful things like this happen.
像今时今日这般惨痛的事件，时有发生。
It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery.
而这些，都只是探索和发现的过程里的其中一环。
It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons.
与此同时，也是把握机遇并开拓人类眼界的必经之路。
The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave.
未来并不属于那些怯懦之人，反之，则是属于不惧艰险的勇者。
Nothing ends here.
一切不会就此画上句点。
On this day 390 years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama.
三百九十年前的今天，伟大的探险家弗朗西斯·德雷克先生的遗体，被发现在中美洲最南部的国家——巴拿马海岸边的一艘船只上。
In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, “He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it.”
他毕生所游历最为广阔的边缘地带，就是那些海域，而后某位历史学家如此说道：“他在海边而生，在海上死去，最终葬身海底。”
Well, today, we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake‘s, complete.
而今天，我们也能如此提及挑战者号的机组成员：正如德雷克那样，他们同样倾尽了全部，奉献了一切。
We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye.
我们会永远将他们铭记，也不会忘记他们为这旅程整装待发，挥手道别时最后的模样。
And “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
那句“冲破地心引力的束缚，前去触碰上帝的脸庞”，也会牢刻在心。(注: 此诗句引用自John Gillespie Magee所作的<High Flight>)
Thank you.
谢谢，以上便是我的致辞。(注: 采样节选自美国总统里根发表的著名演讲，发生在挑战者号航天飞机于美国东部时间1986年1月28日上午11时39分发生解体，机上7名机组人员丧生后)