Voyager Spacecraft Statement by the President

This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.

这艘旅行者号飞船由美利坚合众国建造。我们是一个两亿四千万人的群体，生活在行星地球上的四十多亿人当中。我们人类至今仍分成一个个民族国家，但这些国家正在迅速成为一个统一的全球文明。

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some — perhaps many — may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:

我们把这份信息投向宇宙。它很可能会在我们的未来存留十亿年；到那时，我们的文明已经深刻改变，地球的表面也可能面目全非。银河系的两千亿颗恒星里，有一些——也许是很多——可能拥有住着生命的行星和能够航行太空的文明。如果其中某个文明截获了旅行者号，并且能读懂这些录下的内容，那么，这就是我们的信息：

This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.

这是一件礼物，来自一个遥远的小小世界：一份我们的声音、我们的科学、我们的图像、我们的音乐、我们的思想和我们的情感的信物。我们正努力度过我们的时代，好让我们能活进你们的时代。我们希望有一天，在解决了眼前的种种难题之后，能加入一个由银河中众多文明组成的共同体。这张唱片代表着我们的希望、我们的决心，以及我们在这个广阔而令人敬畏的宇宙中的善意。