We cannot tell when they will try to come; we cannot be sure that in fact they will try at all; but no one should blind himself to the fact that a heavy, full-scale invasion of this island is being prepared with all the usual German thoroughness and method, and that it may be launched now - upon England, upon Scotland, or upon Ireland, or upon all three.
If this invasion is going to be tried at all, it does not seem that it can be long delayed. The weather may break at any time. Besides this, it is difficult for the enemy to keep these gatherings of ships waiting about indefinitely, while they are bombed every night by our bombers, and very often shelled by our warships which are waiting for them outside.
Therefore, we must regard the next week or so as a very important period in our history. It ranks with the days when the Spanish Armada was approaching the Channel, and Drake was finishing his game of bowls; or when Nelson stood between us and Napoleon's Grand Army at Boulogne. We have read all about this in the history books; but what is happening now is on a far greater scale and of far more consequence to the life and future of the world and its civilisation than these brave old days of the past.
Every-man and woman will therefore prepare himself to do his duty, whatever it may be, with special pride and care. Our fleets and flotillas are very powerful and numerous; our Air Force is at the highest strength it has ever reached, and it is conscious of its proved superiority, not indeed in numbers, but in men and machines. Our shores are well fortified and strongly manned, and behind them,
ready to attack the invaders, we have a far larger
and better equipped mobile Army than we have ever had before.
中文译文：
我们不能告诉时，他们会设法来，我们不能肯定的是，事实上，他们会设法在所有，但任何人都不应坐视自己这样一个事实，即重，全面入侵这个岛国正在准备与所有常见的德国彻底与方法，而且它可能发动的，现在-当英格兰，苏格兰后，或致函爱尔兰，或所有3个。
如果这次入侵是去受审，它似乎并不认为它可以拖延已久的。天气可能打破在任何时候。除了这一点，这是难以让敌人来保持这些聚会的船舶等候约拖下去了，而自己却是轰炸，每天晚上我们的轰炸机，很多时候炮击我们的军舰，这是等待他们外面。
因此，我们必须把未来的一周多时间，作为一个非常重要的时期，在我们的历史。排在同天的时候，西班牙的无敌舰队驶近渠道，德雷克是整理他的游戏，滚球;或当纳尔逊站在我们与拿破仑的宏伟在boulogne 。我们已看过所有关于这方面的历史书，但现在正发生的，是一个影响深远的更大的规模和深远的后果，更以生命和世界的未来以及它的文明比这些勇敢的旧时代的过去。
每-男人和女人会因此准备亲自做他的工作地点，无论它可能，并特别自豪和照顾。我们的船队和船队是非常有力和无数，我们的空军是在最高实力，它已达到了前所未有的，它是意识到自己的优势，事实证明，而不是确实在人数，但在男人和机器。我们都是好攻坚战，并强烈载人，而他们背后，随时准备攻击入侵者，我们有一个远
和装备更精良的移动，我们都收到了。