50篇经典英文演讲之1.docVIP

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic [simb?lik] （象征）shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation（奴隶解放宣言） . This momentous [m?ument?s] decree [dikri:] came as a great beacon [bi:k?n] light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared [si?]（烤焦的） in the flames （火焰）of withering [wie?ri?] （干枯的）injustice [ind??stis]（不公正的）. It came as a joyous [d??i?s] （令人高兴的）daybreak to end the long night of their captivity [k?ptiv?ti] （囚禁）. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled [kripld]（蹒跚与） by the manacles [m?n?kl] （束缚） of segregation [,seɡriɡei??n]（种族隔离）and the chains [t?einz]（枷锁） of discrimination [dis,kriminei??n]（种族歧视）. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty[p?v?ti] in the midst [midst]of （在之中）a vast（巨大的） ocean of material [m?ti?ri?l]（物资） prosperity[pr?speriti]（繁荣）. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished[l??ɡwi?] in 因…受苦(或憔悴)the corners of American society and finds himself an exile [eɡzail, eksail] in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatize（公布）[dr?m?taiz] a shameful （可耻的）[?eimful] condition. In a sense weve come to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects 建筑师of our republic wrote the magnificent[m?ɡnifis?nt] 壮丽的words of the Constitution[,k?nstitju:??n] 宪法 and the Declaration of Independence独立宣言, they were signing [saini?]签下a promissory约定的 note 期票to which every American was to fall heir[ε?] n. [法] 继承人；后嗣heir apparent [律]法定继承人，有确定继承权的人 n.[法]继承人；后嗣；嗣子heritor, haeres . This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed[g?r?nti:d] 担保the unalienable[,?neilj?n?bl] 不可剥夺 Rights of