研究生英语精读教程[上册]Unit 8.ppt

《研究生英语精读教程》(第三版·上); Unit Eight;I Have a Dream;preside※ v. to be in the chair, be in charge主持，负责 emancipate v. make free socially, politically and in law在社会、政治及法律上获得解放 massive※ adj. of great size,strong and heavy巨大的，粗重的;I think, he wrote to Gov. Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania in 1861, the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it. Washington may not have changed a vote today, but it is a little more conscious tonight of the necessity of being ready for freedom.;It may not look to it at once, since it is looking to so many things, but it will be a long time before it forgets the melodious* and melancholy* voice of the Rev.① Dr. Martin Luther King②, Jr., crying out his dreams to the multitude*.;[ 2 ] It was Dr. King who, near the end of the day, touched the vast audience. Until then the pilgrimage* was merely a great spectacle. Only those marchers from the embattled* towns in the Old Confederacy① had anything like the old crusading* zeal*.;For many the day seemed an adventure, a long outing in the late summer sun - part liberation from home, part Sunday School picnic, part political convention, and part fish fry﹡.;[ 3 ] But Dr. King brought them alive in the late afternoon with a peroration* that was an anguished* echo from all the old American reformers.;Roger Williams① calling for religious liberty, Sam Adams② calling for political liberty, old man Thoreau③ denouncing* coercion, William Lloyd Garrison④ demanding emancipation, and Eugene V. Debs⑤ crying for economic equality - Dr. King echoed them all.;[ 4 ] I have a dream, he cried again and again. And each time the dream was a promise out of our ancient articles of faith: phrases from the Constitution, lines from the great anthem of the nation, guarantees from the Bill of Rights, all ending with a vision that they might one day all come true.;[ 5 ] Dr. King touched all the themes of the day, only better than anybody else. He was full of the symbolism of Lincoln and Gandhi, and the cadences* of