Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address_04572.pptVIP

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 林肯葛底斯堡演讲 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of the field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 现在我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者说以考虑任何一个孕育于自由而奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。 我们在这场战争中的一个伟大的战场上集会。烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们在此集会是为了把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为永久的安息之地。我们这样做是义不容辞的。 But, in a larger sen