英美文学作品欣赏.ppt

But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us---that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion---that we here highly revolve that these dead shall not have died in vain---that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. (This is the article the students have to recite.) 分析作品 Fourscore (Four times twenty; eighty. 二十的四倍；八十) and seven years ago our fathers brought forth (founded) upon this continent (mainland) a new nation, conceived (gestated孕育)in liberty (孕育于自由之中 freedom), and dedicated (信奉 take up with ) to the proposition (A plan suggested for acceptance; a proposal 提议，建议：建议接受的计划；principle;主张allegation) that all men are created equal. 87年以前, 我们的先辈们在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家。它孕育于自由之中, 奉行一切人生来平等的原则。 Now we are engaged in （carrying through 正做着；从事 ）a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived （in liberty） and so dedicated（ to the proposition that all men are created equal）， can long endure（exist）. We are met on a great battlefield （ war field 战场）of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of （ a part of ）that field as a final resting place（最后安息之所 burying place）for those who here gave their lives （died; 牺牲 sacrificed）that that nation might live （生存 survive and exist）. It is altogether fitting and proper （恰当的fitted for ） that we should do this. 现在我们正从事一场伟大的