我有一个梦想(英语).docVIP

I HAVE A DREAM (By Martin Luther King , August 28, 1963) 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 shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity demonstration n. 示威; 表示, 表明; 证明, 证实; 示范, 表演; 感情的流露 Proclamation解放宣言 n. 宣布；公布；公告; 宣告 momentous adj. 重大的, 重要的 decree n. 法令, 政令; 天命 ---To issue a decree. beacon n. 烽火; 信号; 指向标; 灯塔; 浮标; v. 照亮 ---The philosophers thought is the beacon to many young people. sear vt. 烧灼,使枯萎; 使冷酷; 使麻木 vi. 凋谢, 干枯adj. 烤焦的, 枯萎的 ---A cold wind sears the leaves. ---His soul has been seared by injustice. the sear and yellow leaf (=the sear, the yellow leaf; sear and yellow) 暮年, 老境 ---I have lived long enough; my way of life is falling into the sear, the yellow leaf. withering adj. 使枯萎的; 毁灭性的; 摧毁的 ---She fixed Bill with her withering gaze. ---The flowers are withering away. injustice n. 不公正, 不公平, 权利侵害; 不公正的行为; 不义的行为 do sb. an injustice 使某人受屈, 冤枉某人, 待某人不公道; 错误地判断某人 ---Justice will triumph/ prevail over injustice. daybreak n. 黎明, 拂晓 captivity n. 囚禁, 被关. - But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful an appalling condition. In a sense, weve come to our nations Capital to cash a c