林肯演讲中英对照.pptVIP

林肯在葛底斯堡的演讲 Four score and seven years agoour fathers brought forth (establish)on this continent, a new nation, (which)conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to(devote) the proposition (idea,belief,concept)that all men are created equal. (packed in dozens , two dozen packets,order three dozen ,a dozen eggs) Now we are engaged in (be busy in ) a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 现在我们正进行一场伟大的内战，这是一场检验这一国家或者任何一个像我们这样孕育于自由并信守其主张的国家是否能长久存在的战争。 We are met on a great battlefield 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 (in order ) that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 我们聚集在这场战争中的一个伟大战场上，将这个战场上的一块土地奉献给那些在此地为了这个国家的生存而牺牲了自己生命的人，作为他们的最终安息之所。我们这样做是完全适当和正确的。 But, in a large sense, we can not 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. 可是，从更广的意义上说，我们并不能奉献这块土地——我们不能使之神圣 ——我们也不能使之光荣。因为那些在此地奋战过的勇士们，不论是还活着的或是已死去的，已经使这块土地神圣了，远非我们微薄的力量所能予以增减的。 The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 世人将不大会注意，更不会长久记住我们在这里所说的话，然而，他们将永远不会忘记这些勇士在这里所做的事。 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. 相反地，我们活着的人，应该献身于勇士们未竞的工作，那些曾在此地战斗过的人们已经把这项工作英勇地向前推进了。 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 我们应该献身于留在我们面前的伟大任务——由于他们的光荣牺牲，我们会更加献身于他们为之奉献了最后一切的事业 倒是我们应该在这里把自己奉献于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务．我们从这些光荣的死者身上吸取更多的奉献精神，来完成他们已彻底为之献身的事业； — we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain— that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth