林肯葛底斯演说中英文对照翻译.docVIP

听力课堂,开放式外语学习平台！TingC 声明：本资料由 HYPERLINK / 听力课堂网站收集整理，仅供英语爱好者学习使用，资料版权属于原作者。 - PAGE 2 - 林肯葛底斯堡演说中英文对照翻译 林肯的讲话是极简短、极朴素的。这往往使那些滔滔不绝的讲演家大瞧不起。 　　葛底斯堡战役后，决定为死难烈士举行盛大葬礼。掩葬委员会发给总统一张普通的请帖，他们以为他是不会来的，但林肯答应了。既然总统来，那一定要讲演的，但他们已经请了著名演说家艾佛瑞特来做这件事，因此，他们又给林肯写了信，说在艾佛瑞特演说完毕之后，他们希望他“随便讲几句适当的话”。这是一个侮辱，但林肯平静地接受了。两星期内，他在穿衣、刮脸、吃点心时也想着怎样演说。演说稿改了两三次，他仍不满意。到了葬礼的前一天晚上，还在做最后的修改，然后半夜找到他的同僚高声朗诵。走进会场时，他骑在马上仍把头低到胸前默想着演说辞。 　　那位艾佛瑞特讲演了两个多小时，将近结束时，林肯不安地掏出旧式眼镜，又一次看他的讲稿。他的演说开始了，一位记者支上三角架准备拍摄照片，等一切就绪的时候，林肯已走下讲台。这段时间只有两分钟，而掌声却持续了10分钟。后人给以极高评价的那份演说辞，在今天译成中文，也不过400字。 　　Commented by 鱼化石：林肯的这篇演说是演说史上著名的篇章，其思想的深刻，行文的严谨，语言的冼练，确实是不愧彪炳青史的大手笔。尤其是其中的第二段，建议加以仔细分析，其语义的承转，结构的安排，甚至包括其句式的使用，无一不是极尽推敲之作。 　　GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 　　Abraham Lincoln　　Delivered on the 19th Day of November, 1863　　Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 　　Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continenta new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition thatall men are created equal.　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 battlefield of that war.　We havecome to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for thosewho gave their lives that Nation might live.　It is altogether fitting andproper that we should do this. 　　But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannothallow this ground.　The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.　The world willlittle note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget whatthey did here.　It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to thegreat task remaining before us; that from these honored dead, we takeincreased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measureof devotion; that this Nation, under GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom;and that government of the People by the People and for the People shall notperish f