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林肯葛底斯堡演讲稿 The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all 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 battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that 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. But, in a larger 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. 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 resolve 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. 亚伯拉罕 ·林肯 1863 年 11 月 19 日 美国，宾夕法尼亚，葛底斯堡 八十七年以前，我们的祖先在这大陆上建立了一个国家，它孕育于自由，并且献身给一种理念， 即所有人都是生来平等的。 当前，我们正在从事一次伟大的内战，我们在考验， 究竟这个国家，或任何一个有这种主张和这 种信仰的国家，是否能长久存在。我们在那次战争的一个伟大的战场上集会。 我们来到这里， 奉 献那个战场上的一部分土地， 作为在此地为那个国家的生存而牺牲了自己生命的人的永久眠息之 所。我们这样做，是十分合情合理的。 可是， 就更深一层意义而言， 我们是无从奉献这片土地的