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《葛底斯堡演说》（英文：Gettysburg Address）是亚伯拉罕?林肯最著名的演说，也是美国历史上为人引用最多之政治性演说。在1863年11月19日，正值美国内战中葛底斯堡战役结束后四个半月，林肯在宾夕法尼亚州葛底斯堡的葛底斯堡国家公墓（Gettysburg National Cemetery）揭幕式中发表是之演说，哀悼在长达5个半月的葛底斯堡之役中阵亡的将士。林肯的演讲修辞细腻周密，其后成为美国历史上最伟大的演说之一。 ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG(1)Four score and seven years ago your fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal(2)Now we are engeged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated(3), can long endure. We are met(4) on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a prtion of theat field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live(5). It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow(6) -- 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 honoured 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(7).by Abraham Lincoln[注释](1) Cettysburg: 葛提斯堡。美国宾夕法尼亚州南部边境的小镇。美国内战史上南、北军之间规模最大的关键一仗在此发生，双方死伤各约二万五千人。林肯总统于1863年11月19日在葛提斯堡国家烈士公墓落成典礼上作了这一篇著名的演讲。(2) All men are created equal: “一切人生来平等”，是美国第三、四届总统杰佛逊在美国“独立宣言”中写下的名言。(3) so conceived and so dedicated: 指第一句中的 conceived in libe