美国国家公共电台 NPR A July 4 Tradition: NPR Reads The Declaration Of Independence
时间：2019-01-17 作者：英语课 分类：2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
On this Fourth of July, we have a reality about the United States. Sometimes this nation takes a step forward just when it seems to be stepping back.
NOEL KING, HOST:
Consider 242 years ago in 1776. A rebellion against British rule had broken out into war. Americans had differing motives 2 to demand self-government. And for some, the motives were deeply ironic 3.
INSKEEP: Recent scholars identified a reason some Americans sought independence. Britain was taking its first steps toward banning slavery, and some Americans feared they might be forced to give up their human property. And so it is said, they joined the fight for freedom to preserve their freedom to own other people.
KING: Now, that dark story had a remarkable 4 result. In 1776, the Continental 5 Congress assigned a young Virginian named Thomas Jefferson to draft a declaration of independence. Jefferson was a slave owner, but he considered slavery corrupt 6, and in his declaration, he wrote a stirring phrase - that all men are created equal. That would become the nation's defining creed 7.
INSKEEP: In time, that phrase would be used as a reason to free the very slaves whose bondage 8 was said to be one motive 1 for the declaration. Each July 4, we read the words the founders 9 endorsed 10 in 1776.
KING: If only they knew where those words would lead.
(SOUNDBITE OF ERIC WEINBERG'S "DAWN AT YORKTOWN")
INSKEEP: (Reading) When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the Earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel 11 them to the separation.
RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE 12: (Reading) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving 13 their just powers from the consent of the governed.
DAVID GREENE, BYLINE: (Reading) That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.
KING: (Reading) Prudence 14, indeed, will dictate 15 that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
DON GONYEA, BYLINE: (Reading) But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.
DEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE: (Reading) Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains 16 them to alter their former systems of government.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: (Reading) The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid 17 world.
AUDIE CORNISH, BYLINE: (Reading) He has refused his assent 18 to laws, the most wholesome 19 and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate 20 and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained. And when so suspended, he has utterly 21 neglected to attend to them.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: (Reading) He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish 22 the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants 24 only.
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, BYLINE: (Reading) He has called together legislative 25 bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the depository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing 26 them into compliance 27 with his measures.
SYLVIA POGGIOLI, BYLINE: (Reading) He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly for opposing with manly 28 firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: (Reading) He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected whereby the legislative powers, incapable 29 of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
CHERYL CORLEY, BYLINE: (Reading) He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing 30 the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations 31 hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations 32 of lands.
NINA TOTENBERG, BYLINE: (Reading) He has obstructed 33 the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure 34 of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.
SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: (Reading) He has erected 35 a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms 36 of officers to harass 37 our people and eat out their substance.
MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: (Reading) He has kept among us in times of peace standing 38 armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected 39 to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
AYESHA RASCOE, BYLINE: (Reading) He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction 40 foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.
OFEIBEA QUIST-ARCTON, BYLINE: (Reading) For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: (Reading) For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world, for imposing 41 taxes on us without our consent, for depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury.
AILSA CHANG, BYLINE: (Reading) For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses 42, for abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies.
LINDA WERTHEIMER, BYLINE: (Reading) For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments, for suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate 43 for us in all cases whatsoever 44.
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, BYLINE: (Reading) He has abdicated 45 government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered 46 our seas, ravaged 47 our coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.
ANTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: (Reading) He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy 48 scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized 49 nation.
GENE 50 DEMBY, BYLINE: (Reading) He has constrained 51 our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren or to fall themselves by their hands.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: (Reading) He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages 52, whose known rule of warfare 53 is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress 54 in the most humble 55 terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: (Reading) A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant 23 is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in the tensions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
SUSAN STAMBERG, BYLINE: (Reading) We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity. And we have conjured 56 them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably 57 interrupt our connections and correspondence.
SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: (Reading) They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity 58. We must therefore acquiesce 59 in the necessity which denounces our separation and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war; in peace, friends.
COKIE ROBERTS, BYLINE: (Reading) We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in general Congress assembled appealing to the supreme 60 judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions do in the name and by authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states.
GREENE: (Reading) That they are absolved 61 from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved.
R. MARTIN: (Reading) And that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy 62 war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
INSKEEP: (Reading) And for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence 63, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
(SOUNDBITE OF ERIC WEINBERG'S "DAWN AT YORKTOWN")
KING: Two-hundred-forty-two years ago today, church bells rang out over Philadelphia as the Continental Congress adopted this draft of the Declaration of Independence.
(SOUNDBITE OF ERIC WEINBERG'S "DAWN AT YORKTOWN")
- The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
- He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
- That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
- People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”，但他们是在挖苦我。
- She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
- These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
- A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
- The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
- The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
- This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。
- They offended against every article of his creed.他们触犯了他的每一条戒律。
- Our creed has always been that business is business.我们的信条一直是公私分明。
- Masters sometimes allowed their slaves to buy their way out of bondage.奴隶主们有时允许奴隶为自己赎身。
- They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。
- He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
- The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句
- The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案，开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Financial pressures impel the firm to cut back on spending.财政压力迫使公司减少开支。
- The progress in science and technical will powerfully impel the education's development.科学和技术的进步将有力地推动教育的发展。
- His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
- We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
- I anticipate deriving much instruction from the lecture. 我期望从这演讲中获得很多教益。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He anticipated his deriving much instruction from the lecture. 他期望从这次演讲中得到很多教益。 来自辞典例句
- A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
- The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。
- It took him a long time to dictate this letter.口述这封信花了他很长时间。
- What right have you to dictate to others?你有什么资格向别人发号施令？
- We'll ignore the continuity constrains. 我们往往忽略连续约束条件。
- It imposes constrains, restricting nature's freedom. 它具有限制自然界自由度的强制性。
- I cannot but hope the candid reader will give some allowance for it.我只有希望公正的读者多少包涵一些。
- He is quite candid with his friends.他对朋友相当坦诚。
- I cannot assent to what you ask.我不能应允你的要求。
- The new bill passed by Parliament has received Royal Assent.议会所通过的新方案已获国王批准。
- In actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome.实际上我喜欢做的事大都是有助于增进身体健康的。
- It is not wholesome to eat without washing your hands.不洗手吃饭是不卫生的。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- Utterly devoted to the people,he gave his life in saving his patients.他忠于人民，把毕生精力用于挽救患者的生命。
- I was utterly ravished by the way she smiled.她的微笑使我完全陶醉了。
- He was forced to relinquish control of the company.他被迫放弃公司的掌控权。
- They will never voluntarily relinquish their independence.他们绝对不会自动放弃独立。
- The country was ruled by a despotic tyrant.该国处在一个专制暴君的统治之下。
- The tyrant was deaf to the entreaties of the slaves.暴君听不到奴隶们的哀鸣。
- The country was ruled by a succession of tyrants. 这个国家接连遭受暴君的统治。
- The people suffered under foreign tyrants. 人民在异族暴君的统治下受苦受难。
- Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
- Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
- He was fatiguing himself with his writing, no doubt. 想必他是拼命写作，写得精疲力尽了。
- Machines are much less fatiguing to your hands, arms, and back. 使用机器时，手、膊和后背不会感到太累。
- I was surprised by his compliance with these terms.我对他竟然依从了这些条件而感到吃惊。
- She gave up the idea in compliance with his desire.她顺从他的愿望而放弃自己的主意。
- The boy walked with a confident manly stride.这男孩以自信的男人步伐行走。
- He set himself manly tasks and expected others to follow his example.他给自己定下了男子汉的任务，并希望别人效之。
- He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.他不会做出这么残忍的事。
- Computers are incapable of creative thought.计算机不会创造性地思维。
- You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway. 你不能在这里停车，你挡住了我家的车道。
- He was charged for obstructing the highway. 他因阻碍交通而受控告。
- It foundered during the turmoils accompanying the Great Migrations. 它在随着民族大迁徙而出现的混乱中崩溃。 来自辞典例句
- Birds also have built-in timepieces which send them off on fall and spring migrations. 鸟类也有天生的时间感应器指导它们秋春迁移。 来自互联网
- More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process. 更普遍的作法是，拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
- Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress. 假如总统否决了这项拨款提案，就把它退还给国会。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- Tall trees obstructed his view of the road. 有大树挡着，他看不到道路。
- The Irish and Bristol Channels were closed or grievously obstructed. 爱尔兰海峡和布里斯托尔海峡或遭受封锁，或受到了严重阻碍。
- He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
- Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。
- They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
- On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。
- Our mission is to harass the landing of the main Japaness expeditionary force.我们的任务是骚乱日本远征军主力的登陆。
- They received the order to harass the enemy's rear.他们接到骚扰敌人后方的命令。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- It doesn't lie within my jurisdiction to set you free.我无权将你释放。
- Changzhou is under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province.常州隶属江苏省。
- The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
- He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。
- It's wrong of you to take the child to task for such trifling offenses. 因这类小毛病责备那孩子是你的不对。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Thus, Congress cannot remove an executive official except for impeachable offenses. 因此，除非有可弹劾的行为，否则国会不能罢免行政官员。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
- Therefore,it is very urgent to legislate for the right of privacy.因此，为隐私权立法刻不容缓。
- It's impossible to legislate for every contingency.为每一偶发事件都立法是不可能的。
- There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
- All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。
- He abdicated in favour of his son. 他把王位让给了儿子。
- King Edward Ⅷ abdicated in 1936 to marry a commoner. 国王爱德华八世于1936年退位与一个平民结婚。
- Many of our cultural treasures have been plundered by imperialists. 我国许多珍贵文物被帝国主义掠走了。
- The imperialists plundered many valuable works of art. 帝国主义列强掠夺了许多珍贵的艺术品。
- a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
- The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。
- As devotion unites lovers,so perfidy estranges friends.忠诚是爱情的桥梁，欺诈是友谊的敌人。
- The knowledge of Hurstwood's perfidy wounded her like a knife.赫斯渥欺骗她的消息像一把刀捅到了她的心里。
- Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
- rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为
- A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
- The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。
- The evidence was so compelling that he felt constrained to accept it. 证据是那样的令人折服，他觉得不得不接受。
- I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness. 我不得不写信请你原谅。
- There're some savages living in the forest. 森林里居住着一些野人。
- That's an island inhabited by savages. 那是一个野蛮人居住的岛屿。
- He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
- Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。
- He did all that he possibly could to redress the wrongs.他尽了一切努力革除弊端。
- Any man deserves redress if he has been injured unfairly.任何人若蒙受不公平的损害都应获得赔偿。
- In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见，他将在选举中获胜。
- Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
- He conjured them with his dying breath to look after his children. 他临终时恳求他们照顾他的孩子。
- His very funny joke soon conjured my anger away. 他讲了个十分有趣的笑话，使得我的怒气顿消。
- In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
- Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。
- Aside from a thorough medical family history,there is no need to offer any genetic testing on the basis of consanguinity alone.除了需要一份详尽的家庭病史之外，没有必要仅根据有血缘关系这一条理由就进行任何的基因测试。
- The identity in the primitive society was based on consanguinity.原始社会存在的身份是建立在血缘基础之上的。
- Her parents will never acquiesce in such an unsuitable marriage.她的父母决不会答应这门不相宜的婚事。
- He is so independent that he will never acquiesce.他很有主见，所以绝不会顺从。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident. 法院宣告他对该事故不负任何责任。
- The court absolved him of guilt in her death. 法庭赦免了他在她的死亡中所犯的罪。
- They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
- A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。
- It is tempting Providence to go in that old boat.乘那艘旧船前往是冒大险。
- To act as you have done is to fly in the face of Providence.照你的所作所为那样去行事，是违背上帝的意志的。