新东方英语背诵美文30篇 29 Gettysburg address
时间：2018-11-30 作者：英语课 分类：王强英语美文
第二十九篇：Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说
Gettysburg Address
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth 1 upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated 2 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 battlefield 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate 3, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated 4 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, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
- He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
- He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
- His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
- Consecrate your life to the church.把你的生命奉献给教堂吧。
- The priest promised God he would consecrate his life to helping the poor.牧师对上帝允诺他将献身帮助穷人。
- The church was consecrated in 1853. 这座教堂于1853年祝圣。
- They consecrated a temple to their god. 他们把庙奉献给神。 来自《简明英汉词典》