Abraham-Lincoln’s-Gettysburg-Address.pptVIP

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 林肯葛底斯堡演讲 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 the 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. 现在我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者说以考虑任何一个孕育于自由而奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。 我们在这场战争中的一个伟大的战场上集会。烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们在此集会是为了把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为永久的安息之地。我们这样做是义不容辞的。 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. 但是，从更深刻的意思上来说，这块土地我们并不能够奉献，我们更不能使之神化，让它成为圣地。曾在这里战斗过的勇士们，活着的和去世的，已经把这块土地神圣化了，这远不是我们微薄的力量所能增减的。我们今天在这里所说的话，世人将很少注意到，但是勇士们在这此所做的，世人将永远不会忘记。 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. 毋宁说，倒是我们这些生存者，应该在这里把自己奉献于勇士们已经如此崇高地向前推进但尚未完成的事业。倒是我们应该在这里把自己奉献于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务，以便使我们从这些光荣的死者身上汲取更多的奉献精神，来完成他们已经完全彻底为之献身的事业；以便使我们在这里下定最大的决心，不让这些死者白白牺牲；以便使国家在上帝保佑下得到自由的新生，并且使这个民有、民治、民享的政府永世长存。? 背景资料： 　　林肯在当选美国第十六任总统后，由于其废奴主义倾向，南方各州相继宣布脱离联邦，内战爆发，林肯总统领导人民对南方叛军作战。1863年7月3日，联邦军在宾夕法尼亚州葛底斯堡的胜利樗着美国内战的关键转折点。葛底斯堡战役是一场流血最多的战争，联邦军共损失23000多人。四个月后林肯总统到葛底斯保战场，为这场伟大战役的阵亡将士墓举行落成仪式。这篇演说是在1863年11月1