The-Gettysburg-Address-原文及英譯

1、精品The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19 1863Tour 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 natio

2、n 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

3、do this.But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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 littlenote, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forg

4、et 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

5、that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that可編輯精品these dead shall not have died in vain - thatthis nationunder God shall have a new birth of freedom- and thatgovernment of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth

6、."葛底斯堡演說 亞伯拉罕林肯，1863年11月19日7年前，我們的先輩們在這個大陸上創(chuàng)立了一個新國家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生來平等的原則?，F(xiàn)在我們正從事一場偉大的內(nèi)戰(zhàn)，以考驗這個國家，或者任何一個孕 育于自由和奉行上述原則的國家是否能夠長久存在下去。我 們在這場 戰(zhàn)爭中的一個偉大戰(zhàn)場上集會。烈士們?yōu)槭惯@個國家能夠生存下去而 獻出了自己的生命，我們來到這里，是要把這個戰(zhàn)場的一部分奉獻給 他們作為最后安息之所。我們這樣做是完全應 該而且是非常恰當?shù)?。但是，從更廣泛的意義上來說，這塊土地我們不能夠奉獻，不 能夠圣化，不能夠神化。那些曾在這里戰(zhàn)斗過的勇士們，活著的和去 世的，已經(jīng)把這塊土地圣化了，這遠不是我們微薄的力量所能增減 的。我們今天在這里所說的話，全世界不大會注意，也不會長久地記 住，但勇士們在這里所做過的事，全世界卻永遠不會忘記。倒是我們 這些還活著的人，應該在這里把自己奉獻于勇士們已經(jīng)如此崇高地向 前推進但尚未完成的事業(yè)。倒是我們應該精品在這里把自己奉獻于仍然留在我們面前的偉大任務一一我們要從這些可編輯光榮的死者身