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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln < 林肯盖茨堡演讲>
Gettysburg Address
A speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking at the dedication of a soldiers’ cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. The opening and closing lines are particularly memorable:
“Four 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…. [We must] 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.”
Lincoln surprised his audience at Gettysburg with the brevity of his speech. He delivered the Gettysburg Address, which lasted about three minutes, after a two-hour speech by Edward Everett, one of the leading orators of the day.
盖茨堡演讲
亚伯拉罕.林肯在国内战争期间的演讲。 林肯在盖茨堡战役战场的士兵墓地的致词。开始和结束的话特别让人难忘：“87年前，我们的父辈在这片大陆建立了一个新国家，这个国家以自由为构想，专注于人生而平等的主张...... 这里我们必须专注于我们面临的伟大的事业-- 因为那些烈士，我们对这个事业更有信心。为了这个事业，他们献出了所有--这里我们决心，这些烈士的鲜血不应该是白流。在神的庇佑下，这个国家应该有自由的新生；这个民有、民享、民治的政府就不会消亡。”
林肯的简短演讲使盖茨堡的观众吃惊。他在盖茨堡的演讲只持续了大约3分钟。他前面的Edward Everett, 那个时代的领军演讲人物之一演讲了2个小时。
按：我课本里一篇文章引用的Thomas Jefferson的一句话： “A democracy cannot survive unthinking citizens”. 也一块贴在这里。