英语经典美文诵读100篇：055.gettysburg address

[00:04.09]055. Gettysburg Address [00:10.51]Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, [00:19.86]and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. [00:26.28]Now, we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, [00:32.58]or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. [00:43.72]We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those [00:48.91]who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. [00:59.84]But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - [01:09.28]this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, [01:16.99]have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. [01:23.74]The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, [01:28.28]but it can never forget what they did here. [01:33.36]It is for us, the living, rather, [01:38.28]to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. [01:46.40]It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - [01:52.95]that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause [01:57.64]for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not [02:05.79]have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; [02:15.64]and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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