英語(yǔ)經(jīng)典美文誦讀100篇：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.
