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1、ADDRESSATGETTYSBURG(1)Fourscoreandsevenyearsagoyourfathersbroughtforthonthiscontinentanewnation,conceivedinliberty,anddedicatedtothepropositionthatallmenarecreatedequal(2)Nowweareengagedinagreatcivilwar,testingwhetherthatnation,oranynationsoconceivedandso
2、dedicated(3),canlongendure.Wearemet(4)onagreatbattlefieldofthatwar.Wehavecometodedicateaportionofthatfieldasafinalrestingplaceforthosewhoheregavetheirlivesthatthatnationmightlive(5).Itisaltogetherfittingandproperthatweshoulddothis.But,inalargersense,wecan
3、notdedicate--wecannotconsecrate--wecannothallow(6)--thisground.Thebravemen,livinganddead,whostruggledhere,haveconsecrateditfaraboveourpoorpowertoaddordetract.Theworldwilllittlenotenorlongrememberwhatwesayhere,butitcanneverforgetwhattheydidhere.Itisforus,t
4、heliving,rather,tobededicatedheretotheunfinishedworkwhichtheywhofoughtherehavethusfarsonoblyadvanced.Itisratherforustobeherededicatedtothegreattaskremainingbeforeus--thatfromthesehonoureddeadwetakeincreaseddevotiontothatcauseforwhichtheygavethelastfullmea
5、sureofdevotion;thatweherehighlyresolvethatthesedeadshallnothavediedinvain;thatthisnation,underGod,shallhaveanewbirthoffreedom;andthatgovernmentofthepeople,bythepeople,forthepeople,shallnotperishfromtheearth(7).[注释](1)Cettysburg:葛提斯堡。美国宾夕法尼亚州南部边境的小镇。美国内战史上
6、南、北军之间规模最大的关键一仗在此发生，双方死伤各约二万五千人。林肯总统于1863年11月19日在葛提斯堡国家烈士公墓落成典礼上作了这一篇著名的演讲。(2)"Allmenarecreatedequal":“一切人生来平等”，是美国第三、四届总统杰佛逊在美国“独立宣言”中写下的名言。(3)soconceivedandsodedicated:指第一句中的conceivedinlibertyanddedicatedtothepropositionthatallmenarecreatedequal.so是副词，意
7、为：这样地；如上所述那样地。(4)aremet:集会。(5)whoheregavetheirlivesthatnationmightlive:为了这个国家的生存而献身的......。定语从句，其中第一个that是连词，引导目的状语，第二个that是指示代词，修饰nation。(6)wecannot...:我们无法......。这里wecannot重复了三次，以加深印象并抒发强烈的情感。这种修饰法称为句首重复，常用于演说和诗歌。(7)--thatfromthesehonoureddeadwetakeincr
8、easeddevotion...shallnotperishfromtheearth:破折号后面以分号隔开的四个以that引导的从句是thegreattask的同位语并列结构。[参考译文]葛提斯堡演说亚伯拉罕·林肯八十七年前，我们的先辈在这块大陆上创建了一个新的国家。她孕育于自由之中。奉行一切人生来平等的原则。现在，我们正从事于一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者说，以考验任何孕育于自由并奉行上述原则的国家能否长久生存。我们聚
