葛底斯堡演说

人而已。为求忠实，不应将其视

为人类的通称。

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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.

当下吾等被卷入一场伟大的内战，以考验是否此国

或任何肇基于和奉献于斯者，

可永垂不朽。< /p>

吾等现相

逢于此战中一处浩大战场。而吾等将奉献此战场之部分，

作为这群交付彼者生命让那国度勉能生存的人们最后安

息之处。 此乃全然妥切且适当而为吾人应行之举。

Now

we

are

engaged

in

a

great

civil

war,

testing

whether

that

nation,

or

any

nation

so

conceived

and

so

dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field

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 do this.

但，于更大意义之上，吾 等无法致力、无法奉上、无

法成就此土之圣。

这群勇者，

无论生死，

曾于斯奋战到底，

早已使其神圣， 而远超过吾人卑微之力所能增

减。这世

间不曾丝毫留意，

也不长久记得吾等于斯所言，

但永不忘

怀彼人于此所为。

吾等生者，

理应当然，< /p>

献身于此辈鞠躬

尽瘁之未完大业。吾等在此责无旁贷献身

于眼前之伟大

使命：自光荣的亡者之处吾人肩 起其终极之奉献

-

吾等在

此答应亡者之 死当非徒然

-

此国度，于神佑之下，当享有

自由之新生

-

民有、民治、民享之政府当免于凋零。

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not

consecrate-we

can

not

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 little

note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never

forget 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 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.

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