名人演讲:葛底斯堡演说 英语演讲稿

在历史的长河中，有一些演讲以其深刻的思想和优美的语言成为了永恒的经典。其中之一便是亚伯拉罕·林肯于1863年11月19日在葛底斯堡国家公墓落成仪式上发表的著名演说——《葛底斯堡演说》。这篇简短而有力的演讲不仅在美国历史上占有举足轻重的地位，同时也激励了无数后来者追求自由和平等。

以下是这篇演讲的英文原文：

"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.

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.

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."

林肯的这番话简洁而充满力量，它不仅仅是一场纪念活动上的致辞，更是对美国民主理念的一次深刻阐述。他提醒人们铭记那些为国家统一和自由付出生命的人们，并号召活着的人继续他们的事业，确保民主精神得以永存。

尽管时间已经过去了近一个半世纪，《葛底斯堡演说》仍然具有强烈的现实意义。它教导我们要珍惜和平与自由，同时也警示我们不要忘记历史赋予我们的责任。正如林肯所言，“政府应是民有、民治、民享的”，这种理念至今仍是全球许多国家追求的目标。

通过重温这段历史，我们可以更好地理解今天的社会是如何建立在其基础之上的，并且思考如何在未来继续推进平等与正义。

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