高级英语第课InauguralAddress课件翻译译文
4.I n a u g u r a l A d d r e s s
(January 20, 1961)
John F. Kennedy
目的/重点
Aims
1.To know how to make good conversation
2.T o trace the history of the King’s English
3.T o learn the methods in developing an expository writing,esp. the u of examples
4.T o analy the features of spoken English
5.T o appreciate the language features
Teaching Contents
1. Exposition
2. History of Britain
3. Detailed study of the text
4. Organizational pattern
5. Language features
6. The characteristics of spoken English
Time allocation
1. Exposition and history (15 min.)
2. Detailed study of the text (105 min.)
3. Structure analysis (15 min.)
4. Language appreciation (15 min.)
5. The characteristics of spoken English (30 min)
课文内容
4. Inaugural Address
(January 20, 1961)
John F. Kennedy
1 We obrve today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
2 The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary be
lief for which our forebears fought is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
3 We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pasd to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of the human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
4 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppo any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
5 This much we pledge--and more.
6 To tho old allies who cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty o
f faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
7 To tho new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have pasd away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom, and to remember that, in the past, tho who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
8 To tho peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass miry, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themlves, for
whatever period is required, not becau the Communists may be doing it, not becau we ek their votes, but becau it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
9 To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge: to convert our good words into good deeds, in a new alliance for progress, to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppo aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own hou.
10 To that world asmbly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
11 Finally, to tho nations who would make themlves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental lf-destruction.
12 We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
13 But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our prent cour--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.
