I Have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
今天，我高兴地同大家一起，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由而举行的最伟大的
示威集会。
①②Five score years ago, a great American, in who symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation（(Allusion 典故 it can introduce variety and energy into an otherwi limited discussion and plea the reader by reminding him of a
世上另一个我pertinent story or figure and thus can enrich the work or speech by association and give it depth ）and Periodic Sentence 圆周句 It drawing the listener’s attention to the end of the ntence, and it can be ud to produce humorous and emphatic effect ）. ③This momentous decree（antonomasia 昵称繁体字换 称 it is the replacement of a proper noun by a common noun for the purpo of being easily understood） came ④as a great beacon light of hope（smile）（a comparison of things of different groups but they have same characteristics） to millions of Negro slaves who had been ared in ⑤the flames of withering injustice (metaphor)（A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things.）. It came⑥as a joyous daybreak（transferred epithets 移 就 it bears the characteristics of brevity and vividness.） to end the long night of their captivity（smile）.
100 年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。
⑦But one hundred years later (repetition)( draw people’s attention to it or to emphasis th
e emotions), the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of gregation and the chains of discrimination. One
hundred years later, the Negro lives on⑧⑨a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity (oxymoron小雪节气养生 矛盾修饰法 in it, apparently contradictory expressions are juxtapod for witty or striking effect. )and酒醉的句子 transferred epithets 转移修饰法) and metonymy 转喻（是指用某个属性的或者暗示的词代替真正要表达的东西或人 using lonely island to replace the poverty class and using the vast ocean of material prosperity to replace the social wealth ）. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himlf an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
然而，100 年后，黑人依然没有获得自由。100 年后，黑人依然悲惨地蹒跚于种族隔离和种族歧视的枷锁之下。100 年后，黑人依然生活在物质繁荣翰海的贫困孤岛上。100 说好的幸福呢简谱年后，黑人依然在美国社会中向隅而泣，依然感到自己在国土家园中流离漂泊。所以，我们今天来到这里，要把这骇人听闻的情况公诸于众。
In a n we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promi that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would
be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
从某种意义上说，我们来到国家的首都是为了兑现一张支票。我们共和国的缔造者在拟
写宪法和独立宣言的辉煌篇章时，就签署了一张每一个美国人都能继承的期票。这张期票 向所有人承诺——不论白人还是黑人——都享有不可侵犯的生存权、自由权和追求幸福权。
But we refu to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refu to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check (metaphor), a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the curity of justice.
然而，今天美国显然对她的有色公民拖欠着这张期票。美国没有承兑这笔神圣的债务，
而是开始给黑人一张空头支票——一张盖着“资金不足”的印戳被退回的支票。但是，我们决不相信正义的银行会破产。我们决不相信这个国家巨大的机会宝库会资金不足。
ipcom因此，我们来兑现这张支票。这张支票将给我们以宝贵的自由和正义的保障。
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to 秋天作文300字make real the promis of democracy. Now is the time to ri from the dark and desolate valley of gregation to the sunlit path of racial justice（antithesis 谢灿对 照 The ntence above ud antithesis to make the contrast more promin
ent and effective. The contrast between desolate valley of gregation and the sunlit path of racial justice have showed the eager expectation to change the unfair situation to a justice one）. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
