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第33章 伟人声音(15)

On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America. CAnd I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over Depression, fascism and Communism.

Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues.

Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world"s strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among our people.

When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析Sentence Structures

AWe earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth.

我们用和平竞争的方式同世界人民一起求得了生存。

earn one"s livelihood谋生,表示谋生的短语还有make/earn a living。例如:He earns his livelihood by teaching.他靠教书谋生。

BNot change for change"s sake, but change to preserve America"s ideals;Iife, liberty, the pursuit of happiness.

我们不是为改革而改革,而是为了保持美国的理想——生活、自由和追求幸福。

for one"s sake为了……起见,看在……的份上(表示想要达到的目的、结果)。例如:For the sake of my grandson, I will give you$30 today.看在我孙子的份上,今天我给你30美元。

CAnd I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over Depression, fascism and Communism.

我还要向千百万人民表示感谢,他们以坚定的信念和牺牲战胜了经济萧条、***主义。

whose引导定语从句,先行词为the millions of men and women。

59.Embrace the New Times 拥抱新时代

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改革不仅要有明确的目标,还要有勇气和胆量,同时更要有信心冲破各种难关。正如美国总统克林顿所说:“要振兴美国,我们必须有足够的勇气和胆量,美国完全有能力自己解救自己。”

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This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it.But when most people are working harder for less;when others cannot work at all;when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our enterprises, great and small;A when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom;and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps. But we have not done so.Instead, we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.BThough our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths.And Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people.We must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.

From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time.Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time.Let us embrace it.Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

And so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift;a new season of American renewal has begun. To renew America, we must be bold.We must do what no generation has had to do before.We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt.And we must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity.It will not be easy;it will require sacrifice.But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own sake.CWe must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.

难点重点,一目了然!

长难句解析Sentence Structures

A when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom;

当犯罪活动的恐惧使守法公民不能自由行动的时候

rob sb. of sth.抢某人某物,不能说成“rob sb"s sth”或“rob sth from sb”。例如:He robbed the woman of watch.他抢了那个妇女的手表。不可说“He robbed the woman"s watch.”或“He robbed the watch from the woman.”

BThough our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths.

我们面临惊人的挑战,但我们同样具有惊人的力量。

so are our strengths 是倒装句表示某人或某事也是一样的。

CWe must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.

我们必须像家庭供养子女那样供养自己的国家。

本句中含有一个the way 引导的定居从句。the way 后的关系词可以省略,也可以是that 或 是 in which。

60.Renew America(1)复兴美国(1)

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我们要复兴美国,就必须恢复我们民主制度的活力。要下定决心改革政治,使政府成为富兰克林·罗斯福所说的进行“大胆而持久试验”的地方,一个面向未来而不是留恋过去的政府。

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Our founders saw themselves in the light of posterity.We can do no less.Anyone who has ever watched a child"s eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is.Posterity is the world to come;the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility.AWe must do what America does best:offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each other.Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.To renew America, we must revitalize our democracy.

This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation. BPowerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

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