抒情式英語(yǔ)演講結(jié)尾欣賞
*In a Lyric Way
O liberty! O sounds delightful to every Roman ear! O sacred privilege of Roman citizenship! Once sacred, ─now trampled on! Is it come to this? Shall an inferior magistrate, a governor, who holds his whole power of the Roman People, in Roman province within sight of Italy, bind, scourge, torture, and put to an infamous death, a Roman citizen? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in agony, the tears of pitying spectators, the majesty of the Roman Commonwealth nor the fear of justice of his country restrain the merciless monster, who, in the confidence of his riches, strikes at the very root of liberty, and sets mankind at defiance? And shall this man escape? Fathers, it must not be! It must not be, unless you would undermine the very foundations of social safety, strangle justice, and call down anarchy, massacre, and ruin, on the Commonwealth!
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但是，無(wú)論我們個(gè)人的命運(yùn)是禍?zhǔn)歉＃?qǐng)堅(jiān)信，堅(jiān)信宣言必將巍然屹立。為達(dá)成宣言，我們可能耗費(fèi)錢財(cái)，可能流血犧牲；但是，宣言必將屹立，并加倍償還所耗的錢財(cái)和生命。透過(guò)面前的陰沉的形勢(shì)，我看到了光明的遠(yuǎn)景，有如昭昭天日。今天將作為光榮不朽的日子載入史冊(cè)。當(dāng)我們長(zhǎng)眠地下之時(shí)，我們的子孫將紀(jì)念這個(gè)日子。他們將感激滿懷、載歌載舞、高燃篝火、張燈結(jié)彩慶此佳節(jié)。年年此日，他們將痛灑熱淚、濕袖沾襟。這眼淚，不再是被奴役的屈辱之淚，不再是痛苦憂傷之淚，而是歡欣鼓舞、感恩戴德與喜慶歡樂(lè)的熱淚。主席先生，我對(duì)上帝發(fā)誓，我深信這時(shí)刻已經(jīng)到來(lái)。我斷定這宣言是頂呱呱的，我全心全意擁護(hù)它。我將所有的一切，我的全部稟性、我一生的希望都傾注在這宣言上。我要重復(fù)我開(kāi)始時(shí)說(shuō)的話：無(wú)論生、死、成功、失敗，我堅(jiān)決支持獨(dú)立宣言。這是我的生平愿望，愿上帝賜福于我，使它也成為我臨終時(shí)的遺志吧。爭(zhēng)取立刻獨(dú)立！永遠(yuǎn)保持獨(dú)立！
The memory of Burns─I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say. The west winds are murmuring it. Open the windows behind you, and hearken for the incoming tide, what the waves say of it. The doves, perching always on the eaves of the Stone Chapel (King's Chapel) opposite, may know something about it. Every home in broad Scotland keeps his fame bright. The memory of Burns─every man's and boy's, and girl's head carried snatches of his songs, and can say them by heart, and, what is strangest of all, never learned them from a book, but from mouth to mouth. The wind whispers them the birds whistle them, the corn, barley, and bulrushes brassily rustle them; nay, the music boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to play them; the hand organs of the Sao yards in all cities repeat them, and the chimes of bells ring them in the spires. They are they property and the solace of mankind.
憶彭斯──恐怕天地萬(wàn)物完美地保存了這些記憶，以致沒(méi)有給我們留下訴說(shuō)余地。陣陣西風(fēng)正在傾訴。打開(kāi)身后的窗子，聽(tīng)聽(tīng)涌來(lái)的浪潮在說(shuō)些什么。常在對(duì)面王國(guó)教堂檐下棲息的鴿子也許略知一二。在遼闊的蘇格蘭大地上，家家戶戶都在使彭斯的美名大放異彩。憶彭斯──男女老少都記得他的詩(shī)歌的某些片段，都能憑記憶脫口而出，而最奇妙的是，人民從來(lái)不是通過(guò)書(shū)本，而是通過(guò)口口相傳學(xué)到這些詩(shī)歌的。風(fēng)兒在哼著這些詩(shī)歌，鳥(niǎo)兒在唱著這些歌，谷物、大麥及蘆葦在大聲吟唱這些詩(shī)歌。不僅如此，設(shè)計(jì)精妙的日內(nèi)瓦音樂(lè)盒在演奏這些詩(shī)歌，各城市薩瓦人的手風(fēng)琴在不停地演奏這些詩(shī)歌，塔頂排鐘在和諧地吟唱這些詩(shī)歌。他的詩(shī)歌是人類的財(cái)富和慰藉。