美国语文第六册 第233期:马萨诸塞人和南卡罗来纳(3)

Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium¹ upon Massachusetts. She needs none.

总统先生，在没有发表赞辞的情况下，我开始说说马萨诸塞州。实际上，她不需要任何溢美之词。

There she is, behold² her, and judge for yourselves.

所有的一切都显而易见。注视着她，由你自己做出判断。

There is her history; the world knows it by heart.

她的历史，世界都记在心里了。

The past, at least, is secure.

至少，过去的一切都是可靠的。

There is Boston, and Concord³, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

波士顿、康科尔、莱克星顿，还有邦克山。它们会永远屹立在世人心中。

And, sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice,

先生，美国的自由精神在哪里发出最初的呐喊，

and where its youth was nurtured⁴ and sustained, there it still lives,in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit.

那里的年轻人就会得到精神上的滋养，并将对自由的呐喊传承下去。还有一些生命，在他们的男子气概所彰显的力量中，充满了最初的精神。

If discord⁵ and disunion shall wound it; if party strife⁶ and blind ambition shall hawk⁷ at and tear it;

如果冲突与分裂伤害到它，如果党派之间的纷争和盲目的抱负抓住并撕扯它；

if folly⁸ and madness, if uneasiness under salutary restraint, shall succeed to separate it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure,

如果愚蠢的行为和疯狂之举，如果有益的限制下所产生的不适，通过确保它的存在成为单独的现象而成功地将它从联邦里分离出来，

it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy⁹ was rocked;

到头来它将站在它的童年颠沛流离中的摇篮旁边；

it will stretch forth¹⁰ its arm, with whatever of vigor¹¹ it may still retain, over the friends who gathered around it;

它会向前伸出胳膊，拼尽也许仅存的气力，够向围拢在四周的朋友；

and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amid the proudest monuments of its glory and on the very spot of its origin.

最终，它会倒在，如果它必然倒下的话，它的荣誉最值得骄傲自豪的纪念碑和记录它起源的特别之地中央。

1 encomium   

n.赞颂；颂词

参考例句：

• He pronounced a splendid encomium upon her in the forum.他在广场上为她作了华丽的赞颂。
• We hear only encomiums to it.我们只听到对它的溢美之词。

2 behold   

v.看，注视，看到

参考例句：

• The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
• The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。

3 concord   

n.和谐；协调

参考例句：

• These states had lived in concord for centuries.这些国家几个世纪以来一直和睦相处。
• His speech did nothing for racial concord.他的讲话对种族和谐没有作用。

4 nurtured   

养育( nurture的过去式和过去分词 )； 培育； 滋长； 助长

参考例句：

• She is looking fondly at the plants he had nurtured. 她深情地看着他培育的植物。
• Any latter-day Einstein would still be spotted and nurtured. 任何一个未来的爱因斯坦都会被发现并受到培养。

5 discord   

n.不和，意见不合，争论，（音乐）不和谐

参考例句：

• These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
• The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。

6 strife   

n.争吵，冲突，倾轧，竞争

参考例句：

• We do not intend to be drawn into the internal strife.我们不想卷入内乱之中。
• Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages.金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。

7 hawk   

n.鹰，骗子；鹰派成员

参考例句：

• The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
• The hawk snatched the chicken and flew away.老鹰叼了小鸡就飞走了。

8 folly   

n.愚笨，愚蠢，蠢事，蠢行，傻话

参考例句：

• Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
• Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。

9 infancy   

n.婴儿期；幼年期；初期

参考例句：

• He came to England in his infancy.他幼年时期来到英国。
• Their research is only in its infancy.他们的研究处于初级阶段。

10 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

11 vigor   

n.活力，精力，元气

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• She didn't want to be reminded of her beauty or her former vigor.现在，她不愿人们提起她昔日的美丽和以前的精力充沛。