高级英语InauguralAddress课件 翻译 译文Word下载.docx

1、 learn the methods in developing an expository writing,esp. the use of examples analyse the features of spoken English 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 characteri

2、stics 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 o

3、bserve 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 oathour forebears prescribednearly a century and three-quarters ago. 2 The world is very dif

4、ferent 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 belief 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 st

5、ate 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 passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a h

6、ard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoingof these 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, t

7、hat we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 5 This much we pledge-and more. 6 To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United

8、, 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 oddsand split asunder. 7 To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not ha

9、ve passed 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, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tig

10、er ended up inside. 8 To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the for themselves, help them help to efforts best our pledge we misery, mass of bonds whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but b

11、ecause 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 alliancefor progress, to assist free men and free governments in

12、 casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the preyof hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversionanywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain

13、the master of its own house. 10 To that world assembly of sovereignstates, 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

14、 its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writmay run. 11 Finally, to those nations who would make themselves 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

15、 engulfall humanity in planned or accidental self-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 present course-both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the s