提供高級英語教程（連續課本式）

高級英語教材第一課

這個教程是為中等英文程度以上的學習者提供較高程度的教材﹐都屬有名閱讀材料﹐
幫助學習者進一步提高英語水平。

先讀課文﹕
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal.
 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or
any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on
a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this.
 But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate --
we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated
here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining
before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government
of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.

1) 生詞﹕請自己查字典。
2) 註解﹕無語言難點﹐無註解。
3) 說明﹕這篇演講稿﹐節奏感強。特別注意HERE的不同位置﹐有時在動詞後﹐有時
在動詞複合形式之間﹐有時在主語後面﹐主要為了調節演講時輕重音的節奏。
4) 要求﹕能背誦。有志于提高英文寫作者﹐可以自己定內容寫篇演講稿﹐跟貼在後﹐
本人將抽時間予以評閱修改。

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