很惭愧的告诉你，林肯的[Getty*****urg Address]还没有背完呢。我一有点空闲，就喜欢把时间花在听歌曲音乐等。不过，我向海先生保证过，要把[Getty*****urg Address]背完的，不能食言。我已经背到第9句了，最后一句特别长，你对句子结构很内行，向你请教，我该如何把最后一句背下来呢？
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.
P.S. 你的网名"youknowmyheart"，让我想起了好久再没有来美坛的youaresmart.他曾经在美坛发了好多的英诗，他的那首中英双语诗歌《追蝴儿》写得非常的生动形象，给我留下了深刻的印象，还有宋德利对《追蝴儿》的精湛点评，internuts的配乐朗诵，我刚刚找到了这个连接，和你分享：
Audio: Chasing a Butterfly (追蝶儿)
来源: internuts 于 08-07-20 06:57:17
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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.
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