请教海先生：如何有效地背诵英语名篇？

请教海先生：如何有效地背诵英语名篇？

上次林肯的[Getty*****urg Address]，最后一句实在太长了，我不明白，为什么林肯的演讲稿一句写这么长呢？是为了演讲更有说服力吗？我觉得简洁的演讲稿更容易记住,比如:

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"

--The inaugural address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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林肯的[Getty*****urg Address]，我还没有把最后一句完全的背下来，请您解析这句话，好吗？谢谢您。

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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The inaugural address of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.