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英文名篇赏析二(Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address, part 1)
General Douglas MacArthur
Farewell Address to Congress
delivered 19 April 1951
“I have just left your fighting sons in Krea”
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:
1 I stand on this rostrum(讲台)with a sense of deep humility(谦卑)and great pride -- humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection(思绪)that this forum of legislative (立法)debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations(抱负)and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate(支持者)for any partisan(党派)cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm(领域)of partisan consideration. They must be resolved(决断)on the highest plane of national interest(国家利益层面)if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
2 I address you with neither rancor(恨)nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked(交缠)that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious(忽略)to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred(称为)to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact(影响力)upon the other. There are those who claim our strength is inadequate(不足)to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide(分散)our effort. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism. If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort. The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You can not appease(妥协)or otherwise surrender(投降)to communism in Asia without simultaneously(同时)undermining(放弃)our efforts to halt(停止)its advance in Europe.
3 Beyond pointing out these general truisms(常识), I shall confine(局限)my discussion to the general areas of Asia. Before one may objectively assess(评估)the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the present. Long exploited(盘剥)by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity(机遇)to achieve any degree of social justice(社会正义), individual dignity(个人尊严), or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism(殖民主义镣铐)and now see the dawn(曙光)of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom.
请指出不当之处！
英文名篇赏析二(Douglas MacArthur Farewell Address, part 1)
General Douglas MacArthur
Farewell Address to Congress
delivered 19 April 1951
“I have just left your fighting sons in Krea”
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:
1 I stand on this rostrum(讲台)with a sense of deep humility(谦卑)and great pride -- humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection(思绪)that this forum of legislative (立法)debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations(抱负)and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate(支持者)for any partisan(党派)cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm(领域)of partisan consideration. They must be resolved(决断)on the highest plane of national interest(国家利益层面)if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.
2 I address you with neither rancor(恨)nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked(交缠)that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious(忽略)to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While Asia is commonly referred(称为)to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact(影响力)upon the other. There are those who claim our strength is inadequate(不足)to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide(分散)our effort. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism. If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort. The Communist threat is a global one. Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You can not appease(妥协)or otherwise surrender(投降)to communism in Asia without simultaneously(同时)undermining(放弃)our efforts to halt(停止)its advance in Europe.
3 Beyond pointing out these general truisms(常识), I shall confine(局限)my discussion to the general areas of Asia. Before one may objectively assess(评估)the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the present. Long exploited(盘剥)by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity(机遇)to achieve any degree of social justice(社会正义), individual dignity(个人尊严), or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism(殖民主义镣铐)and now see the dawn(曙光)of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom.
