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Lesson43 Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream".
第43章 馬丁·路德·金：我有一個夢想。
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
今天，我很高興地同大家一起，參加這次將成為我國歷史上為了爭取自由而舉行的最偉大的示威集會。
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
一百年前，一位偉大的美國人簽署了《解放宣言》, 今天我們就是在他的雕像前聚會。這一莊嚴宣言猶如燈塔的光芒，給千百萬在那摧殘生命的不義之火中受煎熬的黑奴帶來了希望。它之到來猶如歡樂的黎明，結束了桎梏黑人的漫漫長夜。
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
然而，一百年后的今天，我們必須正視黑人還沒有得到自由這一悲慘的事實。一百年后的今天，在種族隔離的鐐銬和種族歧視的枷鎖下，黑人的生活依然凄慘不堪。一百年后的今天，黑人仍生活在物質充裕的海洋中一個貧窮的孤島上。一百年后的今天，黑人仍然萎縮在美國社會的角落里，并且意識到自己是故土家園的流亡者。今天我們在這里集會，就是要描述這些駭人聽聞的情況。
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual.
當我們讓自由之聲響起來，當我們讓自由之聲從每一個大小村莊，每一個州和每一個城市響起來時，我們將能夠加速這一天的到來。這一天，上帝的所有兒女，黑人和白人，猶太教徒和非猶太教徒，新教徒和天主教徒，都將手攜手，合唱一首古老的黑人靈歌。
Free at last! Free at last!
終于自由啦！終于自由啦！
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
感謝全能的上帝，我們終于自由啦！
emancipation
解放
proclamation
宣告
beacon
燈塔
manacle
鐐銬, 束縛
languish
受苦，受折磨
gentile
非猶太教徒, 異教徒
