英语演讲与修辞
第一章演讲与修辞的渊源
One who forms a judgment on any point cannot explain it clearly might as well never have thought at all on the subject.一个只对观点做出判断而不会解释的人也许根本就没有思考过。 Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.没有什么能比演讲更能让拒绝变为接受更不可思议了。 Nothing is more noble, more venerable than fidelity.世上没有什么比忠诚更崇高而庄严。忠诚和真理是人类心中最神圣的美德和天资。
Grammar tells what is correct, rhetoric tells what is effective and pleasing.语法断定什么是正确的，而修辞说明什么是有效和愉悦的东西。 Rhetoric is to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the paion, or to influence the will.修辞就是开启理解、取悦想象、调动激情或感化意志。 美国总就职演说：
1.The only fear we have to fear is fear itself.2.Ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your country.3.We gather because we have chosen hope over fear,unity of purpose over conflict and discord.4.I have nothing to offer but blood,toil,tears and sweat.(鲜血、劳动、眼泪和汗水)We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.We have before us many,many months of struggle and suffering.第二章英语演讲基础
It’s little wonder that listening has been called a lost wonder.(丢失的奇迹) Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with iues of right and wrong in human affairs .Questions of ethics arise whenever we ask whether we ask whether a course of action is moral or immoral, fair or unfair, just or unjust, honest or dishonest.伦理是处理人类事务中或对或错的一个哲学分支。每当我们问一种行为道德与否、公平与否、正义与否、诚实与否时，伦理问题就出现了。
《葛底斯堡演说》 The Gettysburg Addre 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 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.
Farewell Speech to Congre I am closing my fifty-two years of military service.When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.Goodbye.
