| 歌曲 | 美国革命的历史意义 |
| 歌手 | 英语听力 |
| 专辑 | 英语现代文背诵篇章 |
| The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the expression of one intellectual or social movement; yet the historical process which culminated in the ascent of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency can be regarded as the outstanding example not only of the birth of a new way of life but of nationalism as a new way of life. The American Revolution represents the link between the seventeenth century, in which modern England became conscious of itself, and the awakening of modern Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. It may seem strange that the march of history should have had to cross the Atlantic Ocean, but only in the North American colonies could a struggle for civic liberty lead also to the foundation of a new nation. Here, in the popular rising against a “tyrannical” government, the fruits were more than the securing of a freer constitution. They included the growth of a nation born in liberty by the will of the people, not from the roots of common descent, a geographic entity, or the ambitions of king or dynasty. With the American nation, for the first time, a nation was born, not in the dim past of history but before the eyes of the whole world. | |
| 历史的进程是如此错综复杂，人类行为的动机是如此令人费解，以至于想把那些时间跨度大，涉及人数多，空间范围广的事件描述成为一个智者或一场社会运动的表现的企图是危险的。 然而以托马斯 ·杰弗逊登上总统宝座为高潮的那一段历史过程可以被视为一个特殊的例子。 在这段历史时期里不仅诞生了新的生活方式，而且民族主义成为了一种新的生活方式。 美国独立战争成为联结 17 世纪现代英格兰的自我意识和 18 世纪末现代欧洲的觉醒的纽带。 历史的行程需要跨越大西洋，这看起来似乎有些奇怪，但却只有在北美殖民地为民权和自由的斗争才能导致新国家的建立。 这里，反对"暴政"的民众起义的成果不仅是获得一个包含更多自由的宪法，还包括了一个依照人民的意愿诞生在自由中的国家的成长。这个国家不是基于血缘、地理、君主或王朝的野心。 由于有了美国，第一次一个国家的诞生不是发生在历史模糊的过去，而是在全世界人们的眼前。 |
| The ways of history are so intricate and the motivations of human actions so complex that it is always hazardous to attempt to represent events covering a number of years, a multiplicity of persons, and distant localities as the expression of one intellectual or social movement yet the historical process which culminated in the ascent of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency can be regarded as the outstanding example not only of the birth of a new way of life but of nationalism as a new way of life. The American Revolution represents the link between the seventeenth century, in which modern England became conscious of itself, and the awakening of modern Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. It may seem strange that the march of history should have had to cross the Atlantic Ocean, but only in the North American colonies could a struggle for civic liberty lead also to the foundation of a new nation. Here, in the popular rising against a " tyrannical" government, the fruits were more than the securing of a freer constitution. They included the growth of a nation born in liberty by the will of the people, not from the roots of common descent, a geographic entity, or the ambitions of king or dynasty. With the American nation, for the first time, a nation was born, not in the dim past of history but before the eyes of the whole world. | |
| lì shǐ de jìn chéng shì rú cǐ cuò zōng fù zá, rén lèi xíng wéi de dòng jī shì rú cǐ lìng rén fèi jiě, yǐ zhì yú xiǎng bǎ nèi xiē shí jiān kuà dù dà, shè jí rén shù duō, kōng jiān fàn wéi guǎng de shì jiàn miáo shù chéng wéi yí gè zhì zhě huò yī chǎng shè huì yùn dòng de biǎo xiàn de qǐ tú shì wēi xiǎn de. rán ér yǐ tuō mǎ sī jié fú xùn dēng shàng zǒng tǒng bǎo zuò wèi gāo cháo de nà yī duàn lì shǐ guò chéng kě yǐ bèi shì wéi yí gè tè shū de lì zi. zài zhè duàn lì shǐ shí qī lǐ bù jǐn dàn shēng le xīn de shēng huó fāng shì, ér qiě mín zú zhǔ yì chéng wéi le yī zhǒng xīn de shēng huó fāng shì. měi guó dú lì zhàn zhēng chéng wéi lián jié 17 shì jì xiàn dài yīng gé lán de zì wǒ yì shí hé 18 shì jì mò xiàn dài ōu zhōu de jué xǐng de niǔ dài. lì shǐ de xíng chéng xū yào kuà yuè dà xī yáng, zhè kàn qǐ lái sì hū yǒu xiē qí guài, dàn què zhǐ yǒu zài běi měi zhí mín dì wèi mín quán hé zì yóu de dòu zhēng cái néng dǎo zhì xīn guó jiā de jiàn lì. zhè lǐ, fǎn duì" bào zhèng" de mín zhòng qǐ yì de chéng guǒ bù jǐn shì huò dé yí gè bāo hán gèng duō zì yóu de xiàn fǎ, hái bāo kuò le yí gè yī zhào rén mín de yì yuàn dàn shēng zài zì yóu zhōng de guó jiā de chéng zhǎng. zhè gè guó jiā bú shì jī yú xuè yuán dì lǐ jūn zhǔ huò wáng cháo de yě xīn. yóu yú yǒu le měi guó, dì yī cì yí gè guó jiā de dàn shēng bú shì fā shēng zài lì shǐ mó hu de guò qù, ér shì zài quán shì jiè rén men de yǎn qián. |