I have a dream 演讲稿.doc

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. 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. Five score（sk?:, sk??]20） years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation（[i,m?nsipei??n] n. 释放,解放） Proclamation（[pr?kl?mei?(?)n] n. 宣言,公布,文告）. This momentous（[m?ument?s] a. 重要的,重大的） decree（[dikri:] n. 法令,判决）came as a great beaconn. 烟火,灯塔 light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared（[si?] a. 枯萎的,烤焦的 v. 烤焦,使枯萎）in the flames of withering（[wie?] v. 使...凋谢,枯萎,衰退） injustice. It came as a joyous（[d??i?s] a. 快乐的,高兴的）daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. 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（[m?n?kl] n. 手铐(束缚) vt 上手铐(束缚)）of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hu midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.（[pr?speriti] n. 繁荣,兴旺） ndred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished（[l??gwi?] v. 憔悴, （[eksail, egz-] n. 放逐,流放,被放逐者v. 放逐,流放）in his own land. And so weve come here today to dramatize（[dr?m?taiz] v. 使戏剧化vt. 把(小说凋萎,苦思）in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile等)改编成戏剧,渲染） a shameful condition. In a sense we have come to our nations capital to cash a check. When the architects （[ɑ:kitekt]）of our republic wrote the magnificent（[m?gnifisnt] a. 壮丽的,宏伟的） words of the Constitution （n. 组织,宪法,体格）and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory（[pr?mis?ri] a. 约定的）note to which every American was to fall heir（[??n. 继承人]]. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable（[,?neilj?n?bl] a. 不可剥夺的） rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today