the Gettysburg Address
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- a short but very famous speech by US President Abraham Lincoln on 19 November 1863 during the Civil War. He was at the military cemetery (= place where dead people are buried) at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four months after the Battle of Gettysburg. The speech consisted of only ten sentences, and Lincoln thought it was a 'flat failure' and would soon be forgotten. He said that the US was ' conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal' and that 'government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth'.
葛底斯堡演说：1863年11月19日内战期间，美国总统亚伯拉罕·林肯发表了简短而非常著名的演讲。葛底斯堡战役四个月后，他去了宾夕法尼亚州葛底斯堡的军事公墓（死者被埋葬的地方）。演讲只包含十句话，林肯认为这是一次“失败的失败”，很快就会被人们遗忘。他说，美国是“自由构想的，致力于实现所有人平等的主张”，“人民统治人民，人民不要从地上灭亡”。