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I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of universal peace and good will of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams but we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and immediate goal.

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ANot a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

我们寻求的不是凭借美国的战争武器强加给全球的美国统治下的和平。

这是一个承前省略的句子,句首省略了“I mean and we seek”.Pax Americana 衍生自Pax Romana(罗马帝国统治下的和平,强加于被征服民族的和平)。

BIt leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control.

这种信念会导致如下结论:战争不可避免,人类注定要灭亡,我们受制于不可控制力。

本句有三个由that引起的名词性从句,均充当conclusion的同位语。

47.What is Genuine Peace?(2)什么是真正的和平?(2)

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在美国总统肯尼迪看来,实现真正意义上的和平,是需要很多国家共同采取行动才能实现的。而和平与自由又是不可分离的,那么就要不断完善自由,各个国家和政府有责任在权利范围内为公民提供自由并加以保障。

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Let us focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions—on a series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of all concerned.

There is no single, simple key to this peace;no grand or magic formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts.It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation.For peace is process—a way of solving problems.

And second, let us reexamine our attitude towards the Soviet Union. ln short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race.AAgreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours.And even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own interest.

Wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. ln too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.BIt is the responsibility of the executive branch at all levels of government—local, State, and National—to provide and protect that freedom for all of our citizens by all means within our authority.

It is the responsibility of the legislative branch at all levels, wherever the authority is not now adequate, to make it adequate. And it is the responsibility of all citizens in all sections of this country to respect the rights of others and respect the law of the land.

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AAgreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours.

为实现这一目标所达成的协议不仅符合我们的利益,而且符合苏联的利益。

as well as除……之外;也;还(强调as well as 之前的部分)。例如:She is a talented musician as well as a photographer.她不但是个天才音乐家,而且还是个摄影师。

BIt is the responsibility of the executive branch at all levels of government—Iocal, State, and National—to provide and protect that freedom for all of our citizens by all means within our authority.

在我们的职权范围内采取一切措施为我们的全体民众提供和保障这一自由,这是各级政府——包括地方政府、州政府和国家政府——行政部门的责任。

句的it是形式主语,真正主语是to provide 短语,其中local, state, national是all levels的同位语。

48.ATime to Break Silence(1)打破沉寂(1)

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美国的民权运动领袖马丁·路德·金在“忧世教士和俗人协会”的一个反越战的集会上指出“这是一个‘沉默即是背叛’的时刻。”在这一重要的历史时刻,我们必须站出来,冲破黑暗。

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I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice.I join you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together:Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam.The recent statements of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart, and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines:“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.

The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government"s policy, especially in time of war.ANor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one"s own bosom and in the surrounding world.BMoreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty;but we must move on.

And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nation"s history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history.Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us.If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us.

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ANor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one"s own bosom and in the surrounding world.

如果不付出巨大努力去克服人的内心以及周围世界里的循规蹈矩的思想所带来的冷漠,人的精神也不会进步。

nor在本句中起到了承接前句的否定结构,这句话也可改为:The human spirit does not move against all……without great difficulty。