麦克阿瑟将军简介
时间:2025-07-15
时间:2025-07-15
Douglas MacArthur Farewell Speech to Congress
military 军事的,军人的 fufillment 实现,完成 oath 誓言,誓约 vanish 消失 refrain 重复,叠句,(乐)副歌 barrack 兵营 ballad 歌谣 proclaim 宣布,赞扬,称颂
I am closing my fifty years of military service .When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century,it was the fulfillment of all boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turn over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long vanished .But I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack 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 .Good-bye.
译文 我即将结束自己52年的军旅生涯。我在世 纪之交前参军,是为了实现我儿时所有希 望和梦想。 自我在西点军校的土地宣誓以来,世界 已经发生多次巨变,希望和梦想早已灰飞 烟灭。但我依然记得当时最流行的一首军 营之歌的副歌部分,歌中无比自豪的宣称 老兵永不死亡,他们只是淡出历史舞台。 像那首歌中的老兵一样,我,一个努力 完成使命的老兵——上帝赋予他光亮看清 那一使命,现在结束自己军旅生涯,只是 渐渐离去。再见。
本文是道格拉斯.麦克阿瑟1951年在美国国 会的演讲。1903年,麦克阿瑟以优异成绩 毕业于西点军校,参加过第一次和第二次 世界大战,二战反法斯盟军统帅,曾被授 予五星级上将军衔。在这次国会的演讲中, 他以一句古老的歌词“老兵永不死亡,他 们只是淡出舞台。