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道格拉斯麦克阿瑟（Douglas Mac Arthur）,美国陆军五星上将。出生于阿肯色州小石城的军人世家。1899年中学毕业后考入西点军校，1903年以名列第一的优异成绩毕业，到工程兵部队任职，并赴菲律宾执勤。麦克阿瑟有过50年的军事实践经验，被美国国民称为“一代老兵”，而其自身又曾是“美国最年轻的准将、西点军校最年轻的校长、美国陆军历史上最年轻的陆军参谋长”，凭借精妙的军事谋略和敢占敢胜的胆略，麦克阿瑟堪称美国战争史上的奇才。本文是他1962年5月应邀来到他的母校西点军校，接受军校的最高奖励——西尔维纳斯·塞耶荣誉勋章时的演讲。

Duty, Honor, Country.

Those three hallowed words reverently 1)______ what you ought to be, what you can be , what you will be . They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

Unhappily, I 2)_______ neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination , nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean .The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a 3)_______, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant ,every demagogue , every cynic , every hypocrite ,every troublemaker , and I am sorry to say ,some others of an entirely different character ,will try to 4)______ them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule .

But these are some of the things they do. They build your basic character. They mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation’s defense. They make you strong enough to know when you are too weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid. They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to 5)______ words for actions , not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have 6)______ on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high ; to learn to laugh , yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future yet never 7)_______ the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; 8)____,the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength 9) _____, a freshness of the deep springs of life , a temperamental predominance of wonder, 10)______. They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.