9. The Four Freedoms

论四大自由

背景知识

本文作者富兰克林·德拉诺·罗斯福（Franklin Delano Roosevelt,1882-1945）,美国第32任总统，他一直被认为美国历史上最伟大的总统之一，是20世纪美国最不负众望和最受爱戴的总统，也是美国历史上唯一连任四届总统的人。本文为1941年1月6日罗斯福致美国国会的国情咨文中最为精彩的一部分。

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four 1) ______ human freedoms. The second is freedom of very personto 2)_____ God in his own way –everywhere in the world. The third is freedomfrom what –which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its 3)______ –everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom fear – which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide 4)______ of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor –anywhere in the world.

That is no vision a distant millennium. It is a 5)_____ basis for a kind of world attainable in our time generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create the 6)_____ of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception –the 7)_____ order. A good society is able to faceschemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our Amercican history 8)_____ – without the concentration camp or the quicklime in ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly civilized society. 9) _______; and its faith in freedom under the guidance human rights everywhere. 10) ________.

To that high concept there can be no end to save victory.

Key words

1. secure [si’kjuə] adj.安心的，安定的

2. inhabitant [in’h æ bitənts] n.常住（或永久）居民，居住者

3. reduction [ri’d ʌ k ʃ ən] n.减少，缩减

4. armament [‘a:məmənts ] n.〈常用复数〉（一国的）武装力量，军备

5. aggression [ə’gre ʃ ən ] n.侵略，侵犯，侵袭

6. attainable [ə’tein əbl] adj.（通过努力）可达到的，可获得的

7. antithesis [æn’tiθisis] n.对比，对照，对立（面）

8. tyranny [‘tirəni] n.专制统治，集权政治；暴政，专制

9. dictator [dik’teitəz] n.独裁者，专制君主，暴君

10. perpetual [pə’petjuəl] adj. 永远的，永久的，持续不停的

11. quicklime [‘kwiklaim] n.生石灰

12. supremacy [ sju’preməsi] n.至高无上（的性质或地位）