Abraham Lincoln亚伯拉罕·林肯
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Abraham Lincoln
亚伯拉罕?林肯
亚伯拉罕?林肯（1809—1865），出生在肯塔基州哈丁县一个清贫的农民家庭，他的童年是“一部贫穷的简明编年史”。在青年时代，林肯通过自学使自己成为一个博学而充满智慧的人。1860年，林肯成为共和党的总统候选人，11月，选举揭晓，他以200万票当选为美国第16任总统。他信仰人人平等，领导美国南北战争走向全面胜利，并颁布了《解放黑人奴隶宣言》，维护了美联邦统一，为美国在19世纪跃居世界头号工业强国开辟了道路，被称为“伟大的解放者”。
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 in a log cabin① to very humble,
uneducated parents; he did grow up in a backwoods settlement that
was virtually a wilderness; there, beginning at the age of seven,
he did help his father to hew a farm out of that wilderness with an
axe; with the benefit of only a few months of schooling, he did
study diligently on his own to acquire basic skills in reading and
writing; as a young man out on his own and working at menial jobs,
he did teach himself from books such subjects as English grammar,
sufficient mathematics to learn surveying, and enough law to enter
the legal profession at the age of 27. And, of course, he did
perform triumphantly in the United States’ most severe crisis,
saving his country from dissolution, presiding over the destruction
of slavery, and dying an authentic American martyr②.
亚伯拉罕?林肯1809年出生于一户贫困人家的小木屋里，父亲母亲都没怎么上过学。林肯自幼在野地里长大，长到7岁时，开始帮助父亲在村中做一些砍伐的活计。幼年的林肯从仅有的几个月上学时间里刻苦习得了基本的读写能力。逐渐长大后，小伙子开始自食其力，做一些体力活，并通过读书自学了英语文法、基本算数技能，并由此掌握测量调查的学问。其法律知识更是自学成才，到27岁时林肯已能通过法律专业的考核。正是他带领全美人民度过了最严峻的国难危机，拯救国家于分裂之中，主持废除了奴隶制度，不愧是一位美国本土的国家英雄。
A Mind Ripe for Learning
From the very beginning, Abraham Lincoln was different, and in a
way that many of hisneighbors—and especially his father—did not
approve. Unlike almost everyone else he grew
up with, Lincoln was intensely interested in words and meanings.
He learned to read and writeat a very early age, actively seeking
out books to borrow and taking notes on what he read.When he left
home and struck out on his own at the age of 22, Lincoln settled in
thesmall village of New Salem, Illinois, where he spent six
eventful years. Unprepossessing① inappearance, he was frequently
described as gawky② and ill-dressed, but the other residents soon
discovered he had many assets. In addition to being intelligent and
surprisingly well informed, he was unusually good-natured and
friendly. He excelled in popular athletic contests such as running,
jumping, and throwing weights; he was unusually strong and a nearly
unbeatable wrestler; and though he did not drink, he was convivial③
and had great ability as a storyteller. He was thus well liked.
Supporting himself with a variety of jobs, Lincoln studied
assiduously during his New Salem years to make up for his lack of
formal education, of which he remained painfully conscious all his
life. Borrowing books wherever he could, he studied history and
biography, and he displayed an eager appetite for literature, being
particularly fond of Shakespeare and of the Scottish poet Robert
Burns.
年少发奋
那段日子里，林肯同时打几份工来维持生计。但他从未停止过对于学习的热情，在新塞姆村居位的时光里他一直孜孜不倦，以弥补自己没有接受过正规教育的遗憾。这一遗憾整整伴随了他的一生。无论何时，只要有机会，他就借书来读，钻研历史知识、研读人物传记，还对文学表现出极大的热情，尤其钟爱莎士比亚和苏格兰诗人罗伯特?彭斯。
As a Member of Congress
Before his first year in New Salem was out, he declared himself
a candidate for the state legislature, but failed. When he ran
again at the next election, he won handily, and served four
successive terms. In his second term, in spite of being one of the
youngest legislators, he was chosen as his Whig Party’s floor
leader, an honor that reflected his effectiveness as a speaker, his
energy, and his organizational and leadership abilities.
At about the time of his marriage, Lincoln declined to run for a
fifth term in the state legislature and began angling for election
to the U.S. Congress. When he finally succeeded and took his seat
in the House of Representatives in December 1847, the Mexican War
was coming to a victorious conclusion, and Lincoln lost no time in
joining other Whig members in attacking President James K. Polk for
unconstitutionally① provoking an unjust war for the purpose of
acquiring new territory.
This earned Lincoln considerable criticism back home, where the
war was very popular. Even as Lincoln contradicted his pro-war
Democratic constituents② on a matter of principle, he offended some
of his fellow Whigs with his practicality. So when Lincoln’s
congressional term was over, he was denied as the head of the
General Land Office.
As his brief congressional career ended, Lincoln returned to
Illinois, his political ambitions frustrated. With this greater
attention to his legal profession, Lincoln’s skill and reputation
as a lawyer rose, and his firm gained a prominent position in the
Illinois bar. He was “losing interest in politics,” he said of this
period. But as the slavery issue heated up in the 1850s, Lincoln’s
long-standing affi nity① for political controversy unexpectedly
revived.
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