[新聞英語] 2012 歐巴馬勝選感言－Anne's English Cafe

   Barack Obama's victory speech

   美國總統歐巴馬順利連任
   我們來聽聽他的勝選感言並做下面的練習
   練習題是演說的前 1 分48秒的部份
   請先將網誌右下方的音樂播放器按暫停 (參觀人氣統計的上方)
   這樣才不會有兩個聲音重疊喔

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   Tonight, more than 200 years after a former        1      won
   the right to determine its own       2      , the task of perfecting
   our       3       moves forward. It moves forward because of you.
   It moves forward because you       4       the spirit that has
         5      over war and       6      , the spirit that has lifted this
   country from the depths of      7       to the great heights of
   hope, the belief that while each of us will       8       our own
   individual dreams. We are an American family and we rise or
   fall together as one      9        and as one       10      . Tonight,
   in this      11      , you, the American people, reminded us that
   while our road has been hard, while our       12       has been
   long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way
   back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of
   America the best is yet to come.

   Answers:

   1. colony   殖民地

   2. destiny   命運

   3. union   聯邦

   4. reaffirmed   再肯定

   5. triumphed   獲得勝利

   6. depression   不景氣

   7. despair   絕

望

   8. pursue   追求

   9. nation   國家

   10. people   民族

   11. election   選舉

   12. journey   旅程

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