晨讀英語美文100篇六級Struggle for Freedom

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:03.53]Passage 15. Struggle for Freedom [00:08.46]It is not possible for me to express all that I feel of appreciation [00:14.25]for what has been said and given to me. [00:16.99]I accept, for myself, with the conviction of having received [00:21.91]far beyond what I have been able to give in my books. [00:26.18]I can only hope that the many books which I have yet to write [00:30.44]will be in some measure a worthier acknowledgment than I can make tonight. [00:36.13]And, indeed, I can accept only in the same spirit [00:40.62]in which I think this gift was originally given [00:43.79]—that it is a prize not so much for what has been done, as for the future. [00:49.81]Whatever I write in the future must, I think, [00:53.31]be always benefited and strengthened when I remember this day. [00:57.69]I accept,too, for my country,the United States of America. [01:02.51]We are a people still young and we know that we have not yet come to the fullest of our powers. [01:09.18]This award, given to an American, strengthens not only one, [01:14.64]but the whole body of American writers, [01:17.49]who are encouraged and heartened by such generous recognition. [01:21.87]And I should like to say, too, that in my country [01:25.48]it is important that this award has been given to a woman. [01:29.64]You who have already so recognized your own Selma Lagerlof, [01:34.78]and have long recognized women in other fields, [01:38.17]cannot perhaps wholly understand what it means in many countries [01:42.66]that it is a woman who stands here at this moment. [01:46.15]But I speak not only for writers and for women, but for all Americans, [01:51.30]for we all share in this. [01:53.27]I should not be truly myself if I did not, in my own wholly unofficial way, [01:59.40]speak also of the people of China,whose life has for so many years been my life also, [02:06.29]whose life,indeed, must always be a part of my life. [02:11.11]The minds of my own country and China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, [02:18.00]but above all, alike in our common love of freedom. [02:22.38]And today more than ever, this is true, [02:25.65]now when China's whole being is engaged in the greatest of all the struggles, [02:31.45]the struggle for freedom. [02:33.42]I have never admired China more than I do now, [02:37.25]when I see her uniting as she has never before, [02:40.86]against the enemy who threatens her freedom. [02:44.36]With this determination for freedom, [02:46.89]which is in so profound a sense the essential quality of her nature, [02:51.80]I know that she is unconquerable. [02:54.91]Freedom—it is today more than ever the most precious human possession. [03:00.55]We—Sweden and the United States—we have it still. [03:05.26]My country is young—but it greets you with a peculiar fellowship, [03:10.18]you whose earth is ancient and free.

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