炉边谈话 Fireside Chat（1/2）

富兰克林·罗斯福 / Frankl Roosevelt

富兰克林·罗斯福（1882—1945），美国第三十一、三十二任总统，美国历史上唯一蝉联四届（第四届未任满）的总统。罗斯福在20世纪的经济大萧条和第二次世界大战中扮演了重要的角色，被学者评为是美国最伟大的三位总统之一。

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1.expansion [iksp?n??n] n.扩大，扩张，扩展，膨胀

2.philosophy [fil?s?fi] n.哲学；人生哲学，人生观

3.ephatically [?f?t?kl?] adv.强调地；断然地；明显地

4.arsenal [ɑ:s?n?l] n.兵工厂，军火库

My friend,

This is not a fireside chat on war.It is a talk on national security; becae the nub of the whole urpose of your president is to keep you now, and your children ter, and yrandchildren uch ter, out of a st-ditch war for the preservation of Ari dependend all of the thgs that Ari depeo you and toand to ours.

Tonight,the presence of a world crisis, y d goes back eight years to a nightthe idst of a dostic crisis.It was a ti when the wheels of Ari dtry were grdg to a full s, when the whole bankg syste of our untry had ceased to fun.

I well rebered that while I saty studythe White Hoe, preparg to talk with the people of the Uates, I had before y eyes the picture of all those Aris with who I was talkg.I saw the worknthe ills, the es, the factories; the girl behd the uhe sall shopkeeper; the farr dog his Sprg plog; the widows and the old n w about their life’s savgs.

I tried to o the great ass of Ari people what the bankg crisis to thetheir daily lives.

Tonight I want to do the sa thg, with the sa people,this new crisis, which faces Arica.

We t the issue of 1933 with urage and realis.We face this new crisis—this hreat to the security of our nation—with the sa urage and realis.

Never before sce Jastolyouth Rock has our Ari civilization beensuch danger as now.

For oeber 27, 1940—this year—by an agreent signedBerl, three powerful nations, oEurope and oneAsia, joed theselves togetherthe threat that if the Uates of Arica terfered with or blocked the expansira of these three nations—a progra aid at world ntrol—they would uniteultiate a agast the Uates.

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