Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
八十七年前，我们的先辈在这片大陆上开创了一个崭新的国家，它孕育于自由之中，并致力于实现所有人生而平等的宏伟信念。
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
当下我们正经历一场伟大的内战，考验着这个国家，或是任何一个抱持如此信念与宗旨的国家，能否长久屹立。今天我们聚集在这场战争的一处激烈战场之上。
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
我们来到这里，将这片土地的一部分奉献给那些为了国家得以生存而献出生命的烈士，作为他们最后的长眠之所。我们这样做是完全恰当而且合乎情理的。
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
但在更宏大的意义上，我们无法真正奉献这片土地——我们无法洗礼它——我们无法使之圣化。那些曾在此浴血拼搏的勇士们，无论是幸存者还是阵亡者，早已将其圣化，其崇高程度远超我们微薄的力量所能增减。
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
倒不如说是我们自己，应该在此献身于摆在我们面前的伟大重任……使这个民有、民治、民享的政府，永不从大地之上消逝。