We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in NewYork believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest-- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us no wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
(以上黑体字部分为规定背诵段落)
逐句理解赏析:
1)Mississippi用于读秒,one Mississippi(Mississippi one)means 1 second; one Mississippi, two Mississippi(Mississippi one, Mississippi two)means 2 seconds;
2) "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."公正似水奔流,正义如泉喷涌。节选自《圣经》,不用深究waters(水域)的形式,语言是习惯的集成;
3)not unmindful, 双重否定;
4)trials and tribulations, 艰难险阻,头韵,作固定语块记忆;
5)come fresh from narrow jail cells, 刚出狱;FOB(fresh of the boat)刚下船,初来乍到;
6)battened, 破旧的,受尽磨难的,This is a battened car/house. 破旧的...
7)stagger,(本意)步履蹒跚;
8)veteran,老兵;
9)creative suffering, 前文的creative protest, 节后上下文意译,历尽磨难,creative?是否出自圣经用法;
10)Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.=Let us (you)continue to ... 祈使句;
11)wallow, (原意)沉浸,wallow in mud (大象、河马)洗澡;(引申意)沉溺于,wallow in sorrows(沉溺于悲痛;
12)valley, (好词)绝望的山谷,意指困境。