最著名的演讲之一：麦克阿瑟将军的告别演讲

最著名的演讲之一：麦克阿瑟将军的告别演讲


1951年4月19日，麦克阿瑟在国会大厦发表了题为《老兵永不死》的著名演讲。 ）


MacArthur made his last official appearance in a farewell address to the U.S. Congress. This address, "one of the most impressive and divisive oratorical performances of recent American times", was interrupted by fifty ovations.^[260] （这是他的最后一次官方的演讲。被评论为给人们印象最深的，五十次为听众鼓掌喝彩的演讲）

MacArthur ended the address saying:

　　“我即将结束五十二年的军旅生涯。我从军是在本世纪开始之前，而这是我童年的希望与梦想的实现。自从我在西点军校的教练场上宣誓以来，这个世界已经过多次变化，而我的希望与梦想早已消逝，但我仍记着当时最流行的一首军歌词，极为自豪地宣示‘老兵永不死，只是渐凋零’（Old soldiers never die, they just fade away）。”

（英文全文可读于：http://www.doc88.com/p-11765048493.html

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.

Good Bye.^[261]



他的生平等介绍可读以下：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur