演说的

"Douglas won reelection, but Lincoln's antislavery position and oratorical brilliance made him a national figure in the young Republican Party."

最后道格拉斯虽获连任，但林肯在反奴隶制立场和演说时表现的才气让他成为新成立的共和党里的全国英雄人物。

Throughout two years of high-flown speechifying he promised to clean the Augean stables of Washington, close the revolving door between power and money and raise ethical standards.

在奥巴马两年浮夸的演说中，他到处许诺要清除华盛顿艰难的禁锢局面，关闭权力与金钱之间的"旋转门"，并提升伦理道德标准。

The reasons were examined with great elegance in an important lecture, given at Oxford fifty long years ago by the neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington, celebrating the bicentenary of Goethe's birth.

原译：五十年前，在牛津大学歌德两百年诞辰的纪念会中，神经生理学家薛灵顿作了一次重要的演说，优雅地检查了歌德之所以徒劳无功的理由。

All I need is one of your charming speeches.

我所需要的只是你的迷人的演说。

At the beginning I didn't plan on going, because I'm not interested in voting in this election. That and I'm not familiar with the candidates; they haven't come out into the open to give any speeches of plans following an election victory, so I have no reason to go choose them.

开始我是不打算去的，因为自己去这个选举不感兴趣，而且对候选人很不了解，他们也没有出来公开做什么选举成功后的工作计划的演说，我没有理由去选他们。

In the years following that speech, Faulkner's work of ten adopted a lighter, more conciliatory tone

在那篇演说后的年代里，福克纳的作品多半使用一种比较轻松、和解的笔调。

In his speeches the mayor always puts on a big show of crocodile tears for poor and homeless people.

在市长的演说中他总是很夸张的为穷人和无家可归的人留下泪水。

As Demosthenes, the orator, explained it: We have prostitutes for our pleasure, concubines for our health, and wives to bear us lawful offspring.

"正如德摩斯梯尼的演说家，解释："我们已经为我们高兴妓女，小妾为我们的健康，和妻子承担我们合法的后代。

ON SATURDAY February 9th an overflowing crowd of Virginians got a chance to see the Democratic presidential candidates giving duelling speeches at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond.

2月9日星期六在Richmond举行的Jefferson-Jackson晚宴会中，人潮涌动的弗吉尼亚选民们获得了一个机会现场聆听民主党总统候选人发表的决战演说。

His grandfather had been an actor who left the theatre to teach elocution, his father was a teacher who helped deaf-mutes learn how to speak.

他的祖父曾经是个演员，离开舞台后教演说术，他的父亲是一个教严重口吃者说话的老师。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。