来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第1集第1集》

in whose symbolic shadow we stand today

今天我们就站在他的雕像下方----
signed the Emancipation Proclamation."

签署了《解放黑奴宣言》"
This was of course August 1963.

当然那是在一九六三年八月
A hot, a brutally hot August day,

一个炙热的夏日
King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

金就站在林肯纪念碑下
"This momentous decree came as a great beacon,

"这项重要法令的颁布
light of hope to millions of Negro slaves

对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴
who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔
It came as a joyous daybreak," he says,

恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢" 他说道
"to end the long night of their captivity."

"迎来欢畅黎明"
That sentence is almost directly from the Bible.

这个句子几乎直接从《圣经》上摘抄下来
"But one hundred years later the Negro still is not free.

"但是一百年后黑人仍旧未获自由