名稱：41 Duty，Honor，Country
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晨讀英語美文 名人演講
[00:00.92]Duty, Honor, Country.
[00:07.78]Those three hallowed words reverently dictate
[00:18.06] what you ought to be, what you can be,
[00:25.08]what you will be. They are your rallying points:
[00:35.61]to build courage when courage seems to fail;
[00:46.14]to regain faith
[00:50.05] when there seems to be little cause for faith;
[00:53.86]to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
[01:01.94]Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction,
[01:14.92]that poetry of imagination,
[01:20.76]nor that brilliance of metaphor
[01:25.85] to tell you all that they mean.
[01:30.56]The unbelievers will say they are but words,
[01:37.74]but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
[01:45.19] Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic,
[01:55.39] every hypocrite, every troublemaker,
[02:01.77]and I am sorry to say,
[02:06.05]some others of an entirely different character,
[02:10.38]will try to downgrade them
[02:14.84] even to the extent of mockery
[02:19.47] and ridicule.But these are some of the things they do.
[02:29.30]They build your basic character.
[02:35.19]They mold you for your future roles
[02:41.38] as the custodians of the nation's defense.
[02:46.86]They make you strong enough to know
[02:54.89] when you are too weak,
[02:56.21] and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid.
[03:03.44]They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure,
[03:16.32]but humble and gentle in success;
[03:22.45] not to substitute words for actions,
[03:28.91]not to seek the path of comfort,
[03:34.60]but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge;
[03:43.93] to learn to stand up in the storm
[03:49.01] but to have compassion on those who fall;
[03:54.80] to master yourself before you seek to master others;
[04:01.27]to have a heart that is clean,
[04:06.50]a goal that is high; to learn to laugh,
[04:13.19]yet never forget how to weep;
[04:17.12]to reach into the future yet never neglect the past;
[04:26.57] to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously;
[04:38.32] to be modest
[04:42.44]so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness,
[04:50.84] the open mind of true wisdom,
[04:55.55]the meekness of true strength.
[04:59.83]They give you a temper of the will,
[05:09.94]a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions,
[05:25.01]a freshness of the deep springs of life,
[05:31.62]a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,
[05:42.67]of an appetite for adventure over love of ease.
[05:49.03]They create in your heart the sense of wonder,
[05:57.56]the unfailing hope of what next,
[06:03.75] and the joy and inspiration of life.
[06:09.62]They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman....