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英语名人故事
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伟大的友谊
a great friendship
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met
in it have been
any other year? They
worked together starting then to further American
Revolution and later to shape the new
scheme of government. From the
work
sprang a friendship perhaps incomparable in
intimacy and the
trustfulness of
collaboration and induration. It lasted 50 years.
It
included pleasure and utility but
over and above them, there were shared
purpose, a common end and an enduring
goodness on both sides. Four and a
half
months before he died, when he was ailing, debt-
ridden, and worried
about his
impoverished family, Jefferson wrote to his
longtime friend.
His words and
Madison’s reply remind us that friends are friends
until
death. They also remind us that
sometimes a friendship has a bearing on
things larger than
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the friendship itself, for has there
ever been a friendship of
greater
public consequence than this one?
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杰斐逊和詹姆斯
?
麦迪逊相识于
1776
年。为什么偏
偏是这一年呢
?
当时他们开始共同
努力推动美国革命
,
后来又
一同为政府拟订新草案。在这些合作中孕育出的友谊是亲密
无间、信诚以托、坚不可摧的。这份友谊维持了五十年。当
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中包含有欢乐
,
有协作
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他们更志同道合地朝共同的目标迈进
,
历经多年从不间断地令彼此受益。在离开人世前四个半月时
,
杰斐逊重病在身
,
债台高筑
,
并为家庭的贫困感到忧心如焚
,
于
是他提笔给这位知心好友写了封信。从他的信以及麦迪逊的
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回复中
,
我们可以看到
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这两个朋友是一生之交
;
并且
有时候
,
他们之间的友情意义之大更超越了友情本身
,
这份友谊给大
众带来的深远影响是前所未有的。
“The friendship
which has subsisted between us now half
a century, the harmony of
our po1itical
principles and pursuits have been sources of
constant
happiness to me through that
long period. It’s also been a great solace
to me to believe that you’re engaged in
vindicating to posterity the
course
that
we’ve
pursued for preserving to them, in all
their purity, their blessings
of self-
government, which we
had assisted in
acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a
system of administration conducted with
a single
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and steadfast
eye to the general interest and happiness of those
committed to it, one which, protected
by truth, can never known reproach,
it
is that to which our lives have been devoted. To
myself you have been
a pillar of
support throughout life. Take care of me when dead
and be
assu
red that I should
leave with you my last affections.”
“你我之间的友谊迄今已经走过了半个世纪
,
我们在政治原
则与追求上取得的协调在过去的漫漫岁月中为我带来了源
源不断的快乐。我感到一大安慰的是
,
我相
信你还在兢兢业业
地致力于造福子孙后代的事业一一这份事业我们曾为他们
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