原文：
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us
--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
译文：
八十七年前，我们先辈在这个大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，奉行一切人生来平等的原则。
我们正从事一场伟大的内战，以考验这个国家，或者任何一个孕育于自由和奉行上述原则的国家是否能够长久存在下去。我们在这场战争中的一个伟大战场上集会。
烈士们为使这个国家能够生存下去而献出了自己的生命，我们来到这里，是要把这个战场的一部分奉献给他们作为最后安息之所。我们这样做是完全应该而且非常恰当的。
但是，从更广泛的意义上说，这块土地我们不能够奉献，不能够圣化，不能够神化。那些曾在这里战斗过的勇士们，活着的和去世的，已经把这块土地圣化了，这远不是我们微薄的力量所能增减的。
我们今天在这里所说的话，全世界不大会注意，也不会长久地记住，但勇士们在这里所做过的事，全世界却永远不会忘记。
毋宁说，倒是我们这些还活着的人，应该在这里把自己奉献于勇士们已经如此崇高地向前推进但尚未完成的事业。
倒是我们应该在这里把自已奉献于仍然留在我们面前的伟大任务——我们要从这些光荣的死者身上吸取更多的献身精神，来完成他们已经完全彻底为之献身的事业；我们要在这里下定最大的决心，不让这些死者白白牺牲。
我们要使国家在上帝福佑下自由的新生，要使这个民有、民治、民享的政府永世长存。
扩展资料：
葛底斯堡战役简介
葛底斯堡战役于宾夕法尼亚葛底斯堡及其附近地区爆发，是美国内战中最血腥的一场战斗，经常被引以为美国内战的转捩点。
从斯图亚特在白兰地车站一役负于联邦骑兵为了洗刷自己的失败而脱离邦联主力留下李的步兵在缺乏侦察部队的情况下进犯宾夕法尼亚，为战败埋下隐患开始。
第一天的战役时主要布福德的主动积极展开，布福德将军意识到城南高地（公墓岭）的军事价值之后孤军奋战，以寡敌众，迟滞南军攻势。
步兵增援到来之后，铁旅发动了英勇的冲锋击溃了南军的首次攻势。之后北军虽然被南军击退但遭到迟滞的南军未能攻占公墓岭。
第二天的战役米德将军利用内线调动和地形部署的鱼钩防线由于第3兵团席宼斯将军擅自前出而险些崩溃，整个军为了填补这个漏洞付出了卓绝的努力。
在这场战斗中在中央防线出现漏洞的时候，明尼苏达第一步兵团在汉考克的指挥下以262人向南军1,700人的阿拉巴马步兵旅发动了冲锋，付出82%伤亡的代价阻挡了南军的前进，保证了北军防线的完整。
在北军最左翼的小圆顶，张伯伦的缅因第二十步兵团坚守高地，在弹药耗尽的情况下发起了对南军发起了白刃冲锋，击退了南军的攻击。
参考资料：百度百科——葛底斯堡演说
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
八十七年前，我们的父辈在这块大陆上创建了一个新的国家。这个新的国家在自由中孕育，信奉人人生而平等的主张。现在我们正在从事伟大的国内战争，来考验这个国家，或任何在自由中孕育，信奉人人生而平等的主张的国家，能否长久存在下去。我们今天相聚在这场战争的一个伟大的战场上。我们相聚在这里是为了把这伟大战场的一部分奉献给那些为了我们国家的生存而献出了生命的烈士们作为最后的安息地。我们这样做完全是合情合理的。但在更广泛的意义上来说，我们不能奉献这块土地，我们不能使这块土地神圣，我们不能使这块土地光耀。那些勇敢的人们，那些曾经在这里战斗过的，活着和死去的人们，已经使这块土地神圣了，远非我们所能增加或减少。世界不大会注意，也不会永久记住我们今天在这里所说的话，但世界决不能忘记他们在这里所做过的事情。我们这些活着的人，倒是应该在这里献身于他们长久以来如此高尚地推进的，尚未完成的工作。我们倒是应该在这里献身于留在我们面前的伟大任务：那就是继承这些光荣的先烈，对他们在这里作出最后全部贡献的事业，作出我们进一步的贡献；那就是我们在这里狠下决心，决不让这些先烈的死成为白白的牺牲；那就是我们的国家一定要在上帝底下获得新的自由；那就是决不让人民的政府，人民选举的政府，为了人民的政府从地球上消亡。本回答被网友采纳