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20 米國は英國の友邦なり。

^[1]チオート

Mr. President, let me say that, in my judgment, this notion of a ^[2]National enmity of feeling toward Great Britain belongs to a past age of our history. My younger countrymen are unconscious of ^[3]it. They disavow it. That generation in whose opinions and feelings the actions and the destiny of the next age are enfolded, as the tree in the germ, do not at all comprehend your meaning, nor your fears, nor your regrets. We are born to happier feelings. We look on England as we look on France.

21 國民の危機。

^[4]シセロ

You are in the last crisis of nations. To be free, or to be slaves — that is the question of the hour. By every obligation of man or States it ^[5]behooves you in ^[6]this extremity to conquer — as your devotion to the gods and

1. チオート氏は米國の雄辯家である。
2. 國民一般に抱いて居る憎惡の念。
3. it は national enmity を承く。
4. シセロは有名な羅馬の雄辯家、政治家、哲學者であった。
5. 適せしむる。
6. in this extremity の extremity は crisis と同意味である。