Four score and sevenphr. /fɔːr skɔːr ənd ˈsevn/ 八十七（score 作「二十」，源自《圣经》语体） years ago our fathers brought forthphr. /brɔːt fɔːrθ/ 孕育，产生（bring forth 的过去式）, on this continent, a new nation, conceivedv. /kənˈsiːvd/ 孕育于；源自（conceive 的过去分词） in Liberty, and dedicatedv. /ˈdedɪkeɪtɪd/ 献身，致力于 to the propositionn. /ˌprɑːpəˈzɪʃn/ 主张，命题 that all men are created equal.
八十七年前，我们的先辈在这块大陆上创立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，并献身于「人人生而平等」这一主张。
Now we are engagedadj. /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ 卷入的，从事于 in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endurev. /ɪnˈdʊr/ 持久，长存. We are metv. /ɑːr met/ 相聚（古义：集会于此） on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicatev. /ˈdedɪkeɪt/ 举行落成典礼，奉献 a portionn. /ˈpɔːrʃn/ 一部分，一隅 of that field, as a final resting placen. /ˈrestɪŋ pleɪs/ 安息之所，长眠之地 for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fittingadj. /ˈfɪtɪŋ/ 恰当的，合宜的 and properadj. /ˈprɑːpər/ 正当的，应有的 that we should do this.
如今我们卷入了一场伟大的内战，它在考验这个国家——或任何一个如此孕育、如此献身的国家——能否长久存续。我们相聚在这场战争中的一处伟大战场上。我们来到这里，是要把这片战场的一隅奉献出来，作为那些为让这个国家生存而在此献出生命者的最后安息之所。我们这样做，是完全恰当而正当的。
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecratev. /ˈkɑːnsɪkreɪt/ 使成神圣，祝圣—we can not hallowv. /ˈhæloʊ/ 奉为神圣，神化—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detractv. /dɪˈtrækt/ 减损，贬抑. The world will little notev. /noʊt/ 留意，注意, 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 unfinishedadj. /ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/ 未竟的，尚未完成的 work which they who fought here have thus far so noblyadv. /ˈnoʊbli/ 崇高地，英勇地 advancedv. /ədˈvænst/ 推进（advance 的过去分词）. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotionn. /dɪˈvoʊʃn/ 献身，忠贞 to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolvev. /rɪˈzɑːlv/ 决意，郑重下定决心 that these dead shall not have died in vainphr. /ɪn veɪn/ 徒然，白白地—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 perishv. /ˈperɪʃ/ 消亡，覆灭 from the earth.
但从更深远的意义上说，我们不能奉献——不能圣化——不能神化——这片土地。在这里奋斗过的勇士，无论生者死者，早已把它圣化，远非我们微薄之力所能增之或损之。世人不会太留意，也不会长久记住我们在这里说过什么，但永远不会忘记他们在这里做过什么。倒是我们这些活着的人，应当在此献身于他们在此战斗、迄今已如此崇高地推进了的未竟事业。倒是我们应当在此献身于眼前尚待完成的伟大任务——我们要从这些可敬的死者身上汲取更多的献身精神，去献身于他们为之献出了最后全部忠贞的事业；我们要在此郑重下定决心：这些死者不致白白牺牲；这个国家将在上帝庇佑下获得自由的新生；而民有、民治、民享的政府，将永不会从地球上消亡。