《独立宣言》及第一段句子分析
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The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4,
1776 THE UNANIMOUS
DECLARATION OF THE
THIRTEEN UNITED
STATES OF AMERAICA
When， in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to assume among
the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the laws Nature and Nature’s God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.
（这是一个句子。主句是：a decent respect（句子的主语） to the opinions of
mankind requires…
这个句子带有一个时间状语从句，两个which分别引导一个定语从句；谓语动词
requires带有一个宾语从句（that引导的从句），最后一个which引导的也是定语从句）。整个句子是一个较为复杂的复合句。这个句子共有69个单词。希望大家努力背下来。
[译文]在人类历史事件的进程中，当一个民族有必要解除其与另一民族相连结的政治桎梏，并按照自然法则和上帝的意旨在世界列强中取得独立与平等的地位时，对于人类舆论的真诚与尊重，要求他们必须将不得已而独立的原因予以
宣布。
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights, that they are among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among them, deriving their
just power from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing
its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that governments long established should not be changed for light
and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown
that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, than t right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design
to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of
these Colonies; and such is now the necessity, which constrains
them to alter their former systems of government. The history of
the present King of Great Britain is usurpations, all having in
direct object tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts
be submitted to a candid world.
