AS GREAT MEN SAW IT

 Excerpts from speeches at dedicatory and unveiling ceremonies or comments made during personal visits to the Memorial.

 

President Calvin Coolidge (Consecration Ceremony, August 10, 1927)

 

“We have come here to dedicate a corner stone that was laid by the hand of the Almighty¹.... This memorial will be another national shrine² to which future generations will repair to declare their continuing allegiance to independence, to self government, to freedom and to economic justice....”

 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Jefferson Unveiling)

 

“An inspiration for the continuance of the democratic republican form of government, not only in our own beloved country, but, we hope, throughout the world.”

 

Lord Halifax (Visiting the Black Hills, March 29, 1946)

 

“The most remarkable³ confluence⁴ of the wonder of nature and the art of man I have ever witnessed.”

 

Judge Albert R. Denu (Borglum Banquet, December 28, 1938)

 

“The historian of the future ... will record America’s enduring achievements and include in his history the name of a Master Sculptor⁵, whom the earth’s inhabitants of the twentieth century knew as Gutzon Borglum.”

 

1 almighty   

adj.全能的，万能的；很大的，很强的

参考例句：

• Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
• It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。

2 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

3 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

4 confluence   

n.汇合，聚集

参考例句：

• They built the city at the confluence of two rivers.他们建造了城市的汇合两条河流。
• The whole DV movements actually was a confluence of several trends.整个当时的DV运动，实际上是几股潮流的同谋。

5 sculptor   

n.雕刻家，雕刻家

参考例句：

• A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
• The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。