跟读练习: To Kill a Mockingbird - Atticus Finch's closing argument - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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To begin with, this case should never have come to trial.
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To begin with, this case should never have come to trial.
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The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.
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It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination,
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but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.
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There is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten,
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savagely, by someone who led almost exclusively with his left.
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and Tom Robinson now sits before you having taken the oath with the only good hand he possesses
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is right I have nothing
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but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state.
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She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance.
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But my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake,
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which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt.
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Now, I say guilt, gentlemen,
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because it was guilt that motivated her.
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She's committed no crime.
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she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
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A code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst,
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is unfit to live with.
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She must destroy the evidence of her offense.
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But what was the evidence of her offense?
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Tom Robinson.
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a human being.
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She must put Tom Robinson away from her.
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Tom Robinson was to her a daily reminder of what she did.
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Now, what did she do?
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She tempted a Negro.
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She was white and she tempted a Negro.
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She did something that in our society is unspeakable.
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She kissed a black man.
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Not an old uncle, but a strong, young, Negro man.
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No code mattered to her before she broke it,
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but it came crashing down on her afterwards.
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The witnesses for the state,
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with the exception of the sheriff of Macon County,
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have presented themselves to you gentlemen,
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to this court, in this cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted.
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I cannot be doubted.
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Confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption.
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The evil assumption that all Negroes lie,
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that all Negroes are basically immoral beings,
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that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women.
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An assumption that one associates with minds of their caliber,
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and which is in itself,
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gentlemen, a lie, which I do not need to point out to you.
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And so, a quiet, humble,
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respectable Negro, who has had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman,
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has had to put his word against two white peoples.
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The defendant is not guilty,
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but somebody in this courtroom is.
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Now, gentlemen, in this country,
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our courts are the great levelers.
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In our courts, all men are created equal.
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system.
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That's no ideal to me.
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That is a living, working reality.
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I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence that you have heard
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come to a decision that restored this man to his family.
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In the name of God, God, do your duty.
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In the name of God, believe, Tom Robinson.
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