4. The Only Thing We Have to Fear

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写课我没听懂

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如果有文字就好了，不然根本听不懂啊

听了无数遍终于能听懂了

Nature surrounds us with her bounty, and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes inthe very sight of the supply.

And yet, our distress comes from no failure of substance, we are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have so much to be thankful for. *distress 危难，不幸；悲痛 *plague 瘟疫，灾祸 *locust 蝗虫 *peril 危险；冒险 *forefather 祖先；前辈

More important,a host ofunemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence and an equal and great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. *a host of 众多，大量 *toil 长时间地苦干，辛苦劳作

In such a spirit on my partand on yours, we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen, our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce, and the savings of many years and thousands of families are gone. *on my part 就我而言，对我来说； *curtailment 缩减，紧缩 *withered 枯萎的；憔悴的