This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.

在强大而多样的动机驱使下，这次运动从荒野中建立起一个国家，并在本质上塑造了一个未知大陆的性格和命运。

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation.

八十七年之前，我们的祖先在这大陆上建立了一个国家。

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Although its architect was forced to resign and it was never properly finished inside, the opera house has come to define not only a city, but also an entire nation and continent.

虽然歌剧院的设计师被迫辞职，虽然歌剧院的内装潢从未圆满竣工，但是这件作品已不仅仅是一座城市的标志，而且也是一个国家和一个洲的象征。

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He began to read: (Music) "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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As the paper Die Welt said, "the Germans are the indispensable nation on the continent".

BBC: Resentment towards Germany

The papacy ended on a very low key after Benedict promised during a final meeting with the cardinals - who will shortly elect his successor - to show "reverence and obedience" to the new head of the Church, from whichever continent or nation he may come.

BBC: The day Benedict XVI's papacy ended

The West African nation is one of the continent's largest gold exporters.

BBC: Illegal Ghana gold mine owner arrested after collapse