据1989年6月26日《参考消息》报导,1986年江泽民回到他母校上海交通大学,发现有一张学生的大字报写的是美国林肯总统在葛提斯堡演讲的摘要。他于是用英语背诵了其中的一段,使同学们大吃一惊。但是他对学生们说,他们只了解这篇演讲的字句,而不了解其实质。江泽民批评学生们对西方只有“表面的了解”。为了使大家对这篇演说有所了解,我们转载了《生活、创造》杂志,1988年第9期上李祥荣的文章《林肯一篇不朽的演说》,并更名为《朴实的语言,深刻的主题——林肯一篇不朽的演说》供大家参考。 According to the “Reference News” dated June 26, 1989, Jiang Zemin returned to his alma mater, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986, and found that a student’s posters were written by a summary of President Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg. He then recited one of these paragraphs in English to surprise the classmates. But he told the students that they understood only the words of the speech, and did not understand its substance. Jiang Zemin criticized students for having “only a surface understanding” of the West. In order to make everyone understand this speech, we reproduced the article “Life, Creation”, No. 9 of 1988 on Li Xiangrong’s article “An Immortal Speech by Lincoln” and renamed it “plain language, profound theme - Lincoln an immortal speech ”for your reference.