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 A:    Good evening, my fellow Americans.  Three days
       from  now,  after  a  half-century  of  service  of  our
       country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of of-
       fice as, in a traditional and solemn ceremony, the
       authority of the Presidency¹ is vested in my suc-
       cessor. This evening I come to you with a mes-
       sage² of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a
       few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.

 A:    Like every other citizen, I wish the new President,
       and all who will labor³ with him, Godspeed.  I pray
       that the coming years will be blessed with peace
       and prosperity for all.
 A:    Our people expect their President and  the
       Congress to find essential agreement on ques-
       tions of great importance, the wise resolution of
       which will better shape the future of our great
        nation. My own relations with Congress began
       on a remote and tenuous⁴ basis when,  long ago,
       a  member of the Senate appointed me to West
        Point. I then had the pleasure of building more in-
       timate relationship with Congress during the war
       and immediate⁵ post-war period.  Finally, we have
        progressed  to  the  mutually  interdependent  rela-
       tionship we’ve had during these past eight years.

1 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

2 sage   

n.圣人，哲人；adj.贤明的，明智的

参考例句：

• I was grateful for the old man's sage advice.我很感激那位老人贤明的忠告。
• The sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.这位哲人是百代之师。

3 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

4 tenuous   

adj.细薄的，稀薄的，空洞的

参考例句：

• He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.他对现实认识很肤浅。
• The air ten miles above the earth is very tenuous.距离地面十公里的空气十分稀薄。

5 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。