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Daring and resourcefulness they had, too; the ability to think faster and move faster than the enemy. These were the qualities which gave Lee the dazzling campaigns of Second Manassas and Chancellorsville and won Vicksburg for Grant.
他們都驍勇而且足智多謀，他們思維敏捷并能先發(fā)制人。這樣的品質(zhì)為李在第二次馬納薩斯戰(zhàn)役和錢(qián)瑟勒斯維爾戰(zhàn)役中贏得了榮耀，同時(shí)為格蘭特在維克斯堡贏得了勝利。
Lastly, and perhaps greatest of all, there was the ability, at the end, to turn quickly from war to peace once the fighting was over. Out of the way these two men behaved at Appomattox came the possibility of a peace of reconciliation. It was a possibility not wholly realized, in the years to come, but which did, in the end, help the two sections to become one nation again... after a war whose bitterness might have seemed to make such a reunion wholly impossible. No part of either man's life became him more than the part he played in their brief meeting in the McLean house at Appomattox. Their behavior there put all succeeding generations of Americans in their debt. Two great Americans, Grant and Lee—very different, yet under everything very much alike. Their encounter at Appomattox was one of the great moments of American history.
最后一個(gè)，也許是最偉大的一個(gè)品質(zhì)就是在戰(zhàn)斗結(jié)束后能迅速地從戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)轉(zhuǎn)向和平。格蘭特和李在阿波馬托克斯的談判使調(diào)停和平成為可能。在戰(zhàn)后的幾年中，這一可能性并沒(méi)有全部實(shí)現(xiàn)，但是最終促使雙方重新統(tǒng)一成一個(gè)國(guó)家……而這場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的殘酷性本來(lái)使重新統(tǒng)一完全不可能。他們?cè)诎⒉R托克斯的麥克萊小屋的短暫會(huì)面是他們一生中最偉大的時(shí)刻。他們?cè)谀抢锏暮驼勈姑绹?guó)人的后代受益無(wú)窮。這兩位偉大的美國(guó)人——格蘭特和李——迥然不同卻又非常相似。他們?cè)诎⒉R托克斯的會(huì)談成為了美國(guó)歷史上偉大的一刻。
