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They joked a bit, but then they talked about the end of the war. Lee raised the dreaded concept of surrender, and he said, "What will the country think?"
他們倆說(shuō)笑了一番，然后開(kāi)始討論戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)局的話題。李提起他極不愿提及的投降設(shè)想，問(wèn)道：“我們的國(guó)家會(huì)怎么看？”
And Wise looked over at Lee, and he said, "Country? My God, man, you are the country to these men." So, in other words, Lee was the country to the Southerners. Whether or not he would decide to deal with the Northerners with honor and dignity and to become good citizens again, or with rage and continued civil war and civil violence, he would be the determinant of that.
懷斯看了看李，說(shuō)國(guó)家？天哪，難道你不知道，對(duì)這些士兵來(lái)說(shuō)，你就代表國(guó)家？”因而換句話說(shuō)，對(duì)南方人而言，李就等于國(guó)家。無(wú)論是他決定以體面和尊嚴(yán)應(yīng)對(duì)北方人，當(dāng)個(gè)好公民，還是心懷怒火地繼續(xù)打下去，繼續(xù)以暴力對(duì)付北方，都取決于他。
City Point is in Virginia, and it's where Ulysses S. Grant, the commanding general of the Union armies, had his floating fortress. City Point was, in effect, an armed command post for the Northern Army as they were encircling Lee's army in Petersburg and in Richmond. They met on March 24 where Lincoln actually wanted to see the front lines and confer with his commanding generals.
錫蒂波因特位于弗吉尼亞州，在這里北部軍隊(duì)統(tǒng)帥尤利塞斯·S.格蘭特有一個(gè)流動(dòng)堡壘。錫蒂波因特事實(shí)上是北軍在包圍駐守在彼得斯堡和里士滿的李的軍隊(duì)時(shí)的一個(gè)武裝指揮所。3月24日林肯在此會(huì)見(jiàn)了格蘭特，林肯來(lái)此是想視察前線并與將領(lǐng)們商談。
It was from City Point that Lincoln, in that same meeting, spoke about his fears of guerrilla warfare and his fear that there would be a final bloody Armageddon; he did something quite unique. Abraham Lincoln said, "When the war is over, there must be no hangings, there must be no bloody work."
就是在錫蒂波因特的這次會(huì)見(jiàn)中，林肯談到他擔(dān)心南軍會(huì)打游擊戰(zhàn)，他擔(dān)心最后會(huì)有一場(chǎng)血腥大決戰(zhàn)。林肯于是做出了非凡之舉。他說(shuō)這場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束時(shí)，絕不允許有絞刑，絕不允許有血腥之舉。”
What was looming large in his mind was the specter of the French Revolution because it loomed large in the minds of all Americans.
法國(guó)大革命的恐怖陰影籠罩在他的心頭，因?yàn)檫@也是所有美國(guó)人所擔(dān)心害怕的。
