1. We've borne enough insults from the "meddling Yankees. It's time we made them understand we keep our slaves with or without their approval. Who's to stop them right from the state of Georgia to secede from the Union.
【難句解析】make sb. do sth.“使某人...”,注意make后的動詞前不用to,例句:The teacher made him do his homework. 老師逼著他做作業;secede from“從...正式脫離”,例句:They plotted to make the whole Mississippi Valley secede from the United States. 他們陰謀策劃使整個密西西比流域脫離美國。
【句子翻譯】我們已經受夠了討厭的北佬的氣了?,F在我們該讓他們知道不管他們批不批準,我們都要有奴隸制。如果想讓奴隸制脫離佐治亞州,也就是讓佐治亞州脫離聯邦。
2.The South must assert ourselves by force of arms. After we fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter, we've got to fight. There's no other way.
【難句解析】by force of“靠 ... 的力量,用...的手段”,例句:We won by force of numbers.我們以人多取勝;fire on“向...開火”,例句:The enemy opened fire on our lines at early dawn. 拂曉時敵人向我防線開了火;
【句子翻譯】我們南方人也該用武力表現一下自己了。我們在薩默特堡和北方流氓開過火。我們必須打下去,沒別的辦法。