来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第17集 第17集》
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The estimate is that about five out of six blockade runners,据估计 每六艘试图突破封锁的船只中 -
these ships running the blockade, got through有五艘能通过封锁 -
between 1861 and '62,这是在1861至1862年间的数据 -
but by 1864 and '65 only about one of every two但到了1864至1865年间 -
attempted blockade runners ever got through.只有半数船只能突破封锁线 -
There was widespread devastation of staple crop agriculture在南方 各地联邦军队所到之处 -
in those parts of the South where the Union armies moved in.主要农业作物均遭到大面积破坏 -
Charlie Brewster just查理·布鲁斯特 -
described those cornfields of Central Virginia.描写弗吉尼亚中部的玉米地 -
A Union Army near Southern crops meant联邦军队一旦在南方的庄稼旁驻扎 -
the crops were gone in twenty-four hours.这些庄稼就活不过24小时 -
In one of the world's greatest agricultural economies,在这个世界最大农业国之一