Catton's portrayal of the Lost Cause in this essay was that of a benign,

卡顿在文章中对于"败局命定"的描述
innocent, romantic cluster of legends about the Old South,

已成为老南方的一系列善意天真和浪漫的传奇
driven by the assumption, as he put it, that, quote:

在他的臆断下他写道
"no hint of enmity should ever be kept alive."

"连空气中的一丝仇恨都应该赶尽杀绝"
His Lost Cause, in the brevity of one essay,

他的"败局命定" 在一篇小文中
was a story of noble sacrifice by the South, and heroism,

是南方的伟大牺牲和英雄主义的故事
of a nostalgia for an older civilization

作为对于老一代文明的怀旧
that had been some kind of bulwark against modernism.

演变成为默默抵抗现代主义的堡垒
And in the end, as Catton put it,

在最后卡顿写道
the Confederate legend, the Lost Cause, he said, quote,

"邦联传奇败局命定
"saved us." I couldn't really take it anymore.

拯救了我们" 我实在是不能接受
At the very end of the essay Catton redeemed himself a bit.

在文章的最后卡顿做了一点自我救赎