He acknowledged that in 1965 the war had left, he said,

他承认在1965年战争将
the unfinished business of black equality as its deepest legacy, and that, quote

未竟的黑人平等问题是其最深刻的遗产
"the Negro was what the war was about,

"黑人成为了这场战争的关键所在
somehow."

从某种程度上讲"
Now that was probably--given how closely Catton knew Lincoln, loved Lincoln--

由于卡顿对林肯的熟识和崇拜
that was probably a riff on Lincoln's use of the word 'somehow'

"从某种程度讲"可能是对林肯用词的一个重复
in the Second Inaugural, where Lincoln says,

在林肯的第二个就职典礼上他说到
"somehow,

"从某种程度上讲
all knew the war was about slavery."

这场战争的关键在于奴隶制是显而易见的"
And we've been trying to explain

与内战有关的书大约有6.5-7万本
that somehow

都在试图解释
in our 65 to 70,000 books on the Civil--

这个"从某种程度上讲"