来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第14集 第14集》

• 
  
  The person whose writing drew me into the Civil War
  那个通过他笔下的故事让我痴迷内战的
• 
  
  and I confess--was Bruce Catton.
  我实话实说吧 正是布鲁斯.柯顿
• 
  
  Have any of you ever read any of Bruce Catton?
  你们有人看过布鲁斯.柯顿的书吗?
• 
  
  It's a dwindling number in the twenty-first century.
  现在看他书的人越来越少了
• 
  
  But when I was growing up Bruce Catton
  但是在我小时候布鲁斯.柯顿
• 
  
  was the great narrative, popular historian
  是个爱讲故事 很受欢迎的历史学家
• 
  
  or popular narrative historian of the Civil War.
  或者说是著名的内战叙事历史学家
• 
  
  He wrote some seven books or so,
  从上世纪五十年代到到七十年代
• 
  
  from the late 1950s through the 1960s into the '70s.
  他一共写了差不多七本书
• 
  
  He wrote them around the time of the Civil War centennial.
  这些书差不多都写于内战发生一百年后