来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第20集第20集》

so much about the will of two peoples to see it through.

关乎两方人民坚持到底的决心
The surrender terms were actually almost utterly apolitical.

但是投降条件却几乎无关政治
I had a couple of photos up here.

我放几张照片来看看
I don't know if you can see this very well.

我不知道你们能不能看清楚
This is one of many photographs

这是是马修·布雷迪和他的摄影组
that Mathew Brady and his troop of photographers

在1865年四月五日里士满陷落后
took of Richmond, after it fell April 5,1865,

在那里拍摄的众多照片中的一张
as so many journalists now

现在许多新闻工作者
started saying the United States

开始宣称美国终于成为了
was finally an old country because it had ruins.

一个古老的国家因为它有遗址
Isn't that great?

不是吗
You need some ruins to have a history.

历史是需要遗迹来证明的