of the burden of the past,

其内心承载着过往的重负
of memory of slavery, the Civil War,

以及对于奴隶制美国内战
and Reconstruction on the South,

和南方重建的回忆
but he's really referring to all of us,

但他也直面全人类
he's referring to humanity.

直面人性
It's one of the best single sentence descriptive explanations of

在我曾读过的对所有事件的回忆和教训
what happened to the legacy and memory of all these events

最终结果的单句描述性解释中
I've ever read.

这句话最为精辟
He has his character say,

他让笔下的角色说道
"Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick

"只有感恩上帝人们才能学会如何迅速遗忘
what they ain't brave enough to try to cure."

他们不敢弥补之事"
I'll do it once more.

我再重复一遍