but there are some invented.

当然也有些是虚构的
In some ways,

在某些方面
possibly the most brilliant inventions in this book

可能是这本书中最出彩的地方
are the slave characters, or the freedman characters,

是奴隶的形象被解放奴隶的形象
And what Doctorow does with them

多克特罗远离战场
through this sort of anguished crucible of all out war.

是如何描绘出这些处于水深火热的形象
Look especially for those journeys into

注意看这些经历
Sherman's own mind, Sherman's psyche,

取自谢尔曼的思想活动心理状况
those meditations of Sherman's on death.

谢尔曼关于死亡的这些沉思
Page 88 and 89 to be exact is, I think,

我想是在88至89页这里
an unforgettable mediation by Sherman on the meaning of death

谢尔曼就死亡意义有一个令人难忘的总结
and just what it means

还有这其中的意义