来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第19集 第19集》
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Never felt life's care or cloy.不要觉得人生充满忧虑不如意 -
Each bloomed and died an abated boy,花开花谢就是人的一生 -
nor dreamed what death was,没有人会考虑死亡是什么 -
thought it mere sliding into some vernal sphere.好像处于春天般的地方 -
They knew the joy but leaped the grief.他们只知道享乐 却忽略了悲伤 -
Like plants that flower 'ere comes the leaf正如那怒放的花朵 -
which storms lay low in kindly doom在残酷的风暴过后 -
and kill them in the flush of their bloom."也只是剩下枯枝残叶" -
The casualties in the union army alone,仅仅是联邦军队的人员伤亡 -
the army of the Potomac, Grant's army,波托马克的军队 格兰特的军队 -
from the first of May through the end of July 1864,从1864年的5月1号到7月末 -
in this horrible war of attrition一直深陷这场可怕的战争