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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  It was to be a war on an army,
  这是场针对一支军队的战争
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  not for a strategic capital.
  而不是针对军事要地
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  Now strategic crossroads and rivers and so on
  战略上的交叉路 河流等等
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  would be important,
  虽然这些都很重要
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  But the object now was to destroy
  但是现在的目标是摧毁
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  the fighting force of the south and its fighting will.
  南方军队的作战力量和斗志
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  And in the western part of the war--
  在西部的战场
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  and there were actually five major armies
  目前主要有五支军队
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  now that Grant was to try to coordinate;
  格兰特想将其汇聚成一支军队
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  An army under Nathaniel Banks out in the far west
  在远西地区 由纳撒尼尔·班克斯率领
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  that Lincoln wanted to go into Texas with,
  林肯希望其能率军进攻德克萨斯州
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  and they never really got into Texas.
  但他们没有真去德克萨斯