"Why can't we really just tell the stories about people of goodwill?"

为什么我们不能只讲述善人的故事呢
And I remember thinking, "Oh dear, this poor man."

我当时在想哦这个可怜的家伙
But of course I didn't say anything, kept my mouth shut.

不过我当然不能说出来我选择了沉默
I nearly threw up,

尽管我非常想开口
and I just went home, about my business.

但我最终还是回家去处理自己的事情
But why can't history just be about people of goodwill?

为什么历史不能仅仅是善人的历史呢
I'll leave that to you to figure out.

我把这个问题交予你们去思考
Sometimes there is a great deal of goodwill

有些时候世间充满了善
and sometimes there isn't.

而有些时候则并非如此
Now, Reconstruction is a classic story of, we've said this already

重建如同我们曾经提到过的
great change, great experimentation,

是一篇关于探索与变革的经典故事
change forced upon people in some ways

人们亲身感受到了这种变化