来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第25集第25集》

He entitled it "Emancipation,"

他起的名字叫《解放》
and then a subtitle: "Long View Negro"

还有个副标题 "黑奴的远景"
Two simple verses: "Emancipation, 1865,

两句简单的诗句 "解放宣言 1865
sighted through the telescope of dreams,

梦想的望远镜就可一睹
looms larger, so much larger, so it seems, than truth can be

看起来很大如此之大真是这样吗
But turn the telescope around, look through the larger end,

若反向拿起望远镜来看
and wonder why, what was so large becomes so small again"

想想由大变小为哪般"
The metaphor is powerful, if vexing

这样的隐喻很生动很令人恼火
Look through the opposite end of a telescope

反向使用望远镜
Look back at history and not forward,

向后看历史而不是向前
and wonder why what was such a dream,

看看为什么会有当初的梦想
what was so large, can become so small again

曾经很大的又可以变得很小