来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第13集第13集》

will come to see that the only way

他们终归会意识到
they can truly win the war is by destroying slavery.

要赢的唯一办法就是摧毁奴隶制
And once the Union war effort becomes

一旦联邦摧毁了
an effort to destroy the social structure of the South,

南方的社会结构
including its labor system, and an effort to destroy slavery,

包括劳动制度还有摧毁奴隶制
it becomes an all-out and total war of conquest.

战争成了一场全面征服之战
Now, quickly, to the extent there was an opening grand strategy,

很快地出现了一个宏伟战略
soon to be abandoned, it was this.

但不久就被放弃了是这样的
Winfield Scott, the "Old Rough and Ready," As he was known,

温菲尔德·斯考特绰号叫老江湖
the old General of the Mexican War

他是墨西哥战争的老将
he's very ancient by now, he's eighty-years-old,

现在来说是古董级人物当时80高龄
he's big and he's fat and he's immobile

他体形臃肿行动不便