英译汉 Grant and Lee

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英译汉 Grant and Lee: AStudy in Contrasts When Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the parlor of amodest house at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, to work out the terms for the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, agreat chapter in American life came to aclose, and agreat new chapter began. These men were bringing the Civil War to its virtual finish. To be sure, other armies had yet to surrender, and for afew days the fugitive Confederate government would struggle desperately and vainly, trying to find some way to go on living now that its chief support was gone. But in effect it was all over when Grant and Lee signed the papers. And the little room where they wrote out the terms was the scene of one of the poignant, dramatic contrasts in American history. They were two strong men, these oddly different generals, and they represented the strengths of two conflicting currents that, through them, had come into final collision. Back of Robert E. Lee was the notion that the old aristocratic concept might somehow survive and be dominant in American life. Lee was tidewater Virginia, and in his background were family, culture, and tradition…the age of chivalry transplanted to aNew World which was making its own legends and its own myths. He embodied away of life that had come down through the age of knighthood and the English country squire. America was aland that was beginning all over again, dedicated to nothing much more complicated than the rather hazy belief that all men had equal rights and should have an equal chance in the world. In such aland Lee stood for the feeling that it was somehow of advantage to human society to have apronounced inequality in the social structure. There should be aleisure class, backed by ownership of land; in turn, society itself should be keyed to