The novel follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—and is based on the writers own experiences of growing up with her three sisters during the American Civil War(1861-1865).

这部小说讲述了马奇家的四姐妹——梅格、乔、贝丝和艾米的生活，并基于作者自己在美国内战（1861-1865）期间与三姐妹一起成长的经历写成。

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In 2007, he starred in the American Civil War epic "Seraphim Falls".

2007年，他主演了美国内战史诗《堕落天使》。

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In reality he was a fine soldier, "one of the best cavalry officers, if not the best, in the Union Army" in the American civil war.

真是的情况是，他是一名好军人，美国内战中盟军“最优秀的骑兵指挥官之一，如果不算最最优秀的话”。

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In eighteen sixty-three, Union forces defeated Confederate forces in the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War the Battle of Gettysburg.

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A thousand times in a thousand ways anybody who studies the American Civil War period is inevitably asked, "So what caused this war?"

每个研究美国内战史的人,总会不可避免地被人们反复问道,"究竟是什么导致了这场战争"

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He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

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Under this plan, the Senate could then declare a post-attack state of emergency including a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, as happened during the American civil war as long as it did so with an escalating majority every two months.

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This comradeship could, however, be sorely tested if Macedonia, like Bosnia and Kosovo before it, were plunged into bloody civil war especially if it claimed American peacekeepers' lives.

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Macy, showing footage of American soldiers storming beaches of Normandy during World War II, a civil rights march, and a moon landing.

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