“如果印第安人赢了，”他说，“他们就会击鼓；这是他们胜利的象征。”

"If the redskins have won," he said, "they will beat the tom-tom; it is always their sign of victory."

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北方人本来期望联邦军会在马纳萨斯战役中获胜，他们认为如果联邦军在美国内战初期能够取得一次重大胜利，那么南方的邦联军就会因此而失败。

Northerners had expected to win the battle of Bull Run. They believed the Confederacy would fall if the Union won a big military victory early in the war.

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这两者即便得以短暂地联合起来反对现政权，可这种联合一旦接近胜利就会破解，代之以玩命的争斗，这种争斗往往比他们对抗共同的敌人还要残忍。

Even if they are momentarily united against the regime, once they approach victory, their unity splits, they engage in a deadly fight, often more cruel than against the Shared enemy.

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