It had a first part called "Southern Night" and a second part called "The Horror and the Glory." "Southern Night" was about his experience growing up in Mississippi.

第一部分是，“南方的夜”,第二部分是，“恐怖与荣誉”,“南方的夜”写他在密西西比成长的经历。

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They've had a great deal to do with the way the South would go, or parts of the South would go.

他们都与南方的整体形势,或局部形式紧密相关

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He states the problem of living in the South as a problem of feeling, that he needed to claim and consider his own feelings.

关于在南方的生活,他将他当作一种感觉来描述，与此同时，他希望找回自己的感觉。

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The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea.

在黑暗时代孤立希腊城镇,开始逐渐增加与东方和南方的接触,当我的南方,实际上指的是埃及,以及所有东爱琴海的周边地区

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And none other than Thomas Jefferson himself left this famous description of characterizations of Southerners and Northerners.

最有代表性的便是托马斯·杰斐逊他本人,用这么一段人们耳熟能详的话,描述了南方人与北方人的不同特征

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And in a thousand other ways Americans realized racism isn't a Southern thing, it's everywhere, belongs to everyone.

经历这些种种后,美国人意识到,种族主义不仅仅局限于南方,它无处不在,所有人都与它脱不了干系

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So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

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And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

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