There can be fighting without war but there can be no war without an organization that makes it something more than just plain fighting.

就算没有战争,争斗同样可以存在,但没有组织,便没有战争,组织使的战争的意义超出了单纯的争斗

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We have people inventing them, but even the ones that are invented aren't very helpful, because it's awfully hard to know how they did what they did.

有人试图还原古代战争,但是得出的结果并没有太大的意义,因为我们对此实在是知之甚少

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He goes on in a letter in spring 1862 the war still isn't a war against slavery in any official sense and he writes home to his brother saying he wishes he had the, quote, "Moral courage to desert," because he no longer wants to serve this cause.

在1862年春天的信中,从政治角度来说,那还不是真正意义上的反奴战争,他写信给他哥哥说,他希望有点"道德气节",因为他不想再为这理由继续下去

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