I was strucked by what I found in the New York Times December 8th, a piece writen by an army officer.

我感到非常震惊,12月8号，我在纽约时报，看到了一篇军官写的文章。

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But it's amazing to read the letters and the language of slave traders when they write to each other, the complacency, the mixture of just pure racism on the one hand and just business language on the other.

当你阅读到那些奴隶商们,在往来的书信中所使用的言辞时,会令你非常震惊的,一面是混合在纯粹的种族歧视中的自满,另一面是那种完全商业化的措辞

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But when he finally gets ill and comes up to the fact of his mortality, that his body is going to sicken and eventually die, the fact of his mortality seems to shock him, seems to surprise him.

但他最终病倒，和死亡面对面，身体每况愈下，最终死亡，这个事实让他震惊不已，他非常惊讶。

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