His memory has failed him and, given the general importance that I'm attributing to problems of remembering and forgetting, I think it's safe to assume that something important is going on here.

他的记忆背叛了他并且让我在这里提出的,关于记忆与遗忘的问题变得重要起来，我想假设这里有某种重要的事情发生了并不为过。

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And the most important thing in the Southern code of honor, I think, safe to say, was reputation.

南方人所谓的荣誉的核心部分,我以为,可以肯定的说,是声誉

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