The character of Peter brought directly out of the New Testament is really slicing through the poem's fictive veneer.

彼得的形象是直接从中借鉴而来的,在这首诗虚构的伪饰中显得格外犀利。

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But I'm going to start from a much more pointed and local question.

但我将从一个更犀利更细节的问题开始。

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A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

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