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GMAT 阅读增补篇第26 篇的翻译及解析 Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when “new pasts” will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history. 译文 ：历史学家们时常遗忘，历史，就其本身在被人们研习，编译和阅读之前是不断地被制 造和被体验的。毋庸置疑，这些研习，编译和阅读的过程又有他们自身的历史，并且可能会 以难以想象斱式给公共事件产生的巨大冲击。这些 “新的历史”将会如何颠覆已经建立的对 历史解读甚至如何改变历史课程，着实难以预料。 In the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia which challenged the prevailing dogma concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South. He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only codified traditional practice but also were a determined effort to erase the considerable progress made by Black people during and after Reconstruction in the 1870’s. 译文：1954 年的秋天，CVW 在弗吉尼亚大学开展了一系列的演讲。演讲挑战了盛极一时 的关于美国南斱种族隔离史，持续性和一致性的教条观点。CVW 指出，19 世纪末 20 世纪 初的吉姆克劳法不仅将于传统的习俗编纂成册，同时作为一个决定性的因素抹杀了黑人在 19 世纪 70 年代复兴时期及以后所做出的巨大进步。 This revisionist view of Jim Crow legislation grew in Part from the research 孙桑迪 sunsangdi@126.com Mobile: that Woodward had done for the NAACP legal campaign during its preparation for Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’s lectures. 译文：在美国有色人种协会准备布朗诉托皮卡教育局案时，CVW 为其法律运动进行研究， 作为研究的一部分，这种关于吉姆克劳法的修正主义观点得到了发展。早在 CVW 演讲之前 的数月，最高法院就已经宣称了自身对于这宗划时代的反种族歧视案具有最高裁定权。 The lectures were soon published as a book. The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a preface to the second revised edition. Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition “had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a h