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Paragraph 3 And then war came. The fighting lasted four years and took 620,000American lives.It was a modern war with huge armies, rifled weaponry, forced enrollments and widespread civilian casualties. 接着，战争爆发了。持续了四年的战争带走了62万美国人的生命。这是一场现代化的战争，有着庞大的军队，现代化武器，强制入伍的登记和惨重的民众伤亡。 casualty [?k??u?lti] n. someone injured or killed in an accident; enroll [?nr??l] register formally as a participant or member; rifle [?ra?fl] A rifle is a gun with a long barrel. It took four years before the North’s industrial prowess and continued large-scale immigration wore down the Confederacy. 历时四年，北方的工业实力和持续大规模移民拖垮了联邦。 prowess [?pra??s] a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; Two of Lincolns speeches during the war – his Emancipation Proclamation and his Gettysburg Address(Box 1.2) – joined the Declaration of Independence and the preamble to the Constitution (see Appendix) as the most revered and memorized expressions of American freedom, equality, and new beginnings. 林肯在战争中的两篇演讲—《奴隶解放宣言》与《葛底斯堡演说》—加上美国的独立宣言与宪法的预言，成为了最受尊敬和有纪念价值的表达美国自由、平等和新纪元的篇章。 Emancipation [??m?ns?pe??n] freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parents relinquishing authority and control over a minor child preamble [pri??mbl] A preamble is an introduction that comes before something you say or write The “Gettysburg Address” uses biblical language, a progression of tenses from past to present, birth and rebirth metaphors, and Lincoln’s contention that if America fails, freedom will fail. 《葛底斯堡演说》运用圣经的语言，一系列从古至今的时态，出生和重生的隐喻和林肯总统的论点：如果美国不复存在，也就没有自由可言。 metaphor [?met?f?(r)] 1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity With his elegant language and strong leadership, Lincoln displaced Washington as the greatest American of all time, a position he still holds in yearly polls. 林肯用他简练的语言和强大了领导力，代替华盛顿成为美国史上最伟大的总统，这个记录在美国的年度民意调查中一直保持着。 亚伯拉罕.林肯（Abraham Linco