1. We've borne enough insults from the "meddling Yankees. It's time we made them understand we keep our slaves with or without their approval. Who's to stop them right from the state of Georgia to secede from the Union.
【难句解析】make sb. do sth.“使某人...”,注意make后的动词前不用to,例句:The teacher made him do his homework. 老师逼着他做作业;secede from“从...正式脱离”,例句:They plotted to make the whole Mississippi Valley secede from the United States. 他们阴谋策划使整个密西西比流域脱离美国。
【句子翻译】我们已经受够了讨厌的北佬的气了。现在我们该让他们知道不管他们批不批准,我们都要有奴隶制。如果想让奴隶制脱离佐治亚州,也就是让佐治亚州脱离联邦。
2.The South must assert ourselves by force of arms. After we fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter, we've got to fight. There's no other way.
【难句解析】by force of“靠 ... 的力量,用...的手段”,例句:We won by force of numbers.我们以人多取胜;fire on“向...开火”,例句:The enemy opened fire on our lines at early dawn. 拂晓时敌人向我防线开了火;
【句子翻译】我们南方人也该用武力表现一下自己了。我们在萨默特堡和北方流氓开过火。我们必须打下去,没别的办法。