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古德明英语军事小故事:白人席位 ? (中英对照)

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古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事,古德明,香港英语教育作家,他开了一个《征服英语专栏》,在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事,用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。白人席位 ?

on 4 april 1865, one day after the union army took richmond, the capital of the confederate states of america, thomas chester, the civil war's only black correspondent, sat down in the speaker's chair of the confederate congress to write a dispatch.
a young confederate officer, shocked to see a black man thus ensconced, ordered chester out of the chair. chester stood up as ordered, before punching the rebel in the nose, knocking him to the ground. he then sat down again and calmly returned to his work.

一八六五年四月四日,即美国北军攻占南部邦联首都利其蒙之后一天,南北战争期间惟一黑人记者汤玛斯.却斯特在邦联国会的议长席上坐下来,准备写新闻稿。

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