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Frederick Aiken: I'm here to see Secretary Stanton, boys.

Man: Stand down. Sorry, sir. Mr. Stanton doesn't see anyone without an appointment.

Joseph Holt: Well, good morning, Mr. Aiken.

Frederick Aiken: Morning.

Joseph Holt: Perhaps I can beof some assistance.

Frederick Aiken: If you can arrange an appointment for me with the secretary, you can.

Joseph Holt: Unfortunately he's quite busy right now, but perhaps you'd care to have a word with me instead. Please.

Frederick Aiken: My client is unwell.

Joseph Holt: So I hear. Touch of the woman's curse. I'm sure she'll be well enough to continue her trial in a few days.

Frederick Aiken: She's been in solitary confinement for over a month. She hasn't eaten in over a week.

Joseph Holt: She's refusing to eat. All the prisoners are fed daily. Soft bread and salted meat.

Frederick Aiken: Unless she has a proper meal and some fresh air, I can't guarantee she'll be it for trial.

Joseph Holt: One of the conspirators refuses to be guarded by a Negro, and the other insists on only eating his mother's cooking. We can't accommodate every whim.

Frederick Aiken: Come now. I am merely asking for you to stop treating her like a savage.

Joseph Holt: How dare you accuse us of savagery? Have you forgotten how our own were treated by the rebels?

Frederick Aiken: Of course not.

Joseph Holt: Well...

Frederick Aiken: But Mary Surratt is in serious decline. If this treatment of her continues, she will not be sound of mind. And I trust that is something the government wishes to avoid.

Joseph Holt: I may have a way to serve all interests. I'll deny ever telling you this. Understood?

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Frederick Aiken: Father.

Priest: Counselor.

Mary Surratt: Feel that sun. Do I have you to thank for this? Well, thank you.

Frederick Aiken: Well, if I could just get you to start eating.

Soldier: Left. Left. Left, right, left. Company halt.

Frederick Aiken: Mary, there's something I need to ask you.

Mary Surratt: I've never seen you at a loss for words, young man.

Frederick Aiken: Do you know where your son is hiding?

Mary Surratt: Johnny? Of course not.

Frederick Aiken: Government believes you do.

Mary Surratt: What do you believe?

Frederick Aiken: I believe you know more than you're willing to tell me.

Mary Surratt: Uh, have you ever cared for something greater than yourself?

Frederick Aiken: I've spent these last four years fighting for something greater than myself, so don't...

Mary Surratt: Then we are the same.

Frederick Aiken: Mary, you have to tell us where your son is.

Mary Surratt: Us? I have to tell "us"? Whose side are you on?

Frederick Aiken: I'm trying to defend you.

Mary Surratt: By suggesting I trade my son for myself? You're trying to save you, Mr. Aiken. I wish I could give you what you need. I truly do. But if you want out, you'll have to find another way. I'm gonna take a walk. It's so nice out. Do you care to walk with me?

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Nicholas Baker: So we're stuck in these shallow trenches. We're surrounded on all sides. Nobody knows what to do. Nobody knows what to say. We're frozen, completely petrified. And then from somewhere up on the hill, we hear this loud booming Southern voice. It's the rebel general. He yells, "Y'all boys better say your prayers, because there are 400 of us and only 100 of you."

Frederick Aiken: You can stop right there, Baker.

Nicholas Baker: And so then this madman, he stands up, and he yells back to him, and he says... he says, "Hundred? Heck, we've got less than that. But we don't surrender, so come and get us." And with that, he pulls down his pants and bares his arse.

Woman 1: You didn't.

Frederick Aiken: I didn't.

Nicholas Baker: What?

Sarah: It doesn't seem as though Fred ever intends to surrender.

William: Ah, it appears he already has. She's fair, fit and 40.

Woman 1: Is it true Mrs. Surratt is a Catholic, wears black from head to toe?

Woman 2: I hear she spits in the faces of every Union soldier she encounters.

Woman 1: Apparently she wears a necklace made from the bone of a Union soldier.

William: Seriously, Fred, do you honestly doubt she's guilty?

Nicholas Baker: So, okay, who would like to dance?

Sarah: Yes.

Woman 1: Yes.

Nicholas Baker: Good.

Sarah: Dance? It's more like a wake. I suppose I should have dressed more like Mrs. Surratt.

William: Fred, what are you doing?

Frederick Aiken: I'm enduring the pain of having to listen to Baker.

William: You know what I mean. If she's found guilty, they'll say you weren't up to the task. And God forbid you prevail. They'll think you just as much a traitor as she.

Frederick Aiken: Baker, how 'bout something a little happier?

Nicholas Baker: Little happier?

Frederick Aiken: Yeah.

Nicholas Baker: All right, Fred. Happier, he wants.

Sarah: William's right, you know. Either outcome, you cannot prevail.

Frederick Aiken: Sarah.

Sarah: What is it about Mary Surratt you find so compelling? These are criminal, despicable people, Fred. They're... they're the same sort of people you risked your life fighting against, and she helped kill your commander in chief.

Frederick Aiken: I don't know what she's guilty of.

Sarah: May I ask you one more thing?

Frederick Aiken: What is it, Sarah?

Sarah: Does the captain remember how to dance?

Frederick Aiken: Of course.

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Reverdy Johnson: Few people will forget what side you fought on. Trust me. It can be lonely.

Frederick Aiken: I'm just upholding my oath as an attorney and doing my job. It's what you asked. It's what you told me to do.

Reverdy Johnson: This habit of quoting me back to me could become most irritating. You have your mother's convictions and your father's annoying habits.

Frederick Aiken: Well, "Maw Surratt is entitled to a defense, Freddie, so I shall defend her."

Reverdy Johnson: If they want John Surratt, then you should serve him up on a platter. I... I don't mean, uh, physically. I mean in spirit. You have to prove to the Commission that he is responsible, not her.

Frederick Aiken: She's not gonna like that.

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1. stand down: 撤退。

2. of some assistance: 有些帮助，帮上点忙。

3. accommodate: 对……予以照顾性考虑。例如：accommodate the special interests of various groups（照顾到不同集团的特殊利益）。

4. whim: 突然的念头。请看例句：He had a sudden whim to go sailing today.（今天他突然想要去航海。）

5. trench: 战壕。

6. petrified: 惊呆的，目瞪口呆的。

7. wake: 守夜，守灵。

8. up to: 胜任。

9. prevail: 胜出。例如：His argument prevailed and I yielded.（他的论点占了上风，我让步了。）

10. compelling: 激发兴趣的，有强烈吸引力的。例如：a compelling novel（引人入胜的小说）。

11. uphold: 维护，维持；坚持。例如：We uphold the principle of racial equality.（我们坚持种族平等的原则。）

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1. 善良将战胜邪恶。

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2. 他在政治上仍是一个引人注目的人物。

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3. 教练赞同裁判的裁决。

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4. 我很高兴能帮上忙。

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美国南北战争简介

     

南北战争，又称美国内战(American Civil War)，是美国历史上一场大规模的内战，参战双方为美利坚合众国(简称联邦)和美利坚联盟国(简称邦联)。这场战争的起因为美国南部十一州以亚伯拉罕· 林肯于1861年就任总统为由而陆续退出联邦，另成立以杰斐逊·戴维斯为“总统”的政府，并驱逐驻扎南方的联邦军，而林肯下令攻打“叛乱”州。此战不但改变当日美国的政经情势，导致奴隶制度在美国南方被最终废除，也对日后美国的民间社会产生巨大的影响。

由于南方种植园经济和北方资本主义经济产生矛盾，大部分黑人奴隶被押送到美国的南方，并且要求独立。南方首先发动了战争(萨姆特堡的炮击)。联邦军史无前例地招募了黑人进入军队。尽管大多黑人士兵只被分配做一些低下的工作，林肯总统的这一举措仍然赢得了黑人奴隶的拥护，也成为南北战争胜利的因素之一。

来自美国北方的共和党人林肯虽然不是解放黑奴的倡言者，但他认为蓄奴不人道，反对扩大蓄奴，而一向以奴隶来发展产业的南方对此感到强烈反对。然而，北方对于南方这种工人的垄断者亦产生仇视心理，双方开始出现矛盾。1861年3月，林肯当选总统，而林肯在政纲中提及的保护关税及《宅地法》大大削弱了南方奴隶主的利益。这使南卡罗来纳州在1861年旋即宣布退出联邦，而南方各州亦纷纷响应南卡罗来纳州，脱离联邦，并成立“美利坚联盟”，推举来自肯塔基州的杰斐逊·戴维斯为总统。两个月后，南方政府开始发动武装起事，北方政府被逼应战，南北战争开始爆发。

内战初期，由于南方早有准备，北方政府接连失利。为动员广大群众，特别是黑人奴隶参加到北方军队中来，瓦解和战胜南方奴隶主的反叛，林肯在1862 年先后颁布了《宅地法》(Homestead Act) 和《解放黑人奴隶宣言》(Emancipation Proclamation)。这两项措施不但提高了林肯的威信，使他在1864年总统大选中再次当选，更重要的是调动了广大人民群众的斗争积极性，扭转了战局，使南方军队彻底陷入了绝境。加速了北方军队的胜利。其中转折性的主要战役是1865年的葛底斯堡大捷。

1865年5月26日，南军全数投降，战事宣告结束。

美国内战是美国历史上的第二次资产阶级革命，它维护了国家统一，废除了奴隶制度，进一步扫除了资本主义发展的障碍，为美国资本主义经济的起飞铺平了道路。使美国迅速成为工业化强国。但是，内战并没有彻底消除种族歧视，黑人仍然受到不平等的待遇。

战后，南方被美国实行“半军事管制”，但美国联邦政府对奴隶主很宽容，致使重建中的南方一直存在奴隶制的残余，很久以后才摆脱。