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This is the story of America's struggle to discover the real Abraham Lincoln.
这是一个关于美国通过争论 探索真实的亚伯拉罕·林肯的故事
Abraham Lincoln's last moments were spent here in the Petersen House,
亚伯拉罕·林肯弥留之际住在此处 彼得森公寓
a cheap boarding house opposite the Washington theatre where he'd been struck down by an assassin's bullet.
这家便宜的招待所位于华盛顿的剧院对面 在那里 林肯遭遇刺杀 被刺杀者子弹打中
There were people with Lincoln who say we cannot allow him to die in a theatre.
林肯的跟随者们说 我们不能让他丧命于一家剧院之内
He is placed diagonally on a small bed,he's so tall he can't fit lengthwise on the bed.
他斜躺在一张小床上 因为身材高大 他无法完全躺下
And there he spends the next nine hours, his breathing ever more laboured.
在这里 他度过了自己人生最后的九小时 他的呼吸越发阻滞沉重
He was oozing brain matter on his pillow and whatever.
他的脑髓不停地渗入到枕头上 以至于
His wife was brought in, they would put a handkerchief over that part of the pillow,so she wouldn't be too upset.
在他妻子被带进来时 人们用一条手帕盖住了那个部分的枕头 不让她因为看到这些而更悲痛欲绝
Out of that house he emerges as his body is carried in the spring rain the next morning
他的遗体被抬出那个房间 出现在众人面前 是在那个春雨绵绵的次日清晨
to the hearse that takes him back to the White House.
他的遗体需要被抬上灵车 然后送回白宫
He leaves, not the person he was when he was carried inside,
他离开了 不再是当初那个被抬进去的垂危之人
he is now a national treasure, a national saint,a secular saint and a religious saint in many ways.
现在 他俨然变成了一座国家财富 一位国家圣人 从很多方面来看 他可算是一位世俗意义和宗教意义上的圣人
And that's why images almost overnight begin appearing,showing not only the assassination,
这就是为什么在一夜之间出现了很多与他相关的作品 不仅表现了刺杀当时的情景
not only his dying moments in the grandest possible exaggerated way,
不仅把他临终时刻的情景最大程度的夸张化
but literally images showing him rising into heaven
而且在相关作品中也表现了他 他升入了天堂
where he's often greeted by his great hero George Washington.
在那里 迎接林肯的是 他心目中伟大的英雄 乔治·华盛顿
Here is the father and the saviour - it's almost like God and the Son.
这图上并立的就是美国之父和美国救世主 就像上帝和耶稣一样
