古德明英語軍事小故事：哀 矜 勿 喜(中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰爭。哀 矜 勿 喜
after signing the surrender papers, confederate general robert lee got on his horse and rode slowly back to his army. union soldiers began to celebrate. artillerymen fired their guns to salute the victory over lee.
union general ulysses grant heard the artillery booming and sent orders that it should stop. "the rebels are our countrymen again," he said. "we can best show our joy by refusing to celebrate their downfall." having given birth to a reunited nation, grant experienced a post-partum melancholy. "i felt... sad and depressed," he wrote, "at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, i believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought."
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