古德明英語軍事小故事：白人席位 ？ (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。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，即美國北軍攻占南部邦聯首都利其蒙之后一天，南北戰爭期間惟一黑人記者湯瑪斯．卻斯特在邦聯國會的議長席上坐下來，準備寫新聞稿。
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