填空题 English-Chinese Translation.(上海大学2004研,考试科目:综合英语)The Rise of RealismBetween the work of Hawthorne and Melville, the major novelists of the 1850s, and the work of Twain, James and Howells, the major novelists of the last quarter of the century, falls the shadow of the American Civil War(1861 -1865). In his famous Gettysburg address Abraham Lincoln described the conflict in terms of epic simplicity:Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers set forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation, or any other nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. In the event, the war showed that the nation could endure—but only in a permanently changed and, in some respects, a deeply scarred form.The result of the Civil War was not just the triumph of the abolitionists over the slave-owners. It was also the triumph of the industrial North over the agrarian South. Despite the much-vaunted program of" Reconstruction" , the Southern states long remained ravaged and dispirited territory: the war left a legacy of bitterness that has not yet disappeared from American politics. In the North, on the other hand, the aftermath of war brought financial boom. The North"s prosperity was increased by rapid mechanization and industrialization, its population swelled by new influxes of foreign immigrants. To contemporary observers cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago presented a double image. On the surface there was elegance, security and comfort: but underneath there was all the seething discontent which accompanies the growth of any modern industrial society.
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【正确答案】 1、正确答案: 现实主义的崛起 在19世纪50年代的主要作家霍桑、梅尔维尔,以及19世纪后期的主要作家马克?吐温、詹姆斯、霍威尔等人的作品中都有美国内战(1861~1865)的影子。林肯在举世闻名的葛底斯堡演讲中用史诗般简练的语句描述了这次战争: 87年前,我们的父辈在自由和人人生而平等的精神指引下,在这块大陆上建立了新的国家。现在,我们陷入了一场伟大的内战中,它正考验着这个国家或其他任何秉承相同理念的国家能否长存下去。这场战争向我们展示,这个国家是可以长存下去的,不过它只能是以不断变化的、甚至是伤痕累累的形态下长存下去。 内战不仅仅使废奴主义者战胜了奴隶主,它也使工业化的北方战胜了农业化的南方。尽管有所谓的“重建”计划,南方诸州长期以来依然是饱受摧残;战争所留下的苦难依然存在于美国政治中。另一方面,在北方,战争带来的是金融发展。北方的繁荣在机械化和工业化的推动下飞速发展,其人口也因外国移民的涌入大量增长。对近代的观察家而言,一些城市像波士顿、纽约、费城和芝加哥有着双重的形象。表面上安全舒适,但在这浮华之下激荡着伴随现代工业社会成长而来的不满情绪。    
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