Damon left the confederacy on principle. It was his choice and should be respected.
Damon按照原则离开了(美国南北战争时)南部邦联。这选择,应该受到尊重。
If cities and regional confederacies, held together mostly by consensus and cooperation existed thousands of years ago, who's to stop us creating them again today with technologies that allow us to overcome the friction of distance and numbers?
几千年前存在主要通过共识与合作维系在一起城市和地区联盟,那么今天谁能阻止我们利用能够克服距离和数摩擦技术再次创建它们?
With such a confederacy against her — with a knowledge so intimate of his goodness — with a conviction of his fond attachment to herself, which at last, though long after it was observable to everybody else — burst on her — what could she do?
面对此针对她联盟——面对此深刻地了解善良——面对对她深情依恋——尽管很久之后才为其所察觉,但最终,还让她心生怜悯——她能做些什么呢?