Damon left the confederacy on principle. It was his choice and should be respected.
Damon按照原则离开了(美国南北战争时的)南部邦联的。这是他的选择,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?
如果几千年前存在主要通过共识与合作维系在起的城市和地区联盟,那么今天谁能阻止我们利用能够克服距离和数摩擦的技术再次创建它们?
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?
面对如此针对她的联盟——面对如此深刻地了解他的善良——面对对她的深情依恋——尽管很久之后才为其他所察觉,但最终,他还是让她心生怜悯——她能做些什么呢?