News Item 005-林肯遇刺 150 周年的紀念活動
150 years ago on this wind-swept spot near Lake Michigan in Chicago, the coffin( 棺 木 )holding the remains of assassinated(被刺殺的)President Abraham Lincoln began a somber(肅穆的)return to his hometown of Springfield.
150年前，在芝加哥密歇根湖附近的這個狂風(fēng)肆虐的地方，被暗殺的亞伯拉罕·林肯總統(tǒng)的遺體的靈柩開始了陰郁的返回他的家鄉(xiāng)斯普林菲爾德的旅程。
Dan Weinberg, of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, says a concerted effort was made to remain faithful to the past while planning the 150th anniversary commemoration(紀念).
芝加哥亞伯拉罕·林肯書店的丹·溫伯格說，在計劃150周年紀念活動時，各方一致努力保持對過去的忠誠。
The replicated(復(fù)制的)coffin and hearse(靈車)that traveled through Springfield’s downtown streets drew thousands of onlookers young and old, many who dressed in ornately(華麗地)designed period military uniforms and costumes, like Diane and Charles Sanders. Sanders says the massive turnout for this event 150 years later is a testamen(t lasting legacy as “The Great Emancipator(救星)” who ended slavery in the United States.
仿造的靈柩和靈車穿過斯普林菲爾德市中心的街道，吸引了成千上萬的老少觀眾，許多人穿著華麗的設(shè)計的時代軍服和服裝，就像黛安娜和查爾斯·桑德斯一樣。桑德斯說，150年后的今天，大批民眾參加了這一活動，這是他作為結(jié)束美國奴隸制的“偉大解放者”的不朽遺產(chǎn)的證明。
