所有被og11－23折磨过或者正在被折磨的进来看看这句话怎么翻译啊

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Historians sometimes forget that history is

continually being made and experienced before

it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter
      

activities have their own history, of course, which

(5)may impinge in unexpected ways on public events.

It is difficult to predict when “new pasts” will

overturn established historical interpretations and

change the course of history.

    In the fall of 1954, for example,
      C. Vann

(10)Woodward delivered a lecture series at the

University of Virginia which challenged the prevailing

dogma concerning the history, continuity, and

uniformity of racial segregation in the South.

He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the late

(15)nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not

only codified traditional practice but also were

a determined effort to erase the considerable

progress made by Black people during and after

Reconstruction in the 1870’s.
      This revisionist view

(20)of Jim Crow legislation grew in part from the

research that Woodward had done for the NAACP

legal campaign during its preparation for Brown

v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had

issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case

(25)a few months before Woodward’s lectures.

  The lectures were soon published as a book,

The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years

later, in a preface to the second revised edition,

Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the

(30)first edition “had begun to suffer under some of the

handicaps that might be expected in a history of the

American Revolution published in 1776.” That was

a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the

timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had

(35)a comparable impact. Although
      Common Sense
      

also had a mass readership, Paine had intended

to reach and inspire: he was not a historian, and

thus not concerned with accuracy or the dangers of

historical anachronism.
       Yet, like Paine, Woodward

(40)had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment,

and of how historical evidence could undermine the

mythological tradition that was crushing the dreams

of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King, Jr.

testified to the profound effect of The Strange

(45)Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement

by praising the book and quoting it frequently.

 

加大红色的两句话对理解全文至关重要，可我都没搞懂是什么意思，哪位能给翻译一下！把cd以前关于这篇文章的讨论也都看了，还是没有定论。

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