Maybe I'd heard all his stories. Maybe, after knowing a man for 40 years, there's nothing left to say.

也许我听过他所有的故事。也许，在认识一个男人40年后，已经没什么可说的了。

That was his job-knowing the odds at everything, and knowing men, his own and the opposition's.

那是他的工作——了解所有事情的可能性， 了解人，他自己的人和反对派的人。

The question of knowing or not knowing a man has nothing to do with being his contemporary.

所以知道一个人，或是不知道一个人，与他是否为同代人没有关系。

I am, and always was, an entire stranger in Washington and its vicinity—aside from Burch and Radburn, knowing no man there, except as I have heard of them through my enslaved companions.

在华盛顿及其附近， 我现在是， 而且一直是一个完全陌生的人— —除了伯奇和拉德伯恩， 除了我从我的奴隶同伴那里听说过他们之外， 我不认识那里的任何人。