It was the next major event in his life that was to mark him forever as a political writer.

接下来生命中重大事件永远将他标记为一名政论作。

Was he a great novelist with profound insights into human society, or was he a mediocre writer whose influential political satires have only served to undermine the political causes he championed?

他一个有着深刻洞察伟大小说，一个平庸作，其有政论讽刺作品反而削弱了他所倡导政治事业？

Well, the Civil War was going on back then, and he was a German immigrant who drew for Harper's Weekly when Harper's Weekly was really growing in their readership with a lot of pro-union political cartoons.

当时美国正在进行内战，他一位德国移民， 在《哈珀周刊》读者群快速增长期间为该杂志绘制了许多支持联邦政论漫画。