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.

当国正在进行内战，是一位德国移民， 在《哈珀周刊》读者群快速增长期间为该杂志绘制许多支持联邦的政漫画。

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?

是一个有着深刻洞察力的伟大小说家，还是一个平庸的作家，其有影响力的政讽刺作品反而削弱所倡导的政治事业？

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

接下来生命中的重大事件永远将标记为一名政作家。