来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第11集 第11集》

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  But back to secession.
  回到脱离联邦这个词
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  I left off with saying I was going to
  我说过要给大家
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  offer you five different explanations.
  提供五种不同的解释
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  I don't think they're all equal,
  我不觉得这些解释都很好
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  necessarily, but they're there.
  但解释就是解释
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  In some ways they kind of fold into one another.
  这些解释在某些方面还相互支持
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  And I'd already talked about how the preservation of slavery,
  我已经讲过怎样通过维护奴隶制
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  a slave society,
  奴隶社会
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  a society ordered by slave labor and so forth,
  以及基于奴隶劳工的社会秩序等等
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  was a principle, if not the principle,
  是脱离联邦运动的主旨之一
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  purpose of this secession movement,
  即便不是唯一的主旨
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  at least in the Deep South, where it succeeded.
  至少在成功脱离联邦的南方腹地是这样