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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  John Brown had sort of made this equation,
  约翰·布朗发明了一个方程式
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  that had always been there in the southern mind in vague ways,
  让一直模糊地隐藏在南方人心里的问题
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  explicit.
  明晰起来
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  If the Republican Party in the North
  如果说 北方的共和党
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  had succeeded in selling this slogan of a slave-power conspiracy,
  成功地推销了所谓的奴隶权力阴谋论
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  well southerners now, the planter class and the secessionists,
  那南方人 种植园主阶级和脱离联邦分子
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  are very successful, especially in the wake of John Brown's raid,
  尤其是借助约翰·布朗突袭事件
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  of selling a mutual or a counter-conspiracy theory.
  则非常成功地推销了共同或者说反阴谋论
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  And that conspiracy simply is "Abolition emissaries."
  这个阴谋简单说来就是"废奴特使"
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  There are lots of labels it goes by but the idea
  这有很多种说法 但问题是
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  that if the Republican politicians themselves
  如果共和党的政治家们自己
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  aren't going to lead bands into the South, to attack the South,
  不带领军队南下 攻击南方