来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第8集 第8集》

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  Although it came about through a heightening process.
  尽管经过一些复杂的程序才产生
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  The first was that it explicitly repealed the 36o30' parallel,
  首先它明确的废除了三十度三十分平行线
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  Or missouri compromise line,
  也就是密西西比协议线
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  what northerners-- anti-slavery abolitionist or even,
  北方人 奴隶制反对者废奴者
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  in some cases, hardly-aware-of-slavery northerners--
  甚至是从不关心奴隶制的北方人
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  had always referred as the, quote, "sacred pledge."
  都把它视作 "神圣的誓言"
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  That sacred pledge was now thirty-four years old.
  这个神圣的誓言已经有了三十四年的历史
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  Everybody in the united states congress had grown up with it.
  美国国会的每个人都和他一起成长
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  It was a template, it was an assumption;
  它就像是一座庙宇 一个设想
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  Not unlike you could name certain great resolutions or assumptions
  就像你能说出的那些伟大的决议一样
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  That became almost standard parts of american political culture,
  几乎像是美国政治文化的标准组成
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  Perhaps in your lifetime, certainly in my lifetime.
  在我的一生中 可能也在你的一生中