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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  in the fall elections of 1854,
  选举出一百个众议院的议员
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  and they will begin to draw together a remarkable coalition.
  他们还要进行一次盛大的集会
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  They're going to draw first a whole lot of old whigs,
  计划吸引一大部分的老辉格党员
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  Northern whigs in particular, who don't have any home anymore.
  特别是那些已经无所归宿的北方辉格党
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  This is the old whig party of Henry Clay,
  他们是老牌的亨利·克莱辉格党
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  but it's also the old whig party that had a reformist element to it.
  但是还有着一些改革的力量
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  This was the old John Quincy Adams wing of the whig party.
  这些是约翰·昆西·亚当斯派的辉格党
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  And there were some whigs who had become genuine abolitionists,
  一些辉格党成为了真正的反奴主义者
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  In many states,
  在许多州
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  And they now were looking for a real political home
  他们开始寻找真正的政治归宿
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  in which to plant their flag
  那些可以坚持自己的政治理念
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  of not just free soil, but a moral case against slavery.
  不仅解放领土 更从道德上反对奴隶制