maybe you've seen this picture before.

也许你们以前见过这张图片
It's a lithograph of the famous beating of Charles Sumner

是查尔斯·萨姆纳著名的打斗场景的木版画
in the spring of 1856, on the floor of the U.S. Senate,

1856年春在美国参议院
by Preston Brooks.

对方是普林斯顿·布鲁克斯
Now, how do we get to

我们要怎么理解这一场景
a scene in the U.S. Senate of a southern congressman

在美国议会上一个南方的国会议员
beating the hell out of a massachusetts senator,

殴打一名马萨诸塞州的议员
Beating him literally unconscious,

打到不省人事
bloodying him on the floor of the senate,

将其打倒在地血流满面
While his fellow senators look down, and some of them in glee?

有些议员嗤之以鼻有些却拍手叫好
There were ninety-one northern democrats in the house of representatives

在投票表决堪萨斯州-内布拉斯加州法案时
when they voted on the kansas-nebraska act.

当时的众议院有91名北方的民主派代表