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》

About a week after this event, it may have been two weeks,

演讲后过了几周大概是两周
Butler decided that he was going to have honor,

巴特勒决定要挣回面子
He was going to exercise an act of honor and revenge

他要进行一场复仇与荣耀的报复
deeply rooted in

这深深根植于
what he believed was the old south sense of honor.

他心中的旧南方的荣誉感
He had thought about challenging Sumner to a duel,

他原本想挑衅萨姆纳进行决斗
But duels by this point in time were highly illegal,

但是当时决斗是被严令禁止的
Even though people did get challenged--

哪怕被挑衅也好
read my colleague Joanne Freeman on this.

我同事乔安妮·弗里曼有过专门论述
They're still challenging each other

尽管如此在1850年那会
to duels all the time in the 1850s;

他们还是互相挑衅斗殴
Well, a lot of times.

有好一段时间