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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  And Buchanan took the Lecompton constitution to Congress
  布坎南把莱康普顿宪法递交国会
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  and asked for its approval, of Kansas as a slave state.
  要求国会承认堪萨斯州为蓄奴州
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  Buchanan took huge political risks here and didn't--
  布坎南此时冒了极大的政治风险
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  for all practical purposes--
  不论他是出于什么现实目的
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  apparently know what he was doing.
  他显然不知道自己在做什么
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  And here we begin to see now the breakup, the tearing apart,
  此时甚至在民主党内
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  now of even the Democratic Party,
  也开始出现分裂
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  because none other than Stephen Douglas,
  因为正是斯蒂芬·道格拉斯
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  father of popular sovereignty,
  这位人民主权论之父
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  author of the Kansas-Nebraska act,
  堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案的起草者
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  the man who had pushed that act through,
  以及促使该法案通过者
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  went to Buchanan and said,
  去见了布坎南并说