来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第9集第9集》

virtually all of which ended in failure

实际上全部都是失败了
and poverty for his family;

令他的家庭陷入贫困之中
several of which ended in law suits

有几笔生意还惹上了官司
and bankruptcies and one litigation after another;

或者破产官司接连不断
one of which led to debtor's prison for awhile.

甚至他因还不起钱在监狱呆过一阵
He and his family had lived a poverty stricken,

他和他的家人在贫困中挣扎
rolling stone existence, across the northern states.

在北方各州流离
Probably what sustained him--

支撑他生存下去的可能是
and we know a good deal about this--was his religion,

那是我们都知道的是他的宗教信仰
his faith, his theology if you want.

他的信念你们也可以说是他的宗教理论
He was a kind of orthodox nineteenth century Calvinist.

他是19世纪正统的喀尔文教徒
He believed in such things as innate depravity,

在某种程度上他相信有"天生堕落"