来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第15集 第15集》

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  I did that too for a while; I didn't learn much but--.
  这些我也都读过一点 但收获不大
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  And sure enough you can find all those extremes
  你们肯定可以在林肯与道格拉斯的辩论中
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  in the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
  找到林肯的各种思想极端
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  We also know, of course, that he was a free soiler
  当然我们也知道林肯反对奴隶制扩大化
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  and he's most famous in the South, of course, for that language of
  他在南方最著名的讲话当然要数他那句
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  "Putting slavery on a course of ultimate extinction"
  让奴隶制最终走向灭亡
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  in the House Divided speech, and elsewhere.
  这是林肯《分裂之家》演讲中的一句
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  But once the war came,
  但当内战爆发之时
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  the imperative about what to do about slavery
  如何对待奴隶制便成为了一个
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  was a huge and delicate and terrible political question.
  重大而微妙并且非常严峻的政治问题
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  And this is the Lincoln that will be forever debated
  这就是林肯 人们会永远讨论他
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  and it'll be debated next year like it's never been debated
  尤其是明年 讨论将更加激烈