来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第17集第17集》

destined to over -- was one force, either free labor

注定消亡是一种力量自由劳力也好
or slave labor, going to overwhelm the other?

奴隶劳力也好必将战胜另一种力量吗
The Beards in The Rise of American Civilization,

比尔德夫妇在《美国文明的兴起》中
in its 500-odd pages,

在那500多页的巨著中
almost never mention the word slavery.

几乎只字未提奴隶制
To the Beards, economic forces were these inanimate

对于比尔德夫妇来说经济力量
forces in the world, they kind of operated on their own;

是世界的客观力量能够自主地运行
there wasn't that much human agency.

无需太多人力媒介
Did the Civil War explode

内战激发了
industrial growth or did it actually slow it?

工业增长还是延缓了其发展呢
You can get arguments on both sides.

两方面都可论证
The best research now shows us

如今最好的研究表明