来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第27集 第27集》

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  and the liberation of blacks to citizenship--
  以及解放黑奴--确保他们的公民权
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  blacks and eventually others--to Constitutional equality.
  黑人还有其他人 在法律上平等
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  In the end what you have here is the story eventually of
  到最后你会发现
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  how the forces of reconciliation overwhelmed
  在国民文化中 妥协的力量是如何压倒了
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  that emancipationist vision in the national culture,
  解放主义思想
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  and how an inexorable drive for reunion of North and South,
  以及南北统一是不可阻挡的趋势
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  both used race and then trumped it.
  双方都利用了种族 并成功了
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  But the story
  而这一故事
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  doesn't just dead-end in this white supremacy victory,
  并不是以白人至上主义获胜结束这么简单
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  this Lost Cause victory,
  或是"命定败局"获胜
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  because eventually the Lost Cause
  因为"败局命定"
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  wasn't about causes lost at all.
  并不是导致失败的罪魁祸首