来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第26集 第26集》

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  This thing was going to make energy, for the future.
  这个大家伙会为未来提供能量
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  Machines and technology, it was said,
  据说 机械和技术
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  over and over and over and over,
  反反复复地
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  were remaking American society,
  重塑着美国的社会
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  would remake its future,
  重塑着美国的未来
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  and would make the United States the greatest manufacturing,
  而且会让美国成为全球制造业和
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  industrial producing nation on earth. True.
  工业生产的绝对巨头 而事实的确如此
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  All of this national self-congratulation ignored or masked
  国家的这些洋洋自得 掩盖了
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  some of the less admiral features of American life.
  美国人生活中不和谐的场景
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  And of course it would.
  而这是当然的
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  You don't have a national centennial celebration and then say,
  你没有举办全国百年庆典 然后又说
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  "Oh by the way, you can buy your ticket here to celebrate
  "顺便说声 你要买票才能参加庆典