which kind of move us toward what we can at least

这能让我们走近那些至少能被称为
call some vestige of an end of Reconstruction.

重建时期末期的痕迹
The 1874 congressional elections took on a significance

1874年的国会选举意义深远
that off-year congressional elections don't always have;

为非大选年的国会选举所罕见
although we've had some of these kinds of

虽然近年来
off-year congressional elections in our own lifetime, in recent years.

我们也亲历过这种非大选年的国会选举
Like 1994, which you may or may not remember,

比如1994年不知道你们有没有印象
when the Gingrich Republican movement took over the Congress

金里奇在民主党控制国会四十年后
and after 40 years of Democratic rule they were gone.

领导共和党执掌国会
And then in '06,

随后在2006年
the Democrats take back both houses of Congress, etcetera.

民主党夺回参众两院控制权
In essence, the '74 congressional elections

其实 1874年国会选举