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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  In essence, the '74 congressional elections
  其实 1874年国会选举
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  were a referendum on Reconstruction.
  是场对于重建时期的公民投票
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  You'll remember the Slaughterhouse case had come out in '73.
  你们还记得1873年屠宰场案负面影响
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  The Depression had set in surely by 1874, deeply,
  到了1874年 准确来说是1874年的秋季大选时
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  and certainly by the fall elections of 1874.
  美国进入了严重的经济萧条时期
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  This became the great takeover of Congress by the Democratic Party,
  这是民主党控制国会的绝佳机会
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  so under duress since the Civil War,
  民主党自内战时期 自他们成立政党以来
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  since they had been the party, in many ways,
  在许多方面都处于被动
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  that had not favored the war for the Union
  导致其未能在独立战争
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  or the war to free the slaves.
  或内战中获利
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  And its coverage in the press after this tells it all.
  在选举结果公布后 报刊登出了这一切
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  The Buffalo Advertiser says, in the wake of it,
  《水牛广告商报》率先报道