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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  Hot-headed Democrats would announce the slogan
  急躁的民主党人叫嚣着口号
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  'Tilden or fight.'
  选蒂尔登或选择战斗
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  President Ulysses Grant, lame duck,
  跛鸭总统尤利西斯·格兰特
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  can't wait to get out of office;
  迫不及待的想要下台
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  already has his ship booked for his grand tour around the world.
  已经订好环游世界的旅行安排
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  He'll leave on May 17th for the greatest tour
  他将在5月17日开始他伟大的旅行
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  any American ever made of Planet Earth--
  在《行星地球》中这是史无前例的旅行
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  that's another story.
  这都是后话
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  But Grant quietly began to rebuild and re-garrison
  而且格兰特暗地里开始在华盛顿特区周围
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  some of the forts around Washington DC.
  重建许多堡垒并重新驻军
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  And lo and behold, the commission met,
  你看 委员会察觉到了
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  and lo and behold they voted.
  你看他们投票了