来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第10集 第10集》

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  if you want to call it that, and Southern secessionism --
  也可以称之为南部分裂主义
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  already it was.
  其实它早已存在了
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  Now, the front running candidate of the Democratic Party by 1860 --
  1860年民主党中领先的总统候选人
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  and this man had been working for this for a decade and a half --
  这位仁兄已经为竞选总统奋斗了15年了
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  was, of course, Stephen Douglas of Illinois;
  他是来自伊利诺伊州的斯蒂芬·道格拉斯
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  the same Stephen Douglas of Popular Sovereignty fame.
  就是那个提倡州人民主权的道格拉斯
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  But Stephen Douglas had made one slip-up.
  但是他犯了个失误
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  Well he'd made more than one
  其实他犯的失误不止一个
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  but he'd made one, two really big slip-ups
  但是在他的南方民主党同僚看来
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  in terms of his fellow Southern Democrats --
  他犯了两个大失误
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  and he's by far the most prestigious person in their party.
  他是目前为止其党内最有威望的人
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  But in one of his debates with Abraham Lincoln,
  但在与林肯的一场辩论中