the boundaries of Texas had never been determined

德克萨斯州的边界一直都没有界定
to the Mexicans, much less to the Americans.

当然那是墨西哥人的地图而不是美国人的
And the idea here now was to

当时这个问题在于
how would you kind of divide up Texas?

怎样分割德克萨斯
There was no New Mexico or Arizona yet,

当时还没有新墨西哥州和亚力桑那州
it's just this vast territory called the New Mexico Territory.

那只是一片叫新墨西哥领土的广阔土地
The idea was if you moved back

人们认为如果你将
the border of Texas about three or 400 miles,

德州的州界回缩三四百英里
and you placed it where it actually is today,

正如今天实际的位置
you would open up new territory, lots of it,

就出现了一片很大的领土
to the establishment of at least one new,

其中的很大部分可以建立至少一个州
if not two new states,

甚至是两个州