来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第3集 第3集》

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  Pass to the left bank and the scene changes so suddenly
  而河左岸则完全是另一番景象
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  that you think yourself on the other side of the world.
  让人怀疑自己到了世界的另一头
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  The enterprising spirit seems gone.
  奋发向上的精神消失了
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  There work is not only painful, it’s shameful,
  在这劳动不仅仅是痛苦的 还是耻辱的
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  and you degrade yourself in submitting yourself to it.
  从事劳动意味着贬低自己
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  To ride, to hunt, to smoke like a Turk in the sunshine,
  骑马 打猎 在日光下豪迈地吸烟
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  there's the destiny of the white man.
  他们认为这些才是白人应该干的
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  To do any other kind of manual labor is to act like a slave."
  从事其他任何体力劳动便是自贬为奴隶"
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  Now, Tocqueville was of course responding from his own kind
  这里托克维尔当然或多或少是站在自己
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  of French aristocratic heart, to some extent.
  作为一名法国贵族的角度来发表评论的
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  He was drawn in a bit to certain kinds of Southern charm.
  在一定程度上他被南方的某些魅力所吸引
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  "The whites," He said, "Of the South,
  他说道 "南方的白种人