来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第25集 第25集》

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  created a corporation to move the slaughterhouse of New Orleans--
  成立了一家公司来搬迁新奥尔良的屠宰场
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  there actually had never been a legitimate slaughterhouse in New Orleans
  新奥尔良当时没有任何合法的屠宰场
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  What the butchers of New Orleans would do,
  新奥尔良的屠夫一般是
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  the white butchers of New Orleans would do,
  白人屠夫们
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  is they'd herd the hogs through the streets of New Orleans
  在新奥尔良的大街上驱赶生猪
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  and basically they'd butcher the things wherever they wanted to,
  而且随地宰杀
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  and they always threw all the--this gets ugly--
  而且乱丢 越说越恶心了
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  all of the offal from the hogs into the Mississippi River,
  猪内脏 丢进密西西比河
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  up river from the city,
  而且是城市流域的上游
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  before the river reached the main water pipeline into the city
  在城市主要取水口的上游
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  This had long been a problem, long been a series of complaints
  这早就是问题了 早就怨声载道
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  And so this was an attempt at clean government and clean cities
  因此 这是对廉政 清洁城市的一次尝试