来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第6集第6集》

and they got miniscule numbers of almost countable votes.

但他们得到的票数屈指可数
James G. Birney who had been born in Alabama,

詹姆斯·G·伯尼出生于阿拉巴马
a former slaveholder who moves north

他曾经是个奴隶主后来移民北方
and becomes an abolitionist.

成了个废奴主义者
His symbol was quite remarkable.

他的经历非常引人注目
That Liberty Party will morph, in the 1840s,

十九世纪四十年代由于成就甚微
after its record of very little success, into--

自由党开始转变成
especially in the midst of this Mexican War--

特别是在墨美战争时期
what became known as the Free Soil Party, by 1848.

到了1848年转变成了自由之土党
And we'll pick up the Free Soilers here in a few minutes.

再过一会我们讲自由之土党员是怎么回事
The Free Soil Party--as it was founded in 1848,

自由之土党成立于1848年
directly in response to this expansionist war, with Mexico--

是对墨美战争的回应