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》

We've already talked a lot about

我们已经谈过了
how the westward expansion of a slave society

奴隶制社会的西向扩张
and the westward expansion of the South

以及南方的西向扩张
was just booming from the 1820s

这股热潮从19世纪20年代开始
through the '30s into the '40s.

一直持续到30年代40年代
And there was a deep and abiding assumption in America--

在美国有一种根深蒂固的理念
and we call it Manifest Destiny.

我们称之为"天定命运论"
At the time not everybody was walking around

那时候不是所有的人都是
mouthing the phrase Manifest Destiny.

夸张的谈到天定命运
People didn't meet in bars and taverns and say,

人们不会在酒吧和旅店谈起
"What do you think of Manifest Destiny?"

"你怎么看天定命运呢"
But they spoke a language of inevitability,

但是他们的话语中吐露出必然性