A thousand times in a thousand ways anybody who studies the American Civil War period is inevitably asked, "So what caused this war?"

每个研究美国内战史的人,总会不可避免地被人们反复问道,"究竟是什么导致了这场战争"

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He's born, in fact, twenty years before the American Civil War.

他是在美国内战结束后的二十年出生的。

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In the American Civil War,there was a draft, but you could avoid it by hiring somebody to take your place, if you were rich enough.

在美国内战期间，曾有过强制征兵，但是你可以让人代替你，如果你足够有钱的话。

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So, you might learn to play baseball, you might learn about the American Civil War, but if Chomsky is right you didn't learn to speak English.

因此,你可能学会打棒球,学到关于美国内战的知识,但如果乔姆斯基是对的,那么说英语并不是习得的

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Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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None other than Shelby the star of Ken Burns' film series on the Civil War, that lovely, lovely, lovely geriatric in a blue shirt that American women fell in love with in a documentary film.

谢尔比,即肯·伯恩斯的内战系列影片里的谢尔比,那个可爱到爆的穿蓝衬衫的老头,那个仅因纪录片就俘获了美国女人心的人

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