But as the foreign slave trade was closed off, for a whole variety of reasons, only one of which was that there was this passage, sort of a vow, in the original Constitution that the question would be re-visited in 20 years, and 1808 was 20 years.

但随着海外奴隶交易,基于多种原因被封闭之后,这段只提到其中一个原因,是由于最初的宪法契约,这个问题要追溯到二十年前,内战开始前20年即1808年

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On the three thousand two hundred eighty-seventh night of your Parisian affair, as I lay in Simois-mud picking vermin off the wound I got that day from cunning Pandarus, exhaustion closed my eyes.

在你和帕里斯发生关系后的第三千两百八十七夜,那个日子是狡猾的潘达洛斯告诉我的,我正躺在西摩伊斯河岸边，拣伤口上的虱子,疲惫让我闭上了眼睛。

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