I feel no superiority over my beloved pets when I look at them in the eyes, and eventually after they lived with me long enough to communicate Fortunately I don't expect them to take my courses.

当我看着我深爱的宠物时,我并不自以为比它们高等，就算后来,我们一起生活很久，都能相互交流了,所幸我并不期望它们来上我的课。

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But what eventually evolved in the South and we will return to this a good deal next Tuesday when I'll devote an entire lecture to this kind of slaveholder worldview and the pro-slavery argument the pro-slavery defense and how that evolved into a political culture.

但南方特点究竟是如何形成的这个问题,下周二我们会细细讲,那时我将花整堂课的时间讲,奴隶主的世界观和其支持奴隶制的理由,他们对奴隶制的支持,和奴隶制是如何演变为一种政治文化的

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