Then when that fighting starts, they oughta feed you on buttermilk and black-eyed peas and let you break wind!"

为了让你有气力,他们会在战前填饱你，“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The northern states by the Antebellum Period 1820s,1830s,1840s-- was beginning to sort of hurtle toward a different future than what that slave society was perhaps--no, not really slowly it too was hurtling toward a certain future.

北方在战前,也就是19世纪20至40年代,就急速开始朝着,和奴隶社会完全不同的方向发展,但是南方奴隶社会的发展得也不是很慢,它也在飞驰向一个确定的未来

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now it didn't entirely end, and there were some South Carolinians and Georgians who wanted to re-open it, and a few folks out in Louisiana, who wanted to re-open it at numerous times in the antebellum period, especially in the late 1850s.

但在当时它并没有完全结束,有些南卡罗来纳人和格鲁吉亚人,仍想重新开放它,在路易斯安那州还有一小群人,这些人在内战前曾无数次,企图重新开放这个市场,尤其是十九世纪五十年代末

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选