北卡罗来纳州杜克大学人口统计学家肯尼斯·曼顿说：“这确实引发了一个问题，即什么是正常的老龄化。”

"It really raises the question of what should be considered normal ageing," says Kenneth Manton, a demographer from Duke University in North Carolina.

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在56个签署《独立宣言》的人当中，只有一个人所签的名字超过他本人的名字，他来自马里兰州，他在《独立宣言》上签下了‘卡罗尔顿的查尔斯.卡罗尔’，人们问他为什么签下‘卡罗尔顿’，他说，在马里兰有很多叫‘查尔斯.卡罗尔’的，我不想让英国国王为此吊错了一个人。’

And they asked 'Why did you sign "of Carrollton?" And he said 'There are so many Charles Carrolls in Maryland, I didn’t want the king to hang the wrong one.'"

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林肯必须立即就如何解决位于南卡罗莱纳州查尔斯顿港的军事堡垒——萨姆特堡的困境做出决定。

Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: fort Sumter.

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By the 1830s,1840s, there were over 100 men in Charleston, South Carolina alone, making their livings full-time as slave traders.

到了十九世纪三四十年代,仅仅在南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿地区,就有超过一百个,专职从事奴隶贸易的奴隶交易商

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He likened Charleston, South Carolina though this was in the 1780s he likened Charleston, South Carolina to what he called, quote, "The barbarous institutions and traits, especially slavery, the self-indulgence of the planters" and then he concludes "Just like Lima, Peru."

他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,那是在十八世纪八十年代,他把南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿比作,"野蛮的制度和习性,尤其是奴隶制,种植园主们醉生梦死,自我放纵",然后他总结道,"就像秘鲁的利马一样"

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