I refused a girl 20-years-old at $700.00 yesterday," one trader wrote to another in 1853.

昨天我拒绝了一个,开价七百美金的二十岁姑娘",1853年一个交易商,在给另一个的书信中写道

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If you think best to take her at 700, I can still get her.

如果你认为最好花七百美金把她买下来,我依然可以得到她

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