This kind of ritual honor all the time I mean after all we have a president who just likes to speak like a Texan, he doesn't do all that honor stuff.

这种走过场的形式到处都是,毕竟我们的总统在讲话的时候,很喜欢装成德州佬的样子,他不喜欢做面子工程

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Last time I began with Alexander H. Stephens's famous Cornerstone Speech in 1861, the famous passage by the Vice-President of the Confederacy declaring slavery the cornerstone of the Confederate Movement.

上次我说到亚历山大·H·史蒂芬,1861年著名的奠基石演讲,就是那个邦联副总统做的讲话,声称奴隶制是邦联运动的奠基石

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选