After Faulkner, few northerners were brave enough to write about a South they did not know.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Jefferson:"Northerners are cool, sober, laborious, persevering, independent, jealous of their own liberties, chicaning, superstitious, and hypocritical in their religion."

杰斐逊说,"北方人冷静,稳重,勤劳,坚毅,独立,珍惜自身的自由,奸诈,迷信,还假装是虔诚宗教信徒"

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You could argue that both Southerners and Northerners shared a certain degree of old-fashioned American localism, attachment to place.

你可以争辩说南方人和北方人,都有一点,旧式的美国地方主义,依恋着所处的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Southern supporters were afraid that if a statehood bill for California was passed first, then northerners would refuse to pass the other parts of the compromise.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Southerners shared with Northerners a faith in progress, if you breathed the air in American in the 1840s and '50s.

南方人和北方人对发展有共同的信念,十九世纪四五十年代的美国就是例子

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Northerners did not like his declaration of federal weakness in the face of secession.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

And none other than Thomas Jefferson himself left this famous description of characterizations of Southerners and Northerners.

最有代表性的便是托马斯·杰斐逊他本人,用这么一段人们耳熟能详的话,描述了南方人与北方人的不同特征

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The northerners said he must not give up any federal property or rights.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Northerners and Southerners shared basically the same Protestant Christianity, although they used it in different ways.

北方人和南方人基本上都信仰,相同的基督教新教教义,虽然他们从不同的角度去诠释它

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

They believed all northerners wanted a slave rebellion in the South.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

And both Southerners and Northerners shared both the reality and the spirit of that westward movement.

而且南方人和北方人都有,西进运动的历练和顽强的精神

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Northerners had expected to win the battle of Bull Run.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Whereas it isn't necessarily to Northerners, or so it seems.

然而对北方人来说却没那么重要,或是看上去没那么重要

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Northerners believed Congress received the power from the constitution.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

And when they started encountering these Northerners, whether they were from Massachusetts or Ohio, who started talking about a politics of conscience, or a politics of law, they're not always talking on the same page.

当他们数落北方人的时候,不管他们本身来自马萨诸塞州或俄亥俄州,他们开始讨论对良知,或者政法的时候,他们总是牛头不对马嘴

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Northerners disagreed. They opposed any further spread of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Some of the most open exercises of states' rights, of course, before the 1850s, were conducted by Northerners, like in the Hartford Convention of 1814, like in personal liberty laws that we'll come to a bit later.

州政府最早开始尝试行使权力,还是在十九世纪五十年代之前,由北方人主导的,就像1814年的哈特福德公约,就像我们马上要说到的个人自由法

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Northerners warned that slavery could spread no farther.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

James Henry Hammond starts writing in the forties and into the fifties and he takes it much further, and he writes over and over and over again that, said James Henry Hammond, is that too damn many northerners didn't understand it is the way of the world as it is, and they ought to stop talking about the world as it ought to be.

詹姆斯.亨利.哈蒙德不惑之年才开始写作,到了五十岁仍笔耕不辍,他不停地写作,不停地著书,詹姆斯·亨利·哈蒙德说道,大多数北方人不能明白,这就是世界的本原,他们应该停止有关世界本源的讨论

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Northerners disagreed. They said secession was treason.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Northerners wanted to keep slavery out.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Northerners opposed any further spread of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.05