There is nothing more symptomatic of the growth of absolute rule than the growth of powerful armies.

没有什么比日益扩充的强大军队,更能代表绝对主义了

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The military in the United States was a situation which brought together people who wouldn't otherwise have any contact and they liked each other.

美国军队,就是一个让很多人发生接触的地方,如果不是军队，这些人平常是没有接触的,而军队里的人都喜欢对方。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There wasn't one organizing yet around New Haven or nearby in Connecticut so he went to New York and he joined the Sixth New York Cavalry.

当时在纽黑文和康乃狄格附近还没有军队,遂他去了纽约,他加入了纽约第六骑兵团

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Well, one of the things wars did, most people not seemed to have noticed, is that it took 12 million men out of the civilian labor force and put them in uniforms.

战争做的事情，大部分人似乎没有意识到，就是战争让1200万人,加入军队,穿上军服。

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