To ride, to hunt, to smoke like a Turk in the sunshine, there's the destiny of the white man.

骑马,打猎,在日光下豪迈地吸烟,他们认为这些才是白人应该干的

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It was the destiny of a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, United States to take control and improve this great land it had been given.

它认为由白种人,盎格鲁撒克逊人,清教徒们,注定要在这块上天赐给他们的土地上,经营管理,建立国家

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And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

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But Manifest Destiny was a very old American idea.

但命运天定是个非常古老的美国观念

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A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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