You know,when I was a kid growing up in Texas, one of our sayings was, "Let's make like a Baptist church and split."
当我小时候还在德州时,我们会听到一种说法,“我们像浸信会一样不和“
Saving and Loan Associations were making bad loans, especially in Texas, but in lots of other states as well -this is when Ronald Reagan was President.
当时储蓄贷款协会出现了不良贷款,尤其在德克萨斯州,不过在其它很多州也同时出现了...,当时的总统是罗纳德·里根
His track record in Texas probably did actually look a lot like that.
他在德克萨斯州任职期间的政绩,使他看上去像个保守派
I was 8 years old. I was in Texas.
当时我八岁,在德克萨斯州。
That's right. Louisiana Slim he's sometimes called. Yes, Sir. I sure have met Big Slim. And he used to work in the east Texas oil fields?"
对,人们有时叫他路易斯安那的细杆,是的先生我肯定,遇见过,他过去是不是经常在得克萨斯州东部的油田工作?“
That's another one of those sentences by Faulkner that sort of captured this spirit of Alabama Fever, as it was called, in the 1820s and '30s, and Mississippi Fever in the 1830s, Louisiana/Texas Fever by the 18 well Louisiana Fever is even earlier--but Texas Fever by the 1840s.
还有福克纳写的另一部作品,作品谈到了十九世纪二三十年代的,圈地狂潮,在阿拉巴马州,十九世纪三十年代的密西西比,在路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州,路易斯安那州圈地潮相对出现得更早,德克萨斯州圈地潮是在十九世纪四十年代
I got interested in that particular question because one of our former PHD students who is now at Texas A&M, asked me to give a lecture on that subject in honor of some anniversary of the universities.
我对这个问题也感兴趣,因为我们学校的一名博士毕业生,现在在德克萨斯农工大学,请我就这个话题演讲,当时是大学的周年纪念日。
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