What's distinctive about the South: "The South has a tradition," Said Gurganus, "Of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and in gaining admiration for the performance."

写的是南方的独特之处,"南方有种传统",古尔加努斯说,"付出巨大的代价挑战命运,即便失败仍非常自豪,并因此而为他人所尊敬"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

You have a very, very changing demographic situation in the American South and its political culture has to respond to that.

你可以想象,当时的美国南方,人口流动是非常厉害的,所以当时的政治文化必须做出相应的调整

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Every major African-American poet and writer and artist from frankly the mid-nineteenth century on has always been reflecting on this nexus of North and South.

大约十九世纪中期以后的,每一位主流的非裔美籍诗人,作家或艺术家,都一直在探讨南北关系的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The railroad had a lot to do, too, of course, with linking northeast with northwest, which has a lot to do with a certain sense of economic isolation that set in in the South, to some extent.

铁路也连接了,美国东北和西北地区,在一定程度上,它和当时南方,某种意义上的经济孤立脱不了干系

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选