Or was it 1840? Or was it really in the wake of the Mexican War when you get this massive expansion into the great southwest and the Mexican Session which we'll take up actually next week?

还是1840年,在墨西哥战争的前夕,美国大举扩张进入,广阔的西南部地区及墨西哥会议的召开,这些其实我们下周都会讲到

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like right before our winter break.

恰好在我们的寒假前夕。

是考试期间 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

One of the best descriptions I've ever read of why slavery persisted, of why people defended it, and why people went to war for it, came before the war, in 1857, in a speech by the African-American woman, novelist, writer, poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

我曾读到的一段比较精彩的论述,关于为什么奴隶制度留存了下来,为什么人们为其辩护,为其而战,在1857年,战争前夕,在一个非裔美国女人的演讲中,她是小说家兼作家兼诗人,弗朗斯·伊莲·瓦特金·哈伯

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选