And then we have a great war for weeks and it's all Eli Whitney.

随后这场持续数周的战争打响了,这都归咎于伊莱·惠特尼

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Okay, now let's make this first battle I'm going to describe for you to be as clear cut as we can make it, and it probably never was like that.

好的 现在,让我们打响第一场战斗,我们做得尽量简洁些,也许事实上的战斗并非是这样

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That could be an epigraph on this course, if you like, because in the end when this Civil War will finally come both sides will say over and over and over again that they are only fighting for liberty.

你愿意的话,也可以把这两个词记下来,因为在最后,当内战最终打响的时候,双方都会一遍又一遍地重申,他们只是为了自由而战

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选