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T-tax collector for the Western Reserve, it Th-that pays handsomely.
他是西部保留地的收稅員 收入頗豐
Don't just reach for the highest branches,they sway in every breeze.
不要只盯著高層 他們是墻頭草
Assistant Port Inspector of Marlston looks like the ticket to me.
要我看 馬爾斯頓的助理港口稽查員 有戲
Uh, boats, they-they make me sick.So just stand on the dock.
船讓我惡心 那就站在碼頭上
Let the Assistant Assistant Port Inspector's stomach go weak.
讓助理港口稽查員餓餓肚子
And lastly, Democratic yes vote number six. Hawkins from Ohio.
最后 民主黨員第六張贊成票 俄亥俄的霍金斯
Six. Well, thus far.Plus Graylor's abstention.
六票 目前是 加上格瑞勒的棄權(quán)票
From tiny acorns and so on.What'd Hawkins get?
積少成多 霍金斯得了什么位子
Postmaster of the Millersburg Post Office.
米勒斯堡郵政局的所長
He's selling himself cheap, ain't he?
他還挺好收買的 是吧
Aye, he wanted tax collector of the Western Reserve,
沒錯 一個初當(dāng)議員 搞不定改選的人
a first-term congressman who couldn't manage reelection,
想當(dāng)西部保留地的收稅員
I felt it unseemly and they bargained him down to Postmaster.
我覺得不合適 他們把價(jià)壓到所長
Scatter 'em over several rounds of appointments, so no one notices,and burn this ledger, please, after you're done.
把任命分散進(jìn)行 以免引人注意 事成后請燒掉賬目
Time for my public opinion bath.Might as well let 'em in.
到了我的共和觀點(diǎn)受洗之時(shí)了 不然讓他們也加入吧
Seven yeses with Mr. Ellis. Thirteen to go.
埃利斯先生的7票 還差13票
One last item, an absurdity, but My associates report that among the Representatives,
最后一項(xiàng) 一個荒謬但 我的伙伴說代表中
a fantastical rumor's bruited about,which I immediately disavowed,
流傳著一個奇異的傳聞 你讓老眼昏花的普雷斯頓·布萊爾
that you'd allowed bleary old Preston Blair to sojourn to Richmond to invite Jeff Davis to send commissioners up to Washington with a peace plan.
去里士滿邀請杰夫·戴維斯 派行政長官 到華盛頓來和平談判 我即刻否認(rèn)了
