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A peaceful protetest turns violent. Emotions run high. Towns are terrorized, stores robbed. Homesteads burned.
和平抗議演變成了暴力行動(dòng)。人們?nèi)呵榧^，城市恐怖活動(dòng)四起，商店被劫，家園被燒毀。
North and South are polarized. Neither side will back down.One man will stop at nothing to abolish slavery.
南北從此分道揚(yáng)鑣，雙方都不愿讓步。有一個(gè)人發(fā)誓不廢除奴隸制絕不罷休，
John Brown. A folk hero in the North...a terrorist to the South. He thinks he's fighting a holy war. He believes himself to be God's chosen instrument. He will murder for his cause.
約翰·布朗，一名來(lái)自北方的民間英雄，南方人眼中的恐怖分子。他認(rèn)為自己在從事圣戰(zhàn)，相信自己是上帝選派的執(zhí)行者，為達(dá)目的可以戕害無(wú)辜。
John Brown is one of those controversial figures about whom almost anything you can say is true. He's a terrorist, in our modern terms.He's a revolutionary.
約翰·布朗是一個(gè)飽受爭(zhēng)議的人物，各種褒貶不一的評(píng)價(jià)幾乎都能成立，用現(xiàn)代的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)看他是恐怖分子，他是革命者。
The divide between North and South is an open wound. Kansas bleeds for two years, more than 200 dead.
南北分歧成為了一個(gè)裸露的傷口，堪薩斯州為此流血兩年，逾兩百人喪生。
America is on the road to war. Slavery is tearing the nation apart.
美國(guó)正站在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)深淵的邊緣，奴隸制正在分裂這個(gè)國(guó)家。
America is built on a number of distinct fault lines, one, of course, was slavery and freedom, that was a fault line that had to be addressed.
美國(guó)建國(guó)之時(shí)就有若干明顯的內(nèi)在分歧，奴隸制與自由制就是其中之一，這一分歧亟需解決。
In the South, slavery is a way of life, even for non -slave owners. Antis lavery forces in the North threaten their right to decide their fate.
在南方，奴隸制是一種生活方式，對(duì)非奴隸主也是如此。在北方的廢奴者，威脅要?jiǎng)儕Z南方各州在此問(wèn)題上的自主權(quán)。
There is still, in some areas of America, a great pride in being Southern and holding true to the original Southern attitude.
在美國(guó)某些地區(qū)仍有人對(duì)南方人身份自豪，堅(jiān)守南方一貫以來(lái)的態(tài)度，
I think our clinging to the idea that slavery is a right and just a way of life, you know, it is a dark spot in our history.
固執(zhí)地認(rèn)為“奴隸制是一種權(quán)利，一種生活方式”。我認(rèn)為這種做法是我們歷史的污點(diǎn)。
Anger in the South grows more passionate every day. The North claims the moral high ground, but they are getting rich off cotton, too.
憤怒情緒在南方日益高漲，北方占領(lǐng)了道德高地，但他們也從棉花種植業(yè)中獲利。
Pretty much everybody agreed that a crisis was developing. Not everyone knew that, the crisis would include, in the end, the Civil War,
幾乎每個(gè)人都感覺(jué)得到危機(jī)的來(lái)臨，但并不是所有人都能預(yù)見(jiàn)到危機(jī)最終會(huì)發(fā)展為內(nèi)戰(zhàn)，
but everyone understood that a showdown between the slave South and the free North was about to occur. John Brown wants to light the fuse.
但每個(gè)人都明白，堅(jiān)持奴隸制的南方和堅(jiān)持自由制的北方最終會(huì)決一雌雄。約翰·布朗想要點(diǎn)燃戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的導(dǎo)火索。
