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Lincoln responded with words that saved his career, but that haunt his reputation.
林肯的回应拯救了他的政治前途 却令其名声受到损害
He said, and I'm quoting him,that he did not believe that black people should have the right to vote.
他说 我直接引用原文 他不相信黑人 应该享有选举权
He did not believe that blacks should have the right to sit on juries.
他不相信黑人 应该享有列席陪审团的权利
He didn't believe that black people should have the right to hold public office.
他不相信黑人应该享有担任公职的权利
He believed that there's a physical difference between the white race and the black race
他相信存在生理上的差异 在白人和黑人之间
that will forever make it impossible for them to live together on a plain of equality.
这一差异使得双方不可能共同生活 在平等的环境中
Lincoln is saying things about race and the inferiority of blacks that we don't want him to say.
林肯谈论的就是种族问题和黑人的劣等性 这是我们不愿出自他口中的
Now, of course, it's just crucial to contextualise those statements.
现在 当然 最重要的是 将这些断言放回到历史情境中
I mean, he's being goaded into them by Stephen Douglas,
我的意思是 他发表这些言论 是由斯蒂芬·道格拉斯激起的
who's a shrewd, savvy political veteran
他是一位狡猾的 经验丰富的政坛老手
who knows that his strongest attack is to link Lincoln's anti-slavery to some notion of racial equality.
他知道他最猛烈的攻击 是将林肯的反奴隶制倾向和一些种族平等的观念联系起来
He's saying that Lincoln is in favour of racial equality, and Lincoln obliges.
他说林肯赞成种族平等 林肯不得不反驳
He does that. He does it, I think, for political reasons
他确实反驳了 他这样做 我相信 乃是出于政治理由
and it doesn't look good to us today,but that's the nature of mid-19th century politics.
这不是我们今天所乐见的 但那却是19世纪中期政治的实质
