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[00:00.00]Situation2: A History Lecture
场景2： 历史课
[00:03.78](Sitting down in the back of the lecture hall.
坐在学术大厅的后面
[00:08.01]I thought for sure I'd be late.
我以为我会迟到
[00:11.00]Hey, Mike. You're late, but so is Professor Clark.
嘿，Mike。你迟到了，Clark教授也是
[00:15.31]He's getting old, maybe he forgot about class today.
他老了，也许忘记了今天的课
[00:20.32]We should be so lucky.
我们应该是太幸运了。
[00:22.16]No, I'm just happy that he's later than me. I was really worried.
不，我只是高兴他比我还晚。我真的很担心。
[00:27.20]Oh, here he comes.
哦，他来了
[00:30.15](Entering from the front of the room and walking up to the podium.)
走到房间前面并走上讲台
[00:34.55]Good morning class, or should I say good afternoon?
同学们早上好，我是不是应该说中午好？
[00:40.53]Twelve o'clock classes always confuse me.
十二点的课总是让我糊涂。
[00:45.07]In that case, let's begin today's lecture.
假如那样的话，让我们开始今天的课。
[00:49.55]Today I want to speak about the American Civil War,
今天我要讲美国内战。
[00:53.85]which I am assuming all of you read about last week in the book by Huntington.
上个星期我让你们将课本看到Huntington为止。
[01:00.57]The Civil War can be analyzed in many ways,
这内战可以从很多方面来分析
[01:04.28]but today I want to discuss it as a result of economics.
但今天我想从经济方面来讨论一下。
[01:11.04]The northern United States industrialized rather early and so had little need for slave labor in their society.
北美洲的工业化开始的早一些，所以他们不需要奴隶劳动
[01:19.59]The southern states, on the other hand,
而南美洲呢，却相反
[01:23.39]had an economy based on agriculture, particularly cotton.
他们的经济建立在农业的基础上，特别是棉花
[01:28.09]This caused a much higher demand for slaves to supply manual labor in the fields.
这就需要大量的农奴进行地里的手工劳动。
[01:37.39]Eventually, this fundamental different in economic structures led to a difference in ideology.
后来，这个经济结构上的基本区别导致观念上的不一样
[01:46.05]And, as ideological differences often do,
由于观念分歧的长期作用，
[01:49.32]this led to a conflict which eventually resulted in war.
导致矛盾冲突也就是后来的战争。
[01:54.30]In this way, the Civil War is not unlike the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union,
就这样，内战不象美洲和苏维埃之间的冷战
[02:04.08]Which was also largely cause by differing economic systems.
而是大部分由于经济体系的不同。