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Situation2: A History Lecture
场景2： 历史课
(Sitting down in the back of the lecture hall.
坐在学术大厅的后面
I thought for sure I'd be late.
我以为我会迟到
Hey, Mike. You're late, but so is Professor Clark.
嘿，Mike。你迟到了，Clark教授也是
He's getting old, maybe he forgot about class today.
他老了，也许忘记了今天的课
We should be so lucky.
我们应该是太幸运了。
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。
Oh, here he comes.
哦，他来了
(Entering from the front of the room and walking up to the podium.)
走到房间前面并走上讲台
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？
Twelve o'clock classes always confuse me.
十二点的课总是让我糊涂。
In that case, let's begin today's lecture.
假如那样的话，让我们开始今天的课。
Today I want to speak about the American Civil War,
今天我要讲美国内战。
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。
The Civil War can be analyzed in many ways,
这内战可以从很多方面来分析
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。
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
The southern states, on the other hand,
而南美洲呢，却相反
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
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。
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
And, as ideological differences often do,
由于观念分歧的长期作用，
this led to a conflict which eventually resulted in war.
导致矛盾冲突也就是后来的战争。
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
Which was also largely cause by differing economic systems.
而是大部分由于经济体系的不同。
