林肯英语 - 4 A Day in the Life of a College Student
Situation 2 A History Lecture 历史课

(Sitting down in the back of the lecture hall.) 坐在学术大厅的后面

Mike: I thought for sure I'd be late. 我以为我会迟到

Sarah: Hey, Mike. You are late. But so is Professor Clark. He's getting old. Maybe he forgot about class today. 嘿，Mike。你迟到了，Clark教授也是 他老了，也许忘记了今天的课

Mike: We should be so lucky. No, I'm just happy that he's later than me. I was really worried. 我们应该是太幸运了。 不，我只是高兴他比我还晚。我真的很担心。

Sarah: Oh, here he comes. 哦，他来了

(Entering from the front the room and walking up to the podium.) 走到房间前面并走上讲台

Prof. Clark: Good morning, class, or should I say good afternoon? Twelve o'clock classes always confuse me. In any case, let's begin today's lecture. 同学们早上好，我是不是应该说中午好？ 十二点的课总是让我糊涂。 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, which I am assuming all of you read about last week in a book by Huntington. 今天我要讲美国内战。 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, but today I want to discuss it as a result of economics. 这内战可以从很多方面来分析 但今天我想从经济方面来讨论一下。 The Northern United States industrialized rather early and 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, had an economy based on agriculture, particularly cotton. This caused a much higher demand for slaves to supply manual labor in the fields. 而南美洲呢，却相反 他们的经济建立在农业的基础上，特别是棉花 这就需要大量的农奴进行地里的手工劳动。 Eventually this fundamental difference economic structures led to a difference in ideology. And, as ideological differences often do, this led to a conflict which eventually resulted in war. 后来，这个经济结构上的基本区别导致观念上的不一样 由于观念分歧的长期作用， 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, which was also largely caused by differing economic systems. 就这样，内战不象美洲和苏维埃之间的冷战 而是大部分由于经济体系的不同。