We usually only talk about Manifest Destiny when we're talking about the westward movement beyond the Mississippi.

当我们谈到跨越密西西比河的西进运动时,我们一般只认为这是命运天定

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And deep at the root of Manifest Destiny, of course and there's book after book written on this is a deep and abiding American white supremacy.

很明显,这都源于命运天定,关于这点有很多著书证明,命运天定是根植于美国的白人至上主义

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But Manifest Destiny was in some ways the fuel of the American imagination.

但是命运天定在某种程度上,丰富了美国人的想象力

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I leave it to my expert colleagues in History of the American West to decide exactly who came up with the term Manifest Destiny, who actually first used it.

我的同事是美国西部史专家,他也许能够,阐述清楚命运天定这个术语是怎么出现的,以及到底是谁第一个用它

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And Manifest Destiny was the engine of capitalism, make no mistake.

而且,命运天定思想,是资本主义的发动机,这点无容置疑

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But Manifest Destiny was a very old American idea.

但命运天定是个非常古老的美国观念

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A Christian civilization was deeply at the root of this cluster of ideas we call Manifest Destiny, as was a virulent kind of nationalism that boomed after the War of 1812 and through the 1820s into the 1830s.

基督教文明是我们所称的命运天定,及其相关思想的核心,它是一种有害的民族主义,在1812年战争后兴起,并流行于十九世纪二十年代和三十年代

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