This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith talk about the presidency of Franklin Pierce.

在本周的系列节目中，史蒂夫·恩伯和雪莉·格里菲斯将讲述富兰克林·皮尔斯在总统任期内发生的故事。

Franklin Pierce was from the northeastern state of New Hampshire. He was a lawyer and former state lawmaker.

富兰克林·皮尔斯来自美国东北部的新罕布什尔州，他曾是一名律师，也是前州议员。

Presidents Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce, to whom she had written letters, showed little interest in her cause.

扎卡里·泰勒总统、米勒德·菲尔莫尔总统和富兰克林·皮尔斯总统都收到过她的的来信，但对她的想法并没有兴趣。

The most difficult national problem facing the administration of President Franklin Pierce was the situation in Kansas. The territory struggled with the issue of slavery.

总统富兰克林·皮尔斯政府面临最棘手的国家问题是堪萨斯州的局势，人们为这片领土是否允许蓄奴的问题而争执不休。

Historians don't judge Franklin Pierce very positively.

历史学家不会非常积极地评价富兰克林皮尔斯。

In some ways, it's not surprising that Franklin Pierce got involved in politics.

在某些方面，富兰克林皮尔斯涉足政治并不奇怪。

So, in the end they chose a fourth person, and that person was Franklin Pierce.

所以，最后他们选择了第四个人，这个人就是富兰克林皮尔斯。

Again, in a great surprise, Franklin Pierce actually won the election of 1852 and became president.

再一次，富兰克林皮尔斯竟然赢得了 1852 年的选举并成为总统， 这让他大吃一惊。

We're also going to talk about the 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce.

我们还要谈谈美国第 14 任总统富兰克林皮尔斯。

Franklin Pierce was a young man. And his inauguration speech was about a young America. He promised strong support for expanding the territory of the United States.

富兰克林·皮尔斯是个年轻人，其就职演说描绘的是一个年轻的美国。他承诺坚定支持扩展美国领土。

The Democrats, with Franklin Pierce as their leader, swept the country against the war hero, General Winfield Scott, on whom the Whigs had staked their hopes.

以富兰克林·皮尔斯为领袖的民主党席卷全国，反对战争英雄温菲尔德·斯科特将军，辉格党寄予厚望。

The new president, Franklin Pierce, was a charming man. He made friends easily. Those who knew Pierce best worried about this. They knew that under all his friendly charm, he was a weak man.

新总统富兰克林·皮尔斯是个很有魅力的人。他很容易和别人成为朋友，熟知皮尔斯的人对此表示担心。他们知道，在他友善的魅力之下，隐藏的是一个软弱的人。

The only elected president in American history to be denied his party's nomination for a second term was Democrat Franklin Pierce in 1856, but the concern then was the president's policies, not his age.

1856年，民主党人富兰克林·皮尔斯是美国历史上唯一未能获得党内连任提名的民选总统，但当时人们担心的是总统的政策，而不是他的年龄。

President Franklin Pierce decided he should make someone else governor of Utah. The man he chose, however, did not want the job. Instead, he urged the president to let Brigham Young remain. President Pierce agreed.

总统富兰克林·皮尔斯决定让其他人担任犹他州州长。然而，他选定的那个人并不想做这份工作。相反，他敦促总统恢复杨百翰的职务。总统皮尔斯同意了。

On the first ballot, no one got two-thirds of the vote. So the voting continued. Finally, on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates. His name was Franklin Pierce.

在第一轮投票中，没有人获得三分之二的选票。所以投票继续进行。最后，在第四十七次投票中，一位名不见经传的候选人获得的支持率开始上升，他叫富兰克林·皮尔斯。

It seems that people right away knew this was going to be the start of something big, for the trophy was awarded to Harvard by General Franklin Pierce, who would be elected the 14th President later that year.

人们似乎立刻就意识到一项重大比赛就由此拉开帷幕了。那年年底皮尔斯被选为美国第14任总统。

Opponents there were, no doubt, disgruntled critics and Whigs by conviction; but in 1852 Franklin Pierce, the Democratic candidate for President, carried every state in the union except Massachusetts, Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

毫无疑问，反对者是心怀不满的批评家和坚定的辉格党人。但在 1852 年，民主党总统候选人富兰克林皮尔斯赢得了除马萨诸塞州、佛蒙特州、肯塔基州和田纳西州以外的所有州。