Half hearted attempts were made to postpone this impending catastrophe; the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1853.

人们不无决心地试图推迟这灾难的到来 1850年妥协方案和1853年的堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案。

In 1854, he signed something called the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

1854 年，他签署了堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案。

To Lincoln, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was a terrible step in the wrong direction.

对林肯来说， 堪萨斯-内布拉斯加州法案是朝着错误方向迈出的可怕一步。

The man responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act was Senator Stephen Douglas from Illinois.

堪萨斯-内布拉斯加州法案的负责人是来自伊利诺伊州的参议员斯蒂芬道格拉斯。

Many Democrats had left their party in anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

许多民主党人因对堪萨斯-内布拉斯加州法案的愤怒而离开了他们的政党。

What brought Lincoln back to politics was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. For a long time, Americans had been arguing about slavery.

使林肯重返政坛的是 1854 年的堪萨斯-内布拉斯加州法案。长期以来，美国人一直在争论奴隶制问题。