A carpetbagger is a political candidate who runs for office in a place that they're not from.

外来政客指的是一个政治候选人，他竞选的地方不在他们的家乡。

Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers. They called them scalawags.

南方人对于与掮包客合作的人也有一个名字，他们叫做南方佬。

Many southern whites hated these men from the North. They had a special name for them: carpetbaggers.

许多南方白人讨厌这些北方人，他们有一个特别的名字：掮包客。

A carpetbagger today is a politician who lives in one place and then moves to another and runs for office.

今天的 carpetbagger 是指住在一个地方，然后搬到另一个地方去竞选公职的政客。

I sure will. I's got enough of them carpetbaggers.

我会的 我跟那些北佬很熟了。

I'll make friends with the Yankee carpetbaggers.

我会和北佬投机家做生意。

The same situation existed in other state governments in the South. In Louisiana, for example, the governor was a carpetbagger from the state of Illinois.

南方其他州政府也存在同样的情况。例如，在路易斯安那州，州长是伊利诺伊州的一名掮包客。

And a lot of carpetbaggers went and picked at the Soviet carcass and really was like a long after-lunch sleep of capitalism.

许多掠夺者去扒苏联的尸体，真的就像资本主义午后长时间的睡眠一样。