Dolley Madison
Slate: : The words spoken by the actors in this program are based on the actual writings of Dolley Madison and her contemporaries.
Slate：：本节目中演员所说的话是根据多莉·麦迪逊和她的同时代人的真实作品改编的。
Narrator: : In July 1849, the entire United States government shut down for a funeral.
旁白： 1849 年 7 月，整个美国政府因葬礼而关闭。
It was said to be the largest Washington, DC had ever seen.
据说这是华盛顿特区有史以来最大的。
President Zachary Taylor, his entire cabinet, members of the diplomatic corps, the Senate and House of Representatives, and thousands of ordinary citizens were honoring a person who had held no government office, had written no influential laws, nor won any military battles.
扎卡里·泰勒总统、他的整个内阁、外交使团成员、参议院和众议院以及成千上万的普通公民都在向一位没有担任过政府职务、没有制定过有影响力的法律、也没有赢得过任何军事战斗的人致敬。
Dolley Madison came to be known as this country’s first First Lady.
多莉·麦迪逊被称为这个国家的第一位第一夫人。
More than anyone else, she had created that unofficial office, and in the process changed the face of the Presidency.
她比任何人都更创建了这个非官方办公室，并在此过程中改变了总统职位的面貌。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : They called her Queen Dolley because she reigned supreme over Washington.
科基·罗伯茨，编剧：：他们称她为多利女王，因为她在华盛顿拥有至高无上的统治地位。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : She was a heroine at the center of heroic events.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，编剧：她是英雄事件中心的女英雄。
But there is the public Dolley Madison and then there is this extraordinarily difficult, even tragic private life that she’s living out.
但有公众的多莉·麦迪逊，也有她过着的极其艰难、甚至悲惨的私生活。
Narrator: : Family meant everything to her, but her only child nearly ruined her.
旁白：：家庭对她来说意味着一切，但她唯一的孩子几乎毁了她。
She helped establish Washington, DC, only to see it almost destroyed by an invading army.
她帮助建立了华盛顿特区，却眼睁睁地看着它几乎被入侵的军队摧毁。
People described her as sunny and charming, but at her core was a will of iron.
人们形容她阳光、迷人，但骨子里却有着钢铁般的意志。
Dolley (Eve Best): : There is a secret in life better that anything a fortune teller can reveal.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：生活中有一个秘密比算命师能揭示的更好。
We all have a great hand in the forming of our own destiny.
我们每个人都对自己命运的形成有很大的影响。
Narrator: : In 1783, the year that America won its independence from Britain, a family traveled from rural Virginia to a new home.
旁白： 1783 年，即美国脱离英国独立的那一年，一家人从弗吉尼亚乡村搬到了新家。
John Payne was bringing his wife and eight children to the country’s largest and most cosmopolitan city, Philadelphia.
约翰·佩恩带着他的妻子和八个孩子来到美国最大、最国际化的城市费城。
Payne was a devout Quaker, and his sect had just called for its members to free their slaves.
佩恩是一位虔诚的贵格会教徒，他的教派刚刚呼吁其成员释放他们的奴隶。
He had complied, though it meant giving up his livelihood.
他答应了，尽管这意味着放弃他的生计。
Now he was starting over, in this center of the Quaker religion.
现在他在贵格会宗教的中心重新开始。
Narrator: : Years later, Lucia Cutts, Dolley’s grand niece, would write a biography of her famous relative.
旁白：多年后，多利的侄孙女露西娅·卡茨为她著名的亲戚写了一本传记。
In it, she described Dolley’s family life under the watch of her stern father.
在其中，她描述了多利在严厉的父亲的监督下的家庭生活。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : Mr. Payne was very exact with his children and brought them up in that religion that has utility for its basis.
侄女（Mireille Enos）：佩恩先生对他的孩子们非常严格，并以实用的宗教为基础抚养他们长大。
Ornaments and the graceful female accomplishments were equally forbidden as savoring too much of the vanities.
装饰品和优雅的女性成就同样被禁止，因为品味太多的虚荣心。
Dolley, like all children, was taught to obey her parents unquestionably.
像所有孩子一样，多莉被教导要毫无疑问地服从父母。
Narrator: : A cosmopolitan Philadelphia offered the young Quaker woman tantalizing glimpses of a different world.
旁白：国际化的费城为这位年轻的贵格会女性提供了一个不同世界的诱人一瞥。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Dear Betsy.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：亲爱的贝特西。
Here’s what’s in circulation.
这是流通中的东西。
Thy old admirer Mr. W.S.
你的老崇拜者 W.S. 先生
and Susan Ward are — according to the common saying — to be made one.
按照俗话说，苏珊·沃德（Susan Ward）将成为其中之一。
The bride to be is setting up house not far from here.
准新娘正在离这里不远的地方安家。
The old Quakers, of course, very much do not approve of this parade.
老贵格会当然非常不赞成这次游行。
There are more matches afoot, but they’re still so uncertain that I can’t tell you their names yet.
还有更多比赛正在进行中，但仍然不确定，我还不能告诉你他们的名字。
Oh, but Sally Bartram, she ran off and married a Roman Catholic!!!
哦，但是莎莉·巴特拉姆，她跑了，嫁给了一个罗马天主教徒！
And Betsy Wister and Kitty Morris — they’re Quakers too — eloped.
贝特西·威斯特（Betsy Wister）和基蒂·莫里斯（Kitty Morris）——他们也是贵格会教徒——私奔了。
So you see, dear Betsy, – love’s no respecter of anything, and some will follow the choice of their hearts.
所以你看，亲爱的贝特西，爱是不尊重任何事物的，有些人会遵循他们内心的选择。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : She had beauty, loveliness of character, and perfect freedom from vanity.
外甥女（Mireille Enos）：她美丽、可爱，而且完全摆脱了虚荣心。
She soon had numerous suitors.
很快她就有了众多的追求者。
Her powers of fascination were wonderful.
她的魅力令人惊叹。
Quaker man (Neal Huff): : She has a rosy complexion, jet black hair and a sweet engaging smile.
贵格会男子（尼尔·哈夫）：：她有着红润的肤色、乌黑的头发和甜美迷人的微笑。
She could raise the mercury in the thermometer of the heart to fever heat.
她可以将心脏温度计中的水银升高至发热。
Quaker Woman (Dana Ivey): : She’s often given offense by her caps and the cut of her gown and the shape of her shoes.
贵格会妇女（Dana Ivey）：：她的帽子、礼服的剪裁和鞋子的形状经常让人感到冒犯。
I have lectured her at length about this; she smiles while I am talking — and then, falls asleep.
关于这一点，我已经详细地向她讲授过。我说话的时候她微笑着——然后就睡着了。
Narrator: : In 1789, Dolley’s life was thrown into turmoil.
旁白： 1789年，多利的生活陷入混乱。
Her father’s new business failed, and forced to declare bankruptcy, he was cast out of the Society of Friends.
她父亲的新生意失败了，被迫宣布破产，并被逐出了公谊会。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : The Quakers didn’t read you out of their society because you got in debt.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：贵格会教徒并没有因为你负债累累而把你从他们的社会中驱逐出去。
It was how he didn’t pay his debts back.
这就是他没有偿还债务的原因。
There was a dishonesty there in some way.
在某种程度上，那里存在不诚实的情况。
And it’s that which was so shameful, and that which must have been so painful to the whole family.
正是这件事让全家人都感到羞耻、痛苦。
Narrator: : The humiliation broke Dolley’s proud father.
旁白：：这种屈辱让多利骄傲的父亲心碎了。
He took to his bed, turning his back to the world.
他躺在床上，背对着世界。
Two of Dolley’s brothers were also banished from Quaker society.
多利的两个兄弟也被贵格会社会驱逐。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : The circumstances are mysterious.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：：情况很神秘。
We know they’re read out of the Society of Friends as well, and we know that it’s covered up.
我们知道它们也被公谊会读出，而且我们知道它被掩盖了。
So to me what it says is that they were doing something that they were not proud of.
所以对我来说，这意味着他们正在做一些他们并不感到自豪的事情。
They’ve somehow shamed the family.
他们不知何故让这个家庭蒙羞。
There seems to be something that runs in the family of alcoholism and gambling.
这个家庭似乎有酗酒和赌博的遗传。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : Her mother had to open a boardinghouse just to make a living.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：她的母亲不得不开一家寄宿公寓才能谋生。
And there’s a great deal of grief.
还有很多悲伤。
And what that bred in Dolley was a desire to not just avoid confrontation, but to smooth things over.
这让多利不仅渴望避免对抗，而且希望平息事态。
To please, to make everything all right.
取悦，让一切顺利。
And this was a quality that would take her through her life.
这种品质将伴随她一生。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : Dolley was called to her father’s bedside, and told that he wished her to become the wife of John Todd, a young man of whom he had the highest opinion.
侄女（米雷耶·伊诺斯饰）：多利被叫到她父亲的床边，并被告知他希望她成为约翰·托德的妻子，约翰·托德是他最看重的年轻人。
Mr. Todd was a promising young lawyer of means, a man who had shown him great kindness in his trouble.
托德先生是一位很有前途、财力雄厚的年轻律师，在他遇到麻烦时，他表现出了极大的仁慈。
Dolley (Eve Best): : I didn’t wish to marry — it was a hard struggle — but I couldn’t think of disobeying my father’s wishes.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：我并不想结婚——这是一场艰苦的斗争——但我无法想到违背父亲的意愿。
I gave up my girlhood and married Mr. Todd in 1790.
1790 年，我放弃了少女时代，嫁给了托德先生。
Narrator: : Dolley Todd soon had two young sons.
旁白：：多利·托德很快就有了两个年幼的儿子。
Now 25, she seemed on course to finally having a secure, if unremarkable, life.
现年 25 岁的她似乎终于要过上安全但平淡的生活了。
Then, in August, 1793, Philadelphia was racked with an epidemic of yellow fever.
随后，1793 年 8 月，费城爆发了黄热病流行。
Within a few days, Dolley’s father-in-law and mother-in-law both died.
几天之内，多利的岳父和岳母双双去世。
Soon afterwards, her husband and younger son were stricken.
不久之后，她的丈夫和小儿子也受到了打击。
They died on the same day.
他们在同一天去世。
Dolley (Eve Best): : I, too, took the fever and was very ill.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：我也发烧了，病得很重。
My baby, just an infant, was taken from me.
我的孩子，只是一个婴儿，就被从我身边夺走了。
Narrator: : Dolley and her older son, Payne, survived.
旁白：：多利和她的大儿子佩恩幸存下来。
She had to fight for her husband’s property, and even for the custody of her son, who was considered part of her husband’s estate.
她必须为丈夫的财产而战，甚至还要争夺儿子的监护权，儿子被认为是丈夫遗产的一部分。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : It’s important to remember that women had no political rights or legal rights.
作家科基·罗伯茨：重要的是要记住，妇女没有政治权利或法律权利。
Married women could not own property.
已婚妇女不能拥有财产。
They were the property of their husbands.
它们是她们丈夫的财产。
So she really did have to think long and hard about remarrying.
所以，关于再婚，她确实是需要深思熟虑。
But Dolley also understood that having a husband in her life would be useful for her son.
但多莉也明白，有一个丈夫在她的生活中对她的儿子来说是有用的。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : She was still young.
外甥女（Mireille Enos）：：她还很年轻。
It was only natural that she should have many admirers.
她自然会有很多崇拜者。
Gentlemen would station themselves outside her house just to watch her pass — so much so that a Quaker friend out walking with her chided her, saying “Really Dolley, thou must hide thy face, there are so many men staring at thee.” Mrs. Todd would laugh heartily, and obediently put up both hands to her face.
绅士们会站在她的屋外，只是为了看着她经过——以至于一位和她一起出去散步的贵格会朋友责备她，说：“真的，多利，你必须隐藏你的脸，有这么多男人在盯着你看。”托德夫人会开怀大笑，并顺从地将双手举到脸上。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : It was widely said around Philadelphia that she couldn’t come out of her house without about 10 people, men, all standing at the head of the street waving to her.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：费城各地普遍认为，如果没有大约 10 个人（男人）站在街头向她招手，她就无法走出家门。
Narrator: : Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the country, and James Madison was a Representative at Congress Hall, just around the corner from Dolley’s house.
旁白：费城是这个国家的临时首都，詹姆斯·麦迪逊是国会大厦的众议员，国会大厦就在多利家的拐角处。
The 43-year-old bachelor took notice of the young widow out walking with her cousin.
这位 43 岁的单身汉注意到了这位年轻的寡妇和她表弟一起出去散步。
Madison was known as a monumental intellect.
麦迪逊被认为是一位伟大的才智。
He was a seminal figure in the establishment of the United States Constitution, and a champion of the Bill of Rights.
他是制定美国宪法的重要人物，也是《权利法案》的拥护者。
One of the country’s most prominent political leaders, he was also shy, sickly and short.
作为这个国家最著名的政治领导人之一，他也很害羞、体弱多病而且身材矮小。
Henry S.
亨利·S。
(Brian Murray): : He’s an anchovy!
（布莱恩·默里）：：他是一条凤尾鱼！
He looks like a country schoolmaster, mourning over one of his pupils he’s just whipped to death.
他看起来就像一位乡村校长，正在为他刚刚被鞭打致死的学生哀悼。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : He was the opposite of charismatic.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：：他是魅力的反面。
But in small groups he was known to be extremely charming and very funny and known for his dirty jokes.
但在小团体中，他被认为非常有魅力、非常有趣，并以他的黄色笑话而闻名。
So I don’t think he was quite as sobersides as we may ordinarily imagine him to be.
所以我认为他并不像我们通常想象的那么清醒。
Carol Berkin, Historian: : He had never had enormous luck with the ladies.
卡罗尔·伯金（Carol Berkin），历史学家：：他在女士们面前从来没有那么幸运。
And Dolley is a babe.
多莉还是个宝贝。
And that James ever got up the nerve to court her is one of history’s mysteries.
詹姆斯竟然鼓起勇气向她求爱，这是历史上的谜团之一。
Narrator: : Madison asked a common acquaintance, Aaron Burr, to arrange an introduction.
旁白：：麦迪逊请一位共同的熟人亚伦·伯尔安排介绍。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Senator Aaron Burr says that the great little Madison has asked to be brought to see me this evening.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：参议员亚伦·伯尔说，伟大的小麦迪逊要求今晚带我来见我。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : Mr. Madison was 17 years her senior and was thought to be a life-long bachelor, but it only took one meeting for her to conquer this reclusive bookworm.
大侄女（米瑞·伊诺丝饰）：麦迪逊先生比她大十七岁，被认为是终身单身汉，但只用了一次见面，她就征服了这个隐居的书呆子。
Catherine Coles (Julia Morrison): : Cousin, he told me that he thinks so much about you in the day that he’s lost his tongue.
凯瑟琳·科尔斯（朱莉娅·莫里森）：表弟，他告诉我，他那天非常想你，以至于他失去了舌头。
At night he dreams of you and starts in his sleep, calling on you to relieve his flame, for he burns to such an excess as to be almost consumed.
晚上他会梦见你，然后在睡梦中醒来，呼唤你来解除他的火焰，因为他燃烧得太厉害，几乎要被烧死。
With sparkling eyes, he has given me full permission to tell you all this.
他的眼睛闪闪发亮，完全允许我告诉你这一切。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : James Madison was determined to have her.
霍莉·舒尔曼，历史学家：詹姆斯·麦迪逊决心要拥有她。
Shy he may have been.
他可能很害羞。
Short he may have been.
他可能很矮。
Determined he was.
确定他是。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : Madison was a very, very famous man, and people pointed him out as he walked the streets of Philadelphia.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：麦迪逊是一位非常非常有名的人，当他走在费城的街道上时，人们都会指出他。
Dolley was ambitious in her own way too.
多利也以她自己的方式雄心勃勃。
And she was delighted to get this kind of attention.
她很高兴得到这样的关注。
She was instantly on the inside of the top tier of the political world, and that meant a lot to her.
她立即跻身政界顶层，这对她来说意义重大。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Rumors about us created quite a sensation in Philadelphia.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：关于我们的谣言在费城引起了不小的轰动。
It even reached the Presidential Mansion and I was summoned to tea with Mrs. Washington.
它甚至到达了总统府，我被华盛顿夫人叫去喝茶。
“Dolley!” she said to me, “Is it true that you are engaged to James Madison?” I was taken aback and I stammered, “No…
“多莉！”她对我说：“你真的和詹姆斯·麦迪逊订婚了吗？”我吃了一惊，结结巴巴地说：“没有……”
I think not, I…” “If this is so,” she said, “Don’t be afraid to confess it, be proud!
我想不是，我……” “如果是这样，”她说，“不要害怕承认这一点，要自豪！
He will make thee a good husband, all the better that he is an older man."
他会让你成为一个好丈夫，更何况他已经是个年长的男人了。”
Narrator: : Within four months of their first meeting, Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison were married at her sister’s home in Virginia.
旁白：：多利·佩恩·托德和詹姆斯·麦迪逊第一次见面后四个月内，他们在弗吉尼亚州她姐姐的家里结婚了。
On her wedding day, she wrote a letter to a friend.
结婚当天，她给朋友写了一封信。
Dolley (Eve Best): : I’ve stolen away from the family to communicate with you — to tell you, in short, that I have given my hand to the man who of all others I most…
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：我偷偷离开家人来与你们交流——简而言之，我已经把我的手交给了这个我最……的人。
admire.
佩服。
In this marriage I look forward to a soothing future, and my little Payne will have a generous and tender protector.
在这段婚姻中，我期待着一个舒缓的未来，我的小佩恩将有一个慷慨而温柔的保护者。
Best love to you and yours.
给你和你的家人最好的爱。
Dolley Payne Todd, now Mrs. Madison…
多莉·佩恩·托德，现在是麦迪逊夫人……
alas.
唉。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : When the wedding was over, she went back and she signed it “Dolley Madison, alas.” Which has puzzled a great many people for a long time.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：婚礼结束后，她回去并在上面签下了“多莉·麦迪逊，唉。”这让很多人困惑了很长时间。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : She married him in 1794.
霍莉·舒尔曼 (Holly Shulman)，历史学家：她于 1794 年与他结婚。
She may not have learned to love him until 1795-1796-1797, who knows?
她可能直到1795-1796-1797年才学会爱他，谁知道呢？
She might have loved him when she married him.
当她嫁给他时，她可能已经爱他了。
But she clearly developed with him a wonderful partnership and a real love.
但她显然与他建立了良好的伙伴关系和真正的爱情。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : It’s a classic case of opposites attracting.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，编剧：这是异性相吸的经典案例。
She had a charisma that completed Madison in a way that probably no one else could have, with enormous consequences for this country.
她的魅力以一种其他人无法做到的方式完成了麦迪逊，并对这个国家产生了巨大的影响。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : When Dolley married James Madison, she was read out of Quaker meeting, because she had married out of the sect.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：当多利与詹姆斯·麦迪逊结婚时，她被宣读出贵格会会议，因为她已与该教派之外的人结婚。
But I think she was probably pretty ready to get out of it anyway.
但我认为无论如何她可能已经准备好摆脱困境了。
Carl Anthony, Writer: : The transformation after she marries Madison is radical.
卡尔·安东尼，编剧：：她与麦迪逊结婚后的转变是彻底的。
Suddenly for the first time, you start seeing images of her shoulders and her neck and her bosom.
突然，你第一次开始看到她的肩膀、脖子和胸部的图像。
She is not in any way shy from wearing the most fashionable fashions of that Philadelphia era, and showing her body off a little bit.
她一点也不羞于穿着费城时代最时尚的时装，并稍微展示一下自己的身体。
There are a lot of people who commented on the fact that Dolley Madison kind of took those fashions as far as they could go sort of respectably.
很多人都评论道，多莉·麦迪逊（Dolley Madison）将这些时尚尽其所能地发挥得淋漓尽致。
Quaker Woman (Dana Ivey): : Friend Dolley, I send you this gift of some handkerchiefs to shade your lovely bosom from the admiration and gaze of the vulgar.
贵格会妇女（达纳·艾维）：：朋友多利，我送你一些手帕作为礼物，以遮挡你可爱的胸部免受庸俗的钦佩和凝视。
Narrator: : In 1797, with his Republican party out of power, Madison retired from the House of Representatives.
旁白： 1797 年，随着共和党下台，麦迪逊从众议院退休。
Dolley and James and her five-year-old son Payne moved to Madison’s 5,000-acre Virginia plantation, called Montpelier.
多利、詹姆斯和她五岁的儿子佩恩搬到了麦迪逊占地 5,000 英亩的弗吉尼亚种植园，名为蒙彼利埃。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : When Dolley married James in 1794, it was not a foregone conclusion that she would be a politician’s wife.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈 (Catherine Allgor)：：当多莉于 1794 年与詹姆斯结婚时，她会成为一名政治家的妻子并不是已成定局。
James Madison of course had been a very prominent politician.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊当然是一位非常杰出的政治家。
But it wasn’t at all clear that he would continue in politics.
但目前还不清楚他是否会继续从政。
James and Dolley went to Montpelier for a retirement.
詹姆斯和多利前往蒙彼利埃退休。
This of course would prove to be a false retirement.
这当然会被证明是虚假退休。
As John Adams said, political plants seem to grow best in the shade.
正如约翰·亚当斯所说，政治植物似乎在阴凉处生长得最好。
Narrator: : Dolley slipped easily into life at Montpelier, which relied for its wealth on the labor of slaves.
旁白：多利很容易就融入了蒙彼利埃的生活，那里的财富依赖于奴隶的劳动。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : Dolley Madison was part of a generation who had a particular attitude towards slavery.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：多莉·麦迪逊属于对奴隶制持特殊态度的一代人。
James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and people like that, thought of slavery as a necessary evil.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊、托马斯·杰斐逊以及类似的人认为奴隶制是一种不可避免的罪恶。
They knew it was wrong on some level.
他们知道这在某种程度上是错误的。
But they had a whole life built on it, and they just couldn’t let it go.
但他们的一生都建立在这个基础上，他们就是不能放手。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : When Dolley Madison’s father decided to emancipate his slaves in Virginia, it foreshadowed ruin in the Payne family.
霍莉·舒尔曼，历史学家：：当多利·麦迪逊的父亲决定解放弗吉尼亚州的奴隶时，这预示着佩恩家族的灭亡。
So from her personal experience, living with slaves supporting you was a far easier life than living in poverty as her father’s daughter with no slaves.
因此，从她的个人经历来看，与支持自己的奴隶一起生活比她父亲的女儿在没有奴隶的贫困中生活要容易得多。
Narrator: : For four years, Dolley and James lived the comfortable life of wealthy planters at Montpelier.
旁白： 四年来，多利和詹姆斯在蒙彼利埃过着富裕种植园主的舒适生活。
During their long lives, they would rarely be apart.
在他们漫长的一生中，他们很少分开。
John Stagg, Historian: : There only survive about 30-odd letters between Madison and Dolley across the whole span of their lifetime.
历史学家约翰·斯塔格：麦迪逊和多利一生中仅存有大约 30 多封信件。
And that’s because once they were married they were very seldom apart, and they didn’t have occasion to write letters.
因为结婚后他们很少分开，也没有机会写信。
But at one point, Dolley developed a problem on one of her knees, and she went to Philadelphia for medical treatment.
但有一次，多莉的一个膝盖出现了问题，她前往费城接受治疗。
And so we do have a series of letters between them.
所以我们之间确实有一系列信件。
They’re playful, they’re affectionate.
他们顽皮，他们深情。
Dolley talks about how she weeps for joy when she receives one of his letters.
多利谈到，当她收到他的一封信时，她高兴得哭了。
Dolley (Eve Best): : My dearest husband.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：我最亲爱的丈夫。
I am getting well as fast as I can, knowing that my reward will be seeing again my beloved.
我正在尽快康复，因为我知道我的回报就是再次见到我心爱的人。
But I had a nightmare last night - that you were in your room sick, and I was not there to nurse you.
但我昨晚做了一个噩梦——你在你的房间里生病了，而我却不在那里照顾你。
Write soon, so that I may chase away this terrible vision.
快点写信吧，这样我就可以赶走这可怕的幻象。
Farewell until tomorrow, my best friend.
明天再见，我最好的朋友。
Think of thy wife, who thinks and dreams of thee.
想想你的妻子，她想着你，梦想着你。
James Madison (Jefferson Mays): : My dearest: Your letter fans my anxious wishes and hopes for your perfect recovery, but my happiness will not be complete till I have you with me.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊（杰斐逊·梅斯）：：我最亲爱的：你的信激发了我对你完美康复的焦急愿望和希望，但只有有你在身边，我的幸福才算完整。
Everything around and within reminds me that you are absent.
周围和里面的一切都在提醒我你不在。
I can’t give you any news about the horse races or of the theatre — I’ve been to neither, nor have I wanted to without you.
我不能给你任何关于赛马或剧院的消息——我没去过，也不想在没有你的情况下去。
Payne is well, and I am trying hard to keep him paying some sort of attention to his books.
佩恩很好，我正在努力让他对他的书有所关注。
All my affection embraces you.
我所有的感情都拥抱你。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected President, and Mr. Madison became Secretary of State.
侄女（Mireille Enos）： 1801年，托马斯·杰斐逊当选总统，麦迪逊先生成为国务卿。
Mr. and Mrs. Madison traveled to Washington from their Virginia plantation.
麦迪逊夫妇从弗吉尼亚种植园前往华盛顿。
In those days railroads were unknown and stagecoaches ingeniously uncomfortable, and the journey took what to us would seem us to be an incredible many days.
那时，铁路还不为人所知，驿站马车也很不舒服，这段旅程对我们来说似乎是令人难以置信的许多天。
Narrator: : The building of Washington, D.C. had started from scratch nine years earlier.
旁白：：华盛顿特区的建设是九年前从头开始的。
Now the nation’s capital, the city was still very much unfinished.
这座城市现在是国家的首都，但仍未完工。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : It was a city composed of houses with no streets and streets with no houses.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：这是一座由没有街道的房屋和没有房屋的街道组成的城市。
And that was about it.
就是这样。
It was the wilderness.
那是荒野。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : Washington was created out of a swamp, and was this muddy mess.
编剧科基·罗伯茨：华盛顿是从沼泽中诞生的，而且是一团泥泞。
There was a muddy little creek running down the middle of the city, grandly called The Tiber, and it was of course infested with mosquitoes.
城市中央有一条泥泞的小溪，它被冠以“台伯河”的美称，里面当然滋生着蚊子。
So it was a miserable little town.
所以这是一个悲惨的小镇。
Narrator: : European diplomats, accustomed to majestic cities and glittering courts, were shocked.
旁白：：习惯了雄伟的城市和金碧辉煌的宫廷的欧洲外交官们感到震惊。
John B.
约翰·B.
(voice of Brian Murray): : Washington could be a beautiful city if it were ever built.
（布莱恩·默里配音）： ：如果华盛顿建成的话，它将会是一座美丽的城市。
But it is not, so I can’t say much about it.
但事实并非如此，所以我不能说太多。
There is, however, excellent partridge shooting in the swamp near the Capitol building.
然而，在国会大厦附近的沼泽里，有很棒的鹧鸪射击活动。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : It would have been daunting, I think, for anyone to think, I’ve got to actually start living here.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：我认为，如果任何人认为我必须真正开始在这里生活，那将是令人畏惧的。
But for someone like Dolley, who had deep down an optimistic nature and an embrace of change and liveliness, I think it would have been very stimulating.
但对于像多利这样内心深处乐观、拥抱变化和活力的人来说，我认为这会非常刺激。
Narrator: : For the next 16 years, Dolley Madison’s fortunes and those of her adopted city would rise together.
旁白：在接下来的 16 年里，多莉·麦迪逊的命运和她所居住的城市的命运将共同提升。
Washington was very different from what the world thought a capital should look like.
华盛顿与世人想象中的首都截然不同。
The royal courts of Europe, with their opulence and formal rituals, had always been the embodiment of a ruler’s legitimacy.
欧洲王室以其奢华和正式的仪式，一直是统治者合法性的体现。
But the United States was a republic, not a monarchy.
但美国是一个共和制国家，而不是君主制国家。
Its leaders needed to create a new vocabulary of power that represented the nation’s democratic ideals.
其领导人需要创造代表国家民主理想的新权力词汇。
Carol Berkin, Historian: : The greatest concern for George Washington and for Adams after him was, “Well, I’m not a king.
历史学家卡罗尔·伯金：乔治·华盛顿和他之后的亚当斯最关心的是，“嗯，我不是国王。
And I don’t have a royal court.
而且我没有皇家法庭。
On the other hand, the dignity of the republic is sort of embodied in me.
另一方面，共和国的尊严在我身上也有所体现。
And so how do I introduce a kind of note of dignity and pomp without crossing the line into decadent European behavior?”
那么，我该如何引入一种尊严和排场的气氛，而又不会越过欧洲颓废行为的界限呢？”
Carl Anthony, Writer: : They had no previous presidential protocol to go by, and so they just did what was quite natural, which was to sort of present a Yankee version of the British court system, the British social etiquette.
卡尔·安东尼（Carl Anthony），作家：：他们没有以前的总统礼仪可以遵循，所以他们只是做了很自然的事情，那就是呈现英国法院系统的洋基版本，英国的社交礼仪。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : And so we have these strange moments where George Washington is trying to decide how many pairs of matched horses will convey the proper amount of authority, and how many would be too monarchical?
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：所以我们有这些奇怪的时刻，乔治·华盛顿试图决定多少对匹配的马能够传达适当的权威，以及多少对太君主制？
And I think he settled on three would be just right.
我认为他选择三个就合适了。
Narrator: : George Washington had received guests from a raised dais, bowing slightly to visitors, never deigning to touch hands.
旁白：乔治·华盛顿曾在高高的讲台上接待客人，他向来访者微微鞠躬，从不屈尊触摸他们的手。
Thomas Jefferson was appalled that the leader of a republic would behave like a king.
托马斯·杰斐逊对共和国领导人的行为表现得像国王感到震惊。
Once elected president, he determined to send a message to the country and the world.
一旦当选总统，他就决心向国家和世界传达一个信息。
Anthony Merry was the first official envoy of the British government to be sent to Washington.
安东尼·梅里是英国政府第一位派往华盛顿的官方特使。
When he arrived at the Executive Mansion to present his credentials, Jefferson made a point of receiving him not in formal attire, but in bathrobe and slippers.
当他到达行政官邸递交国书时，杰斐逊特意没有穿正装，而是穿着浴袍和拖鞋迎接他。
Jefferson continued his lesson in democracy at a formal diplomatic dinner in Merry’s honor.
杰斐逊在为梅里举行的正式外交晚宴上继续他的民主课程。
John Stagg, Historian: : Seeing the Merrys were supposed to be the guest of honor for the evening, the assumption was that Jefferson would offer his arm to Mrs. Merry, and he would escort her to the dining table.
历史学家约翰·斯塔格：鉴于梅里夫妇应该是当晚的贵宾，人们认为杰斐逊会向梅里夫人伸出手臂，并护送她到餐桌。
Instead, he offered his arm to Dolley Madison.
相反，他向多莉·麦迪逊伸出了手臂。
Carol Berkin, Historian: : To leave a woman standing without an escort to go into dinner is such a slap in the face.
历史学家卡罗尔·伯金 (Carol Berkin)：：让一个女人在没有陪同的情况下站着去吃晚饭，简直是打在她脸上的一记耳光。
And it must have been for Merry’s wife, not just insulting, but so disconcerting, because nothing in her experience could have prepared her for this.
这肯定是对梅里的妻子来说的，不仅是侮辱，而且令人不安，因为她的经历中没有任何东西能让她为此做好准备。
It was unheard of in polite society.
这在上流社会是闻所未闻的。
It was certainly unheard of in diplomatic society.
这在外交界肯定是闻所未闻的。
It was unheard of in ordinary society!
这在普通社会是闻所未闻的！
Anthony Merry (John Curless): : I was left to give my hand to Mrs. Merry and lead her to whatever seat at the table we could snare — a situation degrading to her personally and to the country we represent.
安东尼·梅里（约翰·柯利斯饰）：我只能把手伸给梅里夫人，带她到我们能占据的任何座位上——这种情况对她个人和我们所代表的国家来说都是一种侮辱。
It is intolerable!
这是无法忍受的！
James Madison (Jefferson Mays): : I blush to even have to talk about this nauseous subject, but Mr. Merry, Minister of the Crown, is writing back to Great Britain about that affair of etiquette — the frivolous business of who leads who into dinner parties.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊（杰斐逊·梅斯）：我什至不得不谈论这个令人作呕的话题而感到脸红，但英国王室大臣梅里先生正在写信给英国，谈论礼仪问题——谁带领谁参加晚宴是一件无聊的事情。
The Spanish Minister is now telling me that he supports the British.
西班牙部长现在告诉我他支持英国。
I’ve no idea what will be the result of all this nonsense.
我不知道所有这些废话会带来什么结果。
Dolley (Eve Best): : The Merrys remain greatly offended.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：梅里夫妇仍然非常生气。
Now they’re refusing to accept any more social invitations from the Administration.
现在他们拒绝接受政府更多的社交邀请。
Mrs. Merry is always going out alone, riding on horseback.
梅里夫人总是独自骑马出去。
She hardly associates with anyone.
她几乎不与任何人交往。
Narrator: : Anthony Merry advised his government to take a hard line with the United States.
旁白：安东尼·梅里建议他的政府对美国采取强硬立场。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : There are some who even think that it was one of the reasons for the War of 1812.
作家 Cokie Roberts：有些人甚至认为这是 1812 年战争的原因之一。
I think that’s going a little overboard but that is, that is a theory.
我认为这有点过头了，但那是一个理论。
Carol Berkin, Historian: : Dolley knew this was something that should never happen again.
历史学家卡罗尔·伯金 (Carol Berkin)：：多利知道这种事情永远不应该再发生。
And on her watch it was definitely not going to happen again.
在她看来，这种事绝对不会再发生了。
Narrator: : The wife of the Secretary of State now embarked on a campaign of back-channel diplomacy.
旁白：国务卿的妻子现在开始了一场秘密外交活动。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Dolley Madison sets out on a charm offensive.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：多莉·麦迪逊（Dolley Madison）发起魅力攻势。
She sets out to woo Mrs. Merry and becomes a friend of hers.
她开始向梅里夫人求爱并成为她的朋友。
I’m not sure she really likes Mrs. Merry, but she woos her and charms her.
我不确定她是否真的喜欢梅里夫人，但她追求并迷住了她。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : Dolley brought a feminine vocabulary of politics to the table that stressed empathy and civility.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：多利带来了强调同理心和文明的女性政治词汇。
She would actively appease.
她会主动安抚。
She would always reach out.
她总会伸出援手。
All these things she brought with her into her future public life.
所有这些东西她都带入了她未来的公共生活。
Dolley (Eve Best): : My dear sister.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：我亲爱的妹妹。
I long for a letter to tell me that you have arrived safely in Boston after your journey.
我渴望收到一封信，告诉我您旅途结束后已安全抵达波士顿。
We go on as usual.
我们像往常一样继续。
We have two parties this week: at Duvals and Dearborns, tonight at Thorntons, tomorrow night here.
本周我们有两个聚会：在杜瓦尔斯和迪尔伯恩斯，今晚在桑顿，明天晚上在这里。
Payne is at school.
佩恩在学校。
He has written to you, but his writing is so bad I’ve told him to write it again.
他给你写了信，但他的字写得很糟糕，我让他再写一遍。
Narrator: : Dolley had great hopes for her son, but he was proving to be anything but a scholar.
旁白：多莉对她的儿子寄予厚望，但事实证明他根本不是一个学者。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : Payne was a problem.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：佩恩是一个问题。
He probably needed the guidance of a father, he probably needed boundaries set by his mother, but he got none of those things.
他可能需要父亲的指导，他可能需要母亲设定的界限，但他什么都没有得到。
James Madison seems to have been a very loving but rather detached stepfather.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊似乎是一位非常慈爱但又冷漠的继父。
And Dolley Madison, well, this avoidance of confrontation that stood her in such good stead in her political world was probably fatal in raising a son.
而多莉·麦迪逊，好吧，这种避免对抗的态度使她在政治世界中处于如此有利的地位，这对于抚养儿子来说可能是致命的。
Narrator: : In her seven years in Washington, Dolley Madison had built up a broad social network of influential politicians and their wives.
旁白：在华盛顿的七年里，多莉·麦迪逊建立了一个由有影响力的政治家及其妻子组成的广泛的社交网络。
She now put this network to good use.
她现在充分利用了这个网络。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : There was nothing automatic about Madison’s election in 1808 to succeed Thomas Jefferson.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯 (Richard Norton Smith)，作家： 麦迪逊 1808 年当选接替托马斯·杰斐逊并非理所当然。
James Madison who was not a terribly charismatic figure was married to a woman who was hugely charismatic.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊并不是一个非常有魅力的人物，但他娶了一位非常有魅力的女人。
And she played a critical behind-the-scenes role in bringing together, throughout the campaign season, people who not only supported her husband’s candidacy, but those who might support it, as well as those who were pledged to other candidates.
她在整个竞选季中发挥了关键的幕后作用，将不仅支持她丈夫的候选资格、而且可能支持它的人以及那些承诺支持其他候选人的人聚集在一起。
It was all done very deftly.
这一切都做得非常熟练。
In those days no candidate could openly campaign.
那时候没有候选人可以公开竞选。
So the campaign went on at parties and dinners and receptions.
因此，这项活动在聚会、晚宴和招待会上进行。
Carl Anthony, Writer: : You suddenly see this new model sort of rising of the presidential couple, or the candidate and his wife.
卡尔·安东尼，作家：：你突然看到总统夫妇或候选人和他的妻子这种新模式的崛起。
And that was created by Dolley Madison.
这是多莉·麦迪逊创造的。
Narrator: : By lobbying for her husband’s candidacy, Dolley was taking a great risk.
旁白：：通过游说她丈夫的候选资格，多莉冒了很大的风险。
In the early 19th century, it was considered almost scandalous for a woman to publicly engage in politics.
19世纪初，女性公开参与政治几乎被认为是一种耻辱。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : The newspapers attacked Dolley Madison personally, intimating that she and her young sister had been in essence prostituted out by Jefferson to foreign dignitaries.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：报纸对多莉·麦迪逊进行了人身攻击，暗示她和她的妹妹实质上是被杰斐逊卖给外国政要的。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : She was accused of having affairs with various members of Congress.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），作家：她被指控与多位国会议员有染。
And in the case of Madison, one of the attacks on him was that his wife was overly sexed, and had unsexed him because he had no children and she did have a son by her first marriage.
就麦迪逊而言，对他的攻击之一是他的妻子过于性感，并且因为他没有孩子而她在第一次婚姻中确实生了一个儿子，所以对他取消了性别。
John Randolph (Michael Cumpsty): : I could make the hair on Congressmen stand as erect as the quills on a porcupine with evidence of the sexual insatiability of a certain republican woman — leader of the flock.
约翰·伦道夫（迈克尔·康普斯蒂饰）：我可以让国会议员的头发像豪猪身上的羽毛一样竖立，以证明某位共和党女性——羊群领袖——对性的贪得无厌。
In high places, love and smoke cannot long be hidden.
在高处，爱情和硝烟是无法长久隐藏的。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : Most other women would have been so infuriated by this that they would never have spoken to a Federalist again.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：：大多数其他女性都会对此感到非常愤怒，以至于她们永远不会再与联邦党人交谈。
“How dare they say this about me,” and so forth.
“他们怎么敢这么说我”等等。
But instead, Dolley told a friend, “oh, whenever people say things like that to you, the thing to do is just smile.
但相反，多利告诉一位朋友，“哦，每当人们对你说这样的话时，你要做的就是微笑。
They’re only trying to affect your sensibility.”
他们只是想影响你的感受。”
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : You wonder what sort of cost she paid, if any, psychologically, internally for this performance, because she was putting on a performance, clearly.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，作家：你想知道她为这次表演在心理上、内部付出了什么样的代价（如果有的话），因为她显然是在表演。
After one particularly vicious diatribe, Dolley’s response was, 'it was as good as a play.’ Which when you stop to think about it is the perfect putdown.
在一次特别恶毒的谩骂之后，多利的回应是，“这就像一场戏剧一样精彩。”当你停下来想一想，这就是完美的贬低。
Narrator: : In 1809, James Madison was sworn in as President of the United States.
旁白： 1809 年，詹姆斯·麦迪逊宣誓就任美国总统。
His opponent, Charles Pinckney, said in defeat, “I might have had a better chance had I faced Mr. Madison alone.
他的对手查尔斯·平克尼（Charles Pinckney）在失败中说道：“如果我单独面对麦迪逊先生，我可能会有更好的机会。
I was beaten by Mr. and Mrs. Madison.”
我被麦迪逊夫妇殴打了。”
Dolley (Eve Best): : My beloved Phoebe.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：我心爱的菲比。
You must pardon the appearance of neglect with regards to your charming letter.
您必须原谅您对这封迷人的信的疏忽。
When tranquility once again resumes its reign in my life, I promise to write volumes.
当我的生活再次恢复平静时，我保证会写出大量的作品。
I’m glad you take no more snuff — but I must.
我很高兴你不再吸鼻烟了——但我必须这么做。
Adieu, sweet one.
再见，亲爱的。
Narrator: : The Madison presidency began with an inaugural ball — the first ever held in Washington.
旁白：：麦迪逊总统任期以就职舞会开始——这是华盛顿首次举行。
From the start, Dolley resolved to establish a new style for the new administration.
从一开始，多利就决心为新政府建立一种新的风格。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : By the time James Madison becomes president, you have had this Federalist government with its royal protocols, and then this democratic radical republicanism on the part of Jefferson.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：当詹姆斯·麦迪逊（James Madison）成为总统时，你已经有了这个带有皇家礼节的联邦党政府，然后是杰斐逊的民主激进共和主义。
And what the Madisons do is to say, 'we don’t want either.
麦迪逊夫妇所做的就是说，‘我们也不想要。
This is a new administration, it’s a new day in Washington.’ And because everything has to be created there are opportunities there.
这是新一届政府，这是华盛顿的新一天。”因为一切都必须被创造，所以那里就有机会。
You start with nothing except your imagination.
除了你的想象力之外，你一无所有。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : She dressed in a beautiful fine fabric which is in the Quaker tradition, a beautiful velvet, but it was of a simple color, a buff color that they called it, some kind of off white.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：她穿着贵格会传统的美丽精致面料，一种美丽的天鹅绒，但颜色很简单，他们称之为浅黄色，某种灰白色。
And she wore the most American of jewelry, pearls.
她还佩戴了最具美国特色的珠宝——珍珠。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Pearls were a major statement.
Holly Shulman，历史学家：：珍珠是一个重要的声明。
A British aristocrat, male or female, encrusted himself in diamonds.
一位英国贵族，无论男性还是女性，都为自己镶满了钻石。
And Dolley Madison wore pearls rather than diamonds.
多莉·麦迪逊 (Dolley Madison) 佩戴的是珍珠而不是钻石。
Carl Anthony, Writer: : Dolley Madison, and I think she did this very consciously, kind of cooked up a formula that ultimately became the formula for a genuinely successful First Lady in her time and I think even to this day.
卡尔·安东尼（Carl Anthony），作家：：多利·麦迪逊（Dolley Madison），我认为她非常有意识地做到了这一点，有点炮制了一个公式，最终成为她那个时代真正成功的第一夫人的公式，我认为即使到了今天。
And that is this very fine balance between, if you will, queen and commoner.
如果你愿意的话，这就是女王和平民之间的微妙平衡。
Narrator: : This inaugural ball would be very different from the formal occasions of previous administrations.
旁白：：这次就职舞会与历届政府的正式场合有很大不同。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : Dolley wanted to include a true cross-section of her countrymen.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯（Richard Norton Smith），编剧：多莉想要展现她同胞的真实面貌。
And it was said that although 400 people were invited, in fact anyone who could afford the $4 price of a ticket could attend.
据说虽然邀请了400人，但实际上只要买得起4美元的门票就可以参加。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : And for some gentlemen this was a bit of a shock, to be sipping cider next to a humble farmer or whomever.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），作家：对于一些绅士来说，在一个卑微的农民或其他人旁边喝苹果酒有点令人震惊。
But for Dolley, it was important to show that all were welcome, that this was a country where everyone was equal.
但对多利来说，重要的是要表明所有人都受到欢迎，这是一个人人平等的国家。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : And Dolley had a ball.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：：多利（Dolley）玩得很开心。
And I think everyone who went there probably had a ball except for James Madison, who told Margaret Bayard Smith he’d rather be at home.
我想每个去过那里的人都可能玩得很开心，除了詹姆斯·麦迪逊，他告诉玛格丽特·贝亚德·史密斯他宁愿呆在家里。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : The power of adaptation was the life-giving principle in my aunt’s nature, but it was sorely tested in a very new society.
侄孙女（米雷耶·伊诺丝饰）：适应的力量是我姨妈天性中赋予生命的原则，但它在一个非常新的社会中受到了严峻的考验。
Narrator: : The political atmosphere in Washington was poisonous.
旁白：：华盛顿的政治气氛很恶劣。
In 1809, with the country barely 20 years old, members of Congress had not yet figured out how to make the government function.
1809 年，国家成立还不到 20 年，国会议员还没有弄清楚如何让政府运作。
Foreign relations, taxation, states’ rights — all were matters of bitter dispute.
外交关系、税收、国家权利——所有这些都是激烈争论的问题。
Madison had been a key figure in creating the blueprint for the American system of government.
麦迪逊是制定美国政府体系蓝图的关键人物。
As president, he passionately wanted to make it work.
作为总统，他热切地希望让它发挥作用。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : There’s a great deal of anxiety in this period about the republican experiment, whether it’s going to fall apart or not.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：这一时期，人们对共和实验是否会失败抱有很大的焦虑。
This was a terribly violent era in the early republic.
这是民国初期一个极其暴力的时代。
This is the era where men fought and murdered each other over ideologies.
这是一个人们因意识形态而互相争斗、互相残杀的时代。
They shot each other, they beat each other with canes.
他们互相开枪，用拐杖互相殴打。
And not on the streets or in the boardinghouses, but on the floors of Congress.
不是在街道上或公寓里，而是在国会的地板上。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : Duels happened every day.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），编剧：：决斗每天都在发生。
There’s a dueling ground right here in Bladensburg, where members of Congress would call each other out.
布莱登斯堡这里有一个决斗场，国会议员们会在那里互相较量。
These were men who were at each other’s throats, literally.
毫不夸张地说，这些人都是互相争斗的。
Narrator: : Everything in Washington seemed to exacerbate political divisions.
旁白：：华盛顿的一切似乎都加剧了政治分歧。
Jefferson had had dinners in which he deliberately kept the two parties apart, inviting Republicans one night and Federalists the next.
杰斐逊曾在晚宴上故意将两党分开，前一晚邀请了共和党人，第二天邀请了联邦党人。
Even the living arrangements intensified the partisanship, with Federalists staying in one boarding house and Republicans in another.
甚至连居住安排也加剧了党派之争，联邦党人住在一间宿舍，共和党人住在另一间宿舍。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : For politics to happen you need the social sphere.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：政治的发生需要社会领域。
That’s the place where people can work out things, they can compromise, they can talk, they can make deals.
在那里，人们可以解决问题、妥协、交谈、达成交易。
In Washington city there was no place for the unofficial sphere.
在华盛顿市，没有非官方领域的立足之地。
Carol Berkin, Historian: : There are no public spaces for interaction.
历史学家卡罗尔·伯金 (Carol Berkin)：：没有可供互动的公共空间。
There aren’t hotel lobbies.
没有酒店大堂。
There aren’t bars.
没有酒吧。
I mean, there are not places where people could come together socially as opposed to in an argument over politics.
我的意思是，没有任何地方可以让人们在社交上聚集在一起，而不是在政治争论中。
Narrator: : Dolley realized that the Executive Mansion could be used for this political purpose.
旁白：：多利意识到行政官邸可以用于这一政治目的。
During previous administrations, the building was simply the president’s private residence.
在前几届政府期间，这座建筑只是总统的私人官邸。
She would transform it into a place where politicians could come together informally — a politically neutral space with music, food and civility.
她将把它改造成一个政治家可以非正式聚会的地方——一个政治中立的空间，有音乐、食物和文明。
She began by decorating and furnishing its austere public rooms.
她首先装饰和布置简朴的公共房间。
To execute the work, Dolley chose the architect of the U.S. Capitol building — Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
为了执行这项工作，多利选择了美国国会大厦的建筑师本杰明·亨利·拉特罗布。
She knew her choice of decoration would be seen as a political statement.
她知道她选择的装饰会被视为一种政治声明。
The president’s house had to be elegant enough to indicate the power of the office, but it also had to reassure the most pure-minded of democrats that this was an executive mansion fit for a republic.
总统府必须足够优雅，以表明办公室的权力，但它也必须让最纯洁的民主党人放心，这是一座适合共和国的行政官邸。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : One of the great gifts that Dolley brought to James Madison was this understanding, unconscious, intuitive, of the importance of symbols.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：多利给詹姆斯·麦迪逊带来的伟大礼物之一就是对符号重要性的无意识、直觉的理解。
And she understood she was creating a symbol for America.
她明白她正在为美国创造一个象征。
Narrator: : Dolley required that the furnishings be American-made.
旁白：：多利要求家具必须是美国制造的。
The chairs and sofas incorporated Grecian and Roman motifs.
椅子和沙发融合了希腊和罗马图案。
The meaning was clear: Americans were the heirs of democracy’s creators.
其含义很明确：美国人是民主创造者的继承人。
Dolley insisted that Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of the country’s founder have a prominent place in the public rooms.
多利坚持认为，吉尔伯特·斯图尔特为该国创始人绘制的肖像应在公共房间的显着位置。
But Benjamin Latrobe had a definite idea where it should go.
但本杰明·拉特罗布（Benjamin Latrobe）有一个明确的想法，那就是它应该去哪里。
Benjamin Latrobe (Denis O'Hare): : I’m sorry to have counteracted any wish of yours as to General Washington’s picture.
本杰明·拉特罗布（丹尼斯·奥黑尔）：很抱歉，我无法满足您对华盛顿将军照片的任何愿望。
The dining room is properly the picture room, and I therefore intended him to occupy either the place at the west end of the room between the windows, or at the east end.
餐厅实际上就是图片室，因此我想让他占据房间西端窗户之间的位置，或者东端的位置。
Narrator: : Dolley had her own sense of style, and chose brightly colored furnishings, which did not sit well with her more conservative architect.
旁白：：多利有自己的风格感，并选择了色彩鲜艳的家具，这与她较为保守的建筑师格格不入。
Benjamin Latrobe: (Denis O'Hare) : The curtains!
本杰明·拉特罗布：（丹尼斯·奥黑尔）：窗帘！
Oh, the terrible velvet curtains!
哦，可怕的天鹅绒窗帘！
They will blind everyone with their brilliance.
他们将用自己的才华蒙蔽所有人。
The effect will ruin me!
效果会毁了我！
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Thomas Jefferson’s idea of decorating the White House was to bring his own furniture from Monticello.
历史学家霍莉·舒尔曼：托马斯·杰斐逊装饰白宫的想法是从蒙蒂塞洛带来自己的家具。
I’m sure it was elegant.
我确信它很优雅。
I’m sure it was beautiful.
我确信它很漂亮。
But it didn’t provide for future generations.
但它并没有为后代提供保障。
When the Madisons entered the White House, they say, we’re building a permanent structure for the presidency.
他们说，当麦迪逊家族入主白宫时，我们正在为总统职位建造一个永久性的建筑。
We’re building for the future.
我们正在为未来而建设。
This is firm, this is solid, this is for America.
这是坚定的，这是坚实的，这是为了美国。
Narrator: : The Executive Mansion quickly became the center of Washington’s social life.
旁白：：行政官邸很快成为华盛顿社交生活的中心。
Every Wednesday, Dolley threw open the doors for a party.
每个星期三，多利都会敞开大门举办派对。
These events were so popular and crowded that people called them “squeezes.”
这些活动非常受欢迎且拥挤，人们称其为“挤压”。
Catherine Coles (Julia Morrison): : Mrs. Madison passes from one guest to another and from room to room, greeting everyone.
凯瑟琳·科尔斯（朱莉娅·莫里森饰）：麦迪逊夫人从一位客人走到另一位客人，从一个房间走到另一个房间，向每个人打招呼。
All are taken with her wish to please and her willingness to be pleased.
一切都源于她取悦他人的愿望和取悦他人的意愿。
Narrator: : Up to this time, social events hosted by heads of state had always been highly formal affairs.
旁白： ： 迄今为止，国家元首主持的社交活动一直都是高度正式的事务。
The idea of a president entertaining legislators and even some members of the public in informal gatherings was something new.
总统在非正式聚会中招待立法者甚至一些公众的想法是新鲜事。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : The fact of the matter is, it has always been true that much of the business of government in this city transpires after 5:00.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯 (Richard Norton Smith)，作家： 事实是，这座城市的政府大部分事务都是在 5:00 之后进行的。
It doesn’t take place in official offices, it takes place in the drawing room or around the dinner table.
它不是在官方办公室进行，而是在客厅或餐桌周围进行。
That began with Dolley Madison.
这一切始于多莉·麦迪逊。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Dolley Madison provided a place for people to meet and greet, who did not like each other, or did not even want to meet each other.
霍莉·舒尔曼，历史学家：：多利·麦迪逊为人们提供了一个见面和打招呼的地方，这些人彼此不喜欢，甚至不想见面。
Carol Berkin, Historian: : It’s no guarantee that if you had dinner with someone and a glass of port wine afterwards that you will not hurl a spittoon at them the next day on the floor of Congress.
历史学家卡罗尔·伯金 (Carol Berkin)：如果您与某人共进晚餐并随后喝了一杯波特酒，并不能保证第二天您不会在国会大厅向他们扔痰盂。
But it probably diminishes the chances sufficiently that it was worth the dinner.
但这可能会充分降低晚餐值得的机会。
Carl Anthony, Writer: : What was going on underneath all of that was promoting her husband’s political agenda.
卡尔·安东尼（Carl Anthony），作家：：这一切背后发生的事情是促进她丈夫的政治议程。
If there were members of the Federalist Party who had earlier that day in Congress said antagonistic things about her husband, she would sort of guide them through the rooms, and somehow end up in a poorly lit corner, and there would be President Madison.
如果当天早些时候有联邦党成员在国会发表了关于她丈夫的敌对言论，她就会引导他们穿过房间，最后不知何故来到一个光线昏暗的角落，那里就会有麦迪逊总统。
And it would be damn near impossible for those guys to then sort of ungallantly and rudely say, “no, Mrs. Madison, I’m going to have some of your famous ice cream, but I’m leaving.” You know, they were there, and she had sort of gotten them.
对于那些家伙来说，几乎不可能粗鲁地说：“不，麦迪逊夫人，我要吃一些你著名的冰淇淋，但我要走了。”你知道，它们就在那里，而她已经得到了它们。
I mean, that was brilliant.
我的意思是，那太棒了。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : Henry Clay said to her at one point, “everybody loves Mrs. Madison.” That’s the atmosphere that she created.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），编剧：亨利·克莱（Henry Clay）有一次对她说：“每个人都爱麦迪逊夫人。”这就是她营造的氛围。
And she said to him, “well, that’s because Mrs. Madison loves everybody.” Now, I’ve read her mail; that’s not true.
她对他说：“嗯，那是因为麦迪逊夫人爱每个人。”现在，我已经读过她的邮件了；这不是真的。
But she certainly put on a good show of it.
但她确实表现得很好。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : She brought everybody in the room together, and they learned to work together in bipartisan ways.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：她将房间里的每个人聚集在一起，他们学会了以两党合作的方式合作。
Ways that it turns out, though no one could have known it, were absolutely necessary for building a democracy and a nation state.
事实证明，尽管没有人知道，但这些方式对于建设民主和民族国家来说是绝对必要的。
Narrator: : Soon Americans were calling the Executive Mansion by a new name — the White House.
旁白：：很快美国人就给行政官邸起了一个新名字——白宫。
Dolley Madison had made it a national home.
多莉·麦迪逊已将其打造为全国性的住宅。
In the succeeding years, Dolley would become the public face of her husband’s administration.
在接下来的几年里，多利成为她丈夫政府的公众形象。
Her doings were reported in newspapers across the growing country.
她的所作所为在这个不断发展的国家的报纸上都有报道。
Women copied her wardrobe.
女人们模仿她的衣柜。
Her feathered turbans were the talk of the town.
她的羽毛头巾成为镇上的话题。
And when she served ice cream at her squeezes, it became a national sensation.
当她挤冰淇淋时，这引起了全国轰动。
Dolley wrote to influential women all over the country asking for recipes to use at White House dinners.
多利写信给全国各地有影响力的女性，询问白宫晚宴上使用的食谱。
This seemingly innocuous act had a political purpose, creating allies for her husband’s administration.
这种看似无害的行为有一个政治目的，为她丈夫的政府建立盟友。
Carl Anthony, Writer: : Dolley Madison saw her position as the President’s wife as a full time job.
卡尔·安东尼，作家：多莉·麦迪逊将总统妻子的职位视为一份全职工作。
She was, in fact, a public entity.
事实上，她是一个公共实体。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : Dolley Madison, I think, has a larger claim than anyone else to having invented this unsalaried and ill-defined position that we all now take for granted, that of the first lady.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，作家：我认为，多莉·麦迪逊比任何人都更有权利发明第一夫人这个我们现在都认为理所当然的无薪且不明确的职位。
Certainly nobody knew what a first lady was.
当然没有人知道第一夫人是什么。
The term didn’t come into use really until Dolley Madison’s time.
直到多利·麦迪逊时代，这个术语才真正开始使用。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Martha Washington was always George Washington’s helper, but she didn’t really like being out in the limelight.
霍莉·舒尔曼，历史学家：玛莎·华盛顿一直是乔治·华盛顿的助手，但她并不喜欢成为众人瞩目的焦点。
Abigail Adams didn’t see the importance of it and she didn’t want to do it.
阿比盖尔·亚当斯没有看到它的重要性，她不想这样做。
So her letters may be far more interesting than Dolley’s in terms of politics and public policy and political philosophy, but in fact it was Dolley who had an impact in that sense, not Abigail.
因此，就政治、公共政策和政治哲学而言，她的信可能比多利的有趣得多，但事实上，从这个意义上说，是多利产生了影响，而不是阿比盖尔。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : She had very much a sense of what a public face for a woman should be.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：她非常清楚女性的公众形象应该是什么样子。
She could come to the fore, she could come to the front, she could be public, she could be out there, because she was still graceful and feminine.
她可以脱颖而出，她可以走到台前，她可以公开，她可以出现在外面，因为她仍然优雅而女性化。
Narrator: : In 1812, Dolley Madison’s political skills would be put to the test.
旁白： 1812 年，多莉·麦迪逊的政治技巧将受到考验。
The country was split over the biggest crisis of the day.
该国因当今最大的危机而分裂。
For 10 years, a major war had been raging between Great Britain and France.
十年来，英国和法国之间一直进行着一场大战。
The president wanted the United States to remain neutral, and continue trading with France.
总统希望美国保持中立，并继续与法国进行贸易。
Enraged, the British retaliated by attacking American ships and kidnapping American sailors.
愤怒的英国人通过攻击美国船只并绑架美国水手进行报复。
Madison realized peace was no longer possible.
麦迪逊意识到和平已不再可能。
On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain.
1812年6月18日，美国对英国宣战。
Half the country supported the war, and half violently opposed it.
一半的国家支持战争，一半的人强烈反对。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : The farmers hated it because they couldn’t export their goods.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），作家：：农民们讨厌它，因为他们无法出口他们的货物。
The merchants hated it because they couldn’t import their goods.
商人讨厌它，因为他们无法进口货物。
And the shippers hated it because they were put out of business.
托运人讨厌它，因为他们被挤出了生意。
Narrator: : New England politicians were even threatening to secede from the Union.
旁白：：新英格兰政客甚至威胁要脱离联邦。
Adams and Jefferson had sought to imprison their critics.
亚当斯和杰斐逊曾试图监禁他们的批评者。
But Madison was ideologically opposed to expanding the power of the presidency, even in wartime.
但麦迪逊在意识形态上反对扩大总统权力，即使是在战时也是如此。
His supporters as well as his enemies took his principled stand as a sign of weakness.
他的支持者和敌人都认为他的原则立场是软弱的表现。
The war was going badly, and everyone blamed Madison.
战争进展得很糟糕，每个人都指责麦迪逊。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : One day a lady drove up to the President’s House, loosened her long beautiful hair, and standing up in her carriage, shouted that she’d be happy to let someone cut it off and use it to hang the President.
侄女（米雷耶·伊诺丝饰）：有一天，一位女士开车来到总统府，松开了她美丽的长发，站在马车上，大声喊道，她很乐意让人把它剪下来，用来吊死总统。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : They called the president little Jemmy; Jemmy short for James.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：：他们称总统为“小杰米”；杰米（Jemmy）是詹姆斯（James）的缩写。
And their implication was that he just didn’t have the capacity to lead the country, this little guy, he didn’t have the qualities for leadership.
他们的言外之意是，他就是没有能力领导这个国家，这个小家伙，他没有领导的素质。
John Randolph (Michael Cumpsty): : Our President is weak, feeble and pusillanimous — he is a corrupt, bribe-taking, whore-mongering coward.
约翰·伦道夫（迈克尔·康普斯蒂饰）：我们的总统软弱无力、胆怯——他是一个腐败、受贿、嫖娼的胆小鬼。
Anthony Pitch (Writer): : America was totally unprepared for war.
安东尼·皮奇（作家）：美国对战争完全没有准备。
America had about 20 ships and Britain had a thousand.
美国大约有20艘船，英国有1000艘。
Britain ruled the waves.
英国统治着海浪。
Some people thought it would be all over in a matter of weeks.
有些人认为这一切都会在几周内结束。
Narrator: : But Britain, distracted by its war with France, could not yet turn its full attention to America.
旁白：：但英国因与法国的战争而分心，尚无法将全部注意力转向美国。
Far from being over quickly, the War of 1812 would drag on for more than two years.
1812 年的战争非但没有很快结束，反而持续了两年多。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Earlier in July I wrote to you, my dearest Payne.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：七月初我写信给你，我最亲爱的佩恩。
I hope you’ve received this letter.
我希望你已收到这封信。
I wrote to you again but not a word from you has reached me.
我又给你写了信，但你却没有收到任何消息。
You ought to realize how impatient I am to hear from you.
你应该意识到我是多么不耐烦地想听到你的消息。
I assume from your silence that you’re busy on important business in Europe.
从你的沉默中我推测你正忙于欧洲的重要事务。
Farewell and may Heaven bless and protect you.
再见，愿上天保佑并保护你。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Dolley Madison had an internal life which was very different from her public life.
霍莉·舒尔曼，历史学家：：多莉·麦迪逊的内心生活与她的公共生活截然不同。
This is a woman who could often be very anxious and very unhappy, but kept it from the public.
这是一个经常非常焦虑、非常不开心的女人，但她却瞒着公众。
There is a monster in her closet, and that is a sense of the failure of the men in her family.
她的衣柜里有一个怪物，那就是她家里男人的失败感。
She was often very anxious and very unhappy but kept it from the public.
她常常非常焦虑、非常不高兴，但却不让公众知道。
In some ways perhaps she was like the child of an alcoholic who always wants to make things good, who always wants to heal things.
在某些方面，也许她就像一个酒鬼的孩子，总是想让事情变得美好，总是想治愈事情。
Narrator: : Dolley’s son Payne was now 21, and showed no enthusiasm for pursuing his studies or finding a profession.
旁白：：多利的儿子佩恩今年21岁，对学业或找职业没有表现出任何热情。
Hoping to interest his stepson in government, James Madison sent Payne to Europe as part of a diplomatic mission.
为了让继子对政府感兴趣，詹姆斯·麦迪逊派遣佩恩前往欧洲执行外交任务。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : In Europe, of course, he’s treated as the prince of America; that’s the only way they can understand the President’s son.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：当然，在欧洲，他被视为美洲王子；但在欧洲，他被视为美国王子。这是他们了解总统儿子的唯一方式。
And indulged at every opportunity.
并沉迷于每一个机会。
And this is disastrous.
这是灾难性的。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : He went with Albert Gallatin to Ghent, but then he disappeared.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），编剧：他和艾伯特·加勒廷（Albert Gallatin）一起去了根特，但后来就消失了。
And she thought, oh he must be coming home because he’s so homesick.
她想，哦，他一定要回家了，因为他太想家了。
He wasn’t coming home, he was going to Paris.
他不回家，他要去巴黎。
Having a wonderful time.
度过了一段美好的时光。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : James and Dolley were exasperatingly forgiving.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：詹姆斯和多利的宽容程度令人恼火。
They adopted a sort of philosophy that “still waters run deep,” that “straws float above,” I believe is the phrase, “and pearls below.” Even though Payne gave no indication of pearls below.
他们采用了一种哲学，即“静水流深”，“稻草浮在上面”，我相信是这样的说法，“珍珠在下面”。尽管佩恩没有指出下面有珍珠。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Master Todd has decided to remain in Paris.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：托德大师决定留在巴黎。
He feels his knowledge of French is not perfect, and he has taken a maîtresse de langue to give him polish — a woman who teaches that language to gentlemen.
他觉得自己的法语知识并不完美，因此他请了一位语言大师来给他润色——一位向绅士们教授法语的女士。
I’m told she’s beautiful and young.
我听说她很漂亮而且年轻。
John Stagg, Historian: : All the men in her family had failed in one way or another.
约翰·斯塔格（John Stagg），历史学家：：她家族中的所有男人都以某种方式失败了。
Her father failed.
她的父亲失败了。
All her brothers failed.
她所有的兄弟都失败了。
Failure plus alcoholism.
失败加上酗酒。
And Dolley I think sees the same pattern that’s going to be repeated with her son, because the son, she had great hopes for him, and if there was one thing he did consistently in his life it was let his mother down.
我认为多利看到了同样的模式，她的儿子也会重复这种模式，因为她对儿子寄予厚望，而如果他一生中坚持做一件事，那就是让他的母亲失望了。
Dolley (Eve Best): : My poor boy — forgive his eccentricities.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：我可怜的孩子——原谅他的怪癖。
He has a good heart.
他有一颗善良的心。
Narrator: : In 1814, with the French in retreat, Britain turned its military might against the United States.
旁白： 1814 年，随着法国撤退，英国将军事力量转向美国。
Dolley (Eve Best): : The British sent word that unless I leave Washington, my house will be burned over my head, and I will be taken hostage and paraded through the streets of London.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：英国人送话说，除非我离开华盛顿，否则我的房子将在我头上被烧毁，我将被扣为人质并在伦敦街头游街示众。
We’re making efforts at defense.
我们正在努力防守。
I may be a Quaker, but I’ve always supported the principle of fighting when attacked.
我可能是贵格会教徒，但我一直支持受攻击时战斗的原则。
And I keep my old Tunisian saber within reach at all times.
我始终将我的旧突尼斯军刀放在触手可及的地方。
Narrator: : On August 24, 1814, 4,000 British troops sailed up the Patuxent River, heading for Washington.
旁白：1814年8月24日，4000名英国军队沿帕图森特河逆流而上，前往华盛顿。
Congress and most of the citizens had fled in terror.
国会和大多数公民惊恐地逃离。
President Madison was with the army at Bladensburg, waiting to confront the British forces.
麦迪逊总统与军队一起驻扎在布莱登斯堡，等待与英国军队对抗。
Dolley Madison refused to leave until her husband returned from the front.
多莉·麦迪逊拒绝离开，直到她的丈夫从前线回来。
She remained in the White House, alone with a few slaves.
她独自一人和几个奴隶留在白宫。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Since sunrise I’ve been turning my spy glass in every direction, watching in the agony of fear that my dear husband has been taken prisoner.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：从日出开始，我就一直把望远镜转向各个方向，在恐惧的痛苦中看着我亲爱的丈夫被俘虏了。
Narrator: : With Dolley was a 15-year-old slave named Paul Jennings.
旁白：：和多利在一起的是一个名叫保罗·詹宁斯的 15 岁奴隶。
Many years later, he would write a memoir of his life with the Madisons.
许多年后，他写了一本回忆录，讲述自己在麦迪逊一家的生活。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : Mrs. Madison ordered dinner for when the President’s party was supposed to return.
保罗·詹宁斯（哈辛托·里迪克饰）：麦迪逊夫人为总统一行返回时订了晚餐。
I brought up the ale, cider and wine and placed them in the coolers; then I set the table.
我把麦芽酒、苹果酒和葡萄酒端上来，然后把它们放进冰箱里。然后我摆好桌子。
Narrator: : Suddenly, they heard the sound of an approaching horseman.
旁白：：突然，他们听到了骑兵靠近的声音。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : James Smith came galloping up to the house waving his hat, crying out “Clear out, clear out, the army is in full retreat!!” All was confusion — people running in every direction.
保罗·詹宁斯（杰辛托·里迪克饰）：詹姆斯·史密斯挥舞着帽子，飞奔到房子前，大喊“撤退，撤退，军队正在全面撤退！！”一切都很混乱——人们四散奔逃。
The British were expected in a few minutes.
预计英国人将在几分钟内抵达。
Narrator: : The American soldiers had been defeated at Bladensburg and were running for their lives.
旁白：：美国士兵在布莱登斯堡战败，正在逃命。
Washington was now completely undefended.
华盛顿现在完全不设防了。
Dolley directed Paul Jennings and the other slaves to save the public documents, along with the presidential silver and the red velvet curtains.
多利指示保罗·詹宁斯和其他奴隶保存公共文件、总统银器和红色天鹅绒窗帘。
Anthony Pitch (Writer): : She knows that an enemy army is about to capture the city.
安东尼·皮奇（编剧）：：她知道敌军即将占领这座城市。
And she is now focused on saving Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington that hung on the west wall of the large dining room in the president’s home.
她现在专注于保存挂在总统官邸大餐厅西墙上的吉尔伯特·斯图尔特的乔治·华盛顿肖像。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : She knew that the very first and indeed the ultimate war trophy that the British army would take away from the White House would be the portrait of Washington.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，作家：她知道英国军队将从白宫夺走的第一个也是最终的战利品将是华盛顿的肖像。
They’d take it with them and they’d march it through the streets of London as the ultimate trophy of their victory.
他们会随身携带它，并带着它穿过伦敦的街道，作为他们胜利的最终战利品。
And so she was going to prevent that from happening at almost any cost.
因此她将不惜一切代价阻止这种情况的发生。
Dolley (Eve Best): : I insisted on waiting until the large picture of General Washington was unscrewed from the wall.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：我坚持要等到华盛顿将军的大幅照片从墙上拧下来。
But it took too long, so I ordered the frame to be broken and the canvas rolled up.
但时间太长了，我就下令把画框拆掉，把画布卷起来。
It is done.
完成了。
And now I must leave this house.
现在我必须离开这个家。
Where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell!
明天我会在哪里，我不知道！
Anthony Pitch (Writer): : Only when she was absolutely certain that this painting had been carried away to safety in a wagon did she decide to leave in her carriage.
安东尼·皮奇（编剧）：只有当她完全确定这幅画已经被马车运到安全的地方时，她才决定乘马车离开。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : This is part of what makes her so interesting.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，编剧：：这就是她如此有趣的部分原因。
She has in some way what we like to think of at least as a very modern, almost sixth sense about the psychological value of national symbols.
在某种程度上，我们认为她至少对国家象征的心理价值具有非常现代的、近乎第六感的能力。
Stop and think — in 1814 this country didn’t have a lot of history.
停下来想一想——1814 年这个国家并没有太多的历史。
It didn’t have a lot of unifying symbols.
它没有很多统一的符号。
It had George Washington.
它有乔治·华盛顿。
And even more, it had the mythology of George Washington.
更重要的是，它还有乔治·华盛顿的神话。
Rescuing that portrait was an act of patriotism and defiance which if she had done nothing else would have immortalized Dolley Madison.
拯救这幅肖像是一种爱国主义和反抗行为，如果她不采取任何其他行动，多莉·麦迪逊就会永垂不朽。
Narrator: : The advancing British troops burned the Capitol building, and then moved on to the Executive Mansion.
旁白：：前进的英军烧毁了国会大厦，然后向行政官邸进发。
There they discovered the table handsomely laid out for Madison’s guests.
在那里，他们发现桌子为麦迪逊的客人布置得很漂亮。
The soldiers toasted Dolley, devoured her dinner, and then they got to work.
士兵们向多莉敬酒，吃掉她的晚餐，然后开始工作。
There was no shortage of kindling: writing tables, ornamented beds, gilded sofas, and Latrobe’s hand-painted chairs with red velvet cushions.
不乏引火物：写字台、装饰床、镀金沙发，以及拉特罗布手绘的配有红色天鹅绒垫子的椅子。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : I heard a tremendous explosion, and rushing out I saw that the public buildings, the navy yard, the rope walks, were all on fire.
保罗·詹宁斯（杰辛托·里迪克饰）：我听到一声巨大的爆炸声，冲了出去，看到公共建筑、海军院子、绳索步道都着火了。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : A panic filled the defenseless city as soon as the populace saw the flames rise from the Presidential abode.
大侄女（米雷耶·伊诺斯饰）：当民众看到总统官邸起火时，恐慌充斥了这座毫无防备的城市。
It was rumored that the whole city was to be destroyed by fire or sword.
有传言说，整座城市将被火或剑摧毁。
Narration: : Suddenly a huge storm struck the city.
旁白： 突然，一场巨大的风暴袭击了这座城市。
The two-hour-long deluge extinguished the flames.
两个小时的洪水浇灭了大火。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : My great aunt returned to find her home in ruins, smoke still rising from the heaps of blackened timbers.
侄孙女（米雷耶·伊诺斯饰）：：我的姨婆回来时发现她的家变成了废墟，黑色的木料堆中仍然冒着浓烟。
The streets were deserted.
街道上空无一人。
With a sickened heart, she drove to my mother’s house to await the return of her husband.
她怀着悲伤的心情，开车到我母亲家等待丈夫回来。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Such destruction — such confusion.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：这样的破坏——这样的混乱。
I can’t tell you what I feel.
我无法告诉你我的感受。
I wish we could sink our enemies to a bottomless pit!
恨不得把敌人打入无底洞！
Narrator: : The British left Washington and moved the battle to other American cities.
旁白：：英国人离开华盛顿，将战事转移到美国其他城市。
The war dragged on, with neither side able to claim victory.
战争旷日持久，双方都未能取得胜利。
The capital was in ruins, and now there was serious talk of abandoning Washington forever.
首都已成为废墟，现在有人严肃地讨论要永远放弃华盛顿。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : It was this miserable little city and now it was a burned-out miserable little city.
科基·罗伯茨（Cokie Roberts），编剧： ：这是一座悲惨的小城市，现在它是一座被烧毁的悲惨小城市。
And so having to start over again seemed something easy to denigrate, and so why do it?
因此，不得不重新开始似乎是一件很容易被诋毁的事情，那么为什么要这么做呢？
Move to Philadelphia, we have buildings.
搬到费城，我们有建筑物。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : The city of Philadelphia was offering them good old Independence Hall, and they’d go back to the comforts of a civilized capital.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：费城为他们提供了古老的独立厅，他们将回到文明首都的舒适之中。
It was very tempting.
这非常诱人。
And the first vote in Congress was very heavily in favor of moving out.
国会的第一次投票非常赞成搬出。
But Dolley had really done more to create this city than anybody else, and she was not going to see Congress walk out of this place.
但多利在创建这座城市方面确实比其他任何人都付出了更多的努力，她不会看到国会离开这个地方。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : Dolley Madison understood that Washington was an important symbol, and she felt strongly that to go back to Philadelphia, tail between legs, was in some ways a concession to the British.
科基·罗伯茨，编剧：多莉·麦迪逊明白华盛顿是一个重要的象征，她强烈地感觉到，夹着尾巴回到费城，在某种程度上是对英国人的让步。
Narrator: : The Madisons moved into a building called the Octagon House, around the corner from the burned-out Executive Mansion.
旁白：麦迪逊一家搬进了一座叫做八角楼的建筑，就在被烧毁的行政官邸的拐角处。
Dolley immediately began to give parties.
多利立即开始举办聚会。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : And the whole message of these dinner parties was "don’t abandon Washington." She got in her carriage and she rode all over Washington, leaving her calling cards everywhere.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：：这些晚宴的全部信息是“不要放弃华盛顿”。她坐上马车，骑着马车走遍了华盛顿，到处都留下了她的名片。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : And it’s Dolley Madison as much as anyone else who in her inimitable way, largely behind the scenes, makes it very clear to members of Congress that she has no intention of abandoning Washington.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，编剧：多莉·麦迪逊和其他人一样，以她独特的方式（主要是在幕后）向国会议员明确表示，她无意放弃华盛顿。
And she takes tangible measures to make clear to everyone that she believes in the future of Washington.
她采取切实措施向所有人表明她对华盛顿未来的信心。
Narrator: : Dolley championed the establishment of an orphan asylum for girls left behind by the war.
旁白：：多利倡导为战争中留下的女孩建立孤儿院。
She was the first First Lady to adopt a charitable cause.
她是第一位从事慈善事业的第一夫人。
Cokie Roberts, Writer: : And she was the first directress.
科基·罗伯茨，编剧：她是第一位导演。
And in fact she gave I think $20 and a cow, and offered to cut patterns for the clothes for the girls.
事实上，她给了我 20 美元和一头牛，并提出为女孩们剪衣服的图案。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : It was the symbolism of the gesture.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，作家：：这是这个手势的象征意义。
She’s telling Congress that Washington has a future.
她告诉国会华盛顿有未来。
And the fact is, by a very narrow vote, nine votes, Congress decides to stay put in Washington, to return to this ravaged city and to rebuild.
事实是，国会以九票之差决定留在华盛顿，返回这座饱受蹂躏的城市并进行重建。
Narrator: : On February 14, 1815, Washington got the news that a treaty with Great Britain had finally been signed.
旁白： 1815年2月14日，华盛顿得到消息，与英国终于签署了条约。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : Mrs. Sally Coles, a cousin of Mrs. Madison, came to the head of the stairs crying out “Peace, Peace!” And told Mr. Freeman to serve out the wine to the servants and others, and I played the President’s march on my violin.
保罗·詹宁斯（哈辛托·里迪克饰）：麦迪逊夫人的表弟莎莉·科尔斯夫人来到楼梯口高喊“和平，和平！”并告诉弗里曼先生把酒递给仆人和其他人，我用小提琴演奏了总统进行曲。
Mr. Madison was also pleased, but he didn’t show it.
麦迪逊先生也很高兴，但他没有表现出来。
Mrs. Madison threw open the door for a huge party.
麦迪逊夫人为一场盛大的聚会敞开了大门。
Such a joyful time was never seen in Washington.
如此欢乐的时光在华盛顿是从未有过的。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : The War of 1812 is in effect the second war of American independence.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯 (Richard Norton Smith)，编剧： 1812 年战争实际上是美国独立的第二次战争。
And a draw, which is basically what we got, was as good as a win.
平局，这基本上就是我们所得到的，就像一场胜利一样好。
Never again would Great Britain menace the existence of the United States.
英国再也不会威胁美国的存在。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : The War of 1812 signified that we were going to last as a nation, we were here to stay.
历史学家霍莉·舒尔曼 (Holly Shulman)：1812 年的战争标志着我们作为一个国家将继续存在，我们将留在这里。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : Madison actually gives us an alternative model of wartime leadership for which he really ought to be remembered.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，作家：：麦迪逊实际上为我们提供了另一种战时领导模式，他确实应该被铭记。
He didn’t abuse executive power.
他没有滥用行政权力。
No one went to jail because they differed with the president, or because they criticized the president’s conduct of the war.
没有人因为与总统意见不同或批评总统的战争行为而入狱。
And so the fact is the War of 1812 provided the ultimate test about a free government, and what was this democratic experiment that we had been fighting to defend?
事实上，1812 年的战争提供了对自由政府的最终考验，而我们一直在努力捍卫的民主实验是什么？
No one defined that experiment better than James Madison by what he didn’t do as president.
没有人比詹姆斯·麦迪逊更好地定义了这一实验，因为他作为总统没有做过什么。
Henry S.
亨利·S。
(Brian Murray): : The war has made Americans more American.
（布莱恩·穆雷）： ：战争让美国人变得更加美国人化。
We feel and act as a nation.
我们作为一个国家来感受和行动。
I now have some hope for the permanency of the United States.
我现在对美国的永久存有一些希望。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : Madison’s popularity proceeded to soar.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：：麦迪逊的受欢迎程度继续飙升。
And for the next two years it was just a love fest in Washington.
在接下来的两年里，这只是华盛顿的一场爱情盛宴。
And much of this could be traced, in many ways, to Dolley.
这在很多方面都可以追溯到多利。
To that display of courage and her already established talent for leadership.
感谢她表现出的勇气和她已经建立的领导才能。
Narrator: : In 1817, after eight years in the White House, the Madisons retired from public life and returned to Montpelier.
旁白： 1817 年，在白宫任职八年后，麦迪逊夫妇退出公共生活并返回蒙彼利埃。
For the next 20 years, they once again lived the quiet life of Virginia planters.
接下来的20年里，他们又过上了弗吉尼亚种植园主的平静生活。
Madison was in increasingly frail health.
麦迪逊的健康状况日益虚弱。
He and Dolley devoted much of their time to editing his papers.
他和多利花了很多时间来编辑他的论文。
Madison was counting on earning badly needed income by their publication.
麦迪逊指望通过他们的出版物赚取急需的收入。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : He’s not a wealthy man.
历史学家霍莉·舒尔曼：：他不是一个富有的人。
In public, they have a beautiful house, they have a hundred slaves, they have the luxury and the grandeur and the beauty of Montpelier, but in fact he doesn’t have the money that he appears to have.
在公开场合，他们有漂亮的房子，有一百个奴隶，有蒙彼利埃的奢华、宏伟和美丽，但实际上他并没有他看上去有的钱。
Narrator: : The Madisons entertained a steady stream of visitors, but Dolley’s heart remained back in the city and the social world she did so much to establish.
旁白：麦迪逊接待了源源不断的游客，但多莉的心仍然留在这座城市和她为之努力建立的社交世界。
Dolley (Eve Best): : Here I sit alone — a poor dull creature — and I must live as well as I can separated from others.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：我独自一人坐在这里——一个可怜的迟钝的生物——我必须在与他人分离的情况下尽可能地生活。
Cousin, you will soon be going to all the parties.
表弟，你很快就要参加所有的聚会了。
Write as often as you can, giving me details of what’s happening with all the various characters in Washington.
尽可能多地写信，向我详细介绍华盛顿各个人物所发生的事情。
I confess I don’t miss all the battles — political and social — but from my quiet retreat I’m still anxious to hear the news from both fronts.
我承认我并没有错过所有的战斗——政治的和社会的——但在我安静的静修中，我仍然渴望听到来自两方面的消息。
Oh, and please send me paper patterns of the latest fashion of the sleeve, and also describe for me the width of a dress and its waist and how bonnets are being worn in the city.
哦，请寄给我最新流行的袖子的纸样，并为我描述一下衣服的宽度和腰部以及城市里如何戴帽子。
Narrator: : Dolley’s son Payne was back in America, but spent most of his time in New York and Philadelphia.
旁白：：多利的儿子佩恩回到了美国，但大部分时间都在纽约和费城度过。
Henry S (Brian Murray): : Ah yes, the son…
亨利·S（布莱恩·默里）：啊，是的，儿子……
He is to Montpelier what the serpent was to the Garden of Eden.
他之于蒙彼利埃就像蛇之于伊甸园。
Beth Taylor, Researcher: : He was very definitely Dolley’s blind spot.
贝丝·泰勒（Beth Taylor），研究员：：他绝对是多利的盲点。
She loved him to death, she wanted more from him that was never forthcoming.
她爱他爱得要死，她想要从他那里得到更多，却永远无法实现。
And as the years went by, it only got worse.
随着时间的流逝，情况只会变得更糟。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : He adopted the strategy of asking his mother for money and not telling his stepfather, and doing the same, asking his stepfather for money, not telling his mother.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈：：他采取了向母亲要钱而不告诉继父的策略，并采取了同样的策略，向继父要钱而不告诉他的母亲。
James Madison (Jefferson Mays): : Three months and we haven’t heard from you.
詹姆斯·麦迪逊（杰斐逊·梅斯）：：三个月了，我们还没有收到你的消息。
You show absolutely no regard for our feelings.
你完全不考虑我们的感受。
I can’t even begin to tell you how distressed your mother is.
我什至无法告诉你你的母亲有多痛苦。
She is even threatening to go to Philadelphia to discover the cause of your mysterious absence.
她甚至威胁要前往费城找出你神秘失踪的原因。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : We know from James Madison’s letters that he shielded her.
霍莉·舒尔曼，历史学家：：我们从詹姆斯·麦迪逊的信中得知，他保护了她。
He only tells her some of what’s going on.
他只告诉她一些发生的事情。
He shields her from the gravest truths about her son.
他保护她免受有关她儿子的最严重的真相的影响。
John Stagg, Historian: : Dolley herself by this time had sort of given up any hopes that the son, would make anything of himself.
约翰·斯塔格（John Stagg），历史学家：：此时，多利本人已经放弃了儿子能够出人头地的任何希望。
At the end, she was just reduced to that he would find a nice girl, marry, settle down and do something respectable.
最后，她只知道他会找到一个好女孩，结婚，安定下来，做一些值得尊敬的事情。
But he couldn’t even manage that.
但他甚至无法做到这一点。
He never married at all.
他根本没有结过婚。
Richard Norton Smith, Writer: : She never stopped loving him, she never stopped paying for him.
理查德·诺顿·史密斯，作家：：她从未停止爱他，她从未停止为他付出。
And indeed it was his profligacy that condemned her and James Madison to a penurious old age.
事实上，正是他的挥霍让她和詹姆斯·麦迪逊陷入了贫困的晚年。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : I was with Mr. Madison all the time then.
保罗·詹宁斯（Jacinto Riddick）： 那时我一直和麦迪逊先生在一起。
He couldn’t walk, but his mind was bright and he had lots of visitors and he talked with them — his voice as strong as I ever heard in his best days.
他不能走路，但他的头脑很聪明，他有很多访客，他和他们交谈——他的声音像我在他最好的日子里听到的那样有力。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : Towards the end of Madison’s life he became almost completely bedridden.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：：在麦迪逊生命的最后阶段，他几乎完全卧床不起。
He was crippled by rheumatism.
他因风湿病而瘫痪。
And Dolley sat at his bedside, practically 10, 12 hours a day.
多利几乎每天坐在他的床边10、12个小时。
She rarely left him for more than 15 or 20 minutes at a time.
她每次离开他的时间很少超过15或20分钟。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : One day, I was with him when Sukey brought him his breakfast as usual.
保罗·詹宁斯（Jacinto Riddick）： 有一天，我和他在一起，苏基像往常一样给他送早餐。
He was having trouble swallowing.
他吞咽困难。
His niece was with him and she asked, “What’s the matter, Uncle James?” “Why, nothing more than a change of mind, my dear,” he answered.
他的侄女和他在一起，她问：“怎么了，詹姆斯叔叔？” “哎呀，只不过是改变主意了，亲爱的，”他回答道。
Then his head dropped instantly, and he stopped breathing as quietly as the snuff of a candle goes out.
然后他的头立刻垂了下来，呼吸也像蜡烛的熄灭一样安静。
85 years old.
85岁。
Mrs. Madison gave way to the grief and dejected spirit that could not be restrained.
麦迪逊夫人的悲痛和沮丧情绪无法抑制。
Beth Taylor, Researcher: : Dolley was beside herself.
贝丝·泰勒（Beth Taylor），研究员：：多莉简直要疯了。
At the time of the procession two days later out to the family burial site, she was up in her room, unable to attend.
两天后，当游行队伍前往家人的墓地时，她正在自己的房间里，无法参加。
I mean, these life partners had been together for 40 some years.
我的意思是，这些人生伴侣已经在一起四十多年了。
And when the end came, it was a great hardship for Dolley to bear.
当末日来临的时候，多利承受着巨大的苦难。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : And now began her pecuniary embarrassment.
大侄女（Mireille Enos）：：现在她开始陷入金钱上的尴尬。
For years she had been living without any idea of how much money she was spending.
多年来，她一直过着不知道自己花了多少钱的生活。
And now the crops at Montpelier had failed, the Negroes’ food and clothing and the plantation expenses had to be paid for, and there was no income from any other source.
现在蒙彼利埃的庄稼歉收，黑人的食物、衣服和种植园费用都必须支付，没有任何其他来源的收入。
Her son, still fond of his pleasures, borrowed money at high interest from the money lenders, and this only increased her difficulties.
她的儿子依然贪图享乐，向放债人高息借钱，这徒增了她的困难。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Dolley Madison is the proverbial well-taken-care-of widow who’s never written a check.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：：多莉·麦迪逊（Dolley Madison）是众所周知的一位备受照顾的寡妇，她从未写过支票。
Her son continues to drain her.
她的儿子继续耗尽她的精力。
And so in the early 1840s, she’s being called to court on debts.
因此，在 1840 年代初，她因债务问题被送上法庭。
She’s being called to court because she is responsible for debts that she cannot pay.
她被传唤至法庭，因为她对无法偿还的债务负有责任。
Narrator: : Dolley traveled to Washington to visit her sister, leaving her son in charge of her affairs.
旁白：：多利前往华盛顿看望她的姐姐，让她的儿子负责她的事务。
Through incompetence and outright thievery, Payne Todd made her already desperate money problems even worse.
由于无能和公然的盗窃，佩恩·托德让她本已绝望的金钱问题变得更加严重。
But she refused to give up on him.
但她拒绝放弃他。
Dolley (Eve Best): : My dearest son.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：我最亲爱的儿子。
It’s been too long since I was cheered by a line from you.
我已经很久没有因为你的一句话而欢呼了。
What are you doing that prevents you from communicating with your Mother?
你在做什么阻碍你与母亲沟通的事情？
I have just heard that you sold some of the furniture that I needed.
我刚刚听说你卖掉了我需要的一些家具。
I only wish you had consulted me.
我只希望你咨询过我。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : Dolley Madison begins selling off pieces of Montpelier.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：多莉·麦迪逊（Dolley Madison）开始出售蒙彼利埃的文物。
600 acres here, 50 acres there, the mill there.
这里 600 英亩，那里 50 英亩，磨坊在那里。
And the slaves are watching this.
奴隶们正在注视着这一点。
There’s less and less for them to cultivate.
他们能耕种的东西越来越少。
And Dolley Madison finally becomes unable to sustain Montpelier.
多莉·麦迪逊最终无法维持蒙彼利埃的生活。
And everyone knows she’s going to have to sell it.
每个人都知道她将不得不卖掉它。
And what is that going to mean for the slaves?
这对奴隶来说意味着什么？
Sarah (Danai Gurira): : My mistress: I don’t like to send you bad news, but the condition of all of us, your servants, is very bad and we do not know whether you are acquainted with it.
莎拉（Danai Gurira）：我的女主人：我不想向您发送坏消息，但是我们所有人，您的仆人的状况都很糟糕，我们不知道您是否知道。
The sheriff has taken all of us, and says he will sell us at next court, unless something is done before to prevent it.
治安官带走了我们所有人，并说他将在下一个法庭将我们卖掉，除非事先采取措施阻止。
We are afraid we shall be bought by what are called Negro buyers, and sent away from our husbands and wives.
我们担心我们会被所谓的黑人买家买走，并被送离我们的丈夫和妻子。
If we are obliged to be sold, perhaps you could get neighbors to buy us that have husbands and wives, so as to save us from some misery that is sure to fall upon us.
如果我们不得不被卖掉，也许你可以让有丈夫有妻子的邻居来买我们，这样我们就可以免遭一些注定要降临到我们身上的痛苦。
We are very sure you are sorry about the state of things and we do not like to trouble you with it, but think, my dear mistress, what our sorrow must be.
我们非常确定您对目前的情况感到抱歉，我们不想打扰您，但是请想一想，我亲爱的女主人，我们的悲伤一定是什么。
The sale is two weeks from next Monday.
促销期为下周一起两周。
Your dutiful servant, Sarah.
你尽职的仆人，莎拉。
Narrator: : In his will, Madison had stipulated that his slaves could not be sold without their consent.
旁白：：麦迪逊在遗嘱中规定，未经奴隶同意不得出售他的奴隶。
But Dolley was virtually bankrupt.
但多利实际上已经破产了。
The slaves were seized by the bailiff to pay off her debts.
奴隶被法警扣押以偿还她的债务。
She did ensure that they would be sold to neighbors, so that families would not be split apart.
她确实确保将它们卖给邻居，这样家庭就不会离散。
Finally, she was forced to sell the last of Montpelier.
最后，她被迫卖掉了最后的蒙彼利埃。
She sold Paul Jennings, Madison’s faithful manservant, to a friend.
她把麦迪逊忠实的男仆保罗·詹宁斯卖给了一个朋友。
Beth Taylor, Researcher: : Paul Jennings at one point expected his freedom.
贝丝·泰勒（Beth Taylor），研究员：：保罗·詹宁斯（Paul Jennings）一度期望获得自由。
He thought that he would be freed in James Madison’s will; that did not happen.
他以为自己会按照詹姆斯·麦迪逊的遗嘱获得自由；但事实并非如此。但那并没有发生。
He thought he would be freed by Dolley Madison, and in a will in 1841, she said as much; “the only slave so treated.” She wrote, “I give to my mulatto man Paul his freedom.” But that was not her last will.
他认为多莉·麦迪逊会释放他，在 1841 年的遗嘱中，她也这么说了； “唯一受到如此待遇的奴隶。”她写道：“我给我的黑白混血男人保罗自由。”但这并不是她最后的遗愿。
There were at least three others, and she never mentioned slaves again.
至少还有另外三个人，她再也没有提到过奴隶。
Narrator: : Jennings eventually bought his freedom from his new master.
旁白：：詹宁斯最终从他的新主人手中买回了自由。
As a free man, he would continue to visit Dolley Madison to the end of her life.
作为一个自由人，他将继续探望多莉·麦迪逊，直到她生命的尽头。
Paul Jennings (Jacinto Riddick): : Now she lived in a state of absolute poverty.
保罗·詹宁斯（Jacinto Riddick）：现在她生活在绝对贫困的状态。
I thought sometimes that she didn’t even have enough to eat.
有时我想她连饭都吃不饱。
I visited her often, bringing a market basket full of provisions, and I looked around the house to see whatever else she needed.
我经常去看她，带着装满食物的购物篮，我环视房子，看看她还需要什么。
She made me buy my freedom, and now it was me that gave her money from my own pocket.
她让我买了自由，现在是我自己掏钱给她了。
Narrator: : In an exceptional move, Congress offered to alleviate Dolley’s poverty by buying some of Madison’s papers.
旁白：：国会采取了一项特殊举措，提出购买麦迪逊的一些报纸来减轻多利的贫困。
They put the money in a trust controlled by her friends, to keep it out of her son’s hands.
他们把钱存入由她的朋友控制的信托基金，以免落入她儿子的手中。
Payne was furious and threatened to sue.
佩恩勃然大怒，威胁要起诉。
Dolley’s half century of indulgence finally gave way.
多利半个世纪的放纵终于屈服了。
Dolley (Eve Best): : I am much distressed by your threats.
多利（伊芙·贝斯特）：：我对你的威胁感到非常难过。
You must abandon the idea immediately.
你必须立即放弃这个想法。
Your mother would have no desire to go on living after her son deprived her of her friends.
在她的儿子剥夺了她的朋友之后，你的母亲将不想再活下去了。
I have nothing more to convey to you.
我没有什么可以向你传达的了。
Narrator: : All but one of Dolley’s seven brothers and sisters were dead, as were most of her contemporaries.
旁白：：多莉的七个兄弟姐妹中除了一个之外全部都死了，她的大多数同代人也都死了。
She seemed destined to live out the rest of her days in impoverished obscurity.
她似乎注定要在贫困的默默无闻中度过余生。
But the life of Dolley Madison had one last act.
但多莉·麦迪逊的一生还有最后一幕。
In 1844, she finally moved back to Washington.
1844年，她终于搬回华盛顿。
The capital, now grown to 50,000 inhabitants, had changed dramatically.
首都如今已经拥有 50,000 名居民，发生了巨大的变化。
There had been six administrations since Madison’s time.
自麦迪逊时代以来，已经经历了六届政府。
The national government was now in turmoil, split apart by the most intractable issue of the early republic — the institution of slavery.
国家政府现在陷入混乱，因早期共和国最棘手的问题——奴隶制而分裂。
The comfortable life of southern gentry — Dolley’s world — would soon disappear in a bloody civil war.
南方士绅的舒适生活——多利的世界——很快就会在血腥的内战中消失。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : She said that coming back to Washington was like a dream — as if she had been asleep for 20 years and had woken up surrounded by strangers.
侄女（Mireille Enos）：她说回到华盛顿就像一场梦——就好像她沉睡了20年，醒来时周围都是陌生人。
The city was indeed very different from when she was mistress of the White House.
这个城市确实与她当白宫女主人时有很大不同。
Narrator: : Dolley moved into a modest house on Lafayette Square.
旁白：：多利搬进了拉斐特广场上一所简陋的房子。
She immediately began calling on old friends and charming new ones.
她立即开始拜访老朋友和迷人的新朋友。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : She doesn’t know how to manage a plantation, but she does know how to run a salon.
霍莉·舒尔曼（Holly Shulman），历史学家：：她不知道如何管理种植园，但她知道如何经营沙龙。
And she does know how to be a grande dame in Washington, D.C. Dolley is living only a few doors down from the White House.
她确实知道如何成为华盛顿特区的贵妇。多利住在离白宫只有几扇门的地方。
Mrs. Polk becomes a very close friend of Dolley’s.
波尔克夫人成为多利的非常亲密的朋友。
So she’s very much in the midst of things.
所以她非常忙于事情。
Catherine Allgor, Historian: : And this is where she enters what I think of as her iconic era.
历史学家凯瑟琳·阿尔戈 (Catherine Allgor)：：这就是她进入我认为的标志性时代的地方。
She becomes a symbol of an earlier time, the time of the founding, and people wanted to be part of that symbol.
她成为了早期时代、建国时代的象征，人们希望成为这个象征的一部分。
Narrator: : Dolley Madison, born in the era of horse-drawn carriages, had survived into a time of railroads and the newest sensation, photography.
旁白：多莉·麦迪逊出生于马车时代，后来幸存到了铁路时代和最新轰动的摄影时代。
When president James Polk commissioned a group photograph in front of the White House, there she was, a blur standing beside him.
当詹姆斯·波尔克总统委托在白宫前拍摄一张集体照时，她就在那里，模糊地站在他身边。
Holly Shulman, Historian: : It’s wonderful that we have photographs of Dolley Madison.
历史学家霍莉·舒尔曼：我们有多莉·麦迪逊的照片真是太棒了。
We don’t of James.
我们不喜欢詹姆斯。
It shows the world of difference between the 1830s and the 1840s.
它展示了 1830 年代和 1840 年代之间的世界差异。
If you look at them carefully you will see that Dolley is always wearing the same black dress, and the same blouse underneath it, and usually the same hat with the same pin and the same earrings.
如果你仔细观察，你会发现多莉总是穿着同样的黑色连衣裙，里面穿同样的衬衫，通常戴着同样的帽子，戴着同样的别针和同样的耳环。
I suspect that was her best outfit, and it’s what she wore in public because she doesn’t have a lot of money.
我怀疑那是她最好的衣服，也是她在公共场合穿的衣服，因为她没有很多钱。
But you also see a woman who’s not at the height of fashion.
但你也会看到一个不处于时尚巅峰的女性。
And I suspect that she’s very conscious, not only that she doesn’t have the latest in style, but that by dressing in a certain way, she comes to represent, perhaps, the founding era.
我怀疑她非常有意识，不仅她没有最新的风格，而且通过以某种方式穿着，她也许代表了建国时代。
The Constitution, an era of republican virtue.
宪法，共和美德的时代。
Tom Fleming, Writer: : Here was a woman who had drunk tea with George and Martha Washington, and she could reminisce and remember things that everybody said all the way back to those early days.
汤姆·弗莱明（Tom Fleming），作家：：这是一位与乔治·华盛顿和玛莎·华盛顿一起喝过茶的女人，她可以回忆并记住早年每个人都说过的话。
She mesmerized every party she went to.
她参加的每一次聚会都让她着迷。
Narrator: : Dolley was invited to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument.
旁白：：多利受邀参加华盛顿纪念碑奠基仪式。
When the first telegraph line in the world was erected between Washington and Baltimore, she was asked to be the first private citizen to send a message.
当世界上第一条电报线在华盛顿和巴尔的摩之间架起时，她被要求成为第一个发送信息的私人公民。
She was even awarded an honorary seat in Congress — the only private citizen to receive such a privilege.
她甚至被授予国会荣誉席位——她是唯一一位获得这种特权的公民。
Grand Niece (Mireille Enos): : During her last year, she seemed very busy with the past.
侄女（Mireille Enos）： 在她的最后一年里，她似乎很忙于过去。
She had me read old letters to her to revive happy memories.
她让我读给她的旧信，以唤起快乐的回忆。
She was 81 and she suffered from many physical problems, but her mind was not in the least impaired.
她已经81岁了，身体上有很多问题，但她的精神却没有受到丝毫损害。
Sometimes, however, when she was confused and annoyed by conflicting advice from her friends, she would sigh for the help of her long departed husband, and cry aloud, “Oh, for my counselor!” When her last sleep came upon her, she lingered for two days, apparently without suffering.
然而，有时，当她因朋友们相互矛盾的建议而感到困惑和恼怒时，她会叹息，祈求去世已久的丈夫的帮助，并大声哭泣：“哦，为我的辅导员！”当她最后一次入睡时，她徘徊了两天，显然没有受到任何痛苦。
Several times she murmured, “my poor boy!” Then she gently relapsed into that long rest which is peace.
她好几次低声说：“我可怜的孩子！”然后她轻轻地又回到了那种长久的平静之中。
Narrator: : Dolley Madison died in July of 1849, at the age of 81.
旁白：：多莉·麦迪逊于 1849 年 7 月去世，享年 81 岁。
Her son Payne died just two years later.
两年后，她的儿子佩恩去世了。
The entire country mourned the passing of the woman who had done so much to create the style and meaning of the nation’s capital.
整个国家都在哀悼这位为创造国家首都的风格和意义做出巨大贡献的女性的去世。
“She is the only permanent power in Washington,” declared Daniel Webster.
“她是华盛顿唯一的永久权力，”丹尼尔·韦伯斯特宣称。
“All others are transient.” She had wanted to be buried at Montpelier.
“所有其他的都是短暂的。”她想被埋葬在蒙彼利埃。
But instead she was put into a temporary vault in Washington for 10 years.
但她却被安置在华盛顿的一个临时保险库里长达十年之久。
Every time money was raised to bury her properly, it had to go to paying off Payne’s debts.
每次筹集资金妥善安葬她时，都必须用来偿还佩恩的债务。
Finally, Dolley was buried in the family plot at Montpelier, near the man she once called “the great little Madison.”
最后，多利被埋葬在蒙彼利埃的家族土地上，靠近她曾经称之为“伟大的小麦迪逊”的人。
Slate: : Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program or on this website do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Slate：：本计划或本网站中表达的任何观点、调查结果、结论或建议并不一定反映国家人文基金会的观点、调查结果、结论或建议。
Dolley accepts a marriage proposal by James Madison, who had been engaged once before but never married.
多利接受了詹姆斯·麦迪逊的求婚，詹姆斯·麦迪逊曾订婚过一次，但从未结婚。
She was nicknamed "Queen Dolley," and when she died she was given the largest state funeral the capital had ever seen for a woman.
她被昵称为“多利女王”，当她去世时，她得到了首都有史以来为女性举办的最大规模的国葬。
Learn more about the detailed process of creating the costumes for the film.
了解更多有关电影服装制作的详细过程。
Learn more from the creator of the film's turbans like Dolley was so famous for donning.
向电影头巾的创作者了解更多信息，就像多利因戴头巾而闻名的那样。
Watch a deleted scene from the film about Dolley Madison's "squeezes".
观看电影中有关多莉·麦迪逊“挤压”的删除场景。
A deleted scene from the film about Congress and parties.
电影中有关国会和政党的删除场景。
Often called “the first First Lady,” Dolley Madison defined the role of the President’s wife and hostess.
多莉·麦迪逊经常被称为“第一位第一夫人”，她定义了总统妻子和女主人的角色。