The first attempts to use the government in a large way to control private enterprise in the public interest were made by the Northwestern states in the decade between 1870 and 1880.

——在 1870 年至 1880 年的十年间，西北各州首次尝试大规模利用政府来控制私营企业以维护公共利益。

Not so much in the narrow and (potentially sinister) sense of trying to beguile them into having sex with us – but in a larger, more fundamental way of getting them to like us.

与其说是在狭隘和（可能是险恶的）意义上试图引诱他们与我们发生性关系，不如说是在更广泛、更根本的意义上让他们喜欢我们。