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 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。

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。

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。

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。

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。