with a heavy heart心情沉重地

It was a beautiful day like no other, the last day I saw my home in Africa. It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature. I am speaking of... the slave trade. I know that many of my honourable friends in this House have interests in the Indies. Others have investments in plantations. Others are ship owners. And I believe them to be men of humanity. I believe you all to be men of humanity.

那是個美得不能再美的日子，也是我最後一次看到非洲家鄉的日子。 我懷著沉重的心情提請本院注意一樁買賣，它把人貶低到畜生的地步，也踐踏了我們共同人性中最崇高的品質。 我說的就是……奴隸貿易。 我知道本院不少尊敬的同僚在西印度群島都有利益。 有人在種植園投了錢，有人是船東。 我相信他們都是有人性的人。 我相信在座各位都是有人性的人。

It seems my young friend opposite has a long-term strategy to destroy the very nation that spawned him. While I was in Virginia losing my fingers in battle with the Americans, he was busy appeasing them. Now he would hand over the riches o f the Indies to the bloody French! If... If we didn't have slaves, there would be no plantations. And with no plantations, how would we fill the coffers of the king? Does my honourable friend really believe that if we left off the trade, the French wouldn't immediately step into our place and reap the rewards?

看來我對面這位年輕朋友，有一套長遠打算，要毀掉生他養他的這個國家。 我在維吉尼亞跟美國人打仗、連手指都打沒了的時候，他正忙著討好他們。 如今他還要把西印度群島的財富，拱手讓給該死的法國人！ 要是……要是沒有奴隸，就沒有種植園。 沒有種植園，我們拿什麼填滿國王的金庫？ 這位尊敬的朋友真以為，我們不幹了，法國人不會馬上頂上來，把好處全撈走？