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The Trial That Rocked the World (Monkey Trial) ---by John Scopes The Scopes Trial This article is written by John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970). He is a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee at the age of 24, and was charged on May 25, 1925 with violating Tennessees Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. He was in court in a case known as the Scopes Trial. 本文的作者约翰托马斯各普斯。他是田纳西州代顿的一名老师，24岁. 1925年5月25号被告违反田纳西州的《布特勒法》，禁止在田纳西州学校教授进化论。这个案件称为The Scopes Trial。 The author makes efforts to portray the utterly different figures of two counsels, describes the different spectators actions when they were in the court. And the author uses many rhetorical devices to give us a famous and lively trial in U.S history. 作者努力描绘完全不同的 两个律师的特点，介绍了不同观众的行动，作者采用了很多修辞手法给我们美国历史上一个著名并且生动的审判。  进化论和神创论之冲突* 在介绍案例之前，先简单介绍一下达尔文的进化论 达尔文是英国著名的生物学家他在1859年发表了《物种起源》一书。他在这本书中提出，地球上的各种生物是从非生物，经过变异、遗传和自然选择，由低级到高级，从简单到复杂逐步进化而来的。按照这个推理，人是从猿进化而来的，通俗地说就是从猴子变来的。 达尔文的进化论提出后，相信神创论的人士感到非常不安。他们说：“达尔文在‘物种起源’一书中记述了有生命微生物的发展过程。他认为，微生物的产生不需要任何超自然的力量或上帝的介入。这个学说令美国以及其它地方的很多人士深感不安，特别是基督教徒，他们认为是神创造一切。” Background Information about the Trial John Thomas Scopes came to Tennessee fresh out of college. In the spring of 1925, he had just completed his first year as science teacher and part-time football coach at the high school in the little town of Dayton. Scopes planned to return home to Kentucky for the summer. But in his words, a beautiful blonde distracted him and he stayed for another week hoping for a date. The decision changed his life forever. 约翰 斯各普斯刚从大学毕业来到田纳西州。1925年的春天，是他在代顿高中任生物老师和橄榄球队教练的一整年。在斯各普斯计划返回肯塔基州的夏季。但是 “一个美丽的金发女郎”使他分心，他又多呆了一个星期。这一决定永远的改变了他的人生。 It all began when the state of Tennessee passed a law making it a crime to teach evolution in public schools. A new organization called the American Civil Liberties Union responded immediately. The ACLU placed an ad inviting a teacher to help test the law in the courts. Dayton was in an economic