职称英语综合类阅读理解第三十二篇The_Cherokee_Nation逐句翻译.docx

The Cherokee Nation彻罗基部落Long before the white man came to the America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. 在白人到来之前的很长一段时间里，美洲这片土地是属于美洲印第安部落的。The nation of the Cherokees lived in What is now the southeastern part of the United States.彻罗基部落就生活在现在美国的东南部地区。After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. 白人到来后，彻罗基人学习了他们的很多方法。One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. 一个叫赛史伊荷的彻罗基人看到了读书、写字对白人的重要性。He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language.他决心创造一种方法来书写口头的彻罗基语言。 He began by making word pictures. 他开始是制作单词图形，For each word he drew a picture.他为每一个单词都画了图。 But that proved impossible-there were just too many words. 但事实证明那是行不通的——单词太多了！Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. 接着他记下构成这门语言的 85种声音。Using this own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. 根据自己的想象和英语拼读书籍，他为每一个声音创造了一个符号。His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn.他的字母表是极其容易学的。 Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. 不久彻罗基人知道了怎样用他们自己的语言去读、去写。By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.到1828年的时候，他们已经在印刷他们自己的报纸了。In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a law. 1830年，美国议会通过了一条法令，It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands.它允许政府把印第安人从他们现在的土地上迁走。 The Cherokees refused to go.但彻罗基人拒绝离开， They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. 他们已经在这里生活了几个世纪，这片土地是属于他们的，Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?为什么他们要到一个远离密西西比河的陌生地方去？The army was sent to drive the Cherokees out.军队被派来驱赶彻罗基人了， Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint into the western territory.士兵包围了他们的村庄，在枪口的威胁下，他们被押往西部地区。 The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. 病人、老人和孩子坐在运送物品的大车上，The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback.剩下的人则步行或骑马。 It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. 当时正值11月份，可他们中的好多人还穿着夏天的衣服。Cold and hun