第三十二篇The-Cherokee-Nation柴罗基部落.docVIP

第三十二篇The Cherokee Nation 柴罗基部落 　　Long before the white man came to the America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in What is now the southeastern part of the United States. 在白人到来之前的很长一段时间，美洲这片土地是属于美洲印第安部落的。柴罗基部落就生活在美国的东南部地区。　　After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible-there 行不通were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up 构成the language. Using this own imagination 想象and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented发明 a sign符号 for each sound. His alphabet 字母表proved amazingly令人惊奇的 easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.白人倒来后，柴罗基人学习了他们的很多方法。一个叫赛史伊荷的柴罗基人看到了读书、写字对白人的重要性，决心创造一种方法来书写口头的柴罗基语言。他开始是制作单词图形，他谈每一个单词都画了图。但事实证明那是行不通的——单词太多了！接着他记下构成这门语言的85种声音。根据自己的想象和英语拼读书籍，为每一个声音创造了一个符号。他的字母表是极其容易学会的。不久柴罗基人知道了怎样用他们自己的语言去读、去写。到1928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 议会a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries.世纪 It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far 遥远的beyond 更远处the Mississippi River密西西比河?1830年，美国议会通过了一条法令，这允许政府把印第安人从他们现在的土地上迁走。但柴罗基人拒绝离开，他们已经在这里生活了几个世纪，这片土地是属于他们的，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. Soldiers surrounded 包围了their villages and marched行军 them at gunpoint 枪口into the western territory版图、领地. The sick病人, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings动产、财务、家眷. The rest of the people marched行军 on foot or rode on horseback. It was November十一月, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees