Carver
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Born a Slave.
《奴隶诞生目录》。
4 Learning on His Own.
4 学习自己。
6 Making a Difference.
6 作出改变。
9 Ideas Are Free.
9 思想是自由的。
13 A Lasting Message.
13 遗言。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 Born a Slave George Washington Carver was born in Missouri in 1864, during the Civil War.
16 Born a Slave George Washington Carver于1864年生于密苏里州,内战期间.
Because his mother was a slave, he was born a slave, too.
因其母为奴,生为奴也.
The Civil War (1861–1865) The Civil War was a fight between two sides of the United States, the North and the South.
内战(1861–1865). 南北战争是美国南北双方的一场战斗.
When it began, slavery was legal in fifteen “slave states” in the South and illegal in seventeen “free states” in the North.
奴隶制在南方15个“奴隶邦”是合法的,在北方17个“自由邦”是非法的。
After the North won the war, all the slaves were freed.
北伐取胜后,奴隶全部被解放.
George Washington Carver in the lab, 1940 Iowa Missouri Alabama Texas Arkansas Illinois Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Georgia Florida Mississippi Louisiana Tennessee Kentucky Indiana Ohio States Where Carver Lived and Worked Carver grew up in Missouri, studied in Kansas and Iowa, and worked in Alabama.
乔治·华盛顿 卡弗在实验室,1940年爱荷华州密苏里州阿拉巴马州 德克萨斯州 阿肯色州 伊利诺斯州 俄克拉荷马州 内布拉斯加州 佛罗里达州 密西西比州 路易斯安那州 肯塔基州 印第安纳州 俄亥俄州 卡弗活生生的卡弗在密苏里州长大,在堪萨斯州和爱荷华州学习,在阿拉巴马州工作.
When the Civil War ended, George became free.
内战结束后,乔治获得自由.
He stayed with the people who had owned him, Susan and Moses Carver.
他和拥有他的人,苏珊和摩西·卡弗在一起
Susan taught George to read and write.
苏珊教乔治读写.
More than anything, he liked to garden and explore the world outside.
他更喜欢园林 探索外面的世界
Learning on His Own George taught himself about plants and animals.
学习他自己的乔治教自己植物和动物.
He wanted to go to school to learn more.
他想去学校学习更多。
In many places, black and white students could not attend the same schools.
在许多地方,黑人和白人学生无法在同一所学校上学。
George could not go to the school nearby because he was black.
乔治不能去附近的学校,因为他是黑人.
When he was twelve, he left home to go to another school.
12岁时出家入另一所学校.
A year later, he left for Kansas.
一年后,他去堪萨斯州.
When George finished high school in Kansas, he tried to go to college there.
乔治在堪萨斯高中毕业后,他试图在那里上大学.
Once he arrived, though, the college told him he had to leave.
不过,他一到,大学告诉他他必须离开。
It did not allow black students.
它不允许黑人学生学习。
He didn’t give up, though.
他并没有放弃。
Instead, he went to college in Iowa.
相反,他在爱荷华州上大学.
There, George learned all about farming.
在那里,乔治学到了所有关于耕作的知识.
He was the first black student to finish and to become a professor at his college.
他是第一个完成学业并成为他所在学院教授的黑人学生.
George could not attend college in Kansas because of his skin color.
乔治因肤色而不能入读堪萨斯大学.
George received his diploma from Iowa State Agricultural College.
乔治从爱荷华州立农业学院获得文凭.
Making a Difference In 1896, Carver went to Alabama to help the poor farmers there.
有所作为 1896年,卡维尔去阿拉巴马州帮助那里的贫苦农民.
These farmers had a big problem.
这些农民有一个大问题。
Their cotton crops were smaller every year, so the farmers had less and less money.
他们的棉花作物每年收成较小,所以农民的钱越来越少.
Carver knew that growing the same crop again and again had worn out the soil.
卡弗知道种植同样的作物 一次又一次地磨损了土壤
He taught the farmers to add dead leaves and plants to the soil to help it.
他教农民将枯叶和植物添加到土壤中来帮助.
He also taught them to plant sweet potatoes, peas, or peanuts.
他还教他们种植甜薯,豌豆,或花生.
These crops put things back into the soil that plants need to grow well.
这些作物将东西放回了植物需要良好生长的土壤.
Children helped pick cotton on a Mississippi plantation in the late 1800s.
18世纪后期,孩子们在密西西比种植园帮助摘取了棉花.
Carver held a chunk of soil from a worn-out field.
卡弗持有一整块土壤 从磨损的地上。
Farmers needed a way to sell these new crops.
农民需要一种方法来出售这些新作物。
Carver invented more than a hundred ways to use sweet potatoes and three hundred ways to use peanuts!
卡弗发明了一百多种使用甜薯的方法和三百种花生的方法!
New uses meant new products.
新用途意味着新产品。
New products meant new items for farmers to sell.
新产品意味着农民可以出售新产品。
Carver invented up to 300 uses for the peanut: pavement, grease, medicines, peanut coffee, peanut mayonnaise, peanut flour, peanut milk, shoe polish, bleach, sandpaper, and more.
卡弗发明了多达300种花生用途:人行道,油脂,药品,花生咖啡,花生蛋黄酱,花生面粉,花生牛奶,鞋油,漂白剂,沙纸等.
Contrary to popular belief, however, he did not create peanut butter.
然而,与大众信仰相反,他并没有创造花生酱.
A Native American tribe is known to have eaten a paste made from peanuts more than 500 years ago.
一个美洲原住民部落已知食用了500多年前用花生制成的面条.
It wasn’t as creamy as the tasty goo we eat today, though.
也不像今天的美味地吃。
Ideas Are Free In 1921, Carver was asked to speak for ten minutes before the U.
思想是自由的 1921年,卡维尔被要求在U前发言十分钟.
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师曰.
Congress—the country’s lawmakers.
国会是国家的立法者。
Some of them didn’t want him to speak because he was black.
有些人不想他说话,
After his ten minutes, however, they asked him to speak more.
然而,在他10分钟之后,他们要求他多说话。
In the end, Congress passed a law to help U.
最终国会通过法律来帮助U.
S.
师曰.
peanut farmers.
花生农民.
Carver became very famous, and crowds gathered to hear him speak.
卡弗变得非常出名,人群聚集起来听他说话.
He could have made lots of money, but he thought helping people was more important.
他本可以赚到很多钱,但他觉得帮助别人更重要.
He believed ideas should be free and freely given.
他认为思想应该是自由的和自由的。
Carver spoke to members of Congress.
卡弗与国会议员交谈.
Once Carver became famous, he met other famous men.
卡弗一出名后就遇到了其他名人.
Here he stood with Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, in 1938.
在这里他与福特汽车公司的创始人亨利·福特(Henry Ford)于1938年站在一起.
A Lasting Message George Washington Carver believed that people should treat each other with respect.
乔治·华盛顿 卡弗认为人们应该尊重对方.
In time, he won the respect of a whole country.
随着时间的推移,他赢得了整个国家的尊重.
Carver also believed that people should care for the Earth.
卡弗也认为人们应该关心地球.
If they did, Earth would provide what they needed.
地球会提供他们所需要的东西
Now, many years later, we are learning that he was right.
多年之后,我们得知他是对的。
Glossary crops (n.)
词汇作物(n.)
plants grown for food or other uses; the amount of plants or plant products gathered in one season (p.
为食物或其他用途而种植的植物; 在一个季节所收集的植物或植物产品的数量(p.
9) famous (adj.)
9)出名 (adj.
well known (p.
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14) invented (v.)
14)被发明(五.
created, designed, or built something that did not exist before (p.
创建,设计,或建造以前不存在的东西(p.
11) professor (n.)
11) 教授(不详)
a college or university teacher (p.
学院或大学教师(p.
8) slave (n.)
8) 奴隶 (n.
a person who is legally owned and completely controlled by another person (p.
由他人合法拥有和完全控制的人(p.
4) soil (n.)
4)土壤 (n.
the top layer of the ground, in which plants grow; dirt (p.
地上地层,植物生长地层;土(p.
10) Not long before he died, Carver donated $33,000 to the Tuskegee Institute to carry on the research he began.
10) 在他去世前不久,卡维尔向图斯克格研究所捐赠了33,000美元来继续他开始的研究.
(That would be about $450,000 today!)
(今天大约是45万美元!)