The Great Land Run
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
It’s a crazy idea, but a beautiful day.
这是一个疯狂的想法,
The sky is clear blue.
天上晴蓝.
New grass shines against the red clay, at least where horses’ feet and wagon wheels haven’t crushed it.
至少马脚和马车轮没有碾碎。
Fifty thousand boomers line up on the border of the Unassigned Territor y, two million acres of the American Midwest and what will become the heart of Oklahoma.
5万个繁荣者排在未分配的泰瑞多尔河的边界上 两百万英亩的美国中西部
They all want to claim a bit of land, so folks are nervous.
他们都想占地取地 所以人们很紧张
It’s almost noon.
现在快中午了
By 1889, most of the central United States was settled.
至1889年,美国中部大部分地区已定居.
Many Americans who didn’t own land wanted to, so the United States government decided to open two million acres to farmers.
许多不拥有土地的美国人都希望这样,因此美国政府决定向农民开放200万英亩.
On April 22, 1889, people who wanted land—called boomers—lined up just behind the border of the Unassigned Territory.
1889年4月22日,人们想要土地——所谓的繁荣者——紧接在未分配领土边界之后。
Unlike the surrounding Indian Territory, this land had never been assigned to any tribe.
与周围的印第安领地不同,这块地从未被划入任何部落.
At noon, a shot was fired.
中午,有人开枪射击。
Fifty thousand people raced to be the first person to the land they wanted, mark that land with stakes, and claim it.
5万人竞相成为他们想要的地的第一人,用木桩来标记那地并声称是地.
There were a number of Oklahoma land runs.
俄克拉荷马州曾有过多起土地跑道.
The largest was the Cherokee Strip Land Run of September 16, 1893.
最大的是1893年9月16日的切罗基地块跑道.
On that day, one hundred thousand people lined up to claim 6.
当天,十万人排成一行,要求6号.
5 million acres.
500万亩.
Sergeant Henry James finds a place a little ways back from the border.
亨利警长 詹姆斯从边境找到一个小地方
He plans to wait until the dust from the starting horses settles.
他计划等到起跑马的尘埃落定
Then he’ll ride around the wagons.
然后他骑着马车走来走去。
Sergeant James was a Buffalo Soldier, one of the black soldiers who fought in the Indian Wars.
詹姆士中士是一名水牛战士,是参加过印度战争的黑人士兵之一.
It’s 1889 and that time’s done.
1889年,
The tribes are settled onto reservations, the land they were sent to live on.
部落定居在保留地上,他们被派去居住。
The problem is, there are a lot more boomers wanting the land that’s left than there is land to hand out.
问题在于, 更多的繁荣者想要剩下的土地,
Sergeant James sees a girl with wide eyes in a wagon and shakes his head.
詹姆士中士在马车上看到一个眼睛很宽的女孩并摇头.
Wagons aren’t made for racing, that’s for sure.
瓦贡不是赛车用的,
Ten minutes to go.
还有十分钟
That girl in the wagon is Lizzie.
车上那个女孩是丽兹
Her pa went into the Unassigned Territory last week and looked at 160 acres with water and trees.
她的爸爸上星期进入了未指定领土,并用水和树木查看了160英亩的土地。
The family lived in a sod house back in bone-dry Kansas.
一家人住在一个在干骨头的堪萨斯州的一栋小房子里
Now Lizzie is excited about having a log cabin.
现在丽兹对木屋很兴奋
Pa, sitting up front, says they can start building this afternoon.
爸爸,坐在前面,说下午可以开始建造
First, they have to race and stake a claim because the first one there gets the land.
首先,他们必须竞相争夺,因为第一个拥有土地的人得到土地。
Lizzie’s heart pounds, and she eyes the men on fast horses.
利兹的心跳很快 她看着男人骑上快马
Eight minutes to noon.
8分钟到中午
Joe is one of those men on a fine horse, and he’s not worried.
乔是骑好马的人之一,
He’s lived on this land for years and knows every tree and creek.
他在这片土地上生活了多年,
He leases grassland that still belongs to the Indians.
他租了仍然属于印第安人的草地.
It won’t be open to boomers—at least for now.
至少现在不会向繁荣者开放。
He watches a squirrel leap in a stand of twisted oak trees.
他看着松鼠在扭曲的橡树上跳跃
It’s a shame to see the wild land plowed up for crops.
野生地为农作物而开垦,
No barbed wire fences for him.
没有铁丝网给他。
He just wants a place for a house.
他只是想找个地方住
Joe pulls out his watch—six minutes to go—and leans forward in the saddle.
乔拔出他的手表——6分钟后走——并倒向马鞍上.
Nearby, Sam climbs down to check his horse’s hooves.
Sam爬下马蹄,
This land run doesn’t worry Sam, either.
这片地也不用担心Sam。
He’s roped wild cows, crossed flooded rivers, and driven off his share of cattle rustlers.
他把野牛绑了起来,
Sam’s a cowboy—he spends more time on his horse than on his own two feet.
Sam是个牛仔,
He went on his first cattle drive when he was twelve, and he’s a fine roper.
他12岁时第一次驾牛,
He didn’t mind months on the trail taking the cattle to market, but those days are over.
但那些日子已经结束。
With the railroads spread out everywhere, the cattle go to market on trains.
随着铁路的分道扬镳,牛上火车去上市.
Cowboys have a hard life, and Sam thinks it’s time to settle down.
牛仔生活很艰难,
He won’t be a farmer.
他不会成为农民。
He’s going to stake a claim in a new town near the railroad station and open a blacksmith shop.
他将在火车站附近的新镇上立案,
Sam hears the train whistle in the distance.
山姆在远处听到火车哨声.
Four minutes.
4分钟。
Daisy slips to the front car as the train rattles down the track.
Daisy滑到前车 火车在轨道上摇晃
Bankers and cooks hang out the doors and windows.
银行家和厨师挂出门窗.
They will leap out when the train slows and race to claim sites.
当列车减速,竞相要求场地时,它们会跳出.
Daisy has a different plan.
黛西有一个不同的计划。
She’s going to jump from the train, stake her claim for the school she wants to build there, then jump back on before the last car passes.
她会从火车上跳下去,
It’s a dangerous plan, but if she makes it, she’ll be the first to the land office.
但若她成功,
Three minutes.
三分钟
Lawman Bart Black is sitting easy on his lot near the train station.
Lawman Bart Black在火车站附近的地盘上坐得轻松
He helped lay out this soon-to-be town.
他帮助铺平了这个即将到来的城市.
Right now, it’s nothing but rows of stakes, but it’ll be a city of ten thousand people by tonight.
现在,这只不过是一行的赌注, 但到今晚它将会是一万人的城市。
The rules say that lawmen can’t claim land, but this is the Wild West.
但这是西部荒地。
Black fingers his six-shooter.
黑指他六枪.
He’s no worse than the sooners—those folks hiding in the woods ready to leap out and claim land.
他并不比越早越糟糕,
There’s the train whistle.
火车口哨声响起。
Two minutes.
两分钟
From a small hill, Chief Black Eagle spots a fawn hidden in the grass.
从一个小山上,黑鹰酋长发现一头躲入草地的鹿.
The government drove his tribe from their lands in the north.
政府把他的部落赶出了北方的土地.
Now, these hunting grounds will become farms and towns.
现在,这些狩猎地将成为农场和城镇.
He turns to go back to the reservation and his people.
他转而回到保留地和他的人民。
He hopes that the government keeps its promise not to take their land again.
他希望政府信守承诺,不再夺取他们的土地.
He hopes that the fawn survives.
他希望能活下来
High noon.
高午时.
The starting shot fires.
开始射击。
The land run is on.
地道已开.