Underground Railroad
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Born a Slave Long before Harriet Tubman was born, her great-grandmother was taken from her home in Africa.
在哈丽特·塔布曼出世前出生了很长的奴隶,她的曾祖母被从她在非洲的家中带走.
The kidnappers packed Harriet’s great-grandmother into a small wooden ship with hundreds of other Africans and sent her to the United States.
绑匪将哈丽特的曾祖母和数百名其他非洲人一起装入一艘小木船并送往美国.
Once she arrived, she was sold to the owner of a large farm called a plantation.
她一到,就被卖给一个叫种植园的大农场的业主。
She became a slave.
她成了奴隶
Slaves were sold at humiliating auctions.
奴隶在羞辱性拍卖时被出售。
Harriet’s great-grandmother was the human property of a man she called her master.
哈丽特的曾祖母是她所称主人的人产.
All of her children and grandchildren were slaves, too.
她的子孙都是奴隶
The slaves were forced to do hard labor and were punished cruelly at times.
奴隶们被迫做苦活,有时还受到残酷的惩罚.
They received no pay, only meager food and housing that was no better than that of farm animals.
他们没有工资,只有微薄的食物和住房没有比农场动物好。
Many of them were never taught to read and write.
其中许多人从未被教过读写.
Slaves had no freedom to go where they wanted, and sometimes they were not allowed to marry or raise their own children.
奴隶没有自由去他们想去的地方,有时不允许他们结婚或抚养自己的孩子.
Members of slave families could also be sold to different masters, breaking up the family.
奴隶家庭的成员也可以被卖给不同的主人,使家庭解体.
Harriet’s entire family was forced to work without pay.
Harriet全家被迫无偿工作.
Harriet was born as a slave around 1820.
哈丽特生于1820年左右为奴隶.
Like all slave children, she could not run and play; she worked all the time.
像所有奴隶儿童一样,她不能跑去玩;她一直在工作。
Harriet was a hard worker, but when she did not obey her owner, she was whipped cruelly.
哈丽特是一个艰苦的工人,但当她不服从她主人时,她被残酷地鞭打.
When she saw her owner sell two of her sisters, Harriet was terrified that she would also be sold and have to leave her family.
当她看到主人卖出她的两个姐妹时,哈丽特害怕她也会被卖出,不得不离开她的家人.
Dreams of Escape When she was a young girl, Harriet tried to help an escaping slave.
逃避的梦想 年轻时,哈丽特试图帮助一个出逃的奴隶.
The slave’s master threw a metal weight at her, and it struck her in the head.
奴隶的主人朝她扔了个金属重量,击中了她的头部。
Harriet almost died from the wound on her forehead.
哈丽特几乎死于她额头上的伤口.
For the rest of her life, she had headaches and sleeping spells because of her injury.
后半生因伤而头痛发作并发作"入睡咒".
The weight left Harriet with a large scar on her head.
重量给Harriet留下了巨大的头部伤疤.
Harriet’s life was harsh, but she had dreams.
Harriet的生活很艰难,
People called abolitionists, who were against slavery, had begun to speak out against the injustice of owning other human beings.
人们称之为废奴主义者,他们反对奴隶制,他们已开始大声疾呼,反对拥有其他人类的不公正。
Some abolitionists helped slaves escape to northern states or to Canada, where slavery was illegal.
一些废奴主义者帮助奴隶逃到北方各州或加拿大,那里的奴隶制是非法的.
Harriet dreamed of living as a free woman in the North.
哈丽特梦想着以自由女性的身份在北方生活.
Slaves went to great lengths to escape to freedom.
奴隶们为了逃到自由中去了
Some shipped themselves north in boxes.
有些人用箱子运去北方。
One man, Henry “Box” Brown, nearly died during his escape when the box he was in was turned upside down for hours.
一名名叫Henry “Box” Brown的人在逃跑时差点死亡,当时他的箱子被颠倒了几个小时。
Henry made it to Philadelphia, and freedom, after twenty-six hours in his box.
亨利到了费城, 和自由, 在26小时后在他的盒子。
One light-skinned slave woman, Ellen Craft, disguised herself as a white man accompanied by a slave.
一个浅皮的奴隶妇女埃伦·克拉夫特(英语:Ellen Craft (film))将自己伪装成有奴隶陪伴的白人.
The slave was actually her husband, William Craft.
奴隶实际上是她的丈夫威廉·克拉夫特.
The Crafts traveled by train and steamship, and reached Philadelphia on December 25, 1848.
克拉夫特夫妇乘坐火车和蒸汽船出行,于1848年12月25日抵达费城.
The Crafts were one of many families that used clever disguises to escape.
克拉夫特家族是许多使用巧妙伪装来逃跑的家庭之一.
When Harriet started planning her own escape, she wanted her husband, a free slave, to join her.
当哈丽特开始计划自己的出逃时,她想让自由的奴隶她的丈夫加入她.
He refused, mocking her for wanting to leave, and threatened to report her to her master.
他拒绝,嘲笑她想离开,并威胁要向她主人报告。
But Harriet was determined to become a free woman.
但哈丽特决心成为自由女性.
One day, Harriet’s owner died.
有一天,Harriet的主人去世了。
Harriet knew the slaves would be sold; it was time to go.
Harriet知道奴隶会被卖掉 现在该走了
Harriet and two of her brothers ran away, but soon after they left, the brothers gave up, forcing Harriet to return with them.
哈丽特和她的两个兄弟逃跑了,但是他们离开后不久,兄弟们就放弃了,迫使哈丽特和他们一起返回.
If Harriet had continued, her brothers may have been tortured into revealing where she was going.
如果Harriet继续,她的兄弟们可能遭受了酷刑,以揭示她要去的地方。
Two nights later, Harriet escaped alone.
两晚后,哈丽特独自逃脱.
She went to the home of an abolitionist woman who had offered help.
她去了一位提出过帮助的废奴主义妇女的家。
The woman fed Harriet and let her sleep, and then she directed Harriet to the next safe place.
那个女人喂了哈丽特并让她睡觉,然后她把哈丽特带到了下一个安全的地方.
When Harriet reached that house, the people there directed Harriet to her next stop.
当Harriet到达那所房子时,那里的人们引导Harriet到她下一站.
This secret network of safe homes was called the Underground Railroad.
这个秘密的安全之家网络被称为"地下铁道".
To escape, Harriet walked 100 miles (160 km), alone, through unknown land.
为了逃跑,哈丽特独自行走了100英里(160公里),穿过了未知的土地.
She traveled at night and hid during the day.
她夜间出行并白天躲藏.
Finally, she arrived at the border of Pennsylvania, a state where slavery was illegal.
最后她到达了宾夕法尼亚州边境,一个奴隶制是非法的州.
Harriet was free!
哈丽特是自由的!
Abolitionists’ help allowed Harriet to escape north.
废奴主义者的帮助让哈丽特逃出北境.
Leading Others to Freedom When Harriet reached freedom, she was overjoyed.
当哈丽特获得自由时,带领他人走向自由,她太高兴了.
“There was such a glory over everything,” she said when she remembered that day.
她回忆起那天时说,“万事皆有如此荣耀。”
“The sun come like gold through the trees.”
“太阳像金子从树上走来。 “
Harriet went to work.
哈丽特去上班了
She cooked, washed dishes, and cleaned people’s houses.
她煮了饭,洗了盘子,清理了人们的房子。
Now that she was free, people actually paid her to work for them.
现在她已经自由了 人们付她钱帮他们工作
But Harriet was not content to sit back and enjoy her freedom—she saved the money she earned so that she could help free others.
但哈丽特并不满足于坐后享受自由——她省下她挣来的钱,以便她能帮助别人解脱.
Even in the north, African-Americans were paid little.
即使在北方,非裔美国人的工资也很少.
Harriet made nineteen perilous trips back to the South, ignoring her own danger in order to become a conductor of the Underground Railroad.
哈丽特为成为"地下铁道"的指挥者,19次冒险地回到了南方,忽略了自己的危险.
She guided escaping slaves from one safe resting place to another.
她引导奴隶从一个安全休息的地方逃到另一个地方。
A “station” on the Underground Railroad was usually an abolitionist’s home, or sometimes it was a church or another safe resting place.
地下铁路上的 " 站 " 通常是废奴主义者的家,有时是教堂或另一个安全休息地。
Some of the “stations” had secret rooms to hide the escaping slaves.
一些“站”设有秘密房间来藏匿逃跑的奴隶。
Sometimes the slaves rode from place to place hidden under false bottoms in conductor’s carts.
有时奴隶们会从地上骑去,
Harriet guided escaping slaves to safe houses.
哈丽特引导奴隶逃到安全屋
In 1850, the United States passed the Fugitive Slave Act, which made it a law that the Northern states had to return any escaped slaves to their owners.
1850年,美国通过了"逃亡奴隶法",该法使其成为北方各州不得不将任何逃出奴隶还给主人的法律.
Now Harriet had to conduct her passengers all the way to Canada to find freedom.
现在哈丽特不得不带领她的乘客一路前往加拿大寻找自由.
After the Fugitive Slave Act, Canada was the closest free place.
在"逃亡奴隶法"颁布后,加拿大是最接近的自由地.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
People working in the Underground Railroad used code words: • Freight meant escaping slaves.
在地下铁路工作的人使用代码: • 运费意味着逃离奴隶.
other places to stay.
其他地方待在这里。
helping the slaves escape.
帮助奴隶逃脱。
to freedom.
对自由。
How She Did It Many called Harriet a “master of disguise.”
她如何做了它许多人称哈丽特为"伪装大师". “
Sometimes she dressed as an old woman, and sometimes she disguised herself as a man.
有时她会打扮成一个老妇人,有时会伪装成一个男人.
It is said that one day, she met one of her former owners, and he didn’t recognize her!
据说有一天,她遇见了她的一位前主人,而他却不认识她!
Harriet was clever in other ways.
哈丽特在其他方面都很聪明
She hired men to rip down wanted posters that described runaway slaves.
她雇了男人来撕掉想要的海报 上面写着逃跑的奴隶
Runaway notices, which were printed in the newspaper, weren’t put in newspapers on weekends—they had to wait until Monday morning.
他们不得不等到星期一早上。
Harriet began escapes on Saturday nights in order to have a head start.
哈丽特开始在周六晚上出逃,以便有一个开始。
Harriet often disguised herself as a man.
哈丽特经常伪装成一个男人.
If Harriet saw people she thought were slave hunters, she’d turn and go south, to make it look as though she was not trying to escape.
她会转身去南方,
If the escaping slaves wanted to turn back, she forced them to keep moving north to freedom.
如果出逃的奴隶想回心转意,她强迫他们继续向北向自由前进.
She boasted that she never lost a passenger.
她吹嘘她从未失去过乘客。
Slave owners were furious, and they offered a reward for Harriet’s capture, dead or alive.
奴隶所有者愤怒,他们为被哈里特活活活活活活地俘虏提供了奖励。
The reward was $40,000—an enormous amount of money for those days.
这些天的奖金是40 000美元,是一大笔钱。
One day, Harriet overheard a man reading her own wanted poster, which described Harriet as not being able to read.
一天,哈丽特无意中听到一个人在读她自己的通缉海报,这描述了哈丽特无法阅读.
She immediately pulled out a book and pretended to read it, and the man left without giving her a second look.
她立刻取出一本书来假装读了,那人走了,没有给她第二次看.
Even with the reward, no one turned Harriet in.
即便得到奖赏 没人会告发哈丽特
Harriet helped many of her own relatives out of the South.
哈丽特帮助了她自己的许多亲戚离开南方.
Thanks to Harriet, six of her ten brothers and sisters escaped.
多亏了哈丽特,她十个兄弟姐妹中有六个逃脱了.
On one difficult journey, she brought her elderly parents north to Canada.
在一次艰难的旅程中,她把年长的父母带到了北上加拿大.
Harriet led about three hundred slaves north to freedom.
哈丽特带领约300名奴隶向北走向自由.
Nothing was more important to her than helping others become free.
没有什么比帮助别人获得自由更重要的了。
One famous abolitionist, John Brown, called Harriet Tubman “one of the bravest persons on this continent.”
一个著名的废奴主义者约翰·布朗称哈丽特·塔布曼为“本大陆最勇敢的人之一”。 “
People called Harriet the “Moses of her people,” because like Moses of the Bible, she led her people to freedom.
人们打电话 哈丽特是“她的人民中的穆萨”,因为她像圣经中的摩西一样,带领她的人民走向自由。
This is one of many memorials honoring Harriet Tubman.
这是许多纪念哈里特·塔布曼的纪念地之一.
The End of Slavery On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began.
1861年4月12日,内战开始.
The North and South fought each other over the right to own slaves.
南北相争取奴婢之权.
During the war, Harriet worked as a nurse for the North’s Union Army.
战争期间,哈丽特出任北方联盟军的护士.
She was also a spy, scouting out the Southern army’s weapon warehouses, and she continued to travel into the South to lead slaves north.
她也是一名间谍,侦察出南方军队的武器仓库,她继续出行到南方去带领奴隶北上.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
How many slaves escaped to freedom via the Underground Railroad?
有多少奴隶通过地下铁路逃出自由?.
No one knows.
没有人知道。
While it’s true that many reached the North and became free, some did not.
虽然许多人到达北方并获得自由,
Many escaping slaves were discovered, captured, and returned to their masters.
许多出逃的奴隶被发现,被俘虏并被送回主人.
Others died while trying to flee.
另一些人在试图逃离时死亡。
The exact number of Underground Railroad successes is unknown because secrecy was so terribly important.
地下铁路成功的确切数量是未知的,因为保密非常重要。
Harriet led Union soldiers to arms and ammunition stores.
哈丽特带领联盟士兵去武器弹药库.
Glossary abolitionists (n.)
废除死刑者(不详)
people who fought to make slavery illegal (p.
为奴隶制非法而战的人(p.
8) meager (adj.)
8）贫乏的（形容词）
very little (p.
很少(第5页)
5) mocking (v.)
5)取笑(五.
making fun of by imitating (p.
通过模仿取笑(p.
10) perilous (adj.)
10)危险(adj.
filled with danger (p.
充满了危险(p.
13) plantation (n.)
13) 种植园(n.
a large farm owned by a wealthy person or family where the work is done by others (p.
由富人或家庭拥有的大型农场,工作由他人完成(p.
4) Underground the system of houses and other Railroad (n.)
4) 地下房屋和其他铁路系统 (n.
safe places that provided a way for slaves to escape north to freedom (p.
安全的地方,为奴隶们提供了从北方逃出自由的途径(p.
11) Index abolitionists, 8, 11, 13, 17 Civil War, 18, 19 Ellen and William Craft, 9 Fugitive Slave Act, 14 Henry “Box” Brown, 8 master, 5, 7, 10, 18 plantation, 4 Underground Railroad, 11, 13, 14, 18 When the Civil War ended in 1865, slavery became illegal in the United States.
11)索引废奴主义者,8,11,13,17 内战,18,19 埃伦和威廉·克拉夫特,9 逃亡奴隶法案,14 Henry “Box” Brown,8 Master,5,7,10,18 种植园,4 地下铁道,11,13,14,18 内战于1865年结束后,奴隶制在美国成为非法.
Harriet remarried and lived in Auburn, New York.
哈丽特再婚后住在纽约奥本.
She sold vegetables door-to-door.
她卖蔬菜门到门。
Harriet was very poor, yet she turned her own house into a home for needy freed people.
Harriet非常穷 但是她把自己的房子变成了一个有需要的解放者的家
She worked for aid and education for freed slaves.
她为获得解放的奴隶提供援助和教育。
Harriet also fought for the right of women to vote.
哈丽特也为争取妇女的选举权而战.
Harriet Tubman died March 10, 1913.
哈丽特·塔布曼于1913年3月10日去世.
She devoted her long life to freedom.
她将她漫长的一生献给自由。
She will always be remembered as a true hero.
她将永远被铭记为一个真正的英雄。
The Harriet Tubman Home housed elderly freed slaves.
哈丽特·塔布曼 家中住有老年解放奴隶。