and the Vote
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents “I Have Been and Gone and Done It!”
内容表“我曾经、过去和完成过!”
4 A Restricted Right.
4 受限制的权利。
5 The Women’s Rights Movement Begins.
5 妇女权利运动开始。
9 Anything for the Cause.
页:1 任何为事业。
12 Glossary.
12 词汇表。
16 “I Have Been and Gone and Done It!”
16 “我经历过,走了,也完成了!”
As soon as voting began for the 1872 national election, Susan B.
1872年全国大选开始投票后,苏珊·B.
Anthony was ready in Rochester, New York, eager to vote.
安东尼在纽约的罗切斯特准备投票.
She took a ballot, marked it with her choice for president, folded it, and put it in the ballot box.
她进行了投票,在选票上标出她选择的总统,折叠后放入选票箱.
Anthony went home and wrote to her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “I have been and gone and done it!”
安东尼回家后写信给她的朋友伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿(Elizabeth Cady Stanton),“我过去和现在都做了!”
According to the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Anthony was a U.
根据"美国宪法第十四修正案",安东尼是一名U.
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citizen with rights.
拥有权利的公民。
However, the Fourteenth Amendment also stated that only men could vote.
然而,第十四修正案也声明只有男性才能投票.
It was against the law for a woman to vote.
妇女投票是违法的。
Two weeks later, Anthony was arrested.
两周后 安东尼被捕了
Wyoming (1890) Washington (1910) Montana (1914) Michigan (1918) New York (1917) Oklahoma (1918) Kansas (1912) South Dakota (1918) Colorado (1893) Utah (1896) Arizona (1912) California (1911) Nevada (1914) Oregon (1912) Idaho (1896) Where Women Could Vote Before 1920 MEXICO UNITED STATES CANADA GULF OF MEXICO ATLANTIC OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN Prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the right of women to vote in the United States was decided at the state level.
怀俄明州(1890年) 华盛顿(1910年) 蒙大拿州(1914年) 密歇根州(1918年) 纽约(1917年) 俄克拉荷马州(1918年) 堪萨斯州(1912年) 南达科他州(1918年) 科罗拉多州(1893年) 犹他州(1896年) 亚利桑那州(1912年) 加利福尼亚州(1911年) 内华达州(1914年) 俄勒冈州(1912年) 爱达荷州(1896年) 在那里妇女可以在1920年前投票 墨西哥州(CANADA GULF OF MESICO ATLANTICEAN OCCIAN 在"第十九修正案"通过之前,美国妇女的选举权是在州一级决定的.
Some states gave women full voting rights prior to 1920.
一些州在1920年以前给予妇女充分的投票权.
Susan Brownell Anthony near the time she broke the law by voting.
苏珊·布朗内尔 安东尼在她投票触犯法律的时候很近.
Her weekly newspaper, The Revolution, had this motto: “Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less.”
她的"革命"周报有这个口号:“男人的权利,没有别的;妇女的权利,没有别的。 “
A Restricted Right When the U.
U时限制的权利。
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Constitution was adopted in 1787, it did not address voting rights.
宪法于1787年通过,没有涉及表决权.
That was left up to the individual states.
这由各州自己决定。
By 1807, every state’s laws said that only free, white men could vote.
到1807年,每个州的法律都说只有自由的白人才能投票.
However, a time of great change was coming.
然而,一个大变革的时代即将到来。
Until the 1820s, most married women did not work outside their homes.
直到1820年代,大多数已婚妇女都不在外出工作.
They raised their children and took care of their houses while their husbands went out to earn money.
他们在丈夫出门赚钱时抚养孩子并照顾好自己的房子.
Most unmarried women, if they worked at all, worked as teachers, seamstresses, nannies, or housekeepers.
大多数未婚妇女,如果她们工作的话,担任教师、缝纫工、保姆或管家。
By the 1820s, machines allowed goods to be produced quickly and cheaply.
到1820年代,机器允许快速而廉价地生产出商品.
More factories and mills opened every year, offering low-paying jobs that many men didn’t want.
提供许多男人不希望的低薪工作。
Women began to work at these jobs.
妇女开始在这些工作中工作。
Some women enjoyed being able to contribute not only to their family income but also to the larger world.
一些妇女不仅能够为家庭收入作出贡献,而且能够为更大的世界作出贡献。
In the 1830s, women started to lend their voices to several causes, including the growing movement to end slavery in the United States.
1830年代,妇女开始对几个原因发出自己的声音,包括美国越来越多的结束奴隶制的运动.
Women wrote to newspapers and made speeches in support of freeing all the slaves.
妇女写信给报纸并发表演说,支持解放出所有奴隶.
However, women were often barred from speaking to audiences that included men.
然而,妇女往往被禁止与包括男子在内的听众交谈。
Under the laws in the early 1800s, a married woman owned nothing of her own—not even the clothes on her back.
根据1800年代初期的法律,已婚妇女没有自己的财产,连背上的衣服也没有。
Divorce was often impossible.
离婚往往是不可能的。
If a couple did separate, the woman did not get custody of her children.
如果一对夫妇分居,该妇女就得不到对子女的监护权。
They stayed with their father.
他们和父亲在一起
Men and Women: A Deep Divide John Adams was on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence for the United States.
男人和女人:深刻的鸿沟 约翰 亚当斯曾参加起草"美国独立宣言"的委员会.
He later became the new country’s first vice president and its second president.
他后来成为了新国家的第一副总统和第二任总统.
For fifty-four years, he and his wife, Abigail, had a very close relationship.
五十四年来,他和妻子阿比盖尔关系非常密切.
He trusted her with their business affairs whenever he was away from home.
当他离家出走时 他信任她处理他们的事务
However, even he did not believe in women having the right to vote.
然而,即使他也不相信妇女有选举权。
Abigail felt differently.
阿比盖尔感觉不同
In a 1776 letter to John, she warned him that someday women would rebel against having to follow laws they had no voice in making.
在1776年给约翰的一封信中,她警告他,有一天,妇女会反抗不得不遵守她们没有发言权的法律.
In 1840, at an anti-slavery convention in London, England, Lucretia Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1840年,在英国伦敦举行的反奴隶制大会上,卢克丽霞·莫特遇到了伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿.
Mott had been part of the anti- slavery movement and was looking forward to speaking at the convention.
莫特曾经是反奴隶制运动的一部分,并期待着在公约上发言。
Stanton was so passionate about equal rights for all people that she and her husband attended the convention while on their honeymoon!
斯坦顿如此热衷于所有人的平等权利,以至于她和她的丈夫在蜜月时出席了大会!
To the great dismay of both women, they were not allowed to speak because men were present at the convention.
令两位妇女深感失望的是,由于男子出席大会,她们被禁止发言。
They had to sit behind a curtain with other women and listen as men gave all the speeches.
他们不得不与其他女人坐在窗帘后,并听从男子的所有演讲。
They decided to put together a convention for women’s rights.
他们决定制定一项妇女权利公约。
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Lucretia Mott (center) faced an angry mob of men in 1838 when she spoke out against slavery.
1838年,伊丽莎白·卡迪·斯坦顿·卢克丽霞·莫特·卢克丽霞·莫特(英语:Center)在她大声疾呼反对奴隶制时,面对一群愤怒的男子.
She would soon become a hero of the movement for women’s rights.
她很快将成为争取妇女权利运动的英雄。
The Women’s Rights Movement Begins It took eight years for Stanton, Mott, and others to organize the first Women’s Rights Convention, but finally, in July of 1848, it took place in Seneca Falls, New York.
妇女权利运动 斯坦顿,莫特等人花了八年时间组织了第一次"妇女权利公约",但最终于1848年7月在纽约塞内卡瀑布举行.
The meeting place was packed with three hundred delegates, including forty men.
会议地点布满了300名代表,其中包括40名男子。
Stanton read from a document she had written that was based on the Declaration of Independence.
Stanton从她根据《独立宣言》编写的一份文件中读出。
It stated “all men and women are created equal” and included a list of injustices that women suffered.
它指出,“所有男女都是平等的”,并列出了妇女遭受的不公正待遇。
One hundred delegates signed the declaration.
一百名代表签署宣言.
They also gave their support to women’s suffrage—the right to vote.
他们还支持妇女的选举权。
The Seneca Falls Convention marked the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
《塞内卡瀑布公约》标志着美国妇女权利运动的开始。
The movement grew and succeeded in bringing about some important changes.
该运动发展壮大并成功带来了一些重要的变化.
In 1860, many of the marriage laws changed.
1860年,许多婚姻法被修改.
A woman now had the same legal rights to her children as her husband.
妇女现在与丈夫一样对子女享有同样的法律权利。
She could also own things and keep any money she earned.
她也可以拥有所有的东西 保留她赚来的任何钱
However, she still couldn’t vote.
她仍无法投票。
In 1861, the Civil War began, and Northern states battled Southern states, in large part over the question of slavery.
1861年,南北战争开始,北方各州争相攻打南方各州,大都是为了奴隶制问题.
Many people in the Northern states wanted to end it, while many in the Southern states did not.
北方各州的许多人想结束这一切,而南方各州的许多人则没有结束.
The war ended in 1865 with a Northern victory, and an amendment was added to the U.
1865年战争以北方取胜而告终,吴国也增加了修正案.
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Constitution.
宪法。
It was the Thirteenth Amendment, which ended slavery.
是第十三修正案结束了奴隶制。
In 1867, Congress voted to add the Fourteenth Amendment.
1867年,国会投票决定增加第十四修正案.
It stated that everyone born in the United States was a citizen with rights, but it also said that only men could vote.
它说,在美国出生的每个人都是拥有权利的公民,但也说只有男子才能投票。
Women refused to accept this.
妇女拒绝接受这一点。
In 1867, suffragists Susan B.
1867年,窒息主义者苏珊·B.
Anthony and Lucy Stone formed the Equal Rights Association (ERA), the first large-scale organization for women’s suffrage.
安东尼和露西·斯通组成了平等权利协会(ERA),这是第一个大规模的妇女选举权组织.
According to the Constitution, women’s suffrage could still only be granted at the state level, so the ERA tried to get each state to change its voting laws.
根据《宪法》,妇女选举权仍然只能在州一级获得,因此,ERA试图让每个州修改其投票法。
In 1869, members of Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment, which stated that a citizen could not be denied the right to vote based on race.
1869年,国会议员提出了"第十五修正案",该修正案称不得以种族为由剥夺公民的选举权.
Anthony, Stanton, and others wanted to change the Fifteenth Amendment to include gender as well as race.
安东尼,斯坦顿等人想修改第十五修正案,将性别和种族也包括在内.
They now believed that women’s suffrage needed to be granted at the national level and refused to support the Fifteenth Amendment if it did not include women.
他们现在认为,需要在国家一级授予妇女选举权,如果第十五修正案不包括妇女,则拒绝支持该修正案。
However, Lucy Stone and some other ERA members did support the amendment.
然而,露西·斯通(Lucy Stone)和其他一些ERA成员确实支持该修正案.
In 1869, the ERA split into two new organizations.
1869年,ERA分裂为两个新的组织.
Anthony and others formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association.
Anthony等组建了"全国妇女滋养协会".
They worked for women’s suffrage to be granted at the national level.
他们致力于在国家一级授予妇女选举权。
Lucy Stone and others formed the American Women’s Suffrage Association.
露西·斯通等组建了"美国妇女滋养协会".
They continued to work for women’s suffrage at the state level.
他们继续在州一级为妇女选举工作。
In 1870, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment.
1870年,国会通过了"第十五修正案".
It did not grant suffrage to women.
它没有赋予妇女选举权。
In 1890, hoping they might accomplish more if they worked together, the two women’s suffrage groups joined together to become the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
1890年,两个妇女选举团体联合起来成为美国全国妇女团结协会(NAWSA),希望它们能共同取得更大的成就。
Anything for the Cause In 1872, Anthony voted for president.
1872年,安东尼投票支持总统。
She believed that doing so was within her rights as a U.
她相信这样做是她作为U的权利。
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citizen as stated in the Fourteenth Amendment.
根据第十四修正案的规定,
According to Anthony, the part of the Amendment that stated only men could vote was unjust, or unfair, and needed to change.
安东尼认为,修正案中只有男性才能投票的部分是不公正的,或者不公平的,需要改变.
She hoped that by voting, she would call attention to the law, and more women would demand that it be changed.
她希望,通过投票,她将提请人们注意法律,更多的妇女将要求修改法律。
Anthony was arrested and brought to trial.
安东尼被拘捕并交付审判.
The newspapers covered the entire story.
报纸报道了整个故事.
Anthony gained attention, and her actions helped the suffragist movement gain new support.
安东尼赢得了关注,她的行动帮助了窒息主义运动获得了新的支持.
Her case and the tireless work of other suffragists kept women’s suffrage in the news.
她的案件和其他窒息主义者的不懈工作使女性的选举权一直传入新闻。
However, Anthony and her fellow suffragists would all pass away without seeing women’s suffrage come to the United States.
然而,安东尼和她的同伴窒息者都会在不看到女性选举权来到美国的情况下死去.