💬 高三英语课文
共 919 条英汉对照例句 · 第 12 页
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He had known that it was not safe to travel alone in the forest near the coast.
也听说过独自一人在海边的森林里走是不安全的。
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But why did white people want to catch Africans and put them in chains?
但是为什么白人要把非洲人抓起来，戴上镣铐呢？
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Would they be killed or even eaten?
他们会被杀死，甚至会被吃掉吗？
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The situation seemed hopeless and he knew his life was in danger.
这种情况看来是毫无希望了，他知道他有生命危险。
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Worse was to come.
更糟的事就要发生了。
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A few days later about 140 black people were taken and put on a tall sailing ship waiting off the coast.
几天以后，大约140名黑人被带到一艘停靠在海岸边的大帆船上。
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Once on the boat, they were taken bolow and their chains were fixed to two bars that ran the length of the ship.
一上船，他们就被带进底舱，他们的镣铐就被拴在两根从船的一头伸到另一头的铁杆上。
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Their feet were fixed to one bar and their hands to another bar.
他们的脚拴在一根铁杠上，他们的手拴在另外一根铁杆上。
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Thus they lay on hard wooden boards, unable to stand up or move around.
这样，他们就躺在硬木板上，既不能站立起来，也不能活动。
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The sea journey lasted over sixty days and nights.
海上航行持续了60多个昼夜。
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They had rough weather, and Kunta's back bled from rolling over on the hard wooden boards.
他们经历了恶劣的天气，孔塔的背部由于在硬木板上滚动而流了血。
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Many of the men fell sick with fever.
许多人因发烧而病倒。
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They sighed and cried out for more water, but food and water were only given out once a day.
他们叹息着，嚷着要水喝，而水和食物每天只发放一次。
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Once in a while sailors came down, Kunta thought, to carry sick men upstairs for treatment.
偶尔水手下来，孔塔猜想是把生病的人抬上去进行治疗。
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When the ship finally arrived in a port, the wooden cover was opened wide and Kunta could see in daylight for the first time across the part of the ship where he had been chained.
当船终于到达一个港口时，木盖打开了，孔塔这才第一次在日光下扫视了他被拴在那儿的那一部分船舱。
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About a third of the people who had been chained up below at the beginning of the journey were missing.
旅程开始时拴在下边的人大约有三分之一已经不见了。
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There is a journalist and writer living in America whose name is Alex Haley.
有一位住在美国的记者兼作家，名叫亚历克斯·哈利。
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In his youth, his father and grandfather often told him stories about their family history.
年轻时，他的父亲和祖父常常同他说起他们的家史。
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A long time ago, one of his ancestors who lived in Africa went into the forest to cut down a tree to make a drum.
很久以前，他那生活在非洲的祖先中有一人走进森林去砍树来做鼓。
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He was caught, put in chains, and sent to America as a slave.
他被抓住了，带上镣铐，送到美国当奴隶。
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On his arrival he was sold to a farmer and worked in the fields.
一到美国，他就被卖给了一个农场主，到地里干活。
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He tried to escape but was followed and caught.
他曾经试图逃跑，但是被人追上来抓住了。
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The farmer cut off part of his foot to make sure he could not run away again.
农场主把他的一只脚砍掉了一块，以确保他不能再逃跑。
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I want to find out more about my 'roots,' he said.
“我想要更多地探寻我的‘根’。”
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He did a lot of research and travelled around the USA looking for information about his ancestors.
他做了大量的研究，在美国跑了许多地方，了解有关祖先的情况。
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In this way he was able to find out where they lived, how many chidren they had, and where they died and were buried.
就这样，他了解到祖先的住处，有多少孩子，死在何处，葬在哪里。
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He collected tetters and made copies of people's diaries.
他收集到一些信件，复印了一些人的日记。
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But Haley was not satisfied.
但是哈利并不满足于这些。
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He did not know from which part of Africa his ancestor had come.
他不知道祖先来自非洲的什么地方。
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All he knew was that his African ancestor taught his son and grandson the words in his own language for river and guitar.
他所知道的只是非洲祖先用自己的语言教给儿孙们的“江”和“吉他”这两个词。