核心提示：Nelson Mandela - a modern hero课文原文 Elias Story My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mand
Nelson Mandela - a modern hero课文原文
Elias’ Story
My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black lawyer to whom I went for advice. He offered guidance to poor black people on their legal problems. He was generous with his time, for which I was grateful.
I needed his help because I had very little education. I began school at six. The school where I studied for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to leave because my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or write well. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. However, this was a time when one had got to have a passbook to live in Johannesburg. Sadly I did not have it because I was not born there, and I worried about whether I would become out of work.
The day when Nelson Mandela helped me was one of my happiest. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I became more hopeful about my future. I never forgot how kind Mandela was. When he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could. He said:
“The last thirty years have seen the greatest number of laws stopping out rights and progress, until today we have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.”
It was the truth. Black people could not vote or choose their leaders. They could not get the jobs they wanted. The parts of town in which they had to live were decided by white people. The places outside the towns where they were sent to live were the poorest parts of South Africa. No one could grow food there. In fact as Nelson Mandela said:
“…we were put into a position in which we had either to accept we were less important or fight the government. We chose to attack the laws. We first broke the law in a way which was peaceful; when this was not allowed…only then did we decide to answer violence with violence.”
As a matter of fact, I do not like violence… but in 1963 I helped him blow up some government buildings. It was very dangerous because if I was caught I could be put in prison. But I was happy to help because I knew it would help us achieve our dream of making black and white people equal.
Nelson Mandela - a modern hero中文翻译
埃利亚斯的故事
我的名字叫埃利亚斯。我是南非的一个贫穷黑人工人。当我第一次见到纳尔逊·曼德拉时是在我一生中非常艰难的时期。那时我十二岁了。那是1952年，曼德拉是我去寻求帮助的黑人律师。他给穷苦的黑人们在合法权益问题上提供了指导。他十分慷慨大方，我很感激与他在一起的时间。
我需要他的帮助,因为我只受了很少的教育。我六岁开始上学。我曾经只就读过两年的学校有三公里远。我不得不辍学,因为我的家庭无法继续支付学费和车票。我不能读或写得很好。努力后,我在一座金矿得到了一份工作,。不过,这是一个住在约翰内斯堡的人都已经有一本存折的时期。非常遗憾的是我没有,因为我不是在那里出生的,而且我担心是否会因此失去工作。
纳尔逊·曼德拉的时候帮我是我最快乐的。他告诉我如何得到符合要求的证件能让我可以呆在约翰内斯堡。我变得对我的未来充满更多希望。我永远都不会忘记曼德拉有多好,当他创办了非国大青年团,我立马加入了。他说:
“过去30年来所出现的大量法律剥夺我们的权利,阻挡我们的进步,一直到今天已经到了这样一个阶段,即我们几乎没有权利。”
这是事实。黑人不能投票或选择他们的领导人。他们不能得到他们想要的工作。部分城镇里，他们能否继续居住还得由白人决定。他们被送去南非最贫困的城镇外的地区生活。在那里没有人能种植食物。事实上正如纳尔逊·曼德拉所说:
“…我们被放到了一个位置：在要么我们被迫接受我们不那么重要了,要么跟政府作斗争。我们选择去与法律对抗。我们用一种和平的方式第一次触犯了法律,即便这是不允许的...只有到时我们决定以暴力对抗暴力。”
事实上，我并不喜欢暴力...但是1963年，我帮助他炸毁了一些政府建筑。那是非常危险的，因为我一旦被抓住就会被关进监狱。但是我还是很乐意去做，因为我知道那样会帮助我们实现使黑人白人平等的梦想。
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