(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
It lasted the best part of a year. At first the Obama administration had allowed the pipeline, then paused it; the Trump administration, citing the national interest, ordered it to resume, but was found in violation of federal law.
这次的集会持续了大半年
Violence broke out as the pipeline company (which had not been stopped from operating) continued to dig towards the last remaining stretch, where her heart was. The leaderless movement began to fall apart.
当管道公司(公司并未被叫停运营)继续向最后剩余的一段开挖(也是拉多娜最揪心的区域)时,暴力事件爆发了
Meanwhile the tribal council of the Standing Rock Sioux, as well as the local police, became disenchanted with the camps, their mess, cost and trouble, and joined federal agencies to drive them out.
与此同时,立岩苏族部落议会和当地警察开始变得对营地丧失耐心,对营地造成的混乱、维持活动的费用和造成的麻烦大失所望,于是加入联邦机构一方,共同将他们驱逐出去
By March 2017 they were cleared, and through the miles of 30-inch light-green pipes the black snake oozed its way.
截至2017年3月,营地被清理干净
This looked like defeat, but not entirely. President Biden might yet shut this pipeline down, as he had cancelled KeystoneXL; the signs were hopeful. She had plans to build a new camp, fully self-sufficient, in the hills nearby.
这样的结局看似落败,但并非完全失败
Echoes of the old camp, too, still sounded. The names “Sacred Stone” and “Standing Rock” were now famous, and fresh prayers had been laid on the ground. In this corner of North Dakota, at least, her people were no longer erased from history.
旧营地往日的欢声笑语仍然在这片土地的上空回响
If you walked there, you could hear their resistance rather than their grief.
如果你走过那里,你将听到他们顽强的抵抗,而不是徒劳地悲伤
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重点讲解
1.fall apart 瓦解;分崩离析
Now 37, Jon is watching his second marriage fall apart.
现在37岁的乔恩正眼瞅着他的第二次婚姻走向失败
。2.rather than 而不是;宁可...也不愿
He needed a sounding board rather than thinking alone.
他需要一个参谋,而不是独自思考
。3.at least 至少
He's ancient—he must be at least fifty!
他老得很了—肯定至少有五十岁!