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中英文本
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican-American labour leader and civil rights activist. He was a farm worker who co-founded the biggest farm workers’ union in the USA and improved the working conditions of thousands of farm labourers. Many see him as one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders. More and more US states are honoring him by making his birthday a holiday.
凯萨·查维斯是墨西哥裔美国劳工领导人,同时也是一名民权人士
Chavez was born in Arizona in 1927 to farm worker parents. His childhood was very tough because of the poverty caused by the Great Depression. Chavez was a natural leader and in 1952 he became an administrator in the Latino civil rights group the Community Service Organization. He travelled throughout California urging Mexican Americans to vote and speaking about workers’ rights.
1927年,查维斯出生于美国亚利桑那州的农民工人家庭
In 1962, Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Dolores Huerta. His first success was to lead a California grape pickers strike for better wages. The strike lasted five years and attracted the attention of Robert Kennedy. The NFWA won its first major labour victory for American farm workers. Chavez moved on to campaign for the rights of other farm workers.
1962年,查维斯与洛雷斯·韦尔塔共同建立了国家农场工人协会(NFWA)
The NFWA developed into the United Farm Workers. Chavez led marches and encouraged farm workers across America to join together. He helped them strike and organize boycotts. In the 1980s he fasted to draw public attention to the dangerous use of pesticides. Chavez died in 1993 of natural causes. Ten years later, America honoured him with a postage stamp.
国家农场工人协会逐渐发展成了联合农业工人工会
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重点讲解
1. co-found 联合创立
例句:Mr. Li worked at Infoseek, one of Silicon Valley’s earliest search engine companies, before returning to China to co-found Baidu with a young biochemist.
李彦宏早先在硅谷最早的搜索引擎公司Infoseek工作,后来回国与一位年轻的生物化学学者共同创立了百度公司,并于2005年以27美元的股价在纳斯达克上市
。2.draw attention 引起关注
例句:No wonder amazing silhouette photographs draw attention of people on-line all over the world.
难怪这些 惊人的剪影照片 能够在网络上吸引到如此多的关注
。3.postage stamp 邮票
例句:I've seen students photocopy exams down to the size of a postage stamp.
我曾看到过学生将考试内容复印到,一张邮票大小的纸上
。4.urge to 激励
例句:Each time these events happened, almost without fail, I would smoke — either that, or I’d get the urge to do so.
每当这些事情发生,几乎是无一例外的,我就会开始抽烟,否则我就会有强烈的冲动
。