(单词翻译:单击)
With Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the nation doubled in size.
随着托马斯·杰斐逊在1803年收购路易斯安那州，这个国家的面积翻了一番。
In an attempt to find a water passage that linked the Atlantic with the Pacific, Jefferson sent Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark to explore the acquired land.
为了寻找一条连接大西洋和太平洋的水道，杰斐逊派梅里韦瑟·刘易斯上尉和威廉·克拉克中尉去探索这片被收购的土地。
From 1804 to 1806 these men led the Corps of Exploration to the Pacific Ocean and back, gaining geographic and scientific knowledge.
从1804年到1806年，这些人带领探险队往返于太平洋，获得了地理和科学知识。
However, without the help of Native American women, their journey likely would have ended early.
然而，如果没有美洲原住民妇女的帮助，她们的旅程很可能早就结束了。
The story of Sacagawea is fairly well known.
萨卡加维亚的故事是相当出名的。
The Shoshone woman was critical to the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, serving as an interpreter.
这位肖肖尼妇女是路易斯和克拉克探险队成功的关键，她是一名口译员。
Most famously, Sacagawea helped the corps find her people, the Shoshone.
最著名的是，萨卡加维亚帮助兵团找到了她的族人肖肖尼人。
By great coincidence, the Shoshone band found by Lewis and Clark was led by Sacagawea's brother Cameahwait, who provided the expedition with horses.
非常巧合的是，路易斯和克拉克发现的肖肖尼乐队是由萨卡加维亚的兄弟卡米阿韦特率领的，他为探险队提供了马匹。
These horses would be crucial for the journey to come.
这些马对于即将到来的旅程将是至关重要的。
Perhaps a lesser-known story is about Watkuweis, a respected elder of the Nez Percé people.
也许有一个鲜为人知的故事是关于沃库韦斯的，他是内兹·佩尔塞人中一位受人尊敬的长辈。
The expedition's crossing of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains left them starved, exhausted, and frozen.
探险队穿越落基山脉的比特鲁特山脉，使他们饥肠辘辘，筋疲力尽，冻僵了。
When they stumbled onto the Weippe Prairie, homeland of the Nez Percé, the Nez Percé considered killing the travelers because the expedition had brought with them not only trade goods but also firearms and ammunition.
当他们偶然发现尼兹·佩尔塞的故乡威普草原时，内兹·佩尔塞人曾考虑杀死旅行者，因为探险队不仅带来了贸易货物，还带来了枪支弹药。
Nevertheless, Watkuweis intervened.
尽管如此，沃库韦斯还是介入了。
The legend goes that Watkuweis at a young age had been kidnapped and taken to Canada, where she was forced into enslavement.
传说沃库韦斯在很小的时候就被绑架并带到加拿大，在那里她被迫成为奴隶。
After several years, she gave birth and wanted to return home.
几年后，她生下了孩子，想回家。
With the help of white men who gave her a horse and food, she self-emancipated and returned to her home.
在白人男子的帮助下，他们给了她一匹马和食物，她解放了自己，回到了家。
Because of the kindness that a few white people had shown her, Watkuweis was determined to keep the members of the Corps of Discovery alive.
由于少数白人对她的好意，沃库韦斯决心让探索军团的成员们活着。
The Nez Percé listened to her, providing their hospitality to the exhausted group.
内兹·佩尔塞人听了她的话，向疲惫的一群人提供了热情款待。
Without the kindness of women like Sacagawea and Watkuweis, there was little chance that Lewis and Clark's expedition would have been completed.
如果没有像萨卡加维亚和沃库维斯这样的女性的善意，路易斯和克拉克的探险几乎不可能完成。
Their kindness would not be returned.
他们的好意不会得到回报。
Lewis and Clark's journey helped lay the groundwork for the United States government's violent removal of Native Americans from their homeland as the nation expanded west.
路易斯和克拉克的旅程为美国政府在国家向西扩张时暴力驱逐美洲原住民奠定了基础。
