(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
It was up to them to crush the snake. She was no activist: her loves were genealogy and archaeology, pursued through university and now for her tribe. Her way was to invoke the past like a mantra, as she did when she quickly, firmly gave her real identity to any white interviewer: Tamakawastewin, “Her Good Earth Woman”, Sissintonwan Dakota from her mother, Oglala Lakota from her father.
得靠他们来击退这条蛇
Yet she also had land, and in April 2016 she set up the Sacred Stone camp at Standing Rock as a spiritual centre of protest. Only a few came at first; locals brought them coffee, firewood and sleeping bags. But a social-media appeal drew hundreds, then thousands, eventually in two camps, in tents and yurts and maple-pole tipis. The seven bands of the Sioux met there for the first time in 140 years.
而她也有自己的土地
The camps overflowed with horses, dogs, children, singing, story-telling and the smell of frybread. Tribal flags from almost every state lined either side of the route down to the pipeline site, where young men riding bareback would line up to block the road. She spread the word by travelling and speaking; the young spread it on their phones.
营地里挤满了马匹、犬只、孩童,歌声、讲故事的声音,炸面包的香气
In this deliberately leaderless gathering, she kept the focus sacred. The ancestors had put medicine into this ground. Now it had to be applied again, to heal the body of Mother Earth and especially to heal Water, their first medicine. Indigenous spiritual leaders from all over America, as well as beyond it, brought water from their own rivers to fortify the Cannonball against future leaks of oil. The protesters were “water protectors”, and their rallying cry was “Mni Wiconi”, “Water is Life.”
在这场有意不推举领袖的集会中,拉多娜始终保持主旨的神圣性
。祖先们曾将药物放进这片土地,现在得旧法新用,来疗愈地球母亲的身体,尤其是疗愈族人最重要的药物——水源 。全美乃至他国的原住民精神领袖纷纷带来自家河流收集的水,来为坎农博尔河抵御未来石油泄漏的“添砖加瓦” 。抗议者是“水之守护神”,他们的战斗口号是“Mni Wiconi”,意为“水即生命” 。译文由可可原创,仅供学习交流使用,未经许可请勿转载 。
重点讲解
1.set up 建立
The occupying forces set up a puppet government.
占领军建立了一个傀儡政府
。2.as well as 和...一样;也
He's got plenty of brains as well as brawn.
他四肢发达,头脑也不简单
。3.line up 排队...
Please line up one after another.
请按顺序排队
。