Unit 20 Gandhi

This experience was to change his life.

這一經歷后來改變了他的生活。

Unit 20 Gandhi

At this period Indians living in South Africa were badly treated by South African whites, and very few of them had the right to vote.

在那一時期，居住在南非的印度人受到南非白人的虐待，他們當中有選舉權的寥寥無幾。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi was thrown off a train and later a mail bus for insisting on travelling in the whites-only section.

旅行時，甘地因為堅持要坐白人座位，曾經先后兩次被從一列火車與一輛郵車里扔出來。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He was so shocked by this lack of equality and fairness that he formed an organization leading the Indians' struggle for equal rights.

不平等與不公正使他如此震驚，他因此創辦了一個領導印度人為爭取平等權利而斗爭的組織。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He quickly became the leader.

他很快就成了領袖。

Unit 20 Gandhi

For twenty years Gandhi played an important role in working for equal rights for Indians.

二十多年間，甘地在為印度人民爭取平等權利的奮頭中發揮了很重要的作用。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He wrote about socialism in newspapers and started a magazine called Indian Opinion.

他在報紙上撰文報導社會主義并且創辦了一份叫做《印度之聲》的雜志。

Unit 20 Gandhi

When he returned to India he spoke in public about the situation in South Africa.

當他加到印度之后，他還就南非的形勢公開發表演說。

Unit 20 Gandhi

South Africa passed further laws designed to make life difficult for non-whites.

而南非則通過了更多的法令，企圖給非白種人的生活造成困難。

Unit 20 Gandhi

All the Indins over the age of 8 had to carry their permits at all times.

所有8歲以上的印度人無論什么時候都得攜帶許可證。

Unit 20 Gandhi

The Indians declared that this Pass Law was unfair. Some of them publicly burnt their permits and many of them were put in prison.

印度人宣稱，這個通行證法領"是不公平的，他們當中一些人公開把自己的許可證燒毀了，很多人也因此而被關進監獄。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Other Indians were killed when police officers fiercely attacked their political marches.

警察官員們猛烈攻擊印度人的政治游行時，另一些印度人被殺害。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Finally, as a result of the unrest among the Indian population, the leader of South Africa had to give in.

但由于印度居民中的這一場騷亂，最終，南非首腦不得不屈服。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi won his first non-violent struggle against racial discrimination.

甘地贏得了第一次反種族歧視的非暴力斗爭的勝利。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and was honoured as a hero.

甘地于1915年回到印度時，被推崇為英雄。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Over the next thirty-two years he fought for human rights and the rights of workers who were badly treated by their employers.

在后來的32年多的時間里，他一直為爭取人權及那些受雇主虐待的工人們的權利而斗爭。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Finally, he demanded an end to the British rule over India and independence for his country.

最后，他要求結束英國對印度的統治，為他的祖國爭取獨立。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Because of his revolutionary views, he spent many years in prison.

由于他的革命觀點，他在監獄里度過了許多年。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He had a gift for thinking up ways of making political points.

他有一種天賦，能想出很多辦法闡明其政治觀點。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He encouraged Indians to start making their own cotton cloth and to refuse to buy cloth made in England.

他鼓勵印度人民自己著手紡紗織布，并拒絕購買英國紡織的棉布。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Thousands joined him when he led a march to the coast, with the purpose of making a little salt when he reached the sea.

為了生產一點鹽，他帶領游行隊伍向海濱前進，當他們到達海濱時，成千上萬的人參加了進來。

Unit 20 Gandhi

At that time only the British government had the right to sell salt, which was taxed, so Gandhi encouraged the whole nation to make their own salt.

那時，只有英國政府有權出售鹽，而且鹽是要征稅的。于是甘地鼓勵所有的國民自己生產鹽。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Following this, 60,000 Indians,including Gandhi, were put in prison.

在這之后，60，000印度人，包括甘地，都被關進監獄。

Unit 20 Gandhi

In the end this political movement succeeded and Indians were allowed to make and sell salt.

但最終這場政治運動以印度人獲準生產與銷售鹽而告成功。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Many other struggles followed.

接著還爆發了很多其他斗爭。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Finally, India won her independence on August 15th, 1947, but Gandhi himself was shot five months later by an Indian who opposed his views.

印度終于在1947年8月15日獲得獨立，但甘地本人卻在5個月后被一個反對他的觀點的印度人槍殺。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He died on January 30th, 1948.

他于1948年1月30日逝世。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi was much more than a clever lawyer, a fine speaker, a determined fighter for human rights and a political leader.

甘地遠不只是一位聰明的律師，優秀的演說家，堅定的人權戰士與政治領導人。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He was a model of a different kind of political leader.

他還是一個與從不同的政治領袖的典范。

Unit 20 Gandhi

The secret lies in the title of the book which he wrote about his early life, The story of my experiments with truth.

秘密在于他寫的那本關于他自己早期生活的《我體驗真理的故事》一書。