Unit 20 Gandhi

He felt free to talk about his failures or his difficulties.

他可以隨便談論自己的失敗或困境。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Where he made mistakes, he admitted these willingly.

無論在哪里犯了錯誤，他都樂于承認。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Above all, he refused to make any personal gain from his political work.

尤其是，他拒絕從所從事的政治事業中謀取個人利益。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Before he returned to India, he decided to live as a poor man and not to possess wealth.

在回印度之前，他已決心過窮人一樣的生活，不占有財富。

Unit 20 Gandhi

When he travelled across India, he travelled hard-seat, unreserved, together with peasants and other ordinary people.

當他穿越印度旅行時，他與農民及其他普通人一起乘坐"沒有被預定的硬座。

Unit 20 Gandhi

In cities he refused to travel in a rickshaw, a two-wheeled cart pulled by a bare-footed man.

在城里，他拒絕乘坐那種赤腳車夫拉的兩輪人力車。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He ate simply, and never ate meat. He rose early in the morning and worked at his wheel, making cotton thread.

他吃得很簡單，且從不吃肉。他每天早晨早早就起床，轉動紡車，紡棉紗。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He believed that everyone should be prepared to do heavy work, from the leaders to the poorest peasants.

他認為從領袖到最窮苦的農民，每個人都該樂于從事重體力勞動。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He was interested in all spiritual matters, not only in the Indian gods.

他不僅僅對印度的神靈，而且對所有的宗教事務都感興趣。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He read many books and paused in his work at six every evening for prayers, even when he was with other world leaders.

他閱讀很多的書，每天傍晚六點鐘，他就要暫時停下工作去做祈禱，甚至與世界上別的領袖在一起時也這樣。

Unit 20 Gandhi

One day a week he would spend the whole day in silence.

每周有一天他是在沉默無語中度過的。

Unit 20 Gandhi

All his life he reached out for the truths of spirits and gods.

他的一生都在追求神靈的真諦。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi believed that one should be able to love the most ordinary being on earth as oneself.

甘地認為一個人應能像愛他自己一樣去愛世界上最普通的人。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi hated the custom that had divided Hindu society into separate groups for thousands of years and his goal was to end this.

甘地痛恨那種幾千年來把印度社會分成種姓的習慣，而他的目的就是要結束這種局面。

Unit 20 Gandhi

He became a supporter of the poorest group in society, who did the lowest-paid jobs.

他成為社會中那些從事工資最低的工作的，最窮種姓的支持者。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Because of his actions, all Hindus were finally free to draw water from the same village well, to go to the same temple to pray and even marry each other.

由于他的行動，所有的印度人均可自由地從同一個村井打水，去相同的寺廟做祈禱，甚至還可相互通婚。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Gandhi paid great attention to the equality of women.

甘地很關注婦女的平等。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Perhaps his greatest belief was in an Indian phrase which he called the force of truth.

也許他最大的信仰就在他稱之為真理的力理"這一印度雋語里。

Unit 20 Gandhi

If an unfair law existed, - and there were many that had been passed by the British rulers in India and South Africa - it was the duty of everyone to disobey this law, but without using violence.

如果存在一個不公平的法律--而且在印度與南非的英國統治者已經通過了許多這樣的法律--那么不遵守這一法律是每個人的責任，但不要使用暴力。

Unit 20 Gandhi

People should be ready to go to prison for their beliefs, but they should never take up arms to fight.

為了信仰，人民應該準備去蹲監獄，但決不應該拿起武器去斗爭。

Unit 20 Gandhi

The death of Gandhi gave India a chance to mourn and express how he had become father to all Indians. Millions watched the slow march that took his body through the capital.

甘地之死給印度一個悼念的機會，讓人們表達他是怎樣成為全印度人民的父親的。

Unit 20 Gandhi

A further million watched as the fire, following Indian custom, turned his body to ashes.

數百萬人注視著緩慢的送葬隊伍抬著他的遺體通過首都。還有上百萬人看著將他的遺體按印度習慣火化成骨灰。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Twelve days later, millions more Indians lined the railway tracks as a slow train took the jar containing his ashes 584 kilometres to a place by the river.

12天后，當一列慢車將盛有甘地骨灰的壇子駛向584公里外，靠近恒河的一個地方時，又有數百萬人排列的鐵路兩旁，夾道送行。

Unit 20 Gandhi

Three million people watched as the ashes of this great man were gently poured into the brown waters of the river that would carry them to the ocean.

還有300萬人守望著這位偉人的骨灰緩緩撒入褐以的恒河，河水把他的骨灰送向大海。

Unit 20 Gandhi

At the time of his death, one person praised him as follows: Future generations, it may be, will hardly believe that such a person as this walked upon this earth.

未來的幾代人有可能難以相信，在這個世間曾經有這樣的一個人行走過。"

Unit 20 Gandhi

The speaker was Albert Einstein.

這位演講者就是阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦。

Unit 21 Who gets the money

Good morning, Mr Coal. I hear that you are one of the best detectives in the capital.

早上好，科爾先生。我聽說你是首都最優秀的偵探之一。

Unit 21 Who gets the money

Well, I have a problem.

唉，我有一個難題。

Unit 21 Who gets the money

So how can I help you ? asked the detective.

那么我怎樣才能幫你呢？偵探問。

Unit 21 Who gets the money

My name's Tom Goode, by the way.

我叫湯姆·古德，順便告訴你。