高中英语人教版高二下课文04

[08:20.27]Slaves were now free people,
[08:22.19]奴隶那时成了自由人，
[08:24.11]but the southern states did not want to give black poeple their rights.
[08:27.08]但南方各州不想把黑人的权利还给他们。
[08:30.04]For more than a hundred years
[08:31.87]一百多年来，
[08:33.70]black people had to fight to be given the rights to vote,
[08:36.38]美国黑人不得不为了给予选择权
[08:39.05]choose where to live,study and work.
[08:41.53]选择住所、学习和工作的权利而战。
[08:44.02]Nelson Mandela was a great freedom fighter,
[08:46.35]纳尔逊.曼德拉是一们南非的伟大的为自由而战的战士，
[08:48.69]who fought for the rights of black people in South Africa.
[08:51.21]在非洲，他为了黑人的权利而战。
[08:53.73]Staring at almost the same time
[08:55.86]与此几乎同时开始的是国际妇妇权利运动。
[08:57.99]were the international movements for the rights of women.
[09:02.98]There was a time when women had no right to vote,
[09:05.35]曾有一段时间，妇妇没有选举权，
[09:07.71]could not go to university or choose their jobs.
[09:10.28]她们不能上大学或选择工作。
[09:12.86]In the nineteenth century,
[09:14.59]在十九世纪，
[09:16.33]women all over the world started asking for equal rights.
[09:19.29]全世界妇女开始寻求平等的权利。
[09:22.26]In 1893,
[09:24.08]1893年，
[09:25.89]New Zealand became the first country in the world
[09:28.16]新西兰成了世界上第一个允许妇妇有选举权的国家。
[09:30.44]to give women the right to vote.
[09:34.38]By 1920,women in the US,
[09:36.86]1920年，美国、
[09:39.34]Canada and most European countries had the right to vote.
[09:42.16]加拿大和多数欧洲国家的妇妇有了选举权。
[09:44.99]In modern times there are still organisations
[09:47.42]现代仍有反对种族歧视和为了人们的平等权利而战的组织。
[09:49.84]that fight against prejudice and for equal rights of people.
[09:55.12]There are action groups that fight for the rights of black people,
[09:57.85]有为黑人、妇女、儿童、
[10:00.58]women,children,people with AIDS/HIV and prisoners.
[10:03.86]艾滋病患者及囚犯的权利而战的行动组。
[10:07.14]What all these groups have in common
[10:09.57]这引起组的共同之处是他们要求受到尊重。
[10:12.00]is that they ask to be treated with respect,
[10:16.72]share the right to work,good housing conditions and education,
[10:19.85]享有工作权、享有好的住房条件、享有教育的权利
[10:22.97]and be treated equally to other people,
[10:25.19]及在各方面与其人一样受到平等对待。
[10:27.41]regardless of race,religion or sex.
[10:32.69]When Samuel Butleer wrote two chapters about the rights of animals
[10:35.56]当塞缪尔.巴特拉1872年
[10:38.43]and the rights of vegetables in a novel in 1872,
[10:41.37]在一部小说中写了两章关于动物和植物的权利文章时，
[10:44.31]everybody thought that was ridiculous.
[10:46.49]大家都把它当作是滑稽的笑话。
[10:48.67]But in the twentieth century organisations
[10:51.01]但在20世纪，
[10:53.35]were formed to give a voice to groups that do not have a voice to speak for themselves.
[10:56.63]很多人为替那些没有说话能力来维护自已权利的群体而申言的组织建立起来了。
[10:59.91]The largest is the animals rights movement.
[11:02.09]最大的是争取动物权利的动物权利运动。
[11:04.27]As a part of this movement there are now also action groups
[11:07.14]作 这相运动的一部分，
[11:10.01]that struggle for the rights of plants,
[11:12.14]现在有了植物、
[11:14.27]the oceans and the earth.
[11:16.15]海洋、地球的权利而战的行动组。
[11:18.03]There are already people wondering
[11:19.95]已经有人在考虑
[11:21.87]whether we should fight for the rights of robots and machines.
[11:24.60]是否我们应该为机器和机器人争取权利的。
[11:27.33]INTEGRATING SKILLS
[11:37.08]Reading   THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF FREE BLACK PEOPLE
[11:42.72]Discovered by Columbus in 1492,the island,
[11:48.57]or at least the western part of it now known as Haiti,
[11:53.43]was the scene of some of the most advanced political developments
[11:59.07]in the Western world in the late eighteenth century.
[12:04.11]From 1763 to 1791 the island had its Golden Age.
[12:11.77]As its richest colony,
[12:15.29]the island contributed more than 40% to the economy of France.
[12:21.77]Its success rested on the labour of half a million slaves.