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時間：2023-02-03
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My name is Elias. I am a poor
black worker in
South Africa. The time when I
first met
Nelson Mandela was a very
difficult period of my life. I was
twelve years old. It was in 1952 and Mandela was the black
lawyer to whom I went for
advice. He
offered guidance to poor black
people on
their legal problems. He was
generous with his time, for
which I was
grateful.我叫埃利亞斯。我是南非一名貧窮的黑人工人。我第一次見到納爾遜·曼德拉的時候是我一生中非常困難的時期。我十二歲。那是在1952年，曼德拉是我尋求建議的黑人律師。他就貧困黑人的法律問題向他們提供指導(dǎo)。他對自己的時間很慷慨，對此我很感激。
I
needed his help
because I had very
little education. I
began school at six. The school
where I
studied for only two years was
three kilometres away. I had to
leave because my
family could not
continue to pay the school fees and the bus fare. I could not read or
write well.
After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine.
However, this was a time when one had got to have a
passbook to live in Johannesburg.
Sadly I did not have it because I was not born
there, and I
worried about whether I
would become out of work.我需要他的幫助，因?yàn)槲沂艿慕逃苌佟Ｎ伊c(diǎn)鐘開始上學(xué)。我只就讀了兩年的學(xué)校就在三公里外。我不得不離開，因?yàn)槲业募胰藷o法繼續(xù)支付學(xué)費(fèi)和車費(fèi)。我讀寫不好。經(jīng)過努力，我在一家金礦找到了一份工作。然而，這是一個必須有存折才能住在約翰內(nèi)斯堡的時代。遺憾的是，我沒有得到它，因?yàn)槲也皇窃谀抢锍錾模覔?dān)心自己是否會失業(yè)。
The day when Nelson Mandela
helped me was one of my
happiest. He told me how to get the
correct papers so I could stay in Johannesburg. I
became more
hopeful about my
future. I
never forgot how kind Mandela was, When he
organized the ANC
Youth League, I
joined it as soon as I could. He said: "The last
thirty years have seen the
greatest number of laws
stopping our
rights and
progress,
until today we have
reached a
stage where we have
almost no rights at all."納爾遜·曼德拉幫助我的那天是我最快樂的一天。他告訴我如何得到正確的文件，這樣我就可以留在約翰內(nèi)斯堡。我對自己的未來更加充滿希望。我從未忘記曼德拉是多么善良，當(dāng)他組織非國大青年聯(lián)盟時，我盡快加入了它。他說：“在過去的三十年里，有最多的法律阻止了我們的權(quán)利和進(jìn)步，直到今天，我們已經(jīng)到了一個幾乎沒有權(quán)利的階段。”
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