点击领取>>>KET/PET官方真题汇总、官网样卷试题、听力阅读答题卡、高频必备单词表

从RE2大探险家单元引发的深思

RE 2--- UNIT8  大航海时代拓展知识和新闻 

上课介绍完大航海时代前后的几个标志性人物和他们的事迹，其中最令人深思的还是哥伦布以及背后的历史和带来的长久影响。

 Present awkwardness about  Christopher Columbus

2020.6.10   来自： CBS 新闻

编译：蜜雪

    2020年5月， 美国非裔男子弗洛伊德之死在全世界引起巨大争议，针对黑人的种族主义的话题引起了跟多的社会问题。 

June 10, 2020 

BOSTON (CBS) – The Christopher Columbus statue in Boston’s North End will be removed after it was beheaded early Wednesday morning. Mayor Marty Walsh said it will be put in storage and there will now be conversations about the “historic meaning” of the incident and whether it will ever go back up.

波士顿(哥伦比亚广播公司)——位于波士顿北部的克里斯托弗·哥伦布雕像将在周三早上被斩首后被移除。市长马蒂·沃尔什表示将会被保存起来，现在人们将讨论这一事件的历史意义以及它是否会被恢复。

The statue in Christopher Columbus Park on Atlantic Avenue was surrounded by crime scene tape as the head lay on the ground next to the base.

这座雕像位于大西洋大道的克里斯托弗·哥伦布公园，雕像的头部躺在底座旁边的地上，周围被犯罪现场胶带包围。

Columbus was one of the first Europeans in the New World, credited by many for discovering America. However, critics say his trip began the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Columbus is also criticized for his violent treatment and killing of Native Americans, who see him as a racist.

哥伦布是第一批到达新大陆的欧洲人之一，许多人认为他发现了美洲。然而，批评人士说，他的旅程开启了跨大西洋的奴隶贸易。哥伦布还因暴力对待和杀害印第安人而受到批评，这些印第安人视他为种族主义者。

Now, as police investigate how it happened, local indigenous groups are calling on the mayor to remove the statue for good.现在，在警方调查此事的过程中，当地土著团体呼吁市长永久拆除雕像。

“It’s a park dedicated to white supremacy,” said Mahtowin Munro of the United American Indians of New England. “It’s a park dedicated to indigenous genocide.”

“这是一个致力于白人至上主义的公园，”新英格兰美洲印第安人联合组织(United American Indians of New England)的马托文·芒罗(Mahtowin Munro)说。“这是一个纪念土著种族灭绝的公园。”

There has been a push across the country to get rid of the Columbus Day holiday in October and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day.

全国各地都在推动取消10月份的哥伦布日，改为土著人民日。

This statue has been the target of vandals in the past.

The head was also cut off back in 2006. The statue was doused with red paint in June 2015 with the words “Black Lives Matter” spray-painted on the base.

这座哥伦布雕像一直是破坏者的目标。
早在2006年，它的头也被砍掉了。2015年6月，这座雕像被泼上了红色油漆，基座上喷涂着“黑人生命也是重要的”字样。

“We are going to be taking the statue down this morning and putting it into storage to assess the damage to the statue,” Walsh said. “That said, this particular statue has been subject to repeated vandalism here in Boston, and given the conversations that we’re certainly having right now in our city of Boston and throughout the country, we’re also going to take time to assess the historic meaning of this action.”

沃尔什说:“我们将在今天早上拆除雕像，并将其储存起来，以评估雕像所受的损害。”“尽管如此，这座特殊的雕像在波士顿一再遭到破坏，考虑到我们目前在波士顿市和全国各地的讨论，我们也将花时间评估这一行动的历史意义。”

In Richmond, Virginia Tuesday night, protesters tore down a Columbus statue and threw it into a lake. This comes amid a new push to take down controversial statues across the country and overseas.

周二晚上，在弗吉尼亚州里士满，抗议者推倒了一座哥伦布雕像，并将其扔进湖里。与此同时，全国和海外掀起了拆除有争议雕像的新浪潮。

“Hopefully it settles down and becomes more peaceful. I thought that it was for a little while but clearly there’s a few individuals that have to make a point even further,” North End resident Meghan Lee told WBZ-TV. “You can understand people’s frustration and being upset and where it’s coming from but unfortunately sometimes it gets carried away and things like this happen.”

“希望能安定下来，变得更和平，但有一些人必须进一步证明自己的观点，”北区居民梅根·李说。“你可以理解人们的沮丧和不安，以及这些想法的来源，但不幸的是，有时想法会失去控制，这样的事情就会发生。”

“I don’t want to cover up the good, the bad, the part of history that he was, but you don’t want to idolize the bad pieces,” said resident Jessica Towns.

居民杰西卡·唐斯说:“我不想掩盖他过去的好与坏，但你也不想盲目崇拜坏的一面。”

克里斯托弗·哥伦布是一位意大利文艺复兴时期的航海家和探险家，被认为是开创了在新大陆开发和殖民的新纪元，但因为这一发现导致了美国印地安人文明的毁灭，又被许多人谴责。而“哥伦布日”是纪念哥伦布于1492年首次登上美洲大陆而举行的节日，美国于1792年首先发起纪念。

扫码添加“家长论坛”微信好友（微信号 16619908263）

获取KET/PET官方真题汇总、官网样卷试题、听力阅读答题卡、高频必备单词表

咨询北京KET PET相关课程请拨打电话 16619908263 （同微信号）