环球慢速英语 巫术(4)

Voice 2: But later, Europeans looked back at that time. They decided that these people had been wrongly executed. They argued that witchcraft was not real, so it must be wrong to punish someone for being a witch. They wanted to stop the same thing happening in Africa. That is why settlers in Africa created a law to try and end witchcraft. They called the law "The Witchcraft Suppression Act."

声音2：但之后，欧洲人回顾了那个时期。他们认为那些女巫被错误地处决了。他们认为巫术不是真的，因此惩罚女巫肯定是错误的行为。他们想阻止同样的事情在非洲发生。这就是非洲殖民者制定法律以试图终止巫术的原因。他们将这部法律称为《巫术镇压法》。

Voice 1: The law stated that it was illegal to call anyone a witch. It also completely denied that witchcraft existed! This meant that nobody could be punished for being a witch. The Witchcraft Suppression Act stopped European history from being repeated in Zimbabwe. But in 2006, the law in Zimbabwe changed.

声音1：法律规定，称他人为女巫是违法行为。法律同时完全否认巫术的存在！这意味着没有人会因为女巫的身份而被处罚。《巫术镇压法》阻止了欧洲的历史在津巴布韦重演。但在2006年，津巴布韦的这项法律发生了改变。