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美国故事 2005-0514-Feature

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Our story this week is called "The God of His Fathers". It was written by Jack1 London in the year 1901. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story.

Silently, the wolves circled the herd2 of caribou3 deer. Gray bellies4 closed to the ground. The wolves in the pack surrounded a pregnant5 deer. They pulled her down and tore out her throat. The rest of the caribou herd raced off in 100 directions. The wolves began to feed. Once again, the Alaska territory was the scene of silent death. Here in its ancient forests, the strong had killed the weak for thousands and thousands of years.

Small groups of Indians also lived in this land at the Rainbow's End but their Stone Age life was ending. Strange men with blond6 hair and blue eyes had discovered the lands of the north. The Indian chiefs ordered their warriors7 to fight them. Stone arrow met steel bullet. The Indians could not stop the strangers. The white men conquered the icy rivers in light canoes. They broke through the dark forests and climbed the Rocky Mountains.

One of these men sat in front of a tent near a river. His name was Hay Stockard. Over the smoke and flames of his fire, he watched an Indian village not far from his own camp. From inside his tent came the cry of a sick child and the gentle answering song of its mother. But the man was not concerned now with them. He was thinking of Baptiste the Red, the chief of the Indian village, who had just left him. “We do not want you here.” Baptiste had told him. “If we permit you to sit by our fires, after you will come your church, your priests9 and your God. “

Baptiste the Red hated the white men’s God. His father had been an Englishman; his mother, the daughter of an Indian chief. Baptiste had been raised among white men. When Baptiste was a young man, he fell in love with a Frenchman’s daughter. But her father opposed the marriage. A Christian10 priest8 refused to marry them. So Baptiste took the girl into the forests. They went to live among his mother’s people. A year later, the girl died while giving birth to her first child. Baptiste took the baby back to live among the white people. For many years he lived in peace with them as his daughter grew up, tall and beautiful. One night, while Baptiste was away, a white man broke into their home and killed the girl.

(No voice here …)

”… go and go quickly.” “And if I stay,” Hay Stockard had asked quietly as he filled his pipe. “Then soon you will meet your God, your bad God, the God of the white men. The Indian chief rose to his feet and left Hay Stockard's camp to return to his village.

The next morning, Hay Stockard watched with angry eyes as 3 men in a long canoe came to the riverbank. Two of the men were Indian. The third, a white man, wore a bright red cloth around his head. Hay Stockard reached for his gun and then changed his mind. As soon as the canoe landed, the white man jumped out and ran up to Stockard. “So, we meet again, Hay Stockard. Peace be with you. I know you are a sinner, but I, Sturges Owen, am God’s own servant. I will bring you back to our church.” “Listen to me,” Stockard warned, “if you stay here, you will bring trouble to yourself and your men. You all will be killed and so will my wife, my child and myself." Owen looked up to the sky, “The man who carries God in his heart and the Bible in his hand is protected."

Later that morning, the Indian chief Baptiste came back to Stockard's camp. “Give me the priest,” Baptiste demanded, “and I will let you go in peace. If you do not, you die.” Sturges Owen grabbed11 his Bible, "I am not afraid,” he said, “God will protect me and hold me in his right hand. I am ready to go with Baptiste to his village. I will save his soul for God.” Hay Stockard shook his head, “Listen to me, Baptiste, I did not bring this priest here, but now that he is here, I can’t let you kill him. Many of your people will die if we fight each other." Baptiste looked into Stockard’s eyes. “But those who live,” he said, “will not have the words of a strange God in their ears.”

After a moment of silence, Baptiste the Red turned and went back to his own camp. Sturges Owen called his two men to him and the three of them knelt to pray. Stockard and his wife began to prepare the camp for battle. As they worked, they heard the sound of war drums in the village. As Sturges Owen waited and prayed, he began to feel his religious fever cooling. Fear replaced hope in his heart. The love of life took the place of the love of God in his mind. “The love of life,” he could not stop himself from feeling it. Owen knew that Stockard also loved his life, but Stockard would choose death rather than shame.

The war drums boomed12 loudly. Suddenly, they stopped. A flood of dark feet raced towards Stockard’s camp. Arrows whistled through the air. A spear went through the body of Stockard’s wife. Stockard’s bullets answered back. Wave after wave of Indian warriors broke over the barrier. Sturges Owen ran into his tent. His two men died quickly. Hay Stockard alone remained on his feet knocking the attacking Indians aside. Stockard held an ax in one hand and his gun in the other. Behind him, a hand grabbed Stockard’s baby by his tiny leg and pulled it from under his mother’s body. The Indian whipped the child through the air, smashing13 its head against the log. Stockard turned and cut off the Indian’s head with his ax. The circle of angry faces closed on Stockard. Two times, they pushed up to him but each time he beat them back. They fell under his feet as the ground became wet with blood.

Finally, Baptiste called his men to him. “Stockard,” he shouted, “you are a brave man. Deny your God and I will let you live.” Two Indians dragged Sturges Owen out of the tent. He was not hurt. But his eyes were wild with fear. He felt anger at God for making him so weak. Why had God given him faith without strength? Owen stood shaking before Baptiste the Red. “Where is your God now?” demanded the Indian chief. “I do not know,” Owen whispered. “Do you have a God?” “I had." "And now?" "No.” “Very good,” Baptiste said. "See that this man goes free. Let nothing happen to him and send him back to his own people. So he can tell his priests about Baptiste the Red's land where there is no God."

Baptiste turned to Hay Stockard. "There is no God." Baptiste said. Stockard laughed. One of the young Indian warriors lifted the war spear. “Do you have a God? “ Baptiste shouted. Stockard took a deep breath. “Yes,” he said, “the God of my fathers.” The spear flew through the air and went deep into Stockard’s chest. Sturges Owen saw Stockard fall slowly to the ground. Then the Indians put Owen in a canoe. Sturges Owen went down the river to carry the message of Baptiste the Red in whose country there was no God.

You have just heard the story "The God of His Fathers”. It was written by Jack London and adapted for Special English by Donald Sanctus. Your narrator was Shep O'Neal. I am Susan Clark. Listen again next week for another American Story in Special English on the Voice of America.

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1 jack 53Hxp     
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
参考例句:
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 herd Pd8zb     
n.兽群,牧群;vt.使集中,把…赶在一起
参考例句:
  • She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
  • He had no opinions of his own but simply follow the herd.他从无主见,只是人云亦云。
3 caribou 8cpyD     
n.北美驯鹿
参考例句:
  • Afar off he heard the squawking of caribou calves.他听到远处有一群小驯鹿尖叫的声音。
  • The Eskimos played soccer on ice and used balls filled with caribou hair and grass.爱斯基摩人在冰上踢球,他们用的是驯鹿的毛发和草填充成的球。
4 bellies 573b19215ed083b0e01ff1a54e4199b2     
n.肚子( belly的名词复数 );腹部;(物体的)圆形或凸起部份;腹部…形的
参考例句:
  • They crawled along on their bellies. 他们匍匐前进。
  • starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童
5 pregnant IP3xP     
adj.怀孕的,怀胎的
参考例句:
  • She is a pregnant woman.她是一名孕妇。
  • She is pregnant with her first child.她怀了第一胎。
6 blond KRpyb     
adj.金发的;n.白肤碧眼金发的人
参考例句:
  • Her long blond hair spilled down over her shoulders.她那淡黄色的长发披垂在双肩。
  • This blond man delivers newspaper every morning.这个白肤金发碧眼的男人每天早晨送报纸。
7 warriors 3116036b00d464eee673b3a18dfe1155     
武士,勇士,战士( warrior的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • I like reading the stories ofancient warriors. 我喜欢读有关古代武士的故事。
  • The warriors speared the man to death. 武士们把那个男子戳死了。
8 priest D1JzH     
n.神父,牧师,司铎,司祭,领导者,神甫;vt.使成为神职人员
参考例句:
  • He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父忏悔他犯了罪。
  • The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧师探望了教区里的所有老人。
9 priests b4cec041a0c64c205f4a427f331785cf     
n.(基督教和罗马天主教的)神父( priest的名词复数 );牧师;(非基督教会的)教士;祭司
参考例句:
  • the ordination of women priests 女司祭的授职礼
  • The clergy remain divided on the issue of women priests. 在女性教士的问题上,牧师们意见不一。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 Christian KVByl     
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
参考例句:
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
11 grabbed grabbed     
v.抢先,抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 );(尤指匆忙地)取;攫取;(尤指自私、贪婪地)捞取
参考例句:
  • He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
  • She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。
12 boomed d60db83e05549ab4624bdd7b217c4fcb     
v.激增( boom的过去式和过去分词 );猛涨;发出隆隆声;以低沉有力的声音说话
参考例句:
  • The big man's voice boomed out above the rest. 这位大汉低沉的声音压过了其他人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Chicano literature boomed in the social movements of the 1960s. 奇卡诺文学勃兴于20世纪60年代社会运动的高潮中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
13 smashing RikzJa     
adj.极好的;粉碎的;惨重的;活泼的adv.极好地v.打碎;捣毁;重击;撞毁(车辆)
参考例句:
  • We had a smashing time. 我们过得非常愉快。
  • While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the table-cloth off the table. smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. 你接电话时小孩把桌布扯了下来,把你最好的陶器打碎了一半,同时他还把自己磕破了。 来自《用法词典》
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