新視野大學英語2課文the great journey of learning翻譯
偉大的學習之旅
Malcolm X was an African-American civil rights activist, religious leader, writer, and speaker. Born in 1925, he was mysteriously assassinated in 1965. By the time of his death, his own telling of his life story, The Autobiography of Maclcolm X, had been widely known. He was born Malcolm Little into a poor household. Later, he took the name Malcolm X after joining an organization called the Nation of Islam, a religious group that had changed major practices and beliefs of mainstream Islam to apply more specifically to the condition of African-American people in the United States in the early 1960s.
馬爾科姆·艾克斯是壹位非裔美國民權活動家、宗教領袖、作家和演說家。他生於 1925 年， 1965 年被神秘地暗殺。在他去世之前，他對自己生平的自述——《馬爾科姆·艾克斯自傳》已聞名遐邇。他出生於壹個貧民家庭，取名馬爾科姆·利特爾。後來，他加入了壹個叫“伊斯蘭民族”的組織，之後改名為馬爾科姆·艾克斯。“伊斯蘭民族”是個宗教團體，它改變了美國主流伊斯蘭教的壹些主要的習俗和信仰，使之更適用於 19 世紀 60 年代早期非裔美國人的特定情況。
Malcolm X learned about the Nation of Islam while in prison for committing criminal acts such as theft. Because he was poorly educated, he felt inadequate to teach his new beliefs to others. As a young man, he could sketch his thoughts with poor grammar and little vocabulary using the simple, unsophisticated language of people on the street. As an adult, when he tried to inform people about his new beliefs at a rally, he found that he didn't have the adequate communication skills he needed. In his own words, he "wasn't even functional".
馬爾科姆·艾克斯因當時犯有諸如偷竊等罪而入獄。他在監獄裏得知了“伊斯蘭民族”組織。由於沒有受過良好的教育，他在向別人傳授他的新信仰時感到力不從心。作為壹名年輕人，他可以用草根語言來概述自己的想法，語言簡單、粗淺、語法差勁，且詞匯貧乏。可作為壹名成年人，當他在大型公眾集會上向人們闡述他的新信仰時，他發覺自己缺少了所需的語言交流技能。用他自己的話說，他“甚至沒有這個功能”。
In a bid to increase his knowledge and improve his skills, desperate Malcolm X devised a scheme. He turned to books, believing this would be beneficial. However, when he tried to read serious books on his own, he was distressed as he didn't know most of the words. "They might as well have been in Chinese," he wrote. He skipped all the words he didn't know and then would end up with no clue as to what the book was about. "became frustrated," Malcolm X wrote in his autobiography, speaking of his inadequate language skills.
為了增長知識，提高溝通技能，深陷絕望的馬爾科姆·艾克斯為自己制定了壹個計劃。他決定求助於書籍，相信書會使他受益匪淺。可是當他試圖閱讀壹些嚴肅的書本時，他不禁倍感苦惱，因為大部分的詞他都不認識。他寫道：“這些書還不如是用中文寫的。”他跳過了所有不認識的詞，可是最終他全然不知這本書裏寫了什麽。馬爾科姆·艾克斯在他的自傳裏談到他貧乏的語言技能時是這樣寫的：“我變得沮喪起來。”