《汤姆叔叔的小屋》5：双语彩蛋

这一段我选择的是当追赶乔治的警官劝他老老实实投降时，乔治慷慨激昂的回答：

I know very well that you've got the law on your side, and thepower," said George, bitterly. "You mean to take my wife to sell inNew Orleans, and put my boy like a calf in a trader's pen, and send Jim's oldmother to the brute that whipped and abused her before, because he couldn'tabuse her son.

You want to send Jim and me back to be whipped and tortured, andground down under the heels of them that you call masters; and your laws willbear you out in it, —more shame for you and them! But you haven't got us. We don't own yourlaws; we don't own your country; we stand here as free, under God's sky, as youare; and, by the great God that made us, we'll fight for our liberty till wedie.

我很清楚法律站在你们一边，还有权力，”乔治悲愤地说，“你们想把我的妻子带到新奥尔良卖掉，把我的孩子像牛犊一样放在奴隶贩子的牲口圈里，把吉姆的老母亲送到那个鞭打、虐待她的残暴的家伙那里，因为他没法虐待她的儿子。

你们想把我和吉姆送回去鞭打、折磨，让那些被你们叫做主人的人踩在脚下蹂躏；而你们的法律会证明你们做得正确——这更让你们和你们的法律蒙受耻辱！但是你们没有抓住我们。我们不承认你们的法律，不承认你们的国家，我们站在上帝的天空下，跟你们一样，是自由的。让创造我们的上帝作证，我们将为自由战斗到底！