035 弗朗西丝·安的俄勒冈之路

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Hi, my name is Frances Ann. Ma said you might be walking with us today

嗨，我叫弗朗西斯·安。妈妈说今天你可能会和我们一起走路。

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I hope you aren't eating dinner with us because we're low on bacon

我希望你不和我们一起吃晚饭，因为我们培根不多了。

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" Frances Ann! Mind your manners!"

“弗朗西斯·安！注意你的礼貌！”

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" Yes, Ma." That's my mother. Up in front, driving the wagon, is my father

“是的，妈妈。”那是我妈妈。在前面赶马车的是我爸爸。

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His name is Lloyd Rollins, and he is taking us to Oregon to find gold

他叫劳埃德·罗林斯，正带我们去俄勒冈找金子。

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" Hi, darlin'."

“嗨，亲爱的。”

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" Hi, Pa!" Pa says one day we're going to strike gold and we'll be rich

“嗨，爸爸！”爸爸说有一天我们会挖到金子，变得富有。

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Over there is my sister Josephine. She's bossy, so I walk on this side of the wagon where she can't tell me what to do

那边是我姐姐约瑟芬。她很霸道，所以我走在马车这边，她没法告诉我该做什么。

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That man with her is Ezra Meeker, but I think he's crazy

和她在一起的那个男人是埃兹拉·米克，但我觉得他疯了。

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He loves the Oregon Trail, and I think he likes my sister

他热爱俄勒冈小径，而且我觉得他喜欢我姐姐。

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Behind us is Henderson Luelling, and Pa says he really is crazy

我们后面是亨德森·卢林，爸爸说他真是疯了。

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He's bringing three wagons to Oregon, and two of them are full of fruit and nut trees!

他要带三辆马车去俄勒冈，其中两辆装满了果树和坚果树！

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Well, since we've got all day, I may as well tell you about where we've been. So listen closely

既然我们有一整天时间，我不妨跟你们讲讲我们的经历。所以听好了。

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In 1836 when my sister Josephine was born, Pa's friend Marcus Whitman left to go to Oregon

1836年我姐姐约瑟芬出生时，爸爸的朋友马库斯·惠特曼动身去了俄勒冈。

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Pa wanted to go with him, but Ma said she wasn't ready yet. Oregon was two thousand miles away

爸爸想跟他一起去，但妈妈说还没准备好。俄勒冈在两千英里之外呢。

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On my seventh birthday, Pa said his girls were grown, and it was time to leave

我七岁生日那天，爸爸说他的女儿们都长大了，是时候出发了。

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So here we are, going to Oregon in 1850

所以我们就来了，1850年动身前往俄勒冈。

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Our trip began in Missouri

我们的旅程从密苏里州开始。

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We loaded up our wagon with a thousand pounds of bacon, coffee, flour, salt, and sugar, and got on a ferry to cross the Missouri River

我们在马车上装了一千磅熏肉、咖啡、面粉、盐和糖，然后上了一艘渡船准备渡过密苏里河。

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We jumped off at a town called Independence and waited for the grass to grow

我们在一个叫独立城的小镇下了船，等着草长起来。

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There were hundreds of wagons all over the town

当时镇上有成百上千辆马车。

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It was March then, and since grass doesn't grow until April, we all had to wait

那时是三月，因为草要到四月才长出来，我们只能等待。

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If we left too early, our oxen would starve to death, and we'd be stuck

如果太早出发，我们的牛会饿死，我们也会被困住。

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Of course, if we left too late, we would freeze to death at the end of the trip

当然，如果太晚出发，我们会在旅程末尾被冻死。

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It takes a long time to walk two thousand miles―almost six months

走两千英里需要很长时间——差不多六个月。

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So everybody had to wait for the perfect time to leave. Every day more wagons arrived

所以每个人都必须等待一个完美的出发时机。每天都有更多的马车到来。

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There were so many that I could almost walk to town on the tops of them

马车多到我几乎可以踩着它们的顶棚走到镇上去。

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April finally came, the oxen ate the grass, and everyone left at once

四月终于来了，牛吃了草，所有人立刻出发了。

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There was dust everywhere. Ma was worried that I might trip and fall under a wagon

到处都是尘土。妈妈担心我会绊倒，摔到马车底下。

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She said that if that happened I could lose my leg or even die, so I've been really careful

她说如果那样的话我可能会失去一条腿甚至丧命，所以我一直非常小心。

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Oh look, there's another stove. Ma wanted to bring our stove to Oregon, but Pa said no because it was too heavy

快看，那里又有一个炉子。妈妈本来想带我们的炉子去俄勒冈，但爸爸说不行，因为太重了。

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Ma cried. She said other women were bringing stoves, but he wouldn't let her

妈妈哭了。她说别的女人都带了炉子，可爸爸就是不让她带。

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And now look, Pa was right. These people had too much stuff in their wagon, and they had to throw their stoves out

现在你看，爸爸是对的。这些人车上装的东西太多，只好把炉子扔掉。

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Why? Well, because the stove was too heavy, and pulling it made the oxen tired

为什么呢？因为炉子太重了，拉着它会让牛很累。

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These oxen aren't as pretty as horses, or as fast, but they're stronger

这些牛不如马好看，也不如马快，但它们更强壮。

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Some people have mules because they are strong too, but they kick too much and don't go when you tell them

有些人用骡子，因为骡子也强壮，但它们太爱踢人，而且不听使唤。

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I wish I could ride the oxen, but Ma says it isn't ladylike. I don't mind getting my hands dirty

我真希望自己能骑牛，但妈妈说那样不淑女。我倒不怕弄脏手。

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I'm getting hungry. It must be dinnertime soon

我有点饿了。应该快到晚饭时间了。

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Every morning we get up with the sun at six o'clock

每天早上，我们太阳一出来就起床，六点钟。

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Ma cooks bacon and bread, Pa ties the oxen to the wagon, and Josephine and I clean up

妈妈做培根和面包，爸爸把牛套在车上，约瑟芬和我收拾东西。

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We walk all morning and have a short lunch of bacon and bread

我们走一上午，午餐简单吃些培根和面包。

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Then we walk until the sun is just about down, and we have bacon and bread for dinner

然后一直走到太阳快下山，晚餐还是培根和面包。

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At night we have to make a circle with our wagons to keep our animals inside

晚上我们得把马车围成一圈，把牲口圈在里面。

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I collect buffalo chips so we can make a fire. What are they?

我捡来水牛粪生火。那是什么？

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Why, you are silly! Buffalo chips are dried buffalo dung

哎呀，你真傻！水牛粪就是晒干的水牛粪便。

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But don't worry; they don't smell bad and they make a nice fire

不过别担心，它们不难闻，还能生很好的火。

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After dinner we'll crawl under the wagon to rest

晚饭后，我们就爬到马车底下休息。

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Sometimes Ma and Pa talk when they think I'm asleep

有时候妈妈和爸爸以为我睡着了，就会聊天。

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Ma cries because she's worried that we won't make it to Oregon

妈妈会哭，因为她担心我们到不了俄勒冈。

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In some wagon trains, two out of every three people died of cholera

有些马车队里，每三个人里就有两人死于霍乱。

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Of course there are also lightning strikes and sometimes hail the size of apples

当然，还有闪电劈人，有时候也有苹果那么大的冰雹。

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People have run out of food, drowned in rivers, and even been hurt by accidental gunshots

人们食物耗尽，淹死在河里，甚至被意外走火的枪击伤。

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Ma worries about everything, but Pa says it will be worth it

妈妈什么都担心，但爸爸说这一切都值得。

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Pa says that one day we'll be rich

爸爸说，有一天我们会变富的。

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We'll be so rich, he'll name a place Josephine County, and hundreds of people will come to live there. I hope he's right

我们会非常富有，他会把一个地方命名为约瑟芬县，会有好几百人来那里居住。我希望他是对的。

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The Real Story

真实的故事

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Though Frances Ann is a fictional character, some of the other people mentioned in this story actually made the journey across the Oregon Trail

尽管弗朗西斯·安是虚构人物，但故事中提到的其他一些人确实走过俄勒冈小径。

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However, many details about their lives have been invented and changed in this telling of Frances Ann's story

不过，在讲述弗朗西斯·安的故事时，他们生活中的许多细节是虚构和改编的。

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Ezra Meeker loved the Oregon Trail so much that he traveled it four times

埃兹拉·米克太喜欢俄勒冈小径了，他在这条路上走过四次。

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Henderson Luelling was also a real person

亨德森·卢埃林也是个真实人物。

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He arrived in Oregon with his family and many different kinds of trees ( apple, cherry, pear, plum, and black walnut )

他携家人和许多不同种类的树（苹果、樱桃、梨、李子和黑胡桃）来到俄勒冈。

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His orchards grew to be abundant. And because no one else in Oregon had these trees, they were worth over a million dollars in 1860

他的果园后来变得很丰产。而且因为俄勒冈没有其他人有这些树，它们在1860年价值超过一百万美元。

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Lloyd Rollins and his daughter Josephine arrived in Oregon and found gold as he had hoped. Mr. Rollins named the site Josephine County

劳埃德·罗林斯和他的女儿约瑟芬到了俄勒冈，也如愿找到了金子。罗林斯先生把那地方命名为了约瑟芬县。