10 President Mandela

Chapter 10 President Mandela On February 11, 1990, at 4:15 p.m., Nelson Mandela stepped out of prison. He was seventy-one years old, and had spent ten thousand days behind bars. Outside Cape Town City Hall fifty thousand people gathered to hear him speak. He chanted, "Amandla!" ("Power!") which meant "The power is ours!"

1990年2月11日下午4点15分，纳尔逊·曼德拉走出监狱。 他已经71岁了，在监狱里度过了一万个日子。 在开普敦市政厅外，5万人聚集在一起听他讲话。 他高呼：“阿曼达！”（“权力！”），意思是“权力是我们的！”

Older people hadn't seen Mandela in so long, they didn't know what to expect. Younger South Africans had never seen him. They expected an old man too tired to get involved in politics.

老年人已经很久没有见过曼德拉了，他们不知道会发生什么。 年轻的南非人从未见过他。 他们认为这是一个太过疲惫而不愿参与政治的老人。

They were wrong. Freedom had recharged Mandela. He took a trip around the world where he was greeted with cheering crowds. In his own country, he argued with many black South Africans who still did not want to work with white South Africans or hear about forgiveness. Violence had been part of their lives for so long, it seemed like the only answer. Nelson still believed that black people and white people should work together. He thought they could put their problems behind them. White South Africans wanted Mandela to praise the

他们错了。自由给曼德拉注入了活力。 他周游世界，受到欢呼群众的欢迎。 在他自己的国家，他与许多仍然不想与南非白人一起工作或听到宽恕的南非黑人争论。 暴力已经成为他们生活的一部分太久了，这似乎是唯一的答案。 纳尔逊仍然相信黑人和白人应该一起工作。 他认为他们可以把问题抛在脑后。 南非白人希望曼德拉赞扬

government and be grateful for being let out of prison. Instead he encouraged foreign countries to keep refusing to trade with South Africa until apartheid was truly gone for good. He demanded nothing less than one person, one vote. He said, "When I was sent to prison twenty-seven years ago I had no vote... when I came out I still had no vote. That is due to the color of my skin." President de Klerk dragged his feet when it came to real change. He may have been hoping that in time Mandela's influence would fade. Black South Africans were frustrated at the lack of change. In August 1992 the ANC led a nationwide general strike, the largest in South Africa's history. In their demand to end apartheid, people all over the country refused to go to work. A month later in Bisho, South Africa, soldiers opened fire on an ANC rally, killing twenty-eight people and wounding almost two hundred more. On September 26, 1992, Mandela and de Klerk signed a Record of Understanding. It said that they would try to come to an agreement about the government. In 1993 Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

政府和感激被释放出狱。 相反，他鼓励外国继续拒绝与南非进行贸易，直到种族隔离制度真正彻底消失。 他只要求一人一票。 他说：“当我27年前被送进监狱时，我没有投票权…… 当我出来时，我仍然没有投票权。 那是因为我的肤色。” 德克勒克总统在真正的变革中拖拖拉拉。 他可能一直希望曼德拉的影响力最终会消退。 南非黑人对缺乏变革感到沮丧。 1992年8月，非国大领导了一场全国性的总罢工，这是南非历史上规模最大的一次罢工。 为了要求结束种族隔离制度，全国各地的人们都拒绝上班。 一个月后，在南非的毕绍，士兵向ANC的集会开枪，造成28人死亡，近200人受伤。 1992年9月26日，曼德拉和德克勒克签署了谅解记录。 声明说，他们将努力就政府问题达成协议。 1993年，曼德拉和德克勒克共同获得诺贝尔和平奖。

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ALFRED NOBEL WAS A SWEDISH SCIENTIST AND THE INVENTOR OF DYNAMITE. HE ALSO MANUFACTURED WEAPONS. BUT AS HE GOT OLDER, HE DID NOT WANT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR DESTRUCTIVE THINGS. SO IN HIS WILL HE LEFT ENOUGH MONEY TO AWARD ANNUAL PRIZES FOR EXCELLENCE IN FIELDS THAT MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. THE PRIZES ARE FOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MEDICINE, AND LITERATURE. A FIFTH PRIZE IS ALSO

诺贝尔和平奖阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔是一位瑞典科学家和炸药的发明者。 他还制造武器。 但随着年龄的增长，他不希望人们记住他破坏性的事情。 因此，在他的遗嘱中，他留下了足够的资金，为那些让世界变得更美好的领域的杰出人士颁发年度奖。 这些奖项是为了奖励在物理、化学、医学和文学方面的成就。 第五个奖项也是

GIVEN TO SOMEONE WHO WORKS HARD TO BRING ABOUT PEACE IN THE WORLD. IN TRYING TO BRING SOUTH AFRICA TOGETHER, MANDELA AND DE KLERK EARNED THAT HONOR.

给那些努力为世界带来和平的人。 曼德拉和德克勒克在努力使南非团结起来的过程中赢得了这一荣誉。