2 City of Light

Chapter 2 City of Light When Nelson was sixteen, he and Justice took part in an important ceremony where they became men in the eyes of the village. After the ceremony a tribal leader made a speech. "Among these young men are

纳尔逊16岁的时候，他和贾斯蒂斯参加了一个重要的仪式，在那里他们成为了全村人眼中的男人。 仪式结束后，一位部落首领发表了讲话。 “这些年轻人中有

chiefs who will never rule because we have no power to govern ourselves," the man said. Governing was exactly what Nelson wanted to do when he grew up. He attended a boarding school in Engcobo so that he could one day advise rulers like Jongintaba. Then in 1937 he transferred to Healdtown, a church-run college. From there he went to Fort Hare, the only all-black college in the country. Many white South Africans thought that all black people needed to learn was how to serve white people. Schools like Fort Hare gave black South Africans bad ideas, they thought. They made black people think they were as smart as white people and could compete with them for jobs.

这些酋长永远不会统治，因为我们没有权力管理自己，”那人说。 执政正是纳尔逊长大后想做的事情。 他在恩科博的一所寄宿学校上学，以便有朝一日能给像琼津塔巴这样的统治者提供建议。 1937年，他转学到教会开办的希尔德敦大学。 从那里他去了黑尔堡大学，这是全国唯一一所全是黑人的大学。 许多南非白人认为所有黑人需要学习的是如何为白人服务。 他们认为，像黑尔堡这样的学校给南非黑人灌输了不好的思想。 他们让黑人认为他们和白人一样聪明，可以和他们竞争工作。

Fort Hare did give Nelson ideas. He began to study the world outside South Africa. Nelson planned to one day work for the Native Affairs Department, which

黑尔堡确实给了纳尔逊一些想法。 他开始研究南非以外的世界。 纳尔逊计划有一天在土著事务部门工作

enforced laws such as the "pass laws" requiring all black South Africans to carry a passport all the time. He hoped to change the laws so that black people would be treated better. He worked hard in school to reach his goals. But in 1940 Nelson resigned from the Students' Representative Council in protest of the bad conditions in the dorms. "Supper was four remarkably thin slices of bread," Nelson's college friend Oliver Tambo would later say, "taken with a small cup of milk water." The school authorities said any student resigning from student government would be expelled from school. When Jongintaba found out that Nelson had left school he ordered him to return. He also ordered him to get married. He had found Nelson the perfect bride. She was "fat and dignified," Nelson said later. Some say she was in love with Justice.

强制执行法律，比如要求所有南非黑人一直携带护照的“通行证法”。 他希望修改法律，使黑人得到更好的待遇。 他在学校努力学习以达到自己的目标。 但在1940年，纳尔逊辞去了学生代表委员会的职务，以抗议宿舍的恶劣条件。 “晚餐是四片非常薄的面包，”纳尔逊的大学朋友奥利弗·坦博（Oliver Tambo）后来说，“就着一小杯牛奶一起吃。” 校方表示，任何从学生会辞职的学生都将被开除。 当琼津塔巴发现纳尔逊已经离开学校时，他命令他回去。 他还命令他结婚。 他发现纳尔逊是最完美的新娘。 纳尔逊后来说，她“又胖又端庄”。 有人说她爱上了正义。

Neither boy wanted to get married yet. So they ran away to the greatest city in South Africa. To Nelson Mandela, Johannesburg looked like a city of light. "A vast landscape of electricity," he called it. He and Justice got jobs, but were soon caught by Jongintaba's men. Justice had to return home to take his father's place one day. But Nelson convinced his foster father to let him stay in the city and study law.

两个男孩都还不想结婚。 所以他们逃到了南非最大的城市。 对纳尔逊·曼德拉来说，约翰内斯堡就像一座光明之城。 “一个巨大的电力景观，”他说。 他和正义得到了工作，但很快就被琼津塔巴的人抓住了。 有一天，正义不得不回家代替他父亲的位置。 但纳尔逊说服了他的养父让他留在城里学习法律。

In Johannesburg, Nelson made new friends like Walter Sisulu. Sisulu was the son of a black cleaning lady and a white government official. He had worked many different jobs and led strikes for better wages for black workers. Sisulu got Nelson a job at a law firm. He also encouraged Nelson to enroll at a local university as a law student. Nelson married Sisulu's cousin Evelyn in 1944, and they soon had a son, Thembi.

在约翰内斯堡，纳尔逊结识了像沃尔特·西苏鲁这样的新朋友。 西苏鲁是一名黑人清洁女工和一名白人政府官员的儿子。 他做过许多不同的工作，并领导过为提高黑人工人工资而举行的罢工。 西苏鲁帮尼尔森在一家律师事务所找了份工作。 他还鼓励纳尔逊在当地的一所大学注册成为一名法律系学生。 1944年，纳尔逊与西苏鲁的表妹伊芙琳结婚，他们很快就有了一个儿子，名叫泰姆比。