4 Chapter 3 An Unwelcome Visitor

Chapter 3 An Unwelcome Visitor Gandhi returned to India. Bombay Harbor greeted him with rough and choppy waters. Gandhi’s older brother Laxmidas greeted him with sad news. Their mother had died while Gandhi was away.

第三章不速之客甘地回到印度。 迎接他的是波涛汹涌的孟买港。 甘地的哥哥拉克希米达斯带着悲伤的消息迎接他。 他们的母亲在甘地不在的时候去世了。

Coming back home was not easy for Gandhi. His caste would not accept him. To please his brother, Gandhi agreed to bathe in the sacred Godavari River to wash away the sins of England.

回家对甘地来说并不容易。 他的种姓不会接受他。 为了取悦他的兄弟，甘地同意在神圣的哥达瓦里河沐浴，以洗去英国的罪恶。

He was then readmitted to his caste. But his home life was full of arguments with Kasturbai. Gandhi had tried to teach her new English traditions of cooking, eating, and dressing. Gandhi went to find work in Bombay. But he soon found he was still too shy to be a lawyer. As he stood up to present his very first case, “My head was reeling, and I felt as though the whole court was doing likewise.” He set up an office in Rajkot where he could work at his desk instead of in court.

然后，他被重新接纳为他的种姓。 但他的家庭生活充满了与卡斯图尔拜的争论。 甘地试图教她新的英国烹饪、饮食和穿衣传统。 甘地去孟买找工作。 但他很快发现自己还是太害羞，不能成为一名律师。 当他站起来陈述他的第一个案件时，“我头晕目眩，我觉得整个法庭都在做同样的事情。”他在拉杰果德设立了一间办公室，在那里他可以坐在办公桌前工作，而不是在法庭上。

Then Gandhi received some good news. A merchant from Porbandar was living in South Africa. He needed a lawyer for a court case there. The job would last one year. Gandhi decided to give it a try. Although he and his wife had recently welcomed a new baby boy named Manilal into their family, Gandhi left his wife and two young sons under Laxmidas’s care and set out for Durban, South Africa, in April 1893.

然后甘地收到了一些好消息。 一个来自波尔班达的商人住在南非。 他需要一名律师在那里打官司。 这份工作将持续一年。 甘地决定试一试。 尽管他和妻子刚刚迎来了一个名叫曼尼拉尔的男婴，但甘地还是在1893年4月把妻子和两个年幼的儿子交给了拉克希米达斯照顾，动身前往南非的德班。

A week after he arrived in South Africa, Gandhi traveled to Pretoria for his court case. He had a first-class ticket on the train. During the journey, the train stopped at the Maritzburg Station at about nine in the evening. A European

到达南非一周后，甘地前往比勒陀利亚为他的案件辩护。 他有一张头等票。 在旅途中，火车在晚上9点左右在马里茨堡站停了下来。 一个欧洲

man entered the car. He did not like seeing an Indian man in first class. The man left and came back with a railway official. The official ordered Gandhi to go back to the third-class car. Gandhi showed them his ticket. He refused

一个人进了车。他不喜欢在头等舱看到一个印度人。 那人离开了，回来时带了一个铁路官员。 这位官员命令甘地回到三等车厢。 甘地给他们看了他的票。 他拒绝了