3 School Days

Chapter 3 School Days When George woke up the next morning, he stepped outside. The owner of the barn, Mariah Watkins, saw him. She figured he was hungry, so she fixed him some breakfast in the main house.

当乔治第二天早上醒来时，他走到外面。 谷仓的主人玛丽亚·沃特金斯看见了他。 她以为他饿了，就在主屋给他准备了早餐。

"What's your name?" Mariah asked him. "I'm Carver's George," he said. That sounded as if Carver owned George. Mrs. Watkins, who was black, didn't like that. Slavery had ended more than ten years earlier, and nobody owned anyone else. So Mrs. Watkins called him "George Carver." George told Mrs. Watkins that he was in Neosho to go to school. He didn't have a place to live yet, but he'd figure something out. Mrs. Watkins was a kind woman, so she told George he could stay with her and her husband, Andrew. But she also was a strict, no-nonsense

“你叫什么名字？”玛丽亚问他。 “我是卡弗的乔治，”他说。 听起来好像乔治是卡弗的。 沃特金斯太太是黑人，她不喜欢这样。 奴隶制在十多年前就结束了，没有人拥有别人。 所以沃特金斯太太叫他“乔治·卡弗”。 乔治告诉沃特金斯太太，他是来尼欧肖上学的。 他还没地方住，但他会想办法的。 沃特金斯太太是个善良的女人，所以她告诉乔治他可以和她和她丈夫安德鲁住在一起。 但她也是一个严格、严肃的人

woman. If George was going to live there and go to the nearby Lincoln School—named after Abraham Lincoln—he'd have to do his share of the chores. George was delighted with that deal. He already could clean house and do laundry. Moses Carver had taught George not to waste anything. Now Mrs. Watkins taught him not to waste any time. She expected him to go to school during the day, but to come home at recess and do laundry. After school, he would clean the house and maybe help cook dinner. George and Mr. and Mrs. Watkins read the Bible during the week, and they went to church on Sundays. Sometimes, George walked back to Diamond Grove to visit Moses and Susan and Jim on the weekends.

女人。如果乔治要住在那里，去附近以亚伯拉罕·林肯命名的林肯学校上学，他就得做他那份家务。 乔治对那笔交易很满意。 他已经会打扫房子和洗衣服了。 摩西·卡弗曾教导乔治不要浪费任何东西。 沃特金斯太太教他不要浪费时间。 她希望他白天去上学，但在课间休息时回家洗衣服。 放学后，他会打扫房子，也许还会帮忙做饭。 乔治和沃特金斯夫妇平时读《圣经》，星期天去教堂做礼拜。 有时，乔治会在周末走回钻石树林去看望摩西、苏珊和吉姆。

Neosho was different than Diamond Grove. There were about 3,300 people living there— almost three times as many people as in Diamond Grove. And about one of every eight residents in Neosho was black. Diamond Grove had only sixteen black people living in the whole town when George grew up there. George stayed in Neosho for a year or so, and learned just about all he could at the one-room Lincoln School. "This simply sharpened my

Neosho与Diamond Grove不同。 大约有3300人住在那里，几乎是钻石格罗夫的三倍。 尼奥肖每八个居民中就有一个是黑人。 乔治在钻石树林长大的时候，整个镇上只有16个黑人。 乔治在尼欧肖待了一年左右，在只有一间教室的林肯学校里，他几乎学到了所有能学的东西。 这只会使我的

appetite for more knowledge," he wrote. He found that if he wanted more schooling, he'd have to move again... and again... and again. At the time, many former slaves were moving from the South into Kansas and other Northern states in search of a better life. In 1878, George hitched a ride with one such family on the way to Fort Scott, Kansas. George rode in the back of

对更多知识的渴望，”他写道。 他发现，如果他想继续上学，就必须再次搬家。 一次又一次……一次又一次。当时，许多昔日的奴隶正从南方迁往堪萨斯和其他北方各州，寻求更好的生活。 1878年，乔治搭了一个这样的家庭的便车，前往堪萨斯州的斯科特堡。 乔治骑在后面

a wagon for part of the eighty-mile trip and walked the rest of the way. In 1879, he moved to Olathe, Kansas. In 1880, he moved to Minneapolis, Kansas, and then to Paola, Kansas.

在80英里的路程中，有一段是乘马车走的，剩下的路程是步行走的。 1879年，他搬到了堪萨斯州的奥拉西。 1880年，他搬到堪萨斯州的明尼阿波利斯，然后搬到堪萨斯州的保拉。