Laura Ingalls Wilder A Pioneer's Life

Laura Ingalls Wilder, A Pioneer's Life. Written by Katherine Follett.

劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德，一名拓荒者的一生。 凯瑟琳·福利特 著

Pioneer Life In the 1800s, pioneers streamed westward. To make way for them, in many cases, the U .S. Army pushed Native Americans from their homelands. The pioneers cleared the forests and plowed up the tough sod or grass roots that covered the prairie so they could grow crops. Pioneers had to build, grow, knit, sew, and cook almost everything they needed in order to live. The Prairie and the Big Woods Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867, in the woods of Pepin, Wisconsin. When Laura was just two years old, Ma and Pa Ingalls packed all their belongings into a covered and headed toward Independence, Kansas. It was the first of many moves the Ingalls family would make during Laura's childhood. They were pioneers, some of the first non -native Americans in the American West.

拓荒生活 在19世纪，大批拓荒者向西迁徙。 很多时候，美国军方为了给拓荒者腾地方，将原住民赶出了他们的家园。 拓荒者砍伐森林，翻耕草原上坚硬的草皮与草根，好种植庄稼。 生活所需的几乎一切，拓荒者都得自己建造、种植、编织、缝制和烹饪。 草原与大森林 劳拉·英格尔斯于1867年2月7日出生在威斯康星州佩平的森林里。 劳拉才两岁的时候，英格尔斯夫妇就把全部家当装上篷车，朝着堪萨斯州独立镇出发了。 这是劳拉童年时期，英格尔斯一家多次搬迁的第一趟旅程。 他们都是拓荒者，是最早进入美国西部的非原住居民之一。

Laura formed vivid memories on the Kansas prairie. She remembered how the insects and birds sang in the waving grass. She remembered how the sunsets colored the wide horizon. These sorts of memories would help shape her famous books. Yet the family only lived there for about a year before they returned to the woods of Wisconsin.

劳拉在堪萨斯草原留下了生动鲜活的回忆。 她记得昆虫和鸟儿在随风起伏的草丛里歌唱。 她记得落日给辽阔的地平线染上了缤纷的色彩。 这些回忆后来成就了她多部知名的作品。 不过一家人只在这里住了大约一年，就回到了威斯康星的森林。

In Wisconsin, though, four -year -old Laura discovered a wonderful new world. The big woods were dark, wild, and mysterious. Laura loved being outdoors, and on long winter evenings, Pa played his fiddle for the family. His music accompanied the happiest days of

不过回到威斯康星后，四岁的劳拉发现了一个奇妙的新世界。 大森林幽暗、野性又神秘。 劳拉喜爱户外活动，漫长的冬夜里，爸爸会为家人拉小提琴。 他的琴声陪伴着那段最快乐的

Hard Times Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. Pa could always make new ones. Laura Ingalls Wilder Pa Ingalls missed the open space of the prairies. When Laura was seven years old, he moved his young family to Minnesota. First, they moved into a house made of prairiesod, the thick grass that grew all around them. Later, Pa built a wood house and planted wheat near the town of Walnut Grove. Laura and her older sister Mary went to school. Laura loved reading, writing, and reciting. After a few months of happiness, hardship struck. Grasshoppers arrived in swarms as big as thunderclouds. They ate all the family's wheat. Having lost their crop, the Ingalls family moved to town and took odd jobs. Even little Laura cleaned and waited tables in a hotel. Then they lost their new baby brother, Freddy, to a fever.

艰难岁月 小屋里的所有东西都装上了马车，只留下了床、桌子和椅子。 这些家具爸爸总能重新做出来。 劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德 爸爸想念草原开阔的天地。 劳拉七岁那年，他带着年轻的一家人搬到了明尼苏达州。 一开始，他们住进了用周围随处生长的厚草皮搭成的房子。 后来，爸爸在核桃林镇附近盖了木屋，还种上了小麦。 劳拉和姐姐玛丽去上学了。 劳拉喜欢读书、写字和朗诵。 过了几个月的安稳日子，厄运突然降临。 蝗虫成群涌来，黑压压得就像雷雨云。 它们吃光了英格尔斯家所有的小麦。 庄家绝收后，英格尔斯一家搬到镇上靠打零工过活。 就连小小的劳拉都要去旅馆擦桌子、招待客人。 后来他们刚出生的小弟弟弗雷迪也因为发烧离开了人世。

Their spirits lifted a little when another baby, Grace, arrived in 1877, but times remained tough. Mary fell ill. Either the illness or a stroke damaged the nerves of her eyes. No one knows for sure what caused the damage, but Mary would be blind for the rest of her life. Pa decided it was time to look west for a new start. He went ahead to Dakota Territory to work for the railroad. The family boarded a train in Walnut Grove and rode west to join him.

1877年另一个小宝宝格蕾丝出生，一家人的心情稍稍好转，但日子依旧艰难。 玛丽生病了。 无论是这场疾病还是中风，都损伤了她眼部的神经。 没人知道损伤的确切原因，但玛丽此后一辈子都看不见了。 爸爸决定该向西出发，寻找新的开始了。 他先动身前往达科他领地，为铁路公司工作。 一家人在核桃林镇坐上火车，向西出发去和他汇合。