文档介绍：Lesson 10 The Trial That Rocked the World
John Scopes
第十课震撼世界的审判
约翰•司科普斯
Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted in his prosecution by his son, also a lawyer, and Tennessee’s brilliant young attorney-general, Tom Stewart. Ridicule
布莱恩的样子老态龙钟,大腹便便。协助他进行起诉工作的有他的儿子—也是个律师—以及田纳西州年轻有为的检察长汤姆•斯图尔特。
After the preliminary sparring over legalities, Darrow got up to make his opening statement. "My friend the attorney-general says that John Scopes knows what he is here for," Darrow drawled. "I know what he is here for, too. He is here because ignorance and bigotry are rampant, and it is a mighty bination." Irony
履行完规定的法律诉讼程序之后,达罗站起来开始发言了。“我的朋友检察长先生方才告诉我们说约翰•司科普斯知道他为什么会被带上法庭,”达罗拖长着声音说。“我也知道他为什么会被带上法庭。那是因为愚昧和偏见还很猖獗,而且这两者又结合在一起,形成一股强大的势力。”
"Today it is the teachers, " he continued, "and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. " Irony
“今天受攻击的是教师,”他接着说道,“明天就会轮到杂志、书籍和报纸。要不了多久,社会上便会是一种人与人为仇,教派与教派为敌的局面,直到我们的社会大踏步地退回到十六世纪那光辉的年代,那时如果有谁胆敢给人类带来智慧、知识和文化,就会被那些愚昧的偏执狂们点燃柴堆活活烧死。”
The following day the prosecution began calling witnesses against me. Two of my pupils testified, grinning shyly at me, that I had