Blackbeard

黑胡子海盜

A long time ago, I had my first job. It didn’t give me much of an income. It was on a giant pirate ship. On my first night, there was a thick fog over the water. A lamp on the ship revealed an enormous man. He had a sword in his belt. His name was Blackbeard, and he was one of the most violent pirates ever.

很久以前，我找到了我的第一份工作，但是收入并不那么可觀。我的工作是在一艘龐大的海盜船上。第一天晚上，海上霧很大，船上的燈光下面站著一個身形巨大的人，腰里別著劍。他就是有史以來最暴力的海盜-黑胡子。

One day, Blackbeard did an extraordinary thing. He attacked several ships near a town. He took some of the town’s citizens. Then he declared, “You give me medicine!” Blackbeard wanted the medicine for some of the sick pirates on his ship.

有一天，黑胡子做了一件不尋常的事，那就是襲擊了附近鎮上的好幾艘船。他還抓了其中一些市民。隨后他宣布：“你們把藥給我！”他是想要為船上生病的海盜找藥。

The people had a bad impression of him. They were mad, and they resisted. But they were trapped. They wanted to get rid of him. So the town’s council decided to give him the medicine.

人們對他印象很差，因此大家都很生氣地拒絕了他的要求。但他們都被抓了起來。大家都想逃出去，所以鎮上的理事會決定把藥給他。

After this, there was a reward for catching Blackbeard. If Blackbeard was caught, he would have a trial. He didn’t want to go to jail, so he quit being a pirate.

此事過后，人們就開始懸賞捉拿黑胡子。一旦被抓住，他就要接受法庭的審判。他并不想為此鋃鐺入獄，所以他改行不再做海盜。

Blackbeard became a fisherman. But he ought to have stayed on land. The Royal Navy was still looking for him. They attacked him while he was fishing on his boat. Blackbeard fought against many men. Finally, he was killed. He didn’t even get a funeral. But people still tell tales about him many years later.

他改行做了一名漁民。但他本應該不再待在海上，因為皇家海軍還在懸賞捉拿他。海軍在他出海打漁之時對他發動了襲擊。黑胡子奮起反抗，但終因寡不敵眾而被殺。人們甚至沒有為他舉行葬禮。但許多年后，依然有人在傳說他的故事。

單詞

citizen n.市民

council n.委員會

declare v.宣布

enormous adj.巨大的

extraordinary adj.非凡的

fog n.霧

funeral n.葬禮

giant adj.巨大的

impression n.印象

income n.收入

mad adj.瘋狂的

ought  v.應該

resist v.抵抗

reveal v.揭露

rid v.使擺脫

sword n.劍

tale n.傳說

trap v.夾住，絆住

trial n.審判

violent adj.暴力的