第1个回答 2022-07-18
In 1916, two girls of wealthy families, best friends from Auburn, N. Y. - Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood - traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had gone to Smith College. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff's granddaughter.
1916年，两个来自纽约州奥本富裕家庭的女孩，好朋友——多萝西·伍德拉夫和罗莎蒙德·安德伍德来到落基山脉的一个定居点，在只有一间教室的校舍里教书。女孩们毕业于史密斯学院，服饰昂贵。因此，对她们来说，搬到科罗拉多州埃尔克黑德教那些用绳子将鞋绑在一起的孩子们让人惊讶。她们在埃尔克黑德的逗留是《无所畏惧：两个社会女孩在西部的意外教育》一书的主题，作者多萝西·威肯登是一名杂志编辑，也是多萝西·伍德拉夫的孙女。
Why did they go then? Well, they wanted to do something useful. Soon, however, they realized what they had undertaken.
她们为什么要去？她们想做些有意义的事。然而，她们很快意识到了要承担的责任。
They moved in with a local family, the Harrisons, and, like them, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings, Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from the cold. In spring, the snow was replaced by mud over ice.
她们搬进了当地的哈里森一家，和他们一样，几乎没有隐私，很少洗澡，早上醒来时被子上覆盖着一层雪。有几个早上，罗莎蒙德和多萝西来到学校，发现孩子们因寒冷而哭泣。春天，雪成了混着冰水的泥。
In Wickenden's book, she expanded on the history of the West and also on feminism, which of course influenced the girls' decision to go to Elkhead. A hair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads, which entailed drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy's return to Auburn.
在威肯登的书中，她提及了西部历史和女权主义，这些影响了女孩们去埃尔克黑德的决定。令人恐惧的一部分涉及到铁路建设，需要在落基山脉钻探，常常是在暴风雪中。这本书以罗莎蒙德和多萝西回到奥本结束。
Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and the stoicism of the people move her to some beautiful writing. Here is a picture of Dorothy Woodruff, on her horse, looking down from a hill top: "When the sun slipped behind the mountains, it shed a rosy glow all around them. Then a full moon rose. The snow was marked only by small animals: foxes, coyotes, mice, and varying hares, which turned white in the winter."
威肯登很会讲故事，大地的辽阔和人们的坚忍让她写出了一些美丽的作品。这是一张多萝西·伍德拉夫骑着马从山顶往下看的照片：“当太阳下山后，它的周围发出玫瑰色的光芒。然后，满月升起。雪地上只有小动物：狐狸、郊狼、老鼠和各种各样的野兔，冬天一片白色