比利·戴尔（节选3）  

Billie Dyer （Ⅲ）

作　　者：威廉·马克斯韦尔 刘士聪（译析） 

出　　处：《英语世界》2012年第6期115-118,共4页The World of English

摘　　要：比利·戴尔的妈妈出生在密苏里州的锡代利亚，是北方联邦军队中一个将军夫人的合法财产。她父母逃跑了，被抓住送了回来，史密斯将军把她父亲挂牌出售，卖给了一个南方人，从此杏无音信。当孩子们问她出生的地方是什么样子时，她说她不记得。还说不会有人来把她带走了，因为很久以前，所有的奴隶就已经自由了，而且再也不会有奴隶了。Billie Dyer＇s mother was born in Sedalia, Missouri, the legal property of the wife of a general inthe Union Army. Her father and mother ran away and were caught and returned, and General Smith put her father on the block and he was sold to someone in the South and never heard of again. When her children asked what the place where she was born was like, she told them she couldn＇t remember. And that nobody could come and take her away because file slaves were freed, all of them, a long time ago, and there would never be slaves again.

关 键 词：戴尔 节选 密苏里州 合法财产 史密斯 将军 奴隶 挂牌 

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