赛珍珠：首位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国女性
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The year was 1931.
那是1931年。
The top selling book in the United States was The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.
美国最畅销的书是赛珍珠的《大地》。
The following year, Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for the best novel by an American writer.
第二年，赛珍珠荣获普利策奖最佳美国作家小说奖。
In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1938年，赛珍珠成为首位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国女性。
She wrote more than one hundred books.
她写了一百多本书。
She also wrote short stories, poetry, plays, essays, and children’s books.
她还创作了短篇小说、诗歌、戏剧、散文和儿童书籍。
But most people remember Pearl Buck for her novels about China.
但大多数人记住赛珍珠，是因为她写中国的小说。
She knew the country and its people very well.
她非常了解这个国家及其人民。
For nearly 40 years, China was her home.
近40年来，中国一直是她的家。
Early life
早年生活
Pearl’s parents were Caroline and Absalom Sydenstricker.
赛珍珠的父母是卡罗琳和赛兆祥。
They were religious workers in China.
他们是在中国的宗教工作者。
Pearl’s education began at home.
珀尔的教育是从家里开始的。
Her mother taught her many of the things she would have learned in an American school.
她的母亲教了她许多本会在美国学校学到的东西。
A Chinese teacher taught Pearl other subjects.
一位中文老师教珀尔其他科目。
In 1910, Pearl went back to the United States to study philosophy at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia.
1910年，赛珍珠回到美国，在弗吉尼亚州林奇堡的伦道夫-梅肯女子学院攻读哲学。
After graduation, she returned to China.
毕业后，她回到了中国。
Three years later, she met John Lossing Buck.
三年后，她遇到了约翰·洛辛·巴克。
He was a religious worker who studied agriculture.
他是一位研究农业的宗教工作者。
They were married and moved to a small village in the north of China.
他们结了婚，搬到了中国北方的一个小村庄。
Their life among the poorest people provided the subject matter for many of the books she later wrote.
他们与最贫困人群共同生活的经历，为她后来创作的许多书籍提供了素材。
The Good Earth
大地
The Good Earth is the story of a poor Chinese man named Wang Lung.
《大地》讲述了一个名叫王龙的贫穷中国男人的故事。
His wife is O-Lan.
他的妻子是欧兰。
They work very hard together and finally make enough money to buy some land for a farm.
他们一起非常努力地工作，最终赚够了钱，买下了一块土地来办农场。
After a time, they grow enough crops to feed their family well, with some left over to sell.
一段时间后，他们种的庄稼足以让家人吃饱，还有一些剩余可以出售。
Their lives get much better, and they are happy.
他们的生活变得好多了，他们很开心。
But the good times do not last.
但好景不长。
Pearl Buck wrote her first books about China at a time when most people in the world knew almost nothing about the Chinese way of life.
赛珍珠写她最初几本关于中国的书时，世界上大多数人对于中国人的生活方式几乎一无所知。
After almost 40 years in China, the writer moved back to the United States.
在中国生活了近40年后，这位作家搬回了美国。
She bought Green Hills Farm in eastern Pennsylvania.
她在宾夕法尼亚州东部买下了绿山农场。
She began to write articles for newspapers and magazines.
她开始为报纸和杂志撰写文章。
She expressed her opinions on war, politics, religion, equal rights for all people and many other subjects.
她表达了自己对战争、政治、宗教、人人平等以及许多其他话题的看法。
She also gave many speeches.
她还发表了许多演讲。
Buck talked to young people about the importance of a good education.
巴克和年轻人谈论了良好教育的重要性。
She also told them they needed to know more about other people around the world.
她还告诉他们，他们需要更多地了解世界各地的其他人。
Pearl Buck died in 1973 at the age of 80.
赛珍珠于1973年去世，享年80岁。
I’m John Russell.
我是约翰·拉塞尔。
Jim Tedder wrote this story for VOA Learning English.
吉姆·泰德为VOA学习英语撰写了这个故事。
John Russell adapted it.
约翰·拉塞尔改编了它。
