K:Hello, Jim, what are you watching? Looks like you are very serious.

K:你好，吉姆，在看什么呢？你看上去好像很严肃的样子啊。

J:Oh, it’s a movie about the famous hero called Nathan Hale. He was killed by the British Army.

J：嗨，凯特，我在看一部关于著名英雄内森黑尔的电影。他被英军杀害了。

K:Yeah, to tell the truth, recently I am reading his biography. Indeed he is a hero in our country.

K:是的，说实话，最近我正在读他的自传呢。他真的可以称得上是我们国家的英雄。

J:Oh, Kate, that’s very good. You know I am busy with finding a person who has a good knowledge of Nathan Hale. Kate, please talk something of Hale with me today.

J:啊，凯特，那真是太好了。你知道吗，我现在正忙着找一个对他十分了解的人呢。

K:Well, I am glad to have a discussion with you, and I hope you can get some useful information from me.

J：凯特，今天咱们来说一下黑尔吧。

J:Yeah, please tell me. Let us start now, I am eager to know more things about him. His spirit and talent deserves us to learn.

K:嗯，很高兴和你谈论他，希望你能从我这里得到点有用的东西。

K:Sure. He was graduated from Yale University, that’s why his statue is located in the campus of it.

J：嗯，快告诉我，咱们现在讨论吧，我真得很急切地想知道呢。

J:Oh, Kate, I have seen his statue in some other places. I know that he was a good student at school. Do you know anything about his after graduation?

K:好的。他毕业于耶鲁大学，那也是为什么他的雕像会放在耶鲁大学的校园里了。

K:After his graduation, he became a teacher firstly, and you can guess that he did a lot of contribution to the educational career of the United States. Then the Independent War took place, he joined the army, and became a soldier.

J：啊，凯特，我在很多地方看见过他的雕像。我知道他是一个好学生。你知道他毕 业后的事情吗？

J:Kate, wait for a minute. You said he became a soldier. I can’t believe it. A teacher became a soldier, and he is so brave.

K:毕业后，他成了一名老师，为美国的教育事业作出了不少贡献。之后发生了独立 战争，他入伍成为了一名战士。

K: In the Battle of Long Island, he volunteered to be a spy, and then went to the back line of the British army to search intelligence of Britain.

J：等等，凯特，你说他成为了一名战士，我真不敢相信，一名教师会变成一个战士， 他真是太勇敢了。

J: Oh, I know why he was so easily caught by the enemy, because he lacked the basic trainings as a spy.

K:在长岛战争中，他自愿到英军后方去，做捜寻英国情报的间谍。

K: That’s only one factor which led to his failure. He was so easy to trust others if not he would not be recognized by the British.

J：啊，我知道为什么他如此容易就被敌人 抓住了，因为他缺乏基本的间谍训练啊。

J: Eh, I agree with you. He lacked essential experience as a spy.

K:那只是导致他失败的原因之_。他容易 轻信别人，若不是这样，他也不会这么 快就被认出来了。

K: At first, he was suspected by the British, but that man felt not so sure, then he claimed himself to be a person like Hale. Hale, on the contrary, without any doubt on that man, easily trust him, then the British found the physical evidence on him, so he was caught immediately.

J:嗯，我同意你的观点。作为_名间谍，他缺乏必要的经验。

J: He was so incautious. It's unwise to outlet your identity before you make it sure.

K:起初，他只是被怀疑，但对方并不确信黑尔是不是间谍。那个人就自称自己和黑 尔一样是间谍，而黑尔一点也不怀疑他的身份，就轻易地相信了。之后英军从他 身上发现了实物证据，他被轻而易举地抓获了。

K: Although that, in my heart, he is still a great hero in American Revolution. He was brave enough to receive the task which was so dangerous that he might lose his life.

K：但在我心中，他仍是一个大英雄。在独立战争中，他勇敢的接受任务，尽管那任 务危险得足以丢掉他的性命。

J: He didn’t hesitate for a moment, without any professional skills as a spy, he alone went to the exotic country to finish his task.

J：尽管设有接受任何专业的训练，他也毫不犹豫，独自一人，远赴异国去执行任务。

K: Only this point will make every generation of American to remember him.

K:仅这一点，就足以让美国的后代都记住他了。

J： He was really very courageous. The American soldiers must become very encouraged by his brave spirit. 

J:他那种精神真地很鼓舞人心。美国的战士也_定被他的精神鼓舞了吧。

K: Sure, so maybe that’s one of the reasons why the United States made a success in the war.

K:是的，那也许是美国能在这场战争中取胜的原因之一吧。

J: His last words were “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Those great words will leave in the heart of everyone.

J：他最后的遗言是，我惟一的憾事就是没有第二次生命献给我的祖国。”这些有力 的话语将永远留在每个人的心中。

K: Though he died, his spirit would live in the mind of many a people.

K:尽管他死了，可他的精神却留在了我们的思想里。

J: Sure. He is a person whose spirit deserves us to learn.

J：是的，他的精神值得我们学习。

K: There are many people like him in the history of the United States. I hope there will be more people like him to appear in the future.

K:在美国历史上有很多像他这样的人。我希望美国未来还能出现更多这样的人。

J: Yes, although we cannot control others to do something, we can make our choice to do something or not.

J：是的，尽管我们不能左右别人的行为，但我们可以自己选择做什么，不做什么。

K: Let us be a man like him.
 

K:让我们成为他那样的人吧。