如题所述
翻译:
当Quaker Elizabeth与Joseph Fry结婚后,她的生活好像应该要变得舒适安逸。但是Elizabeth并不满足于她简单的生活和她正在成长的家庭,当她看到许多生活在她周围的贫穷的人时,她想要帮助他们。
一天她被叫去探望一个囚犯,起初看守不想让她进去因为怕犯人袭击她,但Elizabeth不怕。
她注意到犯人们表现很差是因为他们被人好像动物般对待他们没有床、干净的衣服、食物或温暖任何在监狱出生的小孩将会留在那里并再无机会接受教育。
这意味着他们长大后将被迫去乞讨或偷窃,然后最终又会回到监狱。所以Elizabeth第一件事是先提供食物,干净的衣服和草床,然后她又开了一家监狱学校,并教妇女们缝纫、编织然后卖了成品。
这样她们就可以赚些小钱,并增加自尊。她的善举帮她迎得了犯人们的友谊并且开始改善他们自己的状况。不久后她被邀与英国首领讨论如何改善监狱现状。
当然她并不是一人独立完成这些工作。她的姐妹们帮她在全国各地奔走筹款。一些人不认同她的想法并与她争论。他们说她应多花些时间在家庭上。其它人则说她过于在乎名声。
然而,她的丈夫十分支持鼓励她。所以她一直坚持工作直至去世。她的理念并没有随着她的逝去而消失,而她的工作将被铭记,1947年她们家族被授予诺贝尔奖。
原文:
When Quaker Elizabeth married Joseph fry, it seemed that her life should be comfortable. But Elizabeth was not satisfied with her simple life and the family she was growing up with. When she saw many poor people living around her, she wanted to help them.
One day, she was called to visit a prisoner. At first, the guard didn't want her in because she was afraid that the prisoner would attack her, but Elizabeth was not afraid.
She noticed that the inmates behaved badly because they were treated like animals, they had no bed, clean clothes, food or warmth, and any child born in prison would stay there and never get an education.
This means that they will be forced to beg or steal when they grow up, and then eventually return to prison. So Elizabeth's first thing was to provide food, clean clothes and straw beds, and then she opened a prison school and taught women to sew, knit, and sell finished products.
So they can make some small money and increase their self-esteem. Her kindness helped her to win the friendship of the prisoners and begin to improve their own situation. Soon after, she was invited to discuss with British leaders how to improve the prison situation.
Of course, she didn't do it alone. Her sisters helped her to raise money around the country. Some people disagree with her and argue with her. They said she should spend more time at home. Others say she cares too much about fame.
However, her husband was very supportive and encouraged her. So she kept working until she died. Her ideas did not disappear with her death, and her work will be remembered, and their family was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1947.