Today, we begin a two-part story about songwriter and singer Woody Guthrie.

今天我们讲述词曲作家和歌手伍迪·格思里的故事的上半部分。

The oppression and bad conditions in the workers' camps made Woody Guthrie angry.

工人营地的压迫和恶劣条件让伍迪·格思里感到愤怒。

Woody Guthrie grew up in Oklahoma and Texas during the nineteen twenties.

20世纪20年代，伍迪·格思里在俄克拉荷马州和得克萨斯州长大。

Like many other people, Woody Guthrie left Pampa to travel around Texas and the Southwest looking for work.

像很多人一样，伍迪·格思里也离开彭巴去到德克萨斯州和西南部找工作。

I will end with lyrics written by one of my favorite folk singers, Woody Guthrie in his song Worlds on Fire.

伍迪·格思是我最喜欢的民谣歌手之一，他有一首歌 Worlds on Fire，我将以其中的部分歌词作为今天演讲的结尾。

Woody Guthrie remained in the hospital until he died in nineteen sixty-seven. His family and friends visited him each week.

伍迪·格思里一直在医院里，直到1967年去世。他的家人和朋友每周都来看他。

Woody Guthrie began noting something strange about himself. He found that the words he wrote often did not make sense.

伍迪·格思里开始意识到自己有些奇怪。他发现他写的字常常是不对的。

His name is Woody Guthrie. He is singing a song about men who look for work as they travel from town to town.

他就是伍迪·格思里。他正在唱一首关于一群在镇子间穿梭寻找工作的男人的歌曲。

He had Huntington's chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother. Woody Guthrie was forty years old.

他患有亨廷顿舞蹈病，这是一种大脑和神经系统的疾病，他的母亲就是死于这种病。伍迪·格思里当时40岁。

Woody Guthrie's son, Arlo Guthrie, was also part of this folk music tradition.

Woody Guthrie 的儿子 Arlo Guthrie 也是这种民间音乐传统的一部分。

You may have heard of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger from the '30s and '40s.

您可能听说过 30 和 40 年代的 Woody Guthrie 和 Pete Seeger。

In nineteen forty-one, the Interior Department asked Woody Guthrie to write songs supporting the building of the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in Washington state.

1941年，内政部要求伍迪·格思里为华盛顿州哥伦比亚河上的博纳维尔大坝的建设创作歌曲。

“Dust Storm Disaster” by American folk legend Woody Guthrie paints a picture of the Route 66 travelers.

美国民间传奇人物伍迪格思里的“沙尘暴灾难”描绘了66号公路旅行者的画面。

By the late nineteen fifties, folk music became popular again in the United States. More Americans began listening and playing the songs of Woody Guthrie.

20世纪50年代，民谣再次在美国流行起来。更多的美国人开始聆听和演唱伍迪·格思里的音乐。

One book critic wrote: Someday, people are going to wake up and realize that Woody Guthrie and his songs are a national treasure, like the Yellowstone or Yosemite parks.

" 有一天，人们就会觉醒，意识到伍迪·格思里和他的歌曲就是国家宝藏，就像黄石公园和约塞米蒂国家公园一样。"

The song has been recorded by some of the great American folk singers, such as Woody Guthrie and his son, Arlo Guthrie.

这首歌已被一些伟大的美国民谣歌手录制，例如 Woody Guthrie 和他的儿子 Arlo Guthrie。

In fact one singer, a folk singer by the name of Woody Guthrie actually wrote a song in response to God Bless America called This Land is Your Land.

事实上，一位歌手，一位名叫伍迪·格思里 (Woody Guthrie) 的民谣歌手实际上写了一首歌曲来回应上帝保佑美国，名为“这片土地是你的土地”。

Wexler won an Academy award for his innovative black-and-white camera work on the 1966 film 'Who Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf' and a second a decade later for 'Bound for Glory' based on the American musician Woody Guthrie.

1966年，韦克斯勒凭借黑白电影《灵欲春宵》的精彩摄影而获得奥斯卡，10年之后，他又凭借美国民谣歌手伍迪·格斯里的传记电影《奔向光荣》再次夺冠。