汤姆之死

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Atticus did not give up. 阿提克斯没有放弃。

He planned to fight the case again, to try to save Tom. 他计划再次为这个案子辩护，试图营救汤姆。

There was still hope. 仍然有希望。

But then the terrible news arrived. 但是，可怕的消息传来了。

Tom Robinson was dead. 汤姆·鲁滨逊死了。

In the prison, Tom had lost all hope. 在监狱里，汤姆已经失去了所有的希望。

He did not believe the courts would ever treat him fairly. 他不相信法庭会永远公正地对待他。

So one day, in despair, he tried to climb the prison fence and run away. 于是有一天，在绝望中，他试图爬上监狱的围墙逃跑。

The guards shouted for him to stop. 狱警们喊叫着让他停下。

When he did not, they shot him. 当他没有停下时，他们朝他开枪了。

They fired many times. 他们连开了数枪。

Tom died there, against the fence. 汤姆就死在那里，靠着围墙。

"He was so close to a new trial," Atticus said sadly. “他眼看就要获得重审了，”阿提克斯悲伤地说。

"Why didn't he wait? “他为什么不等呢？

Why didn't he trust us?" 他为什么不信任我们呢？”

But I understood, a little. 但我有点明白了。

Tom had lost his faith in the courts. 汤姆已经对法庭失去了信心。

He had chosen to take his one small chance himself, 他选择了亲自抓住他那微小的机会，

rather than trust a system 而不是信任一个体制，

that had already failed him. 那个已经辜负了他的。

When people are denied hope for long enough, they stop believing that fairness will ever come. 当人们长期被剥夺希望时，他们就不再相信公正会降临。

The whole thing was a deep and quiet tragedy. 整件事是一场深沉而无声的悲剧。

Yet one angry man in town was not finished making trouble. 然而，镇上一个心怀怨恨的人还没有停止制造麻烦。

His name was Bob Ewell. 他的名字叫鲍勃·尤厄尔。