萨卡加维亚

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Sacagawea is remembered as one of the most courageous figures in the story 萨卡加维亚被铭记为故事中最勇敢的人物之一。

of the American West. 关于美国西部。

Her life was hard from the very start. 她的一生从一开始就非常艰辛。

As a girl of about eleven, 在她大约十一岁的时候，

she was captured by a rival tribe 她被一个敌对部落俘虏了。

and taken far from her Shoshone home. 并被带到远离她肖肖尼族家园的地方。

Years later, she became the wife of a French-Canadian fur trader. 多年以后，她成为了一位法裔加拿大皮草商人的妻子。

And when the explorers Lewis 而当探险家刘易斯

and Clark hired him to guide their great expedition across the unknown West, 和克拉克雇佣他来带领他们穿越未知西部的伟大远征时，

they soon realized that his young wife might be even more valuable. 他们很快意识到，他的年轻妻子可能更有价值。

She was just sixteen, with a newborn son — 她当时只有十六岁，还带着一个刚出生的儿子——

whom she carried on her back the entire journey. 她在整个旅程中都把他背在背上。

Sacagawea proved indispensable. 萨卡加维亚被证明是不可或缺的。

She knew the land and its peoples, 她熟悉这片土地和这里的人民，

and more than once she saved the men from starvation by finding hidden 而且不止一次地，她通过找到隐藏的

food. 食物，使男人们免于饥饿。

In a stroke of fortune, 幸运的是，

the expedition reached her own lost tribe — 远征队到达了她自己失散的部落——

now led by her own brother — 这个部落现在由她的亲哥哥领导——

and she helped them trade for the horses they desperately needed. 她帮助他们换取了他们急需的马匹。

Through swamps, snakes, and brutal weather, 穿过沼泽、躲避毒蛇、经历恶劣天气，

she pressed on with them all the way to the Pacific. 她与他们一同坚持前进，一路到达太平洋。

Today, more monuments honor Sacagawea than any other woman in American history 如今，纪念萨卡加维亚的纪念碑比美国历史上任何其他女性都多

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a captured girl who helped open a continent. 一个帮助开辟新大陆的被俘少女。