来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国内战与重建1845-1877 第5集第5集》

for one so young.

他是如此的年轻
He first drafted this when he was 26.

他着手写这本自传时只有二十六岁
He escaped from slavery when he was 20-years-old.

他二十岁时得以解脱奴隶身份
You'll find out in the text how he learned his literacy.

在书上你会读到他是怎么开始认字的
He learned it first from his white mistress, Miss Sophia

他的白人女主人索菲亚小姐教会了他认字
who became like an angelic mother-figure to him

在她禁止他继续学习之前
until she took language away from him.

她一直是个天使般的母亲
The book is full of metaphor,

这本书充满了隐喻
it is full of one kind of tale and story after another

道格拉斯用各种各样连续的故事
that Douglass shapes into telling a free story.

组成了一个自由的故事
Telling a free story,

讲述了一个关于自由的故事
as the great literary critic of this genre,

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