2021考研英語長難句復(fù)習(xí)（三十三）

　　

　　Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will.

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　?、賁till, Jefferson freed Hemings’s children – though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves.

　　②Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will.

　?、跲nly a decade earlier, such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia.

　　參考譯文

　　①但是，杰弗遜給了赫明斯的孩子自由——雖然沒有給她本人和其他近 150 名奴隸自由。

　?、谀慷昧私夥艖?zhàn)爭中黑人士兵的勇敢后，華盛頓開始相信人人生而平等，他不顧親戚的強烈反對，在遺囑中賦予他的奴隸自由。

　?、鄱鴥H僅在那之前十年的弗吉尼亞州，這種行為的實施還要得到立法機關(guān)的批準(zhǔn)。