新托福阅读材料：Pocahontas' Wedding Site Found

传奇的印第安女子

波卡·洪塔斯 (Pocahontas)

生于: 1596年

死于:1617年3月21日

波卡·洪塔斯(Pocahontas)是波瓦坦(Powhatan)之女，波瓦坦是住在维吉尼亚州的亚尔冈京印地安人(AlgonquianIndians：即波瓦坦人)的一位重要酋长。她的真名是「Matoaka」，而波卡·洪塔斯是她的绰号，意为「爱嬉戏的」或「调皮的」。波卡洪塔斯最着名的事为传闻她救了英国上尉史密斯(JohnSmith)的生命。她的一生短暂(死于22岁)，但她在其他方面却影响深远。波卡洪塔斯试着要促进波瓦坦人及英国殖民间的和平;她甚至改信基督教及嫁给一位詹姆士镇的移民罗尔夫(JohnRolfe)，一段有助于两边人民融合的婚姻。

一九九五年，迪斯尼影片公司推出的第三十三部经典动画片《风中奇缘》(Pocahontas)，该片是根据这位印第安公主的真实经历改编而成，也是迪斯尼第一部由真实历史改编的长篇剧情动画片。

A team of archaeologists believe they may have finally discovered Pocahontas' wedding site, a mystery that has long vexed scholars.

印第安公主波卡·洪塔斯的婚礼现场时长期困扰学者的未解之谜，考古学家小组深信他们发现了当年的婚礼现场遗址。

Her matrimonial location may sound more modern than one would expect for a 1614 marriage between a 19-year-old daughter of an American Indian chief and her tobacco farmer husband.

与人们预期中的1614年间一个印第安酋长的女儿与其烟农丈夫的婚礼不一样，波卡·洪塔斯的婚礼现场更时髦。

Archaeologist Bill Kelso and his team discovered the church in a previously unexplored area of the fort in Jamestown, Virg. During a dig, they unearthed a series of deep holes. They believe the holes were once filled with wood columns that supported the fort's first church, built in 1608.

考古学家比尔·凯尔索和他的团队在詹姆斯敦未曾开发的的区域发现了一座教堂。挖掘过程中他们发现了一连串的洞穴。他们认为这些洞穴里曾经堆满了用于1608年修建第一座教堂的木柱。

Kelso has spent decades excavating Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in colonial America.

凯尔索花了十年的时间在挖掘詹姆斯敦—英国在美洲殖民时的第一个根据地。

Remnants of the church are mostly now gone, but Kelso believes the site had 60-foot-long walls and a thatched roof.

现在，教堂的残骸大多已经消逝了，但是凯尔索相信这个地方曾是有60英尺长的墙，并且房顶是用茅草盖的。

A row of graves found near the altar was the clincher that convinced his team that they had indeed found the fort's church.

在祭坛附近发现的一排坟墓是让这个团队确信发现了教堂的关键。

Historically, prominent Anglicans were buried in that part of the church, called the chancel.

历史上那些杰出的英国教徒葬于教堂被称为圣坛的区域。