9.What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
9.自由宣言中两项权利是什么？
Answer:
答案：
Life
●生存
Liberty
●自由
Pursuit of happiness
●追求幸福
Explanation:
解释：
The phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” comes from the Declaration of Independence and it is something Americans talk a lot about. These words were written by Thomas Jefferson. He and the other men who wrote the Constitution believed that these are unalienable rights, that people are born with and that a government should not be given the power to take them away. These words have become synonymous with (or have the same meaning as) the “American spirit”（or the way that Americans think and feel).
”生存，自由，追求幸福”出自自由宣言，也是美国人经常讨论的话题。这些词由托马斯.杰斐逊所写，他和编纂宪法的同仁们认为这是人民与生俱来的权利，政府无权剥夺。这些词与美国精神相融合。
In the United States, the right to life is considered the most basic of all rights. It’s exactly what it sounds like: the right to be alive. It may seem funny that the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence included life as a right, but many of the earliest Americans had come from countries that did not take this right seriously. In many of these countries, governments executed (or killed) their own citizens. This is why the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence included the right to life.
生存权是美国最基本的一项权利，即活着的权力。你可能会对编写自由宣言的人将生存权纳入法案感到可笑，但早期美国移民搬来之前他们国家并不重视这一权利，许多国家政府会杀害自己的子民，这就是为什么生存权被纳入自由宣言。
The second of Jefferson’s rights is the right to liberty (or freedom). The right to liberty is a person’s right to make his or her own decisions. Again, many of the countries from which the earliest Americans came did not give their people this right.
杰斐逊提出的第二条是自由权。自由权是指民众可以自由做决定。早期美国人在移民之前也是没有此项权利的。
The rights to life and liberty are easy to understand, but the third right, the right to the pursuit of happiness, is more vague (or unclear and difficult to understand). To pursue is to work hard to get something, in this case, happiness. Happiness, of course, could mean anything a person wants to have: a job, a family, or a safe place to live. The writers of the Declaration of Independence believed that the government should not interfere with (or get in the way of) a person’s right to pursue happiness. The pursuit of happiness is exemplified by (or shown or seen in) many American rags-to-riches stories, where a person who is very poor becomes very rich because of their own hard work, including those of several U.S. Presidents.
生存权和自由权容易理解，但第三条最求幸福的权利则有些令人费解。最求指努力获取某物，在此指获取幸福。幸福可以是一个人想获得的任何事物：工作，家庭，安全居所。自由宣言编纂者认为政府不应干涉人民追求幸福的权利。许多由穷到富的美国人体现了这一权利，他们努力工作变富有，甚至好几位美国总统也是这么过来的。
Glossary
词汇
9.What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?
9.自由宣言中两项权利是什么？
unalienable rights - rights (powers and abilities) that all people should have and that should never be taken away by anyone or any government
Unalienable rights—每个人应有的不可被他人或政府剥夺的权利
*Many Americans think that the freedom of religion is an unalienable right that the government should never be able to take away.
*许多美国人认为宗教自由是一项不可被政府剥夺的权利。
synonymous with (something) - with the same meaning as something else
Synonymous with（something）—与。。。。同义
*For her, spending the day on the beach with her family is synonymous with complete happiness.
*对她来说和家人在沙滩度过一天是最大的幸福。
to execute (someone) - to kill someone, usually because something against the law or against a government
To execute (someone)—因某人违反法律或抗议政府而被杀
*Do you think that murderers should be executed or put he or she has done jail for the rest of theirin life?
*你觉得杀人犯应该被枪毙还是余生被监禁？
liberty - freedom
Liberty—自由
*The United States fought for liberty from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
*革命战争期间美国努力抗争英国以获得自由。
vague - unclear; hazy; difficult to understand; not specific or detailed
Vague—模糊的；朦胧的；难以理解的；不具体的
*Marcela said that she didn't come to the meeting because she had "something to do," but that seems like a vague excuse to me.
*马塞拉解释自己没参加会议是因为其他事，但我感觉她只是找借口搪塞。
to pursue - to work hard to get something, especially if it is difficult or requires a lot of time
To pursue—努力获得某物，尤其是困难的需要时间的事情
*I want to pursue a career in medical research.
*我想致力于医学研究事业。
to interfere with (something) - to get in the way of something; to prevent something else from happening; to make it difficult for something else to happen
To interfere with (something)—妨碍某事；阻止某事发生；使变困难
*Many teenagers complain that their parents are always interfering with their plans to have fun.
*许多年轻人抱怨父母阻止他们娱乐。
to be exemplified by (something) - to be shown, seen, or explained as something else; to give as a typical example of something
To be exemplified by (something)—从某事显示出来的，被看见，解释出；作为例证指出
*The Impressionist style is exemplified by this painting.
*这幅画体现了印象派的作风。
rags-to-riches story - a story where a very poor person works very hard and, as a result, becomes very rich and successful
Rags-to-riches story—穷人通过努力工作最终变得成功富有
*My father's life is a rags-to-riches story, since he started with nothing and today he is the president of a big bank.
*我父亲白手起家，从一无所有到现在成为一家大银行的董事长。