Name: 第一位單車環遊世界的女人...算是第一位啦！(The First Woman to Bicycle Around the World … Kind Of)
Uploaded: 2021-02-10T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 2 min 29 s

Annie Londonderry is famous for being the first woman to bicycle around the world.

Annie Londonderry 是第一位以騎單車環遊世界而聞名的女性。

不過，關於她的故事可不只如此。

And, the story starts, as most things do—in a dark bar.

如同大多數的故事一樣，開始的場景發生在一個昏暗的酒吧。

There is no possible way a woman could ride a bicycle around the world.

絕對沒有一個女性可以騎單車環遊世界。

Can you imagine a woman trying to do it in a skirt?

你能想像一個女生穿著裙子做這件事嗎？

If a woman could do that, I'd pay $10,000.

如果有一個女生可以辦得到，我就賞她一萬元。

I, Annie Londonderry, will take that wager.

When Annie took that wager, she was oozing with confidence and charisma.

Annie 接受賭注時，她的身上散發著自信與魅力。

But, here's the thing, she had never even touched a bicycle.

不過有一個問題，她以前從來都沒碰過單車。

In the late 1800's, bicycles were seen as dangerous for women and very unfeminine.

在十九世紀末期，單車被視為對女性很危險且相當不女性化的東西。

Riding a bicycle was a revolutionary act.

女性騎單車在當時是一項創舉。

Legend has it, she cycled from Boston to New York City to Paris riding her bike one-footed after an injury.

有傳聞說，她從波士頓騎到紐約市到巴黎，在受傷之後用單腳騎車，

到印度，跟皇室貴族一起狩獵老虎，

Singapore, Hong Kong, getting caught up in a war and sustaining a gunshot wound to her shoulder.

在新加玻、香港，被捲入到戰爭之中，忍受肩膀上的槍傷，

Nagasaki, being interned in a Japanese prison.

在長崎，被居留在日本監獄之中。

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and all the way back to Boston in exactly 15 months.

環繞舊金山、洛杉磯、鳳凰城，最後回到波士頓花了整整 15 個月。

嗯，上面所述不全然都是對的。

I'm Peter Zheutlin, and Annie was a my great-grandaunt.

我是 Peter Zheutlin ， Annie 是我的曾姑婆。

Even her name, Annie Londonderry, wasn't real.

甚至她的名字， Annie Londonderry ，也不是真的。

Her real name was Annie Cohen Kopchovsky.

她真正的名字是 Annie Cohen Kopchovsky。

She even concocted the story of the wager.

她甚至捏造了在酒吧與人打賭的故事，

And she definitely was not shot or thrown into a prison during the Chinese-Japanese War.

也肯定沒有被槍擊或在中日戰爭期間被關進監獄。

Well, what about all that other stuff like the leg injury?

嗯，那故事的其他部份呢？例如腳受傷？

How about hunting for tigers with royalty?

那跟皇室貴族一起狩獵老虎呢？

So, with some true stuff and some not so true stuff, how do you view her journey?

所以，綜合一些真實故事和一些沒那麼真實的故事，你如何看待她的單車之旅？

Although hers was a remarkable physical achievement,

儘管她的單車旅途是一項體能上的卓越成就，

her real achievement was becoming world-famous as a symbol of the women's liberation movement in the 1890s.

然而成為 1890 年代的女性解放運動的象徵，才是她真正在世界中聞名的成就。

Annie's sheer audacity and the way she fought for herself, for her own adventures, on her own terms, was remarkable for her time.

Annie 純粹的勇氣以及她挑戰自我、冒險犯難的方式，都是在她一生中相當值得注意的。

Even if her story was kinda, sorta, not totally accurate.

即使她的故事有點、稍微、不全然正確。