精美英文欣赏:奴隶制的逆袭

（单词翻译）

Monsters, unfortunately, sometimes refuse to stay dead.

不幸的是，妖魔鬼怪总会死灰复燃。

Diseases once eradicated¹ can creep back and strike at the most vulnerable in countries least equipped to deal with them.

不幸的是，妖魔鬼怪总会死灰复燃。曾经根除的疾病又开始在最缺乏防御手段的国家、最脆弱的人群中肆虐。

And slavery itself blights² many lives today.

现在，奴隶制毁掉了很多人的生活。

It's prohibited, of course, under any number of international agreements,

所有国际条约都是禁止奴隶制的，但它已幻化成其他形式，

but it mutates into different forms, and the end result is the same - human beings being treated merely as exploitable assets.

但万变不离其宗 -- 把人当剥削工具。

So people who've agreed to be trafficked across continents in the hope of a new beginning find they're trapped in a nightmare of forced labour, brutal³ conditions, and minimal⁴ reward.

那些怀揣梦想，远涉重洋开始新生活的人们，最后发现自己陷入了一个噩梦，劳务繁重，环境恶劣，收入微薄。

Women and children, especially, are kidnapped into prostitution.

尤其是妇女和小孩，甚至被迫卖淫。

Whole communities are in subjection as bonded⁵ labourers, unable to free themselves from often quite small debts incurred⁶ by previous generations.

整个群体被迫成了廉价劳工，即便是父辈一点微不足道的债务都能让他们不得翻身。

More than a hundred million children are reckoned to be required to do work which harms them. And on it goes.

据估计，超过1亿儿童被迫从事有害的工作。而这还在继续。