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I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana.
我在加納地下50米深的一個(gè)非法礦井里。
The air is thick with heat and dust,
空氣污濁悶熱，充斥著塵土，
and it's hard to breathe.
讓人很難呼吸。
I can feel the brush of sweaty bodies passing me in the darkness, but I can't see much else.
我可以感覺到來來往往大汗淋漓的人們從我身邊擦過，但是在一片黑暗中，我也看不見什么其他的東西了。
I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft is this cacophony of men coughing,
我聽到周圍有人說話的聲音，但更多是咳嗽聲，
and stone being broken with primitive tools.
混雜著用簡陋工具砸碎石頭的噪音。
Like the others, I wear a flickering, cheap flashlight tied to my head with this elastic, tattered band,
跟其他人一樣，我頭上頂著一個(gè)時(shí)亮?xí)r滅的廉價(jià)探照燈用一條破爛的皮筋綁在脖子上，
and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole dropping hundreds of feet into the earth.
我勉強(qiáng)摸到墻上光溜溜的樹枝扶手，它們支撐著這個(gè)一米見方深上百米的井筒。
When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner,
我的手滑了一下，立即想到數(shù)天前碰到的一名礦工,
I had met days before who had lost his grip,
他一手抓空,
and fell countless feet down that shaft.
就掉下了無底深井。
As I stand talking to you today,
當(dāng)我今天站在這里跟你們演講的時(shí)候，
these men are still deep in that hole,
這些礦工們還在這樣的礦井里，
risking their lives without payment or compensation,
冒著生命危險(xiǎn)干活,沒有工資,沒有補(bǔ)貼，
and often dying.
還經(jīng)常丟命。
I got to climb out of that hole, and I got to go home,
我最后爬出了礦井得以回家，
but they likely never will, because they're trapped in slavery.
而這些被奴役的礦工可能永遠(yuǎn)沒有回家的那一天。
For the last 28 years, I've been documenting indigenous cultures in more than 70 countries on six continents, and in 2009 I had the great honor，
在過去的28年里我一直在拍攝本土文化的紀(jì)錄片走訪了6大洲70多個(gè)國家，而在2009年，我非常榮幸地，
of being the sole exhibitor at the Vancouver Peace Summit.
能以獨(dú)立參展商的身份出席了溫哥華和平峰會。
Amongst all the astonishing people I met there,
在那里我遇到了很多令人傾佩的人，
I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO，
我認(rèn)識了一位Free the Slaves 非政府組織的支持者，
dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery.
這個(gè)組織致力于根除現(xiàn)代社會的奴役現(xiàn)象。
