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Many have been tricked by false promises of a good education, a better job, only to find that they're forced to work without pay under the threat of violence,
他們當中很多人都是被虛假承諾所騙輕信所謂好的教育機會、好的工作機會而被迫無償工作經受暴力威脅，
and they cannot walk away.
并且無法逃脫。
Today's slavery is about commerce,
今天的奴隸制度關乎商業利益，
so the goods that enslaved people produce have value,
奴隸制造的商品具有價值，
but the people producing them are disposable.
但是創造價值的人卻是被隨意處置的。
Slavery exists everywhere, nearly, in the world,
奴隸制度存在于世上的幾乎每一個角落，
and yet it is illegal everywhere in the world.
即使它無論在何處都是違法的。
In India and Nepal, I was introduced to the brick kilns.
在印度和尼泊爾，我被帶到磚窯里。
This strange and awesome sight was like walking into ancient Egypt or Dante's Inferno.
那里的景象極其怪異感覺就像走進了古埃及或者但丁描述的地獄。
Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees,
在50多攝氏度的高溫中，
men, women, children, entire families in fact,
男人，女人，小孩，事實上是一整個家庭，
were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust,
在厚厚的灰塵籠罩下，
while mechanically stacking bricks on their head,
機械地把磚塊往自己的頭頂上壘，
up to 18 at a time, and carrying them from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.
每次疊上18塊然后搬運到離磚窯幾百米遠的卡車上。
Deadened by monotony and exhaustion,
單調和疲憊消磨著他們，
they work silently, doing this task over and over for 16 or 17 hours a day.
他們安靜著勞動著，一遍又一遍的干著同樣的活，一天16到17個小時。
There were no breaks for food, no water breaks,
中途不能休息，不能吃飯，不能喝水，
and the severe dehydration made urinating pretty much inconsequential.
由于極度的缺水他們基本上也不需要上廁所。
So pervasive was the heat and the dust that my camera became too hot to even touch and ceased working.
由于那里面的悶熱和塵土，我的相機燙得沒法拿也無法運轉。
