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After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us was a mass of holes that could fit into the size of a football field,
又走了兩個小時蜿蜒的小徑戛然而止，我們面前的空地上出現了一大片坑洞，每個都有一個橄欖球場那么大，
and all of them were full of enslaved people laboring.
每個坑洞里都有奴隸在工作。
Many women had children strapped to their backs while they were panning for gold,
很多婦女還背著自己的小孩他們在淘金，
wading in water poisoned by mercury.
在被汞污染的臟水里行走。
Mercury is used in the extraction process.
汞是用來提取金子的。
These miners are enslaved in a mine shaft in another part of Ghana.
這些人被奴役在加納的另一處礦井里。
When they came out of the shaft, they were soaking wet from their own sweat.
當她們走出礦井時全身汗濕。
I remember looking into their tired, bloodshot eyes,
我記得他們布滿紅血絲的眼睛里充滿疲憊，
for many of them had been underground for 72 hours.
其中很多人已在井下工作72個小時。
The shafts are up to 300 feet deep, and they carry out heavy bags of stone that later will be transported，
這些井有差不多有90多米深他們抬出來裝滿重石的袋子，
to another area, where the stone will be pounded so that they can extract the gold.
這些石頭被運送到另外一個區域被搗碎以便提取金子。
At first glance, the pounding site seems full of powerful men, but when we look closer,
乍看之下，砸石場的男人個個健壯，但我們湊近了卻發現，
we see some less fortunate working on the fringes,
一些在邊緣地帶的工人身有殘疾，
and children too.
還有一些小孩。
All of them are victim to injury, illness and violence.
他們都是傷病暴力的受害者。
In fact, it's very likely that this muscular person will end up like this one here, racked with tuberculosis and mercury poisoning in just a few years.
事實上，這些肌肉強健的男人，若干年后很有可能會跟這個人一樣被汞中毒和肺結核苦苦折磨。
