When I finished the four years in prison, I went to find a job.Since I was better educated④， I got a job working in an office⑤. However，the police found out and told my boss that I had been in prison for blowing up government buildings.So I lost my job. I did not work again for twenty years until Mr Mandela and the ANC came to power(当权) in 1994.All that time my wife and children had to beg for food and help from relatives(亲戚) or friends.Luckily Mr Mandela remembered me and gave me a job taking tourists around my old prison on Robben Island.I felt bad the first time I talked to a group.All the terror and fear of that time came back to me.I remembered the beatings⑥ and the cruelty(残酷) of the guards and my friends who had died.I felt I would not be able to do it, but my family encouraged me.They said that the job and the pay from the new South African government were my reward(报酬) after working all my life for equal rights for the Blacks.So now I am proud to show visitors over the prison, for I helped to make our people free in their own land.
在监狱里待完四年之后，我去找工作。因为我受过比较好的教育，我得到了一份坐办公室的工作。可是警察发现了，告诉了我的老板说我因为炸政府大楼而坐过牢。于是我失业了。在曼德拉先生和非国大于1994年掌权前，我有20年没有工作。在那期间，我的妻儿只得从亲戚或朋友那里乞求食物和帮助。幸亏曼德拉先生还记得我，给了我一份工作，叫我带着旅行团去参观罗本岛上我住过的那座旧监狱。第一次给旅行团作讲解时，我感觉很糟。我回忆起那时所有的恐怖和令人畏惧的情景。我记起了狱卒的鞭打和暴行，我想到了我那些死去的朋友。我觉得我不能做这份工作，但是我的家人却鼓励我。他们说从南非新政府得到的这份工作和薪水，是我毕生为争取黑人的平等权利而斗争所得到的回报。我现在还能给参观者介绍有关监狱的情况，对此我感到非常骄傲，因为我曾经为黑人在自己的国土上争取自由而出过力。
