谁有Nuts for Skeptics to crack 这篇课文的翻译，Billy Sunday写的，这是美国高中生英语课本上的。

威廉艾希礼“比利”星期日（1862年11月19日–1935年11月6日）是一位美国运动员，在19世纪80年代在棒球的国家联赛的一个流行的外野手后，在第二十世纪头二十年成为最著名和有影响力的美国传教士。[ 1 ]

Born into

poverty in Iowa, Sunday spent some years at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home

before working at odd jobs and playing for local running and baseball teams. His

speed and agility provided him the opportunity to play baseball in the major

leagues for eight years, where he was an average hitter and a good fielder known

for his base-running.

出世入爱荷华的贫困，星期日花了一些年在爱荷华士兵的孤儿院在奇怪的工作，在当地的运行和棒球队。他的速度和敏捷性为他提供机会八年大联盟打棒球，他是一个平均的击球手，一个好的防守著称的跑垒。

Converted

to evangelical Christianity in the 1880s, Sunday left baseball for the Christian

ministry. He gradually developed his skills as a pulpit evangelist in the

Midwest and then, during the early 20th century, he became the nation's most

famous evangelist with his colloquial sermons and frenetic delivery. Sunday held

widely reported campaigns in America's largest cities, and he attracted the

largest crowds of any evangelist before the advent of electronic sound systems.

He also made a great deal of money and was welcomed into the homes of the

wealthy and influential. Sunday was a strong supporter of Prohibition, and his

preaching likely played a significant role in the adoption of the Eighteenth

Amendment in 1919.

皈依基督教福音派在19世纪80年代，星期日离开棒球的基督教部。他逐步发展自己的技能，如在中西部地区，然后讲坛的传教士，第二十世纪早期，他成为美国最著名的传教士和他的口语布道和狂热的交付。星期日举行的广泛报道的运动在美国最大的城市，他吸引了任何福音最大的人群在电子音响系统的出现。他也赚了一大笔钱，欢迎进入的富裕和有权势的家庭。星期日是一个禁止的坚定支持者，他的讲道可能发挥了第十八条修正案的通过一个重要的角色在1919。

Despite

questions about his income, no scandal ever touched Sunday. He was sincerely

devoted to his wife, who also managed his campaigns, but his three sons

disappointed him. His audiences grew smaller during the 1920s as Sunday grew

older, religious revivals became less popular, and alternative sources of

entertainment appeared. Nevertheless, Sunday continued to preach and remained a

stalwart defender of conservative Christianity until his death.

尽管他收入的问题，没有碰过星期日的丑闻。他真诚地爱他的妻子，他也把他的活动，但是他的三个儿子让他失望。他的观众越来越小，在20世纪20年代，为星期日的长大，宗教复兴成为不受欢迎的娱乐，和替代能源的出现。然而，星期日继续讲道，仍然是一个坚定的保守的基督教的后卫直到他死。

早期的生活[编辑]

Billy

Sunday was born near Ames, Iowa. His father was the son of German immigrants

named Sonntag, who anglicized their name to "Sunday" when they settled in

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. William Sunday was a bricklayer who worked his way

to Iowa, where he married Mary Jane Corey, daughter of "Squire" Martin Corey, a

local farmer, miller, blacksmith, and wheelwright.[2] William Sunday enlisted in

the Iowa Twenty-Third Volunteer Infantry on August 14, 1862. He died four months

later of disease at Patterson, Missouri, five weeks after the birth of his

youngest son, William Ashley. Mary Jane Sunday and her children moved in with

her parents for a few years, and young Billy became close to his grandparents

and especially his grandmother. Mary Jane Sunday later remarried, but her second

husband soon deserted the family.[3]

比利星期日是出世艾姆斯附近，爱荷华。他的父亲是德国移民的儿子名叫说，谁对他们的名称为“星期日”，当他们定居在佛罗里达，宾夕法尼亚。威廉星期日在一个泥瓦匠曾前往爱荷华，在那里他娶了玛丽简科里，“乡绅”马丁先生的女儿，一个当地的农民，米勒，铁匠，和车匠。[

2 ]威廉星期日参加了爱荷华三分之二十的志愿者的步兵在1862年8月14日。他在四个月后死于疾病在帕特森，密苏里，他最小的儿子出生五周后，威廉艾希礼。玛丽简星期日和她的孩子一起搬到她父母几年，年轻的比利成为接近他的祖父母，尤其是他的祖母。玛丽简星期日后来再婚，但第二个丈夫很快抛弃家庭。[ 3 ]

When

Billy Sunday was ten years old, his impoverished mother sent him and an older

brother to the Soldiers' Orphans Home in Glenwood, Iowa, and later to the Iowa

Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa. At the orphanage, Sunday gained

orderly habits, a decent primary education, and the realization that he was a

good athlete.[4]

比利星期日年十岁的时候，他母亲给他贫困和一个哥哥对士兵的孤儿院在格林伍德，爱荷华，以及后来的爱荷华士兵的孤儿院在达文波特，爱荷华。在孤儿院，星期日获得了有序的习惯，一个体面的小学教育，并说他是一个好的运动员的实现。[ 4 ]

By

fourteen, Sunday was shifting for himself. In Nevada, Iowa, he worked for

Colonel John Scott, a former lieutenant governor, tending Shetland ponies and

doing other farm chores. The Scotts provided Sunday a good home and the

opportunity to attend Nevada High School.[5] Although Sunday never received a

high school diploma, by 1880 he was better educated than many of his

contemporaries.[6]

十四，星期日是改变自己。在内华达州，爱荷华，他为上校约翰史葛的工作，前副州长，抚育的设得兰矮种马和做其他农场上的活。斯科特星期日提供一个美好的家庭和机会参加内华达州高中。[ 5

]虽然星期日没有获得高中文凭，1880他比他的许多同时代人受过更好的教育。[ 6 ]

In 1880,

Sunday relocated to Marshalltown, Iowa, where, because of his athleticism, he

had been recruited for a fire brigade team. In Marshalltown, Sunday worked at

odd jobs, competed in fire brigade tournaments, and played for the town baseball

team.[7] In 1882, with Sunday in left field, the Marshalltown team defeated the

state champion Des Moines team 13-4.[8]

1880，搬迁到爱荷华，所有的星期日，在那里，因为他的天赋，他招募了一个消防队。在所有的工作，星期日在奇怪的工作，参加了消防队的比赛，并在镇上的棒球队。[ 7

] 1882，在左场星期日，马歇尔的队打败了冠军得梅因团队13-4。[ 8 ]