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从一本英文儿童读物里看死亡。 | No.69

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When you lose something, 

don't think of it as a loss; 

accept it as the gift that gets you 

on the path you were meant to travel on.
当你失去某样事物,

请不要把它当作一项损失,

接受它,把它视为礼物,

一件引领你走上既定命运之路的礼物。





作者|丹麦儿童作家Glenn Ringtved

插画师|丹麦画家Charlotte Pardi




This warmly wistful story begins 

outside the “small snug house” where four children 

live with their beloved grandmother. 

Not wanting to scare the young ones, Death, 

who has come for the old lady, 

has left his scythe by the door. Immediately, 

in this small and enormously thoughtful gesture, 

we are met with Death’s unexpected tenderness.

这个温暖寄予希望的故事

发生于一栋舒适的小房子,

房子里住着四个小孩子和他们深爱的奶奶。

(外婆年纪大了,终于有一天,

死神悄悄来到这户人家的们前,

准备进去释放老奶奶的灵魂。)

死神怕吓到孩子,

他把和自己随身不离的镰刀留到门外,

只身走进房门。从这个小小贴心的细节,

我们可以看到死神有着多么柔软的内心。





Inside, he sits down at the kitchen table, 

where only the youngest of the kids, 

little Leah, dares look straight at him.

死神走进小屋,

和四个孩子围坐在餐桌旁。

孩子们知道死神到来的目的是什么,

他们痛苦和紧张。

四个孩子中,只有最年幼的一个,

利亚(Little Leah),敢直视死神的脸。




What makes the book particularly touching, 

thanks to Pardi’s immensely expressive illustration, 

is just how crestfallen — broken, even — Death himself 

looks the entire time he is executing his mission, 

choked up with some indiscernible fusion

of resignation and recompense.

这本书非常与众不同的地方,

是插画师对死神的刻画。

死神不再是令人恐怖催命鬼,

相反,他内心善良和富有同情心,

在执行死亡任务的时候,他自己也很无可奈何。





In the quiet, the children could 

hear their grandmother upstairs, 

breathing with the same raspy breaths 

as the figure at the table. 

They knew Death had come for her 

and that time was short.

孩子和死神围坐在客厅,默不作声,

他们都能听到楼上的重病的奶奶发出沉重的呼吸声。

孩子们知道死神为何而来,

更知道,时间不多了。





To stall the inevitable, the children devise a plan 

— believing that Death only works at night, 

they decide to keep refilling his coffee cup 

until dawn comes, at which point he would 

have to leave without their grandmother. 

Here, too, one is struck by the ordinariness of Death, 

for what can be more ordinary — and life-loving, 

even — than to enjoy a cup of coffee at the kitchen table?

为了不让死神带走奶奶,孩子们有一个计划:

孩子们以为死神只在夜里出没,因此,

他们一杯杯给死神斟满咖啡,希望尽快天亮。

死神喝着孩子们的咖啡,内心十分纠结:

对死神来说,他必须要执行自己的使命,

另一方面,他能理解孩子们心中的痛苦,

希望自己真的可以立即起身离去。

从这个细节,我们可以看到死神柔软的一面,

他内心纠结着一杯接着一杯地喝着咖啡。






But Death eventually curls his bony hand 

over the cup to signal that the time has come. 

Leah reaches her own tiny hand, 

taking his in hers, and beseeches him 

not to take their darling grandmother. 

Why, she insists, does grandma have to die?

最终,死神用手盖住咖啡的杯口,

示意时间到了,他要开始执行任务了。

小利亚这时用小手握住死神的手,

求他不要带走奶奶,她询问死神

“为什么?为什么奶奶必须要死?”





Some people say Death’s heart is as dead and black 

as a piece of coal, but that is not true. 

Beneath his inky cloak, Death’s heart is 

as red as the most beautiful 

sunset and beats with a great love of life.

有人说,死神的心就像煤块那样漆黑和冰冷,

这不是真的。在墨黑的外袍下面,

死神有着朝霞一样红彤彤的温暖的心,

那颗新跳动着,带着对生命的爱。





Death is once more overcome with kindness 

and compassion for the children, so he 

decides to answer Leah’s question with a story, 

hoping it would help them understand 

why dying is natural and necessary.

死神带着慈爱和温情,看着孩子,

他决定给孩子们讲一个故事,

用故事来回答利亚的问题,

希望孩子们可以理解,

为什么死亡是自然和终将发生的。





He tells them of two brothers named Sorrow and Grief, 

who lived in a somber valley and went about 

their days “slowly and heavily” 

because they never looked up, 

because “they never saw through 

the shadows on the tops of the hills.”

很久以前,有两个兄弟,

一个叫悲伤(Sorrow),一个叫忧伤(Grief)。

他们生活在一个忧郁的山谷里,

过着缓慢和沉重的生活。两兄弟从不向上看,

漂浮在山顶的悲伤之云挡住了他们的视线,

他们看不到山顶阴影之外的世界。




朗读/Kevin

翻译/Jimmy

音频剪辑/Kelly

图文/Andria


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