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JaninediGiovanni_2012X-_我所看到的战争_
This is how war starts. 战争是这样开始的
One day you're living your ordinary life, you're planning to go to a party, you're taking your children to school, you're making a dentist appointment . 有一天,你一如既往地过着你的生活 你正准备参加一个派对 你正在送孩子上学 你正在去看牙医的路上。
appointment:n.任命;约定;任命的职位;
The next thing, the telephones go out, the TVs go out, there's armed men on the street, there's roadblocks . 突然,手机没有了信号 电视信号也中断了,大街上到处都是武装分子。 道路被拦了起来
roadblocks:n.路障;障碍(roadblock的复数);v.设置路障(roadblock的单三形式);
Your life as you know it goes into suspended animation . 你的生活突然停滞了
suspended animation:n.假死;不省人事;蛰伏状态;
It stops. 它停止了。
I'm going to steal a story from a friend of mine, a Bosnian friend, about what happened to her, because I think it will illustrate for you exactly what it feels like. 我要从我朋友那里借一个故事 我的一个波斯尼亚的朋友,一个关于她的故事 因为我认为它将为你呈现的正是这种感觉。
Bosnian:adj.波斯尼亚的;n.波斯尼亚人; illustrate:v.解释;加插图于;给(书等)做图表;表明…真实;
She was walking to work one day in April, 1992, in a miniskirt and high heels . She worked in a bank. 在 1992 年 4 月的一天,她正在上班的路上 穿着迷你裙和高跟鞋。她在一家银行工作。
miniskirt:n.超短裙;迷你短裙; high heels:n.高跟鞋;
She was a young mother. She was someone who liked to party. 她是一位年轻的母亲,一位很喜欢参加派对的人。
Great person. 总之是一个很棒的人。
And suddenly she sees a tank ambling down the main road of Sarajevo knocking everything out of its path. 她突然看到了一辆坦克 缓缓地在萨拉热窝的路上行驶 把路上一切阻挡它的东西给撞开
Sarajevo:n.萨拉热窝(位于南斯拉夫中部);
She thinks she's dreaming, but she's not. 她一瞬间认为她在做梦,但她错了。
And she runs as any of us would have done and takes cover, and she hides behind a trash bin, in her high heels and her miniskirt. 她像任何正常人一样逃离了那个地方 她躲在了一个隐蔽的垃圾桶后 穿着她的高跟鞋和她的迷你裙。
trash:n.垃圾;废物;v.丢弃;修剪树枝;
And as she's hiding there, she's feeling ridiculous , but she's seeing this tank go by with soldiers and people all over the place and chaos and she thinks, "I feel like Alice in Wonderland going down the rabbit hole, down, down, down into chaos, and my life will never be the same again." 在那时,她感觉这一切很可笑 但她看到坦克随着士兵行驶着 和人们处于一片混乱之中 她想着, 我怎么觉得自己像梦游仙境里的爱丽丝 一样掉入兔子洞, 一直往下,陷入一片混乱 我永远不会回到过去了。”
ridiculous:adj.可笑的;荒谬的; chaos:n.混沌,混乱; Alice in Wonderland:n.(事情悖理且与想象的截然相反的)怪异局面;
A few weeks later, my friend was in a crowd of people pushing with her infant son in her arms to give him to a stranger on a bus, which was one of the last buses leaving Sarajevo to take children out so they could be safe. 几个星期后,我的那位朋友在一群人里 抱着自己怀里的婴儿,推搡着前面的人, 她要把他送给一个大巴上的陌生人 这是离开萨拉热窝的最后一个巴士之一 为了把孩子带到安全的地方
infant:n.婴儿;幼儿;未成年人;adj.婴儿的;幼稚的;初期的;未成年的;
And she remembers struggling with her mother to the front, crowds and crowds of people, "Take my child! Take my child!" 她记得她和母亲挣扎着抢到前面 成群成片的人大喊着: 带走我的孩子！带走我的孩子!
and passing her son to someone through a window. 并将她的儿子通过一个窗口传递给他人
And she didn't see him for years. 她很多年没见到自己的孩子了。
The siege went on for three and a half years, and it was a siege without water, without power, without electricity , without heat, without food, in the middle of Europe, in the middle of the 20th century. 这次的围攻持续了三个半年 那时没有任何的水源 没有电源,电力,暖气,食物, 在 20 世纪中的欧洲中部。
siege:n.围攻;包围;围城;不断袭击;长期努力;vt.围攻;包围; electricity:n.电力;电流;强烈的紧张情绪;
I had the honor of being one of those reporters that lived through that siege, and I say I have the honor and the privilege of being there because it's taught me everything, not just about being a reporter, but about being a human being. 身为诸多记者中的一员,我有幸的 在战争中活了下来 我感到我很幸运,很荣幸 因为这次的经历教会了我很多的事情, 不只身为一名记者,而作为一名人类
privilege:n.特权;优待;v.给与…特权;特免;
I learned about compassion . 我学到了同情。
compassion:n.同情;怜悯;
I learned about ordinary people who could be heroes. 我明白了普通人也能成为英雄
I learned about sharing. I learned about camaraderie . 我学会了共享,我学会了友情。
camaraderie:n.友情;同志之爱;
Most of all, I learned about love. 最重要的是,我学到了爱。
Even in the midst of terrible destruction and death and chaos, 即使在可怕的破坏,死亡,和混乱之中,
midst:n.当中,中间;prep.在…中间(等于amidst); destruction:n.破坏,毁灭;摧毁;
I learned how ordinary people could help their neighbors, share food, raise their children, drag someone who's being sniped at from the middle of the road 我学到了如何普通人可以帮助他们的邻居, 分享食物、 养育对方的儿女, 比如从路中间拉回一个将被射死的人
drag:v.拖曳;生拉硬拽;拖动;n.拖累;令人厌烦的人;累赘;绊脚石; sniped:v.狙击;打冷枪;抨击;(snipe的过去分词和过去式)
even though you yourself were endangering your life, helping people get into taxis who were injured to try to take them to hospitals. 即使这个举动会危及你的生命, 帮助受伤的人上出租车 尝试把他们带到医院。
endangering:v.使遭危险;危及;危害;(endanger的现在分词) injured:adj.受伤的:委屈的: v.伤害,使受伤: n.伤员;
I learned so much about myself. 我重新认识了自己。
Martha Gellhorn, who's one of my heroes, once said, "You can only love one war. The rest is responsibility." 我心目中的英雄之一,玛莎 · 盖尔霍恩,曾经说过: 你只能爱一场战争。其余是只是责任
I went on to cover many, many, many wars after that, so many that I lost count, but there was nothing like Sarajevo. 在那以后,我报导了许多许多的战争 多到我无法数清 但没有任何一个和萨拉热窝一样。
Last April, I went back to a very strange -- what I called a deranged high school reunion . 而去年 4 月,我到了一个很奇怪的— 一个我称为扭曲的高中聚会
deranged:adj.疯狂的;精神错乱的;v.精神错乱;(derange的过去分词和过去式) reunion:n.团聚;聚会;团圆;重逢;
What it was, was the 20th anniversary of the siege, the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, and I don't like the word "anniversary," because it sounds like a party, and this was not a party. 它其实是战争的二十年周年庆祝会 纪念着萨拉热窝围攻的初始 我不喜欢 周年庆祝会 这个词,因为它听起来像一个派对 它不是一个派对
It was a very somber gathering of the reporters that worked there during the war, humanitarian aid workers, and of course the brave and courageous people of Sarajevo themselves. 而是一个非常抑郁的聚会,为了在战争里工作的记者 为了在那里工作的人道主义援助工作者 当然,还有萨拉热窝的英勇人民
somber:adj.忧郁的;昏暗的;严峻的;阴天的; humanitarian:adj.人道主义的;博爱的;基督凡人论的;n.人道主义者;基督凡人论者; courageous:adj.有胆量的,勇敢的;
And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo, where my friend Aida saw the tank coming 20 years ago, and in that road were more than 12,000 red chairs, empty, and every single one of them symbolized a person who had died during the siege, just in Sarajevo, not in all of Bosnia, and it stretched from one end of the city to a large part of it, and the saddest for me were the tiny little chairs for the children. 一件影响我最大的事, 一件伤碎了我的心的事是 当我走在萨拉热窝的大街上 就是我的朋友阿依达初次看到坦克的那一条街 在这条街上有着超过 12,000 的红色椅子, 空无一人 而每一个椅子代表了 战争期间死亡的人 只是在萨拉热窝去世的,还不包括所有的波斯尼亚亡者, 它从这座城市的一端延伸 到更远的地方 而对我来说最可悲的是那些 为死去的儿童而留的小椅子。
main street:n.大街(城镇的主要商业街道);典型的美国中产阶级; Aida:n.[纺]菱形花纹平布; symbolized:象征,作为…的象征(symbolize的过去式和过去分词); stretched:v.拉长;撑大;有弹性(或弹力);拉紧;(stretch的过去式和过去分词) saddest:adj.悲伤的(sad的最高级);
I now cover Syria , and I started reporting it because I believed that it needs to be done. 我现在正在叙利亚报道, 我在那里报道是因为我相信 我一定要这么做。
Syria:n.叙利亚共和国;
I believe a story there has to be told. 我相信那里有一个必须让人知道的故事。
I see, again, a template of the war in Bosnia. 我再次看到了波斯尼亚战争的模板。
template:n.模板,样板;
And when I first arrived in Damascus, 当我首次抵达大马士革
I saw this strange moment where people didn't seem to believe that war was going to descend , and it was exactly the same in Bosnia and nearly every other country I've seen where war comes. 我看见一个很奇怪的现象 人们似乎并不相信战争正要降临, 同样的态度也曾在波斯尼亚出现过 和我见过几乎每个面临战争的国家一样。
descend:vi.下降;下去;下来;遗传;屈尊;vt.下去;沿…向下;
People don't want to believe it's coming, so they don't leave, they don't leave before they can. 人们不愿相信它的到来, 所以他们不离开,他们从不在可以离开时离开。
They don't get their money out. 他们不把钱汇出去
They stay because you want to stay in your home. 他们滞留在原地,因为他们想留在家里
And then war and chaos descend. 而在这时,战争和混乱降临了。
Rwanda is a place that haunts me a lot. 卢旺达是一个我忘不了的地方。
haunts:v.出没; n.常去的场所; (haunt的第三人称单数和复数)
In 1994, I briefly left Sarajevo to go report the genocide in Rwanda. 1994 年,我暂时离开萨拉热窝去报告卢旺达的种族灭绝。
briefly:adv.简要地;简短地;暂时地; genocide:n.种族灭绝;灭绝整个种族的大屠杀;
Between April and August, 1994, one million people were slaughtered . 4 月至 1994 年 8 月 100 万人被屠杀。
slaughtered:v.屠宰;宰杀;屠杀;杀戮;使惨败;(slaughter的过去分词和过去式)
Now if those 12,000 chairs freaked me out with the sheer number, 现在,如果那 12,000 椅子纯粹的因为数量 而把我吓着了
freaked:v.(使)强烈反应,震惊,畏惧;(freak的过去分词和过去式) sheer:adj.纯; v.十足地; n.透明薄纱; v.[航海](使)偏航; (使)转向;
I want you just for a second to think of a million people. 你想一下,一百万人是什么概念？
And to give you some example, I remember standing and looking down a road as far as I could see, at least a mile, and there were bodies piled twice my height of the dead. 给你举几个例子,我记得 我遥望着一条很长的路 至少离我一英里以内,所有的尸体堆积到了我身高的两倍, 尸体。
as far as:至于…; piled:v.堆放;叠放;放置;装入;拥挤;(pile的过去分词和过去式)
And that was just a small percentage of the dead. 我所看到的只是所有亡者中很小的一个百分比。
percentage:n.百分比;百分率;利润的分成;提成;
And there were mothers holding their children who had been caught in their last death throes . 在那里,母亲抱着她们曾经 垂死挣扎的儿女。
death throes:n.临终;末日;最后阶段;临终的剧痛;
So we learn a lot from war, and I mention Rwanda because it is one place, like South Africa, where nearly 20 years on, there is healing . 因此所见,我们可以从战争学到很多事情, 我之所以提起卢旺达 是因为它是一个像南非一样的地方, 在 20 年过去了之后逐渐愈合
healing:n.康复; adj.痊愈中的; v.(使)康复,复原; (heal的现在分词)
Fifty-six percent of the parliamentarians are women, which is fantastic , and there's also within the national constitution now, you're actually not allowed to say Hutu or Tutsi. 百分之五十六的议员是女性, 这是奇妙的事情 此外,现在它们的国家的宪法要求 你不允许称呼认为胡图族或图西族
parliamentarians:n.国会议员,熟练而又有经验的议员;adj.议会的; fantastic:奇异的,空想的 constitution:n.宪法;构成;体质;组成;
You're not allowed to identify anyone by ethnicity , which is, of course, what started the slaughter in the first place . 你不能以族裔来称呼别人 因为种族歧视是导致大屠杀的第一原因
identify:v.识别:鉴定:确认:发现: ethnicity:n.种族划分; in the first place:首先;起初;
And an aid worker friend of mine told me the most beautiful story, or I find it beautiful. 我的一位朋友,一名援助工作者,曾告诉我一个美丽的故事, 至少我认为很美丽
There was a group of children, mixed Hutus and Tutsis, and a group of women who were adopting them, and they lined up and one was just given to the next. 有一群孩子,包括了胡图族和图西人, 和一群准备领养他们的妇女, 他们排起队,一个孩子分给一个人
adopting:v.收养;领养;采用;表决采纳;(adopt的现在分词)
There was no kind of compensation for, you're a Tutsi, you're a Hutu, you might have killed my mother, you might have killed my father. 而这是没有任何补偿的。如果你是一个图西人 或者一个胡图族人,你可能杀了我的母亲, 或者杀了我父亲。
compensation:n.补偿;报酬;赔偿金;
They were just brought together in this kind of reconciliation , and I find this remarkable . 但是他们在这种无形的状况下和解, 我觉得这是很奇妙的。
reconciliation:n.和解;调和;和谐;甘愿; remarkable:adj.卓越的;非凡的;值得注意的;
So when people ask me how I continue to cover war, and why I continue to do it, this is why. 所以,当人们问我我如何继续报导战争, 为什么我继续做着这件事情 这就是我的原因。
When I go back to Syria, next week in fact, what I see is incredibly heroic people, some of them fighting for democracy , for things we take for granted every single day. 当我回到叙利亚,其实我下周就去, 我看到的是令人难以置信的英勇的人, 他们为民主主义而战 为了我们认为理所应然的东西
incredibly:adv.难以置信地;非常地; heroic:adj.英雄的;英勇的;记叙英雄及其事迹的;夸张的;n.史诗;英勇行为; democracy:n.民主,民主主义;民主政治; take for granted:认为…理所当然;
And that's pretty much why I do it. 这就是为什么我做着我做的事情
In 2004, I had a little baby boy, and I call him my miracle child, because after seeing so much death and destruction and chaos and darkness in my life, this ray of hope was born. 2004 年,我生了个小男孩, 我叫他奇迹的孩子 因为看到这么多的伤亡 在我的生活里那破坏,混乱和黑暗之中 一线希望出生。
miracle:n.奇迹,奇迹般的人或物;惊人的事例;
And I called him Luca, which means "The bringer of light," 我叫他卢卡,意味着 光明使者 ,
bringer:n.带来者;提供者;
because he does bring light to my life. 因为他给我的生活带来光明。
But I'm talking about him because when he was four months old, my foreign editor forced me to go back to Baghdad where I had been reporting all throughout the Saddam regime and during the fall of Baghdad and afterwards, and I remember getting on the plane in tears, crying to be separated from my son, and while I was there, 我只所以提起他,是因为他四个月大时 我的外国编辑迫使我回到巴格达 在萨达姆政权中报导整个过程 在巴格达沦陷期间以及之后, 我记得自己哭着上飞机 因为我和儿子的分离而哭泣 我在那里（巴格达）时,
Baghdad:n.巴格达(伊拉克首都); throughout:adv.自始至终,到处;全部;prep.贯穿,遍及; Saddam:n.萨达姆(伊拉克前总统); regime:n.政权,政体;社会制度;管理体制;
a quite famous Iraqi politician who was a friend of mine said to me, "What are you doing here? 我的朋友,一个相当有名的伊拉克政治家 对我说: 什么你在这里？
politician:n.政治家;(蔑)政客;(美)政治贩;
Why aren't you home with Luca?" 你怎么不和卢卡在家里?
And I said, "Well, I have to see." It was 2004 which was the beginning of the incredibly bloody time in Iraq, "I have to see, I have to see what is happening here. 我说, 嗯,因为我必须见证这一切。 在 2004 年 在伊拉克血腥的一段时期的初段 我要看着,我一定要看着这里发生了什么。
bloody:adj.血腥的;血淋淋的;v.血染;
I have to report it." 我必须报告它 。
And he said, "Go home, because if you miss his first tooth, if you miss his first step, you'll never forgive yourself. 他说, 回家吧, 因为如果你错过了他（卢卡）第一次的脱牙 如果你错过了他迈出的第一步,你永远不会原谅自己。
forgive:v.原谅;免除(债务,义务等);
But there will always be another war." 但是世界上总会有另一场战争。
And there, sadly, will always be wars. 而可悲的是,战争是不会停止的。
And I am deluding myself if I think, as a journalist , as a reporter, as a writer, what I do can stop them. I can't. 我尽量的说服自己:作为一名记者, 作为一名记者,一个作家, 我做什么都不可能阻止他们。我不行。
deluding:vt.迷惑;逃避;使失望; journalist:n.新闻工作者;报人;记日志者;
I'm not Kofi Annan. He can't stop a war. 我不是科菲 · 安南。他不能停止战争。
He tried to negotiate Syria and couldn't do it. 他试图在叙利亚谈判,而失败了。
negotiate:v.谈判,商议;转让;越过;
I'm not a U.N. conflict resolution person. 我不是一个联合国冲突决议人。
conflict:n.冲突;矛盾;争执;抵触;v.抵触; resolution:n.解决;分辨;解析;决议;
I'm not even a humanitarian aid doctor, and I can't tell you the times of how helpless I've felt to have people dying in front of me, and I couldn't save them. 我甚至不是一个人道主义援助的医生, 我不能告诉你,我那时感到多么的无助 有的人死在我面前,而我救不了他们。
helpless:adj.无助的;无能的;没用的;
All I am is a witness . 我是一名证人。
witness:n.证人;目击者;证据;v.目击;证明;为…作证;
My role is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless . 我的角色是为那些没有发言权的人出声。
voiceless:adj.无声的;清音的;沉默的;
A colleague of mine described it as to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world. 我的同事形容其为用光照亮 世界最黑暗的角落。
colleague:n.同事,同僚; described:v.描述;形容;把…称为;做…运动;(describe的过去分词和过去式)
And that's what I try to do. 而这正是我尽量去做的。
I'm not always successful, and sometimes it's incredibly frustrating , because you feel like you're writing into a void , or you feel like no one cares. 我不会每次都成功 有时候甚至是让人非常令人沮丧的, 因为你会觉得你做着无用功 或你觉得没有人会在乎。
frustrating:adj.令人沮丧的;v.使沮丧;(frustrate的现在分词) void:adj.空的;无效的;无人的;n.空虚;空间;空隙;v.使无效;排放;
Who cares about Syria? Who cares about Bosnia? 谁在乎叙利亚？谁在乎波斯尼亚？
Who cares about the Congo, the Ivory Coast, Liberia , Sierra Leone , all of these strings of places that 有谁会在乎刚果、 象牙海岸、 利比里亚、 塞拉利昂, 这一整串的地方,
Liberia:n.利比里亚(西非国家); Sierra:n.(尤指西班牙和美洲的)锯齿状山脉; Leone:n.利昂(塞拉利昂货币单位); strings:一串,悬挂(string的第三人称单数和复数)
I will remember for the rest of my life? 我会一辈子记住吗？
And all I can really do is hope, not to policymakers or politicians , because as much as I'd like to have faith that they read my words and do something, 我只能做的只有盼望, 不是对政策制定者或政客, 因为我尽管希望 他们会读我的报导,会改变现况
policymakers:n.决策人;(policymaker的复数) politicians:n.政治家;(蔑)政客;(美)政治贩;(politician的复数) faith:n.信心;信任;宗教信仰;
I don't delude myself. 我不会欺骗自己。
delude:vt.欺骗;哄骗;诱惑;[罕用]迷惑;逃避;使失望;
But what I do hope is that if you remember anything I said or any of my stories tomorrow morning over breakfast, if you can remember the story of Sarajevo, or the story of Rwanda, then I've done my job. 但我真正的希望的是,如果你能记得我所说的话, 或者明天早上吃早餐时想起我的故事 如果你能记住萨拉热窝的故事 或者卢旺达的故事 我完成了我的工作。
Thank you very much. 非常感谢。
(Applause) （掌声）