What is Real 引自童話《The Velveteen Rabbit 》
(2010-08-23 17:58:44)
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一對新郎新娘婚禮引用的一段《The Velveteen Rabbit 》童話。【原帖 Chicago80】
我翻譯一下:
玩偶兔子問:到底怎麽就成了真的?是不是身體裏能發出響,身上再帶個鈀?
假馬說:“真的”不是靠你是怎麽造的,而是在於圍繞著你的一切都是怎麽變化進展的。如果一個小孩喜愛你很長很長時間,而且不是僅僅拿著你玩,而是真正的喜愛你,那你就成了真的。
兔子問:這樣疼不疼?
馬說:有時候疼。因為他總是很真心。但如果你被當成真的,你就不怕那點兒疼了。
兔子問:這是不是一下子就發生了,像一下子就弄壞了似的,還是一點兒一點兒的。
馬說:這不是一下子就發生了。你成為真的了,這需要很長時間。這就是為什麽它一般不會出現在在某些類型的人(玩偶)身上,比如很容易折斷弄破的,或帶有鋒利的尖兒或刃的,以及總被人收藏保養起來的玩偶。一般來說,當你成了真的後,你身上的毛也被撫愛撫摸給弄的快掉光了,你的眼睛也可能掉出來了,你的關節也都鬆了。但這些東西都已經無所謂了,因為你一旦成了真的,你在他眼裏,就不再會難看了,隻有那些陌生的,及和你無關的人才會那樣感覺。
下麵是原文:
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."