《宋氏快譯》英漢對照（62）：聖雄甘地的骨灰將撒入大海

《宋氏快譯》英漢對照（62）：聖雄甘地的骨灰將撒入大海



Gandhi's Ashes to Be Scattered at Sea


Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:57 AM ESTworld-

Ramola Talwar Badam, AP Writer


聖雄甘地的骨灰將撒入大海



MUMBAI — Sixty years after he was assassinated, some of peace icon Mohandas K. Gandhi's ashes will be scattered in the Arabian Sea at the family's request and not publicly displayed, a museum trustee said Tuesday.

孟買 – 一位博物館受托人周二表示，甘地被暗殺六十年之後，在其家屬的要求之下，和平偶像聖雄莫漢k .甘地的一些骨灰將會被撒在阿拉伯海，而不是被公開展示。

A small steel urn of Gandhi's ashes — one of dozens dispersed across the country after his death — was sent to a Gandhi museum in Mumbai last year by an Indian businessman whose father, a close friend of Gandhi's, had preserved the ashes.

甘地的一小鋼罐骨灰 – 這是在他死後分散在全國各地數十個之一 – 是去年由一名印度商人送往甘地博物館的，此人的父親是甘地的一位密友，他一直保存著這些骨灰。

Trustees had planned to display the nonviolence leader's ashes in a memorial in downtown Mumbai, but Gandhi's descendants requested the ashes be scattered at sea off Mumbai's coast on Jan. 30, the anniversary of his death, said Dhirubhai Mehta, vice president of the Mahatma Gandhi Museum.

聖雄甘地博物館副館長德魯巴哈-梅達表示，受托人一直計劃在孟買市中心的一次儀式上展示這位非暴力領導人的骨灰，但甘地的後裔要求在1月30日，即他辭世的紀念日，將骨灰撒在孟買沿岸的海麵上。

Hindus cremate their dead and generally scatter the ashes in rivers or the sea after 13 days.

印度教徒對死者實施火葬，一般都要在13天之後將骨灰撒在河裏或海裏。


"We had thought of displaying the ashes, but naturally we will respect the family's wishes," said Mehta. "This is the right thing to do."

“我們曾想展示骨灰，但我們當然要尊重家屬的意願，”梅達說。 “這樣做是正確的。”

Gandhi was shot to death by a Hindu hard-liner in 1948 while walking to a prayer meeting in New Delhi. His ashes were sent to towns and villages across India for countless memorial services.

甘地於1948年被一名強硬派印度教徒開槍打死，當時他正步行去參加新德裏的一場禱告會。他的骨灰被分送給印度各地城鎮和村莊，供無數追思活動之用。

"No one knows for sure how many such urns there are elsewhere," Mehta said. "
"The ashes were sent to Gandhi's followers wherever they requested it."

“沒有人確切地知道其它地方究竟還有多少這樣的鋼罐，”梅達說。“甘地的追隨者要求送到哪裏，骨灰就送到哪裏 。”

Mehta, who was 11 when Gandhi was killed, remembers taking part in a small ceremony in Songad village in Gujarat, Gandhi's home state.

聖雄甘地遇刺身亡時梅達年僅11歲，他記得曾在甘地家鄉所在的古吉拉特邦鬆加德村參加過一個小型儀式。

"Our village was sent an urn because a river ran through it," he said.

他說：“有一罐骨灰就送到我們村，因為有一條河從那裏流過。”

Gandhi's relatives and some of his followers have been invited to a small ceremony in Mumbai on Jan. 30 to scatter the ashes, Mehta said.

梅達表示，甘地的親屬及其一些追隨者已受邀參加1月30日在孟買舉行的一個小型撒骨灰儀式。

In 1997, Gandhi's great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, immersed some of Gandhi's ashes at the holy spot where the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers meet. Those ashes had been found in a bank vault in northern India.

1997年，聖雄甘地的重孫圖沙-甘地曾經把甘地的一些骨灰撒在恒河與亞穆納河交匯處的聖地。這些骨灰是在印度北部的一家銀行金庫內發現的。