《木雕家斯泰纳的狂喜》 The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner
翻译：维/Virgil 校对：枕草君
沃纳·赫尔佐格 电影作品
打个比方 看这个碗状结构 For instance, I saw this bowl here,
看它形状渐变的方式 and the way the shape recedes,
像是发生过一次爆炸 it's as if an explosion had happened,
而爆炸力量无法顺畅释放 and the force cannot escape properly
波及到各处 and is caught up everywhere.
能看到各处被波及的情形 Here you can see how everything is caught up,
充满能量 又充满张力 all the energy, and yet it's full of tension.
我画了张草图 来确定要怎么处理它 I've made a sketch to give me an idea how to set about it.
跳台飞跃已经到了 开始显现出真正危险性的阶段了 Ski-flying has reached the point where it's beginning to present real dangers.
从速度方面考虑 我们快达到 We've just about reached the limit, I believe, as far as speed is concerned
跳台飞跃可控性的极限了 of the manageability of skis
一点点风或恶劣降雪 whereby the slightest wind, or bad snow,
都会让这项运动变得很危险 make it plain dangerous.
我们都有点怕了 尤其在目睹同行落地摔倒后 We all get a bit scared, especially if we see a colleague crash-landing,
我没试过 因为如果 有人摔了 我绝对不看 which I never do because I never look when someone crashes,
因为经历摔倒或糟糕滑行后 心脏会狂跳 because after a fall or a poor flight, your heart thumps like mad,
即使在滑下滑道时也如此 even during the run-down a bit.
开始前的心跳感 The heart-thumping you get before a start
绝对不能被视为 类似车祸发生前 must not be interpreted as being like the fear you feel just before a car crash
意识到大事不妙的 那种恐惧感 and you see that something is going wrong.
如果一个人害怕成那样 他就没法继续跳台飞跃了 If a man were that afraid, he'd be finished with ski-flying.
他会没法下蹲 He wouldn't squat down to it.
直直往前跳 He'd just jump straight ahead,
滑雪板会上翘 and his skis would be pushed upwards.
他的起跳姿势可能会和 从没跳过滑道的人一样 Maybe he would jump off like someone who'd never jumped off a ramp before.
所以跳台飞跃运动员 不喜欢别人提到恐惧 That's why ski-flyers don't like people talking of fear.
他们会说 “尊重当下的环境条件” They talk about "respect for the conditions"
之类的话 但不提恐惧 or some such things, but never of fear.
我觉得我们可以从更高的滑道跳下 I think we could jump off higher ramps.
但这样跳很可能导致 But there'd be very likely jumps attempted and carried out
更多的事故 that might lead to more accidents.
我们正在逼近极限 We're approaching the limit.
也许我会倒退 Maybe I'd prefer to turn back,
退回去跳150或130米的滑道 go back to flying off 150- or 130-meter ramps.
但让我兴奋的 从来都是能够飞得很远 But it's the thrill of flying so far that nevertheless gives me a kick
只要我不出事—— as long as nothing happens to me-
我还是不提“出事”什么的了 I'd rather not talk about that.
你之前看到的那一跳和摔倒 是沃特·斯泰纳1973年 The last jump and fall you just saw was by Walter Steiner in 1973
在奥伯斯多夫大滑道 启用仪式上的实况 at the opening of Oberstdorf's huge ski-ramp.
沃特·斯泰纳在179米处落地 Walter Steiner landed at exactly 179 meters.
就是这个标记处 实际上 这个点 That's this mark, and this mark is, in fact, the point
也是跳台飞跃运动 开始变得缺乏人性的地方 where ski-flying starts to be inhuman.
沃特·斯泰纳当时的 处境非常危险 Walter Steiner was in very great danger.
如果他再远10米 If he'd flown 10 meters more,
就会直接落在这块平地上 he'd have landed down here on the flat.
想象一下 就好比从110米高处 直接落到一个平面上 Just imagine, it's like falling from a height of 110 meters onto a flat surface:
必死无疑 To certain death.
听上去可能很奇怪 我此刻就站在 Strange as it may seem, I can say I'm standing
产生拍摄这部影片初衷的地方 exactly where this film had its inception for me.
拍摄始于1973年秋天 Shooting began in autumn 1973
瑞士队在奥地利 巴特奥塞训练期间 during the Swiss team's training in Austria's Bad Aussee.
这些铺垫出来的滑道 所允许的最高高度为70米 There the mat-ramp allows jumps of up to 70 meters.
我们决定和 沃特·斯泰纳一起拍摄 We had decided to shoot with Walter Steiner
因为目前 他的水准是无与伦比的 because he's absolutely in a class of his own nowadays.
在我看来 他是 最伟大的跳台飞跃运动员 To my mind, he's the greatest ski-flyer there ever was.
他在奥伯斯多夫179米的一跳 比目前的 His 179-meter jump at Oberstdorf was, after all, 10 meters more
世界纪录还要多出10米 than the present world record.
但他没有成为世界冠军 But it didn't make him world champion,
也许就是因为他飞得太远 you might say just because he flew too far,
裁判不得不中断比赛 缩短滑道长度 and the jury had to interrupt the jumps and start from a shorter run.
所以他破纪录的 飞行距离未被采纳 So his over-long flights were all discounted.
1974年年初 我们在跳台滑雪四站赛上开始拍摄 We began shooting around New Year 1974 at the 4-Ramps Competition.
其中 在莎腾堡滑道 举办的部分有电视直播 Jumping on the Schattenberg Ramp was televised live,
所以我们对大赛的 其他部分更感兴趣 and so we were more interested in events on the side.
这些是苏联选手 These are jumpers from the Soviet Union.
斯泰纳 瑞士队 Steiner, Switzerland.
沃特·斯泰纳依然被 两周前 刚开始比赛时的 Walter Steiner was still suffering from a fall two weeks back
一次摔倒困扰着 when he entered the competition.
他受了轻微脑震荡 一根肋骨裂了 He had slight concussions and a cracked rib.
该场比赛的获胜者是 东德的阿申巴赫 The competition was won by Aschenbach of East Germany,
他在斯泰纳之前 成为了跳台飞跃冠军 who had become ski-flying champ ahead of Steiner.
必须记住的是 东德选手 It must be remembered that East German jumpers
在赛季开始前 进行了高强度训练 start the season highly trained,
他们年内的练习次数 with about 10 times as many practice jumps over the year
是全球所有对手 练习次数的十倍 than all their competitors throughout the world.
谁也没在意 失败了的沃特·斯泰纳 Nobody was at all interested in the beaten Walter Steiner.
我记得小时候坐在课堂里 听老师讲课 I remember sitting in school, listening to the teacher talking,
他说：“沃特 你又在做白日梦了 and he said, "Walter, you're day-dreaming again.
这次又梦到了什么” What is it now?"
我的思绪四处漫游 唯独不在学校 My thoughts were somewhere else all over the place, except in school.
我一直梦到飞行 制作和规划模型 I kept dreaming of flying, made some models and plans of models
比我能做出来的更大的模型 bigger than I could ever build myself.
也许那就是某晚 我突然成功开始飞跃的原因 Maybe that's why I suddenly took off one night and began flying
不只飞了100米 更远 远得多 but not just 100 meters, farther and farther down the track,
我看到自己悬浮在斜坡上 在某处非常轻盈地落地 seeing myself suspended over the slopes and landing very gently somewhere.
仿佛慢动作一般 It was all sort of in slow motion.
在飞行时 When you get to the flying part,
脑中会有紧绷感 在这之前不会 you feel the tautness in your head, not before.
我甚至可以闭上嘴 Maybe I can even shut my mouth
因为我觉得没必要张嘴 像抽筋似的 because I feel it's superfluous, just a cramping up.
接着就轻松了 Then it's all easy.
此时你会意识到正在发生什么 That's when you become aware of what's going on.
这是跳台飞跃最美妙的地方 That's what's great about ski-flying.
三月十三日 13th March.
出发去南斯拉夫 普兰尼查比赛的前一晚 The evening before leaving to jump in Planica, Yugoslavia,
沃特·斯泰纳再次 准备起他的滑雪板 Walter Steiner prepares his skis once more.
板的波状表面有六条凹槽 来保持滑行方向准确 The running surfaces have 6 grooves to keep dead on track.
它们长21.5米 比普通滑雪板长很多 重很多 Then they're 21/2 meters long, much longer and heavier than ordinary skis.
再用熨斗上蜡 Wax is then ironed on.
三月十四日一早 沃特·斯泰纳 就离开了维尔德豪斯 Early on March 14th, Walter Steiner leaves Wildhaus.
这是他居住的房子 This is the house he lives in.
斯泰纳为年内唯一 一次跳台飞跃作了充分准备 Steiner is well-prepared for the only ski-flying this year.
全世界只有四到五个滑道 There are only 4 to 5 ramps in the world
大到能够进行跳台飞跃 而非仅仅是跳台滑雪* big enough to warrant talking of ski-flying and not ski-jumping.
*跳台飞跃实际上也是跳台滑雪 只是规格更大 速度更快 飞得更远
我们已经来到位于 普兰尼查的大滑道 We have now arrived at the giant ramp in Planica.
今天是三月十五日 练习赛的第一天 Today is March 15th, first day of training.
但是 赛事组委会决定 However, the organizing committee has decided
这次练习的成绩也将记入正赛 this training may count for the competition,
以防正赛时 天气条件过于恶劣 if conditions on any competition day are bad.
毕竟天气对 这项运动的影响很大 The weather counts for a lot here, of course.
已经开始下雪了 但是风不大 It has begun snowing, but there's very little wind.
我们架设了两台超高速摄影机 We've got two super high-speed cameras on the job.
它们会拍下 慢十或二十倍的慢动作图像 They take slow-motion pictures that slow the action down 10 or 20 times.
看看参赛运动员名单 Looking at the starting list we have here,
竟然没有苏联选手 it's surprising that there are no Soviet jumpers,
也没有日本选手 nor any from Japan.
而常被列为本项运动 热门的东德选手中 Of the East German jumpers, usually top favorites in these events,
阿申巴赫和肯普夫均告缺席 Aschenbach and Kampf are absent.
但世界纪录保持者 沃斯皮沃参赛 But world-record holder Wosipivo is here,
我想我们有可能在练习赛环节 目睹新世界纪录 and I think we might possibly see a new world record during training even
或新滑道纪录的诞生 因为出发点定得相当高 or a new ramp record, since they've set the start fairly high up,
不知最远能够跳多远 and it's not known how the farthest will jump.
沃特·斯泰纳在 第一次练习跳前很紧张 Walter Steiner was nervous before his first practice jump
因为他从扩音器中听到 在他之前的平庸选手 because he heard on the loudspeakers that mediocre jumpers before him
都跳出了非常远的成绩 were managing fairly long jumps.
他决定谨慎对待这一跳 不使出全力 He decided on caution jumping at half-strength.
这是斯泰纳的第一次练习跳 放慢了二十倍 Steiner's first practice jump, 1/20 speed.
斯泰纳越过了所有标志 Steiner sails past all the marks.
落在规定区域之外 He lands in the run-out section.
现场一片混乱 Confusion in the stadium,
因为无法立刻给出距离 because they can't announce the distance immediately.
这绝对是新的滑道纪录了！ It must be a new ramp record!
你比边界点跳得还远 You jumped further than the critical point.
我很快就意识到我飞得太远 但我没有用尽全力 I soon realized I was going too far, but I didn't jump all out, and-
恭喜！ Congratulations!
在上头的时候 我都想放弃了 Up there, I felt like giving up.
但我意识到 如果我完全放手 But I realized if I let things go,
我会飞得更远 落地会有碰撞 I'd fly farther and come down with a bump.
瞧 他们在量那里 You see, that's where they're measuring.
距离标志都没到那么远 The distance signs won't go that far.
169米！ 169 meters!
以4米之差破了滑道纪录 That's a record for this ramp,
同时平了奥伯斯多夫的 世界纪录 and it equals the Oberstdorf world record flight,
尽管普兰尼查的滑道更小 though this ramp in Planica is smaller.
我一开始就意识到 我会飞太远 It was going too far from the start I realized at once.
但还是很高兴我站住了 But, still, I'm glad I stayed on my feet.
我以为我做不到的 I didn't think I'd make it.
你认为明天 会出现更远距离吗？ Do you think tomorrow will see even longer distances?
不 我想他们会变得更谨慎 No, I hope they'll be more careful now.
对这个滑道来说 真的太远了吗？ Is this really too far for this ramp?
是的 太远了 Yes, it's too far.
不然他们会在那里 设好距离标志的 Otherwise they'd have distance markers if it wasn't too far.
现在他们肯定要缩短滑道了 But they're bound to shorten the run now.
是的 肯定 Yes, that's for sure.
我有预感 I sensed it.
如果有美国选手—— 他们跳得不差—— When an American- they're not bad jumpers-
如果他们跳到140米或更远 but still, if they get up to 140 meters or even farther,
到150米 对这个滑道而言已经够了 to 150 meters, that's enough for this ramp.
然后再让我跳！ And then let me come down!
但我想到去年的小型比赛 说是会跳得太远什么的 But I thought last year on the small one, it was getting too far and said so.
结果我就表现得很差 感觉自己特傻 Then I jumped badly and almost felt a fool.
今年我就想： 试试呗！ This year, I thought, "Give it a try!"
成功了 谢天谢地！ It worked, thank goodness!
第二天练习赛开始前 评审团缩短了滑道长度 Before the second day's practice, the jury shortened the run one section
以保护选手安全 so as not to endanger the jumpers.
但斯泰纳还是担心 自己会落到平地上 Yet still, Steiner was afraid he'd sail down onto the flat
即使滑道已经缩短 even with the shorter run.
我们其实看不到现场 We couldn't really see what happened.
他似乎摔得不轻 He seems to have had a bad fall,
我从扩音器里 听到他跳了177米 and I heard the loudspeaker saying he'd jumped 177 meters.
我会努力了解具体情况 I'll try and find out what happened.
场面一度非常混乱 因为当时 There was a moment's total confusion because Steiner wasn't visible
从我所在的出发塔上 看不到斯泰纳 from the run-off tower where I was standing.
我们只能从塔上猜测 All we could assume up the tower
这大概就是我们电影的结局了 was that this was the end of our film
才到练习赛第二天 on the second day's practice already.
我就觉得：结束了！ I thought, "That's it!"
他受伤了吗？他还能走吗？ Is he injured, or could he still walk?
从我们这儿看不清楚 We couldn't see properly from up here.
他身侧受了点伤 但不严重 He hurt his side a bit, but it isn't bad.
但他不确定会不会继续跳 But he's not sure whether he'll go on jumping.
我不觉得很严重 I don't think it's too bad.
他甚至没有脑震荡 He isn't even concussed.
在上头 滑道又缩短了 Up here, the run is being shortened again.
这些片段是我们其中一台摄影机 在这一摔之后拍的 These pictures were taken just after the fall by one of our cameras.
斯泰纳吓得不轻 被送去医院 Steiner was taken to hospital badly shocked.
后来他告诉我们 这一摔让他暂时失去了记忆 Later, he told us the fall had made him lose his memory for a moment.
他跳的距离 比世界纪录还远了8米 His distance, 8 meters above the world record,
但不作数 以为他摔倒了 这件事被向他重复了五次 but not counted because of the fall, was told to him 5 times,
但他还是不停地问 but he kept asking about it.
他还把自己的号码撕了 之后并不清楚为什么这么做 He also tore his starting number off and later didn't know why.
你还跳吗？ Will you be jumping?
我没事 但他们不肯信 I'm all right, but they won't believe it.
你现在已经 超越所有预期了 You've now exceeded all expectations.
还跳吗？ Will you still jump?
之后我还要检查 你的眼睛是否受伤 I'll have to see if you have any trouble with that eye later on.
迟点时候你最好来上点药 但现在不用 You'd better come back for some ointment, but not now.
你还跳吗？ Are you jumping?
我不知道 I don't know.
我得考虑一下 得好好想想 I have to think. Got to think things over.
我的脑子不是很清楚 My mind's not too clear.
斯泰纳不想表现出来 Steiner didn't want to show it,
但很明显 他的脚步仍不是很稳 but it was quite noticeable he wasn't yet too steady on his feet.
毕竟他的脑袋刚以 140公里/时的速度撞到了地 After all, his head had struck the ground at 140 kilometers per hour.
我们要放的是 177米这跳的慢动作 We'll be showing the 177-meter flight in slow motion.
你听到的声音是 一分钟后在现场 The sound you hear was recorded a minute later on the spot
一个暗得无法拍摄的小屋里录下的 in a cabin that was too dark for filming.
我和他们说了些什么 I tell them something,
他们就笑我 说我担心太多 and they laugh at me and say I brood too much.
他们说没必要担心 They say there's no need.
要是他们听我的话就不会有事了 Things would be okay if they listened to one man, and that's me.
我有权这么说话 I have a right to talk that way.
但我一开口 他们就说我 过分担心 说我胡说八道 But as soon as I open my mouth, they say I brood and talk rot.
于是我不得不用实际行动证明我的话 但这可不是随便开玩笑的 So I have to prove it, but proving it isn't so funny,
根本开不得玩笑 not funny at all.
是的 我在奥伯斯多夫 用实际行动作出了证明 Yes, I proved it in Oberstdorf.
可是他们根本不相信我 But they didn't even believe it there.
他们一直说我过分担心 They keep saying I brood too much,
这等于是说 我得摔到 头破血流他们才会相信我 meaning I have to break my skull before they believe me.
难以置信！ It would be too good to be true!
走着瞧吧 也许这次 他们会听进我的话 Well, we'll see. Maybe they'll listen this time.
但他们也可能一直不听 直到我放弃跳台飞跃 But probably they won't listen till I give up ski-flying.
我们二十分钟后 才找到斯泰纳 We didn't find Steiner till 20 minutes later.
他一个人去了林中 He'd gone off alone to the woods.
这是他个人的危机时刻 This was his great moment of crisis.
后来他说 人们对他期望过高 He later said people expected too much of him
这实际上是在逼他 要么破纪录 要么受重伤 trying to force him into a new world record or see him bleed.
他说：“我像是在一个 He said, "I feel I'm in the arena
有五万观众等着 看我摔倒的赛场里” With 50,000 people waiting to see me crash."
不过 他还是第三次 登上了出发塔 Nevertheless, he ascended the run-off tower a third time,
尽管他尚不清楚 自己到底会不会跳 but he didn't know whether he would really jump.
问题在于 他这辈子 还能不能再跳了 The question was whether he would ever be able to jump again.
斯泰纳还是进行了第三跳 Steiner did a third jump after all.
166米 166 meters,
再次超过边界点 again beyond the critical point,
再次打破旧的赛会纪录 again breaking the old ramp record.
为什么摔倒后 选择马上再跳？ Why did you jump so soon after your fall?
是对心态有影响吗？ Is it psychologically important?
是的 如果不立刻再跳 我会变得很害怕 Yes, if I hadn't jumped again, I believe I'd have been pretty afraid,
我是说 会对跳台滑雪 产生太多敬畏之心 I mean, felt too much respect for ski-jumping.
只要之后 立刻做了成功的一跳 As soon as I had a good jump just afterwards,
我就知道 一切都还正常 I knew things were okay.
就是那拯救了我 That was what saved me.
今天是1974年 三月十六日 周六 Today is Saturday, March 16, 1974.
今天是普兰尼查正赛的第一天 It's the first day of official competition in Planica,
大约一小时后 比赛就要开始了 and they'll be starting in about an hour.
在我看来 有个麻烦 As I see, there's a problem.
昨晚场地全冻上了 It froze over last night,
今天滑道的速度 肯定会特别快 and today the run-down must be extremely fast.
昨天已经缩短了滑道 Even yesterday they started right down,
现在滑道已经没法 缩得更短了 and the run can't be shortened any more.
对斯泰纳的担忧又出现了 The worries about Steiner started all over again.
谢天谢地 太阳很快就出来了 软化了滑道 使其速度降低 Thank God, the sun soon came out and softened and slowed down the track.
临时搭建的 流动厨房满山谷都是 Improvised field kitchens filled the valley
散发出洋葱 大蒜和肉卷的气味 with smells of onions, garlic, and cevapcici.
五万名观众前来观赛 50,000 spectators turned up,
看着像一次朝圣 and it all looked a bit like a great pilgrimage.
前一天 人们在电视上 目睹了斯泰纳惊人的飞跃 People had seen Steiner's astounding flights on TV the day before.
斯泰纳 瑞士队 Steiner, Switzerland,
自愿选择 低一段出发 will voluntarily start a section further down
防止比赛结果失控 so as not to throw the whole series out of gear.
沃特·斯泰纳 据我所知 做出了前从未有的举动 Walter Steiner, as far as I know, did something never before attempted.
他选择比其他选手 低一段出发 He started one section lower down than the other competitors.
鉴于他巨大的优势 正常出发会导致滑道再次被缩短 He'd certainly have crushed the competition
那样比赛结果就完了 because his incredible superiority would have caused such a shortened run
就没人能跳过130米了 that nobody would have done over 130 meters.
如果别人跳140米 他能跳170米 If the others did 140, he'd do 170 meters.
斯泰纳先生 你为什么要低一段出发？ Mr. Steiner, why did you start lower down?
考虑到昨天的情况 Well, if anyone else hits the 140 mark,
如果别人跳到140米 我可能就会跳得太远 I have to reckon on flying too far, judging from yesterday's results.
今天他们没缩短滑道 是非常不光彩的 And it's scandalous that they didn't shorten the run today
他们甚至还提高了两段 and even lengthened it two sections.
难以接受 It's inadmissible.
昨天他们让我 四次跳得过远 Yesterday they let me jump too far four times.
那是不该发生的 That shouldn't happen.
上头那些 南斯拉夫裁判真不光彩 It's scandalous of those Yugoslav judges up there,
他们要负责 who are responsible.
今天很潮湿 所以我估计 Today it was wet, and I had to reckon on it
我得低一段出发 这会让人很紧张 being a nervous strain
但我不得不这么做 to start lower down, but I had to.
我不能冒险 I couldn't take the risk.
不过其实无所谓 But it makes no matter.
因为我想跳台飞跃 I want to ski-fly.
这是我第一次 不必为此感到畏惧 And this was the first time I needn't be afraid.
请给个签名！ Autograph, please!
周日 正赛第二天 Sunday, second day of competition.
斯泰纳的成绩大幅领先 Steiner has a magnificent overall lead.
现在速度如何？ What about the speed now?
现在速度正常 It's now normal.
够了 够了 It's enough. It's enough.
我在这儿跳得很不错 I really had a terrific jump there.
你拿了三次二十分 You got 20 marks three times.
我想这个成绩是 前所未有的 I don't think that's ever been done before.
以前可能出现过一次 但我拿到这成绩是第一次 It may have happened once, but not to me.
是你第一次吧？ Not in your lifetime, it hasn't.
肯定是 Not with me in any case.
斯泰纳166米的一跳 可能是跳台飞跃史上 Steiner's flight of 166 meters was probably the most perfect ever recorded
被录下的最完美一跳 in the history of ski-flying.
这一跳之后 距离再次变得太远 After this jump, once again, too far for the ramp,
他们甚至试图 再次给滑道加速 they even tried to speed up the ramp once more
用银箔纸覆盖滑道 避免阳光照射 by protecting it with silver-foil from the sun.
此外 他们加长了滑道 逼斯泰纳再跳最后一次 In addition, they lengthened the run and pressured Steiner to try one last time.
他跳了 但是降低了两段出发 He did, but shortened his run by two sections.
是的 他们对我用激将法 围住我说 Yes, they almost stung me up, surrounding me and saying
如果我不跳 全南斯拉夫人民都会鄙视我的 the whole Yugoslav people would despise me if I didn't jump,
还说他们会想办法的 and they'd do all they could,
结果他们做的 居然是 把出发点再提高两段 and what they did is, started two sections higher up.
我希望南斯拉夫人民 现在满意了 I hope the Yugoslav public is now satisfied at least.
如果从正常高度出发 How far would you have jumped
你会跳多远？ if you'd jumped from the normal height?
那和热量有关 It has to do with thermics.
我刚刚的一跳并不理想 The jump I've just made wasn't ideal.
如果以111公里/时的速度 I think at 111 kilometers per hour,
可以轻松跳到180米 you could reach 180 meters without difficulty.
尽管自愿降低了起跳点 Despite voluntarily cutting down his run,
斯泰纳还是以前所未有的 巨大优势赢得了比赛 Steiner won the competition with a lead never before achieved in ski-flying.
我曾养过一只小渡鸦 I once had a young raven.
那可真了不起 That was really something.
它那会儿连羽毛都没长全 It was still practically unfledged.
我用面包牛奶喂它 当它能飞的时候 I reared it on bread and milk, and when it could fly,
它会飞来找我 或看着我从很远的地方骑车过来 It used to meet me or saw me coming on my bike from far off.
我吹声口哨 它就飞来停在我肩上 I whistled, and it flew onto my shoulder
再和我一起回家 待在那儿 直到我喂饱它 and came home with me and stayed till I fed it.
有时我放学后会在路边等它 Sometimes it waited at the roadside when I came from school.
我会突然听到它的叫声 Suddenly I heard it cawing.
四下去看 就会看到我的渡鸦 I looked around and saw it was my raven.
然后它会直直朝我飞来 And he came flying straight to me.
不幸的是 它后来一直掉毛 Unfortunately, he kept losing more and more feathers.
也许是因为食物 Maybe it was the food it ate.
别的渡鸦就折磨它 The other ravens plagued it.
一大早就开始争吵 The row started early in the morning.
它们总是叫唤 They cawed.
当然 它试过逃跑 He tried to flee, of course,
但跑不掉 最后摔了下来 couldn't get away, and fell down.
我只能射死它 So I'm afraid I had to shoot him.
不忍心看它被同类折磨 It was a torture to see him being harried by his own kind
因为它没法再飞起来了 because he couldn't fly anymore.
我应当孑然于世 I ought to be all alone in the world,
仅我斯泰纳一人 再无其他生命 just me, Steiner, and no other living thing.
没有太阳 没有文化 No sun, no culture,
只有我 赤裸着 在一块高高的岩石上 myself, naked on a high rock,
没有风暴 没有雪 没有银行 没有钱 没有时间 没有呼吸 no storm, no snow, no banks, no money, no time, no breath.
那样 我便不会恐惧 Then, at least, I wouldn't be afraid.