英文朗讀:追風箏的人
追風箏的人
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it" s wrong what they say about the past, I"ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.
我成為今天的我,是在1975年某個陰雲密布的寒冷冬日,那年我12歲。我清楚地記得當時我趴在一堵坍塌的泥牆後面,窺視著那條小巷,旁邊是結冰的小溪。許多年過去了,人們說陳年舊事可以被埋葬,然而我終於明白這是錯的,因為往事會自行爬上來。回首往事,我意識到在過去的這26年里,自己始終在窺視著那荒蕪的小徑。
One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn"t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins. After I hung up, I went for a walk along Spreckels Lake on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park. The early afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze. Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home. And suddenly Hassan"s voice whispered in my head: For you, a thousand times over. Hassan the harelipped kite runner.
去年夏季的一天,朋友拉辛汗從巴基斯坦打來電話,要我回去探望他。我站在廚房裡,聽筒貼在耳朵上,我知道電話線連著的,並不只是拉辛汗,還有我過去那些未曾贖還的罪行。掛了電話,我離開家門,到金門公園北邊的斯普瑞柯湖邊散步。晌午的驕陽照在波光粼粼的水面上,數十艘輕舟在和風的吹拂中漂行。我抬起頭,望見兩隻紅色的風箏,帶著長長的藍色尾巴,在天空中冉冉升起。它們舞動著,飛越公園西邊的樹林,飛越風車,並排漂浮著,如同一雙眼睛俯視著舊金山,這個我現在當成家園的城市。突然間,哈桑的聲音在我腦海中響起:為你,千千萬萬遍。哈桑,那個兔唇的哈桑,那個追風箏的人。
I sat on a park bench near a willow tree. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he hung up, almost as an after thought. There is a way to be good again. I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali. Kabul. I thought of the life f had lived until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And made me what I am today.
我在公園裡柳樹旁的長凳上坐下,想著拉辛汗在電話里說的那些事情,再三思量。那兒有再次成為好人的路。我抬頭看了看那比翼齊飛的風箏。我憶起哈桑。我緬懷爸爸。我想念阿里。我思念喀布爾。我想起曾經的生活,想起1975年那個改變了一切的冬天。所有那一切造就了今天的我。
卡勒德·胡賽尼,1965年3月4日出生於阿富汗喀布爾市,後隨父親移居美國。胡賽尼畢業於加州大學聖地亞哥醫學系,現居加州執業。《追風箏的人》是他的第一本小說,因書中角色刻畫生動,故事情節震撼感人,出版後大獲好評,獲得各項新人獎,並躍居全美各大暢銷排行榜榜首。
這是一個身在美國的阿富汗移民童年的往事,和他成人後的心靈救贖的故事。全書類似自傳體小說,主人公的經歷和背景跟作者本人的經歷背景非常相似。主人公兒時出身阿富汗上流社會,父親經商積德,在當地非常有聲望。而主人公由於孩童的自私,非常想獲得父親全部的愛,總是因為父親對僕人孩子的溫情而心生嫉妒。主人公兒時性格懦弱,僕人的孩子勇敢忠誠,心態失衡的主人公後來用不光彩的手段陷害了僕人一家,導致僕人一家流落異鄉。後來阿富汗爆發戰爭,主人公一家被迫出走美國。後來父親的合伙人在臨過世前鼓勵主人公回阿富汗尋找當年僕人的小孩,並通過努力去平復自己多年的負罪感。已經是事業有成的主人公鼓起勇氣,找到了老朋友。在得知驚人的秘密後,他贖罪般的努力.最終完成了一個男人的成長。
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