Chapter Ⅳ 接过墨客的衣钵摇旗呐喊（19）（2/2）
《最震撼人心的声音》作者：姜宇 2017-02-11 10:27
。有些学生不管是雨天还是晴天，每天早上都要走许多英里的路，过几条河来上学。他们没办法做家庭作业，因为村子里没有电，而趁着燃烧的木柴那点儿亮光学习是不容易的。女孩子们放学回家后和上学之前还要挑水做饭。
My friend doesn’t have any money because everyone, pupils and teachers, borrow from him when he is paid and will probably never pay it back. The pupils range from six to twenty-six, because some who did not get schooling earlier are here to make it up. Some pupils walk every morning many miles, rain or shine and across rivers. They cannot do homework because there is no electricity in the villages, and you can’t study easily by the light of a burning log. The girls have to fetch water and cook when they get home from school and before they set off for school.
我和朋友在他的房间里坐着，人们就不好意思来串门，所有的人，每一个人都来要书看。“您回到伦敦后，请给我们寄些书来吧，”一个男子说，“他们教我们读书，可是我们没有书啊。”我遇到的每一个人，每一个人都向我要书。
As I sit with my friend in his room, people drop shyly in, and all, everyone begs for books. “Please send us books when you get back to London.” one man said, “They taught us to read but we have no books.” Everybody I met, everyone, begged for books.
我在那里待了几天。风卷着尘土刮个不停，由于水泵坏了，就没水喝，女人们就又从河里汲水了。
I was there some days. The dust blew past, water was short because the pumps had broken and the women were getting water from the river again.
另外一个从英国来的教师，也是理想主义者，他看到这所“学校”的面貌之后就生病了，病得很厉害。
Another idealistic teacher from England was rather ill after seeing what this “school” was like.
到了最后一天，是学期末了，他们宰了一只山羊，把山羊切成一块一块，堆积起来，在一个很大的罐子里煮。大家都眼巴巴地盼着这顿期末盛宴，煮山羊肉和喝粥。盛宴还在进行的时候，我就开车走了，回到那座森林里，在那烧焦的余烬和树桩中间穿行。
On the last day, it was end of term and they slaughtered the goat, and it was cut into mounds of bits and cooked in a great tin. This was the much looked forward to end of term feast, boiled goat and porridge. I drove away while it was going on, back through the charred remains and stumps of the forest.
My friend doesn’t have any money because everyone, pupils and teachers, borrow from him when he is paid and will probably never pay it back. The pupils range from six to twenty-six, because some who did not get schooling earlier are here to make it up. Some pupils walk every morning many miles, rain or shine and across rivers. They cannot do homework because there is no electricity in the villages, and you can’t study easily by the light of a burning log. The girls have to fetch water and cook when they get home from school and before they set off for school.
我和朋友在他的房间里坐着，人们就不好意思来串门，所有的人，每一个人都来要书看。“您回到伦敦后，请给我们寄些书来吧，”一个男子说，“他们教我们读书，可是我们没有书啊。”我遇到的每一个人，每一个人都向我要书。
As I sit with my friend in his room, people drop shyly in, and all, everyone begs for books. “Please send us books when you get back to London.” one man said, “They taught us to read but we have no books.” Everybody I met, everyone, begged for books.
我在那里待了几天。风卷着尘土刮个不停，由于水泵坏了，就没水喝，女人们就又从河里汲水了。
I was there some days. The dust blew past, water was short because the pumps had broken and the women were getting water from the river again.
另外一个从英国来的教师，也是理想主义者，他看到这所“学校”的面貌之后就生病了，病得很厉害。
Another idealistic teacher from England was rather ill after seeing what this “school” was like.
到了最后一天，是学期末了，他们宰了一只山羊，把山羊切成一块一块，堆积起来，在一个很大的罐子里煮。大家都眼巴巴地盼着这顿期末盛宴，煮山羊肉和喝粥。盛宴还在进行的时候，我就开车走了，回到那座森林里，在那烧焦的余烬和树桩中间穿行。
On the last day, it was end of term and they slaughtered the goat, and it was cut into mounds of bits and cooked in a great tin. This was the much looked forward to end of term feast, boiled goat and porridge. I drove away while it was going on, back through the charred remains and stumps of the forest.