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COULD YOU HAVE LOVED AS MUCH?你能死心塌地爱到底吗

http://www.sina.com.cn 2003年06月25日13:02 青年参考

  The story begins early in1950 in the Taylors' small apartment in Massachusetts. Edith Taylor was sure that she was″the luckiest woman in the neighborhood″. She and Karl had been married23years, and her heart still skipped a beat when he walkedsintosthe room. As for Karl, he gave every appearance of a man in love with his wife. If his job as government- warehouse worker took him out of town, he would write Edith each night and send small gifts from every place he visited.

  这个故事要从1950年初讲起。那时,泰勒夫妇居住在马萨诸塞州的一所小公寓里。伊迪丝·泰勒确信自己是“当地最幸运的女人”。她和卡尔已经结婚23年了,每当他走进房间的时候,她的心就会怦怦跳。卡尔也处处显得和太太十分恩爱。他在政府仓库工作。碰到去外地出差,便每晚给妻子写信,每到一处,总买些小礼物寄给她。

  In February1950,Karl was sent to Okinawa for a few months to work in a new government warehouse. It was a long time to be away, and so far! This time no little gifts came. Edith understood. He was saving his money for the house they had long dreamed of owning someday.

  1950年2月,卡尔被派到冲绳,要在那里的一所新设置的政府仓库里工作数月。这一次分别的时间很长,相隔又如此遥远!这次卡尔没有寄礼物来。伊迪丝心里也明白,他在储蓄,以便有一天买一幢自己的房子———他们憧憬已久。

  The lonesome months draggedon. Each time Edith expected Karl home he'd write that he must stay″another three weeks″,″another month″,″Just two months longer″. He'd been gone a year now, and his letters were coming less and less. No gifts she understood. But a few pennies for a stamp? Then, after weeks of silence, came a letter.″Dear Edith. I wish there were a kinder way to tell you that we are no longer married…″

  寂寞的日子过得格外缓慢。每当她认为他该回来时,他总是来信说,他必须在那里“再呆3个星期”、“再呆一个月”、“再过两个月就回来”。现在他离家已达一年之久,信却越来越少了。不寄礼物来她能理解,但几分钱的邮费也舍不得吗?经过数周的毫无音信之后,终于来了一封信。“亲爱的伊迪丝,但愿我能用更委婉的方式告诉你,我们不再是夫妻了……”

  Edith walked to the sofa and sat down. He had written to Mexico for a mail-order divorce. He had married Aiko, a Japanese maid-of-all-work assigned to his quarters. She was19.Edith was48.

  伊迪丝走到沙发前,坐下。他已经写信到墨西哥去办理通信离婚。他已经和派到他住所服务的日本女佣爱子结了婚。爱子今年19岁,伊迪丝48岁。

  Edith Taylor did not hate Karl. She could picture the situation. A lonely man. Constant closeness. The only thing Edith could not believe was that he had stopped loving her. Someday, somehow, Karl would come home.

  伊迪丝·泰勒没有恨卡尔。她可以想象出那种情景。一个寂寞的男子,和那个女子经常接近。伊迪丝惟一不能相信的是,他怎么会不再爱她了。她相信,总有一天,不管怎样,卡尔会回来的。

  Edith now built her life around this thought. She wrote Karl, asking him to keep her in touch with his life. In time he wrote that he and Aiko were expecting a baby. Maria was born in1951.Then, in1953,Helen. Edith sent gifts to the little girls. She still wrote to Karl and he wrote back Helen had a tooth, Aiko's English was improving, Karl had lost weight.

  于是,伊迪丝的生活便建立在这个盼望上。她写信给卡尔,要求继续保持联系,她想知道他的生活情形。他来信说,爱子快要生孩子了。玛丽亚在1951年出世,在1953年又生了海伦。伊迪丝给那两个小女孩寄去了礼物。她继续写信给卡尔,卡尔也回信给她 海伦长了颗牙,爱子的英语有进步,他自己的体重减轻了。

  And then the terrible letter. Karl was dying of lung cancer. His last letters were filled with fear. Not for himself, but for Aiko and his two little girls. He had been saving to send them to school in America, but his hospital bills were taking everything. What would become of them?

  然后她收到了那封可怕的信。卡尔得了肺癌,将不久于人世。他最后的几封信里充满了忧虑,不是为他自己,而是为爱子和两个小女儿。他一直在存钱,预备把她们送到美国上学,但医疗费耗尽了所有积蓄。她们将来怎么办呢?

  Then Edith knew that her last gift to Karl could be peace of mind. She wrote that, if Aiko was willing, she would take Maria and Helen and bring themup. For many months after Karl's death, Aiko would not let the childrengo. They were all she had ever known. Yet what could she offer them except a life of poverty and despair? In Novr1956,she sent them to her″Dear Aunt Edith″.

  伊迪丝知道,她可以送卡尔一件最后的礼物,就是给他安心。她写信告诉他,如果爱子愿意,她可以收养玛丽亚和海伦,把她们抚养成人。卡尔死后的几个月,爱子一直不肯放那两个孩子到美国来。她在世间的亲人只有这两个孩子。可是她们跟着她,除了贫困和绝望的生活之外,还能得到什么呢?1956年11月,她终于让她们去投靠她“亲爱的伊迪丝阿姨”了。

  Edith had known it would be hard at54 to be mother to a three-year-old and a five-year-old. She hadn't realized that, in the time since Karl's death, they would forget the little English they knew. But Maria and Helen learned fast. The fear center their eyes; their faces grew plump. And Edith, for the first time in six years, was hurrying home from work. Even getting meals was fun again!

  伊迪丝知道,自己已经54岁了,要当3岁和5岁女孩的母亲是很艰苦的。但她不曾想到,卡尔死后,那两个小孩会把过去所学的一点点英语都忘了。不过,玛丽亚和海伦学得很快。她们眼中的恐惧消失了,脸也胖起来了。伊迪丝下班之后,马上赶回家来,这是6年以来的第一次,甚至做饭也再度成为乐事了!

  Sadder were the times when letters came from Aiko. In the broken English, Edith read the loneliness, and she knew what loneliness was. She knew that she must bring the girls' mother here, too.

  爱子的来信是令人神伤的。伊迪丝从爱子那糟糕的英文中,看出了爱子的寂寞,而她深知寂寞的滋味。她觉得必须把孩子们的母亲也接到美国来。

  She had made the decision. Petitions were started, and in August1957,Aiko Taylor was permitted to enter the country.

  她决定这样做。于是申请开始了,1957年8月,爱子获准赴美。

  As the plane came in at New York's International Airport, Edith had a moment of fear. What if she should hate this woman who had taken Karl away from her? The last person off the plane was a girl so thin and small that Edith thought at first it was a child. She stood there, clutching the railing, and Edith knew that, if she had been afraid, Aiko was near panic.

  飞机抵达纽约国际机场的时候,伊迪丝忽然感到一阵恐惧,如果她看见那个把卡尔夺走的女人,竟然恨起她来,该怎么办?最后走下飞机的是一个非常瘦小的少女,伊迪丝还以为她是个小孩。她站在那里,紧抓着栏杆。伊迪丝觉得,如果说自己曾有些害怕,那么爱子则近乎惊恐。

  She called Aiko's name, and the girl rushed down the steps andsintosEdith's arms. As they held each other, Edith had an extraordinary thought.″Iprayed for Karl to come back. Now he has in his two little daughters and in this gentle girl he loved. Helpme, God, to love hertoo.″

  她喊了爱子的名字,那少女便匆匆走下扶梯,投入她的怀抱。当她们两人拥抱在一起的时候,伊迪丝突发奇想:“我曾祈祷卡尔回来,现在他真的回来了———在他的两个小女儿和他所钟爱的这个温柔少女的形体里回来了。上帝啊,求你帮助我,使我也爱她。”


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