英语美文点亮智慧人生46：Chief Seattle's Thoughts 西雅图宣言（MP3+双语字幕）

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[00:00.00]How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? 	你怎能把天空、大地的温馨买卖？
[00:11.94]The idea is strange to us.	我们不懂。
[00:14.49]If we do not own the freshness of the air 	若空气失去了新鲜，
[00:17.66]and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?	流水失去了晶莹，你还能把它买下？
[00:21.23]Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people.	地球上的每一方土地对我们红人来说都是圣洁的。
[00:25.25]Every shining pine needle,	每一根晶亮的松针，
[00:27.26]every sandy shore,	每一片沙滩，
[00:29.50]every mist in the dark woods,	每一撮森林里的气息，
[00:31.25]every clear and humming insect 	每一种引人自省、鸣叫的昆虫，
[00:33.90]is holy in the memory and experience of my people.	在我们的记忆里，我们的生命里都是神圣的。
[00:37.51]The sap which courses through the trees carries the memory and experience of my people.	树液的芳香在林中穿越，
[00:43.74]The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man.	也渗透了红人自亘古以来的记忆。
[00:49.18]The white man's dead forget the country of their birth 	白人死后漫游星际之时，
[00:54.76]when they go to walk among the stars.	早忘了生他的大地。
[00:57.33]Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth,	红人死后永不忘我们美丽的出生地。
[01:00.47]for it is the mother of the red man.	因为，大地是我们的母亲，
[01:03.49]We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.	母子连心，为一体。
[01:07.62]The perfumed flowers are our sisters,	芬芳的花朵是我们的姊妹，
[01:10.72]the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.	鹿、马、雄鹰都我们的兄弟，
[01:15.71]The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows,	山岩峭壁、草原上的露水、
[01:19.57]the body heat of the pony, and the man,	人和马身上所散发出的体热，
[01:22.81]all belong to the same family.	都属于同一个家园。
[01:25.46]So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that 	因此当华盛顿的大统领传话
[01:30.80]he wishes to buy our land,	来说要买我们的地时，
[01:31.91]he asks much of us.	也询问了很多关于我们的事情。
[01:33.75]The Great White Chief sends word he will reserve us a place 	大统领说，会留下一块保护地，
[01:38.78]so that we can live comfortably to ourselves.	留给我们过安逸的日子。
[01:41.79]He will be our father 	这么一来，大统领成了我们的父亲，
[01:43.69]and we will be his children.	我们成了他的子女。
[01:45.68]So we will consider your offer to buy land.	因此，我们会考虑你想要买地的提议，
[01:48.90]But it will not be easy.	但这买卖不是那么容易，
[01:51.30]For this land is sacred to us.	因为这块土地对我们来说是圣洁的。
[01:53.60]This shining water that moves in streams and rivers is not just water 	小溪和河流里的晶晶流水不仅仅是流水，
[01:59.86]but the blood of our ancestors.	是我们世代祖先的鲜血。
[02:02.38]If we sell you land, you must remember that 	如若卖地给你，务请牢记，
[02:06.12]it is sacred blood of our ancestors.	这块土地流淌着我们时代祖先圣洁的血。
[02:09.39]If we sell you land,	如若卖地给你，务请牢记，
[02:12.17]you must remember that it is sacred,	这地是圣洁的，
[02:14.63]and you must teach your children that 	务请教导你的子子孙孙，
[02:16.90]it is sacred 	这地是圣洁的。
[02:17.95]and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes 	湖中清水里的每一种映像，
[02:22.44]tells of events 	都代表一种灵，
[02:23.82]in the life of my people.	诉说着我们的生活事迹。
[02:25.74]The waters murmur is the voice of my father's father.	流水的低语声是我们祖先的声音。
[02:30.39]The rivers of our brothers they quench our thirst.	河流是我们的兄弟，
[02:34.33]The rivers carry our canoes 	它解我们的渴，运送我们的独木舟，
[02:36.95]and feed our children.	养育我们的子女。
[02:38.59]If we sell you our land,	若要卖地给你，
[02:40.68]you must remember to teach your children that 	务请记得，教导你的子女，
[02:43.46]the rivers are our brothers,	河流是我们的兄弟，
[02:45.43]and yours,	也是你们的兄弟。
[02:46.34]and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness that 	自此以后，你们要仁慈地对待它，
[02:50.33]you would give my brother.	就像对待我的兄弟一样。
[02:51.97]We know that 	我们知道，
[02:53.70]the white man does not understand our ways.	白人不能体会我们的想法。
[02:56.40]One portion of land is the same to him as the next,	在白人眼里，哪一块地都一样，
[02:59.93]for he is a stranger who comes in the night 	因为他是趁夜打劫的陌生人，
[03:03.39]and takes from the land whatever he needs.	他从这块土地上索取他所需要的一切。
[03:06.50]The Earth is not his brother,	对白人来说，大地不是他的兄弟，
[03:09.25]but his enemy and when he has conquered it,	而是他的仇敌，
[03:12.33]he moves on.	他要一一征服。
[03:13.78]He leaves his father's graves behind,	白人弃父亲的墓地于不顾，
[03:16.21]and he does not care.	从子子孙孙那里攫取土地，
[03:18.24]He kidnaps the Earth from his children, and he does not care.	也一点不在乎。
[03:22.94]His father's grave,	父亲的安息之地，
[03:24.60]and his children's birthright 	儿女的出生之地，
[03:26.47]are forgotten.	他可以不放在心上。
[03:27.82]He treats his mother, the Earth, and his brother,	在他看来，他的大地母亲以及他的兄弟
[03:31.29]the same, as things to be bought, plundered,	都像物品一样可以随意买下、掠夺，
[03:34.64]sold like sheep or bright beads.	或像羊群或串珠一样卖出，
[03:37.53]His appetite will devour the Earth 	他贪得无厌，大口大口资惩恋刂螅
[03:40.52]and leave behind only a desert.	任由大地成为片片荒漠。
[03:42.80]I do not know.	我不懂。
[03:44.36]Our ways are different from your ways.	你我的生活方式完全不同。
[03:47.26]The sight of your cities 	红人的眼睛只要一看见
[03:49.22]pains the eyes of the red man.	你们的城市就觉得疼痛。
[03:51.19]But perhaps it is because the red man is a savage 	或许是因为红人还尚未开化，
[03:54.96]and does not understand.	不能理解吧。
[03:56.99]There is no quiet place in the white man's cities.	白人的城市里没有安静，
[04:00.66]No place to hear 	没有地方可以倾听
[04:02.23]the unfurling of leaves in spring,	春天里树叶临风招展的声音，
[04:04.46]or the rustle of an insect's wings.	也听不见昆虫振翅作乐的声音。
[04:06.84]But perhaps it is because I am a savage 	或许是因为我还尚未开化，
[04:10.34]and do not understand.	不能理解吧。
[04:11.96]The clatter only seems to insult the ears.	城市的噪音羞辱我们的双耳。
[04:15.72]And what is there to life 	如果一个人在夜间听不到池塘边青蛙在争论，
[04:17.92]if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of a whippoorwill 	也听不见北美夜鹰的孤独的鸣叫，
[04:21.68]or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night.	这种生活，算是活着？
[04:25.57]I am a red man and do not understand.	我是红人，我不懂。
[04:29.39]The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind 	清风的声音轻轻扫过池塘的水面，
[04:33.29]darting over the face of the pond,	清风的芳香，
[04:35.70]and the smell of the wind itself,	是经午后雨露洗涤或浸过松香的，
[04:38.10]cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with the pinon pine.	这才是红人所愿听愿闻的。
[04:42.55]The air is precious to the red man,	红人珍爱大气，
[04:45.38]for all things share the same breath--	所有一切都共享一种气息――
[04:48.00]the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath.	野兽、树木还有人类都分享着同一种气息。
[04:52.99]The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes.	白人似乎不会注意他要靠空气才能存活，
[04:56.96]Like a man dying for many days,	像一个死去多日的人，
[04:59.97]he is numb to the stench.	已不能辨别恶臭。
[05:01.96]But if we sell you our land,	但若卖地给你，
[05:04.50]you must remember that the air is precious to us,	务请牢记，我们珍爱大气，
[05:07.81]that the air shares its spirit with 	空气养育着所有的生命，
[05:10.34]all the life it supports.	它的灵力，人人有份。
[05:12.80]The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath 	风，迎着我祖父出生时的第一口气，
[05:16.47]also receives his last sigh.	也送走它最后一声的叹息。
[05:18.77]And if we sell you our land,	如若卖地给你，
[05:21.50]you must keep it apart and sacred,	务请将它划为圣地，
[05:23.59]as a place where even the white man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow's flowers.	使白人也能随风闻到牧草地上的花香。
[05:29.96]So we will consider 	因此，我们将考虑
[05:31.66]your offer to buy our land.	你们要购买我们的土地的提议。
[05:33.71]If we decide to accept,	如果我们决定接受，
[05:35.92]I will make one condition--the white man must 	我会有一个条件――白人必须像
[05:39.10]treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.	对待兄弟一样对待这块土地上的野兽。
[05:42.55]I am a savage 	我是个尚未开化的人，
[05:44.17]and do not understand any other way.	不明白任何其他的方式。
[05:46.70]I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie,	我看到白人因资格训练而射杀的
[05:50.56]left by the white man who shot them from a passing train.	数千头野牛在大草原上腐烂。
[05:54.74]I am a savage 	我是个尚未开化的人，
[05:56.31]and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made 	我无法理解那冒烟的“铁皮大马”怎么就会
[06:00.21]more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.	比我们用来维持生存才宰杀的野牛更重要。
[06:05.20]What is man without the beasts? 	人在没有了野兽之后会变得怎样呢？
[06:08.12]If all the beasts were gone,	如果所有的野兽都消失了，
[06:09.95]man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit.	那么人类也会在灵魂深处的巨大寂寞中死去。
[06:14.21]For whatever happens to the beasts,	因为任何发生在野兽身上的事
[06:16.73]soon happens to man.	也会发生在人身上。
[06:18.61]All things are connected.	万事万物都是息息相关的。
[06:20.51]You must teach your children that 	务请教导你们的子女，
[06:22.97]the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers.	他们脚下的土地埋着我们祖先的骨骸；
[06:27.60]So that they will respect the land,	告诉你们的子女，
[06:29.30]tell your children that the Earth is 	大地因我们亲族的生命而滋润，
[06:31.90]rich with the lives of our kin.	以便他们能够尊崇大地：
[06:33.82]Teach your children what we have taught our children,	请教给你们的子女我们所教给子女的：
[06:37.71]that the Earth is our mother.	大地是我们的母亲。
[06:39.90]Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.	大地的命运，就是人类的命运，
[06:44.20]If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.	人若唾弃大地，就是在唾弃自己。
[06:48.81]This we know--	我们确知一事――
[06:50.21]the Earth does not belong to man--	大地并不属于人类――
[06:52.74]man belongs to the Earth.	人类，属于大地。
[06:55.17]This we know.	这是我们所知道的。
[06:56.35]All things are connected like 	世界万物皆相连，
[06:58.37]the blood which unites one family.	如血缘团结一家亲。
[07:01.30]All things are connected.	万事万物都是息息相关的。
[07:03.38]Whatever befalls the Earth--befalls the sons of the Earth.	大地的命运，就是人类的命运。
[07:07.91]Man did not weave the web of life--	人类并不是编织生命之网的主宰，
[07:11.36]he is merely a strand in it.	他只不过是其中一根丝线而已。
[07:13.75]Whatever he does to the web,	无论人类对这个网做了什么，
[07:16.30]he does to himself.	都会回应到自己身上。
[07:17.62]Even the white man,	虽然白人的上帝与他并肩齐步，
[07:19.66]whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend,	和他交谈一如两位朋友，
[07:23.30]cannot be exempt from the common destiny.	但白人也无法豁免于相同的命运。
[07:25.94]We may be brothers after all.	也许，你我都是兄弟。
[07:28.58]We shall see. One thing we know,	等着看，我们知道，
[07:31.42]which the white man may one day discover--	也许有一天白人会发现：
[07:34.51]Our God is the same God.	我们所信的神，是同一位神。
[07:36.88]You may think now that you own Him 	或许，你以为可以拥有上帝，
[07:40.70]as you wish to own our land,	像你想要拥有我们的土地一样。
[07:42.69]but you cannot.	其实你办不到，
[07:43.92]He is the God of man,	上帝，是全人类的神，
[07:46.46]and His compassion is equal for 	上帝对人类怜恤平等，
[07:49.15]red man and the white.	不分红人与白人。
[07:51.12]The Earth is precious to Him,	上帝视大地为至宝，
[07:53.20]and to harm the Earth is to heap contempt on its creator.	伤害大地就是亵渎大地的创造者。
[07:57.14]The whites too shall pass,	白人也终将消失，
[07:59.30]perhaps sooner than all other tribes.	说不定比其他种族消失得更快。
[08:02.15]But in your perishing 	但即使你们死了，
[08:04.17]you will shine brightly,	也会靠着上帝给你的力量在世上灿烂发光，
[08:05.57]fired by the strength of the God 	是上帝引领你活在大地上，
[08:08.50]who brought you to this land and for some special purpose 	是上帝莫名的旨意
[08:11.26]gave you dominion over this land and over the red man.	容你操纵红人和这块土地。
[08:15.27]That destiny is a mystery to us,	这种命运让我们费解，
[08:17.69]for we do not understand 	因为我们不懂，
[08:19.88]when the buffalo are slaughtered,	为什么野牛会被杀戮。
[08:21.65]the wild horses tamed,	野马会被驯服，
[08:23.43]the secret comers of the forest heavy with scent of many men,	森林的秘密角落里布满了人群的异味，
[08:28.30]and the view of the ripe hills 	优美的山景，
[08:30.33]blotted by talking wires.	全被电话线玷污。
[08:32.60]Where is the thicket? Gone.	丛林在哪里？没了！
[08:34.95]Where is the Eagle? Gone.	雄鹰在哪里？不见了！
[08:37.92]The end of living and the beginning of survival.	生命已到了尽头，是偷生的开始。

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英语美文点亮智慧人生46：Chief Seattle's Thoughts 西雅图宣言（MP3+双语字幕）