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Prologue: Prologue Ira Glass Let us speak of our nation's monuments.
序言： 序言 Ira Glass 让我们谈谈我们国家的纪念碑。
When you're at the Statue of Liberty or standing under the Rotunda at the US Capitol, when you're at the Alamo, it is clear what they mean.
当您在自由女神像前或站在美国国会大厦的圆形大厅下时，当您在阿拉莫时，您会清楚地了解它们的含义。
But why do thousands of tourists go every day of the summer to Four Corners, that spot in the wilderness where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado-- four different states-- meet at one point.
但为什么夏天每天都有成千上万的游客前往四角，那里是犹他州、亚利桑那州、新墨西哥州和科罗拉多州这四个不同州交汇处的荒野之地。
I went this summer, drawn inexorably, magnetically, without quite knowing why, just like every other wandering tourist who strays within 250 miles of the place.
今年夏天我去了这里，就像所有其他在这个地方 250 英里范围内徘徊的流浪游客一样，我被无情地、磁性地吸引着，但完全不知道为什么。
Chances are, you have done this yourself.
很可能，您自己已经做到了这一点。
You've driven three or four hours out of your way.
你已经开了三四个小时的车了。
And you show up.
然后你出现了。
And there's a marker on the ground, ringed by dozens, literally dozens, of t-shirt stands.
地上有一个标记，周围有几十个，实际上是几十个 T 恤架。
And families come.
家人也来了。
And they stand on the supposed spot where the four states meet.
他们站在四个州交汇的假定地点。
And what?
还有什么？
They hold hands, they sit on the ground.
他们手牵着手，坐在地上。
And then mom or dad or sis stands on a little platform they have there, built specially for this purpose, and takes a snapshot.
然后妈妈、爸爸或姐姐站在他们专门为此目的建造的小平台上，拍一张快照。
And then, often, there's this kind of aftermath moment where everybody sort of stands around haplessly like, what was that all about?
然后，经常会出现这样的后果时刻，每个人都倒霉地站在周围，好像，这到底是怎么回事？
We came for this?
我们就是为了这个而来的？
And then the next group comes in.
然后下一组进来。
The arbitrariness of it all, I think, is lost on no one.
我认为，没有人会忽视这一切的任意性。
I saw one family with young kids who simply placed a teddy bear on the spot where the four states meet, and snapped a picture of that.
我看到一个有小孩的家庭只是在四个州交汇的地方放了一只泰迪熊，并拍了一张照片。
Couldn't any four corners hold just as much meaning as this place?
任何四个角落都不能像这个地方一样具有意义吗？
And my friend, the answer, of course, is yes.
我的朋友，答案当然是肯定的。
And today on our program, we offer our own little national monument here on the radio, our own picture of life in America, our own four corners.
今天，在我们的节目中，我们在广播中提供我们自己的小国家纪念碑，我们自己的美国生活图景，我们自己的四个角落。
From WBEZ Chicago and Public Radio International, it's This American Life .
来自芝加哥 WBEZ 和国际公共广播电台的《This American Life》。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Today on our program, Four Corners, we tell the story of life in America through portraits of life on four different corners in four different states across this great nation.
今天，在我们的节目《四个角落》中，我们通过这个伟大国家四个不同州的四个不同角落的生活肖像来讲述美国的生活故事。
Act One, History.
第一幕，历史。
Act Two, Love.
第二幕，爱。
Act Three, Neighbors.
第三幕，邻居。
Act four, How to Become an American.
第四幕，如何成为美国人。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act One.
第一幕。
Let us begin with the most epic of our four stories today.
让我们从今天四个故事中最史诗般的故事开始。
About a year ago, writer Sarah Vowell had a theory that she could tell the entire history of America by describing what happened on and around one single street corner.
大约一年前，作家莎拉·沃威尔（Sarah Vowell）有一个理论，认为她可以通过描述一个街角及其周围发生的事情来讲述美国的整个历史。
Specifically, the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive here in Chicago.
具体来说，是芝加哥密歇根大道和瓦克大道的拐角处。
She thought she could just swivel around and point at the whole dark and inspiring tale.
她以为她可以转过身来指出整个黑暗而鼓舞人心的故事。
Here then, her story.
那么，她的故事就在这里。
When I started I had only a few things to go on, a couple of French explorers, a plaque on the bridge said, "Passed by in 1673." An Indian massacre in 1812 right there in front of the Burger King, vague notions of Abe Lincoln's debt to the Chicago Tribune , whose quaint Gothic tower looms over the bridge's north side.
当我开始的时候，我只有几件事要做，几个法国探险家，桥上的一块牌匾写着：“1673年经过”。 1812 年，汉堡王门前发生了一场印第安人大屠杀，人们对亚伯·林肯对《芝加哥论坛报》的感激之情模糊不清，《芝加哥论坛报》古色古香的哥特式塔楼耸立在桥的北侧。
I thought, that's enough American history, and I'd just make up the rest.
我想，美国历史已经够多了，剩下的就由我来弥补吧。
Turns out my theory was only too right.
事实证明我的理论太正确了。
The intersection of Michigan and Wacker, I found out, isn't just a corner, it's a vortex.
我发现，密歇根和瓦克的交叉点不仅仅是一个拐角，而是一个漩涡。
The deeper I dug into the history of Chicago and its relationship to the history of the country, the more crowded the ghost traffic jam clogging up the Michigan Avenue Bridge got.
我越深入地研究芝加哥的历史及其与国家历史的关系，堵塞密歇根大道大桥的幽灵交通堵塞就越拥挤。
OK, I'm standing here right now on the Michigan Avenue Bridge and the Chicago River is right underneath me.
好吧，我现在站在密歇根大道大桥上，芝加哥河就在我的下面。
There are some ducks floating under there, and a boat just went by.
下面有一些鸭子在漂浮，一艘船刚刚经过。
And here's another one coming.
又一个来了。
Out there is where the river meets Lake Michigan to the east.
那里是河流向东与密歇根湖交汇的地方。
And looking south, the place where the bridge hits land is the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive, where you can get your vision checked or buy a nice fur coat, should you desire.
向南看，大桥落地的地方是密歇根大道和瓦克大道的拐角处，如果您愿意的话，您可以在那里检查视力或购买一件漂亮的毛皮大衣。
I'm swiveling around, and the view from the bridge is just picture postcard pretty, especially at night when the Wrigley Building is just lit up so soft it glows.
我旋转着身子，桥上的景色就像明信片一样美丽，尤其是在晚上，箭牌大厦被灯光照亮，发出柔和的光芒。
Supposedly, the building so delighted Joseph Stalin that he had the University of Moscow designed in its image.
据说，这座建筑让约瑟夫·斯大林非常高兴，以至于他按照它的形象设计了莫斯科大学。
And who can blame him?
谁能责怪他呢？
The American national mythology revolves around the idea that the promise of America is best seen in the West.
美国的民族神话围绕着这样一种观念：美国的承诺在西方是最好的体现。
Home, home, on the range, et cetera.
家，家，牧场，等等。
Existentially, that might be true.
从存在的角度来看，这可能是真的。
But economically, the real place to witness the promise of America is the Midwest, where for most of this country's history, the products of the range were manipulated for fun and profit.
但在经济上，真正见证美国前景的地方是中西部，在这个国家的大部分历史中，该地区的产品都被操纵以获取乐趣和利润。
When the cowboys sang, get along little dogie, they left out the part where the little dogie is railroaded to Chicago to be slaughtered by some underpaid, overworked immigrant en route to its manifest destiny as a New Yorker's supper.
当牛仔们唱着《和小狗狗相处》时，他们忽略了小狗狗被用火车运到芝加哥，被一些工资过低、劳累过度的移民屠杀的部分，而这条小狗狗最终的命运是成为纽约人的晚餐。
The first person to grasp the significance of this place where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan was Louis Joliet, or as he's known around here, Joliet.
第一个认识到芝加哥河与密歇根湖交汇处的重要性的人是路易斯·乔利埃特（Louis Joliet），或者他在这里被称为乔利埃特（Joliet）。
Back when his name was still said with a French accent, Joliet was a 27-year-old fur trader who accompanied a Jesuit missionary named Jacques Marquette on a canoe expedition from Quebec in 1673.
当人们用法国口音念出他的名字时，乔利埃特是一名 27 岁的毛皮商人，1673 年，他陪同耶稣会传教士雅克·马凯特 (Jacques Marquette) 从魁北克划独木舟探险。
They were to map the Mississippi in the name of France, unaware that Spain had already claimed the river some 130 years before.
他们以法国的名义绘制密西西比河地图，却没有意识到西班牙早在大约 130 年前就已经声称拥有这条河流的主权。
On the return trip, at the suggestion of their Indian guide, they traveled from the Mississippi into the Illinois River, and then the Des Plaines.
回程时，根据印第安导游的建议，他们从密西西比河进入伊利诺伊河，然后进入德斯普兰斯。
They got out and carried their canoes a few dozen miles to the Chicago River, where they got back in their canoes and paddled to this very spot.
他们下了车，把独木舟带到了几十英里外的芝加哥河，然后又回到独木舟，划到了这个地方。
Right where the river meets the Great Lakes, just below the corner at Michigan and Wacker.
就在河流与五大湖的交汇处，就在密歇根州和瓦克州的拐角处。
And Joliet then had a vision.
然后乔利埃特有了一个愿景。
His map of North America-- an oddly pretty, delicate ink drawing he made in 1674-- is concerned with one thing and one thing only, water.
他在 1674 年绘制的北美地图——一幅异常漂亮、精致的水墨画——只与一件事有关，而且只与一件事有关，那就是水。
His America is all Great Lakes and Mississippi.
他的美国是五大湖区和密西西比州。
Look close, and you can see what he saw.
仔细观察，你就能看到他看到了什么。
There's Lake Michigan and at only one spot, the future site of Chicago, does it connect to a river that connects to a couple of other rivers that could connect it to the Mississippi.
密歇根湖只有一个地方，即芝加哥未来的所在地，与一条河流相连，而这条河流又与其他几条河流相连，而这些河流又可以将其与密西西比河相连。
This is what Joliet saw, that this place is a continental hub, the missing link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and thus the Atlantic and the Gulf.
这就是乔利埃特所看到的，这个地方是一个大陆枢纽，是五大湖和密西西比河之间以及大西洋和海湾之间缺失的联系。
All that was needed was a short canal spanning the miles of prairie between rivers.
所需要的只是一条横跨河流之间绵延数英里的草原的短运河。
He wrote, "We could go with facility to Florida in a bark, and by very easy navigation."
他写道：“我们可以轻松地乘船前往佛罗里达，并且导航非常容易。”
Thus, Joliet's map isn't so much a map as a prophecy.
因此，乔利埃特的地图与其说是地图，不如说是预言。
Stick your ear up against it and you can practically hear cash registers ring.
把你的耳朵贴在上面，你几乎可以听到收银机的铃声。
Surprisingly, they only built a bridge here in 1920.
令人惊讶的是，他们在 1920 年才在这里建造了一座桥。
Engineers also straightened out the Chicago River and put in massive landfills over there, so the lake is further from the corner than it was in Joliet's day.
工程师们还理顺了芝加哥河，并在那里修建了大型垃圾填埋场，因此与乔利埃特时代相比，该湖离河角更远了。
And I like to picture Joliet sometimes walking up or down Michigan Avenue to the bridge, a go cup in his hand from either the Starbucks over there from the north side of the river or the Starbucks over there on the south side of the river, spitting coffee-laced saliva into the Chicago River, knowing it will float with facility all the way past New Orleans and to the ocean from there.
我喜欢想象乔利埃特有时沿着密歇根大街走到桥上，手里拿着河北岸星巴克或河南岸星巴克的咖啡杯，将掺有咖啡的唾液吐进芝加哥河，因为他知道它会轻松地漂过新奥尔良，从那里流入大海。
The first person to get cracking on Joliet's dream was Chicago's first permanent settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a trader who built a cabin here on the north side of the river in 1779, a century after Joliet paddled by.
第一个实现乔利埃特梦想的人是芝加哥第一位永久定居者让·巴蒂斯特·波因特·杜萨布尔 (Jean Baptiste Point du Sable)，他是一名商人，于 1779 年在河北岸建造了一间小屋，此时距离乔利埃特划船经过一个世纪了。
Du Sable's mother was an African slave and his father was French.
杜萨布尔的母亲是非洲奴隶，父亲是法国人。
He lived here on what is now the site of a 35 story office tower called the Equitable Building.
他居住的地方现在是一座 35 层办公楼的所在地，名为 Equitable 大楼。
With his Potawatomi wife, Catherine, Du Sable's marriage bed was itself a map of America, the mixing of European, African, and Indian blood to make a son and a daughter, true American children with three continents in their dark eyes.
杜萨布尔和他的波塔瓦托米妻子凯瑟琳的婚床本身就是一幅美洲地图，欧洲、非洲和印第安人的血统混合在一起，造就了一个儿子和一个女儿，真正的美国孩子，他们的黑眼睛里藏着三大洲。
Chicago school teachers like to impress upon their students that Chicago's first resident, Du Sable, was a black man.
芝加哥学校的老师喜欢让学生知道芝加哥的第一位居民杜·塞布尔是一位黑人。
And just think, it only took 204 years for the town to elect its first black mayor.
想想看，该镇只用了 204 年就选出了第一位黑人市长。
In 1803, the United States established Fort Dearborn at what would become the corner of Michigan and Wacker to protect the portage of the Chicago River.
1803年，美国在后来的密歇根州和瓦克交界处建立了迪尔伯恩堡，以保护芝加哥河的运输。
During the War of 1812, hundreds of Potawatomi Indians descended upon the soldiers and their families and killed them, burning down the fort.
1812 年战争期间，数百名波塔瓦托米印第安人袭击了士兵及其家人，将他们杀害，并烧毁了堡垒。
The site of Chicago was then abandoned for four years.
芝加哥遗址随后被废弃四年。
When soldiers arrived to rebuild the fort, they first had to bury the scalped human remains which still lay there.
当士兵到达重建堡垒时，他们首先必须埋葬仍躺在那里的被剥皮的人类遗骸。
Today, the site of the fort is weirdly commemorated here with these little bronze markers embedded in the sidewalk at Michigan and Wacker.
如今，密歇根和瓦克的人行道上镶嵌着这些小小的青铜标记，以奇怪的方式纪念这座堡垒的所在地。
So the tourists can dance around its former perimeter as if learning to cha, cha, cha.
因此，游客可以在它以前的周边跳舞，就像学习恰恰、恰恰、恰恰一样。
And over here, there's a wildly racist relief sculpture commemorating the defense of Fort Dearborn, where a soldier from the fort is kind of battling off this savage Indian brave while a mother and child are kind of cowering behind him, basically waiting to die.
在这里，有一座纪念迪尔伯恩堡保卫战的种族主义浮雕，其中一名来自堡垒的士兵正在与野蛮的印第安勇士作战，而一对母亲和孩子则畏缩在他身后，基本上是在等待死亡。
And underneath that, is a plaque that says the people of the fort were brutally massacred by the Indians.
在它的下面，有一块牌匾，上面写着堡垒的人民被印第安人残酷屠杀。
They will be cherished as martyrs in our early history.
他们将被视为我们早期历史上的烈士。
What it doesn't say is that those Indians technically hadn't given over their rights to this land.
它没有说的是，从技术上讲，那些印第安人并没有放弃他们对这片土地的权利。
But it looks like they ran out of room to put that on the plaque.
但看起来他们已经没有足够的空间把它放在牌匾上了。
Now I'm going to walk around here back onto the bridge.
现在我要绕着这里走回桥上。
And I'm looking west across the Chicago River.
我正在向西眺望芝加哥河。
And if you look downriver at the turn in the river, a few blocks west, you can see the site of the old Sauganash Hotel right over there.
如果你在河的拐弯处往下游看，在西边几个街区，你就能看到旧索加纳什酒店的遗址就在那里。
During the first half of the 19th century at the Sauganash Hotel, Chicagoans seemed to be play acting the juiciest bits of the country's spanking new Constitution every night.
十九世纪上半叶，在索加纳什酒店，芝加哥人似乎每天晚上都在表演这个国家令人震惊的新宪法中最有趣的部分。
Historian Donald L.
历史学家唐纳德·L.
Miller writes, "At the Sauganash and its neighboring hotels, men and women of every color and class were welcome.
米勒写道：“在索加纳什酒店及其邻近的酒店，各种肤色和阶层的男女都受到欢迎。
And whiskey, song, and dance were the great democratizors.
威士忌、歌曲和舞蹈是伟大的民主化因素。
Visitors from more civilized parts were shocked to see Indian braves spinning the white wives of fort officers around the dance floor of the Sauganash to the frenzied fiddling and toe-tapping of hotel owner, Mark Beaubien.
来自文明地区的游客惊讶地发现，印度勇敢者在索加纳什舞池里旋转要塞军官的白人妻子，酒店老板马克·博比恩 (Mark Beaubien) 则疯狂地摆弄和敲打脚趾。
Or white and Indian women drinking home-distilled liquor straight from the bottle.
或者白人和印度妇女直接从瓶子里喝自制蒸馏酒。
To add an edge to the evenings, local white traders would put on feathered headdresses and spring into the crowded tavern with war whoops and raised tomahawks, scaring the wits out of tight-buttoned easterners."
为了给夜晚增添一丝气氛，当地的白人商人会戴上羽毛头饰，高声喊叫，举起战斧，跳进拥挤的酒馆，把保守的东方人吓得魂飞魄散。”
I can not overemphasize how much I love that story.
我无论如何强调我对这个故事的喜爱程度都不为过。
Not just the metaphor of it, that it is the best ideal of America I can think of.
不仅仅是它的隐喻，它是我能想到的美国最好的理想。
The picture of liquored up ladies and dancing Indians, the strangeness of reenacting the Fort Dearborn massacre to scare the queasy easterners, turning what must have still been an open wound into a practical joke.
喝得酩酊大醉的女士和跳舞的印第安人的画面，重演迪尔伯恩堡大屠杀来吓唬不安的东部人的奇怪景象，把本来还没有愈合的伤口变成了一个恶作剧。
I love that story as proof of the theorem that then, as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness.
我喜欢这个故事，因为它证明了一个定理：就像今天在芝加哥一样，威士忌加音乐的神秘方程式等于只能称为幸福的东西。
The ladies of Chicago wouldn't be dancing with Indians much longer because there wouldn't be any Indians left to dance with.
芝加哥的女士们不会再和印第安人跳舞太久了，因为再也没有印第安人可以跳舞了。
The city of Chicago was officially incorporated in 1833, the year the Potawatomi chief stood near the old Du Sable home and signed away their land in Illinois to the administration of Andrew Jackson, who found time in this busy schedule of relocating the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Seminole and Chickasaw to have the Potawatomi removed west to what US government surveyors had called, "Land too poor for snakes to live upon."
芝加哥市于 1833 年正式成立，这一年，波塔瓦托米酋长站在杜塞布尔旧宅附近，将他们在伊利诺伊州的土地签署给安德鲁·杰克逊政府，安德鲁·杰克逊在繁忙的日程中抽出时间搬迁切罗基人、克里克人、乔克托人、塞米诺尔人和契卡索人，将波塔瓦托米人向西迁移到美国政府测量员所说的“土地太贫瘠，蛇无法生存”。
Three years after the Potawatomi signed away their land and the city was incorporated, construction began on that canal that Joliet had envisioned to connect Lake Michigan to the Mississippi.
波塔瓦托米家族签署放弃土地、城市合并三年后，乔利埃特设想连接密歇根湖和密西西比河的运河开始建设。
The canal worked pretty much exactly as Joliet had imagined.
运河的运作与乔利埃特的想象几乎一模一样。
So much trade moved past this corner that Chicago expanded from a muddy little Hamlet of a few hundred people to a city of over 100,000 in just 25 years.
如此多的贸易经过这个角落，以至于芝加哥在短短 25 年里从一个只有几百人的泥泞小哈姆雷特发展成为一个拥有超过 10 万人口的城市。
Cyrus McCormick built his McCormick Reaper Works right here on the river in 1847.
1847 年，赛勒斯·麦考密克 (Cyrus McCormick) 在河边建造了他的麦考密克收割者工厂 (McCormick Reaper Works)。
His machine, the reaper, turned out to be one of the most significant inventions in the history of history.
他的机器收割机成为历史上最重要的发明之一。
Before McCormick, it took 3 hours to gather a bushel of wheat.
在麦考密克之前，收割一蒲式耳小麦需要三个小时。
And with the reaper, it took 10 minutes.
而对于收割者来说，就花了10分钟。
Because McCormick helped mechanize agriculture, farms could take up more space and use less labor in less time.
由于麦考密克帮助实现了农业机械化，农场可以在更短的时间内占用更多的空间并使用更少的劳动力。
By speeding up and emptying out the country, McCormick populated the city.
通过加速和清空乡村，麦考密克在这座城市里人口众多。
Not that the march of progress is necessarily benign, especially if you're one of those urban workers.
这并不是说进步的进程一定是良性的，特别是如果你是城市工人之一。
Just ask the dead of the Haymarket riot who laid down their lives just 15 blocks from here for the 8 hour workday.
只要问问干草市场骚乱中的死者就知道了，他们在距离这里仅 15 个街区的地方为了 8 小时的工作日而献出了生命。
Or read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle , about what the stockyard employees went through on the south side.
或者阅读厄普顿·辛克莱 (Upton Sinclair) 的《丛林》(The Jungle)，了解南边牲畜饲养场员工的经历。
By the Civil War, most of America's grain from the West and the vast prairie around Chicago was unloaded from trains here, traded on the commodities exchange, and then sent east on ships from Lake Michigan, all within a five minute walk of the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive.
内战期间，美国大部分来自西部和芝加哥周围大草原的粮食都在这里从火车上卸下，在商品交易所进行交易，然后从密歇根湖乘船运往东部，所有这些都在距离密歇根大道和瓦克大道拐角处步行五分钟的范围内。
It could have been this very spot the poet Carl Sandburg was thinking of in his famous poem about Chicago, "Hog Butcher to the World." He called the city, "Tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads, and the nation's freight handler.
诗人卡尔·桑德堡（Carl Sandburg）在他关于芝加哥的著名诗《世界的猪屠夫》中所想到的地方可能就是这个地方。他称这座城市为“工具制造者、小麦堆垛者、铁路玩家和国家货运处理者。
Stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders."
暴风雨、沙哑、争吵，大肩膀之城。”
So over here, tool maker.
在这里，工具制造商。
That was the reaper factory on the north side of the river.
那是河北岸的收割工厂。
And over there, stacker of wheat on the south side.
那边，南边堆放着小麦。
That was where these giant grain silos stood, where now is standing a giant Hyatt Hotel.
那些巨大的粮仓就在那里，现在矗立着一座巨大的凯悦酒店。
The player with railroad and nation's freight handler, that's over there behind the Hyatt where the train tracks were.
拥有铁路和国家货运搬运工的玩家，就在凯悦酒店后面，那里有火车轨道。
And look right there, the guy in the leather jacket, big shoulders.
看那边，那个穿皮夹克的家伙，肩膀很大。
It is my project to tell the whole history of America from this corner.
我的计划是从这个角落讲述美国的整个历史。
And there's no telling of that history without the Civil War.
如果没有内战，就无法讲述这段历史。
Abraham Lincoln was nominated for president here in Chicago at the Republican National Convention in 1860, on the very site, by the way, of the old Sauganash Hotel, where the Indians and drunken ladies used to dance.
1860 年，亚伯拉罕·林肯 (Abraham Lincoln) 在芝加哥举行的共和党全国代表大会上被提名为总统，顺便说一句，就在老索加纳什酒店 (Sauganash Hotel) 的旧址上，印第安人和醉酒女士曾经在这里跳舞。
And the Chicago Tribune, standing on North Michigan Avenue, a stone's throw from the bridge, not only campaigned for Lincoln, its editors talked him into running for president in the first place.
《芝加哥论坛报》位于北密歇根大道上，距离大桥仅一箭之遥，它不仅为林肯竞选，其编辑们还首先说服他竞选总统。
Lincoln was considering going for vice president.
林肯正在考虑竞选副总统。
Maybe.
或许。
The Trib 's great editor, Joseph Medill, helped found the Republican Party to advance the anti-slavery cause.
《部落》的伟大编辑约瑟夫·梅迪尔帮助创建了共和党，以推进反奴隶制事业。
Medill was such a passionate abolitionist that he wrote in a Tribune editorial in 1856, "We are not unfrequently told that we crowd the Tribune with anti-slavery matter to the exclusion of other topics.
梅迪尔是一位热情的废奴主义者，他在 1856 年的《论坛报》社论中写道：“我们经常被告知，我们在论坛报上充斥着反奴隶制的内容，而排除了其他话题。
We plead guilty."
我们认罪了。”
Medill and company's access to the president wasn't necessarily always in their favor.
梅迪尔和他的公司与总统的接触并不一定总是对他们有利。
At the height of the Civil War, they went to the White House and pleaded to get out of the president's new request for 6,000 more Union draftees from Cook County in Chicago.
在内战最激烈的时期，他们前往白宫恳求总统不要再提出从芝加哥库克县招募 6,000 名联邦应征入伍者的新要求。
This after the area had already given up some 22,000 men.
在此之前，该地区已经放弃了大约 22,000 名士兵。
According to writer Lloyd Wendt, after Medill asked for mercy, Lincoln turned on him with that Lincolnesque biblical wrath, scolding, "It is you who are largely responsible for making blood flow as it has.
根据作家劳埃德·温特的说法，在梅迪尔请求宽恕后，林肯以林肯式的圣经愤怒转向他，斥责道：“你要对造成现在的血液流动负主要责任。
You called for war until we had it.
你号召发动战争，直到我们发动战争为止。
You called for emancipation, and I have given it to you.
你呼唤解放，我已经给了你。
Whatever you have asked for, you have had.
无论你要求什么，你都已经得到了。
Now you come here begging to be let off from the call for men, which I have made to carry out the war you have demanded?
现在你来这里乞求不要再征兵了，我是为了执行你所要求的战争而征兵的？
You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
你应该为自己感到羞耻。
I have a right to expect better things of you.
我有权期待你做得更好。
Go home and raise your 6,000 extra men."
回家去养活你的六千人吧。”
Needless to say, Lincoln got his Chicago soldiers.
不用说，林肯得到了他的芝加哥士兵。
And reporting the news of the president's assassination on April 15, 1865, the headline of the Chicago Tribune simply reads, "Terrible News."
1865 年 4 月 15 日，《芝加哥论坛报》报道了总统遇刺的消息，其标题很简单：“可怕的消息”。
Not long after the Civil War, the whole city burned to the ground, and Chicago became the place where every major architect in the country-- from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright on down to Mies van der Rohe-- worked on reinventing what a city skyline is supposed to look like.
内战结束后不久，整座城市被夷为平地，芝加哥成为美国每一位主要建筑师——从路易斯·沙利文、弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特到密斯·凡德罗——致力于重塑城市天际线的地方。
Montgomery Ward and Sears and Roebuck revolutionized consumer merchandising with mail order catalog sales.
蒙哥马利·沃德和西尔斯·罗巴克通过邮购目录销售彻底改变了消费品销售。
Montgomery Ward was just two blocks from Michigan and Wacker.
蒙哥马利沃德距离密歇根和瓦克仅两个街区。
In 1920, Al Capone came to town, the same year prohibition went into effect.
1920 年，阿尔·卡彭 (Al Capone) 来到小镇，同年禁令生效。
One year after that, Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci, a member of the Dean O'Banion gang, chased by police, drove onto the Michigan Avenue Bridge just as it was opening to let a boat pass.
一年后，Dean O'Banion 帮派成员文森特·“阴谋家”·德鲁奇 (Vincent "The Scherer" Drucci) 在警察追捕下，在密歇根大道大桥即将开放让船通过时驾车驶上大桥。
He jumped the gap only to crash straight into the other side.
他跳过了缺口，却直接撞到了另一边。
Decades pass.
几十年过去了。
Manufacturing at the corner gives way to the service economy.
角落里的制造业让位于服务经济。
Now it's all banks and advertising agencies and law firms.
现在都是银行、广告公司和律师事务所。
Skyscrapers, instead of warehouses.
摩天大楼，而不是仓库。
Railroads give way to the world's busiest airport on the north side of town.
铁路通往城镇北侧世界上最繁忙的机场。
If I may skip ahead in the interest of finishing this story before tomorrow morning's paper arrives-- for me, by the way, the Tribune, chock full of those anti-slavery screeds, as usual.
如果我可以跳过，以便在明天早上的报纸到达之前完成这个故事——顺便说一句，对我来说，《论坛报》像往常一样充满了那些反奴隶制的长篇大论。
Only an eight minute walk from the corner is the site of the first Kennedy-Nixon debate, the place you could argue where modern televised democracy begins.
距离街角仅 8 分钟步行路程，就是肯尼迪与尼克松第一次辩论的地点，您可以在这里争论现代电视民主的开始。
Since that's the debate Nixon was said to lose not because of the issues, but because he looked so ghastly, sweating under the lights.
据说尼克松在这场辩论中输了，不是因为问题，而是因为他在灯光下看起来很可怕，满头大汗。
And just a short walk from there is the building where Hugh Hefner ran Playboy magazine during its heyday.
距离那里仅几步之遥，就是休·海夫纳 (Hugh Hefner) 在鼎盛时期经营《花花公子》杂志的大楼。
As long as we're on the subject of the decline of Western civilization, if you look over there to the second story of the NBC Tower, tucked between the Equitable and the Tribune, that's where they tape the Jerry Springer Show.
只要我们谈论西方文明的衰落，如果你看看 NBC 塔的第二层，夹在《衡平报》和《论坛报》之间，那就是他们录制《杰里·斯普林格秀》的地方。
The Jerry Springer Show.
杰里施普林格秀。
It just wouldn't be the haunted landscape around the Michigan Avenue Bridge if some symbolic television apocalypse did not happen here each day.
如果这里每天没有发生一些象征性的电视灾难，那么密歇根大道大桥周围就不会出现闹鬼的景观了。
Booking guests whose near constant profanity makes this show into an unintelligible barrage of bleeps, watching it is like listening to a constant storm warning.
预订的客人几乎持续不断的脏话使这个节目变成了难以理解的蜂鸣声，观看它就像听到持续的暴风雨警告。
Which is exactly what it is.
这正是它的本质。
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but one way you can measure the importance of this corner to our national psyche is the number of times it shows up in motion pictures, specifically the action adventure kind.
也许这只是巧合，但衡量这个角落对我们国民心理重要性的一种方法是它在电影中出现的次数，特别是动作冒险类电影。
Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey.
布鲁斯·威利斯、塞缪尔·杰克逊、凯文·科斯特纳、肖恩·康纳利、汤米·李·琼斯、韦斯利·斯奈普斯、哈里森·福特、凯文·史派西。
There's barely an actor worth the cover of Entertainment Weekly who hasn't been in a film with a scene shot right at the corner.
几乎没有一个值得《娱乐周刊》封面的演员没有出演过在拐角处拍摄场景的电影。
And why?
为什么？
Because these films are about the motion of planes, trains, automobiles, boats, helicopters, motorcycles, every modern means of transportation.
因为这些电影是关于飞机、火车、汽车、轮船、直升机、摩托车以及每一种现代交通工具的运动。
And so where better to film them than the place that three centuries ago was spotted as our country's leading transportation hub by Hollywood's favorite unintentional location scout, Louis Joliet?
那么，还有什么地方比三个世纪前被好莱坞最喜欢的外景星探路易斯·乔利埃无意间发现为我国主要交通枢纽的地方更好呢？
In one typical offering, Chain Reaction , Keanu Reeves plays a fugitive, motorcycle-riding University of Chicago machinist being framed for murder, treason, and terrorism.
在一部典型的作品《连锁反应》中，基努·里维斯扮演一名逃亡的芝加哥大学机械师，他被指控犯有谋杀、叛国和恐怖主义罪。
Being framed is usually a big part of all of these movies.
被陷害通常是所有这些电影的重要组成部分。
Attempting to elude the police, he is chased down Michigan Avenue to the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
为了躲避警察，他沿着密歇根大道被追赶到密歇根大道大桥。
The bridge starts opening and Keanu scurries up, a cop not far behind.
桥开始打开，基努急忙上前，一名警察紧随其后。
He does a little better than Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci did in the '20s.
他比 20 年代“阴谋家”文森特·德鲁奇 (Vincent Drucci) 的表现要好一些。
But then, Keanu's a movie star, has a stunt double, and can do retakes.
不过，基努是电影明星，有替身演员，可以重拍。
As the angle of the raised bridge gets steeper, the cop slides to the bottom.
随着桥的角度变得越来越陡，警察就会滑到底部。
Keanu's at the top.
基努在巅峰。
What should he do?
他该怎么办？
He looks up.
他抬起头。
A police helicopter.
一架警用直升机。
He looks down.
他低下头。
A police boat.
一艘警船。
He crawls into the bottom of the bridge as it's lowered and ducks into a garbage truck to safety.
当桥降下时，他爬进桥底，躲进一辆垃圾车，安全逃生。
When he meets his fellow shapely fugitive who nervously awaits him at the train station, the conductor asks, what took you so long?
当他遇到在火车站紧张地等待他的同样身材匀称的逃犯时，售票员问道，你怎么花了这么长时间？
To which Keanu deadpans--
基努面无表情地说道——
The bridge was up.
桥已经升起来了。
Sarah Vowell Up, down, north, south, whatever.
莎拉·沃威尔 向上、向下、向北、向南，等等。
The point is that the bridge was right at the center of attention, in the middle of the action, at the hub.
关键是这座桥正处于人们关注的中心，处于行动的中心，处于枢纽。
We used to ship grain from this corner.
我们以前从这个角落运送谷物。
Now that entertainment is America's second biggest export, the product we ship is Keanu.
现在娱乐业已成为美国第二大出口产品，我们推出的产品就是基努。
I don't know what you're talking about.
我不知道你在说什么。
Jesus.
耶稣。
Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor to our program and a columnist for Salon, the online magazine.
莎拉·沃威尔 (Sarah Vowell) 是我们节目的特约编辑，也是在线杂志《沙龙》的专栏作家。
Our program today about four different visions of America told at four different street corners across the country.
我们今天的节目在全国四个不同的街角讲述了美国的四种不同愿景。
We've arrived at Act Two, Love.
我们已经到了第二幕了，爱。
For Scott Richer and Julie Riggs, at the corner where South Fourth Street in Louisville, Kentucky, meets the alley behind the West End Baptist Church, things between them changed forever and irrevocably.
对于斯科特·里彻和朱莉·里格斯来说，在肯塔基州路易斯维尔南第四街与西区浸信会教堂后面的小巷交汇的拐角处，他们之间的事情永远且不可挽回地改变了。
I think it built and built continually until it got to the point that brought us to the corner where everything was so outrageous, our emotions were so careening wildly out of control, that all we had to do was stand there and look at each other for it to be a monumental event in our lives.
我认为它不断地建立起来，直到它把我们带到了一个角落，一切都如此令人无法容忍，我们的情绪如此疯狂地失控，以至于我们所要做的就是站在那里，互相看着对方，因为这将成为我们生活中的一个里程碑式的事件。
The situation was Scott and I had been madly obsessed with each other for years, but we had always just been friends.
情况是斯科特和我多年来一直疯狂地迷恋对方，但我们一直只是朋友。
And I was in a relationship at the time.
当时我正在恋爱中。
So on this summer day, in this time in our relationship, in our friendship when we were just friends, I stopped by his apartment or his house over on Broadway to visit him.
所以在这个夏天，在我们关系的这个时刻，在我们只是朋友的友谊的时刻，我去他的公寓或他在百老汇的房子看望他。
We had a really nice afternoon.
我们度过了一个非常愉快的下午。
I think we hadn't seen each other for a few weeks.
我想我们已经几个星期没见面了。
But when we saw each other, we always laughed and always had fun and always made each other happy.
但当我们见面时，我们总是开怀大笑，总是玩得很开心，总是让彼此开心。
And then Scott, was this a day for you that was of particular torture?
然后斯科特，今天对你来说是特别折磨的一天吗？
A lot of days when she came over it was.
她过来的时候已经很多天了。
It was fun, but it was bittersweet.
这很有趣，但又苦乐参半。
She's always able to go away from it being happy.
她总是能够快乐地摆脱它。
Being like, oh, that was so much fun.
就像，哦，那真是太有趣了。
And meanwhile, I'm sitting there going, this is horrible.
与此同时，我坐在那里，这太可怕了。
How can she be happy about what's happening here?
她怎么会对这里发生的事情感到高兴呢？
It was almost like twisting the knife.
这几乎就像扭动刀子一样。
It was like, ah.
就像，啊。
So then I got in my little red Volkswagen and left and said goodbye.
然后我就开着我的红色小大众车离开并告别了。
I was sitting on the back porch of our house.
我坐在我们家的后廊上。
This is a very Kentucky setting, a steamy, hot, summer afternoon.
这是一个典型的肯塔基州的环境，一个潮湿、炎热的夏日午后。
And my roommate, Jason, came out and sat down and could tell that I was affected by emotion.
我的室友杰森出来坐下，可以看出我受到了情绪的影响。
And he said something to the effect of, sometimes you would rather have a feast or a famine.
他说了一句话，大意是，有时你宁愿吃盛宴，也不愿吃饥荒。
I think it was something about a drought or a flood.
我认为这与干旱或洪水有关。
A drought or a flood, yes.
干旱或洪水，是的。
So I decided, well, enough of this then.
所以我决定，好吧，就这样吧。
And I decided to take the gamble.
我决定赌一把。
And I got in my car and raced down Broadway in afternoon traffic, weaving in and out of cars trying to catch her.
我钻进车里，在下午的车流中沿着百老汇疾驰，在汽车中穿梭，试图抓住她。
And I'm just cruising along.
而我只是随波逐流。
I had left like 15 minutes before that, I think.
我想我在那之前大约 15 分钟就离开了。
Yeah, I had promised myself, well, if I catch up to her before we get to Central Park, then I'll pull her over and I'm going to kiss her.
是的，我向自己保证，好吧，如果我在到达中央公园之前追上她，那么我会把她拉到路边，然后亲吻她。
And I did catch her like right at Central Park.
我确实在中央公园遇见了她。
Right at Central Park.
就在中央公园。
I'm driving in my car and I look over and there he is.
我开着车，抬头一看，他就在那儿。
And he's like, pull over, pull over.
他就像，靠边停车，靠边停车。
I'm like, what's going on, completely confused.
我就像，发生了什么事，完全困惑。
So I pull over into this parking lot right on the corner into this South End Baptist Church Parking lot, and we both got out of our cars.
所以我把车停在南端浸信会教堂停车场拐角处的停车场，我们都下了车。
And we just kind of stood leaning against our respective cars, just kind of making not even small talk.
我们只是靠在各自的车上站着，甚至没有闲聊。
It was just like--
就好像——
Everything around us kind of stopped and nothing moved.
我们周围的一切都静止了，没有任何东西移动。
And it was impossible to describe.
这是无法描述的。
Everything around you stopped and nothing moved?
周围的一切都静止了，没有任何动静？
You know like in a movie or in a dream.
你知道就像在电影或梦中一样。
If you're having a dream, and everything's spinning really quickly.
如果你有一个梦想，而一切都转得很快。
And then all of a sudden, just the one spot where you're standing stays still.
然后突然之间，只有你站着的那个地方一动不动。
I have no idea what happened there.
我不知道那里发生了什么。
We both felt something tremendously powerful.
我们都感受到了某种极其强大的东西。
Our hearts were racing so fast.
我们的心跳得很快。
And all the background noise just kind of drops out, and all the colors get really saturated.
所有的背景噪音都消失了，所有的颜色都变得非常饱和。
So then you kissed her?
那么你吻了她吗？
Scott Richer No, no.
斯科特·里彻 不，不。
Well, something must have happened, because we're here talking about it now.
嗯，肯定发生了什么事情，因为我们现在正在谈论它。
So what exactly did happen next?
那么接下来到底发生了什么？
I think what-- God.
我想什么——上帝。
I don't know.
我不知道。
Something happened.
发生了一些事情。
But it just seemed to me, it seemed like being there, that was my confirmation that there was something definitely still going on inside Julie that involved me.
但对我来说，似乎就在那里，这就是我的确认，朱莉内心肯定还有一些与我有关的事情正在发生。
Everything wasn't hopeless.
一切并非毫无希望。
Every time I'd drive by the parking lot-- and I actually went there at least twice that I'm sure Scott doesn't know about, just sitting in the parking lot thinking, God.
每次我开车经过停车场——实际上我至少去过那里两次，我确信斯科特不知道，只是坐在停车场里想，上帝。
So here our story ends.
我们的故事到这里就结束了。
Julie's old boyfriend lived a block from the corner.
朱莉的前男友住在离街角一个街区的地方。
So she passed it every time she went to see him, and thought about that moment with Scott.
所以她每次去看他都会经过这件事，并回想起和斯科特在一起的那一刻。
And finally, ditched the boyfriend.
最后，甩掉了男朋友。
She and Scott have been together for three years.
她和斯科特已经在一起三年了。
They now live together.
他们现在住在一起。
The funny thing about the situation was it wasn't the first time that we were destined to have our first kiss and missed it.
有趣的是，这并不是我们第一次注定要拥有初吻，但却错过了。
Really?
真的吗？
Julie Riggs Because we were in Paris together eight months earlier.
朱莉·里格斯 因为八个月前我们一起在巴黎。
And we're having a really great time and stayed up really late one night in the corridor of a youth hostel in Paris talking.
我们度过了一段非常愉快的时光，有一天晚上我们在巴黎一家青年旅社的走廊里聊得很晚。
And we should have kissed then, but we didn't.
我们当时应该接吻的，但我们没有。
Because of the other guy.
因为另一个人。
Julie Riggs Yes, even after I broke up with the guy.
朱莉·里格斯 是的，即使在我和那个人分手之后。
It still took so long.
还是花了这么长时间。
How come?
怎么会？
Scott Richer I wanted it to be perfect.
斯科特·里彻（Scott Richer）我希望它是完美的。
I wanted it to be something--
我希望它是某种东西——
He wanted to wait till springtime upon a beautiful cliff somewhere.
他想在某个美丽的悬崖上等到春天。
I don't know.
我不知道。
And you know, when we were in Paris, I thought, well, there's the other guy.
你知道，当我们在巴黎时，我想，好吧，还有另一个人。
And we're in Paris.
我们在巴黎。
And you're supposed to fall in love in Paris, so we can't do it here.
你应该在巴黎谈恋爱，所以我们不能在这里谈恋爱。
It's so typical to be in Paris.
这在巴黎很典型。
Oh, our first kiss was in Paris.
哦，我们的初吻是在巴黎。
I didn't want to be a Hallmark card.
我不想成为霍尔马克卡。
You only have one opportunity to have your first kiss with someone.
你只有一次机会与某人初吻。
They finally had their first kiss in Scott's living room.
他们终于在斯科特的客厅里有了初吻。
She had to make the first move.
她必须迈出第一步。
Coming up, dogs, dead people, and a mystery.
来了，狗，死人，还有一个谜。
And what it takes to become an American.
以及成为美国人需要什么。
That's in a minute from Public Radio international.
距国际公共广播电台仅一分钟路程。
when our program continues.
当我们的计划继续进行时。
It's This American Life.
这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of stories on that theme.
当然，我们每周的节目都会选择一个主题，为您带来有关该主题的各种故事。
Today's program, Four Corners.
今天的节目是《四个角落》。
We attempt to bring you a portrait of life in America by telling four different stories of four different street corners in four different parts of the country.
我们试图通过讲述美国四个不同地区四个不同街角的四个不同故事，为您呈现美国生活的写照。
So far on our program we've heard about the past, we've heard about matters of the heart, and now we have arrived at Act Three, Neighbors.
到目前为止，在我们的节目中，我们已经听到了过去的事情，我们已经听到了内心的事情，现在我们已经到达了第三幕，邻居。
Mike Paterniti has this story of what makes a community in a cemetery in Portland, Maine, whose entrance stands at the corner of Vaughn and Clifford.
迈克·帕特尼蒂 (Mike Paterniti) 讲述了缅因州波特兰公墓社区的形成过程，该公墓的入口位于沃恩街 (Vaughn) 和克利福德街 (Clifford) 的拐角处。
The West End Cemetery is full of old dead sea captains and soldiers from the War of 1812.
西区公墓 (West End Cemetery) 里埋满了 1812 年战争中的老死海船长和士兵。
Kids that died of cholera and wives who, after 6 or 8 or 10 children, just gave up.
孩子们死于霍乱，妻子们在生了 6 个、8 个或 10 个孩子后就放弃了。
There are rich people under monuments, the Longfellow family in a vault and paupers without so much as a wooden marker.
纪念碑下有富人，金库里有朗费罗家族，而连木头记号笔都没有的穷人。
No one's been buried here since the middle of this century.
自本世纪中叶以来，就没有人埋葬在这里。
And so the place has fallen into disrepair.
所以这个地方已经年久失修。
You see a lot of the marble and shale headstones in puzzle pieces on the ground or standing at crooked attention.
你会看到很多大理石和页岩墓碑像拼图一样散落在地面上或歪斜地立着。
About 10 years ago, the cemetery was a popular hangout for prostitutes and junkies.
大约十年前，这个墓地是妓女和瘾君子的热门聚集地。
But now it's just dogs and their owners.
但现在只剩下狗和它们的主人了。
[DOGS BARKING] When I first moved to town a couple years ago with my girlfriend, Sarah, we walked our dog in the cemetery.
[狗吠]几年前，当我第一次和女朋友莎拉搬到城里时，我们在墓地遛狗。
There was this guy there named Jeff, a big, brawny American Indian, from the Duckwater tribe I think, who sort of qualified as my first friend in Portland.
那里有一个叫杰夫的人，一个高大、强壮的美洲印第安人，我想来自达克沃特部落，他算是我在波特兰的第一个朋友。
He told me how he grew up in Nevada and was adopted by white parents, and then raised in a little redneck town where people didn't really like Indians.
他告诉我他是如何在内华达州长大的，被白人父母收养，然后在一个乡下小镇长大，那里的人们不太喜欢印第安人。
He'd moved around a lot.
他搬家很多。
And I pictured him as I was now, the stranger in a strange place.
我想象着他现在的样子，一个在陌生地方的陌生人。
He walked with me in the cemetery, sometimes twice a day, whatever the weather.
他陪我在墓地散步，有时一天两次，无论天气如何。
Or rather, we were both being walked by our dogs.
或者更确切地说，我们都被我们的狗遛着。
His was a wolf mix named Keana, with a vacant, slightly menacing glint in her eye, who liked to rough up young puppies.
他是一只狼混血儿，名叫基阿娜，眼睛里闪烁着空洞的、略带威胁的光芒，喜欢粗暴地对待幼犬。
And mine is a simple mutt named Trout, whose passion for chasing squirrels follows her lifelong commitment to rolling in poop.
我的是一只名叫鳟鱼的普通杂种狗，它对追逐松鼠的热情源于她一生致力于在便便中打滚。
It seemed like Jeff was always at the cemetery, sometimes up to eight hours in a row.
杰夫似乎总是在墓地，有时连续八个小时。
He said he worked at night, supposedly for a local scuba diving outfit, and that's why he had so much free time during the day.
他说他晚上工作，据说是为当地一家水肺潜水机构工作，这就是他白天有这么多空闲时间的原因。
He told stories, endless stories about his high school football exploits and the blown-out knee that ended his college career at safety.
他讲述了无数的故事，讲述了他高中橄榄球生涯的故事，以及因膝盖受伤而安全结束大学生涯的故事。
He talked about fishing, how he gill netted in the rivers of Southeast Alaska, and then how he and his girlfriend had bought a house and now they weren't together anymore, and she had the house, and he was here, a country away, walking his dog with people like me.
他谈到了钓鱼，他如何在阿拉斯加东南部的河流中用刺网捕鱼，然后他和他的女朋友买了房子，现在他们不再在一起了，而她拥有了房子，而他却在这里，在一个遥远的国家，和像我这样的人一起遛狗。
He didn't seem angry at all.
他看上去一点也不生气。
No, in fact, he seemed happy.
不，事实上，他看起来很高兴。
Like every day he was as happy as he had been the day before.
就像每一天，他都像前一天一样快乐。
And because of it, he was good at drawing people out, at connecting the various factions inside the cemetery so that everyone stood around, nodding dumbly, listening to Jeff, our oblivious mayor, holding forth on Keana's new collar or perfect shampoo while Keana took her pound of flesh out of some hapless pup.
正因为如此，他善于把人们拉出来，善于将墓地内的各个派别联系起来，这样每个人都站在周围，默默地点头，听杰夫，我们健忘的市长，拿着基阿娜的新项圈或完美的洗发水，而基阿娜从一些倒霉的小狗身上取出一磅肉。
This was not the way things usually worked in the cemetery.
这不是墓地通常的运作方式。
The mere fact that I knew Jeff's name was unusual.
我知道杰夫的名字这一事实就很不寻常。
Usually people didn't interact that much.
通常人们没有那么多互动。
Instead, we knew each other by handles.
相反，我们通过手柄认识了彼此。
There was dalmatian man, father of three speckled dogs, one to whom he spoke in sign language.
有一个达尔马提亚人，他是三只斑点狗的父亲，他用手语对其中一只狗说话。
There was greyhound lady, regally walking her trio of greyhounds until the day that Lightning, her beloved, dove through a plate glass window during a thunderstorm and died.
有一位灰狗女士，威风凛凛地遛着她的三只灰狗，直到有一天，她心爱的闪电在雷暴雨中从平板玻璃窗中跳入而死。
There was the man who walks and reads.
有一个人一边走路一边读书。
And frisbee dude.
还有飞盘老兄。
And the lawn chair family, an old father and his 50 something son who daily set up their folding chairs near the cemetery gate.
还有草坪椅一家人，一位老父亲和他50多岁的儿子，每天都会在墓地门口摆上折叠椅。
And the pick-up artist around whom no one was safe.
还有一个身边没有人是安全的把妹达人。
And there was crazy shouting man, owner of three rag-tag mutts and an elder statesman of the cemetery who when I finally talked to him wasn't crazy shouting man at all.
还有一个疯狂大喊大叫的人，他是三只破烂杂种狗的主人，也是墓地的一位元老政治家，当我最终与他交谈时，他根本不是一个疯狂大喊大叫的人。
His name was Al.
他的名字叫艾尔。
There are loads of people up there that I see all the time-- some of them I've been seeing for years-- and I don't know their names.
那里有很多我经常见到的人——其中一些我已经见过很多年了——但我不知道他们的名字。
I recognize them, they recognize me.
我认出了他们，他们也认出了我。
We talk about all sorts of things.
我们谈论各种各样的事情。
And it just never really occurs to you to ask their name because you know their dog's name.
你从来没有真正想过要问他们的名字，因为你知道他们的狗的名字。
As a matter of fact, I've always had these funny occasions where you run into people that you've talked to a lot at the cemetery and you meet them somewhere.
事实上，我经常遇到一些有趣的场合，你会在墓地遇到那些和你聊过很多次的人，然后在某个地方遇见他们。
We were down at Granny Killam's when it was open one night.
一天晚上，基拉姆奶奶家开门时，我们去了那里。
This woman came over and said, Al, how are you?
这个女人走过来说，阿尔，你好吗？
How's the dogs?
狗们怎么样了？
How's all this?
这一切怎么样？
And I was with a bunch of friends and I thought, and this is-- and I realized it wasn't that I had forgotten her name, it was that I'd never known her name.
我和一群朋友在一起，我想，这是——我意识到并不是我忘记了她的名字，而是我从来不知道她的名字。
I knew her dog.
我认识她的狗。
I had no idea.
我不知道。
This was not somebody that I just knew very casually.
这不是我随便认识的一个人。
This was somebody I probably walked with three or four mornings a week.
我每周可能会和这个人一起散步三四个早晨。
But you always find you know a lot more dogs than you know people, which I think says something about who's worth knowing anyway.
但你总是会发现你认识的狗比你认识的人多得多，我认为这说明了无论如何谁值得认识。
Even today, what strikes me as amazing about the cemetery is that there are people here, people who show up twice a day and see other people here twice a day for years.
即使在今天，这个墓地最让我惊讶的是这里还有人，多年来，人们每天出现两次，每天两次看到其他人。
And many of them just don't know each other's real name, let alone what the other does for a living, or dreams of at night, or loves, or hates.
而他们中的许多人就是不知道彼此的真实姓名，更不知道对方以什么为生，或夜里做梦，或爱或恨。
They just know each others' dog's name.
他们只知道彼此的狗的名字。
So when they refer to one another they might say, Circe's mom said Milk Bones are full of preservatives, which is why she cooks her own.
因此，当他们互相提及时，他们可能会说，瑟西的妈妈说牛奶骨头富含防腐剂，这就是她自己做饭的原因。
Or when they bump into each other downtown Christmas shopping they'll say, Elroy's mom.
或者当他们在市中心圣诞购物时相遇时，他们会说，埃尔罗伊的妈妈。
And then with nothing left to say say, how goes it?
然后没什么可说的了，怎么样？
Was this intimacy or a complete lack of intimacy?
这是亲密还是完全缺乏亲密？
Sometimes it felt like both at once.
有时感觉两者同时存在。
You had the warmth of intimacy and the comfort of hiding behind your dog.
你感受到了亲密的温暖和躲在狗后面的舒适感。
And yet, every day you saw people at their most naked, talking baby talk to their hounds, kneeling to pick up poop.
然而，每天你都会看到人们赤身裸体，对他们的猎犬说着婴儿语，跪着捡粪便。
I asked my friend Julie, Reuben's mother, about this.
我向我的朋友朱莉（鲁本的母亲）询问了此事。
I think you really get sort of a window into people's-- I don't want to say-- well, into people's souls.
我认为你确实是了解人们的——我不想说——嗯，了解人们的灵魂的一扇窗户。
You watch people very contentedly walking around, throwing the ball, interacting with their dogs, or totally ignoring their dogs, and going at their own pace, and every once in a while yelling for their dog.
你会看到人们非常满足地走来走去，扔球，与他们的狗互动，或者完全忽视他们的狗，按照自己的节奏前进，时不时地为他们的狗大喊大叫。
I mean, I really judge people by how they behave toward their dog.
我的意思是，我真的通过人们对狗的行为来判断他们。
Here's Al again.
艾尔又来了。
Al I mean, when I see people hit a dog, I'm really sort of appalled and amazed that you would do that.
我的意思是，当我看到人们打狗时，我真的感到震惊和惊讶，因为你会这样做。
I know who really, really likes their dogs and who doesn't.
我知道谁真的非常喜欢他们的狗，谁不喜欢。
I know people who have got trophy dogs and people who have got the scruffiest, ugliest dog, but they really, really love that dog.
我知道有人拥有战利品狗，有人拥有最邋遢、最丑的狗，但他们真的非常喜欢那只狗。
I think it was the love part that kept me going back to the cemetery.
我认为是爱情的部分让我回到了墓地。
And then it became my social hour, my escape, where more often than not I'd find Jeff and Keana.
然后它就成了我的社交时间，我的逃避之所，在那里我经常能找到杰夫和基阿娜。
The minute Jeff realized that I was a writer, he went to the library, and, over the course of the week, read everything I'd ever written.
杰夫一意识到我是一名作家，就去了图书馆，并在一周内阅读了我写过的所有内容。
And then, to my horror, wanted to talk about it.
然后，令我恐惧的是，我想谈论这件事。
And he did this kind of thing with others too.
而且他也和别人做过这样的事。
When the leaves began to change during my first October in the West End Cemetery, Jeff was already talking about a Christmas card he was planning, a photograph of Keana and himself.
当我在西区公墓的第一个十月，当树叶开始变化时，杰夫已经在谈论他正在计划的一张圣诞贺卡，一张基阿纳和他自己的照片。
He brought it up obsessively.
他着迷地提出了这件事。
About how Keana was going to have a haircut and shampoo and have her nails clipped.
关于基阿娜要如何理发、洗头、剪指甲。
And how he had arranged for a photographer, and how they were scouting locations.
以及他如何安排摄影师，以及他们如何寻找拍摄地点。
There were ups and downs in the saga as it played out over weeks.
几周来，这个传奇故事有起有落。
A good location that might not work out the day of the shoot if a nor'easter hit.
一个很好的地点，如果遇到复活节，可能无法在当天进行拍摄。
The need to time everything just perfectly so that Keana would leave the beauty parlor and then immediately sit for a picture before she could come back to the cemetery and get muddy.
需要完美地安排一切时间，以便基阿娜离开美容院，然后立即坐下来拍照，然后再回到墓地弄得一身泥。
In retrospect, there were little clues even then that something strange was going on with Jeff.
回想起来，即使在那时，也没有什么线索表明杰夫身上发生了一些奇怪的事情。
While he said he owned a truck, I only ever saw him at bus stops around town.
虽然他说他拥有一辆卡车，但我只在城镇周围的公交车站见过他。
And the scuba diving, later when I called various outfits in Portland, no one had ever heard of him.
还有水肺潜水，后来当我给波特兰的各个机构打电话时，没有人听说过他。
In the end, he had the photograph taken at Sears.
最后，他在西尔斯拍了这张照片。
He and Keana in the stiff, unsmiling pose of a Civil War era husband and wife.
他和基阿娜摆出一副内战时期夫妻的僵硬、不苟言笑的姿势。
He in his familiar blue sweatshirt hulking behind Keana, who was perfectly coiffed.
他穿着那件熟悉的蓝色运动衫，笨重地站在基阿娜身后，而基阿娜的发型非常完美。
He was beaming when he handed the Christmas card to me.
当他把圣诞卡递给我时，他满面笑容。
Literally beaming.
字面意思是喜气洋洋。
After Christmas I left the country for several weeks.
圣诞节后我离开这个国家几个星期。
And when I came back sometime after a massive ice storm, he was nowhere to be found.
当我在一场巨大的冰暴过后回来时，却找不到他。
The cemetery glittered with glazed headstones.
墓地里的墓碑闪闪发光。
It took days to unravel the story because people didn't seem to want to talk about it, didn't seem to want to talk about anything.
这个故事花了几天时间才被揭开，因为人们似乎不想谈论它，似乎不想谈论任何事情。
Everyone just bundled into themselves.
每个人都只是自我约束。
And Jeff, he was a very touchy subject, one that suddenly made us all feel defensive.
杰夫，他是一个非常敏感的话题，突然让我们都感到防御。
What I learned was this.
我学到的就是这个。
He'd had health problems, an infection of some kind.
他有健康问题，受到某种感染。
He went to the hospital at the same time that he was apparently forced out of his apartment.
他在去医院的同时显然被赶出了公寓。
Money was tight.
钱很紧张。
He'd asked someone from the cemetery to put him up.
他请墓地的人安葬他。
Another line crossed, but that hadn't worked out.
另一条线越过了，但没有成功。
Keana was taken to a kennel by Meeghan, Maddie's mom.
基阿纳被麦迪的妈妈米根带到了狗舍。
And now she was calling the kennel regularly to see if Jeff had picked her up, but he hadn't.
现在她定期打电话给狗舍，看看杰夫是否来接她，但他没有。
Week after week, she called until it was clear that Jeff couldn't or wouldn't pick up Keana.
一周又一周，她不断地打电话，直到明确杰夫不能或不会接基阿娜。
That he was gone.
他已经走了。
That's when Keana was adopted by someone else.
就在那时，基阿娜被别人收养了。
Here's Meeghan.
这是梅根。
You start talking about this stuff with somebody, and then you realize, I didn't even know this person.
你开始和某人谈论这些事情，然后你意识到，我什至不认识这个人。
Like with Jeff, it was like you knew everything about his life.
就像杰夫一样，你好像知道他生活的一切。
But in the end, how much of that was actually true?
但最终，其中有多少是真实的呢？
And you didn't even know this person.
而你根本不认识这个人。
It was like August to December and he was gone.
大概是八月到十二月，他就走了。
But it seemed like forever.
但这似乎是永远的。
Mike Paterniti There were completely unsubstantiated rumors that he had robbed a bank.
迈克·帕特尼蒂 有完全未经证实的谣言称他抢劫了一家银行。
Someone knew someone whose cousin had seen his photo on a Boston newscast, maybe.
也许有人认识一个人，他的表弟在波士顿新闻广播中看到过他的照片。
But then most people were quick to accept this as fact.
但随后大多数人很快就接受了这一事实。
In a weird way, I wonder if we felt betrayed, betrayed because Jeff had broken the simple rules of the cemetery.
以一种奇怪的方式，我想知道我们是否感到被背叛，被背叛是因为杰夫违反了墓地的简单规则。
He had become too intimate.
他变得太亲密了。
Now he was gone.
现在他走了。
And it was hard to say hi, let alone catch someone else's eye.
而且很难打招呼，更不用说引起别人的注意了。
During those dark winter months, the cemetery became a kind of haunted, trustless place.
在那些黑暗的冬季，墓地变成了一个闹鬼、不可靠的地方。
In one of the endless conversations we had about him later, some people worried that he knew where we lived.
在后来我们对他进行了一次无休无止的谈话中，有些人担心他知道我们住在哪里。
Someone threatened to track him down.
有人威胁要追踪他。
But what for?
但为什么呢？
So that he might never again bamboozle other hapless dog owners in other seaside towns into chatting about doggie shampoo?
这样他就不会再欺骗其他海滨小镇的其他不幸的狗主人谈论狗狗洗发水了？
Sarah and I kept the Christmas card on our refrigerator, right up until a couple months ago, actually, when it quietly fell to a new rotation of refrigerator photos.
莎拉和我把圣诞贺卡放在冰箱上，实际上，直到几个月前，它悄悄地变成了新一轮的冰箱照片。
We kept it there in hopes, I think, that he would come back and explain where he'd been.
我想，我们把它放在那里是希望他能回来解释他去了哪里。
For I was pretty certain he couldn't have robbed a bank.
因为我非常确定他不可能抢劫银行。
And if he had, I told myself, maybe it was because he had to.
我告诉自己，如果他这么做了，也许也是因为他不得不这么做。
Maybe he'd been inches from a life he'd imagined for himself, with a dog that gave unconditional love.
也许他距离自己想象的拥有一只给予无条件爱的狗的生活还有几英寸的距离。
With friends he was guaranteed to see every day.
他保证每天都会和朋友见面。
And he'd had a couple of bad breaks.
他也经历过几次糟糕的突破。
Got sick, ran out of money, lost his dog, and then panicked.
生病了，钱花光了，狗丢了，然后惊慌失措。
Now time has passed.
现在时间已经过去了。
People come and go, and every six months the galaxy inside these gates breaks apart and reconfigures.
人们来来去去，每六个月这些大门内的星系就会分裂并重新配置。
Dogs die, people leave for nursing homes, others move, more arrive.
狗死了，人们去疗养院，其他人搬家，更多人到达。
And every day, today even, people are here walking in spectral circles like they're in Mecca, circling the Kaaba.
每天，甚至今天，人们都在这里走在幽灵般的圆圈中，就像在麦加一样，绕着天房旋转。
In general, I'd say things are back to the way they were.
总的来说，我想说事情又回到了原来的样子。
Intimate, but not intimate.
亲密，却又不亲密。
We stand around in dumbfounded joy with 10, 20, 30 other gaping grown adults, reveling in the simplicity of stupidly entertaining dog play.
我们和其他 10 个、20 个、30 个目瞪口呆的成年人一起站在那里，目瞪口呆，陶醉在简单有趣的狗游戏中。
Dalmatian man still flashes sign language at his deaf dalmatian.
达尔马提亚人仍然对他聋哑的达尔马提亚人用手语。
The pick-up artist still works his magic.
这位把妹达人仍在发挥他的魔力。
The lawn chair family still sets up by the cemetery gate each day and cover their legs with wool blankets.
草坪椅一家人仍然每天在墓地门口搭起帐篷，并用羊毛毯盖住腿。
The fact is, even without somebody like Jeff pulling people together, if you stand on a corner with a bunch of strangers for long enough, eventually something happens that brings you together, sometimes something small.
事实是，即使没有像杰夫这样的人将人们聚集在一起，如果你和一群陌生人站在一个角落足够长的时间，最终会发生一些事情让你们走到一起，有时是一些很小的事情。
The other night I went to the cemetery at sunset.
那天晚上，我在日落时分去了墓地。
There were the same broken headstones, the same sea captains and paupers.
那里有同样破碎的墓碑，同样的船长和乞丐。
And there were all these living people too, who only know me as Trout's dad, or as the guy who stupidly named his dog Trout, or however they see me.
还有所有这些活着的人，他们只知道我是特劳特的父亲，或者是那个愚蠢地给他的狗命名为特劳特的人，或者他们如何看待我。
The dogs were playing hard, racing in circles, not wanting any of it to end and a gigantic moon came up, came up tangerine.
狗们玩得很卖力，围着圈跑，不想让一切结束，一轮巨大的月亮升起，橘子色的升起。
It was the kind of moon that stills everything.
这是那种让一切都静止的月亮。
And we stood in a circle, watching it rise.
我们围成一圈，看着它升起。
For a minute or two, we just stood there, it glowing orange.
我们就站在那里一两分钟，它发出橙色的光。
The dogs didn't exist at all.
狗根本不存在。
Mike Paterniti lives in Portland, Maine.
迈克·帕特尼蒂住在缅因州波特兰。
Act Four, How to Become an American.
第四幕，如何成为美国人。
We have this story about a few of the things that are hard to understand, standing on a corner, when you come to this country.
我们有这个故事，讲述了当你来到这个国家时，站在角落里的一些难以理解的事情。
It's from Achy Obejas.
这是阿奇·奥贝哈斯发来的。
It was exactly noon, and the last of the weekend breakfast crowd filtered out of the diner.
时间正好是中午，周末吃早餐的最后一批人从餐馆里走了出来。
From the booth-lined back wall, a young woman made her way to the front to pay her check.
一位年轻女子从排列着摊位的后墙上走到前面去支付支票。
She was tall, with reddish brown hair to her shoulders.
她身材高挑，红棕色的头发及肩。
She had a tattoo on her left wrist, a delicately etched silver and green double-headed ax.
她的左手腕上有一个纹身，是一把精致蚀刻的银绿双头斧头。
All around her, the bus boys and waitresses kept moving, the dishes clattering on the large trays.
在她周围，公交车男孩和女服务员不停地走动，盘子在大托盘上叮当作响。
Lupe, a voice called from behind her.
卢佩，一个声音从她身后传来。
She turned around, then frowned.
她转过身，然后皱起了眉头。
Standing next to her was a dark, stocky young man, a few black hairs poking sharply out of his chin.
她身边站着一个皮肤黝黑、身材矮胖的年轻人，几根黑发从他的下巴上尖尖地伸出来。
He smiled sheepishly.
他不好意思地笑了笑。
He carried a tray of improbably balanced plates and glasses.
他端着一个托盘，里面放着令人难以置信的平衡的盘子和玻璃杯。
Hello, Raul, she said, resigned to his recognition.
你好，劳尔，她说，接受他的认可。
I didn't realize you worked here.
我没想到你在这里工作。
Yes, he said.
是的，他说。
His English too formal, crackling with Spanish underneath.
他的英语太正式了，下面夹杂着西班牙语。
He glanced at the ax on her wrist.
他看了一眼她手腕上的斧头。
Pedro got a job here, then he brought me.
佩德罗在这里找到了一份工作，然后他带了我。
I've been here a few months already, so I should be a waiter soon.
我已经来这里几个月了，所以我应该很快就会成为一名服务员。
My English is much better now don't you think, he asked.
“我的英语现在好多了，你不觉得吗？”他问道。
The dishes on the tray rattled as he struggled to keep them from crashing to the floor.
托盘上的盘子发出嘎嘎声，他努力阻止它们掉到地板上。
Yes, she said, starting out the door of the diner.
是的，她说着走出了餐厅的门。
Raul hurried to get rid of the tray and followed her out to the corner.
劳尔赶紧扔掉托盘，跟着她走到角落里。
She pulled on her sunglasses.
她戴上太阳镜。
I haven't seen you in a long time, he said, now in Spanish.
我已经很久没见到你了，他用西班牙语说道。
She noticed him studying her hands and made a fist, which caused the ax to expand.
她注意到他在研究她的手，并握紧了拳头，导致斧头扩大。
I haven't seen you since, well, you know.
从那以后我就没有见过你了，嗯，你知道的。
You said some very cruel things, he continued.
“你说了一些非常残酷的话，”他继续说道。
But I always look for you anyway, out in the streets, wondering how you are.
但无论如何，我总是在街上寻找你，想知道你怎么样。
You could've called.
你本来可以打电话的。
What for?
做什么的？
Just then a pair of young men walked around them.
就在这时，两个年轻人从他们身边走过。
One carrying a sheath of flyers, the other a roll of tape and a stapler.
一个拿着一套传单，另一个拿着一卷胶带和订书机。
They stopped and put up some of the papers on the telephone pole next to them.
他们停下来，把一些文件放在旁边的电线杆上。
The two men, young and girlish, left after they had layered the pole with announcements about an upcoming dance contest at a local club.
两个年轻而少女的男子在放好钢管后离开，并宣布当地俱乐部即将举行舞蹈比赛。
Lupe lowered her glasses enough to read and register the information.
卢佩将眼镜放低，足以阅读并记录信息。
Raul watched her.
劳尔看着她。
Well, you could call sometimes just to call.
好吧，有时你可以打电话只是为了打电话。
Not for anything in particular, but to let me know how you are.
不是什么特别的事，只是为了让我知道你怎么样。
I worry about you, he said.
我担心你，他说。
I'm sorry I didn't call, Lupe said.
很抱歉我没有打电话，卢佩说。
She pushed the glasses back up her nose.
她把眼镜推回鼻子上。
It's just that, Raul said pouting, I mean, we're married after all.
只是这样，劳尔撅着嘴说，我是说，我们毕竟结婚了。
Lupe laughed.
卢佩笑了。
No, Raul, you're married, she said.
不，劳尔，你已经结婚了，她说。
You knew damn well this was just a convenience for me, a business deal.
你很清楚这对我来说只是一个方便，一笔生意。
I can't help it that you've spun all these stories for your family.
我无法控制你为你的家人编造了所有这些故事。
But it's not right, Raul said.
但这是不对的，劳尔说。
I thought we would live together.
我以为我们会住在一起。
I never agreed to that.
我从来不同意这一点。
If it had been a condition, I never would have married you.
如果有条件的话，我绝对不会嫁给你。
She was squinting, her mouth was dry.
她眯着眼睛，口干舌燥。
You paid me for something.
你付钱给我买东西。
All I'm doing is keeping my end of the bargain.
我所做的就是履行我的诺言。
And that doesn't include hanging around with you, your friends, or your family.
这还不包括和你、你的朋友或家人在一起。
Well, I think you need me, he said, his lower lip jutting out like a fleshy ledge.
好吧，我想你需要我，他说，他的下唇像肉质的壁架一样突出。
I'm a good man.
我是个好人。
I can help you.
我可以帮你。
You don't get it, Raul, Lupe said, shifting her weight from one hip to the other.
你不明白，劳尔，卢佩说，将她的体重从一侧臀部转移到另一侧。
She stood at an angle, scratched her hand.
她斜着身子，抓伤了手。
I don't know that you'll ever get it.
我不知道你是否能得到它。
But suffice it to say, that I don't need you.
但我只想说，我不需要你。
We're not family.
我们不是一家人。
No matter how many justices of the peace we stand in front of.
无论我们面前站着多少太平绅士。
But of course we are.
但我们当然是。
No, Raul.
不，劳尔。
You have your people and I have mine.
你有你的人民，我有我的人民。
But yours, that's not your family.
但你的家人，那不是你的家人。
You need me to help you stay in touch with your family.
您需要我帮助您与家人保持联系。
With your Latin self, he said angrily.
“用你的拉丁语自我，”他愤怒地说。
He shoved one hand in his pants pocket and used the other to poke at the air.
他将一只手插进裤子口袋，另一只手戳向空中。
In Mexico, this wouldn't happen, and you'd have to do as I say.
在墨西哥，这种情况不会发生，你必须按照我说的去做。
There are laws you know.
有你知道的法律。
Lupe laughed again.
卢佩又笑了。
In Mexico, we'd never have married, Raul.
在墨西哥，我们永远不会结婚，劳尔。
In Mexico, you wouldn't need to marry a nice American girl.
在墨西哥，你不需要娶一个漂亮的美国女孩。
That you're American is an accident of geography, he said.
他说，你是美国人是地理上的偶然。
You're running away from your Latin self he insisted.
他坚持认为，你正在逃避拉丁自我。
I know who you are.
我知道你是谁。
And I know who you think you are.
我知道你认为你是谁。
I'm a man who has seen a little bit of the world.
我是一个见过世面一点点的人。
I may not have gone to college like you, but I know people and I know you.
我可能没有像你一样上过大学，但我认识人，也认识你。
Oh, please, she said, and started to walk away from the corner.
哦，求你了，她说，然后开始离开角落。
He shook his head sadly and looked down at the tips of his grime-covered shoes.
他悲伤地摇摇头，低头看着沾满污垢的鞋尖。
Then he took off, following a few steps behind her.
然后他就离开了，跟在她身后几步。
I didn't want to do this, he said.
我不想这样做，他说。
But you've given me no choice.
但你已经让我别无选择。
Suddenly he grabbed her and threw her against the flyer-covered telephone pole.
突然，他抓住了她，把她扔到了贴满传单的电线杆上。
What the [BLEEP] do you think you're doing?, she demanded, kicking and scratching at him.
“你以为你在做什么？”她问道，一边又踢又抓他。
I didn't want to hurt you, he said in a voice that cracked.
我不想伤害你，他用沙哑的声音说道。
I tried to carry this around with me all by myself.
我试图独自随身携带这个。
But now you give me no choice.
但现在你让我别无选择。
He yanked her up, pressing his body to hers and forcing her face-to-face with him.
他猛地把她拉了起来，将自己的身体压在她的身上，迫使她面对面。
She could see his pores.
她能看到他的毛孔。
He held her like that for a moment.
他就这样抱着她一会儿。
Then, seeing the men with the flyers across the street, he let go.
然后，看到街对面拿着传单的人，他松开了手。
Hit me and I'll kill you mother [BLEEP].
打我，我会杀了你妈妈[BLEEP]。
Lupe tried to step away, readying her hands martial arts style for him.
卢佩试图走开，为他准备好双手武术风格。
Hey, she yelled in English to the two men across the street.
嘿，她用英语对街对面的两个男人喊道。
This guy's trying to kill me.
这家伙想杀了我。
Can you call the cops?
你可以报警吗？
The two looked at each other warily, then back across the street to Lupe in her battle stance.
两人警惕地互相看了一眼，然后回到街对面的卢佩面前，她摆出战斗的姿势。
Raul was crying.
劳尔哭了。
The things you accuse me of, they're all things that you do, he said, wiping his eyes with the back of his fists.
你指责我的事情，都是你做的，他说，用拳头背擦着眼睛。
Well, I finally went and did one of them.
好吧，我终于去做了其中之一。
It hurt me to do it.
这样做让我很受伤。
But I'm a man.
但我是个男人。
I couldn't put up with this any longer.
我再也无法忍受这个了。
Hey, leave her alone, one of the men yelled from across the street.
嘿，别打扰她，其中一名男子在街对面喊道。
But it was lackluster.
但它却乏善可陈。
The second man walked slowly back to the diner where a blue metal flag advertised a public telephone inside.
第二个人慢慢地走回餐馆，那里有一面蓝色金属旗帜，上面写着公用电话。
Raul, I don't want you near me, do you understand, Lupe said, switching back to Spanish.
劳尔，我不想让你靠近我，你明白吗？卢佩说，然后又用西班牙语说道。
I don't know what the [BLEEP] you're talking about.
我不知道你在说什么[BLEEP]。
But I'll tell you this much.
但我就告诉你这么多。
If you keep this up, I'll file a police report, and the government will figure out what we're doing.
如果你再这样下去，我会向警方报案，政府会弄清楚我们在做什么。
And you will be shipped back.
你将被运回来。
Do you understand?
你明白吗？
He didn't react to what she said.
他对她的话没有反应。
Instead, he took a deep breath and looked up at the sky.
相反，他深吸了一口气，抬头看向天空。
I cheated on you, he said.
我欺骗了你，他说。
She stared at him, her fighting posture loosened as she struggled for comprehension.
她凝视着他，战斗的姿势放松下来，努力寻求理解。
I was with another woman, he said.
我和另一个女人在一起，他说。
Since you wouldn't act like a wife, I just couldn't take it anymore.
既然你不肯表现得像个妻子，我就受不了了。
And I had an affair behind your back.
我还背着你有外遇。
Lupe wanted to laugh, but didn't.
卢佩想笑，但没笑。
She was stunned by the hopeless sincerity of his unnecessary confession.
她对他不必要的坦白中无可救药的真诚感到震惊。
I think that's good, Raul, she finally said.
我认为这很好，劳尔，她最后说道。
I think it's good that you get out and get involved.
我认为你走出去参与进来是件好事。
After all, we're not really married.
毕竟我们还没有真正结婚。
We're only legally married.
我们只是合法结婚。
She smiled a little as she talked, trying desperately to be supportive.
她说话时微微微笑，拼命地试图表示支持。
Raul closed his eyes, tears escaping from under the lids.
劳尔闭上眼睛，泪水从眼睑下流淌出来。
Oh, you are a cold, cold woman, he cried, his voice cracking again as he threw his hands in the air.
哦，你是一个冷酷的女人，他喊道，当他把手举到空中时，他的声音再次沙哑。
Why did I have to marry such a cold woman?
为什么我要嫁给这样一个冷酷的女人？
Raul, you didn't marry a cold woman.
劳尔，你没有娶一个冷酷的女人。
You married a lesbian.
你嫁给了一个女同性恋。
He covered his ears with the palms of his hands.
他用手掌捂住耳朵。
I don't want to hear that, he shouted.
我不想听这个，他喊道。
No, no, no. Lupe sighed and shook her head.
不，不，不。卢佩叹了口气，摇了摇头。
God, this is absolutely not worth it, she said, more to herself than to him.
天哪，这绝对不值得，她说，更多的是对自己而不是对他。
The cops are on their way, said the man who'd gone back to the diner.
回到餐厅的男子说，警察正在赶来的路上。
He strolled back across the street to his partner, who had been serving as witness to Raul and Lupe's argument.
他漫步穿过街道回到他的搭档身边，他的搭档一直是劳尔和卢佩争论的证人。
Raul, she said, her voice softer now, if the cops get here and we're still fighting, you'll probably be in trouble.
劳尔，她说，声音现在更轻了，如果警察到了我们还在打架，你可能就有麻烦了。
So let's just go our separate ways, OK?
那么我们就各走各的路吧，好吗？
"Don't you care?" he pleaded.
“你不在乎吗？”他恳求道。
Yeah, I care, she said.
是的，我关心，她说。
That's why I'm telling you this.
这就是我告诉你这个的原因。
Please, go back to the restaurant.
请回餐厅吧。
I'll just leave.
我就离开吧。
And when the cops get here there won't be anybody to file charges.
当警察到达这里时，不会有人提出指控。
We're still married, he insisted.
我们仍然是夫妻，他坚持说。
As if nothing else mattered.
好像其他的事情都不重要了。
For just one more year, Raul.
再过一年，劳尔。
So don't blow it for yourself, she said.
所以不要为自己吹气，她说。
And please don't bother me anymore.
还有请不要再打扰我了。
You're trying my patience.
你这是在考验我的耐心。
Remember that I can put you right back on the wrong side of the river.
请记住，我可以让你回到河的错误一侧。
They fell silent again.
他们又沉默了。
What's that, he asked, nodding at her wrist.
那是什么，他问道，点了点头她的手腕。
An ax, she said.
一把斧子，她说。
He smiled a little, but he had already given up.
他微微一笑，但他已经放弃了。
Yeah, she said.
是的，她说。
If necessary.
如果需要的话。
They both laughed lightly, a little embarrassed.
两人都轻笑起来，有些尴尬。
Raul shoved his hands in his pockets.
劳尔把手插进口袋里。
I hear you bought a house with Kate.
我听说你和凯特一起买了房子。
With my money, he said, not meeting her eyes.
用我的钱，他说，没有看她的眼睛。
She nodded.
她点点头。
It was my money.
这是我的钱。
I earned it.
我赚到了。
He looked up, but she refused to make eye contact.
他抬起头，但她拒绝目光接触。
You should get back to work, she said flatly.
你该回去工作了，她淡淡地说。
The cops will be here any moment, and I have to go.
警察随时都会来，而我必须走了。
Will you come by, see my mother, or maybe just call sometime, he asked.
你能过来看看我母亲吗，或者什么时候打电话给我，他问。
Well you should, Lupe said, then walked away.
好吧，你应该这样做，卢佩说，然后走开了。
Her sharp strides put her across the street in seconds.
她迈着大步，几秒钟之内就穿过了街道。
Raul watched as she talked to the two men.
劳尔看着她和两个男人说话。
After a moment, the men turned and left.
片刻后，几人转身离开。
Raul turned too, then quietly wandered back to the diner.
劳尔也转身，然后悄悄走回餐厅。
By the time the squad car arrived at the corner, nobody was there.
当警车到达拐角处时，已经没有人了。
Achy Obejas is a cultural critic for the Chicago Tribune , that anti-slavery rag.
阿奇·奥贝哈斯 (Achy Obejas) 是《芝加哥论坛报》的文化评论家，该报是一本反奴隶制的报纸。
This story is from her collection of short fiction, We Came All the Way from Cuba, So You Could Dress Like This?
这个故事出自她的短篇小说集《我们从古巴千里迢迢而来，你能穿成这样吗？》
Our program produced today by Julie Snyder and myself, with Alix Spiegel and Nancy Updike.
我们今天的节目由朱莉·斯奈德和我本人以及阿利克斯·斯皮格尔和南希·厄普代克制作。
Contributing editors Paul Tough, Jack Hitt, Margy Rochlin and Consigliere Sarah Vowell.
特约编辑 Paul Tough、Jack Hitt、Margy Rochlin 和 Consigliere Sarah Vowell。
Production help from Jorge Just, Todd Bachmann and Sylvia Lemus.
Jorge Just、Todd Bachmann 和 Sylvia Lemus 为制作提供帮助。
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] If you would like to buy a cassette copy of this program, call us here at WBEZ in Chicago, 312-832-3380.
[致谢] 如果您想购买本节目的盒式磁带，请致电芝加哥的 WBEZ，电话：312-832-3380。
Or you know you can listen to most of our programs for free on the internet at our website, where there are also photos of a teddy bear sitting on the four corners monument this week, www.thislife.org.
或者您知道您可以在我们的网站上免费收听我们的大部分节目，其中还有本周泰迪熊坐在四个角纪念碑上的照片，www.thislife.org。
Thanks to Elizabeth Meister who runs the site.
感谢运营该网站的伊丽莎白·梅斯特 (Elizabeth Meister)。
This American Life is distributed by Public Radio International.
《美国生活》由国际公共广播电台发行。
[FUNDING CREDITS] WBEZ management oversight by Torey Malatia, who describes our program this way, where--
[资金来源] WBEZ 管理监督由 Torey Malatia 负责，他这样描述我们的计划，其中——
Booking guests whose near constant profanity makes the show into an unintelligible barrage of bleeps.
预订客人的近乎持续的脏话使节目变成了难以理解的蜂鸣声。
I'm Ira Glass, back next week with more stories of This American Life.
我是艾拉·格拉斯，下周回来，带来更多《美国生活》的故事。
This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
《This American Life》与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。