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Prologue Ira Glass A couple years ago, Erin went to live in Poland.
序言 Ira Glass 几年前，Erin 去波兰生活。
And she went with certain prejudices.
她带着某些偏见去的。
She was Jewish, and she was scared of anti-Semitism.
她是犹太人，她害怕反犹太主义。
Now, many Poles will tell you that this prejudice is completely unfair.
现在，许多波兰人会告诉你，这种偏见是完全不公平的。
But Erin lost Polish family members in the Holocaust.
但艾琳在大屠杀中失去了波兰家人。
And Poland's where some of the most infamous concentration camps operated, Auschwitz and Birkenau and Treblinka.
波兰是一些最臭名昭著的集中营所在地：奥斯威辛集中营、比克瑙集中营和特雷布林卡集中营。
I'd only heard one thing about Poland my entire life, from my mother, from my grandparents, that they had always hated Jews.
我一生中只从我的母亲和我的祖父母那里听说过关于波兰的一件事，那就是他们一直讨厌犹太人。
And they had always wanted to see Jews killed.
他们一直希望看到犹太人被杀害。
And then, when the Holocaust started to happen, they were happy to see it happen, and they were collaborators.
然后，当大屠杀开始发生时，他们很高兴看到它发生，并且他们是合作者。
Even though my mother was saved by a Pole, that was always told to me as, well, she only did it for the money.
尽管我的母亲被波兰人救了，但我总是被告知，因为，她这么做只是为了钱。
So you were scared about anti-Semitism there.
所以你害怕那里的反犹太主义。
What did you find?
你发现了什么？
Well, the first thing I found is that I had a roommate with a Hebrew letter tattooed on her shoulder.
嗯，我发现的第一件事是我的一个室友肩膀上纹着一个希伯来字母。
I found the old Jewish quarter in Krakow, which is where I was living, has been converted into this kind of Jewish theme park.
我发现我住的克拉科夫老犹太区已经改造成这样的犹太主题公园。
There's Jewish-themed cafes that have matzoh ball soup and latkes, all this Jewish food.
这里有犹太主题的咖啡馆，提供无酵球汤和马铃薯饼，所有这些都是犹太食物。
And they play it with klezmer music.
他们用克莱兹默音乐来演奏。
And there's all these pictures of Jews with black hats on the walls.
墙上挂满了戴着黑帽子的犹太人的照片。
And there's this huge enthusiasm for Jewish culture.
人们对犹太文化有着巨大的热情。
And I went to a nightclub with a friend, and the nightclub singer, as part of a set that included all kinds of jazz songs and "When the Saints Go Marching In," all of a sudden started playing Fiddler on the Roof songs.
我和一个朋友去了一家夜总会，夜总会歌手在包括各种爵士歌曲和“当圣徒行进时”的一组歌曲中，突然开始播放屋顶上的小提琴手歌曲。
Now, you brought tapes of this.
现在，你带来了录音带。
Here's a recording recorded in the nightclub.
这是在夜总会录制的录音。
Just describe this nightclub.
简单描述一下这家夜总会。
It's a nightclub that appeals to the up-and-coming yuppie set of Krakow, 20-, 30-something, really beautiful people in really tight clothes.
这是一家夜总会，吸引了克拉科夫崭露头角的雅皮士，20 岁、30 岁左右、穿着紧身衣服、非常漂亮的人。
All the women have midriff-baring, and men are in leather pants, and Euro hipster.
女装都是露脐装，男装都是皮裤，欧洲潮人。
When we walked in, she was singing "Yesterday," by the Beatles.
当我们走进去时，她正在唱披头士乐队的《昨天》。
But she does a whole diverse set.
但她做了一整套多样化的作品。
But her climax, the thing she builds to, is this sort of montage of Jewish music.
但她的高潮，她所追求的，是这种犹太音乐的蒙太奇。
And the climax of the whole thing is "Hava Nagila."
整件事的高潮是“Hava Nagila”。
We should say to people who have never been to a Jewish wedding, this is the old-school, dance at a bar mitzvah, dance at a wedding kind of song.
我们应该对那些从未参加过犹太婚礼的人说，这是老式的，在成人礼上跳舞，在婚礼上跳舞的歌曲。
And they were just crazy for it.
他们为此而疯狂。
They loved it, loved it.
他们喜欢它，喜欢它。
And Krakow is how close to Auschwitz, the concentration camp?
而克拉科夫距离奥斯威辛集中营有多近？
It's about an hour's drive, maybe a little less than an hour.
车程大约一个小时，也许不到一个小时。
A friend of mine, an American Jew visiting me in Krakow, he'd spent the day at Auschwitz.
我的一个朋友，一位美国犹太人来克拉科夫探望我，他在奥斯维辛集中营度过了一天。
And then I took him to this nightclub.
然后我带他去了这家夜总会。
And when the singer starts singing-- first, she's singing Fiddler on the Roof songs, and he thought that was pretty funny because, here, it's a Broadway take on the old country right here in the middle of the old country.
当歌手开始唱歌时——首先，她唱的是《屋顶上的小提琴手》的歌曲，他认为这很有趣，因为在这里，这是在古老国家中部对古老国家的百老汇演绎。
And that was sort of kitschy and funny.
这有点俗气又有趣。
And then she started singing "Hava Nagila." And everybody's like, wooooo!
然后她开始唱“Hava Nagila”。每个人都喜欢，呜呜！
And they got all excited, and they jumped to their feet.
他们都很兴奋，跳了起来。
And they're belly-dancing, and they're singing along.
他们一边跳肚皮舞，一边唱歌。
And my friend turned to me, and he says, I'm sorry.
我的朋友转向我，他说，对不起。
Where was I eight hours ago?
八小时前我在哪里？
It can throw you when somebody you thought was your enemy shows up to what you thought was going to be a fight dressed as you, wearing your favorite suit, and those shoes that you thought really only looked good on you.
当你认为是敌人的人穿着你最喜欢的衣服，穿着你认为只适合你的鞋子出现在你认为的战斗中时，它会让你感到震惊。
It's hard to throw the first punch in that situation.
在这种情况下很难打出第一拳。
It's hard to know whether you should stop hating them or not.
很难知道你是否应该停止恨他们。
After all, they're trying so hard to be like you.
毕竟，他们非常努力地想要像你一样。
It's almost flattering.
这几乎是讨人喜欢的。
Or maybe you should hate them all the more.
或者也许你应该更加讨厌他们。
I mean, the sheer gall of it.
我的意思是，这纯粹是胆怯。
There they are, you.
他们在那里，你。
Well, today on our program, Fake ID.
好吧，今天我们的节目《假身份证》。
We bring you stories of people traveling under fake papers, false identities, not for money, not for power, not for personal gain, but only for their own pleasure and amusement, which, I have to say, makes the whole thing all the more confusing.
我们为您带来人们以假证件、虚假身份旅行的故事，不是为了金钱，不是为了权力，不是为了个人利益，而只是为了自己的快乐和娱乐，我不得不说，这让整个事情变得更加令人困惑。
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这是来自芝加哥 WBEZ 的《This American Life》，由国际公共广播电台发行。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Act One of our program today, Pole Vault.
我们今天的节目第一幕，撑竿跳高。
In that act, the very confusing story of a Jew in Krakow among non-Jews who think that Judaism is just kind of cool.
在那一幕中，克拉科夫的一个犹太人在非犹太人中发生了一个非常令人困惑的故事，他们认为犹太教很酷。
Act Two, This Blessed House.
第二幕，这座蒙福之家。
In that act, a story from Jhumpa Lahiri about an Indian couple that keeps finding trinkets from a religion that is not theirs, which you think would not really cause much trouble.
在那一幕中，Jhumpa Lahiri 讲述了一对印度夫妇不断寻找非他们宗教信仰的小饰品的故事，你认为这不会造成太大麻烦。
Act Three, The Lie That Binds.
第三幕，约束的谎言。
David Sedaris explains how to stay in love.
大卫·塞达里斯 (David Sedaris) 解释了如何保持爱情。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act One, Pole Vault.
第一幕，撑竿跳高。
So, Erin Einhorn went to Poland, to find the Catholic family that had sheltered and saved her mother from the concentration camps during World War II.
因此，艾琳·艾因霍恩前往波兰，寻找二战期间在集中营中庇护并拯救她母亲的天主教家庭。
And she found that in Krakow, where she was living, in a country where the Jewish population had been exterminated, Judaism was suddenly trendy, hip even, for all sorts of reasons.
她发现，在她所居住的克拉科夫，在一个犹太人被灭绝的国家，犹太教突然变得流行起来，甚至是时髦，原因有很多。
Jews comprised, at one point in time, 10% of the population and were living throughout that country.
犹太人曾一度占全国人口的 10%，并且居住在该国各地。
So there's cemeteries, buildings.
所以有墓地、建筑物。
There's just Hebrew letters etched in stone that once said "pharmacy" in Yiddish.
只有刻在石头上的希伯来字母，曾经用意第绪语写着“药房”。
Yet most people under 60 have never met a Jew.
然而，大多数 60 岁以下的人从未见过犹太人。
So when they hear about it, when they get a piece of it, they're excited about it.
因此，当他们听说它、得到它的一部分时，他们会感到兴奋。
They're fascinated by it.
他们对此着迷。
They're drawn to it.
他们被它所吸引。
Right, because there are these clues all around, and they feel like, oh, finally, that's what that means.
是的，因为到处都有这些线索，他们感觉，哦，终于，这就是这个意思。
The Polish national television, still under communism, played Fiddler on the Roof at some point in the late '80s on television.
仍在共产主义统治下的波兰国家电视台曾在 80 年代末的某个时候在电视上播放过《屋顶上的提琴手》。
And when I was doing interviews this year, people constantly referred to, oh, the first time I saw Fiddler on the Roof.
当我今年接受采访时，人们不断提到，哦，我第一次看到屋顶上的提琴手。
It was this thing that-- their grandmothers would gather them around the television and say, "Oh, look, look, look.
正是这个东西——他们的祖母会把他们聚集在电视机前说：“哦，看，看，看。
That's what it looked like.
看起来就是这样。
These are the people I grew up with.
这些是和我一起长大的人。
It looked like this." One of the other clips I think you have is of a woman who's actually writing her master's thesis about Isaac Bashevis Singer, and is taking Yiddish, and is fascinated by Jewish culture, who the first time she experienced Jewish culture was when they ran Fiddler on the Roof on television.
看起来像这样。”我想你们还有一个视频，是一个女人正在写关于艾萨克·巴什维斯·辛格的硕士论文，她正在学习意第绪语，她对犹太文化着迷，她第一次体验犹太文化是在电视上播放《屋顶上的提琴手》时。
Here's that clip.
这是那个剪辑。
Woman My first contact was quite a long time ago, when I first saw Fiddler on the Roof.
女人 我第一次接触是很久以前的事了，当时我第一次看到屋顶上的提琴手。
And it was in the times when we didn't have a VCR at home, so my father would record it on a tape recorder.
当时我们家里没有录像机，所以我父亲会把它录在录音机上。
So I had three hours, and I would listen to that again and again, so that after some time, I knew it by heart.
所以我有三个小时的时间，我会一遍又一遍地听，这样过了一段时间，我就记住了。
And then whenever I had some difficult times, I would go back to the cassette and listen to that, to the songs, and to the humor, and the culture, the different-- well, different to what I've been taught before.
然后每当我遇到困难的时候，我就会回到磁带上听那些歌曲、幽默、文化，这些都是不同的——嗯，与我以前所教的不同。
I was taught on communist history books.
我学的是共产主义历史书。
And you had no mention about Jewish people living in Poland.
你也没有提到生活在波兰的犹太人。
You just said one word about the king Casimir the Great, who invited Jews in the 14th century, then big nothing, and then the Holocaust.
你刚刚谈到了卡西米尔大帝国王，他在 14 世纪邀请了犹太人，然后就没什么大事了，然后是大屠杀。
How many Jews were in Poland before the war?
战前波兰有多少犹太人？
And now?
现在呢？
Erin Einhorn Now it's about 3,000, something like that.
艾琳·艾因霍恩 (Erin Einhorn) 现在大约是 3,000 人，差不多吧。
And in Krakow, which is where I spent most of my time last year, there's about 170 Jews, most of them over 80.
在克拉科夫，我去年大部分时间都待在那里，那里有大约 170 名犹太人，其中大多数已经超过 80 岁。
[KLEZMER MUSIC PLAYING] Ira Glass Erin, what's this recording of?
[KLEZMER 音乐播放] Ira Glass Erin，这段录音是什么？
Yeah, this is the annual Jewish cultural festival in Krakow.
是的，这是克拉科夫一年一度的犹太文化节。
And in a country with almost no Jews, it's really an extraordinary thing.
而在一个几乎没有犹太人的国家，这确实是一件非同寻常的事情。
The clip you're playing is the final concert of the festival at which, the Polish newspapers reported this year, there were 10,000 participants.
您正在播放的剪辑是音乐节的最后一场音乐会，据波兰报纸报道，今年有 10,000 名参与者。
It's an outdoor concert right in the center of what had been the Jewish quarter.
这是一场户外音乐会，地点在曾经的犹太区中心。
And they set up a stage on one end, decorated with menorahs and other Jewish symbols, and it's nationally televised.
他们在一端搭建了一个舞台，装饰着烛台和其他犹太标志，并在全国范围内进行电视转播。
Polish national television carries this concert live.
波兰国家电视台对这场音乐会进行现场直播。
And they bring in klezmer musicians from around the world, the top klezmer musicians in the business.
他们还引进了来自世界各地的 klezmer 音乐家，都是业内顶尖的 klezmer 音乐家。
And they put them on stage, and they bring in thousands and thousands of young people, mostly in their 20s, teens, 20s, 30s, and they just pack this square.
他们把他们放在舞台上，吸引了成千上万的年轻人，其中大部分是20多岁、十几岁、20多岁、30多岁，他们挤满了这个广场。
And they go crazy.
他们会发疯。
It's just like this big rock concert, only it's klezmer music.
这就像一场大型摇滚音乐会，只不过是克莱兹默音乐。
And they're non-Jews.
他们不是犹太人。
These people in the crowd, just to be clear, are non-Jews.
需要明确的是，人群中的这些人不是犹太人。
There might be some tourists there.
那里可能有一些游客。
There's a mix of people.
那里的人形形色色。
But by and large, this is the youth culture of Krakow.
但总的来说，这就是克拉科夫的青年文化。
But this concert capped a week of, there were classes on Jewish dancing that drew 200 people to a high school gym, 200 people who really wanted to learn the horah.
但这场音乐会结束了为期一周的犹太舞蹈课程，吸引了 200 人来到高中体育馆，其中 200 人是真正想学习古拉的人。
There were 60 mostly college-aged kids in a workshop on the Yiddish language.
有 60 名大多是大学生的孩子参加了一个意第绪语讲习班。
Give your best understanding of how this trend came about.
最好地了解这一趋势是如何产生的。
How did this happen?
这是怎么发生的？
It was sort of an intellectual thing in the 80s.
这在 80 年代是一种智力上的事情。
There was this group of people who were interested in it.
有一群人对此感兴趣。
And they would have meetings about Jewish culture, and bring in Jewish writers to come speak, or have concerts of Jewish music.
他们会举办有关犹太文化的会议，请犹太作家来演讲，或者举办犹太音乐音乐会。
But it was a small thing.
但这是一件小事。
And from this group emerged a number of things, such as the first Jewish cultural festival, which actually started as a Jewish film festival in, I think, 1988.
从这个群体中诞生了很多东西，比如第一个犹太文化节，我认为它实际上是在 1988 年作为犹太电影节开始的。
And what happened is it was a huge success.
所发生的事情是它取得了巨大的成功。
They expected a few dozen people.
他们预计会有几十人。
And in fact, a couple hundred came.
事实上，有几百人来了。
And it was a full room.
这是一个完整的房间。
And that was 1988.
那是 1988 年。
And the following year, communism falls.
第二年，共产主义垮台。
So suddenly, not only is there interest, but now there's opportunity.
突然之间，不仅有兴趣，而且现在有机会。
And actually, and then the big turning point around 1993, Spielberg comes to make Schindler's List.
事实上，1993 年左右的一个重大转折点是，斯皮尔伯格开始拍摄《辛德勒的名单》。
And suddenly, there's this big American director in Krakow, making a movie.
突然，一位美国大导演在克拉科夫拍电影。
A movie about the Jews.
一部关于犹太人的电影。
Erin Einhorn And he's filming it in the Jewish quarter.
艾琳·艾因霍恩 他正在犹太区拍摄。
He turned this little Jewish quarter into the set for his movie.
他把这个小小的犹太区变成了他的电影的拍摄地。
And it was a huge success.
这是一个巨大的成功。
And then when the movie comes out, all these people start flocking to this part of town to see where it was that Spielberg made this big movie, Schindler's List.
当电影上映时，所有这些人都开始涌向城镇的这个地区，看看斯皮尔伯格在哪里拍摄了这部大片《辛德勒的名单》。
Now, one of the pieces of tape you've brought in that you recorded there is with the owner of a bookshop?
现在，你带进来的一盘录音带是和一家书店老板一起录的？
Right, right.
对，对。
And he was a guy who had this love of Jewish culture, and he had just opened up this bookshop.
他是一个热爱犹太文化的人，他刚刚开了这家书店。
And he put Jewish book titles on the shelves.
他把犹太书籍放在书架上。
And then one day, this movie gets made, and the whole world changes.
然后有一天，这部电影拍出来了，整个世界都变了。
Here we go.
开始了。
Here's the tape.
这是磁带。
Bookshop Owner We should build memorial for Spielberg in the center of this place.
书店老板 我们应该在这个地方的中心建造斯皮尔伯格的纪念碑。
Because thanks to Spielberg, we can exist now in better situation.
因为多亏了斯皮尔伯格，我们现在才能处于更好的境地。
After Spielberg's film, it was a kind of revolution in the mentality of people.
斯皮尔伯格的电影之后，是人们心态的一种革命。
You know that premiere of this film was in December, in New York.
你知道这部电影于 12 月在纽约首映。
First days of January, '94, first American tourists visited me in the bookshop.
94 年一月的第一天，第一批美国游客到书店拜访了我。
And every day, it was the same.
每一天，都是一样的。
The bookstore started giving tours.
书店开始提供参观服务。
First, they wrote a guidebook of where all the places in the movie were.
首先，他们写了一本指南，列出了电影中所有地点的位置。
And then the tourists were coming, and the locals would start to come.
然后游客来了，当地人也开始来了。
It wasn't just foreigners.
不仅仅是外国人。
The whole city wanted to come.
整个城市都想来。
And Poles who came to visit from other parts of the country would want to come.
从该国其他地区来访的波兰人也会愿意来。
And actually, it was so successful, before the movie, there was just the bookshop and one cafe, called the Ariel Cafe.
事实上，它非常成功，在电影上映之前，只有书店和一家咖啡馆，叫做 Ariel 咖啡馆。
After the movie came out, it was such a success, the people who owned the building where the Ariel Cafe was actually evicted the people who had started the cafe.
电影上映后，非常成功，Ariel 咖啡馆所在大楼的所有者实际上驱逐了开办咖啡馆的人。
The Jewish cafe.
犹太咖啡馆。
Erin Einhorn They were kicked out, and he opened his own Ariel Cafe.
艾琳·艾因霍恩 (Erin Einhorn) 他们被赶了出来，他开了自己的 Ariel 咖啡馆。
And they rented the building next door and opened their own Ariel Cafe.
他们租了隔壁的大楼，开了自己的 Ariel 咖啡馆。
So for the better part of the 1990s, you had two Ariels there.
因此，在 20 世纪 90 年代的大部分时间里，那里有两个 Ariel。
And then there was a lawsuit, and one of them subsequently changed its name to the Olive Cafe.
然后发生了一场诉讼，其中一家随后更名为橄榄咖啡馆。
Now it's a whole thriving industry.
现在它是一个蓬勃发展的行业。
There's actual Jewish gift shops in Krakow, where they sell wood carvings of Jews playing the violin.
克拉科夫有真正的犹太礼品店，出售犹太人拉小提琴的木雕。
And how are you feeling about this, as a Jew whose family had to flee Poland in the Second World War?
作为一个在第二次世界大战期间全家被迫逃离波兰的犹太人，您对此有何感想？
Well, at first, I was somewhat offended, actually, on the grounds of, OK, now that we're not here, now they're interested in Jewish culture?
嗯，一开始，我实际上有点生气，因为，好吧，现在我们不在这里，现在他们对犹太文化感兴趣？
And I wondered, well, gosh, are people making money from this?
我想知道，天啊，人们能从中赚钱吗？
Are they marketing my culture?
他们在推销我的文化吗？
It's this weird thing.
这真是奇怪的事情。
I hadn't been appropriated before.
我以前没有被挪用过。
So on one hand, you're kind of flattered.
所以一方面，你有点受宠若惊。
And on the other hand, there's just something about it that doesn't sit right.
另一方面，它也有一些不对劲的地方。
I wonder if the feeling you're feeling is something that happens to other groups a lot.
我想知道你的感受是否也经常发生在其他群体身上。
I would imagine that an older black person visiting the House of Blues, which is, if I understand right, mostly white-owned and white audiences there walking in with a kind of kitschy presentation of black music.
我会想象一个年长的黑人参观蓝调之家，如果我理解正确的话，那里的大部分是白人拥有的，白人观众带着一种俗气的黑人音乐表演走进去。
I often compared it to Santa Fe.
我经常将它与圣达菲进行比较。
You have a culture that's primarily selling, marketing Native American culture.
你们的文化主要是销售、营销美洲原住民文化。
And it isn't Native Americans necessarily doing the marketing.
而且不一定是美洲原住民在进行营销。
There may be some involved, but primarily, their culture is being packaged and sold as part of a tour to tourists.
可能有一些涉及，但主要是他们的文化被包装并作为旅游的一部分出售给游客。
Right, after we've driven them off the land.
好吧，在我们把他们赶出这片土地之后。
Exactly.
确切地。
Ira Glass You brought in another clip of tape from your interviews in Poland, a woman named Eva?
艾拉·格拉斯（Ira Glass）：您带来了另一段在波兰采访的录像带，是一位名叫伊娃（Eva）的女士？
Yeah, Ewa Nowakowska.
是的，埃娃·诺瓦科斯卡。
She's an English translator.
她是一名英语翻译。
Her perspective on it really reflects the romanticism that this younger generation has.
她的观点确实反映了年轻一代的浪漫主义精神。
Her grandmother had described for her how beautiful the Jewish culture was and how the Jewish quarter would light up.
她的祖母曾向她描述过犹太文化是多么美丽，以及犹太区将如何灯火辉煌。
Here, let's hear that tape.
来，让我们听一下那盘磁带。
Ewa Nowakowska I think that there is a strong feeling of regret whenever I just roam along the streets of Kazimierz, of the former Jewish district, because I can realize how many people were just crowding the streets, how many small shops were opened.
Ewa Nowakowska 我想，每当我漫步在前犹太区卡齐米日的街道上时，都会有一种强烈的遗憾，因为我可以意识到有多少人挤满了街道，有多少小商店开业了。
It was a thriving culture.
这是一种蓬勃发展的文化。
And my grandmother's sister told me about all the festivals, especially about Shabbat on Saturdays, when she-- she can recall the whole thing.
我祖母的姐姐告诉我所有的节日，尤其是周六的安息日，那时她——她可以回忆起整个事情。
She could just walk along the streets.
她只能沿着街道走。
And she could see the lit windows in which there were the candlesticks, and they started singing all the Jewish songs.
她可以看到亮着灯的窗户，里面有烛台，他们开始唱所有的犹太歌曲。
And it was very-- even for the Catholics, it was incredible to feel and experience.
即使对于天主教徒来说，这种感觉和体验也是令人难以置信的。
And then everything perished, everything disappeared.
然后一切都消失了，一切都消失了。
And this was this woman who had actually-- she's a poet-- and she had actually written a series of poems as a tribute to the Jewish family that used to live next door to her grandmother.
这位女士实际上是一位诗人，她实际上写了一系列诗歌，向曾经住在她祖母隔壁的犹太家庭致敬。
And she has her grandmother's old diary, and the Jewish family that lived next door had written some Hebrew letters in the book or something.
她还有祖母的旧日记，住在隔壁的犹太家庭在书中写了一些希伯来字母什么的。
And she talks about it in these romantic terms as this is this last relic, this last holdover, the last thing we have from this family.
她用浪漫的语言谈论这件事，因为这是最后的遗物，最后的遗留物，我们从这个家庭得到的最后的东西。
Whether or not that's true, whether or not that family even survived, we don't necessarily know.
无论这是否属实，无论那个家庭是否幸存，我们都不一定知道。
So for her, does Jewishness connote a simpler, more innocent time?
那么对她来说，犹太身份是否意味着一个更简单、更纯真的时代？
I think probably, yes.
我想可能是的。
Ira Glass And how strange that the time that it connotes is 1930s eastern Europe.
Ira Glass：多么奇怪啊，它所指的时间是 20 世纪 30 年代的东欧。
But you always have a romantic idea of what life was before you experienced it.
但在你经历生活之前，你总是对生活有一个浪漫的想法。
And what was in Poland at that time, but Jews?
当时的波兰除了犹太人还有什么？
It's something from the past.
这是过去的事情了。
It's something magical and mystical.
这是神奇而神秘的东西。
It's funny how being gone can make it magical and mystical.
有趣的是，离开却让它变得神奇而神秘。
Yeah.
是的。
And that's why these Jewish-themed cafes are all designed like 19th-century living rooms.
这就是为什么这些犹太主题咖啡馆的设计都像 19 世纪的客厅。
They used old, white, lace tablecloths and antique furniture and antique frames on the portraits on the walls.
他们使用旧的白色蕾丝桌布和古董家具，墙上的肖像上还挂着古董相框。
It's got a poignant, melodramatic flair to it that the artistic types are drawn to.
它有一种令人心酸的、戏剧化的风格，吸引了艺术类型。
Was it just that the people who you were getting to know were fascinated by Jewish culture, or were they actually looking for their own Jewish roots?
你所认识的人只是对犹太文化着迷，还是他们实际上在寻找自己的犹太根源？
Was there a sense of, oh, maybe I'm part Jewish?
有没有一种感觉，哦，也许我有部分犹太人血统？
There is an absolute trend among certain young Poles to go try and find the Jewish ancestor in the closet.
在某些年轻的波兰人中，有一种绝对的趋势，就是去尝试寻找隐藏在柜子里的犹太祖先。
If you actually find a Jewish relative, it's something that distinguishes you from everybody else.
如果你真的找到了一个犹太亲戚，这就是你与其他人的不同之处。
Not only is the country largely homogeneous ethnically, but under communism, there were restricted colors of paint and restricted kinds of architecture.
这个国家不仅在种族上基本上是同质的，而且在共产主义统治下，油漆的颜色和建筑的种类也受到限制。
And everybody had the same sort of job and the same sort of house and the same sort of life.
每个人都有同样的工作、同样的房子和同样的生活。
And it was all very same and really bland.
一切都非常相似而且平淡无奇。
And this young culture wants to try and distinguish themselves from the previous generations, and try and show we're different.
这种年轻的文化想要尝试将自己与前几代人区分开来，并尝试展示我们的与众不同。
We're Western, we're capitalistic, I don't know, ethnically different.
我们是西方人，我们是资本主义的，我不知道，种族不同。
And so if you can actually prove that you are, in fact, ethnically different, well, that's taking it to the next level.
因此，如果你能真正证明你确实在种族上有所不同，那么，那就将其提升到了一个新的水平。
So as somebody who actually is Jewish, when you would explain to people that you're actually Jewish, was it suddenly like you were a celebrity?
那么，作为一个真正的犹太人，当你向人们解释你实际上是犹太人时，你是不是突然就像一个名人了？
I don't think I was a celebrity, but it was like I just told them I came back from Mars.
我不认为我是名人，但就像我刚刚告诉他们我从火星回来一样。
They want to hear everything about it.
他们想听听有关它的一切。
And actually, one of the things I think I said I heard all the time, people would hear I was a Jew.
事实上，我想我经常听到的一件事是，人们会听说我是犹太人。
I'd be at a party.
我会参加一个聚会。
I would tell them what I was doing in Poland.
我会告诉他们我在波兰做什么。
And they'd say, "Oh my God.
他们会说：“天啊。
Wow.
哇。
Really?
真的吗？
You're a Jew?
你是犹太人？
Wow, that's so exciting.
哇，太令人兴奋了。
My grandmother's best friend was a Jew." It's like every Polish grandmother had a Jew for a best friend.
我祖母最好的朋友是犹太人。”就像每个波兰祖母都有一个犹太人作为最好的朋友一样。
That's such a weird variation on "some of my best friends are Jewish." "Some of my grandmother's best friends were Jewish."
这是“我最好的一些朋友是犹太人”的奇怪变体。 “我祖母最好的一些朋友是犹太人。”
And it could be legitimate because their grandmothers were children just before the war.
这可能是合法的，因为他们的祖母在战前还是孩子。
And especially if they were in a place like Krakow, which was urban and educated, there were lots and lots of Jews.
尤其是在像克拉科夫这样的城市和受过教育的地方，有很多很多犹太人。
The schools were integrated.
学校被整合。
Yeah, maybe.
是的，也许吧。
Maybe they aren't lying or-- and they tell their grandchildren about it.
也许他们没有撒谎，或者——他们把这件事告诉了他们的孙子。
When you never meet a Jew, you never have a problem with a Jew.
当你从未见过犹太人时，你就不会与犹太人有任何问题。
You never have a conflict.
你们永远不会有冲突。
And all the things that may or may not have threatened their grandparents or their great-grandparents or the things that may have defined several hundred years of Polish-Jewish relations are moot.
所有可能或可能没有威胁到他们的祖父母或曾祖父母的事情，或者可能定义了数百年波兰犹太人关系的事情都是没有意义的。
All they have is the romance, and the memory, and none of the things that create problems.
他们拥有的只是浪漫和记忆，没有任何会带来问题的东西。
Do you think it's possible for Poles to honor Jews in a way that wouldn't feel a little bit creepy or disturbing to Jews?
您认为波兰人有可能以一种不会让犹太人感到有点令人毛骨悚然或不安的方式来尊重犹太人吗？
Yeah, I think I do have this suspicion, I guess, that I can't seem to get past.
是的，我想我确实有这样的怀疑，我想，我似乎无法摆脱。
When people would come up to me and say, "Oh, yeah, my grandmother's best friend was a Jew," there's this part of me that would want to say, "Yeah?
当人们走过来对我说：“哦，是的，我祖母最好的朋友是犹太人，”我的这一部分会想说，“是吗？
And what did Grandma do when they came to take away her friend?" Granted, Grandma was a nine-year-old girl, so she did nothing.
当他们来带走她的朋友时，奶奶做了什么？”诚然，奶奶是一个九岁的小女孩，所以她什么也没做。
I wish I could view it not cynically.
我希望我能不愤世嫉俗地看待它。
I wish that I were that open-minded and not so biased and prejudicial.
我希望我思想开放，不要那么偏见和成见。
But I'm a product of my own history.
但我是我自己历史的产物。
And my mother had this crazy-- she had five mothers by the time she was nine because she was tossed around.
我的母亲很疯狂——她九岁的时候就有了五个母亲，因为她被抛弃了。
And my grandmother was killed.
我的祖母被杀了。
And my grandfather was in Auschwitz.
我的祖父在奥斯维辛集中营。
So you just can't set aside that context and that history, as much as you can try.
所以你不能尽你所能尝试将这种背景和历史放在一边。
Erin Einhorn is a reporter for the New York Daily News.
艾琳·艾因霍恩是《纽约每日新闻》的记者。
She's finished her book about the family that hid her mother from the Holocaust, and she's looking for a publisher.
她已经完成了关于使她母亲免受大屠杀的家庭的书，她正在寻找出版商。
The family, it turns out, did not just do it for the money.
事实证明，这个家庭不仅仅是为了钱。
One of them burst into tears when Erin showed up at his door.
当艾琳出现在他的门口时，其中一个人泪流满面。
Coming up, when your trivet does the talking, and you get ignored, and David Sedaris on love.
接下来，当你的三脚架说话时，你会被忽视，而大卫·塞达里斯（David Sedaris）则谈恋爱。
That's in a minute from Chicago Public Radio and Public Radio International when our program continues.
一分钟后，芝加哥公共广播电台和国际公共广播电台将继续我们的节目。
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, of course, we choose some theme and bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme.
当然，每周我们都会选择一些主题，并为您带来有关该主题的各种不同类型的故事。
Today's program, Fake ID, an idea so simple, a theme so simple that, for a change, I do not have to explain it.
今天的节目《假ID》，一个想法如此简单，一个主题如此简单，如果要改变的话，我不需要解释它。
We have arrived at act two of our program, Act Two, This Blessed House.
我们已经到了节目的第二幕，第二幕，这座祝福之家。
In this act, we bring you a piece of short fiction from Jhumpa Lahiri, a story whose similarities to Erin's story about Poland will become all too clear.
在这一幕中，我们为您带来 Jhumpa Lahiri 的短篇小说，这个故事与艾琳关于波兰的故事的相似之处将变得非常明显。
Mira Nair reads this story for us.
米拉·奈尔为我们读了这个故事。
They discovered the first one in a cupboard above the stove, beside an unopened bottle of malt vinegar.
他们在炉子上方的橱柜里发现了第一个，旁边有一瓶未开封的麦芽醋。
"Guess what I found?" Twinkle walked into the living room, lined from end to end with taped-up packing boxes, waving the vinegar in one hand and a white porcelain effigy of Christ, roughly the same size as the vinegar bottle, in the other.
“你猜我发现了什么？”闪闪走进客厅，客厅里从头到尾都摆满了用胶带粘起来的包装盒，他一手挥舞着醋，另一只手挥舞着一个与醋瓶大小大致相同的白色陶瓷基督雕像。
Sanjeev looked up.
桑吉夫抬起头来。
He was kneeling on the floor, marking, with ripped bits of a Post-it, patches on the baseboard that needed to be retouched with paint.
他跪在地板上，用撕破的便利贴碎片在踢脚板上标记需要用油漆修饰的补丁。
"Throw it away." "Which?" she said.
“把它扔掉。” “哪个？”她说。
"Both."
“两个都。”
"But I can cook something with the vinegar.
“但我可以用醋做一些东西。
It's brand new." "You've never cooked anything with vinegar." "I'll look something up in one of those books we got for our wedding." Sanjeev turned back to the baseboard to replace a Post-it strap that had fallen to the floor.
这是全新的。” “你从来没有用醋煮过东西。” “我会在我们为婚礼买的一本书中查找一些内容。”桑吉夫转身回到踢脚板，更换掉落在地板上的便利贴带。
"Check the expiration, and at the very least, get rid of that idiotic statue." "But it could be worth something, who knows?"
“检查一下有效期，至少把那个愚蠢的雕像处理掉。” “但它可能有价值，谁知道呢？”
She turned it upside down, then stroked with her index finger the minuscule, frozen folds of its robes.
她把它翻过来，然后用食指抚摸它长袍上微小的、冰冻的褶皱。
"It's pretty." "We're not Christian," Sanjeev said.
“很漂亮。” “我们不是基督徒，”桑吉夫说。
Lately, he had begun noticing the need to state the obvious to Twinkle.
最近，他开始注意到有必要向闪烁陈述显而易见的事情。
The day before, he had to tell her that if she dragged her end of the bureau, instead of lifting it, the parquet floor would scratch.
前一天，他不得不告诉她，如果她拖着梳妆台的一端而不是抬起它，镶木地板就会刮伤。
She shrugged.
她耸耸肩。
"No, we're not Christian.
“不，我们不是基督徒。
We're good little Hindus." She planted a kiss on top of Christ's head, then placed the statue on top of the fireplace mantle, which needed, Sanjeev observed, to be dusted.
我们是善良的小印度教徒。”她在基督的头顶上吻了一下，然后将雕像放在壁炉架上，桑吉夫观察到，壁炉架需要掸去灰尘。
By the end of the week, the mantle had still not been dusted.
到了周末，地幔上的灰尘仍然没有掸掉。
It had, however, come to serve as the display shelf for a sizable collection of Christian paraphernalia.
然而，它后来成为大量基督教用具收藏的展示架。
There was a 3-D postcard of Saint Francis done in four colors, which Twinkle had found taped to the back of the medicine cabinet, and a wooden cross keychain which Sanjeev had stepped on with bare feet as he was installing extra shelving in Twinkle's study.
Twinkle 发现了一张用四种颜色制成的圣弗朗西斯 3D 明信片，贴在药柜后面；还有一个木制十字钥匙链，桑吉夫在 Twinkle 的书房安装额外的书架时赤脚踩在了上面。
There was a framed paint-by-number of the three wise men against a black velvet background tucked in the linen closet.
亚麻壁橱里藏着一幅镶框的三位智者的数字画，背景是黑色天鹅绒背景。
There was also a tile trivet depicting a blond, unbearded Jesus delivering a sermon on a mountaintop left in one of the drawers of the built-in china cabinet in the dining room.
餐厅内置瓷柜的一个抽屉里还放着一个瓷砖三脚架，上面画着一位金发碧眼、没有胡须的耶稣在山顶上布道。
"Do you think the previous owners were born-agains?" asked Twinkle, making room the next day for a small, plastic snow-filled dome, containing a miniature nativity scene, found behind the pipes of the kitchen sink.
“你认为之前的主人重生了吗？”第二天，闪闪为一个充满雪的塑料小圆顶腾出空间，问道，在厨房水槽的管道后面发现了一个微型耶稣诞生场景。
Sanjeev was organizing his engineering texts from MIT in alphabetical order on a bookshelf, though it had been several years since he had needed to consult any of them.
桑吉夫正在书架上按字母顺序整理来自麻省理工学院的工程教科书，尽管他已经好几年没有需要查阅其中任何一本了。
At 33, he had a secretary of his own and a dozen people working under his supervision who gladly supplied him with any information he needed.
33 岁时，他有自己的秘书和十几个在他手下工作的人，他们很乐意向他提供他需要的任何信息。
Still, the presence of his college books in the room reminded him of a time in his life he recalled with fondness, when he would walk each evening across the Mass Avenue bridge to order Mughlai chicken with spinach from his favorite Indian restaurant on the other side of the Charles and return to his dorm room to write out clean copies of his problem sets.
尽管如此，房间里的大学书籍还是让他想起了他生命中的一段美好时光，当时他每天晚上都会步行穿过大众大道桥，从查尔斯河另一边他最喜欢的印度餐馆点一份莫格莱鸡配菠菜，然后回到宿舍，干净地写下习题集。
"Or perhaps it's an attempt to convert people," Twinkle mused.
“或者也许这是一种改变人们信仰的尝试，”Twinkle 沉思道。
"Clearly, the scheme has succeeded in your case," Sanjeev said.
“显然，这个计划在你的案例中取得了成功，”桑吉夫说。
She disregarded him, shaking the little plastic dome so that the snow swirled over the manger.
她无视他，摇晃着小塑料圆顶，让雪在马槽上打旋。
Sanjeev studied the items on the mantle.
桑吉夫研究了地幔上的物品。
It puzzled him that each was, in its own way, so silly.
让他感到困惑的是，每个人都以自己的方式如此愚蠢。
Clearly, they lacked a sense of sacredness.
显然，他们缺乏神圣感。
He was further puzzled that Twinkle, who normally displayed good taste, was so charmed.
他更奇怪的是，一向表现得很好的Twinkle竟然如此着迷。
These objects meant something to Twinkle, but they meant nothing to him.
这些东西对闪闪来说很有意义，但对他来说却毫无意义。
They irritated him.
他们激怒了他。
"We should call the realtor, tell them there's all this nonsense left behind.
“我们应该打电话给房地产经纪人，告诉他们这些都是废话。
Tell him to take it away." "Oh, Sanj," Twinkle groaned.
告诉他把它拿走。” “哦，桑吉，”闪闪呻吟道。
"Please, I would feel terrible throwing them away.
“拜托，扔掉它们我会感觉很糟糕。
Obviously, they were important to the people who used to live here.
显然，它们对于曾经住在这里的人们来说很重要。
It would feel, I don't know, I mean, sacrilegious or something?"
我不知道，我的意思是，这会让人感觉亵渎还是什么？”
"If they're so precious, then why were they hidden all over the house?
“如果它们这么珍贵，那为什么要把它们藏满房子呢？
Why didn't they take them with them?" "There must be others," Twinkle said.
他们为什么不把他们带走？” “一定还有其他人。”闪闪说。
Her eyes roamed the bare, off-white walls of the room, as if there were other things concealed behind the plaster.
她的目光扫视着房间光秃秃的灰白色墙壁，仿佛石膏后面还隐藏着其他东西。
"What else do you think we'll find?"
“你认为我们还会发现什么？”
Nearly a week had passed before they discovered, one Saturday afternoon, a larger than life-sized watercolor poster of Christ, weeping translucent tears the size of peanut shells and sporting a crown of thorns, rolled up behind a radiator in the guest bedroom.
近一周过去了，一个星期六的下午，他们发现一张比真人大小还要大的基督水彩海报，挂着花生壳大小的半透明眼泪，戴着荆棘王冠，卷在客房的散热器后面。
Sanjeev had mistaken it for a window shade.
桑吉夫把它误认为是窗帘。
"Oh, we must, we simply must put it up.
“噢，我们必须，我们必须把它放起来。
It's too spectacular." Twinkle lit a cigarette and began to smoke it with relish, waving it around Sanjeev's head as if it were a conductor's baton, as Mahler's Fifth Symphony roared from the stereo downstairs.
太壮观了。”闪闪点燃了一根香烟，开始津津有味地抽起来，在桑吉夫的头上挥舞着，就像指挥棒一样，马勒的第五交响曲从楼下的立体声音响中咆哮起来。
"Now look, I will tolerate for now your little Biblical menagerie in the living room.
“现在看，我现在可以容忍你在客厅里的小圣经动物园。
But I refuse to have this," he said, flicking at one of the painted peanut tears, "displayed in our home." Twinkle stared at him, the smoke emerging in two thin, blue streams from her nostrils.
但我拒绝让这个，”他一边说，一边弹着一颗画着花生眼泪的东西，“把它放在我们家里。”闪闪盯着他，烟雾从她的鼻孔中冒出两股蓝色的细流。
She rolled up the poster slowly, securing it with one of the elastic bands she always wore around her wrist for tying back her thick, unruly hair, streaked here and there with henna.
她慢慢地卷起海报，用一根松紧带固定住它，她总是戴在手腕上，用来将她浓密、不规则的头发绑在后面，到处都是指甲花。
"I'm going to put it in my study," she informed him.
“我要把它放在我的书房里，”她告诉他。
"That way, you don't have to look at it."
“这样的话，你就不用看了。”
"What about the housewarming?
“乔迁之喜怎么办？
They'll want to see all the rooms.
他们会想参观所有的房间。
I've invited people from the office." She rolled her eyes.
我已经邀请了办公室的人。”她翻了个白眼。
Sanjeev noted that the symphony on the stereo, now in its third movement, had reached a crescendo, for it pulsed with the telltale clashing of cymbals.
桑吉夫指出，立体声音响中的交响曲现在处于第三乐章，已经达到了高潮，因为它伴随着铙钹的撞击声而跳动。
"I'll put it behind the door," she offered.
“我会把它放在门后面，”她提议道。
"That way, when they peek in, they won't see.
“这样，当他们偷看时，他们就看不到了。
Happy?" Sanjeev stood watching her as she left the room with her poster and her cigarette.
高兴吗？”当她带着海报和香烟离开房间时，桑吉夫站在那里看着她。
A few ashes had fallen to the floor where she'd been standing.
一些灰烬落到了她站过的地板上。
He bent down, pinched them between his fingers, and deposited them in his cupped palm.
他弯下腰，用手指捏住它们，然后把它们放在手掌上。
On the stereo downstairs, the tender fourth movement, the adagietto, began.
楼下的音响里开始播放温柔的第四乐章——慢板。
During breakfast, Sanjeev had read in the liner notes that Mahler had proposed to his wife by sending her the manuscript of this portion of the score.
早餐时，桑吉夫在信封上读到，马勒已向他的妻子求婚，并将这部分乐谱的手稿寄给了她。
Although there were elements of tragedy and struggle in the Fifth Symphony, he had read, it was principally music of love and happiness.
他读过的《第五交响曲》虽然有悲剧和斗争的成分，但主要是爱和幸福的音乐。
He heard the toilet flush.
他听到马桶冲水的声音。
"By the way," Twinkle hollered, "if you want to impress people, I wouldn't play this music.
“顺便说一句，”Twinkle 喊道，“如果你想给人留下深刻印象，我就不会播放这种音乐。
It's putting me to sleep."
它让我入睡。”
A few days later, when Sanjeev returned from the office, he smelled something aromatic on the stove.
几天后，当桑吉夫从办公室回来时，他闻到炉子上有一股香味。
He opened the lid of the pot with some sort of reddish-brown sauce dripping over the sides, boiling furiously.
他打开锅盖，某种红棕色的酱汁滴在锅边，正在猛烈地沸腾。
"It's a stew made with fish.
“这是用鱼做的炖菜。
I put the vinegar in it," she said, crossing her fingers.
我把醋放进去了，”她交叉着手指说道。
She was like that, excited and delighted by little things, crossing her fingers before any remotely unpredictable event, like tasting a new flavor of ice cream or dropping a letter in the mailbox.
她就是这样，对小事感到兴奋和高兴，在任何不可预测的事件发生之前都会交叉手指，比如品尝新口味的冰淇淋或将一封信扔进邮箱。
It was a quality he did not understand.
这是他不理解的品质。
It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate or see.
这让他觉得自己很愚蠢，仿佛这个世界隐藏着他无法预见或看到的奇迹。
They had met only four months before.
他们在四个月前才认识。
Her parents, who lived in California, and his, who lived in Calcutta, were old friends.
她的父母住在加利福尼亚州，他的父母住在加尔各答，他们是老朋友。
And across continents, they had arranged the occasion at which Twinkle and Sanjeev were introduced, a 16th birthday party for a daughter in their circle, when Sanjeev was in Palo Alto on business.
跨越大洲，他们安排了一次介绍 Twinkle 和 Sanjeev 的场合，为他们圈子里的一个女儿举办的 16 岁生日派对，当时 Sanjeev 正在帕洛阿尔托出差。
At the restaurant, they were seated side by side at a round table, with a revolving platter of spare ribs and egg rolls and chicken wings, which they concurred all tasted the same.
餐厅里，他们并排坐在一张圆桌前，桌上摆着一盘旋转的排骨、蛋卷和鸡翅，他们一致认为味道都一样。
They had concurred, too, on their adolescent, but still persistent fondness for Wodehouse novels and their dislike for the sitar.
他们也都同意，他们在青春期但仍然坚持对沃德豪斯小说的喜爱，但不喜欢西塔琴。
And later, Twinkle confessed, she was charmed by the way Sanjeev had dutifully refilled her teacup during their conversation.
后来，闪闪承认，她被桑吉夫在谈话中尽职尽责地给她倒茶的方式迷住了。
And so the phone calls began and grew longer.
就这样，电话开始了，而且时间越来越长。
And then the visits, first he to Stanford, then she to Connecticut, after which Sanjeev would save in an ashtray left on the balcony the crushed cigarettes she had smoked during the weekend, saved them, that is, until the next time she came to visit him.
然后，他先去了斯坦福，然后她去了康涅狄格，之后桑吉夫会把周末抽过的压碎的香烟放在阳台上的烟灰缸里，这样就保存了它们，直到她下次来看他。
And then he vacuumed the apartment, washed the sheets, even dusted the plant leaves in her honor.
然后他用吸尘器打扫了公寓，清洗了床单，甚至还为她除尘了植物叶子。
She was 27 and recently abandoned, he had gathered, by an American who had tried and failed to be an actor.
据他所知，她 27 岁，最近被一名试图成为演员但失败的美国人抛弃了。
Sanjeev was lonely, with an excessively generous income for a single man, and had never been in love.
桑吉夫很孤独，收入对于单身男人来说过于丰厚，而且从未谈过恋爱。
At the urging of their matchmakers, they married in India amid hundreds of well wishers whom he barely remembered from his childhood, in incessant August rains, under a red and orange tent strung with Christmas tree lights on Mandeville Road.
在媒人的催促下，他们在印度曼德维尔路一顶挂满圣诞树彩灯的红色和橙色帐篷下举行了婚礼，在成百上千名祝福者的陪伴下，他几乎不记得童年时的情景了，八月连绵不断的降雨。
"Did you sweep the attic?" he asked Twinkle later, as she was folding paper napkins and wedging them by their plates.
“你扫过阁楼吗？”后来，当她折叠餐巾纸并用盘子夹住餐巾纸时，他问道。
The attic was the only part of the house they had not yet given an initial cleaning.
阁楼是房子里唯一还没有进行初步清洁的部分。
"Not yet.
“还没有。
I will, I promise.
我会的，我保证。
I hope this tastes good," she said, planting the steaming pot on top of the Jesus trivet.
我希望这个味道不错。”她边说边把热气腾腾的锅放在耶稣三脚架上。
There was a loaf of Italian bread in a little basket, and iceberg lettuce and grated carrots tossed with bottled dressing and croutons, and glasses of red wine.
一个小篮子里放着一条意大利面包，还有卷心生菜和磨碎的胡萝卜，拌着瓶装调料和油煎面包块，还有几杯红酒。
She was not terribly ambitious in the kitchen.
她在厨房里并没有太大的野心。
She bought pre-roasted chickens from the supermarket and served them with potato salad prepared who knew when, sold in little plastic containers.
她从超市买了预烤的鸡，然后给它们配上不知道什么时候准备的土豆沙拉，装在小塑料容器里出售。
Indian food, she complained, was a bother.
她抱怨说，印度菜很麻烦。
She detested chopping garlic and peeling ginger, and could not operate a blender, and so it was Sanjeev who, on weekends, seasoned mustard oil with cinnamon sticks and cloves in order to produce a proper curry.
她讨厌切大蒜和剥姜，也不会操作搅拌机，所以桑吉夫在周末用肉桂棒和丁香调味芥末油，以制作出合适的咖喱。
He had to admit, though, that whatever it was that she had cooked today, it was unusually tasty.
不过他也不得不承认，不管她今天做的是什么，都异常的美味。
"How did you make it?" "I just put some things into the pot and added the malt vinegar at the end." "How much vinegar?" She shrugged, ripping off some bread and plunging it into her bowl.
“你是怎么做到的？” “我只是往锅里放了一些东西，最后加了麦芽醋。” “多少醋？”她耸耸肩，扯下一些面包，放进碗里。
"What do you mean you don't know?
“你什么意思你不知道？
You should write it down.
你应该把它写下来。
What if you need to make it again for a party or something?" "I'll remember," she said.
如果你需要再次参加聚会或其他活动怎么办？” “我会记住的，”她说。
She covered the bread basket with a dish towel that had, he suddenly noticed, the Ten Commandments printed on it.
她用一条洗碗巾盖住面包篮，他突然注意到，上面印着十诫。
She flashed him a smile, giving his knee a little squeeze under the table.
她对他笑了笑，在桌子底下轻轻挤压了他的膝盖。
"Face it.
“面对它。
This house is blessed."
这房子是有福的。”
The housewarming party was scheduled for the last Saturday in October, and they had invited about 30 people.
乔迁派对定于10月的最后一个星期六举行，他们邀请了大约30人。
All were Sanjeev's acquaintances, people from the office and a number of Indian couples in the Connecticut area, many of whom he barely knew, but who had regularly invited him, in his bachelor days, to supper on Saturdays.
他们都是桑吉夫的熟人，办公室里的人以及康涅狄格地区的一些印度夫妇，其中许多人他几乎不认识，但在他单身的时候，他们经常邀请他在周六共进晚餐。
So far, no one had met Twinkle.
到目前为止，还没有人见过Twinkle。
Back when they were still dating, Sanjeev didn't want to waste their brief weekends together with people he associated with being alone.
当他们还在约会时，桑吉夫不想和那些他认为独处的人一起浪费短暂的周末。
Other than Sanjeev and an ex-boyfriend, who she believed worked in a pottery studio in Brookfield, she knew no one in the state of Connecticut.
除了桑吉夫和一位前男友（她相信前男友在布鲁克菲尔德的一家陶艺工作室工作）之外，她在康涅狄格州不认识任何人。
She was completing her Master's thesis at Stanford, a study of an Irish poet whom Sanjeev had never heard of.
她正在斯坦福大学完成硕士论文，研究对象是一位桑吉夫从未听说过的爱尔兰诗人。
The weekend before the party, they were raking the lawn when Sanjeev heard Twinkle shriek.
聚会前的那个周末，他们正在清扫草坪，桑吉夫听到了闪烁的尖叫声。
He ran to her, clutching his rake, worried that she had discovered a dead animal or a snake.
他抓着耙子跑向她，担心她发现了死去的动物或蛇。
A brisk October breeze stung the top of his ears as his sneakers crunched over brown and yellow leaves.
十月的微风刺痛着他的耳朵，运动鞋踩在棕色和黄色的树叶上嘎吱作响。
When he reached her, she had collapsed on the grass, dissolved in nearly silent laughter.
当他到达她身边时，她已经倒在草地上，沉浸在近乎无声的笑声中。
Behind an overgrown forsythia bush was a plaster Virgin Mary as tall as their waists, with a blue painted hood draped over her head in the manner of an Indian bride.
在一片杂草丛生的连翘丛后面，有一尊与他们腰部一样高的石膏圣母玛利亚，头上戴着一顶蓝色的彩绘兜帽，就像印度新娘一样。
Twinkle grabbed the hem of her t-shirt and began wiping away the dirt staining the statue's brow.
Twinkle抓住她T恤的下摆，开始擦去雕像额头上的污垢。
"I suppose you'll want to put her by the foot of our bed," Sanjeev said.
“我想你会想把她放在我们的床脚边，”桑吉夫说。
She looked at him astonished.
她惊讶地看着他。
"No, silly Sanj.
“不，愚蠢的桑吉。
This is meant for outside, for the lawn." "Twinkle, no, all the neighbors will see.
这是为户外、草坪设计的。” “Twinkle，不，所有的邻居都会看到。
They'll think we're insane." "Why?
他们会认为我们疯了。” “为什么？
For having a statue of the Virgin Mary on our lawn?
因为我们的草坪上有一尊圣母玛利亚的雕像？
Every other person in this neighborhood has a statue of Virgin Mary on the lawn.
这个街区的每个人的草坪上都有一座圣母玛利亚雕像。
We'll fit right in."
我们会很合得来的。”
"We're not Christian." "So you keep reminding me." She spat onto the top of her finger and started to rub intently at a particularly stubborn stain on Mary's chin.
“我们不是基督徒。” “所以你一直提醒我。”她向指尖吐了口唾沫，开始专心地擦拭玛丽下巴上一处特别顽固的污渍。
He was getting nowhere with her, with this woman whom he had known for only four months, and whom he had married, this woman with whom he now shared his life.
他和她在一起毫无进展，和这个他只认识四个月的女人在一起，他已经和她结婚了，这个女人现在和他分享了他的生活。
He thought, with a flicker of regret, of the snapshots his mother used to send him from Calcutta of prospective brides who could sing and sew and season lentils without consulting a cookbook.
他怀着一丝遗憾想起母亲从加尔各答寄给他的那些准新娘的照片，她们可以唱歌、缝纫和调味扁豆，而无需查阅烹饪书。
Sanjeev had considered these women, had even ranked them in order of preference.
桑吉夫考虑过这些女性，甚至按照偏好顺序对她们进行了排名。
But then he had met Twinkle.
但后来他遇到了Twinkle。
"Twinkle, I can't have the people I work with see this statue on my lawn." "Why does it matter to you so much what other people think?" "Twinkle, please." He let his weight rest against his rake as she began dragging the statue toward an oval bed of myrtle beside the lamppost that flanked the brick pathway.
“Twinkle，我不能让和我一起工作的人看到我草坪上的这座雕像。” “为什么别人的看法对你来说如此重要？” “闪闪，拜托了。”当她开始将雕像拖向砖砌小道两侧路灯柱旁边的椭圆形桃金娘床时，他把自己的体重靠在耙子上。
"Look, Sanj, she's so lovely."
“桑吉，你看，她真可爱。”
He returned to his pile of leaves and began to deposit them by handfuls into a plastic garbage bag.
他回到了那堆树叶旁，开始把它们一把一把地放进塑料垃圾袋里。
Over his head, the blue sky was cloudless.
在他的头顶上，蔚蓝的天空万里无云。
One tree on the lawn was still full of leaves, red and orange, like the tent in which he had married Twinkle.
草坪上的一棵树仍然长满了叶子，红色和橙色，就像他和闪闪结婚的帐篷一样。
He did not know if he loved her.
他不知道自己是否爱她。
He said he did when she had first asked him, one afternoon in Palo Alto, as they sat side by side in a darkened, nearly empty movie theater.
他说，当她第一次问他时，他就这么做了，那是在帕洛阿尔托的一个下午，当时他们并排坐在一家漆黑、几乎空无一人的电影院里。
Before the film, one of her favorites, something in German that he found extremely depressing, she had pressed the tip of her nose to his, so that he could feel the flutter of her mascara-coated eyelashes.
在看电影之前，她把自己的鼻尖贴在他的身上，这样他就能感觉到她涂有睫毛膏的睫毛的颤动。这是她最喜欢的一部德语电影，他觉得这部电影非常令人沮丧。
That afternoon, he had replied, yes, he loved her.
那天下午，他回答说，是的，他爱她。
And she was delighted and fed him a piece of popcorn, letting her finger linger an instant between his lips, as if it were his reward for coming up with the right answer.
她很高兴，递给他一块爆米花，让手指在他的嘴唇间停留片刻，仿佛这是对他给出正确答案的奖励。
Though she did not say it herself, he assumed then that she loved him too.
虽然她自己没有说出来，但他当时就认为她也爱他。
But now he was no longer sure.
但现在他不再确定了。
In truth, Sanjeev did not know what love was, only what he thought it was not.
事实上，桑吉夫并不知道爱是什么，只知道他认为爱不是什么。
It was not, he decided, returning to an empty carpeted condominium each night and using only the top fork in his cutlery drawer, and turning away politely at those weekend dinner parties when the other men eventually put their arms around the waists of their wives and girlfriends, leaning over every now and again to kiss their shoulders or necks.
他决定，每天晚上回到空荡荡的铺着地毯的公寓，只使用餐具抽屉里最上面的叉子，然后在周末的晚宴上，当其他男人最终用手臂搂住妻子和女朋友的腰，时不时地倾身亲吻她们的肩膀或脖子时，礼貌地转身离开。
It was not sending away for classical music CDs by mail, working his way methodically through the major composers that the catalog recommended, and always sending his payments in on time.
他并不是通过邮寄方式寄送古典音乐 CD，而是有条不紊地浏览目录推荐的主要作曲家，并且总是按时付款。
In the months before meeting Twinkle, Sanjeev had begun to realize this.
在遇见 Twinkle 之前的几个月，Sanjeev 已经开始意识到这一点。
"You have enough money in the bank to raise three families," his mother reminded him when they spoke at the start of each month on the phone.
“你银行里的钱足够养活三个家庭了，”每个月初他们通电话时，他的母亲都会提醒他。
"You need a wife to look after and love." Now he had one, a pretty one, from a suitably high caste, who would soon have a Master's degree.
“你需要一个妻子来照顾和爱护。”现在他有了一个，一个漂亮的人，来自相当高的种姓，很快就会获得硕士学位。
What was there not to love?
还有什么不值得爱的呢？
The menu for the party was fairly simple.
聚会的菜单相当简单。
There would be a case of champagne and samosas from an Indian restaurant in Hartford, and big trays of rice with chicken and almonds and orange peels, which Sanjeev had spent the greater part of the morning and afternoon preparing.
会有来自哈特福德一家印度餐馆的一箱香槟和萨摩萨三角饺，还有一大盘米饭，里面有鸡肉、杏仁和橙皮，这些都是桑吉夫花了早上和下午的大部分时间准备的。
He had never entertained on such a large scale before.
他以前从来没有举办过这么大规模的招待会。
And, worried that there would not be enough to drink, ran out at one point to buy another case of champagne just in case.
而且，担心喝不够，有一次又跑出去买了一箱香槟以防万一。
Twinkle swept the floors and volunteered to pick up the samosas.
Twinkle扫了地板，并自告奋勇去捡起萨莫萨三角饺。
She had an appointment for a manicure and pedicure in that direction anyway.
无论如何，她预约了那个方向的美甲和足疗。
Sanjeev had planned to ask if she would consider cleaning the menagerie off the mantle, if only for the party.
桑吉夫本来打算问她是否会考虑把动物园从地幔上清除掉，哪怕只是为了聚会。
But she left while he was in the shower.
但她在他洗澡时离开了。
She was gone for a good three hours, and so it was Sanjeev who did the rest of the cleaning.
她已经离开了整整三个小时，所以桑吉夫负责剩下的清洁工作。
By 5:30, the entire house sparkled, with scented candles that Twinkle had picked up in Hartford illuminating the items on the mantle, and slender stalks of burning incense planted into the soil of potted plants.
到了 5 点 30 分，整个房子都闪闪发光，闪闪发光在哈特福德捡到的香薰蜡烛照亮了壁炉架上的物品，细长的燃烧香茎被种植在盆栽植物的土壤中。
Each time he passed the mantle, he winced, dreading the raised eyebrows of his guests as they viewed the flickering ceramic saints, the salt and pepper shakers designed to resemble Mary and Joseph.
每次他经过这个衣钵时，他都会皱起眉头，害怕客人们看到闪烁的陶瓷圣像、设计得像玛丽和约瑟夫的盐罐和胡椒瓶时扬起的眉毛。
Douglas, one of the new consultants at the firm, and his girlfriend Nora were the first to arrive.
公司的新顾问之一道格拉斯和他的女朋友诺拉是最先到达的。
Both were tall and blond, wearing matching wire-rimmed glasses and long, black overcoats.
两人都身材高大，金发碧眼，戴着配套的金属丝边框眼镜，穿着黑色长外套。
Nora wore a black hat full of sharp, thin feathers that corresponded to the sharp, thin angles of her face.
诺拉戴着一顶黑色的帽子，帽子上布满了尖利的细羽毛，与她脸上尖利的细角相对应。
Her left hand was joined with Douglas's.
她的左手与道格拉斯的左手相连。
In her right hand was a bottle of cognac with a red ribbon wrapped around its neck, which she gave to Twinkle.
她右手拿着一瓶干邑白兰地，瓶口系着一条红丝带，她把它递给了闪闪。
"Great lawn, Sanjeev," Douglas remarked.
“桑吉夫，草坪很棒，”道格拉斯说道。
"We've got to get that rake out ourselves, sweetie.
“我们得自己把耙子拿出来，亲爱的。
And this must be?" "My wife, Tanima." "Call me Twinkle." "What an unusual name," Nora remarked.
而这一定是吗？” “我的妻子，塔尼玛。” “叫我闪闪吧。” “多么不寻常的名字啊，”诺拉说。
"Pleased to meet you, Twinkle." "Help yourself to champagne," Twinkle said.
“很高兴认识你，闪闪。” “来杯香槟吧，”闪闪说。
"There's gallons."
“有加仑。”
"I hope you don't mind my asking," Douglas said, "but I noticed the statue outside, and are you guys Christian?
“我希望你不介意我问，”道格拉斯说，“但我注意到外面的雕像，你们是基督徒吗？
I thought you were Indian." "There are Christians in India," Sanjeev replied.
我以为你是印度人。” “印度有基督徒，”桑吉夫回答道。
"But we are not."
“但我们不是。”
The bell rang again and again and again.
铃声一次又一次地响起。
Within minutes, it seemed, the house had filled with bodies and conversations and unfamiliar fragrances.
几分钟之内，房子里似乎就充满了人声、谈话声和陌生的香味。
The women wore heels and sheer stockings and short, black dresses made of crepe and chiffon.
女人们穿着高跟鞋和透明丝袜，以及绉纱和雪纺制成的黑色短裙。
They handed their wraps and coats to Sanjeev, who draped them carefully on hangers in the spacious coat closet, though Twinkle told people to throw their things on the ottomans in the solarium.
他们把包裹和外套交给桑吉夫，桑吉夫小心翼翼地把它们挂在宽敞衣帽间的衣架上，尽管闪闪告诉人们把东西扔到日光浴室的脚凳上。
It bewildered Sanjeev that it was for him and his house and his wife that they had all gone to so much care.
让桑吉夫感到困惑的是，他们都是为了他、他的房子和他的妻子才如此关心。
Everyone congratulated him.
大家都向他表示祝贺。
Lester, another coworker, predicted that Sanjeev would be promoted to vice president in two months maximum.
另一位同事莱斯特预测桑吉夫最多两个月内将晋升为副总裁。
People devoured the samosas and dutifully admired the freshly painted ceilings and walls, the hanging plants, the bay windows, the silk paintings from Jaipur.
人们狼吞虎咽地吃着萨摩萨三角饺，尽职尽责地欣赏着新粉刷过的天花板和墙壁、悬挂的植物、凸窗以及来自斋浦尔的丝绸画。
But most of all, they admired Twinkle.
但最重要的是，他们钦佩Twinkle。
Over hectic jazz records, played under Twinkle's supervision, they laughed at her anecdotes and observations, forming a widening circle around her, while Sanjeev replenished the samosas that he kept warming evenly in the oven, and getting ice for people's drinks, and opening more bottles of champagne with some difficulty, and explaining for the 40th time that he wasn't Christian.
在 Twinkle 的监督下，他们播放着忙碌的爵士唱片，他们嘲笑她的轶事和观察，在她周围形成了一个越来越大的圈子，而 Sanjeev 则补充了他在烤箱中均匀加热的萨莫萨三角饺，为人们的饮料加了冰块，有点困难地打开了更多瓶香槟，并第 40 次解释他不是基督徒。
It was Twinkle who led them in separate groups up and down the winding stairs to gaze at the back lawn, to peer down the cellar steps.
闪闪领着他们分成小组，在蜿蜒的楼梯上上下，凝视着后面的草坪，俯视着地窖的台阶。
"Your friends adore the poster in my study," she mentioned to Sanjeev triumphantly, placing her hand on the small of his back as they, at one point, brushed past each other.
“你的朋友们很喜欢我书房里的海报，”她得意洋洋地对桑吉夫说，当他们擦身而过时，她把手放在他的后腰上。
Sanjeev went to the kitchen, which was empty, and ate a piece of chicken out of the tray on the counter with his fingers because he thought no one was looking.
桑吉夫走进空无一人的厨房，用手指从柜台上的托盘上吃了一块鸡肉，因为他认为没有人在看。
He ate a second piece, then washed it down with a gulp of gin, straight from the bottle.
他吃了第二块，然后喝了一大口直接从瓶子里倒出来的杜松子酒。
Sunil, an anesthesiologist, walked in, spooning food from his paper plate into his mouth.
麻醉师苏尼尔走进来，用勺子把纸盘里的食物放进嘴里。
"Great house.
“很棒的房子。
Great rice.
很棒的米饭。
Do you have any more champagne?"
你还有香槟吗？”
"Your wife's wow," added Prabal, following behind.
“你的妻子太棒了，”普拉巴尔跟在后面补充道。
He was an unmarried professor of physics at Yale.
他是耶鲁大学的未婚物理学教授。
For a moment, Sanjeev stared at him blankly, then blushed.
桑吉夫茫然地盯着他看了一会儿，然后脸红了。
Once, at a dinner party, Prabal had announced that Sophia Loren was wow, as was Audrey Hepburn.
有一次，在一次晚宴上，普拉巴尔宣布索菲亚·罗兰和奥黛丽·赫本都很出色。
Sunil picked a raisin out of the rice tray.
苏尼尔从饭盘里取出一颗葡萄干。
"Twinkle, is her last name Little Star?" The two men laughed and started eating more rice from the tray, plowing through it with their plastic spoons.
“闪闪，她姓小星吗？”两个人笑着开始吃托盘里的更多米饭，用塑料勺子舀着吃。
Sanjeev went down to the cellar for more liquor.
桑吉夫到地窖去取更多的酒。
For a few minutes, he paused on the steps in the damp, cool silence, hugging the second crate of champagne to his chest as the party drifted above the rafters.
有几分钟，他在潮湿、凉爽的寂静中在台阶上停了下来，当队伍飘过椽子时，他将第二箱香槟抱在胸前。
Then he set the reinforcements on the dining table.
然后他把援军放在餐桌上。
"Yes, everything.
“是的，一切。
We found them all in the house in the most unusual places," he heard Twinkle saying in the living room.
我们在房子里最不寻常的地方发现了它们，”他听到闪闪在客厅里说道。
"In fact, we keep finding them." "No." "Yes.
“事实上，我们一直在寻找他们。” “不。” “是的。
Every day is like a treasure hunt.
每天都像寻宝一样。
It's too good.
太好了。
God only knows what else we'll find, no pun intended."
只有上帝知道我们还会发现什么，没有双关语的意思。”
That was what started it.
这就是事情的开始。
As if by some unspoken pact, the whole party joined forces and began combing through each one of the rooms, opening closets on their own, peering under chairs and cushions, feeling behind curtains.
仿佛有某种不言而喻的约定，整个团队齐心协力，开始仔细检查每个房间，自己打开壁橱，在椅子和垫子下面窥视，在窗帘后面摸索。
Groups scampered, giggling and swaying, up and down the winding staircase.
一群群人在蜿蜒的楼梯上蹦蹦跳跳，咯咯笑着，摇摇晃晃。
"We've never explored the attic," Twinkle announced suddenly, and so everybody followed.
“我们从来没有探索过阁楼。”闪闪突然宣布，于是所有人都跟了上去。
"How do we get up there?" "There's a ladder in the hallway, somewhere in the ceiling."
“我们怎么上去？” “走廊里天花板上的某个地方有一个梯子。”
Wearily, Sanjeev followed at the back of the crowd to point out the location of the ladder.
桑吉夫疲倦地跟在人群后面，指出了梯子的位置。
But Twinkle had already found it on her own.
但Twinkle已经自己找到了。
"Eureka!" she hollered.
“尤里卡！”她喊道。
Douglas pulled the chain that released the steps.
道格拉斯拉动释放台阶的链条。
His face was flushed, and he was wearing Nora's feather hat on his head.
他脸色通红，头上戴着诺拉的羽毛帽。
One by one, the guests disappeared, men helping women as they placed their strappy high heels on the narrow slats of the ladder, the Indian women wrapping the free ends of their expensive saris into their waistbands.
客人们一一消失，男人帮助女人把系带高跟鞋放在梯子的窄板条上，印度女人把昂贵纱丽的自由端缠在腰带上。
The men followed behind, all quickly disappearing, until Sanjeev alone remained at the top of the winding staircase.
这些人跟在后面，很快就消失了，直到桑吉夫独自留在了蜿蜒的楼梯顶端。
Footsteps thundered over his head.
脚步声在他头顶上轰鸣而过。
He had no desire to join them.
他不想加入他们。
He wondered if the ceiling would collapse, imagined for a split second the sight of all the tumbling, drunk, perfumed bodies crashing, tangled, around him.
他想知道天花板是否会塌陷，一瞬间想象着所有翻滚的、醉酒的、散发着香水味的尸体在他周围碰撞、纠缠在一起的景象。
He heard a shriek, and then rising, spreading waves of laughter in discordant tones.
他听到一声尖叫，然后升起，发出一阵阵不和谐的笑声。
Something fell.
有东西掉下来了。
Something else shattered.
还有什么东西破碎了。
He could hear them babbling about a trunk.
他能听到他们在谈论一个箱子。
They seemed to be struggling to get it open, banging feverishly on its surface.
他们似乎正在努力将其打开，并在其表面上疯狂地敲打。
He thought perhaps Twinkle would call for his assistance.
他想也许闪闪会寻求他的帮助。
But he was not summoned.
但他没有被传唤。
He looked about the hallway and to the landing below, at the champagne glasses and half-eaten samosas and napkins smeared with lipstick, abandoned in every corner, on every available surface.
他环顾走廊和下面的楼梯平台，看着香槟杯、吃了一半的三角饺和涂着口红的餐巾，它们被遗弃在每个角落、每个可用的表面上。
Then he noticed that Twinkle, in her haste, had discarded her shoes altogether, for they lay by the foot of the ladder, black patent leather mules with heels like golf tees, opened toes, and slightly soiled silk labels on the instep, where her soles had rested.
然后他注意到闪闪在匆忙中把她的鞋子全部扔掉了，因为它们放在梯子的脚边，黑色漆皮穆勒鞋，鞋跟像高尔夫球座，脚趾敞开，脚背上有轻微弄脏的丝绸标签，她的鞋底就在那里。
He placed them in the doorway of the master bedroom, so that no one would trip when they descended.
他把它们放在主卧室的门口，这样下去的时候就不会被人绊倒。
The strident voices had subsided to an even murmur.
刺耳的声音已经平息成了均匀的低语。
It occurred to Sanjeev that he had the house all to himself.
桑吉夫突然想到，这栋房子完全属于他自己了。
The music had ended, and he could hear, if he concentrated, the hum of the refrigerator and the rustle of the last leaves on the trees outside.
音乐结束了，如果他集中注意力，他就能听到冰箱的嗡嗡声和外面树上最后一片叶子的沙沙声。
With one flick of his hand, he could snap the ladder back on its spring into the ceiling, and they would have no way of getting down, unless he were to pull the chain and let them.
他一挥手，就能将梯子的弹簧弹回到天花板上，他们就无法下来，除非他拉动链条让他们下来。
He thought of all the things he could do, undisturbed.
他想着自己可以做的所有事情，不受干扰。
He could sweep Twinkle's menagerie into a garbage bag and get in the car and drive it all to the dump, and tear down the poster of weeping Jesus, and take a hammer to the Virgin Mary while he was at it.
他可以把闪闪的动物园扫进垃圾袋，然后钻进车里，把它们全部开到垃圾场，撕掉哭泣的耶稣的海报，然后用锤子砸向圣母玛利亚。
Then he would return to the empty house.
然后他就会回到空荡荡的房子里。
He could easily clear up the cups and plates in an hour's time, and pour himself a gin and tonic, and eat a plate of warmed rice, and listen to his new Bach CD, while reading the liner notes so as to understand it properly.
一个小时的时间，他可以轻松地清理掉杯子和盘子，给自己倒一杯杜松子酒和滋补品，吃一盘热米饭，一边听他的新巴赫CD，一边读歌词，以便正确理解它。
He nudged the ladder slightly, but it was sturdily planted against the door.
他轻轻推了推梯子，但梯子却牢牢地靠在门上。
Budging it would require some effort.
改变它需要一些努力。
"My God, I need a cigarette," Twinkle exclaimed from above.
“天啊，我需要一支烟。”Twinkle 在上面喊道。
Sanjeev felt knots forming at the back of his neck.
桑吉夫感觉脖子后面打结了。
He felt dizzy.
他感到头晕。
He needed to lie down.
他需要躺下。
He walked towards the bedroom, but stopped short when he saw Twinkle's shoes facing him in the doorway.
他朝卧室走去，但当他看到门口闪闪发光的鞋子正对着他时，他停了下来。
He thought of her slipping them on her feet.
他想到她把它们套在脚上。
But instead of feeling irritated, as he had ever since they'd moved into the house together, he felt a pang of anticipation at the thought of her rushing unsteadily down the winding staircase in them, scratching the floor a bit in her path.
但自从他们一起搬进这所房子以来，他并没有感到恼怒，而是一想到她摇摇晃晃地冲下他们俩的蜿蜒楼梯，路上的地板被刮破了一点，他就感到一阵期待的痛苦。
The pang intensified as he thought of her rushing to the bathroom to brighten her lipstick, and eventually rushing to get people their coats, and finally rushing to the cherrywood table when the last guest had left to begin opening their housewarming presents.
当他想到她冲到浴室去涂口红，最后冲去给人们拿外套，最后在最后一位客人离开并开始打开他们的乔迁礼物时冲到樱桃木桌子旁时，他的痛苦更加强烈。
It was the same pang that he used to feel before they were married, when he would hang up the phone after one of their conversations, or when he would drive back from the airport, wondering which ascending plane in the sky was hers.
这和他们结婚前他所感受到的痛苦是一样的，当他在一次谈话后挂断电话时，或者当他从机场开车回来时，想知道天空中哪架正在上升的飞机是她的。
"Sanj, you won't believe this." She emerged with her back to him, her hands over her head, the tops of her bare shoulder blades perspiring, supporting something still hidden from view.
“桑吉，你不会相信的。”她背对着他出现，双手举过头顶，裸露的肩胛骨顶部出汗，支撑着仍然看不见的东西。
"You got it, Twinkle?" someone asked.
“你明白了吗，闪闪？”有人问。
"Yes, you can let go."
“是啊，你可以放手了。”
Now he saw that her hands were wrapped around it, a solid silver bust of Christ, the head easily three times the size of his own.
现在他看到她的手握住了它，那是一尊坚固的银色基督半身像，其头颅大小是他自己的三倍。
It had a patrician bump on its nose, magnificent, curly hair that rested atop a pronounced collarbone, and a broad forehead that reflected in miniature the walls and doors and lampshades around them.
它的鼻子上有一个贵族式的隆起，华丽的卷发搭在明显的锁骨上，宽阔的额头倒映着周围墙壁、门和灯罩的缩影。
Its expression was confident, as if assured of its devotees, the unyielding lips sensuous and full.
它的表情充满自信，仿佛对其信徒充满信心，坚韧的嘴唇性感而饱满。
It was also sporting Nora's feather hat.
它还戴着诺拉的羽毛帽子。
As Twinkle descended, Sanjeev put his hands around her waist to balance her.
当 Twinkle 下降时，Sanjeev 双手搂住她的腰，以保持她的平衡。
And he relieved her of the bust when she had reached the ground.
当她落地时，他把她从半身像上取下来。
It weighed a good 30 pounds.
它重达30磅。
The others began lowering themselves slowly, exhausted from the hunt.
其他人开始慢慢地低下身子，因为狩猎而疲惫不堪。
Some trickled downstairs in search of a fresh drink.
有些人慢慢下楼寻找新鲜的饮料。
She took a breath, raised her eyebrows, crossed her fingers.
她吸了一口气，扬起眉毛，交叉手指。
"Would you mind terribly if we displayed it on the mantle, just for tonight?
“如果我们今晚把它展示在地幔上，你会非常介意吗？
I know you hate it." He did hate it.
我知道你讨厌它。”他确实讨厌它。
He hated its immensity, and its flawless, polished surface, and its undeniable value.
他讨厌它的巨大、它完美无瑕、抛光的表面，以及它不可否认的价值。
He hated that it was in his house and that he owned it.
他讨厌它在他的房子里，而且他拥有它。
Unlike the other things they'd found, this contained dignity, solemnity, beauty even.
与他们发现的其他东西不同，它包含着尊严、庄严，甚至美丽。
But to his surprise, these qualities made him hate it all the more.
但出乎他意料的是，这些品质却让他更加厌恶。
Most of all, he hated it because he knew that Twinkle loved it.
最重要的是，他讨厌它，因为他知道Twinkle喜欢它。
"I'll keep it in my study from tomorrow," Twinkle added.
“从明天开始我会把它放在我的书房里，”Twinkle 补充道。
"I promise." She would never put it in her study, he knew.
“我保证。”他知道，她永远不会把它放在书房里。
For the rest of their days together, she would keep it on the center of the mantle, flanked on either side by the rest of the menagerie.
在他们在一起的剩下的日子里，她会把它放在地幔的中央，两侧是动物园的其余部分。
Each time they had guests, Twinkle would explain how she had found it, and they would admire her as they listened.
每次他们有客人时，闪闪都会解释她是如何找到它的，他们听着都会佩服她。
He gazed at the crushed rose petals in her hair, at the pearl and sapphire choker at her throat, at the sparkly crimson polish on her toes.
他凝视着她头发上的碎玫瑰花瓣，凝视着她喉咙上的珍珠和蓝宝石项圈，凝视着她脚趾上闪闪发光的深红色指甲油。
He decided that these were among the things that made Prabal think she was wow.
他认为这些都是让普拉巴尔觉得她很棒的原因之一。
His head ached from gin, and his arms ached from the weight of the statue.
他的头因杜松子酒而疼痛，他的手臂因雕像的重量而疼痛。
He said, "I put your shoes in the bedroom." Twinkle gave his elbow a little squeeze and headed for the living room.
他说：“我把你的鞋子放在卧室里了。”温情轻轻捏了一下手肘，就往客厅走去。
"Thanks, but my feet are killing me." Sanjeev pressed the massive silver face to his ribs, careful not to let the feather hat slip, and followed her.
“谢谢，但我的脚快要死了。”桑吉夫将那张巨大的银色脸贴在肋骨上，小心翼翼地不让羽毛帽滑落，然后跟着她。
Mira Nair, reading a slightly abridged version of Jhumpa Lahiri's story, "This Blessed House," from the book The Interpreter of Maladies, which is such a great book, also winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
米拉·奈尔（Mira Nair）正在阅读琼帕·拉希里（Jhumpa Lahiri）的故事《这座幸福之家》（This Blessed House）的稍微删减版，该书选自《疾病的解释者》（The Interpreter of Maladies）一书，这本书非常伟大，也是普利策奖的获得者。
Mira Nair, who read, is the director of Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala, Vanity Fair, and other films.
阅读的米拉·奈尔是《季风婚礼》、《密西西比马沙拉》、《名利场》等电影的导演。
[MUSIC - "HALLELUJAH" BY JOHN CALE]
[音乐 - 约翰·凯尔的《哈利路亚》]
Act Three, The Lie That Binds.
第三幕，约束的谎言。
You could argue that it is impossible to stay in any relationship for very long without sometimes traveling under fake papers, without sometimes concealing what you think.
你可能会争辩说，如果不有时带着假证件出行，有时不隐瞒自己的想法，就不可能在任何关系中维持很长时间。
I say this, and I don't mean it cynically.
我这样说，并没有愤世嫉俗的意思。
I mean being in love sometimes means not saying what is going through your head.
我的意思是，恋爱有时意味着不说出你脑子里在想什么。
David Sedaris lives in Paris with his boyfriend, Hugh, and he provides this case example.
David Sedaris 和他的男朋友 Hugh 住在巴黎，他提供了这个案例。
Last night, Hugh and I went around the corner to see The End of the Affair, a Neil Jordan adaptation of the Graham Greene novel.
昨晚，休和我在街角去看了《情事的终结》，这是尼尔·乔丹根据格雷厄姆·格林小说改编的作品。
He sobbed from beginning to end.
他从头到尾都在抽泣。
And by the time we left the theater, the poor thing was completely dehydrated.
当我们离开剧院时，这个可怜的东西已经完全脱水了。
I asked if he always cried during comedies, and he accused me of being grossly insensitive, a charge I'm trying to plea bargain down to a simple obnoxious.
我问他在看喜剧时是否总是哭，他指责我极其麻木不仁，我试图将这一指控归结为一个简单的令人讨厌的指控。
Looking back, I should've known better than to accompany Hugh to a love story.
回想起来，我早该知道不应该陪休去看爱情故事。
Such movies are always a danger as, unlike battling aliens or going undercover to track a serial killer, falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced at some point in their lives.
此类电影总是存在危险，因为与与外星人战斗或卧底追踪连环杀手不同，坠入爱河是大多数成年人在生命中的某个时刻实际经历过的事情。
The theme is universal and encourages the viewer to make a number of unhealthy comparisons, leading to the question, "Why can't our lives be like that?" It's a box best left unopened.
这个主题具有普遍性，鼓励观众进行一些不健康的比较，从而引发这样的问题：“为什么我们的生活不能像那样？”这是一个最好不要打开的盒子。
And its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial arts extravaganzas.
对它的回避解释了吸血鬼史诗和武术盛宴的持续流行。
The End of the Affair made me look like an absolute toad.
事情的结束让我看起来像一只十足的蟾蜍。
The movie's voracious couple was played by Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore, who did everything but eat one another.
电影中这对贪婪的情侣由拉尔夫·费因斯和朱丽安·摩尔扮演，他们什么都做，就是不吃对方。
Their love was doomed and clandestine, and even when the bombs were falling, they looked radiant.
他们的爱情注定是秘密的，即使炸弹落下，他们也显得容光焕发。
Something about Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes put me on the defensive.
朱丽安·摩尔和拉尔夫·费因斯的某些事情让我处于守势。
I'm not as unfeeling as Hugh accuses me of being, but things change once you've been together for 10 years.
我并不像休指责的那样冷酷无情，但一旦你们在一起十年，事情就会发生变化。
They rarely make movies about long-term couples and for good reason.
他们很少拍关于长期情侣的电影，这是有充分理由的。
Our lives are boring.
我们的生活很无聊。
The courtship had its moments, but now we've become the predictable part two no one in his right mind would ever pay to see.
求爱也有它的时刻，但现在我们已经成为可预见的第二部分，任何一个头脑正常的人都不会花钱去看。
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in actual physical combat.
我和休在一起这么久了，为了激发非凡的激情，我们需要进行实战。
Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wine glass, and I fell to the floor, pretending to be unconscious.
有一次，他用破碎的酒杯打我的后脑勺，我就倒在地上，装昏迷不醒。
That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side, rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.
那太浪漫了，或者如果他冲到我身边，而不是跨过我的身体去拿簸箕的话，那就太浪漫了。
Call me unimaginative, but I still can't think of anyone else I'd rather be with.
你可以说我缺乏想象力，但我仍然想不出我愿意和谁在一起。
On our worst days, I figure things will work themselves out.
在我们最糟糕的日子里，我认为事情会自行解决。
Otherwise, I really don't give it much thought.
不然我真的不会多想。
Neither of us would ever publicly display affection.
我们俩都不会公开表达爱意。
We're just not that type.
我们只是不是那种类型。
We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets, and we'd never consciously sit down to discuss our relationship.
如果不通过木偶交谈，我们就无法表达爱，而且我们永远不会有意识地坐下来讨论我们的关系。
These, to me, are good things.
这些对我来说都是好事。
They were fine with Hugh as well until he saw that damn movie and was reminded that he has other options.
他们对休也很好，直到他看到那部该死的电影并提醒他还有其他选择。
The picture ended at around 10:00.
图片于10:00左右结束。
And afterwards, we went for coffees at a little place across the street from the Luxembourg Gardens.
之后，我们去了卢森堡花园街对面的一个小地方喝咖啡。
I was ready to wipe the movie out of my mind, but Hugh was still under its spell.
我准备把这部电影从我的脑海中抹去，但休仍然被它迷住了。
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by, but paused along the way to spit in his face.
他看起来好像他的生命不仅从他身边流逝，而且还停下来向他脸上吐口水。
Our coffees arrived, and as he blew his nose into a napkin, I encouraged him to look on the bright side.
我们的咖啡端上来了，当他餐巾纸擤鼻涕时，我鼓励他往好的方面看。
"Listen," I said, "We maybe don't live in wartime London, but in terms of the occasional bomb scare, Paris is a pretty close second.
“听着，”我说，“我们也许不住在战时的伦敦，但就偶尔发生的炸弹恐慌而言，巴黎紧随其后。
We both love taxidermy.
我们都喜欢动物标本剥制术。
We take vacations to fun places like Croatia.
我们去克罗地亚等有趣的地方度假。
What more could you possibly want?"
你还能想要什么呢？”
What more could he want?
他还想要什么？
It was an incredibly stupid question.
这是一个极其愚蠢的问题。
And when he failed to answer, I was reminded of just how lucky I truly am.
当他没有回答时，我想起自己是多么幸运。
Movie characters might chase one another through the fog, or race down the stairs of burning buildings, but that's just for beginners.
电影角色可能会在雾中互相追逐，或者从燃烧的建筑物的楼梯上跑下来，但这仅适合初学者。
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt somebody's feelings.
真正的爱就是隐瞒真相，即使你有绝佳的机会伤害别人的感情。
I wanted to say something to this effect, but my hand puppets were back home in their drawer.
我想说点什么，但我的布偶却回到了家里的抽屉里。
Instead, I pulled my chair a few inches closer, and we sat silently at our little table on the square, looking for all the world like two people in love.
相反，我把椅子拉近了几英寸，我们静静地坐在广场上的小桌子旁，像两个相爱的人一样寻找着这个世界。
David Sedaris is the author most recently of Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim .
David Sedaris 最近出版了《用灯芯绒和牛仔布装扮你的家人》一书。
He also edited the collection Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules , an anthology of outstanding stories.
他还编辑了《赫拉克勒斯雕像前玩耍的孩子们》，这是一部优秀故事选集。
Our program was produced today by Wendy Dorr and myself with Alex Blumberg, Jonathan Goldstein, and Starlee Kine.
今天我们的节目由温迪·多尔和我与亚历克斯·布隆伯格、乔纳森·戈德斯坦和斯塔莉·凯恩共同制作。
Senior producer Julie Snyder.
高级制片人朱莉·斯奈德。
Production help from Todd Bachmann, Seth Lind, Sam Hallgren, Chris Neary, and Thea Chaloner.
托德·巴赫曼 (Todd Bachmann)、塞斯·林德 (Seth Lind)、山姆·霍尔格伦 (Sam Hallgren)、克里斯·尼尔里 (Chris Neary) 和西娅·查洛纳 (Thea Chaloner) 为制作提供了帮助。
Our web site, www.thisamericanlife.org, where you can listen to our programs for absolutely free, or buy CDs of them.
我们的网站 www.thisamericanlife.org，您可以在其中完全免费收听我们的节目，或购买这些节目的 CD。
Or you know you can download audio of our program and our archives at audible.com/thisamericanlife.
或者您知道您可以在 audible.com/thisamericanlife 下载我们节目的音频和我们的档案。
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 for our program by Mr. Torey Malatia, who never suspected, never, not for a second.
[资金来源] WBEZ 管理部门由 Torey Malatia 先生对我们的项目进行监督，他从来没有怀疑过，从来没有怀疑过。
Oh my God, wow.
天哪，哇。
Really?
真的吗？
You're a Jew?
你是犹太人？
Wow, that's so exciting.
哇，太令人兴奋了。
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。