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Yu Hua: The Earth ~余华《土地》 with English Translations
Yu Hua's prose "Land" portrays the author's deep emotions towards the land and the rich imagery it carries through its affectionate depiction. 土地The Earth 余华Yu Hua 我觉得土地是一个充实的令人感激的形象,比如是一个祖父,是我们的老爷子。这个历尽沧桑的老人懂得真正的沉默,任何惊喜和忧伤都不会打动他。他知道一切,可是他什么都不说,只是看着,看着日出和日落,看着四季的转换,看着我们的出生和死去。我们之间的相爱和勾心斗角,对他来说都是一回事。 The word “farmland” is imbued with an apparent generosity; to me it means the earth. The earth has a fulfilled and touching image, like a grandfather, the old man of the family. This old man has seen much of life and he understands the real meaning of silence; no pleasant surprise or sadness could touch him. He knows all there is to know, but he says nothing. He only watches us as we are born and as we die. Our love lives and our fights are all the same to him. 大约是在四五岁的时候,我离开了杭州,跟随父母来到一个名叫海盐的小县城。我们在一条弄堂的底端一住就是十多年,县城弄堂的末尾实际上就是农村了。我的童年和少年时期,在那块有着很多池塘、春天开放着油菜花、夏天里满是蛙声的土地上,于了很多神秘的已经让我想不起来的坏事,偶尔也做过一些好事。 It might have been when I was five or six years old that I left Hangzhou and followed my parents to a small provincial town called Haiyan. I lived for more than ten years at the end of a lane; this provincial town’s lane’s end was actually farmland. My childhood and teenage years were spent making mischief there, where there were many ponds, oilseed rape flowers bloomed in the spring, and frogs croaked in the summer. Of course I have done…
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