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2023-10-01 08:31:44 作者: 一笑YeShell
夜晚,路燈下的貝拉庫拉港、裝卸碼頭上。
裝卸場在一個台階下面。在項目經理格登和工頭鮑勃的指揮下,工人們將一個個箱子從卡車上搬下,運送到碼頭前堆放,準備裝船。
碼頭旁邊的停車場,幾輛小車開來,戴安、菲爾、辛笛兒、雪麗等人下車,跑下台階,進入裝卸場。
格登和鮑勃看見他們,上前來阻攔。
格登:Hey, hey, hey! Just stay out of the working area! (喂喂喂,你們不許到工作地段來!)
眾人沒有理會格登和鮑勃,走進碼頭工作地段,攔在中間。工人們工作不便,只好停止搬運。
格登拿出手機撥打:Please send a group of security guards here. Some unidentified people are blocking our work. (請派一個保安小組過來。一些不明身份的人阻礙了我們的工作。)
幾名保安跑步過來。
保安甲:Please leave at once. This is private property and you’re not allowed to trespass. (請馬上離開。這是私人財產,你們不得進入。)
戴安:Sir, do you know what they are doing They’re going to log the Great Bear Rainforest. They are destroying our precious natural legacy! Just think about it. (先生,你知道他們要去幹什麼嗎?他們要去砍伐大熊雨林。他們在破壞我們寶貴的自然遺產!好好想想吧。)
保安甲:You may be right, Miss. But that’s not my business. Please go and talk this to the Government. Let me tell you what, Miss. My job is to assure work in the harbour not disrupted by any irrelevant people. (你可能是對的,小姐。但這不關我的事。請去向政府談這件事。告訴你,小姐,我的工作是保證港口的秩序不受任何無關人員干擾。)
保安貼近眾人,逼迫眾人離開。
戴安:We leave! (我們走!)
眾人步步後退,保安步步進逼。眾人退上台階。在台階頂上,亞當斯停住不動。保安貼近他。
亞當斯高聲:We stop! This is the public place. (我們停下。這是公共的地方。)
眾人停步。保安貼近他們站住,不再進逼,也不離去。
工人們繼續搬運箱子。
雪麗扭頭張望。她旁邊是一個花圃台子。她轉身跳上台子。保安追過來,伸手要抓她。
雪麗指著保安:Don’t touch me! Otherwise I’m gonna sue you. (別碰我!否則我要告你!)
保安收手,站在台子下,守著雪麗。
雪麗高聲:My dear friends, just think about a big family. Mom was breeding, feeding and protecting the brothers and sisters. At the beginning, the siblings were getting along well and the big family was living in harmony and happiness…(親愛的朋友們,請想像一個大家庭。母親養育和保護著家裡的兄弟姐妹們。開始的時候,兄弟姐妹們相親相愛,大家庭生活和睦、幸福美滿……)
隨著雪麗的演講,人們仿佛看到了美麗而安詳的原始森林……
工人們停下搬運,站在原地聽雪麗演講。
雪麗高聲:But one day, the biggest brother thought that he deserved better food and a more comfortable house. He started to take food from his younger brothers and sisters. And then he destroyed the houses of his siblings and took the construction materials to build himself a larger and better house. Some of the brothers and sisters died and some fled…(但有一天,大哥認為他應該吃得更好,要住一棟更舒適的房屋。他開始搶弟弟妹妹的飯吃,接著拆毀他們的房屋,用那些建築材料將自己的房子修得更大更好。結果使得兄弟姐妹逃的逃、死的死……)
人們的頭腦中出現:森林採伐,鳥獸受驚消散,非洲荒漠化的淒涼景象。
西岸雨林保護會的成員和辛笛兒朝雪麗圍攏過來,保安和工人們也都圍攏過來。人人聚精會神地聽雪麗演講。戴安和菲爾頻頻點頭。格登在後面氣得直跺腳。
鮑勃問格登:What’re we gonna do (我們怎麼辦?)
雪麗高聲:The biggest brother was happy and thought he could live his happy life forever by himself and without his brothers and sister. But Mom became angry and deprived him of everything. He ended up living in starvation and poverty, living on bad food and in poor shelters…(大哥非常高興,以為沒了兄弟姐妹,他一個人可以永遠過上這樣的幸福生活。可是,母親生氣了,剝奪了他的一切。結果他只能生活在飢餓和貧困當中,吃著劣質食物、住著破草房……)
人們的頭腦中出現:乾旱、洪水、泥石流、地震等地質災害、受災的人們。
戴安對菲爾小聲:Now I know what you meant by saying you have 「a good persuader.」(現在我明白,你說你們有一個「演說家」是什麼意思了。)
雪麗高聲:Mom is our Earth, and the brothers and sisters are the white Spirit Bears and other species living in the Great Bear Rainforest, which gives them food and houses. Now, I am asking you: Who is the biggest brother �C the bad guy (母親就是我們的地球,而兄弟姐妹就是生活在大熊雨林里的雪熊和其他生物,雨林給它們提供了食物和住所。現在,我問你們,誰是那個大哥――那個壞蛋?)
工人們低頭思索。保安們也低下了頭。
菲爾跳上花圃台子,站在雪麗的身邊。
菲爾:We human beings are the bad guy! And what you are doing now is to rob food from your brothers and sisters, and destructing the houses of your brothers and sisters! (我們人類就是這個壞蛋!而你們現在要做的,就是去搶我們兄弟姐妹的糧食,去拆毀我們兄弟姐妹的房屋!)