欧美文化博览 文化博览:犹太人的故事(1)

This is a Jew.

这是个犹太人。

And so is this.

这位也是。

This is a Jew, and this, and this. And so am I.

这是犹太人,还有这位，这位。我也是。

So, what, if anything we have in common?

那么,我们有什么共同之处?

Not the color of our skin，not the languages we speak, the tunes¹ we sing, the food we eat.

不是我们皮肤的颜色,不是我们所讲的语言,我们歌唱的曲调,我们吃的食物。

Not our opinions where we fiercely argued a lot, not even the way we pray,assuming we do.

不是我们强烈认为很多的意见,,甚至不是我们祷告的方式,我们所做的假设。

What ties us together is a story, a story catching² our heads and hearts, a story of suffering and resilience, endurance and creativity.

将我们联系在一起的是一个故事,一个使我们使我们身心为之动容的故事,一个充满痛苦和恢复力,耐力和创造力的故事。

It's the story that make me want tobe in the story in the first place,

这是故事中的故事,让我想首先辗转反侧,

for I understood but I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews,that we had endured over 3,000 years in spite of everything that has been thrown at us,

因为我明白了,但是我仍然非常渺小，因为两个犹太人的特殊事情,我们已经经历了3000多年,尽管诸事已经抛给我们的,

and that we had extraordinary dramatic stories to tell and somehow that these two things were connected that we told our story to survive.

我们有着戏剧性的故事,在某种程度上,这两个事物联系在了一起我们告诉我们的故事才能生存。

We are our story.

我们就是我们自己的故事。

1 tunes   

n.曲调，曲子( tune的名词复数 )v.调音( tune的第三人称单数 )；调整；（给收音机、电视等）调谐；使协调

参考例句：

• a potpourri of tunes 乐曲集锦
• When things get a bit too much, she simply tunes out temporarily. 碰到事情太棘手时，她干脆暂时撒手不管。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 catching   

adj.易传染的，有魅力的，迷人的，接住

参考例句：

• There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
• Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。