《宋氏快译》英汉对照（62）：圣雄甘地的骨灰将撒入大海

《宋氏快译》英汉对照（62）：圣雄甘地的骨灰将撒入大海



Gandhi's Ashes to Be Scattered at Sea


Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:57 AM ESTworld-

Ramola Talwar Badam, AP Writer


圣雄甘地的骨灰将撒入大海



MUMBAI — Sixty years after he was assassinated, some of peace icon Mohandas K. Gandhi's ashes will be scattered in the Arabian Sea at the family's request and not publicly displayed, a museum trustee said Tuesday.

孟买 – 一位博物馆受托人周二表示，甘地被暗杀六十年之后，在其家属的要求之下，和平偶像圣雄莫汉k .甘地的一些骨灰将会被撒在阿拉伯海，而不是被公开展示。

A small steel urn of Gandhi's ashes — one of dozens dispersed across the country after his death — was sent to a Gandhi museum in Mumbai last year by an Indian businessman whose father, a close friend of Gandhi's, had preserved the ashes.

甘地的一小钢罐骨灰 – 这是在他死后分散在全国各地数十个之一 – 是去年由一名印度商人送往甘地博物馆的，此人的父亲是甘地的一位密友，他一直保存着这些骨灰。

Trustees had planned to display the nonviolence leader's ashes in a memorial in downtown Mumbai, but Gandhi's descendants requested the ashes be scattered at sea off Mumbai's coast on Jan. 30, the anniversary of his death, said Dhirubhai Mehta, vice president of the Mahatma Gandhi Museum.

圣雄甘地博物馆副馆长德鲁巴哈-梅达表示，受托人一直计划在孟买市中心的一次仪式上展示这位非暴力领导人的骨灰，但甘地的后裔要求在1月30日，即他辞世的纪念日，将骨灰撒在孟买沿岸的海面上。

Hindus cremate their dead and generally scatter the ashes in rivers or the sea after 13 days.

印度教徒对死者实施火葬，一般都要在13天之后将骨灰撒在河里或海里。


"We had thought of displaying the ashes, but naturally we will respect the family's wishes," said Mehta. "This is the right thing to do."

“我们曾想展示骨灰，但我们当然要尊重家属的意愿，”梅达说。 “这样做是正确的。”

Gandhi was shot to death by a Hindu hard-liner in 1948 while walking to a prayer meeting in New Delhi. His ashes were sent to towns and villages across India for countless memorial services.

甘地于1948年被一名强硬派印度教徒开枪打死，当时他正步行去参加新德里的一场祷告会。他的骨灰被分送给印度各地城镇和村庄，供无数追思活动之用。

"No one knows for sure how many such urns there are elsewhere," Mehta said. "
"The ashes were sent to Gandhi's followers wherever they requested it."

“没有人确切地知道其它地方究竟还有多少这样的钢罐，”梅达说。“甘地的追随者要求送到哪里，骨灰就送到哪里 。”

Mehta, who was 11 when Gandhi was killed, remembers taking part in a small ceremony in Songad village in Gujarat, Gandhi's home state.

圣雄甘地遇刺身亡时梅达年仅11岁，他记得曾在甘地家乡所在的古吉拉特邦松加德村参加过一个小型仪式。

"Our village was sent an urn because a river ran through it," he said.

他说：“有一罐骨灰就送到我们村，因为有一条河从那里流过。”

Gandhi's relatives and some of his followers have been invited to a small ceremony in Mumbai on Jan. 30 to scatter the ashes, Mehta said.

梅达表示，甘地的亲属及其一些追随者已受邀参加1月30日在孟买举行的一个小型撒骨灰仪式。

In 1997, Gandhi's great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, immersed some of Gandhi's ashes at the holy spot where the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers meet. Those ashes had been found in a bank vault in northern India.

1997年，圣雄甘地的重孙图沙-甘地曾经把甘地的一些骨灰撒在恒河与亚穆纳河交汇处的圣地。这些骨灰是在印度北部的一家银行金库内发现的。