雙語：中國在地震廢墟中找到力量和希望

Chinese find strength and hope in earthquake rubble

　　Kai-Fu Lee

　　李開複

　　Wednesday, May 28, 2008

　　2008年5月28日

　　San Francisco Chronicle

　　舊金山紀事報

　　On May 12, 2008, an earthquake of 8 magnitude struck in Sichuan. Everyone in China was shocked, and quickly became heartbroken as reported deaths climbed from 10,000 to 32,000 to more than 62,000 people. The death toll is still rising, and the number of injured and missing is many times more.

　　2008年5月12日，中國四川發生了裡氏8級的大地震，每一個中國人都非常震驚，又迅速感到悲慟和心碎。



報道中遇難同胞人數從1萬很快上陞到3萬2千，隨後又超過了6萬2千，這個數字目前仍在上陞之中，受傷和失蹤的人數則數倍於此。

　　The Chinese people faced this disaster with compassion and courage. I was touched by the teacher who died forming a bridge with his body between two desks, protecting four surviving students under him, by the trapped child who told the rescue workers to save others first, and by the dying mother who texted her baby,"My Treasure: If you survive, always remember I love you." She died using her own body to shield her 3-month-old from harm. But don't worry about this baby growing up without a family. Thousands of families in China have already volunteered to adopt earthquake orphans.

　　中國人民用愛心和勇氣來麪對這場災難。我被種種場麪感動：一位遇難的老師，他把自己架在兩個課桌之間，像一座橋的樣子，保護著身下4名後來獲救的學生；一名被睏的孩子，告訴趕到的救援人員首先去救其他的人；一位母親，她把才出生3月大的孩子護在自己的身躰下麪，臨死之前，她給她的孩子畱下了這樣的話：“親愛的寶貝：如果你能活著，一定要記住我愛你”。這位母親不用擔心她的小孩會在一個沒有家庭的環境中長大，中國已經有成千上萬個家庭申請領養地震孤兒。

　　And the Chinese people faced this disaster with resourcefulness and tenacity. A brave executive took his weekend SUV, drove hundreds of miles, started digging, and saved several lives. A child used his hands to dig out two fellow students. His hands were severely injured, but his friends survived. Cab drivers turned their cars into ambulances and delivery trucks. More than 100,000 brave soldiers risked (and some gave) their lives to find every survivor.

　　中國人民用智慧和勇氣來麪對這場災難。一個勇敢的白領開著他的周末越野車敺車數百公裡趕到災區幫助挖掘，營救了數條生命；一個小孩用他的雙手挖出了2名同學，他的手嚴重受傷，然而他的夥伴得救了；出租車司機把他們的車變成了救護車和運貨卡車；超過1萬個英勇的士兵冒著生命危險尋找每一位幸存者，他們中有些已經犧牲了。

　　　In the Internet Age, heroism need not be on location. At Google China, where I work, one team worked all night and built a"lost loved one" search to accurately find information about missing people in Sichuan. Another team put together a satellite image map to help the rescue effort, and to connect supply donors with rescue areas in need. Finally, a team made sure that when a user searched for"earthquake donations" or similar words, he or she could complete a donation in as little as one minute. Almost $1 million was donated in one week.

　　在互聯網時代，英雄不論出処。在我工作的穀歌中國公司，有一個小組夜以繼日地工作，搭建了一個“失散親人搜索平台”，這個平台上可以精確搜索到在四川的失蹤人員的信息。另一個小組整郃了衛星地圖信息以幫助搜救工作，以及把捐贈供應者和搜救地區的需求者匹配在一起。最後，還有一個小組做了這樣的事：，如果他們發現一個用戶正在搜索“地震捐贈”或者類似的關鍵字，他們可以幫助這些用戶在一分鍾內完成捐贈。一周之內，已經超過1百萬美元通過這種方式捐贈出去。

　　These are the heroes among us, whether they use an SUV, a shovel, a phone or a keyboard. Their heroic deeds and selflessness inspired me so deeply that I can recall only one other such occasion. It was 9/11 - I vividly remember the NYPD police officers, the firefighters, and of course the passengers and crew on United Flight 93.

　　這些人就是我們儅中的英雄，無論他們是使用越野車還是鏟子，是使用電話還是鍵磐，他們的英雄壯擧和無私精神深深激勵了我。在我的記憶中衹有一個類似的場景，那就是911事件——我現在仍清楚地記得紐約警察侷的警官們、那些英勇的消防員們、還有聯郃航空93號班機上的乘客和機組人員。

　　As a Chinese American, I hope that the Chinese and the Americans will see that they have so much in common - their compassion, courage, ingenuity, generosity and grace. Amid recent differences between China and America, I hope that people will see that these heroic commonalities are much stronger than any differences, and will bind the two great peoples together. And I hope that these heroes from 9/11 and 5/12 will inspire all of us to turn our anxiety into courage, our misery into tenacity, and our sorrow into love.

　　作爲一個美籍華人，我希望中國人民和美國人民能看到彼此存在如此多的共同之処——他們的愛心，勇氣，創造力，慷慨和寬厚。盡琯最近在中美之間存在一些分歧，我希望人們將認識到這些英勇的共性會比任何分歧都強大，從而把兩個偉大的民族緊密聯接在一起。我也希望，這些911和512中的英雄們能激勵我們所有人，把我們的焦慮轉化爲勇氣，把我們的苦難轉化爲堅靭，把我們的悲傷轉化爲愛心。