002 泰坦尼克号：梦之船

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One chilly evening in Belfast, Ireland, in 1907, my family huddled around the dinner table

1907年，爱尔兰贝尔法斯特，一个寒冷的傍晚，我们一家人挤在餐桌旁。

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It was late, and there was barely enough coal to keep the fire going

天色已晚，煤只勉强够让炉火不灭。

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My name is Rashida and my sister's name is Jamila

我叫拉希达，妹妹叫贾米拉。

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We sat shivering and hungry. Our parents had just finished work — Papa as a shipbuilder and Mama as a cook

我们哆哆嗦嗦、饥肠辘辘地坐着。父母刚下工——爸爸是造船工人，妈妈是厨娘。

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Mama dished out steaming lamb and vegetables

妈妈端上了热气腾腾的羊肉和蔬菜。

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Papa, usually very talkative at dinner, was unusually quiet

平日里在饭桌上总是滔滔不绝的爸爸，今天却异乎寻常地沉默。

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When we finished, he spoke." Last year we left our homeland of Lebanon and immigrated to Ireland

吃完饭后，他开了口。“去年我们离开故土黎巴嫩，移民到了爱尔兰。

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We work hard here, yet we can't save money!

我们在这里拼命干活，可就是攒不下钱！

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Some Irish people treat us like dirt!

有些爱尔兰人根本看不起我们！

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I have heard about America, a land full of immigrants

我听说美国是个遍地移民的地方。

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Anybody who works hard there can buy land and have a decent life!"

在那儿只要肯干，就能买到地，过上好日子！

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Mama frowned

妈妈皱起了眉头。

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" Let's leave Ireland and take a boat to America!" Papa continued excitedly

“咱们离开爱尔兰，乘船去美国吧！”爸爸兴奋地接着说。

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" We can't afford the tickets!" Mama exclaimed

“我们买不起船票啊！”妈妈大声说。

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" We must be patient and save," Papa said confidently, his eyes shining

“我们必须耐心攒钱，”爸爸自信地说，眼睛闪着光。

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" It may take years, but eventually our dreams will come true!"

“也许要好几年，但总有一天梦想会实现！”

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My mother smiled, and I knew everything would be all right

妈妈笑了，我知道一切都会好起来的。

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A new home didn't sound so bad!

新家听起来还真不赖！

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On that same chilly evening in 1907 in Belfast, another plan was being hatched over dinner

就在1907年同一个寒冷的傍晚，贝尔法斯特的一场晚餐上，另一个计划正在悄悄酝酿。

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The two men at this dinner were from a shipping company and a shipbuilding company

餐桌上这两位男士，一位来自航运公司，一位来自造船公司。

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The topic of conversation was ocean liners, specifically, a plan to build three ships that would be bigger and faster than any other ship

他们谈论的话题是远洋客轮，具体来说，是一个建造三艘比任何船都更大更快的邮轮的计划。

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They would be called the Olympic, the Gigantic, and the Titanic

它们将分别被命名为奥林匹克号、巨人号和泰坦尼克号。

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Three years later, the men's dream came true; the order to construct these three great ships was read out to the workers in the Belfast shipyards

三年后，这些人的梦想成真了；在贝尔法斯特造船厂，向工人们宣读了建造这三艘巨轮的命令。

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As my father and the other men listened to the specifications for the Titanic, they gasped

当我的父亲和其他人听到泰坦尼克号的规格时，都倒吸了一口凉气。

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They had never built a ship of this size and power!

他们从未建造过如此庞大和强劲的船！

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It would be almost 3 football fields in length and 12 stories high

它将有差不多三个足球场那么长，十二层楼那么高。

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The Titanic was advertised as " practically unsinkable," because the ship would have special watertight sections

泰坦尼克号被宣传为“几乎不会沉没”，因为它将拥有特殊的水密隔舱。

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Papa heard the Titanic's captain, Edward Smith, say that the ship " could be cut in half, and each half would remain afloat almost indefinitely."

爸爸听到泰坦尼克号的船长爱德华·史密斯说，这船“即使被切成两半，每一半也能几乎无限期地漂浮在水面上。”

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People were amazed, and many bought tickets for its maiden voyage, including my own papa

人们惊叹不已，许多人购买了它的首航船票，包括我爸爸。

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A third-class ticket from England to New York was about $35, equivalent to $1,000 today

一张从英格兰到纽约的三等舱船票大约是35美元，相当于现在的1000美元。

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This was far less than a first-class ticket, which was around $2,500, or $60,000 today

这比一等舱票便宜得多，一等舱票价约2500美元，相当于今天的6万美元。

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The Titanic was ready for departure on April 10, 1912, from Southampton, England

1912年4月10日，泰坦尼克号准备从英国南安普顿启航。

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Thousands of people stood on the dock to wave good-bye and witness this historic event

数千人站在码头上挥手告别，见证这一历史性事件。

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Papa, Mama, Jamila, and I waved to the crowd excitedly. We were off to America!

爸爸、妈妈、贾米拉和我兴奋地向人群挥手。我们要去美国了！

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Over the first few days, Jamila and I explored the lower decks

头几天，贾米拉和我探索了下层甲板。

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We met a crewman who told us the Titanic had a swimming pool, Turkish saunas, a gym

我们遇到一名船员，他告诉我们泰坦尼克号上有游泳池、土耳其浴室、健身房，

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and a darkroom — only for the first-class passengers of course

还有一个暗房——当然，只供头等舱乘客使用。

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Jamila and I played with the other children in third class. Their families were immigrants too

贾米拉和我和三等舱的其他孩子一起玩耍。他们的家人也都是移民。

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of immigrants were arriving in New York every day

在19世纪和20世纪早期，每天都有成千上万的移民抵达纽约。

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They mainly came from Ireland, Italy, Germany, and Eastern Europe

他们主要来自爱尔兰、意大利、德国和东欧。

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Some came from the Middle East, like me!

有些人来自中东，就像我一样！

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On the third night on the Titanic, I felt a little bump. I immediately woke up Papa

在泰坦尼克号上的第三晚，我感到轻轻震了一下，立刻叫醒了爸爸。

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He went away and talked to a sailor and found out that the ship had hit an iceberg!

他出去找一位船员交谈，得知船撞上了冰山！

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Papa said," They're going to launch the lifeboats, but they said we'll be back on board for breakfast

爸爸说：“他们要放救生艇了，但说我们早上还能回船上吃早餐。”

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Nothing to worry about!" He told Jamila and me to hold Mama's hand

没什么好担心的！”他叫我和贾米拉抓紧妈妈的手。

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We all left the cabin and went down the corridor to find the stairs

我们都离开了客舱，沿着走廊去找楼梯。

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They were locked! Hundreds of scared and confused third-class passengers were clinging to the locked gates

楼梯门锁上了！成百上千名惊恐困惑的三等舱乘客扒着锁住的门不放。

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How could we get to the lifeboats?

我们怎么才能到救生艇那儿去呢？

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Papa quickly led us one way, and then another way, and eventually we found some stairs

爸爸飞快地领着我们走一条路，又换另一条路，最后总算找到了一处楼梯。

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" What about everyone else?" I asked Papa as we hurried along. He didn't answer

“其他人怎么办？”我们匆忙赶路时，我问爸爸。他没有回答。

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At last Mama, Papa, Jamila, and I arrived on the deck!

妈妈、爸爸、贾米拉和我终于来到了甲板上！

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The officers called out for women and children to get into the lifeboats

船员们大声喊着让妇女和儿童上救生艇。

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Papa kissed us and told us he would see us soon

爸爸亲吻了我们，说他很快就会和我们再见。

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We tried to get into a lifeboat, but they stopped us because we were third-class passengers and not first class

我们试图登上救生艇，但他们拦住了我们，因为我们是三等舱乘客，不是一等舱的。

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" First class has priority, ma'am," an officer told my mother, who was very upset

“女士，一等舱优先。”一名船员告诉母亲，她非常难过。

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After several lifeboats had been launched, many of them only half-full, Mama, Jamila, and I were allowed in

好几艘救生艇被放下后——其中许多都只装了一半人——妈妈、贾米拉和我才被允许上去。

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I looked desperately around for Papa. He was helping people into a lifeboat

我拼命地四处寻找爸爸。他正在帮别人上救生艇。

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Some people refused to get in because they believed the Titanic could never sink

有些人拒绝上船，因为他们相信泰坦尼克号永远不会沉没。

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As our lifeboat was lowered onto the water, we could hear the ship's band playing as the huge ship creaked and moaned

当我们的救生艇被放到水面时，我们听见船上的乐队在演奏，而巨大的船身正在吱嘎作响、发出呻吟。

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As our boat rowed away from the sinking ship, Mama and I could hear the panic on board

当我们的船划离正在下沉的巨轮时，我和妈妈能听到船上的恐慌。

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People were rushing about on the deck, looking for lifeboats and screaming

人们在甲板上跑来跑去，寻找着救生艇，尖叫着。

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Mama put her hands over my ears and Jamila's. It was horrible

妈妈用手捂住我和贾米拉的耳朵。那真是太可怕了。

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I saw the huge ship tip so that one end stood straight up in the water, and then it disappeared into the deep, dark ocean

我看见那艘巨轮船身倾斜，一头直直地立在水里，然后就消失在了深邃、黑暗的海洋中。

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The ship was gone, the screams were gone, and Papa was gone

船消失了，尖叫声消失了，爸爸也不见了。

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I tried not to think as we waited in the lifeboat

在救生艇上等待时，我努力什么都不去想。

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At dawn a ship called the Carpathia picked us up

黎明时分，一艘叫卡帕西亚号的船救起了我们。

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As we stood on the deck, wrapped in blankets, I waited for Papa's arrival in a lifeboat

当我们裹着毯子站在甲板上时，我等待着爸爸乘着某艘救生艇到来。

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But Mama said," You won't see Papa anymore, Rashida," and turned back to look at the sea

但是妈妈说：“你再也见不到爸爸了，拉什达。”然后转身望向大海。

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Of all the 2,201 people on board the Titanic, only 711 survived. Why did this " unsinkable " ship sink?

泰坦尼克号上2201人中，只有711人生还。这艘“永不沉没”的船为什么会沉？

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Perhaps the ship was going too fast, iceberg warnings were ignored, or the ship's design was defective

也许是船开得太快，也许是冰山的警告被忽视了，又或者是船的设计有缺陷。

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The ship's owners had dreams of its success

船主们曾梦想着它大获成功。

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Its passengers had dreams of a new life in America

乘客们曾梦想着在美国开始新生活。

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But that night all of their dreams sank with the great ship, the Titanic

但在那个夜晚，他们所有的梦想都随着那艘巨轮——泰坦尼克号，一同沉没了。