战争（2007）

The War S01E01

Part 2 May 17, 2021, 11:48 a.m.

奔向战争的一股潮流
in the society so swift,
flowing toward war,
每一个涉入的年轻人都身不由己
that every young man who steps
into it is carried downstream.
《战争》
四个小镇
明尼苏达州卢温 1941年8月
Luverne, Minnesota, August 1941.
“在镇上探访兄弟的阿格特.瑞隆小姐
"Miss Aagot Rylund, who is
in town visiting her brother,
“知道看到大♥片♥城市被德国人的炸♥弹♥
"knows what it is
to see vast sections of a city
“炸成废墟是怎样的感觉
"ripped to ruin by German bombs
“她还记得伦敦燃烧的那些夜晚
"and she remembers the nights
that London burned,
“她怎样能够借助远处
"how she could read a letter
“难以置信的耀眼火光读一封信
"by the unbelievable glare
of the far-off flames.
“她知道在她睡觉的掩体门口
"She knows what it is to have
high explosive bombs blast
“高爆♥炸♥弹炸出巨大弹坑
"their big craters
right outside the doorway
是怎样的感觉。”
of the shelter
in which she was sleeping."
“她让自己最好的朋友送了命”
"She has had
her best friends killed."
“从汤普森门廊望向
"Looking out
at the peaceful countryside
“宁静的乡村她说很难相信
"from the Thompson porch,
she said it was hard to believe
世界上其他的地方正在打仗”
that the rest of the world
was at war."
艾尔.麦金托什《罗克县星报》
Al McIntosh, Rock County Star.
1941年秋天世界上很多地方
Much of the
world was already at war
已经在打仗
in the fall of 1941.
但对于大多数美国人来说
But for most Americans,
终于开始从大萧条中恢复
finally beginning to recover
from the Great Depression,
国外的事情似乎遥不可及
events overseas seemed
impossibly far away.
在明尼苏达州罗克县最大的镇子卢温
In Luverne, Minnesota,
the biggest town in Rock County,
这个国家的西南边陲
in the state's
southwestern corner,
秋天的收获只是一段回忆...
the autumn harvest was
only a memory...
3000镇民开始等待漫长的冬季
and its 3,000 citizens had begun
the long winter wait
直到他们能够再次播种田地
until they could sow
their fields again.
艾尔.麦金托什《罗克县星报》编辑
Al McIntosh, the editor
of the Rock County Star,
住在北奈斯大道517号♥
lived at 517 North Kniss Avenue.
他刚从北达科他州来到这里
He was a newcomer
from North Dakota
拒绝了大城市的工作
who had turned down
big city jobs
经营他自己的小镇报纸
to run his own small-town paper.
他很快会发现自己要向他的新邻居
He would soon find himself
trying to explain
解释难以解释的事情
the unexplainable
to his new neighbors.
6岁的吉姆.谢尔曼和家人
Six-year-old Jim Sherman lived
with his family
住在北埃斯蒂大街503号♥
at 503 North Estey Street.
我觉得这是一个大家走得很近的社区
I think it was a
pretty close-knit community.
有句话说得好
Uh, there was a saying that
要想人不知除非己莫为
if you don't want people
to know about it,
大致就是如此
you don't do it... sort of thing.
吉姆.谢尔曼明尼苏达州卢温
镇上每个人都彼此非常了解
And everybody knew pretty much
everybody else in town.
镇南头4英里
Four miles south of town,
靠近罗克河
near the Rock River,
是亚内森一家的120亩农场
was the 120-acre farm
of the Aanenson family.
他们在那养母牛种大麦、燕麦和玉米
There they raised cows
and grew barley, oats, and corn.
他们的二儿子
Their middle son,
将在法国的天空面对最可怕的困境
who would face the most fearful
odds in the skies over France,
他的名字叫昆丁
was named Quentin.
确实
And literally,
有时候我会在一架农机上耕作玉米
sometimes I would be on a piece
of farm machinery plowing corn
一架孤零零的飞机会飞过上空
and a lonely airplane
would fly over
我抬头仰望我的心灵会飞翔
and I would look up
and my spirit would soar.
昆丁.亚内森明尼苏达州卢温
“那就是有时我想去的地方
"That's where I want to be
sometime.
“我想要那样活着
"I want to live that way.
我想做那些事情”
I want to do those things."
在加利福尼亚州首府萨克拉门托
In Sacramento,
California, the state capital,
来自沙尘暴地区的难民——俄州佬
Okies, refugees
from the Dust Bowl,
还在城镇的边缘扎营
still camped on the edge of town
在附近萨克拉门托山谷的田地
and worked the fields
and orchards and vineyards
果园和葡萄园干活
of the surrounding
Sacramento Valley.
这个城市曾是淘金热时代来加州的第一站
The city had been the gateway
to the California Gold Rush
以及横贯北美大♥陆♥铁路的西部终点
and the western anchor of
the transcontinental railroad.
尽管大约有10.6万人在此安家
Although it was home
to some 106,000 people,
萨克拉门托仍像一个小镇
Sacramento still seemed
like a small town.
汤姆.伯克和厄尔.伯克
Tom and Earl Burke,
将受到召唤为国牺牲一切
who would be asked to sacrifice
everything for their country,
他们与父母住在拉森路3240号♥
lived with their parents
at 3240 Lassen Way,
就在城北面
just north of town.
这是一个棒极了的镇子每个人都彼此认识
It was a tremendous town;
everybody knew each other.
所有族群都很好
All, all ethnic groups were
just perfect.
我是说...你可以在晚上走在街上
I mean it was... you could go
out on the streets at night
厄尔.伯克加州萨克拉门托
晚上十一、二点
at 11:00, 12:00 at night
你可以摸黑步行回家
and, you know, you could
walk home in the dark.
没有人锁门
Nobody locked the doors.
甚至没人想过这回事
Nobody even thought of it.
这是个美好、干净的小镇
It was a nice, clean,
little town.
镇子另一头对我们来说多姿多彩
The lower end of
town was rather colorful to us.
那里有很多窑子
There were lots of whorehouses.
当你走到镇上更好的街区
As you got up towards
the nicer part of town,
伯内特.米勒加州萨克拉门托
走向第十大街嗯
towards Tenth Street, uh,
那些妓院相当气派
the houses of prostitution
were quite fancy.
还是小孩子的时候我们经常跑到那里
And as kids,
we used to run down there
跑过那个地方纯属捣乱
and run through the place,
just raising hell.
18岁的伯内特.米勒和家人住在
18-year-old Burnett
Miller lived with his family
西林肯大道36♥4♥3号♥一个舒适的街区
in a comfortable neighborhood
at 36♥4♥3 West Lincoln Avenue.
他将会发现在战争的最后几天
He would discover,
in the last days of the war,
为什么必须奋勇战斗
why it had to be fought.
大约有7千名日裔美国人也住在
Almost 7,000 Japanese-Americans
also lived in Sacramento
萨克拉门托及其周围的县
and the surrounding county.
医生、律师、教师和店主
Doctors, lawyers, teachers,
and shop owners,
还有一些美国最能干活的农夫
as well as some of the most
productive farmers in America.
佐藤进一家在城东自家
Susumu Satow and his family grew
strawberries, grapes,
20英亩的农场种草莓、葡萄和树莓
and raspberries on their
20-acre farm, east of the city.
我母亲不会说英文
My mother didn't speak English.
我父亲说蹩脚的英文