绘本大师李欧·李奥尼的经典之作《小黑鱼》
Swimmy
小黑鱼
—— Leo Lionni
李欧·李奥尼
A happy school of little fish lived in a corner of the sea somewhere. They were all red. Only one of them was as black as a mussel shell. He swam faster than his brothers and sisters. His name was Swimmy.在大海的一个角落里,住着一群快乐的小鱼。他们都是红色的,只有一条是黑色的,黑得就像淡菜壳。他比他的兄弟姐妹们游得都要快,他叫小黑鱼。
One bad day a tuna fish, swift, fierce and very hungry, came darting through the waves. In one gulp he swallowed all the little red fish. Only Swimmy escaped.一个可怕的日子,从海浪里突然冲出一条又快、又凶、又饿的金枪鱼。他一口就把所有的小红鱼吞到肚子里,只有小黑鱼逃走了。
He swam away in the deep wet world. He was scared, lonely and very sad.他逃到了大海深处,既害怕,又孤独,伤心极了。
But the sea was full of wonderful creatures, and as he swam from marvel to marvel Swimmy was happy again.大海里到处都是各种各样其妙的生命。小黑鱼游啊游,碰见一个又一个奇迹。于是,他又高兴起来了。
He saw a medusa made of rainbow jelly...
他看到,水母像彩虹果冻……
A lobster, who walked about like awater-moving machine...
大龙虾走起路来像水下行走的机器……
strange fish, pulled by an invisible thread...
怪鱼就像被一根看不见的线牵着……
a forest of seaweeds growing from sugar-candy rocks...
森林似的海草长在糖果般的礁石上……
an eel whose tail was almost too far away to remember...
海鳗的尾巴有多长连他自己都搞不清……
and sea anemones, who looked like pink palm trees swaying in the wind.
海葵像粉红色的棕榈树,在风中起舞。
Then, hidden in the dark shade of rocks and weeds, he saw a school of little fish, just like his own.
后来,他看到了一群和自己一样的小鱼,躲在礁石和海草的影子里。
“Let’s go and swim and play and SEE things!” he said happily.
"来游吧,一起玩,到处看看!”他快乐地说。
“We can’t,” said the little red fish. “The big fish will eat us all.”
"不行,”小红鱼说,“大鱼会把我们通通吃掉的!”
“But you can’t just lie there,” said Swimmy. “We must THINK of something.”
“可是,你们不能老躲在那儿吧?”小黑鱼说,“我们一定要想想办法。”
Swimmy thought and thought and thought.
小黑鱼想啊,想啊,想啊。
Then suddenly he said, “I have it!”
突然,他说:“有了!”
“We are going to swim all together like the biggest fish in the sea!”"我们可以游在一起,变成海里最大的鱼!”
He taught them to swim close together, each in his own place,他教他们各就各位,紧紧地游在一起。
and when they had learned to swim like one giant fish, he said, “I’ll be the eye.”等到他们可以游得像一条大鱼了,小黑鱼说:“我来当眼睛。”
And so they swam in the cool morning waterand in the midday sun and chased the big fish away.
他们在清凉的早上游,在阳光灿烂的中午游,把大鱼都吓跑了。