loading没有多久，一场特大干旱爆发了。涓涓的知识小溪流千枯了，牲畜都干渴而死，田地里的粮食都枯萎了，无知的山谷里到处都是饥渴的呻吟。
The old men who knew, however, were not disheartened.Everything would all come right in the end，they prophesied，for so it was wrote in their most holy chapters.
不过，那些顽固的老人并没有灰心。他们预言说，所有的一切都会转危为安，至少那些先知先觉的圣书上是这样写的。
Besides, they themselves needed but little food. They were so very old.
而且，他们自己已经很老了，吃不了多少粮食了。
Winter came.
冬天来临了。
The village was deserted.
村庄里荒无人烟。
More than half of the populace died from sheer want.
饥寒交迫夺去了大多数人的生命。
The only hope for those who survived lay beyond the mountains.
活着的人把生存的唯一希望寄托在山的那一边。
But the law said \
但是法律却说:“不可以!”
And the law must be obeyed.
法律是必须要遵守的。
One night there was a rebellion.
一天夜晚，叛乱爆发了。
Despair gave courage to those whom fear had forced into silence.
绝望斌予那些由于恐惧而逆来顺受的人们以勇气。
Feebly the old men protested.
迂腐的老人们无力地抗争着。
They were pushed aside. They complained of their lot. They bewailed the ingratitude of their children，but when the last wagon pulled out of the village, they stopped the driver and forced him to take them along.
他们被推到一边，还在抱怨自己不幸的命运，诅咒儿孙的忘恩负义。但是当最后一辆马车驶离村落时，他们拦住了它，迫使车夫把他们带走。
The flight into the unknown had begun.
就这样，投奔前途未卜的新世界的旅程开始了。
It was many years since the wanderer had returned. It was no easy task to discover the road he had mapped out.
从那个出游者回来到现在已经过了很多年了，所以要找到他开辟的道路，绝不是容易的事情。
Thousands fell a victim to hunger and thirst before the first cairn was found.
成千上万的人在路途上饥渴而亡，人们终于找到了第一座用石子垒起的路标。
From there on the trip was less difficult.
从那以后，旅途中的磨难少了一些。
The careful pioneer had blazed a clear trail through the woods and amidst the endless wilderness of rock.
那个细心的开拓者已经用火在一望无际的险山乱林中烧出了一条宽阔大道。
By easy stages it led to the green pastures of the new land.
沿着这条大道，人们一步步地走到了一个有着绿色牧场的新世界。
Silently the people looked at each other.
人们相对无言。
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“他到底还是对的，”人们说，“正确的是他，错误的是那些冥顽不化的老人……”
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“他的话是真实的，那些迂腐的老人在撤谎……”
\，but. the old men sit in our carts and chant their ancient lays...”
“他的尸首腐烂在山崖下，可是那些顽固的老人却坐在我们的车里，还唱着那陈旧不堪的歌谣。”
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“他救了我们，我们却杀害了他。”
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“我们确实对这件事情非常内疚，不过，当时我们如果知道的话，当然就……”