血液流盡She smiled to me and said, ―He‘s gone a lot. It‘s not safe around here for him, you know. His parole officer really watches him all the time and so sometimes it is just better for him not to come here. Besides, we haven‘t been together for a while. I hear he‘s in town somewhere.‖
―你是指他在钱柏林？‖
―Do you mean in Chamberlain?‖
―对。我和他姐姐住在这儿，她说前一段时间她在那儿见过他。不过喜鹊不会去加利福尼亚的。即使你见到他并和他谈此事，他现在也决不会离开这儿。‖
―Yes, I live here with his sister and she said that she saw him there, quite a while ago. But Magpie would not go to California. He would never leave here now even if you saw him and talked to him about it.‖
―可他以前去过，‖我说，―他去过西雅图大学。‖
―But he did before,‖ I said, ―He went to the University of Seattle.‖
―是的，但……但是，那是以前，‖她说，似乎不想再谈这个话题。
―Yeah, but…well, that was before,‖ she said, as though to finish the matter.
―你难道不希望他去吗？‖我问道。
―Don‘t you want him to go?‖ I asked.
―哦，这不是我说了算的。我们现在已经分开了。我只是告诉你，你一定会失望的。像你这样的人希望他需要那些，可他已经不再需要了。‖她很快答道，语气非常肯定。
Quickly, she responded, ―Oh, it‘s not up to me to say. He is gone from me now. I‘m just telling you that you are in for a disappointment. He no longer needs the things that people like you want him to need,‖ she said positively.
当她意识到我不喜欢她用―像你这样的人‖的字眼时，她停了一下，然后把手放在我的胳膊上，―听着，‖她说，―喜鹊现在终于快乐了。他情绪很好，英俊倜傥，自由自在而又意志坚强。他和兄弟们一起坐在皮鼓前唱歌，他现在一切都很好。以前，每当发表那些反政府和反对美国印第安人事务委员会的言论时，他总会越发气愤，充满怨恨。我曾为他担忧，但现在我不再担心了。你为什么不让他独自呆着呢？‖
When she saw that I didn‘t like her reference to ―people like you‖, she stopped for a moment and then put her hand on my arm. ―Listen,‖ she said, ―Magpie is happy now, finally. He is in good spirits, handsome and free and strong. He sits at the drum and sings with his brothers: he‘s okay now. When he was saying all those things against the government and against the council, he became more and more ugly and embittered and I used to be afraid for him. But I‘m not now. 我和赛利娜坐在一家咖啡馆里。
I was sitting at the café with Salina.
她突然说道：―我不知道喜鹊在哪儿，我已经4天没见到他了。‖
Abruptly she said, ―I don‘t know where Mapie is. I haven‘t seen him in four days.‖
―我把他的诗也带来了。‖我说，―他有机会进入加利福尼亚的艺术学院，但是我必须和他谈一谈，还要让他填一下这些表格。我相信他一定会感兴趣的。‖
―I‘ve got his poems here with me,‖ I said. ―He has a good change of going to a Fine Arts school in California, but I have to talk with him and get him to fill out some papers. I know that he is interested.‖
―不，他不会的，‖她打断了我，―他根本就不再做这些没用的、愚蠢的梦了。‖
―No, he isn‘t,‖ she broke in. ―He doesn‘t have those worthless, shitty dreams anymore.‖ ―别这样说，赛利娜，这对他真的是个好机会。‖
―Don‘t say that, Salina. This is a good chance for him.‖
