伊芙琳--连体婴儿的故事》译文（一）

前些天在网易云音乐里看到一个比较有意思的专辑，讲述的是一对双胞胎却是连体人生存在这个世上的故事。很可惜的是只有英语歌词却没有中文译文。里面的几首歌曲更像是叙事歌曲。

这几天没有什么事情，就突发奇想能不能把其中几首比较感兴趣的歌翻译一下。

本段内容是歌曲《The Magic Events Of September Part One》。

歌曲链接：http://music.163.com/song/17662348/

英语水平有限，有些比较蹩脚或者是意思不明吧的地方，已经将原文打出来了。另外，文章末尾附上原版英文，希望有能力的书友能够耐心的对比并且挑出错误之处。不胜感激，谢谢！

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1985年，《七个毕业生》在电影院里大卖，泰坦尼克号的残骸在大西洋底部被发现。

在堪萨斯州边境的一个小农场里，一位年轻的母亲即将分娩。当地的医生预测是双胞胎，这使女人和她的丈夫欣喜若狂， (Who can certainly use the extra help around the farm. )

但是分娩并不顺利。极度恐惧的丈夫开着车带着他大出血的妻子到当地的诊所，一个设施简陋，经营不善的移动车上。首席医师是查理·冯·库普，一个当地义齿制造商，有着极其古怪的信仰。

手术漫长而痛苦，路易斯·内维尔，一个信仰门诺派的女孩，放弃了法律援助这个有前途的职业，下嫁到农场里陪伴她的初恋且唯一的爱人，(that was his only inheritance. )

希望她的灵魂能够在安详中安息。

九月的第十一天，11时23分，在双胞胎女儿出生12分钟后，路易斯·内维尔，被医生宣布死亡。

女孩儿们是连体婴儿，共同分享三条腿，三个胳膊，两颗心脏，三个肺，却只有一个肝脏。

医生冯·库普毫不犹豫地把婴儿放在手术台上，小声地嘟囔，表示对圣经的怀疑，医生走出车子，回来的时候带回一个汽油锯，当他启动电锯时，震耳欲聋的声音充斥着狭小的房间。

这时，警长威尔伯·欧文斯注意到内维尔的车停在诊所的外面，警长想进去看看是否有需要帮忙的地方。

看到疯狂的医生在婴儿的上方举起电锯，电锯的锯齿即将切入无辜的婴儿。

勇敢的警长掏出他的手枪，枪膛中射出的子弹穿过医生的心脏。

冯·库普医生脚下一个踉跄，发出了啜泣。

塞缪尔·内维尔是一个紧张胆小的人，他这辈子没什么追求，只希望和儿女们在一起，有一个安静的乡村生活。他依然在失去年轻的妻子、以及他女儿惊人的生理结构的震惊之中。飞出医生手中的锯落掉落到他的脖颈上，转动的锯片立刻杀了他。

心烦意乱的警长带着哭泣的婴儿回到了车上，他决定把双胞胎接到伯大尼托皮卡发展性残疾青年中心，安排她们在这里被接纳，安顿。

警长欧文决定亲自把他们送到那里，不到一个小时，一辆迎面而来的卡车撞上警长的车。了。警长撞在挡风玻璃上，失去了知觉。三十分钟后，将他死于失血过多。

与此同时，漫天飘舞着羽毛，卡车上作为货物运送的鸡已经死伤无数，躺在路上。

一个小个子男人笨拙而艰难地爬出卡车的驾驶室，在查看了警察的车辆后，从后座平静地看着他的双胞胎女孩吸引了他的注意力。忽略了濒死的警长，卡车司机从后座举出她们，把她们放到了严重受损的货车里。放弃了那些在地上悲惨命运的鸡，开上了70号州际公路。

他的嘴角微微上扬，开启了火车，继续沿着高速公路行驶。

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原版：

The year is 1985. St.Elmo's Fire is at the top of the charts, the wreckage of the Titanic has just been discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

And on a small farm on the Kansas Colorado boarder a young mother is about to give birth. The local doctor has predicted twins, which gladdens the hearts of the woman and her husband who could certainly use the extra help around the farm.

But the birth does not go well. The terrified father drives his screaming hemorrhaging wife to the local clinic a poorly funded facility housed in a converted airstream trailer. The presiding physician is Dr. Charlie von Coop, a local denture maker of dubious training with eccentric religious beliefs.

The labor is long and painful, and Louise Neville a Mennonite girl who had given up a promising career as a legal assistant to join her first and only love on the run down farm that was his only inheritance

May her soul rest forever in peace

is pronounced dead by the doctor at 11:23 A.M. on the eleventh day of September, precisely 12 minutes after the birth of her twin daughters.

The girls are Parapagus Tripus Dibrachius twins, conjoined at the side and sharing between them three legs, two arms, two hearts, three lungs, and a single liver.

Without hesitating, Dr. von Coop places the infants on the operating table muttering biblical quotations of doubtful accuracy the doctor leaves that trailer and returns with a gas powered chainsaw. The noise is deafening in the small space as he starts the engine and prepares for the grisly operation.

At this very moment, Sheriff Wilbur Owens having noticed the Neville's car parked outside the clinic steps inside to see if could be of assistance.

Seeing the crazed doctor hovering over the newborns, the teeth of the chainsaw about to connect with their innocent flesthe valiant Sheriff draws his pistol and fires as the bullet pierces his heart.

Dr. von Coop emits a cry and stumbles backwards. Samuel Neville a timid nervous man who wanted nothing more than a quiet country life with many children is still in a state of shock over the death of his young wife and the alarming physiology of his daughters when he is struck in the neck by the chainsaw blade Killing him instantly.

Distraught the good Sheriff takes the crying infants to his car. He radios back to the station where it is arranged for the twins to be admitted to the Bethany Center for Developmentally Disabled Youth in Topeka.

Sheriff Owens decides to deliver the twins to the Bethany Center personally. Less than an hour into the drive an oncoming truck swerves, crosses median, and strikes the Sheriff's car. The Sheriff is thrown into the windshield,knocking him unconscious. He will die thirty minutes later from loss of blood.

Meanwhile the world has become a sea of feathers, as the trucks cargo of live chickens, many among them now seriously injured or dead, spill into the road.

A small awkward man limps out of the trucks cab, and cautiously approaches the Sheriff's vehicle. The man's eyes focus on the twin girls, calmly look up at him from the back seat. Ignoring the dying sheriff. the truck driver lifts the infants into his arm, and sets them in the cab of the damaged vehicle. He unhitches the trailer and climbs into the cab abandoning the defenseless chickens to their grim fate on Interstate 70.

A smile forms on his lips as he puts the truck into gear and continues down the highway.