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Sometimes also a man or woman much older falls silent for a day or two, and then leaves home.
也有的時(shí)候，某個(gè)年紀(jì)大得多的成年男女去看了那孩子之后會(huì)沉默一兩天，然后便離家出走。
These people go out into the street, and walk down the street alone. They keep walking, and walk straight out of the city of Omelas, through the beautiful gates.
這些人走到街上，獨(dú)個(gè)兒一路走去。他們一直往前走，穿過(guò)漂亮的城門徑直走出奧米勒斯城。
They keep walking across the farmlands of Omelas. Each one goes alone, youth or girl, man or woman.
出城之后，他們穿越奧米勒斯的田野繼續(xù)向前走。每個(gè)人，無(wú)論是男青年還是女青年，無(wú)論是成年男子還是成年女子，都是一人獨(dú)行。
Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow-lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields.
夜幕降臨了，他們還得沿著村鎮(zhèn)的街道，穿過(guò)街道兩邊窗戶亮著螢光的房屋，繼續(xù)往前走，走進(jìn)一片黑暗的曠野之中。
Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mountains. They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back.
每個(gè)人都是單獨(dú)地向西或向北，朝深山里走去。他們一直向前走。他們離開(kāi)奧米勒斯城，頭也不回地向黑暗中走去。
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all.
他們要去的地方是一個(gè)對(duì)我們大多數(shù)人來(lái)說(shuō)比奧米勒斯城更難想象的地方。我根本無(wú)法描述那個(gè)地方。也許根本就不存在那樣一個(gè)地方。
It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
但那些離開(kāi)奧米勒斯城的人似乎知道他們要去的是一個(gè)什么樣的地方。
(from The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction)
(摘自《諾頓短篇小說(shuō)集》)
