An hour passed. Then two. Then three. After four hours, her mother knocked on the door. There they were, the two of them—the father of Be Bop and the curly-haired teenager with the smiling eyes—laughing, playing backgammon, learning to twang the Jew's harp, just being friends. They remained friends for the rest of his life. He called her his god-daughter. She named her first son Benjamin Diz. For a while she considered applying to a music conservatory after high school.
一個小時過去了，然后是兩個小時，三個小時。四個小時后，她母親敲了房間的門。他們兩個就在這里-一位是比波普爵士樂之父，一位是滿頭卷發、眼睛帶著微笑的少年-正在笑著，玩西洋雙陸棋，學彈猶太人的豎琴，就是做朋友。他們在他的余生里一直是朋友。他稱她為他的教女。她給自己的第一個兒子取名為本杰明·迪茲。有一段時間，她考慮高中畢業后申請音樂學院。
When instead she chose to major in public policy at Duke University, she took her trumpet into the marching band. She played it, too, when she went on to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to write up her research that proved that in poor countries people were better off, financially and medically, if they were asked to pay a little bit of the cost of ensuring a supply of drugs to their local pharmacy rather than if they paid nothing—and got nothing. She played the trumpet some more when working as an economist for the World Bank, in northern Cameroon, Vietnam and Morocco.
畢業后，她轉而選擇杜克大學公共政策專業，她帶著她的小號加入了軍樂隊。后來她就讀弗萊徹法律與外交學院時也彈奏它，在這里她寫下研究來證明，如果貧窮國家的人們被要求支付一小部分來確保當地藥店藥品供應的費用，而不是什么都不付，什么也得不到的話，那么他們在經濟上和醫療上的情況會更好。當她在喀麥隆北部、越南和摩洛哥為世界銀行擔任經濟學家時，她吹奏了更多的小號。
And then, at 43, having just had her last son, she decided to follow what she called her still, quiet voice and be part of a movement to revitalise Jewish spiritual life in America. She resigned from the World Bank and joined the Adas Israel synagogue in Washington, DC, where in 1876 Ulysses S.Grant became the first American president to attend a service in a synagogue. There was meditation every Tuesday night, yoga every Wednesday night, lessons in Jewish mindfulness all through the week. But it was when she held aloft the shofar that she really found her voice.
然后，43歲時，有了自己的最后一個兒子后，她決定跟著她那平靜的聲音走，并成為復興美國猶太人精神生活運動的一部分。她從世界銀行辭職，加入了華盛頓特區的阿達斯以色列猶太教堂，在這里，1876年尤利西斯·S·格蘭特成為第一位參加猶太教堂禮拜的美國總統。這里每周二晚上有冥想，每周三晚上有瑜伽，整周都有猶太正念課程。但是，當她高舉著羊角號時，她才真正找到了自己的聲音。
譯文由可可原創，僅供學習交流使用，未經許可請勿轉載。
評論
打印
