好久没有写博客了。这两天楼下装修，吵得人没办法干正事。于是成天在Youtube上面转。偶然找到了《聪明的一休》动画片的片尾曲：
这首曲子连同播放时的画面，是唯一让还是小屁孩一个的我感到惆怅的东西。一休是一个孤儿，但是他记得他母亲。这个挂在树上的小人儿就是他母亲留给他的。在整部动画片里有少数几个地方刻画了一休对这个小人儿的感情。片尾的这首歌很短，短得简直没有前奏和高潮。它的旋律听着好像能牵起多年以前拥有过的温馨回忆。我小时候常常做梦梦见到挂在树上的一个这样的小人儿。
自从长大了，开始听BSB，看《Titanic》，做习题之后，我基本上忘了一休还有个让一个十岁不到的小男孩不能倒头就睡着的片尾曲。今天才知道这曲子名字叫《献给母亲大人》，听到日语歌词最后，好像是“一休”这个词。我猜，这首歌的歌词可能就是一休给他妈妈写的一封信吧。
不知道为什么当时看那小一休，觉得他比我大比我懂事。现在再看，觉得他好小啊。动画片里的角色永远停留在一个岁数，看动画的人却长大了。
THE ‘REST OF THE WORLD’ VERSION:
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering
grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE BRITISH VERSION:
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.
The British press inform people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel’s house. The BBC, interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing “We Shall overcome”. Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the squirrel has got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his “fair share” and increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The squirrel’s taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work. The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile.
The squirrel’s food is seized and redistributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper. Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilizes it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they have tried to blow up the airport because of Britain’s apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempt bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to then return them to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people’s credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrel’s food, though Spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn’t bothered to maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshoppers drug ‘illness’.
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since arrival in UK.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state the obvious, is set up.
Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased. The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Britain’s multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a minister. The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in the United Kingdom.
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and order and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
Since this was written, the squirrel has decided that enough is enough and has sold up everything he owned and has sodded off to Spain!
是中文转载的：纽约时报: 解放军救灾表现一般算不上是一流军队
这些中国军人脚穿帆布鞋、肩负背包
美国人命贵，打仗想要不死人，所以狂研发出不用血拼就置人死地的技术，技术含量很高。我总感觉美国人打仗如果不流血打不赢话就会主动认输（当然这不是事实），他们不会玩命。我看到英国的哈里王子在联合国维和部队还可以听 iPod呢。好多美国大片里的大兵行为不检点，老是抱怨这个抱怨那个，一点军容军貌都没有。
反观中国的部队，当兵前全是农民。而且早早就说清楚了当兵就是去找苦吃的，不苦不光荣，越苦越光荣，要艰苦朴素！哪有什么 iPod？鞋就是解放鞋（即NYT说的帆布鞋），哪有什么步行鞋登山鞋？踩穿了就赤脚！想想当年红军过雪山草地。
美国人就是没长过征，没过过雪山草地，娇气惯了。