畫(huà)筆下的莫斯塔爾

by Candace Rose Rardon

翻譯：范婕

畫(huà)筆下的莫斯塔爾

Drawing Connections in Mostar

by Candace Rose Rardon

翻譯：范婕

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莫斯塔爾，一個(gè)充滿(mǎn)中世紀(jì)羅馬建筑古跡、遭受過(guò)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)蹂躪的城市，它的每一角似乎都在訴說(shuō)著一個(gè)故事。

I started doing1)watercolortravel2)sketchesthree years ago, in order to moveat aslowerpaceand create richer memories of the places I visited.And so I arrived in Mostar, a small city in southernBosnia and Herzegovina.

One bright Wednesday morning, I was sitting on a3)sidewalkdrawing the scene before me.Then a woman stopped and asked if I was a student.She had a4)bob, and introduced herself as “Dalila.” She asked where I was from, and when I told her I’d grown up in Virginia, she said, “You’re joking.You must come and have a coffee.”We chatted a bit more until Dalila had to return to work.

Four days later, Dalila’s daughter Alma and I made our way to the old part of town.Dalila had told me that they were both interested in art and had suggested the three of us sketch together.So we began sketching the city’s famous bridge.

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at a...pace以……的速度

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Bosnia and Herzegovina（波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那，簡(jiǎn)稱(chēng)波黑），巴爾干半島的一個(gè)國(guó)家，首都是薩拉熱窩。1945年，南斯拉夫各族人民在取得反法西斯戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的勝利后，成立了南斯拉夫聯(lián)邦人民共和國(guó)（1963年改稱(chēng)南斯拉夫社會(huì)主義聯(lián)邦共和國(guó)），波黑成為了其中的一員。

1 ) watercolor [?w??t??k?l?] adj.水彩的，水彩畫(huà)的 2) sketch [sket∫] n.素描

3 ) sidewalk [?sa?dw??k] n.人行道 4) bob [b?b] n.齊耳短發(fā)

As we eachbroughtthe bridgeto lifein our own way, we talked about Virginia and Bosnia and the places we had all yet to go.I5)picturedthe girls in my hometown, and thought about the chances of us meeting there.While I’d come to this city to sketch one bridge, I kept drawing other less6)tangibleconnections.To now be standing in the middle of the street, without fear or7)confictaround me, felt like a momentworth remembering.Together, the buildings seemed like a new symbol of Mostar—a city stillhealing fromthe past.

As I sketched, I thought of passing this place the night before with Dalila, on our way to a central square.Dalila had talked of her family and of life after the war.“When I came back from Norway, the east side was likeHiroshima.They had no electricity or water.They were drinkingthe Neretva River.Before the war, Mostar was one of the most beautiful cities in Yugoslavia.”

“Now we are walking to the other side,” she said, “but I have never accepted that there are two sides to this city.I believe we are one.” Through the pages of my sketchbook, and the doors it had opened for me here, I now believed the same.

Until that moment, sketching had been a way of remembering places.Only in Mostar did it begin to create the very moments I hoped to remember.

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bring...to life使……鮮活起來(lái)

worth doing sth.值得做……

heal from從……中痊愈

5 ) picture [?p?kt∫?] v.想象

6 ) tangible [?t?nd??bl] adj.有形的

7 ) confict [?k?nfl?kt] n.戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，沖突

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Hiroshima（廣島市），日本政令指定都市，也是日本的主要城市之一，它是世界上第一個(gè)被核武器原子彈轟炸的城市。廣島市是廣島縣縣廳的所在地，有著名的廣島和平紀(jì)念館。

the Neretva River（內(nèi)雷特瓦河），波黑和克羅地亞最為珍貴的天然資源之一，具有儲(chǔ)量豐富的淡水、數(shù)量眾多的泉水和清澈的河流。第二次世界大戰(zhàn)時(shí)期，南斯拉夫人民解放軍與德意法西斯占領(lǐng)者在內(nèi)雷特瓦河河畔進(jìn)行了一場(chǎng)大規(guī)模的交戰(zhàn)，即著名的內(nèi)雷特瓦河戰(zhàn)役。

三年前，為了讓自己在旅途中放慢腳步，同時(shí)讓所到之處留下更生動(dòng)的回憶，我開(kāi)始沿途創(chuàng)作水彩素描。于是，我來(lái)到了莫斯塔爾，這座位于波黑南部的小城市。

在一個(gè)陽(yáng)光明媚的周三早晨，我坐在人行道上，繪畫(huà)著眼前的街景。這時(shí)有位婦人止住了腳步，問(wèn)我是不是名學(xué)生。她留著齊耳短發(fā)，自稱(chēng)“達(dá)莉拉”。她問(wèn)我是哪里人，而當(dāng)我告訴她我是在美國(guó)弗吉尼亞州長(zhǎng)大時(shí)，她說(shuō)道，“開(kāi)玩笑的吧，那你一定要與我喝杯咖啡才行。”我們又聊了好一會(huì)兒，直到達(dá)莉拉必須回去工作。

四天后，我和達(dá)莉拉的女兒阿爾瑪來(lái)到了莫斯塔爾的老城區(qū)。達(dá)莉拉先前告訴過(guò)我，她們母女倆都對(duì)藝術(shù)頗感興趣，建議我們?nèi)艘黄疬M(jìn)行素描創(chuàng)作。于是，我們開(kāi)始畫(huà)起了莫斯塔爾那座著名的橋梁。

我們一邊用各自的方式使那座橋變得鮮活起來(lái)，一邊聊著弗吉尼亞、波斯尼亞，以及其他共同的向往之地。我構(gòu)想著這母女倆在我家鄉(xiāng)的情景，想著日后我們?nèi)四芊裨谀抢镌俅蜗喾辍Ｎ襾?lái)到莫斯塔爾畫(huà)下了這座橋，可畫(huà)中留下的卻是無(wú)形的情感聯(lián)系。此刻站在街道中央，周?chē)](méi)有恐懼或敵對(duì)的氣氛，這一刻的感覺(jué)值得永記于心。四周的建筑仿佛是莫斯塔爾的一個(gè)新標(biāo)志—一座尚未完全從往昔的傷痛中痊愈的城市。

我繼續(xù)畫(huà)著，想起前一天晚上和達(dá)莉拉在去中央廣場(chǎng)的路上曾經(jīng)過(guò)這個(gè)地方。她談到了戰(zhàn)后她家人的情況和在這里的生活。“我從挪威回來(lái)的時(shí)候，東城區(qū)的狀態(tài)就像是遭受原子彈襲擊后的廣島。沒(méi)有電、沒(méi)有水，人們只能去內(nèi)雷特瓦河取河水飲用。而在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)發(fā)生以前，莫斯塔爾曾是南斯拉夫最美麗的城市之一。”

“現(xiàn)在我們馬上要走到城市的另一邊了，”達(dá)莉拉說(shuō)道，“但我從不接受莫斯塔爾被一分為二的事實(shí)，我們是不可分割的整體。”翻看我的素描本，穿過(guò)那一扇扇它為我打開(kāi)的門(mén)，如今我也覺(jué)得莫斯塔爾是一個(gè)整體了。

在這以前，素描于我僅僅是對(duì)所到之地進(jìn)行記錄的一種方式。但只有在莫斯塔爾，它開(kāi)始展現(xiàn)出了我希望永遠(yuǎn)記住的時(shí)刻。