in the image of依照……的樣子

We saw the sea turtles crawl out of the sea... ...for their annual egg-laying. Once a year, the female of the sea turtles... ...crawls out of the sea onto the blazing sand beach... ...of a volcanic island to dig a pit in the sand... ...and deposit her eggs there. It's a long and dreadful thing, the depositing of the eggs in the sand. And when it's finished... ...the exhausted female turtle crawls back to the sea half-dead. She never sees her offspring. But we did. Sebastian knew exactly when the sea turtle eggs would be hatched. - We returned in time for it. - You went back? In time to witness the hatching and their desperate flight to the sea. The narrow beach, the color of caviar, was all in motion. The sky was in motion, full of flesh-eating birds. And the noise of the birds... ...their savage cries as they circled... ...over the beach of the Encantadas... ...while the new sea turtles scrambled out... ...and started their race to the sea. - Race to the sea? - To escape the flesh-eating birds... ...that made the sky almost black. And I said, "Sebastian, no. No, it's not like that." But he made me look. He made me see that terrible sight. - What was not like that? - Life. I said, "No. No! That's not true!" But he said it is. He said, "Look, Violet. Look, there on the shore." And I looked and saw the sand all alive, all alive... ...as the new-hatched sea turtles dashed to the sea... ...while the birds hovered and swooped to attack... ...and hovered and swooped to attack. They were diving down on the sea turtles... ...turning them over to expose their soft undersides... ...tearing their undersides open... ...and rending and eating their flesh.

我們看見海龜從海里爬上來…… ……來一年一度地產卵。 每年一次，母海龜…… ……從海里爬到灼熱的沙灘上…… ……那是座火山島，它在沙裡刨一個坑…… ……把蛋下在裡面。 在沙裡下蛋，是個漫長又可怕的過程。 等這一切結束…… ……精疲力竭的母龜半死不活地爬回海里。 她永遠見不到自己的孩子。 可我們見到了。 塞巴斯蒂安算準了海龜蛋哪天孵化。 ——我們趕在那天回來了。——你們又回去了？ 趕上了看它們破殼，還有那場拼了命奔向大海的奔逃。 那條窄窄的沙灘，像魚子醬一樣的顏色，整個都在動。 天空也在動，密密麻麻全是食肉的鳥。 那些鳥的叫聲…… ……它們盤旋時發出的淒厲尖叫…… ……在恩坎塔達斯的沙灘上空…… ……剛出殼的小海龜掙扎著爬出來…… ……開始向大海狂奔。 ——向大海狂奔？——為了躲開那些食肉的鳥…… ……那些鳥把天都遮黑了。 我說：「塞巴斯蒂安，不。不，不是那樣的。」 可他非讓我看。他逼我看了那可怕的一幕。 ——什麼不是那樣的？——人生。 我說：「不。 不！那不是真的！」 可他說就是那樣。 他說：「看，維奧萊特。看那邊，岸上。」 我一看，只見整片沙灘都在動，都在動…… ……剛孵出的小海龜拼命衝向大海…… ……而鳥群懸停著，俯衝下來撲咬…… ……又一次次懸停、俯衝、撲咬。 它們朝小海龜直撲下去…… ……把它們翻過來，露出柔軟的腹部…… ……撕開它們的肚子…… ……撕扯著吃它們的肉。

Nature isn't created in the image of man's compassion. Nature is cruel! Sebastian knew it all along, was born knowing it, but not I. I said, "No, no, those are only birds, turtles, not us." I didn't know then it was us. That we are all of us trapped by this devouring creation. I couldn't, wouldn't face the horror of the truth... ...even that last day in the Encantadas... ...when Sebastian left me... ...and spent the whole blazing, equatorial day... ...in the crow's-nest, watching that thing on the beach... ...until it was too dark to see. When he came down the rigging, he said, "Now I've seen him." - And he meant God. - Do you believe he saw God? He saw the whole thing there that day on the beach. But I was like you. I said no. I refused to believe... ...until suddenly, last summer, I learned my son was right.

大自然不是照著人類的慈悲造出來的。 大自然是殘酷的！ 塞巴斯蒂安一直就懂，生下來就懂，可我不懂。 我說：「不，不，那些只是鳥，是海龜，不是我們。」 那時我還不知道，說的就是我們。 不知道我們所有人都被困在這吞噬一切的造物之中。 我無法、也不願面對這可怕的真相…… ……哪怕是在恩坎塔達斯的最後一天…… ……那天塞巴斯蒂安離開了我…… ……在赤道烈日下待了整整一天…… ……他待在桅頂瞭望臺裡，盯著沙灘上的那件事…… ……直到天黑得再也看不見。 他順著纜繩爬下來時，說：「現在我看見他了。」 ——他指的是上帝。——你相信他看見了上帝嗎？ 那天在沙灘上，他把那一切全看在了眼裡。 可我那時和你一樣，我說不信。 我拒絕相信…… ……直到去年夏天，我才猛然明白，我兒子是對的。