in the image of依照……的样子

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.

我们看见海龟从海里爬上来…… ……来一年一度地产卵。 每年一次，母海龟…… ……从海里爬到灼热的沙滩上…… ……那是座火山岛，它在沙里刨一个坑…… ……把蛋下在里面。 在沙里下蛋，是个漫长又可怕的过程。 等这一切结束…… ……精疲力竭的母龟半死不活地爬回海里。 她永远见不到自己的孩子。 可我们见到了。 塞巴斯蒂安算准了海龟蛋哪天孵化。 ——我们赶在那天回来了。——你们又回去了？ 赶上了看它们破壳，还有那场拼了命奔向大海的奔逃。 那条窄窄的沙滩，像鱼子酱一样的颜色，整个都在动。 天空也在动，密密麻麻全是食肉的鸟。 那些鸟的叫声…… ……它们盘旋时发出的凄厉尖叫…… ……在恩坎塔达斯的沙滩上空…… ……刚出壳的小海龟挣扎着爬出来…… ……开始向大海狂奔。 ——向大海狂奔？——为了躲开那些食肉的鸟…… ……那些鸟把天都遮黑了。 我说：「塞巴斯蒂安，不。不，不是那样的。」 可他非让我看。他逼我看了那可怕的一幕。 ——什么不是那样的？——人生。 我说：「不。 不！那不是真的！」 可他说就是那样。 他说：「看，维奥莱特。看那边，岸上。」 我一看，只见整片沙滩都在动，都在动…… ……刚孵出的小海龟拼命冲向大海…… ……而鸟群悬停着，俯冲下来扑咬…… ……又一次次悬停、俯冲、扑咬。 它们朝小海龟直扑下去…… ……把它们翻过来，露出柔软的腹部…… ……撕开它们的肚子…… ……撕扯着吃它们的肉。

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.

大自然不是照着人类的慈悲造出来的。 大自然是残酷的！ 塞巴斯蒂安一直就懂，生下来就懂，可我不懂。 我说：「不，不，那些只是鸟，是海龟，不是我们。」 那时我还不知道，说的就是我们。 不知道我们所有人都被困在这吞噬一切的造物之中。 我无法、也不愿面对这可怕的真相…… ……哪怕是在恩坎塔达斯的最后一天…… ……那天塞巴斯蒂安离开了我…… ……在赤道烈日下待了整整一天…… ……他待在桅顶瞭望台里，盯着沙滩上的那件事…… ……直到天黑得再也看不见。 他顺着缆绳爬下来时，说：「现在我看见他了。」 ——他指的是上帝。——你相信他看见了上帝吗？ 那天在沙滩上，他把那一切全看在了眼里。 可我那时和你一样，我说不信。 我拒绝相信…… ……直到去年夏天，我才猛然明白，我儿子是对的。