玛卡普守望者.doc

Makapu Bystander 玛卡普守望者 By Rodney Chang 作者：罗德尼·常 Hawaiian legend is that Pele, the goddess of Volcanoes, centuries ago, inhabited Oahu, spending time close to the sea at Makapu cliffs. These are black lava cliffs that tower over the sea, deep blue in the area. Lore is that Pele used to sit in a lava formation that fronted a magnificent view of the ocean. Makapu, storytellers claim, was the last spot that Pele lived before moving permanently to the Big Island. As the islands goddess of volcanoes, the action was no longer on Oahu. All its craters were extinct. It was time for Pele to move on to the the youngest island, still emerging on its borders from lava flow that rose inside rock formations that began at the floor of the ocean. 夏威夷的传说中，火山女神贝利，几个世纪前，居住在瓦胡岛，很多时候都在靠近大海的玛卡普悬崖。这些都是高耸于这片蔚蓝色海域的黑色的熔岩峭壁。洛尔是贝利用来坐着观赏大海壮丽景色的火山熔岩。讲故事的人说玛卡普是贝利永久迁移到大岛前的最后一个居住地。由于该岛的火山女神，不再在瓦胡岛上生活。它的所有火山口都已经灭绝。是应该让贝利移居到了新兴的岛屿的时候了，这些岛屿仍然在始于海底的涨岩层内部的熔岩流边界不断出现。 But before hopping islands, legend tells of Pele climbing one last time to sit on “her” lava mound that was shaped into her chair. To the goddess it was more than just a chair with the best view (and facing eastward, towards the new erupting island), it was her temporary throne. 但在换岛之前，传说贝利最后一次爬上了一个，坐在被塑造成她的椅子的她的“熔岩丘”上。对于女神来说，它不仅仅是一个具有最佳视野（面向东方，朝向新的喷发岛）的椅子，而且那是她的临时宝座。 As a farewell to this island, the goddess made her way up by foot to the formation for a last time, only to find a night fisherman sitting in it! There it was convenient, with the help of his lit torch, to prepare his fishing gear before hiking further closer to the cliffs edge to fish. 作为对这个岛的告别，女神最后一次一路步行到了这里，却发现一个夜钓渔夫坐在上面！那里是个很方便的地方，在点燃的火炬的帮助下，他在进一步走到靠近悬崖边钓鱼前，正在准备他的渔具。 The dark complexion, white-haired Hawaiian man felt a chill engulf his body. He shivered, thinking the sensation to be all so strange since it was a windless and balmy summer evening. Then his goose pimples due to the