口語式短文：浪莽少年行

Youth adventures ：

•  My Dad has recently read a new book called Big River and Big Sea - Untold Stories of 1949, written by Long Yingtai, and has felt a deep stirring in his heart.

• 爸爸最近看了龍應台的新書「大江大海 —1949 」，有很深的感觸。

•  Dad says that when he was a child, there were over one hundred Peking Opera records at home. All of them were bought by my paternal grandpa. Listening to Peking Opera records was grandpa's favorite hobby.

• 爸爸說在他小時候，家裡有上百張京劇唱片，全部都是爺爺買的，聽京劇是爺爺最大的嗜好。

•  Dad was most impressed by one record named The Fourth Son Visits His Mother. It was the record my grandpa played and listened to the most often. Every time when the record was finished playing, grandpa would have a runny nose.

• 爸爸印象最深刻的一張唱片叫做「四郎探母」，因為爺爺最常放這張唱片來聽，而且每次聽完唱片爺爺都會流鼻涕。

•  Afterwards my Dad had been busy with studying and working, he had few chances to see grandpa listening to The Fourth Son Visits His Mother.

• 後來爸爸忙著唸書、工作，就很少看到爺爺聽「四郎探母」了。

•  It was not until he had read the new book written by Long Yingtai that Dad realized how ashamed and uneasy my grandpa felt when listening to The Fourth Son Visits His Mother.

• 直到爸爸讀了龍應台的新書，才瞭解爺爺聽「四郎探母」時內心的愧疚。

•  Grandpa was a Szechuanese. When he was young, he left home to study in town. No sooner had he graduated from industrial high school than he was drafted to fight against Japanese invasion. He served as a civil engineering officer and was in charge of building new airports.

• 爺爺是四川人，年少時離家到城裡唸書，高工一畢業就被徵召參加對日抗戰，擔任工程官負責修築機場。

•  Shortly after the victory of anti-Japanese war, grandpa was dispatched to Taiwan to take charge of repairing the facilities in airports left by Japanese army. At that time grandpa was only twenty-some years old and was very daring and energetic.

• 抗戰勝利後不久，爺爺被派來台灣負責整修日本軍隊留下來的機場設施。那時他才二十幾歲，正是意氣風發的時候。

•  During the first years after grandpa came to Taiwan, he often received letters from my great grandparents living in Szechuan. But he never thought that after the year of 1949, the exchanges across Taiwan Strait were disrupted, and he never got a chance to see his parents again.

• 爺爺剛來台灣時，還常常收到住在四川的曾祖父母寄來的家書，沒想到 1949 年後，海峽兩岸往來中斷，爺爺再也沒有機會見到他的爸爸媽媽。

•  “No matter how many kowtows I made to you, I can never expiate my guilt.” It turns out that when grandpa sang this classical sentence spoken by Yang Silang, he not only had a runny nose!

• 「千拜萬拜，贖不過兒的罪來！」爺爺唱著這句楊四郎的經點名句時，原來流得不只是鼻涕而已。

發表時間：2009/09/09 著作人：周國華老師