注：本篇译文来自综合英语网络课程

They Will Not Be Forgotten
他们不会被忘记
She was just a little girl in the Midwest university town of Urbana, Illinois, when she first heard the frightening stories from her Chinese émigré parents. They seemed unbelievable, conjuring visions of terror, death and a river turned red. Sometimes she imagined herself in a place and time far away, running and hiding, trying to escape a horror that remained formless except for one image -- a man with a sword hacking, hacking away.
当她第一次从被迫离乡的父母那里听到这些可怕的故事时，她还只是伊利诺伊州俄伯那中西部大学城里的一个小姑娘。那些故事简直令人难以置信，在她的脑海中总是浮现出恐惧、死亡和红色的河流。有时她想象着这样一幅画——时光倒转，在一个遥远的地方，她不停地跑着，藏着，仿佛在极力逃脱一种恐惧。她说不清是什么使她害怕，但有一幕是最清晰的，那就是一个拿刀的人在不停地砍着……

        Why had such a terrible event passed out of the public consciousness? In the West the headlines from Nanking were supplanted by ominous events in Europe. Soon the horrors of a world at war became everyday fare in the media. Then the postwar West was engulfed in a new struggle with the Soviet Union and eager to turn Japan into a friendly economic bulwark. A war-crimes tribunal, which briefly focused attention on Nanking, was largely forgotten when the Korean War began. By 1994 Chang had got married, moved to California and was happily pursuing a writing career that had already resulted in one published biography.
公众为何对如此可怕的事件漠不关心呢？在西方，报纸的头条新闻总是报道发生在欧洲的不祥事件。不久，卷入战争的整个世界成了媒体每天要报道的全部内容。随之战后的欧洲又卷入了与苏联的一场新的战争，同时并极力地将日本变成一个友好的经济壁垒。一个将短暂注意力投向南京的战事法庭也随着朝鲜战争的爆发而被人忘却了。1994年，婚后的张女士搬到了加利福尼亚，在那儿她潜心于自己的写作，并在其间出版了一本传记。
        While attending a conference in Cupertino, California, on the history of World War II, she encountered some poster-size photos from Nanking on display. Nothing she'd heard about the massacre had prepared her "for the helpless, terrorized looks of those about to die with no hope of rescue, the piles of bodies or the grins on the soldiers' faces as they participated or looked on."
在加利福尼亚康珀蒂诺出席关于二战史的会议时，她无意间看到了展览的一些来自南京的照片和海报。看着那些即将被杀害的人们失去生存希望时无助和惊骇的表情，看着那成堆的尸体，看着日本兵杀人或观望时得意窃喜的神情，她思想上毫无准备，因为在此之前她对发生的这一切一无所知。

       China's Schindler. Wondering what became of John Rabe, Chang was led to his granddaughter, Ursula Reinhardt. Rabe had survived the war, but his Berlin apartment had been bombed and his family reduced to poverty.
中国的辛德勒    怀着对约翰·雷伯的好奇，张女士找到了他的孙女乌苏拉·赖恩哈特，虽然雷伯在战争中幸免于难，但他在柏林的公寓被炸毁，从此以后他的生活陷入了困窘。
        In 1948 news of Rabe's plight had reached Nanking, where survivors raised $2000 -- a huge amount at the time -- for food parcels. The mayor of Nanking arranged to have the parcels sent to Rabe's family. That food meant survival for them.
1948年雷伯生活困难的消息传到了南京，当地的幸存者筹资（在当时可以称巨资的2000美元）为他准备了食品包裹。南京市市长亲自安排将包裹寄往雷伯的家中。这些食品对他们来说等于雪中送炭。
        Rabe died in 1950 of a stroke, but as Chang learned, he left an amazing 2000 page chronicle of Nanking, meticulously typed and illustrated. It included eyewitness reports, telegrams, photographs, newspaper articles, even transcripts of radio broadcasts. At the urging of Chang and others, Reinhardt made copies available to the public in 1996.
雷伯1950年死于中风，但据张女士了解，她留下了关于南京大屠杀的2000页的惊人记载，而且经过了细心打印并配以插图说明。它包括亲眼目击的报道、电报、照片、报纸文章甚至于广播稿。在张女士和其他人的要求下，赖恩哈特在1996年将复印件公之于众。
        Despite Rabe's party membership (he claimed he was unaware of Nazi atrocities while living in Asia), Chang refers to him as "the Oskar Schindler of China." A complex and ultimately ambiguous figure, "he deserves to be better known."
由于雷伯的组织成员身份（他声称居住在亚洲期间对纳粹暴行一无所知），张女士称他为中国的辛德勒，作为一个身份复杂而模糊的人物，他值得进一步关注。

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