牡蛎男孩忧郁之死

Tim Burton
简介
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歷年電影原創構想，盡在此書！

好萊塢知名鬼才導演提姆．波頓唯一一本圖文故事集！結合了童話、寓言和狂想……等材料，由22個古怪角色聯手演出，透過作者詩文般的短句娓娓道來，料理出一個個令人心碎、心酸、心疼與心折的悲慘故事。

因為愛上「火柴女郎」而全身著火死亡的枯枝男孩、因為長相怪異而被父母唾棄的機器人男孩及牡蠣男孩、因為心上插了太多針而無法與他人靠近的巫毒女孩、想要成為超級英雄但總是弄得到處髒兮兮的污漬男孩……

除了提姆．波頓，誰想得出這樣奇怪的故事和人物？！

Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love

木棍男生和火柴女孩的爱恋

Stick Boy liked Match Girl,

He liked her a lot.

He liked her cute figure,

he thought she was hot.

木棍男孩喜欢火柴女孩，非常非常喜欢

他爱她曼妙的身姿，他觉得她肯定是火热的

But could a flame ever burn

for a match and a stick?

It did quite literally;

he burned up quick.

但火柴和木棒相遇怎么会不燃烧？

正如这句话一样

他很快的燃烧了起来。

Voodoo Girl

巫毒女孩

Her skin is white cloth,

and she's all sewn apart

and she has many colored pins

sticking out of her heart.

她的皮肤白布做，一块一块缝成身躯。

她有很多彩色针，一根一根刺在心里。

She has many different zombies

who are deeply in her trance.

She even has a zombie

who was originally from France.

她有很多不同的僵尸，个个都为她着迷。

其中还有个僵尸，原本来自法兰西。

But she knows she has a curse on her,

a curse she cannot win.

她知道她身上有个永远不可能赢得的诅咒，

For if someone gets

too close to her,

如果有人离她太近，

the pins stick farther in.

那些针就会刺得更深。

Robort Boy

机器人男孩

Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life.

They were a normal, happy husband and wife.

One day they got news that made Mr. Smith glad.

Mrs. Smith would would be a mom

which would make him the dad!

史密斯夫妇过着幸福的生活

他们是一对 普通但却快乐的夫妻

一天史密斯先生得到了一个让他乐翻的消息：

史密斯太太要做妈妈了

就是说他就要做爸爸了！

But something was wrong with their bundle of joy.

It wasn't human at all,

it was a robot boy!

但是这突如其来的喜悦中有什么不对劲

那孩子根本就不是人类

它是一个机器人男孩！

He wasn't warm and cuddly

and he didn't have skin.

Instead there was a cold, thin layer of tin.

它不温暖也不可爱

它甚至没有皮肤

取而代之的是冷冷的，薄薄的锡皮

There were wires and tubes sticking out of his head.

He just lay there and stared,

not living or dead.

电线和管子从他的头上跑出来

它只是躺在那里凝望着

既不生也不死

The only time he seemed alive at all

was with a long extension cord

plugged into the wall.

只有把一条长长的电线接到墙上的插座里

它才看上去像是活的

Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,

"What have you done to my boy?

He's not flesh and blood,

he's aluminum alloy!"

史密斯先生对这一声吼叫着：

“你对我的儿子做了什么？

他没有血肉

他是铝合金！”

The doctor said gently,

"What I'm going to say

will sound pretty wild.

But you're not the father

of this strange looking child.

You see, there still is some question

about the child's gender,

but we think that its father

is a microwave blender."

医生有礼貌的说：

“我将要说的话听起来可能很疯狂

但是你并不是这个怪孩子的生父

虽然我们还不知道它的性别

但是我们可以确定他的父亲应该是微波搅拌机”

The Smith's lives were now filled

with misery and strife.

Mrs. Smith hated her husband,

and he hated his wife.

He never forgave her unholy alliance:

a sexual encounter

with a kitchen appliance.

从此史密斯的家里充满了痛苦和争吵。

史密斯太太恨她的丈夫

而他怨恨她

他永远不会原谅她那肮脏的事：

和厨房用具的性行为。

And Robot Boy

grew to be a young man.

机器人男孩长成了一个年轻的小伙子

Though he was often mistaken

for a garbage can.

尽管他总是被认为成垃圾桶

Staring Girl

凝视女孩

I once knew a girl

who would just stand there and stare.

At anyone or anything,

she seemed not to care

我曾经认识一个女孩

她只是站在那里凝视着

所有的人所有的东西

她似乎都不在乎

She'd stare at the ground,

她凝视大地

She'd stare at the sky.

她凝视天空

She'd stare at you for hours,

and you'd never know why.

她会几小时几小时的盯着你

你永远不会知道为什么

But after winning the local staring contest,

在赢得了当地的凝视大赛后

she finally gave her eyes

a well-deserved rest.

她终于给了双眼

应得的休息

The Boy with Nails in his Eyes

眼睛里有钉子的男孩

The Boy with Nails in his Eyes

put up his aluminum tree.

It looked pretty strange

because he couldn't really see.

眼睛里有钉子的男孩

做着他的铝树

这看起来真奇怪

因为他什么也看不到

The Girl with many Eyes

很多眼睛的女孩

One day in the park

I had quite a surprise.

I met a girl

who had many eyes.

那天我在公园里着实被吓了一跳

我遇见了一个女孩

一个有很多眼的女孩

She was really quite pretty

(and also quite shocking!)

and I noticed she had a mouth,

so we ended up talking.

她非常的漂亮

（也相当的震撼）

我注意到她有一张嘴

于是我们开始交谈

We talked about flowers,

and her poetry classes,

and the problems she'd have

if she ever wore glasses.

我们谈论了花朵

她的诗歌课

以及如果她戴眼镜那将会是件多么麻烦的事

It's great to now a girl

who has so many eyes,

but you really get wet

when she breaks down and cries.

认识一个很多眼睛的女孩

真的是件很棒的事

只是

如果她因为绝望而大哭起来

你一定会湿透

Stain Boy

污迹男孩

Of all the super heroes,

the strangest one by far,

doesn't have a special power,

or drive a fancy car.

在所有的超级英雄里

他是有史以来最奇怪的那个

既没有超能力

也没有一辆拉风的车

next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame.

But to me he is quite special,

and Stain Boy is his name.

比起超人和蝙蝠侠，我想他是不值一提的

但是对于我他却那么的特别

他叫做污迹男孩

He can't fly around tall buildings,

or outrun a speeding train,

the only talent he seems to have

is to leave a nasty stain.

他不能飞过高楼大厦

或者从高速的火车中跳下

他唯一的天赋就是

留下一片让人讨厌的污迹

Sometimes I know it bothers him,

that he can't run or swim or fly,

and because of this one ability,

his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.

我知道有些时候这让他烦恼

他不会奔跑，游泳或飞翔

而且

因为他那唯一的能力

他的干洗账单总是高的惊人

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

牡蛎男孩忧郁之死

He proposed in the dunes,

他在沙漠里求婚，

they were wed by the sea,

他们在海边结婚

Their nine-day-long honeymoon

was on the isle of Capri.

他们9天的蜜月

在卡布里岛

For their supper they had one specatular dish-

a simmering stew of mollusks and fish.

And while he savored the broth,

her bride’s heart made a wish.

晚饭时他们有特别的菜

一些牡蛎和鱼的汤

当他们尝过了肉汤

新娘许下了愿望

That wish came true-she gave birth to a baby.

But was this little one human

Well, maybe.

那个愿望很快实现

他们有了一个孩子

但那是个小孩么？

也许，是的。

Ten fingers, ten toes,

he had plumbing and sight.

He could hear, he could feel,

but normal?

Not quite.

This unnatural birth, this canker, this blight,

was the start and the end and the sum of their plight.

10个手指，10个脚趾

看到到，听得见，感觉的到

但是，正常么？

说不上

那不同寻常的出生，那腐败，那枯萎

是他们困境的开始和结束

She railed at the doctor:

"He cannot be mine.

He smells of the ocean, of seaweed and brine."

她对医生说：

“他不可能是我的

他闻起来像海洋，海草或是盐水."

"You should count yourself lucky, for only last week,

I treated a girl with three ears and a beak.

That your son is half oyster

you cannot blame me.

... have you ever considered, by chance,

a small home by the sea?"

“你应该看看自己的运气，

上个星期，我治疗了一个由三个耳朵一个喙的女孩

你的孩子是半个牡蛎

你不能责备我

……你有没有偶尔想过

在海边安个家”

Not knowing what to name him,

they just called him Sam,

or sometimes,

"that thing that looks like a clam"

不知道怎么起名字

他们叫他萨姆

或别的什么

“那东西看起来像蛤蜊”

Everyone wondered, but no one could tell,

When would young Oyster Boy come out of his shell?

每个人都好奇，但没人说的出来

什么时候牡蛎男孩从他的壳里出来？

When the Thompson quadruplets espied him one day,

they called him a bivalve and ran quickly away.

当汤普森四胞胎看到他的那天

他们叫他软体动物，然后快速跑开

One spring afternoon,

Sam was left in the rain.

At the southwestern corner of Seaview and Main,

he watched the rain water as it swirled

down the drain.

一个春天的午后

萨姆被留在了雨中

在海边和陆地的西南角

他看着雨水形成漩涡

冲进下水道

His mom on the freeway

in the breakdown lane

was pouding the dashboard-

she couldn’t contain

the ever-rising grief,

frustration,

and pain.

他妈妈待在路上

在坏掉的小路旁

他无法承受

这样的伤心和痛苦

"Really, sweetheart," she said

"I don’t mean to make fun,

but something smells fishy

and I think it’s our son.

I don’t like to say this, but it must be said,

you’re blaming our son for your problems in bed."

“真的，亲爱的，”她说

“我不是说要作乐，

但是有东西闻起来很腥

我想那时我们的儿子。

我不想谈这个，但我必须说

你在为了自己在床上的问题责备我的孩子。”

He tried salves, he tried ointments

that turned everything red.

He tried potions and lotions

and tincture of lead.

He ached and he itched and he twitched and he bled.

他尝试涂抹各种药膏、油膏，

只换来全身的红肿。

他试过多种口服剂、酒精，

甚至是含铅的毒酒，

他即痒又痛、全身抽搐，并且开始流血。

The doctor diagnosed,

"I can’t quite be sure,

but the cause of the problem may also be the cure.

They say oysters improve your sexual powers.

Perhaps eating your son

would help you do it for hours!"

医生提出诊断，

“我还不能确定，

但造成问题的起因，可能也是治疗的良方。

大家都说牡蛎可以增加性能力，

或者把你的儿子吃下去，

会帮助你持续好几个小时呢！”

He came on tiptoe,

he came on the sly,

sweat on his forehead,

and on his lips-a lie.

"Son, are you happy? I don’t mean to pry,

but do you dream of Heaven?

Have you ever wanted to die?

他踮着脚尖，

偷偷地走进房内，

前额冒出汗珠，嘴唇——

吐出骗人的谎言：

“儿子呀！你快乐吗？我不是有意刺探，

但你可曾梦见天堂？

你曾渴望死亡吗？”

Sam blinked his eye twice.

but made no reply.

Dad fingered his knife and loosened his tie.

山姆眨了两次眼睛，

口中却没有回答，

爸爸拿起刀子，解开领带。

As he picked up his son,

Sam dripped on his coat.

With the shell to his lips,

Sam slipped down his throat.

他举起他的儿子

山姆滴答的落在他的外套上，

当他把壳放到嘴边，

山姆也就滑进他的喉咙。

They burried him quickly in the sand by the sea

-sighed a prayer, wept a tear-

and they were back home by three.

A cross of greay driftwood marked Oyster Boy’s grave.

Words writ in the sand

promised Jesus would save.

他们立刻把山姆埋进海边的沙堆里。

——简单的一声祈祷，流完一行眼泪——

三点时回到家里。

灰色的浮木十字架上写着“牡蛎男孩之墓”。

沙上的墓志铭写着：

“神呀，请你救救他吧

But his memory was lost with one high-tide wave.

但是他的记忆随着一个大浪消失了。

Stain Boy's Special Christmas

污迹男孩别开生面的圣诞节

For Christmas, Stain Boy got a new uniform.

It was clean and well pressed,

comfy and warm.

圣诞节，污染男孩得到了新衣服

他干净又整洁

舒适又温暖

But in few short minutes,

(no longer than ten)

但是仅仅几分钟

（不多于10）

those wet, greasy stains

started forming again.

那些湿乎乎的油腻的脏东西

又来了。

The Girl Who Turned into a Bed

变成一张床的女孩

It happened that day

she picked up a strange pussy willow.

Her head swelled up white

and a soft as a pillow.

这是那天发生的

她捡起一株奇怪的猫柳

她的头膨胀起来

柔软的像个枕头

Her skin, which had turned

all flaky and rotten,

was now replaced

with 100% cotton.

她的皮肤，

变得薄而腐烂

现在被100%的羊毛

取代

Through her organs and torso

she sprouted like wings,

a beautiful set

of matress and springs.

她的器官和躯干

像翅膀一样萌发

一个漂亮的

弹簧和床垫

It was so terribly strange

that I started to weep.

But at least after that

I had a nice place to sleep

那时如此残忍而奇怪

我开始流泪

但至少在那以后

我有个好地方睡觉

Roy, the Toxic Boy

罗伊，那个剧毒男孩

To those who knew him

-his friends-

we called him Roy.

To others he was known

as that horrible Toxic Boy.

熟悉他的人

-他的朋友-

他们喊他Roy

而那些知道他的人

叫他有毒的男孩

He loved ammonia and asbestos,

and lots of cigarette smoke.

What he breathed in for air

would make other people choke!

他喜欢氨水和石棉

还有许多烟草的烟雾

他从空气中吸入的

会让其他人窒息！

His very favorite toy

was a can of aerosol spray;

he’d sit quietly and shake it,

and spray it all the day.

他最喜欢的玩具

是一铁罐喷射型气雾剂

他曾经安静的坐着，摇晃那个铁罐

整天喷射

He’d stand inside the garage

in the early-morning frost,

waiting for the car to start

and fill him with exhaust.

他曾经站在车库里

在清晨的严寒中

等待汽车发动

用尾气填充他

The one and only time

I ever saw Toxic Boy cry

was when some sodium chloride

got into his eye.

唯一的一次

我看到有毒的男孩哭泣

是一些氯化钠进入了他的眼睛

One day for fresh air

they put him in the garden.

一天，为了新鲜的空气

他们把他放进了花园

His face went deathly pale

and his body began to harden.

他的脸变得死一样的灰白

他的身体开始僵硬

The final gasp of his short life

was sickly with despair.

Whoever thought that you could die

from breathing outdoor air?

他短暂的生命中的最后一次喘息

是惨淡的，混合着绝望

谁会想到你会死

因为呼吸了室外的空气

As Roy’s soul left his body

we all said a silent prayer.

It drifted up to heaven

and left a hole in the ozone layer

Roy的灵魂离开他的身体的时候

我们都无声的祈祷

它飘进了天堂

在臭氧层留下了一个洞

James

詹姆斯

Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware that

he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier that year

不明智的，桑塔把一个泰迪熊给詹姆斯，忽略了他今年早些时候

曾经被一只灰熊袭击

Stick Boy's Festive Season

木棍男孩的圣诞季节

Stick Boy noticed that his Christmas tree looked healthier

than he did.

木棍男孩发现，他的圣诞树，看起来比他还要健康

Brie Boy

干酪男孩

Brie Boy had a dream he had only had twice,

that his full, round head was only a slice.

干酪男孩有一个做过两次的梦

他饱和圆满的头只剩下薄片

The other children never let Brie Boy play ...

... but at least he went well with a nice Chardonnay.

其他的男孩从来不让干酪男孩玩

……但至少他喝夏敦埃酒时还不错。

Mummy Boy

木乃伊男孩

He wasn’t soft and pink

witha fat little tummy;

he was hard and hollow,

a little boy mummy.

既不柔软，也没有血色

少了个圆滚滚油嘟嘟的小肚子

他身体僵硬空虚

是一个小小的男孩木乃伊

"Tell us, please, Doctor,

the reason or cause,

why our gundle of joy

is just a bundle of gauze."

“医生，请告诉我们,

理由或者原因，

为什么我们快乐的源泉

只是一捆纱布”

"My diagnosis," he said

"for better or worse,

is that your son is the result

of an old pharoah’s curse."

“据我的诊断，”他说，

“无论如何，

你儿子是法老王诅咒的产物”

That night they talked

of their son’s odd condition-

they called him "a reject

from an archaeological expidition."

那天晚上

他们讨论着他们儿子的奇怪症状

他们称之为

“一次考古远征的废弃物”

They thought of some complex

scientific explanation,

but assumed it was simple

supernatural reincarnation.

他们想出了一些错综复杂的科学解释

却假定那不过是简单的超自然转世

With the other young tots

he only played twice,

an ancient game of vergin sacrifice.

(But the kids ran away, saying, "You aren’t very nice.")

他只和其他的小孩子们一起玩过两次

一个远古的处女献祭游戏

（但是孩子们都跑开了，说：“你一点都不好看”）

alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,

then went to the cabinet

where the snack food was kept.

被抛弃的独自一人，木乃伊男孩哭了

跑到放了点心的橱柜旁

He wiped his wet slockets with his mummified sleeves,

and sat down to a bowl of sugar-frosted tanna leaves.

他用自己的木乃伊袖子擦干了狭长的眼窝

坐下来打开了一瓶沾着糖霜的棕褐色叶子

One dark, gloomy day,

from out of the fog,

appeared a little white mummy dog.

在一个阴沉灰暗的日子

一条小小的白色木乃伊狗从雾里出现了

For his newfound wrapped pet,

he did many things,

like building a dog house

à la Pryimid of kings.

为了他新找到的缠着绷带的宠物，

他做了很多事，

建了个狗屋，

就像一座国王的金字塔

It was late in day-

just before dark.

Mummy Boy took his dog

for a walk in the park.

一天，很晚了

眼看就要天黑，

木乃伊男孩带着他的狗

在公园里散步

The park was empty

except for a squirrel,

and a birthday party for a Mexican girl.

公园里空空如也

除了一只松鼠

和一个墨西哥女孩的生日聚会

The boys and girls had all started to play,

but noticed that thing that looked like a papíer maché.

男孩子女孩子们都开始玩了

却发现那狗看起来像一团混凝纸

"Look its a pí?ata,"

said one of the boys,

"Let’s crack it wide open

and get the candy and toys."

“看它的pí?ata，”

一个男孩说，

“我们去把它撕开，

把里面的糖果和玩具拿出来”

They took a baseball bat

and whacked open his head.

Mummy Boy fell to the ground;

he finally was dead.

他们拿来一根棒球棍

猛的敲开他的头

木乃伊男孩倒下了

最后，他死了

Inside of his head

were no candy or prizes,

jast a few stray bettles

of various sizes.

在他心里

没有糖果也没有战利品

只不过是几只大小不一的彷徨的甲壳虫

Junk Girl

垃圾女孩

There once was a girl

who was made up of junk.

She looked really dirty,

and she smelled like a skunk.

曾经有一个用垃圾制作的女孩

她看起来真的很脏

而且她闻起来像个臭鼬

She was always unhappy,

or in one of her slumps-perhaps ’cause she spent

so much time down in the dumps.

她总是不快乐

或者在她的一个颓废的设想中

导致她在抑郁中花费了如此之多的时间

The only bright moment

was from a guy named Stan.

He was from the neighborhood

garbage man.

唯一欢快的时刻

来自于一个叫做Stan的家伙

他来自附近

垃圾清理工

He loved her a lot

and made a marriage proposal,

but she already thrown herself

in the garbage disposal.

他非常爱她

而且做出了结婚的建议

但是她把自己扔进了垃圾处理站

The Pin Cushion Queen

针插女王

Life isn’t easy

for the Pin Cushion Queen.

When she sits alone on her throne

Pins push through her spleen.

生活不容易

对针插女王来说

当她独自坐在她的王座上的时候

钉子穿透了她的脾

Melonhead

南瓜头

There once was a morose melonhead,

who sat there all day

and wished he were dead.

曾经有一个郁闷的南瓜头

整天的坐在那里

希望他已经死了

But you should be careful

about the things that you wish.

Because the last thing he heard

was a deafening squish.

但是你应该小心你所希望的事情

因为他最后听到的

是震耳欲聋的咯吱声

Sue

苏

To avoid a law suit,

we’ll just call her Sue

(or "that girl who likes

to sniff lots of glue").

为了避免千篇一律

我们将叫她Sue

（或者“那个喜欢嗅胶水的女孩”）

The reason I know

that this is the case

is when she blow her nose,

我所知道的原因

是这种情况

她擤鼻子的时候

kleenex sticks to her face.

面巾纸粘到了她的脸上

Jimmy, the Hideous Penguin Boy

吉米，那个丑陋的企鹅男孩

"My name is Jimmy,

but my friends just call me

’the hideous penguin boy.’"

“我的名字是吉米

但是我的朋友们叫我

‘丑陋的企鹅’”

Char Boy

烧焦的男孩

For Christmas, Char boy received his usual lumps of coal,

which made him very happy

圣诞节，烧焦的男孩收到了他惯例的块煤

让他非常的高兴

For Christmas, Char Boy received a small present instead of

his usual lump of coal,

which confused him very much.

圣诞节，烧焦的男孩收到了一个小礼物取代了他惯例的块煤

让他十分的困惑

For Christmas Char Boy was mistaken for a dirty fireplace

and swept out into the street.

圣诞节，烧焦的男孩被错误的带到了一个肮脏的壁炉

然后被清扫到了大街上

Anchor Baby

锚儿

There was a beautiful girl

who came from the sea.

And there was just one place

that she wanted to be.

有一个来自大海的美丽的女孩

她只有一个想去的地方

With a man named Walker

who played in a band.

She would leave the ocean

and come onto the land.

一个叫做Walker的男人

一个在乐队里表演的人

她要离开海洋

到陆地上去

He was the one that she wanted the most.

And she tried everything

to capture this ghost.

他是她最想要的

她试过了所有的方法来俘获这个幽灵

But throughout all their lives

they never connected.

She wandered the earth

alone and rejected

但是贯穿他们的整个生命

他们始终没有联系过

她在地球上排行

孤独，不屈服

She tried looking happy

she tried looking tragic,

she tried astral projecting,

sex, and black magic.

她试过高兴的样子

她试过悲惨的样子

她试过星型的方案，性，还有黑魔法

Nothing could join them,

except maybe one thing,

just maybe...

something to anchor their spirits....

They had a baby.

没有什么可以加入他们

除了一件可能的东西

只是可能……

稳定他们的灵魂的东西

他们有了一个孩子

But to give birth to a baby

they needed a crane.

the umbilical cord

was in the form of a chain.

但是要生一个孩子

他们需要一个吊架

脐带的束缚

是以链条的形式

It was ugly and gloomy,

and as hard as a kettle.

It had no pink skin,

just heavy gray metal.

它既丑陋又阴郁

而且

他没有粉红的皮肤

只是沉重的灰色金属

The baby that was meant to bring them together,

just shrouded them both

in a cloud of foul weather.

这个孩子的意义是把他们带到了一起

把他们两个遮挡

在恶劣天气的一片云里

So Walker took off

to play with the band.

And from that day on,

he stayed mainly on land.

所以Walker离开了

和乐队一起演奏

而且从那天开始

他就主要待在陆地上

And she was alone

with her gray baby anchor,

who got so oppressive

that eventually sank her.

她孤零零的一个人

和她的灰色的像锚一样的孩子

他是如此的沉重

最终使她沉没

As she went to the bottom,

not fulfilling her wish,

it was her, and her baby ...

and a few scattered fish.

她沉到底的时候

没有完成她的愿望

那是她，她的孩子

还有一些分散的鱼

Oyster Boy Steps Out

牡蛎男孩出门去

For Halloween,

Oyster Boy decided to go as a human.

为了万圣节前夕

牡蛎男孩决定要像人类一样的离开