内容简介

《海浪》是一本回忆录，描写作者亲身经历的2004年印度洋海啸，客观地陈述了灾难场景，以及灾难过后自己一个人的痛苦的生活，是极具感染力的一部回忆录。本次翻译实践节选书中的第3页到第29页进行翻译。

翻译所选段落，向读者们展示了一个真实的海啸场景，以及作者经历海啸时的恐惧和失去所有亲人时的悲痛欲绝。

前半部分主要包括发生海啸，众人遇难。

    作者从海啸还没开始之前，友人对海水的不正常涨潮的怀疑开始写，然后笔锋一转，作者发现海水很明显有异常，于是开始逃难，直到终究逃不掉被海啸席卷。

作者在描写她如何发现海水异常，如何带着孩子和丈夫逃跑，以及乘上同样逃难的吉普车，但最终仍逃不过疾驰而来的海啸的过程中，行文流畅，过渡自然，并能让人感觉到实实在在的紧迫感。  

    后半部分包括作者被救，以及她在灾难救助中心的所见所闻所感。

    于海啸中九死一生，然后被救援人员救起来送往了救助中心，作者一开始拒绝被救，因为她没有找到她的孩子和丈夫，而后在救助中心和医院里她没有等到她的家人。她意识到只有她自己活下来了，然后又不甘心地再次回去找，但仍无所获。直到货车开始运送尸体而不是幸存者时，她真正知道她的家人都没有活下来。由于她无法接受这么残酷的现实，她一直在逃避，不敢去找家人的尸体，最后为了逃避现实，她回到了科伦坡。这一部分描写细腻，情感真实，仿佛就发生在眼前，令人潸然泪下。

INTRODUCTION

 Wave is a memoir，which describes the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 that the author experienced by herself. She objectively describes the tsunami and her painful life after the tsunami. It is an appealing memoir. The memoir in pages 3 to 29 is chosen for translation.       

    This part of memoir shows a real scene of tsunami, the fear from the author and her sadness of losing all her family. 

    The former part includes the happening of tsunami and people being in distress.

    The author writes about her friend’s doubt of the unusual tide before the tsunami at first. Then she found that the wave was obviously unusual. They started to get away the hotel, but they still could not flee away and were caught by the tsunami.

    She writes clearly about how she found the unusual tide, how she took her children and her husband to flee away the hotel and how she get into a jeep car, but she still could not get away the tsunami. She describes these matters fluently with natural transition, which makes people feel a sense of urgency.

    The latter part is about her being rescued and what she saw, heard and felt in the disaster relief center.

    She escaped from the tsunami luckily, and then she was saved by the rescue worker and sent to the disaster relief center. At first, she refused to be saved, because she didn’t find her husband and children. Then she didn’t find her family in the disaster relief center and the hospital, so she realized that only she survived in her family. She came back to look for her family again, but she still could not find anyone of her family. Until the truck began to take dead bodies back instead of the survivors, she truly knew that none of her family was survived. She continually escaped from the reality and could not accept it. She dared not to seek for her family’s bodies. At last, she went to Colombo for escaping the reality. These scenes seem to appear in front of the readers ‘eyes. This part is described delicately and makes the readers tear.