莱奥纳尔达·钱丘利：人肉肥皂制作者：英语精读讲义

Following on from our strangest serial killer in the US, 表達脈絡

继美国最离奇的连环杀手之后，

we now bring you one of the weirdest tales from the dark side of humanity. 習語

我们现在为您带来一个关于人性黑暗面的最诡异的故事之一。

Okay, so our woman of the hour may not have been as bestial as lady killer Ted Bundy, 講解

好吧，我们今天的主角也许不像女性杀手泰德·邦迪那样野蛮，

or as utterly demented as Ed Gein,

也不像喜欢穿着死女人的皮制成衣服的

the man who liked to dress in skin suits made from dead women,

艾德·盖恩那样彻底疯狂，

but she has certainly worked her way into the serial killer hall of infamy just for originality. 講解

但她绝对仅凭着创意，就成功挤进了连环杀手的恶人堂。

It's conceivable the novel and then movie Fight Club 語法

可以想象，小说及后来的电影《搏击俱乐部》

may have used her wicked deeds as inspiration

在关于抽脂废料制成肥皂的情节上，

regarding soap made out of liposuction waste, 短語搭配

可能就是以她的邪恶行径为灵感的，

so we can say she made her mark on history. 習語

所以我们可以说她在历史上留下了自己的印记。

Welcome to this episode of the Infographic Show,

欢迎收看本期《信息图表秀》，

Leonarda Cianciulli, aka the human flesh soap maker.

莱昂纳达·西安丘利，又名“人肉肥皂制造者”。

Okay, so there isn't really a big reveal to this show as the title pretty much explains what this serial killer got up to. 講解

好的，本期节目其实没有太大的悬念，因为标题基本上已经解释了这位连环杀手做过什么。

But who was she before she started making lumps of soap out of the people she killed?

但在她开始把她杀死的人做成肥皂块之前，她到底是个什么样的人呢？

Let's start with a short bio.

让我们先从一段简短的生平说起。

Leonarda Cianciulli, aka the human soap maker,

莱昂纳达·西安丘利，又名“人肉肥皂制造者”，

aka the soap maker of Correggio,

又称“科雷焦的造皂师”，

in Italian it sounds much more poetic,

在意大利语中听起来更有诗意一些，

la saponificatrice di Correggio,

叫“la saponificatrice di Correggio”，

was born in 1894 and lived until an old age dying in 1970.

生于1894年，活到了高龄，于1970年去世。

Her childhood wasn't easy,

她的童年并不顺利，

and reading about it,

读完关于她的童年经历后，

you might not be surprised that she turned out uh a little odd. 語法

你可能就不会对她变得，呃，有点古怪感到惊讶了。

Apparently her mother was a nasty woman

据说她的母亲是个脾气暴躁的女人，

telling Leonarda that she was cursed by the devil and that her life would come to nothing. 習語

她告诉莱昂纳达，说她被魔鬼诅咒了，一辈子都会一事无成。

That's not easy on a child,

这对一个孩子来说很难承受，

and when she was a teenager,

当她十几岁的时候，

she tried to commit suicide not once but twice. 短語搭配

她曾不止一次而是两次尝试自杀。

She was yet another serial killer with what is known as an overbearing mother. 短語搭配

她又是一个拥有所谓“强势母亲”的连环杀手。

She then met a fellow when she got older,

长大后她遇到了一个男人，

a registry office clerk,

是一名婚姻登记处的职员，

but he wasn't quite what her mother was expecting 語法

但他并不符合她母亲的期望，

and so the man was vociferously disapproved of. 用詞

因此这个男人遭到了强烈反对。

She had in total 17 kids,

她总共生了17个孩子，

which is quite the accomplishment, 語法

这可以说是个不小的成就，

but unfortunately only four of them lived past the age of 10.

但遗憾的是，其中只有四个活过了10岁。

You could say after all that heartbreak and pain,

你可以说在经历了所有这些心碎和痛苦之后，

she was a protective mother to those that survived.

她对那些幸存下来的孩子成了一位极具保护欲的母亲。

Leonarda doted on her kids, 短語搭配

莱昂纳达非常溺爱她的孩子，

but she was full of anger at what life had thrown at her, 習語

但她对生活强加给她的一切充满愤怒，

and it threw a lot more than dying children and miscarriages.

而生活塞给她的，远不止是孩子的夭折和流产。

Perhaps it was very much her fault when she got imprisoned for fraud at the age of 33,

33岁那年她因诈骗入狱，这也许很大程度上是她自己的错，

but when an earthquake destroyed her house a few years later,

但几年后一场地震摧毁了她的房子，

that seemed like rotten luck again.

这似乎又是她倒霉透顶。

Nonetheless, this unlucky woman was apparently well liked in her community,

尽管如此，这位不幸的女人在社区里似乎还是很受大家欢迎的，

if not in her own mind doomed somewhat.

哪怕在她自己心里觉得自己多少有些厄运缠身。

In fact, it's said she even believed that her mother was right

事实上，据说她甚至相信她母亲是对的，

and indeed she was cursed.

她确实被诅咒了。

She went to see a Gypsy fortune teller, 用詞

她去看了吉普赛算命先生，

but that just made matters a lot worse as it said this is what she was told: 短語搭配

但这只是让事情变得更糟，因为据说算命先生是这样告诉她的：

"In your right hand I see prison,

“在你的右手，我看到了监狱，

in your left a criminal asylum."

在你的左手，我看到了精神病院。”

Okay, so you kind of get the picture. 習語

好吧，你大概能猜到是怎么回事了。

This is a woman who had a brutal life,

这是一个生活残酷的女人，

but on the surface of things she looked okay. 習語

但表面上她看起来还算正常。

Her neighbors liked her and she was a loving mother to the dear children that didn't kick the bucket before they got out of primary school, 習語

邻居们喜欢她，她也是个慈爱的母亲，照顾着那些没在小学毕业前就夭折的宝贝孩子们，

but something sinister was lurking behind the scenes. 習語

但在幕后，却潜伏着险恶的东西。

Imagine this: 表達脈絡

想象一下这个场景：

one day your neighbor, a loving mother and good friend,

有一天，你的邻居，一位慈爱的母亲和好朋友，

the owner of a shop in town,

镇上一家商店的老板，

a trusted member of the community,

社区里备受信任的一员，

invites you for cake and coffee.

邀请你去吃蛋糕喝咖啡。

You accept the offer and are greeted with some sweet-tasting cakes,

你接受了邀请，并受到了一些味道甜美的蛋糕的款待，

only you don't know that the cakes are part human.

只是你不知道这些蛋糕的一部分是用人肉做的。

Yes, between 1939 and 1940,

是的，在1939年到1940年之间，

when she was about 42 or 43,

当她大约42或43岁时，

Leonarda murdered three women.

莱昂纳达谋杀了三名女性。

The story goes that she wasn't just killing because she was inherently evil, 表達脈絡

据说她杀人不仅仅是因为她本性邪恶，

but she believed, again, that she was cursed and that to keep her remaining kids alive,

而且她再次相信，她被诅咒了，为了让她剩下的孩子们活下去，

she had to make some sacrifices, as you do. 語氣意圖

她必须做出一些牺牲，这是人的本能。

She was particularly concerned about her favorite son Giuseppe,

她特别担心她最喜欢的儿子朱塞佩，

who had just signed up to the Italian army 短語動詞

他刚刚报名加入意大利军队，

and was about to join the battlefields of bloody Europe. 語法

即将奔赴欧洲血腥的战场。

So, that's what she did.

所以，她就这样做了。

She made some sacrifices like those old-school Aztecs who propitiated the gods with human blood. 用詞

她做出了一些牺牲，就像那些用人血讨好神明的古老阿兹特克人一样。

Leonarda lured these women into her shop and then drugged them. 短語搭配

莱昂纳达把这些女人骗到她的店里，然后把她们迷晕。

After they passed out, 短語動詞

在她们昏过去之后，

she killed them with an ax and then boiled their bodies in caustic soda. 用詞

她用斧头杀了她们，然后把她们的尸体放在烧碱里煮。

So far so good, 語氣意圖

到目前为止一切顺利，

but that doesn't mean everything just disappears. 語法

但这并不意味着所有东西都会消失。

In her own diaries,

在莱昂纳达自己的日记中，

Leonarda described what was left as a thick dark mush.

她将残骸描述为浓稠深色的泥状物。

So, our killer went a step further. 習語

于是，我们的杀手又更进一步。

You might know that regular soap often contains animal fats.

你可能知道，普通的肥皂通常含有动物脂肪。

So, Miss Cianciulli realized she could turn human fat into soap. 短語搭配

因此，西安丘利女士意识到她可以把人的脂肪做成肥皂。

She actually explained this in her diaries.

她实际上在日记中解释了这一点。

Her flesh was fat and white.

她的肉又胖又白。

When it had melted, 語法

当它融化后，

I added a bottle of cologne and after a long time on the boil, 用詞

我加入了一瓶古龙水，然后在煮了很长时间后，

I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap.

我做成了一些非常令人满意的奶油般细腻的肥皂。

I gave bars to neighbors and acquaintances.

我把肥皂送给了邻居和熟人们。

What a sweet gift that was, 語氣意圖

那真是一份甜蜜的礼物，

and Leonarda went as far as to call the remains of her victims very sweet. 講解

而莱昂纳达甚至称她受害者的残骸“非常甜美”。

She didn't stop there, though. 表達脈絡

不过，她并没有就此止步。

Waste not, want not was likely her motto. 習語

“勤俭节约，吃穿不缺”可能就是她的座右铭。

She used part of this mush to make what she called crunchy cakes.

她用这团泥状物的一部分做成了她所谓的“脆饼干”。

This wasn't, it seems,

这似乎并不是，

out of rage towards her neighbors

出于对邻居们的愤怒，

because she said she and her sons all ate the delicious cakes.

因为她说她和她的儿子们都吃了那些美味的蛋糕。

She said of her process,

她在谈到自己的制作过程时说，

"As for the blood in the basin, 表達脈絡

“至于盆里的血，

I waited until it had coagulated,

我等到它凝固，

dried it in the oven,

在烤箱里烘干，

ground it, and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk, and eggs,

磨碎，然后与面粉、糖、巧克力、牛奶和鸡蛋混合，

as well as a bit of margarine,

再加上一点人造黄油，

kneading all the ingredients together."

把所有的原料揉在一起。”

Voila, human cake. 用詞

看哪，人肉蛋糕。

You could at least call her resourceful,

你至少可以说她很足智多谋，

which isn't necessarily a bad thing during a World War. 語法

在世界大战期间，这不一定是一件坏事。

But she wasn't exactly a clever killer and was easily found out. 講解

但她绝不是一个聪明的杀手，很容易就被识破了。

You see, she didn't just make things from her victims, 語法

你看，她不仅用她的受害者制作东西，

but she scammed them out of money, too. 短語搭配

她还骗了她们的钱。

She went as far as to tell these women that she had found a great teaching job for them abroad,

她甚至告诉这些女人，她为她们在国外找到了一份很棒的教书工作，

and just before they set off, 短語動詞

就在她们出发前，

Leonarda coerced them to write to their family and friends 用詞

莱昂纳达强迫她们写信给家人和朋友，

explaining that they would be leaving the country for a while to work.

解释说她们将离开国家一段时间去工作。

There was no job, of course,

当然，根本没有工作，

and a fate worse than cake awaited them. 習語

等待她们的是比变成蛋糕更悲惨的命运。

One such victim, Virginia Cacioppo,

其中一位名叫弗吉尼亚·卡乔波的受害者

had disappeared and her sister had said the last person who had seen her was that shopkeeper called Leonarda.

失踪了，她的妹妹说最后一个见到她的人就是那个叫莱昂纳达的店主。

She didn't buy into the teaching job and believed a cunning canard had taken place. 講解

她不相信教书工作的说辞，并认为这是一个狡猾的谎言。

She was right.

她是对的。

Later, Leonarda would remark that this was her best victim in terms of how she turned out on the plate and in the bathroom.

后来，莱昂纳达评论说，就装在盘子里和放在浴室里的成品而言，这是她最棒的受害者。

In her diaries, she wrote,

她在日记中写道，

"The cakes, too, were better.

“这些蛋糕也更好吃。

That woman was really sweet."

那个女人真是太甜美了。”

At first, the Italian cops accused Leonarda,

起初，意大利警察指控莱昂纳达，

who denied any wrongdoing.

她否认有任何不法行为。

But then the cops accused her son,

但后来警察指控了她的儿子，

good old Giuseppe,

好儿子朱塞佩，

and that was too much to bear for the doting mother. 習語

这对于这位溺爱孩子的母亲来说实在难以承受。

She confessed to everything, 短語搭配

她承认了一切，

even the soap and cake bit. 用詞

甚至承认了肥皂和蛋糕的部分。

Not surprisingly, this soon became a cause célèbre in Italy. 用詞

毫不奇怪，这很快成了意大利的轰动案件。

The trial lasted three days and after that,

审判持续了三天，在那之后，

our loving mother would spend a total of 30 years in prison

我们慈爱的母亲将在监狱里度过整整30年，

and three years in an asylum.

并在精神病院里度过3年。

She died at age 76 from a cerebral apoplexy. 用詞

她76岁时死于脑卒中。

She still causes shivers down people's spines today 習語

直到今天，她依然让人不寒而栗，

as you can see her ax and other instruments,

因为你可以在意大利罗马的犯罪学博物馆，

including the pot in which she boiled the bodies, 語法

看到她的斧头和其他工具，

at the Criminology Museum in Rome, Italy.

包括那个用来煮尸体的锅。

Well, that's all we have to say about this strange cannibal. 表達脈絡

好了，关于这个奇怪的食人魔我们就说这么多了。

Only in Italy can a cannibal turn her victim not only into a delicious dessert, 語法

只有在意大利，食人魔才能将她的受害者不仅变成美味的甜点，

but also a sweet fragrance.

还能变成甜美的香气。

What are your thoughts regarding this serial killer?

你对这个连环杀手有什么看法？

Pure evil or worthy of sympathy? 短語搭配

纯粹的邪恶还是值得同情？

Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

在评论区让我们知道你的想法吧。

Also, be sure to check out our other video called Worst Punishments in the History of Mankind.

此外，一定要看看我们的另一个视频，名为《人类历史上最严酷的惩罚》。

Thanks for watching and as always,

感谢观看，一如既往，

don't forget to like, share, and subscribe.

不要忘记点赞、分享和订阅。

See you next time.

下次见。