食人岛：现实版的大逃杀：英语精读讲义

Possibly the most gruesome of human taboos,

可能是人类最令人毛骨悚然的禁忌，

the act of cannibalism has never been socially acceptable in most places.

在大多数地方，食人的行为从未被社会所接受。

That's not to say humans haven't eaten each other at times. 表達脈絡

但这并不是说人类偶尔没有吃过同类。

Archaic humans such as Neanderthals were said to feast on each other as well as other animals. 講解

据说尼安德特人等远古人类不仅吃其他动物，也会把同类当作盛宴。

Meat was meat to that wandering animal.

对那些四处游荡的动物来说，肉就是肉。

Throughout history,

纵观历史，

tribes from the Congo to the Amazon Basin to the South Pacific Islands have also practiced cannibalism.

从刚果到亚马逊盆地，再到南太平洋岛屿的部落，也都曾有过食人行为。

Stranded humans have resorted to flesh breakfasts 短語搭配

被困的人类曾不得不用人肉当早餐，

such as the Donner Party and the Uruguayan rugby players that got stuck on a mountain.

比如多纳小队和被困在山上的乌拉圭橄榄球员。

That was a matter of survival 短語搭配

那是关乎生存的问题，

and eating cutlets of human thigh was a moral dilemma, 用詞

而且吃人的大腿肉也是一个道德困境，

unlike it may have been for certain serial killers.

也许对于某些连环杀手来说情况并非如此。

Today, we'll show you a truly shocking tale of cannibalism in this episode of The Infographics Show,

今天，我们将在《The Infographics Show》的这一集中向您展示一个极其令人震惊的食人故事，

Cannibal Island: The Real Battle Royale.

《食人岛：真实的大逃杀》。

This island, called in a French documentary L'Île aux Cannibales,

这座岛屿，在一部名为《L'Île aux Cannibales》的法国纪录片中被提及，

was indeed for a while home to a kind of Hunger Games environment. 講解

确实曾一度沦为类似《饥饿游戏》般的险恶环境。

Call it what you want, 語氣意圖

随你怎么称呼它，

but this was an historical non-fictional Battle Royale.

但这确实是一场历史上真实发生过的“大逃杀”。

And as some historians have said,

正如一些历史学家所说，

a blight on humanity, 習語

这是人类的污点，

testament to how bloody cruel we can be at times. 短語搭配

证明了我们有时能变得多么血腥残忍。

In 1933,

1933年，

the Soviets decided to deport around 6,000 people to a remote island in Siberia.

苏联决定将大约6000人驱逐到西伯利亚的一个偏远岛屿。

That was Nazino Island,

那就是纳津诺岛，

a place where criminals and political prisoners were not going to escape from.

一个罪犯和政治犯无法逃脱的地方。

Under the paranoid leader Joseph Stalin,

在偏执的领导人约瑟夫·斯大林的统治下，

these folks were shipped off and abandoned with nothing much more than the clothes on their back, 講解

这些人被船运送过去并抛弃，除了身上的衣服、

a few tools and flour.

一些工具和面粉，几乎什么也没有。

Those that refused to make the move were shot,

拒绝搬迁的人被枪杀，

while millions of people that Stalin saw as a threat to the Communist Party

而被斯大林视为对共产党的威胁，

or who had committed crimes were sent to many parts of Siberia.

或者犯了罪的数百万人，被送到了西伯利亚的许多地方。

The thousands sent to this wild island were perhaps the most unfortunate victims.

被送到这个荒岛上的数千人也许是最不幸的受害者。

Not only were they only given a few kilos of flour each, 語法

他们不仅每人只分到了几公斤面粉，

but they weren't even given cooking utensils or other foodstuffs.

甚至连炊具或其他食物都没有。

Guards went along too,

守卫也跟着去了，

and it was thought the prisoners would be able to somehow survive.

当时人们认为这些囚犯多少能够活下来。

But imagine being dropped off on a tiny island no longer than 2 mi long and 1,800 ft across 語法

但想象一下，你被扔在一个长不过2英里、宽不过1800英尺的小岛上，

with thousands of other desperate people.

和成千上万其他绝望的人在一起。

The island wasn't home to many animals or much edible vegetation.

岛上既没有多少动物，也没有太多可食用的植物。

What would you do?

你会怎么做？

You might well fight for the flour that you'd been given. 語法

你很可能会为了分给你的面粉而争斗。

It's said the prisoners quickly ran out of flour, 短語動詞

据说囚犯们很快就吃光了面粉，

and when authority sent over another batch,

当当局送来下一批时，

the people were so hungry they fought tooth and nail to get it, 習語

人们饿得拼死争夺，

during which time many prisoners were just shot dead.

期间许多囚犯直接被枪杀。

It's also said the guards on the island would keep the flour for themselves,

据说岛上的守卫也会私吞面粉，

and if you wanted some,

如果你想要一些，

you had to pay in some way.

你必须以某种方式付出代价。

You can only imagine what favors were demanded by these abusers of power.

你只能想象这些滥用职权的人会提出什么样的要求。

But even if you had flour,

但即使你有了面粉，

you had nothing you could do with it except mix it with river water. 語法

你也没法吃，只能用河水混合着吞下。

That's what many people did,

许多人都是这么做的，

and soon prisoners fell gravely ill with dysentery. 短語搭配

很快囚犯们就患上了严重的痢疾。

Things went from bad to worse. 習語

情况每况愈下。

With many prisoners left to die,

随着许多囚犯等死，

they formed gangs on the island with a plan to take what they could from others.

他们在岛上结成帮派，计划从别人那里掠夺一切。

It was anarchy.

那是无政府状态。

It was hell,

那是地狱，

the nadir of human depravity. 用詞

是人类堕落的深渊。

We should add there that some doctors were sent to the island when things got really bad.

我们应该补充一点，当情况变得非常糟糕时，一些医生被派往该岛。

But it's said that even they feared for their lives. 短語搭配

但据说就连他们也为自己的生命感到恐惧。

Power ruled,

权力至上，

and the guards it said established a reign of terror. 習語

据说守卫们建立了一种恐怖统治。

They killed you if you tried to escape,

如果你试图逃跑，他们就会杀了你，

and they might kill you if you were caught stealing. 語法

如果你被抓到偷窃，他们也可能会杀了你。

Some people on the island did have some valuables on them,

岛上有些人的确带了一些贵重物品，

such as their rings,

比如戒指、

their gold teeth,

金牙、

and some money.

还有一些钱。

They could use this to bargain with.

他们可以用这些来讨价还价。

But it's said much of the time if you had something of value,

但据说大多数时候，如果你身上有值钱的东西，

you got killed for it.

你就会因此被杀。

Murder became commonplace as hungry men,

谋杀变得司空见惯，因为饥饿的男人们，

there were far fewer women, 語法

（女人的数量要少得多）

battled to survive.

在为生存而战。

But murder was not the final act. 表達脈絡

但谋杀并不是最后的结局。

The consumption of the corpse was in some cases.

在某些情况下，尸体会被吃掉。

Human meat was better than starving to death,

吃人肉总比饿死好，

and in terms of nutrition, 短語搭配

而且从营养的角度来说，

a lot better than dirty water mixed with flour.

比混着面粉的脏水好得多。

One of the few survivors of Death Island later talked about one thing he witnessed.

死亡岛为数不多的幸存者之一后来讲述了他亲眼目睹的一件事。

He said one day a young guard called Kostya had left a girl he had been staying with,

他说有一天，一个叫Kostya的年轻守卫离开了一个和他待在一起的女孩，

just for a short time as he had to go somewhere.

只是离开一小会儿，因为他要去个地方。

This was what happened to her according to that witness. 短語搭配

据那位目击者说，这就是发生在她身上的事。

People caught the girl,

人们抓住了那个女孩，

tied her to a poplar tree,

把她绑在一棵杨树上，

cut off her breasts,

割下她的乳房，

her muscles,

她的肌肉，

everything they could eat,

所有他们能吃的东西，

everything.

一切。

They were hungry.

他们饿极了。

They had to eat.

他们必须吃东西。

When Kostya came back,

当Kostya回来时，

she was still alive.

她还活着。

He tried to save her,

他试图救她，

but she had lost too much blood.

但她失血过多。

You must understand this all happened in a very short period of time. 表達脈絡

你必须明白，这一切都发生在很短的一段时间内。

Most of the prisoners were dropped off on May 18th.

大多数囚犯是在5月18日被送上岛的。

Another 1,200 arrived May 27th.

另外1200人在5月27日抵达。

Within a couple of weeks,

在短短几周内，

70 people had died.

有70人死去。

Five of them had been someone's breakfast,

其中5人成了某人的早餐、

lunch, or dinner.

午餐或晚餐。

You might be thinking that people can survive longer without food,

你可能会想，人没有食物也能活得更久，

but there is no doubt they were already malnourished. 短語搭配

但毫无疑问，他们原本就已经营养不良了。

27 people didn't even survive the trip to the island from the nearest city of Tomsk.

有27人甚至都没能挺过从最近的城市托木斯克到岛上的旅程。

Within a month,

不到一个月的时间，

50 people were arrested by the guards for acts of cannibalism.

有50人因食人行为被守卫逮捕。

Out of the 6,700 people that were sent there, 語法

在被送到那里的6700人中，

only 2,200 survived that one summer on the island.

那个夏天只有2200人在岛上幸存下来。

Of them,

在他们之中，

only 300 were in any fit state to work as their experience had taken such a toll on them. 講解

只有300人的身体状况适合工作，因为这段经历对他们造成了极大的摧残。

One woman, Feofila Bailina,

一位名叫Feofila Bailina的女士，

many years later recounted a Death Island story.

许多年后讲述了一个死亡岛的故事。

She had lived close to the island during the chaos.

动乱期间她住得离岛很近。

"Once a woman from the island of death was brought to our house,"

“有一次，一个从死亡岛来的女人被带到了我们家，”

she said.

她说。

The woman was being sent to another camp after surviving Cannibal Island.

这个女人在幸存逃离食人岛后正要被送往另一个营地。

She didn't exactly get off the island in one piece, 習語

她并没有完好无损地离开小岛，

as Bailina remembered.

Bailina回忆道。

The woman was taken into the back room to spend the night,

那个女人被带到后屋过夜，

and I saw that her calves had been cut off.

我看到她的小腿肚被割掉了。

Shocked,

震惊之余，

she asked what happened.

她问发生了什么事。

The prisoner replied,

囚犯回答说，

"They did that to me on the island of death.

“他们在死亡岛上对我做了那种事。

Cut them off and cooked them."

割下来煮了。”

You can actually find documents in the Tomsk Museum,

你其实可以在托木斯克博物馆找到相关文件，

transcriptions of interrogations of prisoners at the gulags. 文化背景

也就是古拉格劳改营对囚犯的审讯笔录。

One prisoner was asked if he ever ate human meat while on the island.

有一名囚犯被问及在岛上是否吃过人肉。

"No,"

“没有，”

he replied.

他回答。

"That's not true.

“那不是真的。

I only ate the hearts and livers."

我只吃了心脏和肝脏。”

The same man told his interrogators that in some cases killing people already have died from starvation was better than leaving them to suffer.

同一个人告诉审讯人员，在某些情况下，杀死那些濒死的人，比让他们继续受苦更好。

"I picked those that were not quite living, 表達脈絡

“我挑那些不完全活着，

but not quite dead,"

但又没完全死透的人，”

he said,

他说，

adding that once they were finished off, 短語動詞

并补充说，一旦把他们解决掉，

they were cut up and pieces of them were cooked over an open fire.

就会把他们切碎，放在明火上烤。

Skewered kidneys like human marshmallows tickled by the tips of raging flames. 習語

串起来的肾脏就像被熊熊烈火舔舐的人肉棉花糖。

Imagine doing that and peering over the fire at your friend,

想象一下这样做，然后透过火焰看着你的朋友，

himself cooking a part of a dead person's organ.

他自己也在烤着死者身上的器官。

We know what happened there only because one man called Vasily Velichko, 語法

我们之所以知道那里发生了什么，仅仅是因为一个叫Vasily Velichko的人，

a Communist himself,

他本人也是一名共产党员，

decided it had to be investigated. 語法

决定必须对此进行调查。

He started his investigation shortly after the last people had been taken off the island.

就在最后一批人撤离该岛后不久，他开始了调查。

But his report was kept top secret until was released in 1994.

但他的报告一直被列为最高机密，直到1994年才被公布。

For his efforts, 表達脈絡

因为他的这些举动，

which embarrassed the Communist government at the time,

让当时的共产党政府十分难堪，

Velichko was excommunicated from the Communist Party. 用詞

Velichko因此被开除出党。

He went on to write books and was a correspondent during World War II. 短語搭配

他后来写了书，并在二战期间担任记者。

The tragedy has not been forgotten by some Russian people,

俄罗斯人并没有忘记这场悲剧，

and each year a group of people lay a wreath on the island to commemorate that summer of blood. 文化背景

每年都会有一群人到岛上献花圈，纪念那个血腥的夏天。

Even today,

即使在今天，

people in Russia will refer to the place as Death Island, 短語搭配

俄罗斯人也会把那个地方称为死亡岛，

or Ostrov Smerti in Russian.

或者俄语里的Ostrov Smerti。

How would you feel about eating a dead person?

对于吃死人这件事，你会怎么想？

Would you have killed to survive? 語法

你为了生存会去杀人吗？

Had you been there?

如果你在那里？

What would you have done?

你会怎么做？

Let us know in the comments.

在评论区告诉我们。

Also,

此外，

be sure to check out our other video called What to do if there's a nuclear explosion.

一定要去看看我们的另一部视频《如果发生核爆炸该怎么办》。

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感谢收看。

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一如既往，

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