食人島：真實版大逃殺：英語精讀講義

Possibly the most gruesome of human taboos,

可能是人類最令人毛骨悚然的禁忌，

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

在大多數地方，食人的行為從未被社會所接受。

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

但這並不是說人類偶爾沒有吃過同類。

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

據說尼安德塔人等遠古人類不僅吃其他動物，也會把同類當作盛宴。

Meat was meat to that wandering animal.

對那些四處遊蕩的動物來說，肉就是肉。

Throughout history,

綜觀歷史，

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

從剛果到亞馬遜盆地，再到南太平洋島嶼的部落，也都曾有過食人行為。

Stranded humans have resorted to flesh breakfasts 片語搭配

受困的人類曾不得不用人肉當早餐，

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

比如唐納大隊和受困在山上的烏拉圭橄欖球隊員。

That was a matter of survival 片語搭配

那是攸關生存的問題，

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

而且吃人的大腿肉也是一個道德困境，

unlike it may have been for certain serial killers.

也許對於某些連環殺手來說情況並非如此。

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

今天，我們將在《The Infographics Show》的這一集中向您展示一個極其令人震驚的食人故事，

Cannibal Island: The Real Battle Royale.

《食人島：真實的大逃殺》。

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

這座島嶼，在一部名為《L'Île aux Cannibales》的法國紀錄片中被提及，

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

確實曾一度淪為類似《飢餓遊戲》般的險惡環境。

Call it what you want, 語氣意圖

隨你怎麼稱呼它，

but this was an historical non-fictional Battle Royale.

但這確實是一場歷史上真實發生過的「大逃殺」。

And as some historians have said,

正如一些歷史學家所說，

a blight on humanity, 慣用語

這是人類的汙點，

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

證明了我們有時能變得多麼血腥殘忍。

In 1933,

1933年，

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

蘇聯決定將大約6000人驅逐到西伯利亞的一個偏遠島嶼。

That was Nazino Island,

那就是納津諾島，

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

一個罪犯和政治犯無法逃脫的地方。

Under the paranoid leader Joseph Stalin,

在偏執的領導人約瑟夫·史達林的統治下，

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

這些人被船運送過去並拋棄，除了身上的衣服、

a few tools and flour.

一些工具和麵粉，幾乎什麼也沒有。

Those that refused to make the move were shot,

拒絕搬遷的人被槍殺，

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

而被史達林視為對共產黨的威脅，

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

或者犯了罪的數百萬人，被送到了西伯利亞的許多地方。

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

被送到這個荒島上的數千人也許是最不幸的受害者。

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

他們不僅每人只分到了幾公斤麵粉，

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

甚至連廚具或其他食物都沒有。

Guards went along too,

守衛也跟著去了，

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

當時人們認為這些囚犯多少能夠活下來。

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

但想像一下，你被扔在一個長不過2英里、寬不過1800英尺的小島上，

with thousands of other desperate people.

和成千上萬其他絕望的人在一起。

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

島上既沒有多少動物，也沒有太多可食用的植物。

What would you do?

你會怎麼做？

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

你很可能會為了分給你的麵粉而爭鬥。

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

據說囚犯們很快就吃光了麵粉，

and when authority sent over another batch,

當當局送來下一批時，

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

人們餓得拚死爭奪，

during which time many prisoners were just shot dead.

期間許多囚犯直接被槍殺。

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

據說島上的守衛也會私吞麵粉，

and if you wanted some,

如果你想要一些，

you had to pay in some way.

你必須以某種方式付出代價。

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

你只能想像這些濫用職權的人會提出什麼樣的要求。

But even if you had flour,

但即使你有了麵粉，

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

你也沒法吃，只能用河水混合著吞下。

That's what many people did,

許多人都是這麼做的，

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

很快囚犯們就患上了嚴重的痢疾。

Things went from bad to worse. 慣用語

情況每況愈下。

With many prisoners left to die,

隨著許多囚犯等死，

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

他們在島上結成幫派，計畫從別人那裡掠奪一切。

It was anarchy.

那是無政府狀態。

It was hell,

那是地獄，

the nadir of human depravity. 用詞

是人類墮落的深淵。

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

我們應該補充一點，當情況變得非常糟糕時，一些醫生被派往該島。

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

但據說就連他們也為自己的生命感到恐懼。

Power ruled,

權力至上，

and the guards it said established a reign of terror. 慣用語

據說守衛們建立了一種恐怖統治。

They killed you if you tried to escape,

如果你試圖逃跑，他們就會殺了你，

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

如果你被抓到偷竊，他們也可能會殺了你。

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

島上有些人的確帶了一些貴重物品，

such as their rings,

比如戒指、

their gold teeth,

金牙、

and some money.

還有一些錢。

They could use this to bargain with.

他們可以用這些來討價還價。

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

但據說大多數時候，如果你身上有值錢的東西，

you got killed for it.

你就會因此被殺。

Murder became commonplace as hungry men,

謀殺變得司空見慣，因為飢餓的男人們，

there were far fewer women, 文法

（女人的數量要少得多）

battled to survive.

在為生存而戰。

But murder was not the final act. 表達脈絡

但謀殺並不是最後的結局。

The consumption of the corpse was in some cases.

在某些情況下，屍體會被吃掉。

Human meat was better than starving to death,

吃人肉總比餓死好，

and in terms of nutrition, 片語搭配

而且從營養的角度來說，

a lot better than dirty water mixed with flour.

比混著麵粉的髒水好得多。

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

死亡島為數不多的倖存者之一後來講述了他親眼目睹的一件事。

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

他說有一天，一個叫Kostya的年輕守衛離開了一個和他待在一起的女孩，

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

只是離開一小會兒，因為他要去個地方。

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

據那位目擊者說，這就是發生在她身上的事。

People caught the girl,

人們抓住了那個女孩，

tied her to a poplar tree,

把她綁在一棵楊樹上，

cut off her breasts,

割下她的乳房，

her muscles,

她的肌肉，

everything they could eat,

所有他們能吃的東西，

everything.

一切。

They were hungry.

他們餓極了。

They had to eat.

他們必須吃東西。

When Kostya came back,

當Kostya回來時，

she was still alive.

她還活著。

He tried to save her,

他試圖救她，

but she had lost too much blood.

但她失血過多。

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

你必須明白，這一切都發生在很短的一段時間內。

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

大多數囚犯是在5月18日被送上島的。

Another 1,200 arrived May 27th.

另外1200人在5月27日抵達。

Within a couple of weeks,

在短短幾週內，

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,

你可能會想，人沒有食物也能活得更久，

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

但毫無疑問，他們原本就已經營養不良了。

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

有27人甚至都沒能挺過從最近的城市托木斯克到島上的旅程。

Within a month,

不到一個月的時間，

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

有50人因食人行為被守衛逮捕。

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

在被送到那裡的6700人中，

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

那個夏天只有2200人在島上倖存下來。

Of them,

在他們之中，

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

只有300人的身體狀況適合工作，因為這段經歷對他們造成了極大的摧殘。

One woman, Feofila Bailina,

一位名叫Feofila Bailina的女士，

many years later recounted a Death Island story.

許多年後講述了一個死亡島的故事。

She had lived close to the island during the chaos.

動亂期間她住得離島很近。

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

「有一次，一個從死亡島來的女人被帶到了我們家，」

she said.

她說。

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

這個女人在倖存逃離食人島後正要被送往另一個營地。

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

她並沒有完好無損地離開小島，

as Bailina remembered.

Bailina回憶道。

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

那個女人被帶到後屋過夜，

and I saw that her calves had been cut off.

我看到她的小腿肚被割掉了。

Shocked,

震驚之餘，

she asked what happened.

她問發生了什麼事。

The prisoner replied,

囚犯回答說，

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

「他們在死亡島上對我做了那種事。

Cut them off and cooked them."

割下來煮了。」

You can actually find documents in the Tomsk Museum,

你其實可以在托木斯克博物館找到相關文件，

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

也就是古拉格勞改營對囚犯的審訊筆錄。

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

有一名囚犯被問及在島上是否吃過人肉。

"No,"

「沒有，」

he replied.

他回答。

"That's not true.

「那不是真的。

I only ate the hearts and livers."

我只吃了心臟和肝臟。」

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

同一個人告訴審訊人員，在某些情況下，殺死那些瀕死的人，比讓他們繼續受苦更好。

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

「我挑那些不完全活著，

but not quite dead,"

但又沒完全死透的人，」

he said,

他說，

adding that once they were finished off, 片語動詞

並補充說，一旦把他們解決掉，

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

就會把他們切碎，放在明火上烤。

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

串起來的腎臟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,

想像一下這樣做，然後透過火焰看著你的朋友，

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

他自己也在烤著死者身上的器官。

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

我們之所以知道那裡發生了什麼，僅僅是因為一個叫Vasily Velichko的人，

a Communist himself,

他本人也是一名共產黨員，

decided it had to be investigated. 文法

決定必須對此進行調查。

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

就在最後一批人撤離該島後不久，他開始了調查。

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

但他的報告一直被列為最高機密，直到1994年才被公布。

For his efforts, 表達脈絡

因為他的這些舉動，

which embarrassed the Communist government at the time,

讓當時的共產黨政府十分難堪，

Velichko was excommunicated from the Communist Party. 用詞

Velichko因此被開除出黨。

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

他後來寫了書，並在二戰期間擔任記者。

The tragedy has not been forgotten by some Russian people,

俄羅斯人並沒有忘記這場悲劇，

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

每年都會有一群人到島上獻花圈，紀念那個血腥的夏天。

Even today,

即使在今天，

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

俄羅斯人也會把那個地方稱為死亡島，

or Ostrov Smerti in Russian.

或者俄語裡的Ostrov Smerti。

How would you feel about eating a dead person?

對於吃死人這件事，你會怎麼想？

Would you have killed to survive? 文法

你為了生存會去殺人嗎？

Had you been there?

如果你在那裡？

What would you have done?

你會怎麼做？

Let us know in the comments.

在留言區告訴我們。

Also,

此外，

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

一定要去看看我們的另一部影片《如果發生核爆炸該怎麼辦》。

Thanks for watching.

感謝收看。

And as always,

一如既往，

don't forget to like,

別忘了按讚、

share,

分享，

and subscribe.

和訂閱。

See you next time.

下次見。