《[HP]格林德沃与邓布利多通信集》我才不爱吃泡面

25、Gellert Grindelwald

　　December 25th, 1981

　　1981年12月25日

　　Dumbledore—

　　邓布利多——

　　I seem to be acquiring a habit of writing at Christmas. Very well, merrymaking and festivities for all, twine the holly and the ivy, etcetera, etcetera. Are people making that oh-so-common mistake of confusing good cheer with goodness?

　　我想我似乎养成了在圣诞节写信的习惯。那么，为这一切欢呼庆祝吧，将冬青木和常青藤紧紧缠绕等等。人们还总是犯那个常见的错误吗，将狂欢误当做美德？

　　I've heard wild stories. Apparently your Dark Lord was defeated by a one-year-old baby? I think you dragged your feet on this one, Albus, and you didn't even have a dead sister for an excuse.

　　我已经听说了那些疯狂的故事。据说，你的黑魔王被一个一岁的婴儿打败了？我想你办事的时候一定磨磨蹭蹭了，阿不思，这回你可没有一个死去的妹妹当作借口了。

　　But there I go again. After all these years, I thought I'd grown tired of mocking you. But you invite it so obligingly! And I will never quite cease to be angry at you. You seem to have confused that with hatred more than once.

　　不过话说回来。这么多年过去了，我以为我已经疲于嘲弄你。但是你居然这么热情地邀请它！我永远不会停止对你生气，而你似乎不止一次地将它与仇恨混为一谈。

　　The Voldemort boy—no, but I suppose he isn't a boy anymore, is he? He must be, what, at least forty by now? Not dead yet? Go off & finish the job, Dumbledore. Isn't that what you do?

　　伏地魔小子——不，我想他已经不是个小子了，对吧？他现在一定有，嗯，至少四十岁了？还没死啊？快去把这活给结了，邓布利多。这不就是你的工作吗？

　　As to remorse? That is between myself and myself. Or what's left of myself. Wavy shadow of Gellert in the grimy narrow window, faded eyes, faded face, faded will—that's his concern. Just as your own burden of guilt is your business.

　　至于忏悔？那是我自己的事情，或者说这是我自己还剩下的事。盖勒特颤抖的影子映在肮脏的窄窗上，暗淡的双眼，苍白的面颊，消沉的意志——那都是他自己的事。正如你的罪责只属于你一样。

　　How on earth did your fair island spawn its own Dark Lord anyway? We come from the wilds of the North, as a general rule.

　　究竟你们那和平的小岛上又是怎么长出自己的黑魔王的？一般来说，我们应该来自北方的荒野啊。

　　Don't waste your sincerity, seeing as it's so rare. I'm the same as always. How could I be anything else?

　　别浪费你那少得可怜的真诚了。我还是老样子，不然呢？