回顾：种瓜得瓜

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《种瓜得瓜》。

What You Sow.

从前，有个老农民叫莎拉，她非常喜欢她的花。

Once upon a time, there was an old farmer named Sarah who loved her flowers.

她有大片大片的田地，里面种满了花，整整齐齐地排成一行行，延伸在起伏平缓的土地上。

She had giant fields full of them stretching in neat rows across the gently rolling fields.

这些花以颜色最鲜艳、气味最香甜、形状最完美而闻名全国，尤其是她的郁金香，美得简直是个传奇。

They were famous for being the brightest colored, the sweetest smelling, and the most perfectly shaped flowers in all the land, and her tulips especially were legendary for their beauty.

每天早上，莎拉都会走到田里去照料她的花，一边说：“你们好啊，我的宝贝们。”

Hello, my loves, Sarah would say each morning, walking out to tend her fields.

她会检查土壤，确保不太湿也不太干。

She would check the soil to make sure it was not too wet and not too dry.

她会仔细查看每一根茎和每一个球茎，看有没有真菌或者烂球。

She would inspect each stem and bulb for signs of fungus or bulb rot.

她对蜗牛、鼻涕虫、蚜虫以及其他想偷吃她宝贝的害虫来说，简直是个噩梦，只要它们一靠近，她就会把它们赶走。

She was a terror to snails and slugs and aphids and other pests who tried to eat her beauties and chased them away anytime they came near.

她的邻居们经常看到她趴在地上，屁股翘得老高，脸都快贴到土里了，不是在加一点骨粉或覆盖物，就是在修剪枯叶。

Her neighboring farmers more often than not found her on her hands and knees, bottom in the air, and face in the dirt, adding just a little bone meal or mulch or trimming off dead leaves.

早上好，莎拉，他们会说。

Good morning, Sarah, they'd say.

今天郁金香看起来格外好看。

The tulips are looking especially well today.

嗯。

Mhmm.

莎拉会回答，头也不抬，继续忙着弄她的花。

Sarah would answer, not bothering to look up from her plants.

我想你今年不会卖给我一些郁金香球茎吧？

I don't suppose you'd sell me some of your tulip bulbs this year, would you?

他们会问，而且总是会问。

They'd ask, and they'd always ask.

我跟你说过不行。

I've told you no.

永远不行。

Never.

莎拉会厉声回绝，然后这事就到此为止了。

Sarah would snap, and that would be the end of that.

直到几周后，又有邻居来试。

Until a few weeks later when another neighbor would try.

他们总是想弄到她的球茎。

They were always trying to get her bulbs.

他们也种郁金香，但颜色总不如莎拉的鲜艳。

They grew tulips as well, but they were never quite as bright as Sarah's.

花茎和叶子的姿态也总少了那种俏皮的倾斜和翻转，让人看了忍不住惊叹。

Never seemed to have the same playful tilt of stem and turn of leaves that made people gasp with delight.

其他农场主之间会互相交换球茎。

The other farmers would share bulbs back and forth.

如果谁有特别好看的粉色品种，就会跟邻居换一个阳光般的黄色或者深红的品种。

If one had a particularly lovely shade of pink, they'd trade it with a neighbor for a sunshiny yellow or a deep blushing red.

当然，他们之间也在竞争销售，但其实也不算真正的竞争。

Of course, they were competing with each other for sales, but not really.

他们的郁金香从来不愁卖。

There were always plenty of buyers for their tulips.

虽然他们的花没有莎拉的那么完美，但日子也过得去。

And even though their flowers weren't quite as perfect as Sarah's, they never had any trouble getting by.

所以大家都乐意分享、和睦相处，当然，莎拉除外。

That's why they were all happy to share and get along, all except for Sarah, of course.

就这样过了一段时间，直到有一年，风特别大。

Things went along this way until one year, it was especially windy.

微风拂过花丛，花朵随风摇曳，色彩明艳。

The breezes billowed through the bulbs, making them bob and bobble brightly.

风像温柔的手指，绕着花茎打转，把花粉吹得漫天飞舞。

The wind's gentle finger swirled around the stems and sent the pollen soaring.

连续几周，空气里都泛着黄色，花粉像灰尘一样落在农夫、房屋和花朵上。

For weeks, the air was tinged yellow, and it gathered like dust on farmers and homes and flowers alike.

你可能不知道，花粉对花来说非常重要。

Now in case you don't know, pollen is very important for flowers.

郁金香要结出新种子，唯一的办法就是花粉从花顶落到球茎底部。

The only way tulips can make new seeds is if the pollen from the top falls down into the bottom of the bulb.

通常，这靠的是花自己的花粉，或者附近种的花的花粉。

Usually, this happens with pollen from the flower itself or maybe from flowers planted nearby.

但要是刮起风来，什么稀奇古怪的事都可能发生。

When it's windy though, all sorts of things can happen.

有些事，莎拉根本用不上。

Things Sarah had no use for.

这是什么？

What is this?

一天早上，她的新一茬郁金香刚开始开花，她就这样喊了出来。

She cried out one morning when her new crop of tulips was beginning to flower.

我的宝贝们，我的心肝们。

My beauties, my babies.

它们还在那儿，还是那么健康，但出了个小问题。

They were still there, still healthy as ever, but there was a small problem.

在她田地边缘，靠近邻居的地方，有些郁金香没那么鲜艳了。

Along the edges of her fields, where they neared her neighbors, some of her tulips didn't shine quite as bright.

它们的花茎没有那么俏皮地倾斜，叶子也没有那种自然的卷曲。

They didn't have that playful tilt of stem and turn of leaves.

它们依然是美丽、壮观的花朵，只是没那么完美了。

They were still wonderful, beautiful, magnificent flowers, just not quite as perfect.

哦，这可不行。

Oh, this won't do.

这绝对不行。

This won't do at all.

莎拉看了看邻居家的田地。

Sarah looked into some of her neighbor's fields.

有些邻居的郁金香颜色更鲜艳。

Some of her neighbor's tulips were brighter.

有那么一瞬间，莎拉以为他们偷了她的种子，但随后她明白了真相。

For a white hot minute, Sarah thought they had managed to steal some of her seeds, but then she realized the truth.

是风的原因。

It was the wind.

那几周的风把邻居的花粉吹到了她的郁金香上，反过来也一样。

The breezy weeks had spread her neighbor's pollen into her tulips and vice versa.

他们没能拿到她的球茎，但还是得到了她的一些花。

They hadn't been able to get her bulbs, but they'd still gotten some of her flowers.

谢谢。

Thanks.

现在回到故事。

And now back to the story.

看起来有点异花授粉，邻居打电话来说。

Looks like a little, cross pollination, a neighbor called.

好吧，我们都会因此变得更好。

Well, we'll all be better for it.

没有什么比新花粉更能让花朵健康强壮了。

Nothing like some new pollen to make a flower healthy and strong.

我说得对吧？

Am I right?

莎拉厉声说：“你当然会这么说。”

Of course, you'd say that, snapped Sarah.

你得到了我的美人，我得到了你的你的

You got my beauties and I got your your

我的什么？

My what?

邻居等着听侮辱的话，说道。

Said the neighbor waiting for the insult.

你的你的暗淡的灯泡。

Your your dim bulbs.

好吧。

Alright.

别怪我。

Don't blame me.

你挡不住风的。

You can't stop the wind.

你想得美，莎拉喊道，然后气冲冲地走回她的田里。

That's what you think, Sarah shouted and then stalked away back to her fields.

她看着自己那些摇摇晃晃的宝贝。

She looked at her bobbing beauties.

她看着旋转的花粉，开始大喊。

She looked at the swirling pollen and started to shout.

不。

No.

不。

No.

不。

No.

你给我待在那儿别动。

You stay where you are.

她先是追着花粉跑，但花粉太多了，而且太小，根本抓不住。

She started by chasing the pollen around, but there was too much, and it was too small to grab.

她又试了试她的旧蝴蝶网，网很快就被染成了黄色，但对那些漫天飞舞的花粉云来说，根本没什么用。

She tried her old butterfly net, which was soon caked in yellow, but didn't even put a dent in the great blowing clouds.

接下来的一周，她的办法越来越复杂，也越来越绝望。

Over the next week, her efforts got more elaborate and more desperate.

她跟邻居们抱怨，但他们也跟她一样无能为力。

She complained to her neighbors, but they couldn't help it any more than she could.

她花钱建了围栏，但花粉云还是从上面和旁边飘过去了。

She paid to put up fences, but the clouds blew over and around.

她挂了个牌子，写着“禁止花粉入内”，但微风根本不理这些牌子，就像它们无视其他一切一样。

She hung sign that said no pollen allowed, but the gentle breezes ignored them like they ignore everything else.

最后，莎拉累得满头大汗，忙活了半天，什么成果都没有，只落得满鼻子花粉、一身汗湿的衬衫，还有瘪下去的钱包。

In the end, Sarah was tired and sweaty and had nothing to show for all her efforts, but a nose full of pollen, a sweat soaked shirt, and a lighter purse.

她垂头丧气地回了家。

She went home miserable.

我那些完美的郁金香啊，她抽泣着说。

My perfect tulips, she sobbed.

我希望它们开得鲜艳。

I want them to be bright.

我希望它们长得挺拔。

I want them to stand tall.

可我怎么跟风斗呢？

But how can I fight against the wind?

她煮了一壶茶，坐在炉火旁思考。

She put on a pot of tea and sat by her fire, thinking.

她斗不过风。

She couldn't fight the wind.

她现在明白了。

She saw that now.

不管她怎么做，她的花都会和邻居的花混在一起。

No matter what she did, her flowers were going to mix with those of her neighbors.

那些摇曳生姿的美人儿可不懂什么农场或地界。

The bobbing beauties didn't understand farms or property lines.

它们不理会标志和栅栏。

They didn't obey signs and fences.

哦，我无法把我的美关起来。

Oh, I can't cage my beauty is in.

我无法阻止花粉随风飘散。

I can't keep the pollen from the wind.

我这么努力想把花留在自家院子里，难道错了吗？

Am I wrong to try so hard and keep my flowers in my yard?

人们说，种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

They say you reap what you sow.

但我可没种那么远啊。

I ain't been sowing that far though.

我看着我的宝贝们，它们就这样飘走了。

I see my babies, off they go.

我的田地会荒芜吗？

Will my fields go fallow?

我不知道。

I don't know.

邻居们是不是发现了什么？

Are the neighbors on to something?

异花授粉有好处吗？

Is there good in cross pollination?

我不确定，但我看到的迹象表明，郁金香喜欢混合和发芽。

I can't be sure, but what I'm seeing would indicate that tulips love to mix and germinate.

所以如果所有的田地都像我的一样美丽，整个镇上的植物都会如此。

So if all the fields are as lovely as mine, the whole town's plants will be.

顶尖水平，我终于明白了这件事。

Top of the line, I finally understand the affair.

大自然的方式就是传播和分享。

Nature's way is to spread and share.

传播和分享。

Spread and share.

传播和分享，

To spread and to share,

她坐在舒适的椅子上想。

she thought, all cozy in her chair.

夜幕降临在这座小花卉农场，莎拉开始露出微笑。

As night fell on the little flower farm, Sarah started to smile.

传播和分享。

Spread and share.

它们就是这样生长的。

That's how they grow.

第二天，莎拉从她的收藏中挑选了所有最好的郁金香种球。

The next day, Sarah gathered all her best tulip bulbs from her collection.

那些能开出漂亮粉色的，那些能开出大朵阳光般黄色的，还有深红如脸颊红晕的，那些能开出虎纹橙色和猫眼金色的种球，那些能开出一整道彩虹般郁金香的种球，她所有最好最鲜艳的种球。

The ones for the pretty pinks and the ones for the big sunshiny yellows and deep blushing reds, the bulbs for the tiger oranges and the cat's eye golds, the bulbs for a rainbow's worth of tulips, all her best and brightest.

她把她多年来一直不肯卖的这些球茎全都拿了出来，送给了别人。

She took all the same bulbs she'd refused to sell for years and years and years, and she gave them away.

她挨家挨户地走，把装满她最好的球茎的篮子送出去。

She went farm to farm, leaving baskets full of her best.

邻居们简直不敢相信，但都很感激。

Her neighbors couldn't believe it, but they were thankful.

有人想给她钱，但莎拉摆摆手拒绝了。

Some offered her money, but Sarah waved them away.

我以前错了，

I was wrong before,

她总是这么说。

she would say.

传播、分享、生长，这就是大自然的规律。

To spread and to share and to grow, that's nature's way.

他们虽然觉得她有点奇怪，但还是收下了球茎，尽快种了下去。

They looked at her strangely, but they took the bulbs and planted them just as soon as they could.

很快，他们种出的郁金香就和莎拉的一样鲜艳，那些花茎的俏皮倾斜和叶片的翻转，让人看了都忍不住惊叹。

Soon, they were growing tulips as bright as Sarah's, ones that seemed to have the same playful tilt of stem and turn of leaves that made people gasp with delight.

当风吹过田野，花粉像黄色的云一样飘散，花朵们再次交融在一起。

And when the wind blew across the farms and the pollen came like a cloud of yellow, the flowers mingled once again.

但这一次，莎拉的郁金香并没有变得暗淡。

But this time, Sarah's tulips didn't grow dimmer.

不。

No.

它们和她送给邻居们种下的那些美丽花朵结合，变得比以往任何时候都更加美丽。

They combined with her neighbor's beauties, the one she had given them to plant, and became more beautiful than ever.

传播、分享，莎拉望着那片让彩虹都黯然失色的花海，心里这样想着。

To spread and to share, Sarah thought to herself as she looked out at the fields of flowers that would put a rainbow to shame.

这就是我们成长的方式。

That is how we grow.

故事结束了。

The end.

今天的故事《种瓜得瓜》是丹尼尔·海恩斯为你创作的原创故事，由我阿曼达·韦尔登为你讲述，还有一首歌也是我唱的。

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