珍妮·古道尔博士 | 播下希望的种子

I put a great deal of credit for my mother because she was an extraordinary mother. And when I was born, I seemed to have an innate love of animals, I don't know where it came from I just had it.

我非常信任我的母亲，因为她是一位非常出色的母亲。我出生的时候，似乎对动物有一种与生俱来的热爱，我也不知道这种热爱是从哪里来的。

And she always supported this, so I was 18 months apparently I don't remember this, of course, but I was 18 months when she came to my room and found I've taken in a whole handful of wiggling earthworms to bed with me.

但是我母亲对此非常的支持，所以当我十八个月大的时候，当然我肯定不记得了，当我十八个月大时，她来到我房间，发现我带了一把蚯蚓到床上。

And she said: "Jane, it looks as though you were trying to work out how they walk without legs." And instead of getting mad at me and throw these dirty things out of the window, she said: "Jane they need the earth, they'll die here." And together we took them back into the garden.

她说：“珍妮，看起来你好像在弄清楚这些没有腿的小虫子是怎么走路的。”她没有对我生气，也没有把这些蚯蚓从窗户丢出去，而是说：“珍妮，它们需要泥土，在这里它们会死的。”于是我们一起把这些蚯蚓放回了花园里。

I was four and a half years old and a very exciting thing happened for me. We lived in London where there aren't that many animals. And now we went to stay on a farm in the country and in those days farms were farms and animals roamed around in the fields.

我四岁半的时候，发生了一件非常令人兴奋的事。我们当时住在伦敦，那里没有多少动物，后来我们搬到了乡下的一个农场里。那时候的农场真的是农场，动物们都在田野四处游荡。

One of my jobs was to help collect the hens' eggs and the hens were meant to lay them in these little wooden henhouses. I went around each morning and opened up the lids of the little nest boxes. If there were eggs there, I put them in my basket.

我的工作之一就是帮助收集母鸡下在鸡舍的鸡蛋。每天早上我走到鸡舍前，打开小巢箱的盖子，如果里面有鸡蛋，我就捡起来放到篮子里。

And apparently I started asking everybody, but where does the egg come out of the hen? Because I couldn't see a hole big enough. And obviously nobody told me to my satisfaction, so I still remember seeing a hen move up this little sloping plank into the henhouse and thinking:  "Ah! she going to lay an egg!"

于是我开始问每个人，但是鸡蛋是从哪来的呢，因为我看不到像鸡蛋一样大的洞。很显然，没有人告诉我满意的答案。我还记得我看到一只母鸡沿着一块倾斜的木板走进鸡舍，我在想：啊，她要下蛋了！

So I crawled after her. Big mistake. Of course, squawks of fear, she flew out and I distinctly remember thinking (remember, I'm only four and a half): She's going to never come back to lay an egg here... this is a frightening place.

于是我跟着她，当然，我犯了一个很大的错误，母鸡因为害怕而尖叫着飞了出去。我清楚地记得我当时在想（这时候我之后四岁半）：她估计永远不会来这里下蛋了，这是一个可怕的地方。

So I went into one of the other henhouses and hidden some straw at the back and waited and waited and waited... which was fine for me, but my poor family didn't know where I was.

于是我躲到另一个鸡舍后面，用稻草把自己藏起来，然后一直等，一直等，一直等，对我来说一切如常，但是我可怜的家人却不知道我在哪。

Imagine how my mother was feeling it was getting dark. She was out searching with everybody else. She sees this excited little creature rushing towards the house all covered in straw. And I know so many mothers who would have grabbed that child: "How dare you go off without telling us? Don't you dare do it again!" Which would have killed all the excitement.

天越来越黑，想想我母亲此刻会是什么感受，于是她和其他人一起出来找我。当她看到我这个兴奋的小家伙满身稻草跑出木房的时候，我知道大多数母亲会抓住小孩喝道：“你下次还敢这样不说一声就跑出去你试试看。”这样就扼杀了孩子所有的兴奋。

But she saw my shining eyes and sat down to hear the wonderful story of how a hen lays an egg, and I tell that story advisedly. Because If you think of that story in hindsight, is it not the making of a little scientist?

但是，当我母亲看到我明亮的双眼时，她坐下来听我讲了关于一只母鸡如何下蛋的奇妙故事。如果你事后想起这件事，不觉得这有一点小小科学家的潜质吗？

Curiosity, asking questions, not getting the right answer, deciding to find out for yourself, making a mistake, not giving up and learning patience. It was all that and how easily my mother might have crushed that early curiosity and that little scientist in the making might have gone in a different direction.

保持好奇心，问问题；得不到正确的答案就决定自己找；犯错误但不放弃，而是耐心地学习研究。这就是当时的一切，而我的母亲当时可以非常轻而易举地扼杀这种早起的好奇心，而这个“小小科学家”可能就朝另一条路走去了。

She went on supporting my love of animals by finding books for me to read about animals thinking: Will Jane learn to read more quickly? Of course I did. We had very little money. We couldn't afford new books.

为了继续支持我对动物的热爱，我母亲为我找了很多关于动物的书让我读，她想，珍妮读书是不是更快了？确实如此，我们经济并不宽裕，后来我们就买不起新书了。

One day, I found this little book and I had just enough money, saved up from my pocket money to buy it. That little book, which I still have, was called: "Tarzan of the Apes".

有一天，我找到了这本小书，恰好我存起来的零花钱足够买下这本书。这本书我一直到现在还留着，名字叫《猿人泰山》。

I took it home, and I took it up my favorite tree, a beach tree, and I read it from cover to cover. Well, little girls of 10 are often pretty romantic and of course I felt passionately in love with Tarzan. And what did he do? He married the wrong Jane...

我把这本书带回家让在我最喜欢的棕榈树上，然后把这本书从头读到尾。十岁的小姑娘通常很浪漫，当然，我对泰山的热爱也非常强烈。泰山后来怎么样了呢？他和小简结婚了......

I was 10 years old when I started my dream that I would grow up, go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them. And everybody laughed at me, so I say World War II was raging.

十岁那年，我开始梦想自己长大，然后去非洲和动物一起生活，写一些关于动物们的书。但是每个人都嘲笑我，我说这话时，第二次世界大战正在全球蔓延。

We didn't have any money, Africa, you know, there were no planes going back and forth, we thought of it as the dark continent. We knew very little about it.

我们没有经济来源，非洲，在当时没有往返的飞机，我们认为它是黑暗的大陆，因为我们对它知之甚少。

And I was a girl and back then girls didn't have those opportunities, those adventures were for the boys. “Jane get real, dream about something you can achieve. Forget this rubbish about going to Africa". But not my mother, nor her family either.

我是一个女孩儿，在当年也没有那么多机会，那些冒险都是给男孩们的。“珍妮，清醒一点把，做一点你能实现的事情，别再想去非洲的的无稽之谈了。”但是我母亲和我的家人从未这样说过。

She used to say that if you really want something, you're going to have to work really hard and take advantage of opportunity and never give up.

我母亲曾对我说，如果你真的想拥有某样东西，你一定要勤奋工作，利用所有的机会，最后永不言弃！