赏析版2011年7-12月经济学人文章(英汉双语对照)汇(12)

他曾说过，这全都是在造假。一群漂亮的年轻妇女在国宴厅上窜下跳，口中狂呼对少帅的赞美之词，这也只是做做样子而已。他也说，电视上高唱祖国颂歌的朝鲜儿童脸蛋胖嘟嘟、粉嫩嫩，这也是一派谎言。如果人们看到的是他们衣不蔽体、食不果腹的样子，那才与真相相去不远。但他情愿让假象继续。

Had he not been born the son of Kim Il Sung—still North Korea‘s Great Leader and eternal president—and therefore Son of God, Mr Kim might have been a filmmaker. He wrote a book ―On the Art of Cinema‖ and owned perhaps 20,000 films, of which his favourites were ―Friday the 13th‖ and ―Godzilla‖. Because North Korean films seemed perfunctory to him, he kidnapped a South Korean director, Shin Sang-ok, to shoot a ―Godzilla‖ of his own devising. There was really no need. He had inherited his own set, North Korea, on which to shoot his own disaster movie: small fat man, with nuclear capability and supreme indifference to the fate of his own people, runs rings round world.

他的父亲金日成大帅至今还是朝鲜的―伟大领袖‖与不朽主席；如果不是因为生为―神之子‖，他或许会成为一位电影制片人。他写过一本题为《电影艺术》的书，据说还拥有两万部电影拷贝，其中他最欣赏的是《13号星期五》（―Friday the 13th‖）和《怪兽哥斯拉》（―Godzilla‖）。他似乎觉得朝鲜电影难入法眼，就劫持了一位韩国导演申相玉（Shin Sang-ok），让他炮制一部由他设计的《怪兽哥斯拉》。其实这倒大可不必。世袭得来的朝鲜就是他的布景，他可以在上面编导自己的灾难大片：一个肥胖矮小的男人，手挥核武大棒，对自己人民的命运漠不关心，但却力压群雄，冠绝世界。

To many, the plot seemed absurd. The hero was improbable, with Babygro zipped-up suits stretched over his pot belly, oversized sunglasses, platform shoes and bouffant hair, all adding precious height and heft to his five feet two inches. For years, too, he was invisible: not seen by the world until the 1970s, improbably taking English lessons from Dom Mintoff in Malta, and never heard in North Korea until he came briefly to the microphone, at a parade in 1992, to cry ―Glory to the heroic soldiers!‖ Yet since the 1960s he had been a feared force in his father‘s Propaganda and Agitation Department: eliminating internal rivals, possibly plotting foreign assassinations (the Korean Air bombing of 1987, in which 115 died, and the Rangoon bombing of 1983, killing three South Korean ministers, were both attributed to him), building up the cult of his father in statues and birthday celebrations and, incidentally, stoking high the cult of himself. 对许多人来说，这一情节似乎荒谬。他157cm（five feet two inches）的身高被塞进了包裹全身、扣子一直扣到领口的套装，还让啤酒肚把它撑得高高隆起；再加上鼻梁上一副大得离谱的蛤蟆镜，以及脚上的厚底坡跟鞋与蓬松高耸的―云鬓‖：哦，这些对提高他的身高可以说弥足珍贵，但要成就主角？简直荒诞不经。而且他曾多年隐形，直到上世纪70年代才为世人所见，据说是因为一直师从马耳他前总理明托夫（Dom Mintoff）修习英语，但这一说法可信度不高。他的伟大声音只在1992年才初次于朝鲜境内震响，当时他在阅兵式上一下子拿过话筒高呼：―光荣属于英勇的人民战士！‖但从60年代起，他便在大帅的―宣传与煽动部‖（Propaganda and Agitation Department）中成就了令人战栗的威名：排除内部竞争者、可能策划了在国外的暗杀（人们认为，令115人丧生的1987年大韩航空公司（Korean Air）客机爆炸案和令三名韩国部长毙命的1983年仰光（Rangoon）爆炸案都出自他手）、以塑像高筑与生日庆祝铸就了对大帅的个人崇拜、也顺便搭起了对他自己的个人崇拜。

Sun and fog骄阳与迷雾

That fairytale film began with his birth, in 1942 in a log cabin frosted with February snow at a revolutionary training camp on holy Mount Paektu: his coming foretold by a swallow, accompanied by a double rainbow and a new star in the heavens. (His actual birth, in Russia‘s Far East a year earlier, was dull