Place Names Lost in Translation

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“Within the next two or three years, the remaining Japanese Shinto shrines would be cleared away from Maruyama and replaced by the Chinese palace-style Grand Hotel for foreign VIPs.” 128.

「其后两三年， 山上清除神社遗迹，建起中国官殿饭店，专门用来接待国宾」144.

“You recalled the unfinished trip you’d made the day after the big election.  You reached Yuanshan, but saw passageways everywhere in the air, not knowing how to locate the route you’d taken hundreds of times at seventeen.  Meiji Bridge — later you learned that’s what it was called.  The handsome, straight, and even bridge, now overshadowed by a new one, was waiting to be demolished.  The new rulers, who had criticized the ancient régime as an occupying power, had been in office four years, and the way they behaved was exactly like an occupying power.” 144

「你想起那一趟大选日后的未竟之旅，你走到圆山，之间空中地底条条是路，你迷失其间，不知该如何走到你十七岁是走过百遍的路。明治桥 — 你后来知道它原来叫明治桥，桥上的铜灯早在一场拆建时给李梅树买了放置在三峡的祖师庙了。平直美丽的桥被一座新桥压着待拆毁，批评以往是外来政权的新统治者人马已执政四年，所作所为写外来政权一样，只打算暂时落脚随时走人似的，不然他们何以去掉那两排在你们所有现存的人出生前就已在着的枫香呢？」156

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“Seimon-cho, now Ximen ding, was situated at the site of the long since demolished West Gate.” 198.

「西门町位于早拆掉的西门旧址。」192.

“Back then, North Gate had yet to be tyrranized by an overpass, so you could walk past it casually, feeling like one of your ancestors heading out of town a century before.” 113.

「有时搭客运，那时的北门尚未被任何高架路凌虐，你们轻松行经它旁边，便像百年前的先民一般有出城的感觉。。。」135.

“Extending to the south were #2 Girls High; Shinmachi Church, beneath a canopy of livistona and date palms; the Research institute of Taiwan Governor-General’s Office; the Medical Specialization Section of Taihoku Imperial University, which grandfather has attended; University Hospital; the headquarters of the Red Cross (you has to erase the tall office building of a certain political party, which was so disgustingly ugly it ruined the skyline); the clownlike, pitiable Keifuku Gate; the broad avenue at Tomon-cho, which was called neither Jieshou nor Kaidegelan, and the Taiwan Governor-General’s Mansion.” 188.

「州厅旁罗列南去的是第二高等女学校、浦葵海枣掩映的幸町教会、台湾总督府研究所、外公念的帝大医学专门部、赤十字本部（得把那栋丑怪特权破坏天际线的十几层某党部大楼抹掉）、小丑样的可怜的景福门、东门町不介寿路不凯达格兰大道上、台湾总督官邸，你总算看到它的后园了。」186.

 

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