布什就职演说译者雨树给布什的信

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亲爱的总统先生：

带着崇敬和感激的心情，给你写封短信。我是第一个把你的总统就职讲演翻译成中文的雨树。你的讲演大多数中国人通过官方媒体无法读到，但很幸运的是，我们有一个网络。

我首先把你的演说发表在百灵网和一宁网(www.beelinkclub.com, www.eyii.com)。 在很短时间内，中国已有很多网络论坛可以读到它。其中有：

www.cat898.com
www.tianyaclub.com
bbs1.tom.com
ehome.online.sh.cn
blog.bioon.com

我重点观察了你的讲演在凯迪论坛的反应，完全出乎我的预料。请你和我一起来分享这盛况。北京时间1月22日下午四点，你的讲演第一次出现后，掀起海啸般(原谅我的形容)点击回贴浪潮。仅五个小时内，点击超过3,000，回贴146。

在十小时后，读者超过15,000，有300以上回贴。网站管理最终锁定此贴。但的讲演马上又在新贴中出现。这一贴在23号晚10点又遭锁定，但点击以在18,000以上，回贴近500。故事还没有结束，又一个新贴马上出现，到现在为止(1月24日北京时间22点)，点击又达32,000以上，回贴400多!

我亲眼目睹的这山呼海啸般反响，在中国网站论坛是非常罕见的。但它就在我眼前发生了。网民们读之感动流泪，读之幸福流泪，读之无眠而流泪！他们看到了演说带来的自由光芒，他们又看到中国自由的希望。他们很多人在回贴里，感谢你和你的国家。他们不但献出真心的感谢，更表达了对****中国不灭的渴望。他们在你的讲演里看到了自由国家领袖的胸襟和力量。

我为我自己卑微翻译所产生的效果深深打动。我只有给写这封短信和你分享。总统先生，请接受中国热爱自由的人民的心意。请接受他们由衷的敬意！在此时，我也由衷祈望你在讲演中清晰描述的世界远景，将在你带领的国家的努力下成为现实。并且我知道，这是在中国，我的同胞的期盼。

以深深的尊敬

你的忠实的：雨树。

附：一些中国网友们的回应。请分享。(从略)

Dear President,
I write this letter to you with deep gratitude and respect. I am the first guy translating your inaugural address into Chinese. The speech is not accessible to most Chinese through official news channel, yet we are lucky that we have internet.

I put the translation on www.beelinkclub.com and www.eyii.com 5 hours after I read it. And it was on many major BBS in China. The list includes:

www.cat898.com
www.tianyaclub.com
bbs1.tom.com
ehome.online.sh.cn
blog.bioon.com
Just to name a few.

Among this list I just traced the reaction from cat898.com. I was overwhelmed to see this fact and I want you to share this with me:

At 4pm Jan 22 local time, it first appeared on this BBS (cat898.com).It was like a huge storm on net. Only 5 hours later, there are over 3,000 hits and 146 replies. Readers run over 10,000 at about 10 hours after its appearance. Over 300 reply messages appeared. It was then locked by the website at hit rate of 18,000. Yet another copy reappeared immediately at 9pm Jan 21.  It was locked again at 22:12pm Jan 23. The hit rate is 15,993! The story is not ending here. Yet another copy appeared at the same website. It is still on top of the message list. Till now, 10:00 am Jan 24 EST, there are 32,000  hits and it is growing!

What I witnessed is seldom seen in any Chinese website inside China, yet it happened right before my eyes. Folks are crying with tears. They are happy with tears, they are sleepless with tears! They see the light of hope you bring to their hearts. They see hopes of freed China! Lots of them showered their gratitude towards you and your country. They are not only showing their hearts to your great nation but also, showing their imperishable hope for freedom and for a democratic China! They see in your address a true force of liberty and they see you as an unparalleled world leader!

I was so humbled by the effect of my translation in China that I can only write this short letter to you. My president, our leader of the free countries and a coming free world. Please accept hearts of Chinese people. Please accept the honor that grows out of freedom loving people of my mother land. Yet in writing this letter, I have a wish that you will lead your country to bring the future you so plainly laid out in your address into reality.  And I know this is also the wish of my people in China.

With deep respect, may I say I love you and people oppressed by tyranny in the world love you!

With honor and awe

Your sincerely.

Rain-tree.

Ps: I attached some of the reply I read in this letter. They are the voice of the People.
Shivering crow reply:
Rogue  countries big or small,
It is time for your sun to set
The funeral horn has blown
For this coming destiny,
I, the old raven,
Cry out an ominous  howl
Let the funeral begin!
Keep the article on top, let the tyranny tremble.
Thank you the translator.
Thank you, people of the United States of America, since the found of your country, you contribute greatly to freedom of human being, for this, you sacrifice too.
Hope that there will be one day, under your help, liberty, democracy and peace will prevail in every corner of the world.
Hope that one day, freedom, democracy and peace will always be at the center of my country’s officer’s inaugural speech.

Shivering crow reply:
I don’t have tear, yet I cried.
I cried, but without tears.
With a deep sorrow
Without any regret.
Without any hold back of my feeling,
Did I find my home?
I cry….
From ten o’clock till now (3:00am),I read the address over and over, read new colossal and read every reply on the net to the address. Sometimes I feel excited, sometimes exuberant, sometimes desperate, sometimes sorrow….never have I had any experience on net that can match today’s feelings. The address makes me ready to throw myself into a great journey!
But I don’t know tomorrow morning what will face me. Maybe nothing will change; maybe there will be a whole new ME.
Who knows.
Won’t-die reply:
I swear with my integrity.
Any time I can be online.
And this address is not deleted
I will push it to the top
Until the day people overcome
If I die
I will die facing the freedom
Let America know
I am with your belief.
Remotecity  reply:
Unutterable sadness
Freedom
How much
Do you weigh?
Why do you only stall in that corner?
Why can’t we breath your breathe?
San-Gen-Lou reply:
Thank you rain-tree, great work!
We spent money yet can’t get this kind of address.
It was just three thousand words.
Our poli-beau report is always over ten thousands words.
In that we often saw the word “people”. But in this address, there are only 13 people. But freedom is mentioned over 44 times.
Thanks again.
Kong-Meng-is-disaster replay:
Read until I feel deeply sorrow, read until tears run down in stream!

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