動人心弦的絕唱---評註

My comments to that story of the little yellow bird and the old bird.

I am very moved by this true story of the friendship or love between the birds as well as the people who raised the birds. When I read this stroy I couldn't help but remember vividly my cat, Chuancey, who had accompanied as my best friend or my dear son for more than 14 years. I brought him from New York to Beijing in 2002, then he died in Beijing in April, 2004. From my Chuancey cat, I have learned and realized the true feeling and the bond of love between our lives even with a small animal. Now I do believe that an animal also has feeling and has emotion just like

 a human being. My cat, Chauncey was so cosiderate and thoguhtful. He almost convinced me that he could talk to me. When I talked to him and cared him, he watched me with his knowing eyes as if he was speaking to me with a soundelss language. Even now, from time to time, when I see another cat, I think about him. Sometimes, I even dream about him. My wife joked with me, saying that, fortunately my cat, Chauncey was a male, otherwise after Chauncey died, I could have behaved  like a man who lost his loved female.

The most valuable thing in the world, I believe, is the TRUE LOVE, even a love from an animal, like a cat, or a bird. Especially the love from an animal, which is so pure, so innocent, and so thorough, so whole-hearty, so unselfish and so dedicated. From such kind of feeling and  love, I see an extremely beautiful world and long for that from time to time

　　我正在讀您寄來的那篇「鳥」，和您寫的評註。這篇文章再次感動了我。我也想起了您的貓。的確，牠陪伴了您十四年之久，跟隨您到地球的另一端，還未入境就受到那麼無理的對待。牠那麼恐慌、無奈。牠無法抗爭，只能默默地承受，默默等待愛牠的主人來拯救。倘若牠的主人是一位無名小卒，那將會是何等命運？

　　幸運的是，牠有一位愛牠又有能力救牠的主人，牠才能在愛的呵護下走完了一生。直到如今，牠的主人仍將牠的骨灰罈放在自己的書房裡，日日夜夜守護著祂。

　　我羨慕也嫉妒祂！相比之下，我寧願做一隻貓！

I miss my cat, Chauncey not only because he was a lovely cat but 

also he represented  true noble virture of this world.

我知道您的貓很可愛，也很愛您，就像您的第二個兒子。這些理由已經足以令人羨慕和嫉妒了。

Yes, I love my cat not because only he was a lovely cat but more, I had learned the value of life and to understand that even a samll animal could have feelings and needed to be cared and respected. This i show we shuld care and respect other lifes. Such a new perspective to the world has opened my eyes to a new world too.

我認真的閱讀了那篇鳥,這篇文章的作者文筆很好,尤其是他的觀察力和描寫能力.他用小學生不必查字典的文字寫出了大學者都深為感動的故事.。

Yes, you are right. It was well written and very touching, particularly with significant implications behind the story. The autor is a talent and very sensitive writer with an observing eye.

我為之感動的，首先是它主題，「無私的愛」。這是ㄧ個古老而永久的話題。從遠古到現在，人們用各種不同的表現手法，不同的語言文字，不同的故事情節去詮釋這個主題。而這篇文章卻用了非常簡單的情節，沒有華麗的詞彙，沒有複雜的句子，卻把愛寫的如此傳神，如此刻骨銘心。這是我要認真學習的。

Yes, ironically now it is hard to find such unslefish love among human beings. That is why those samll animals are so unforgetable and so touching