海外文化:英美民俗 關於鳥的迷信:信天翁

【英文原文】

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Albatrosses are easily caught, but captured birds are usually released, because of a superstition commonly held by sailors that killing an albatross brings bad luck. The superstition forms the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the poem Coleridge describes how the crew of a ship are punished by horrible sufferings and death after one of them kills an albatross.

【中文譯文】

信天翁很容易捕獲，但捕獲後通常要放走，因爲迷信的水手們認爲殺死信天翁會帶來厄運。英國詩人柯爾律治以此爲主題寫下他那首名詩《老水手的謠曲》（《古舟子詠》）詩裏講了一個可怕的故事。由於老水手殺死了一隻信天翁，船滯留海上，水手們受盡折磨，悲慘地死去。