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Personal Correspondence #8
Q: If someone’s bitten with loads of venom right by the heart, how quick is the conversion and is it more painful than a regular conversion? Were some of the Cullen’s transformations worse than others?
问：如果有人心脏被咬的同时还被注入大量的毒液，那么他的（吸血鬼）转变会来得多快？会不会比常规的转变更痛苦呢？卡伦家有没有哪位成员经历过比其他人更难受的转变呢？
A: About the conversion process… If there is a lot of venom in the human’s system, the pain is more intense to begin with. Like fire, the venom burns through the body. So, with fire in more places, there is more pain at the outset. When Bella was bitten by James, the fire was only in her hand. Painful enough, but not as bad as if she had several bites. Of course, this is only at the outset. If James’ venom had been allowed to spread through Bella, it would have over time made its way through her whole system, and the pain eventually would have been just as intense as if she’d been deliberately infected with multiple, well-placed bites (jugular, wrists, ankles, etc.). So, all that early pain as the venom wound through her system is extra–an added portion of pain that doesn’t in anyway cut down the time or the intensity of the greater pain.
答：关于转变的过程…如果人类体内存有大量的毒液，那么一开始就必须承受更剧烈的痛苦。像火一样，毒液会在全身燃烧起来。因此，在越多地方点火，一开始时就会越痛苦。当贝拉被詹姆士咬到的时候，火只在她手的部分燃烧。这已经够痛了，但总比她被咬得遍体鳞伤要好。当然，这仅仅是初期阶段。如果詹姆士的毒液没有被及时吸出，随着时间的推移就会在她的全身运行，到最后这种痛感会加剧，其痛苦的程度就如同她的颈部静脉、手腕、脚踝等关键部位被蓄意咬伤并受到多重感染一样。这样一来，蔓延在她体内的毒液会使转变的初期变得额外痛苦——这一部分附加的痛苦无论如何既不能缩短时间也不能使后阶段的痛苦得到减轻。
The greatest pain begins when the venom is all the way through the body, through the heart, and it starts meeting itself in the veins again and then burning them dry. It moves slower than blood because it’s thicker. Each beat of the heart can only push it so far. The changing/burning process is slow. The venom has to leak through to every cell before it ends. It took Carlisle a little more than three days because his bites were not deliberate or well-placed. It can be as short as two.
当毒液完全扩散到全身乃至整个心脏，最后在血管里再次汇合时会把血管都烧干，这时最痛苦的阶段才要开始。由于毒液地比血液黏稠，每一次的心跳只能使它推进一点点，因此它流动的速度比血慢。转变/燃烧的过程是缓慢的。毒液会在它消散之前渗入到每个细胞中。卡莱尔的转变需要三天多一点点的时间，那是因为他的被咬是意外造成而且也没有咬到关键的部位。否则转变所需要的时间会缩短到两天。
Q: Do your vampires have any restrictions, like traditional vampires can’t enter a house without being invited in?
问：你的吸血鬼们有没有什么限制的呢？比如说传统上吸血鬼们如果没受到邀请是不能随便进入一间房子的？（传说中吸血鬼如未受到主人的邀请是不能第一次进入房子的，但如果有了第一次受邀进入，那么以后就可以随意进出了——sue按）
A: Almost all–well, I think ALL, actually, but I’ll play it safe–of the superstitions about vampire limitations are entirely false in my world. Vampires don’t really have any limits, other than the self-imposed guideline to keep their existance a secret. No unconscious periods, no problem with sunlight, crosses, garlic, holy water, wooden stakes, etc… These are all myths–deliberately placed in earlier centuries to mislead impressionable humans and make them feel safe. Vampires need no invitation to enter any house.
答：几乎所有——好吧，事实上我想是全部，不过我还是谨慎一点好——在我的世界里关于吸血鬼的迷信传说完全都是错的。吸血鬼实际上不受任何限制，除去为了隐藏他们自身的存在而自愿遵守的行动准则。沉睡周期、阳光、十字架、蒜头、圣水、木桩等等通通都不是问题。这些都只是传说——在许多个世纪前故意散播这种说法是为了误导单纯的人们使之能安定人心。吸血鬼是无需经过邀请就可以进入任何房子的。
Q: Is there any more information you can give us about the Cullen house?
问：关于卡伦的房子，可以告诉我们更多有关的信息吗？
A: Something to remember, these rooms are ginormous. This is a really BIG house. Also, there’s a lot of unaccounted for space on the third floor euphemistically dubbed the “library.” This is where they do things that are technically illegal–like document forgery and computer hackery and all kinds of other shady stuff. There’s also a basement where they keep illicit things. It’s hard to get to, if you’re not a vampire.
答：有一件事情要记住的是，那里每个房间都是特大的。这是一间名副其实的大大大房子。而且，在三楼还有一处面积未明但被勉强称作“图书馆”的地方。这是他们用来进行违法加工的场所——像是伪造证书或电脑黑客等所有见不得光的事。还有一个地下室专门供他们存放非法的东西。如果你不是吸血鬼的话很难进入那里的。
It’s not a large window on the South wall–the South wall IS a window. It’s glass from bottom to top, all three stories.
不能说南面的墙上有个大窗——因为南面的墙本来就是一整个窗户，是一块从上到下足足有三层楼高的大玻璃。
Jasper and Alice do sort of share a room, but since Alice’s personality is stamped all over that room, and Jasper has his study, everyone thinks of it as Alice’s. Since no one sleeps anywhere, the room thing is a little vague.
贾斯帕和爱丽丝某程度上是共用一个房间的，但既然整个房间都布置成“爱丽丝式”的，而贾斯帕又有他自己的书房，所以大家都认为那是爱丽丝的房间。因为这里没有人需要睡觉，因此也没有所谓的卧室摆设了。
In the living room, there is a gigantic flat screen television on the wall between the living room and kitchen/dining area. A grouping of couches/chairs faces the tv, and then there are other clusters of seats for conversation scattered throughout. There are a couple of computers along the wall that curls around the dining room to separate it from the living room.
客厅部分，在客厅与厨房/饭厅之间的墙上挂着一部巨大的平面电视。面向电视的是一套组合沙发/椅子，然后余下的空间则自由摆放着一组便于谈话交流的凳子。餐厅与客厅之间有一面弧形的墙，沿着墙身摆放了两台电脑起了分隔的作用。
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