暮光之城2：新月— 暮光迷

今天给大家带来暮光之城作者斯蒂芬妮·梅尔的私人信函（九），还 是由我们美丽、善良、人见人爱的SUE同学翻译的！欢迎大家去她新开的个人的博客！

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Personal Correspondence #9

Q. Why did Bella get that electric shock or whatever from Edward when they were in biology?

问：上生物课的时候，为什么贝拉一碰到爱德华就有触电的感觉？

A. Physical chemistry. The jolt you get when you brush fingers with the hottest guy you’ve ever seen… sigh…Edward… Ha ha.

答： 物理性化学作用。那是你与有生以来见过最帅的男生指尖轻碰的那一瞬间，所感受到的悸动……哦~~…爱德华…哈哈。

Q. Are you planning on writing an Edward version of New Moon and Eclipse?

问：你将来有没有计划要写《新月》和《月食》的爱德华版本？

A. Probably not. (Though there is at least one chapter in New Moon that I WILL write in Edward’s POV(point of view), and then post on my site or whatnot.) See, once Edward gets to tell his side, people will “know” him well enough that his POV won’t be necessary for every book. I think it’s interesting that people don’t entirely get Edward. When I read through the fan fics (which I don’t have much time for anymore, sigh) it’s clear that people “get” Bella so much better than they get Edward. I’m always shocked by things that Edward would NEVER do or say, and I realize that people just don’t know him the way I do.

答： 应该不会了。（虽然我会把《新月》中至少一个章节的内容拿出来写成爱德华的版本，然后po到我的网站上或别的什么地方。）看，只要爱德华得到表达自己另一面的机会，就算没有用他的观点把每本书再写一遍，也足够人们去“认识”他了。读者无法真正了解爱德华这件事让我觉得非常有趣。我在浏览同人小说的时候（现在再没有那么多时间了，唉）比起爱德华，很明显读者们对贝拉的“了解”要更多一些。那些爱德华从来不说的话，从来不做的事，着实常令我感到非常震惊，而且我也意识到读者和我一样对此很不了解。

Q. Since vampires’ senses are heightened, do they feel pain more acutely than humans? Likewise, would sex be better for a vampire than a human?

问：既然吸血鬼们的感官能力得到提高，那他们对痛苦的感受会不会比人类时要尖锐得多？同样地，吸血鬼在性方面会比人类更好吗？

A. Yes. Their senses are greatly heightened. Though it takes a lot more to hurt them, the pain would be more intense. Pleasure, also, would be more intense.

答：没错。他们的感官功能都会得到大大地提升。尽管痛苦的时候会更加痛苦，也给他们带来更多的伤害。但快乐的时候，同样，也会得到加倍的快乐。

Q. Did Edward find it very hard to be around Tyler when he and Bella were in the hospital after the accident? Was Bella too distracted by how Edward had saved her to be sickened by Tyler’s blood?

问：那场车祸发生后（《暮色》第三章：奇迹）爱德华和贝拉都被送进了医院，这时在泰勒附近的爱德华会不会觉得特别难受啊？而那时候的贝拉是不是被刚刚爱德华怎么救她的事弄得心烦意乱以致连泰勒的血都不会让她不舒服了？

A. I imagine Bella was a little woozy thanks to Tyler’s blood, but that overpowering hospital chemical smell really counteracts all other smells, for a human at least. I’ve written this part of the story from Edward’s perspective, and it is at this moment that Edward starts to grasp how Carlisle is able to handle being around blood. Here’s a paragraph from Edward’s version:

答：多亏泰勒的血，我猜当时贝拉已经被弄得有点头昏眼花了，但是医院里强烈的化学气味足以中和所有其他的气味，至少对人类来说是这样的。我已经把这一幕用爱德华的视角再写了一遍。而且也就从这一刻开始，爱德华开始领会到卡莱尔在鲜血面前是如何处之泰然的。

以 下是来自爱德华版本的一个段落：

“It was amazingly easy to ignore Tyler, lying no more than four feet from me, covered in fresh blood. I’d never understood how Carlisle was able to do that–ignore the blood of his patients in order to treat them. Wouldn’t the constant temptation be so distracting, so dangerous? But, now I could see how, if you were focusing on something else hard enough, the temptation was be nothing at all. Even fresh and exposed, Tyler’s blood had nothing on Bella’s.”

“原来想要忽略泰勒，这个满身是血，躺在距离我不到四英尺远的人竟是出乎意料地容易。从前的我一直都不明白卡莱尔是如何办到——为了救治病人，他竟能无视他们的鲜血。而这个永恒不变的诱惑会不会太容易令人分心，太过危险了？可是，我如今终于明白，如果你坚持把注意力集中到别的事物上，所谓的诱惑根本就不值一提。即使泰勒鲜血再淋漓，但一与贝拉的比起来，他的血就变得什么都不是了。”

Q. Do the Cullens celebrate their birthdays?

问：卡伦他们会庆祝生日吗？

A: Sort of, in a joking way. Birthdays are pretty meaningless when you don’t change.

答：稍稍庆祝一下咯，用开玩笑的方式。对于长生不老的你来说生日简直一点意义都没有。

Q. You’ve said that when someone becomes a vampire, they sort of “freeze” where they are mentally. Is Edward emotionally still 17? He refers to the other teens as “children”, but does he feel any affinity with them? Does he think of Bella as a child, and if so, does this have any impact on his attraction to her? Like, does he find her childish or juvenile at all?

问：你说过当一个人变成了吸血鬼，他们的智力发展也会被冻结在当下的阶段。爱德华的情感发育还停留在17岁吗？虽然爱德华在谈及其他年轻人时都会称他们为“孩子们”，可他对他们会有同龄人的熟悉感吗？他是否把贝拉也当孩子来看？如果是的话，会影响到贝拉对他的吸引力吗？就像，他究竟有没有发现她幼稚与孩子气的一面呢？

A. Edward is emotionally and intellectually more adult than a modern seventeen-year-old, due to the times in which he lived. In his world, he was old enough to be considered a man. People his age were getting married and beginning their lives. He was about to join the military and go fight in the Great War. Developmentally, he was an adult. So he is able to understand and absorb this century he’s lived through, to gain perspective from it.

答：跟现代17岁的年轻人比起来，爱德华在情感和智力上的发育程度都更接近成人，这归功于他所生活的时代。在他的世界里，他够得上是一个男人有余了。与他年纪相仿的人都已经准备步入礼堂，开启他们人生的下一个阶段了。而那时的他也正准备加入军队去参加第一次世界大战。从发育的程度看，他当时已经是个成年人了。因此他有能力去理解和吸收他所经历的这个世纪，从中建立起自己的世界观。

This perspective is what makes him think of his classmates as children, coupled with the fact that they are so helpless in comparison with himself. The vampires do have a bit of a superiority complex, heh heh. However, Edward still is a teenage boy in many ways. This is his first experience with romantic love, his first kiss, just as it is for Bella. He thinks of Bella as just one of the “children” until he becomes interested in her. Then he begins to learn how mature she is for her age, just like him…

就是这个观念使得他把他的同学当孩子来看待，还加上相比之下，他们是如此不堪一击的这个事实。吸血鬼总是带有那么一点的优越感，呵呵。不管怎样，爱德华在许多方面仍然是个十几岁的青少年。包括他浪漫的初恋、他的初吻，就跟贝拉一样。在对贝拉感兴趣之前，他一直把贝拉看作是那堆“孩子们”中的一个。后来他逐渐认识到她那种与年纪不相符的成熟，就像他一样……

The other girls at school are fairly immature and petty. Their minds are a turn off

比 起来，学校里其他女孩就显得相当的幼稚和小气了。她们的脑袋根本是空的嘛。

Q. Ok so we know that Alice and Jasper are very close, so I was wondering how close are Emmett and Rosalie, and Carlisle and Esme? Out of the three couples which one has the closest relationship?

问：好的我们都知道爱丽丝和贾斯帕的关系非常的亲密，所以我很好奇埃美特和罗莎莉有多亲密呢？卡莱尔和埃斯梅呢？三对伴侣那一对感情最深厚呢？

A. This is an apples to oranges question, because their relationships are so different. Rosalie and Emmett’s might be seen as the most superficial in a way, because their relationship is so intensely physical. But they are entirely committed to each other, so that’s hardly superficial… Esme and Carlisle have the most spiritual relationship, for lack of a better word. Their relationship is on another plane from Rosalie and Emmett’s. And then Alice and Jasper’s is the most…mystical. They just ARE together, and have been from before they even met. They are not complete without each other–and never were. That’s what makes them different from the other couples, the “never were.” They were already not-whole before they met, waiting for each other.

答：这是个无法比较的问题，因为他们的关系是如此的不同。在某种程度上罗莎莉和埃美特会被认为是最肤浅的，因为他们的关系是建立在彼此强烈的身体吸引上。可他们又是彻彻底底地忠于对方，从这一点上说又决不是肤浅……埃斯梅和卡莱尔有着“最心灵”的关系，原谅我找不到更合适的词来形容。他们的关系与罗莎莉和埃美特的关系是属于不同层面的。然后爱丽丝和贾斯帕的则是最……神奇的。他们本来就是一对，甚至在他们相遇之前就已经是了。缺少任何一方他们都不会完整——可以说是从未完整过。而“从未完整过”，也就是他们有别于其他两对伴侣的地方。残缺的他们等待着彼此，直到相遇。

Q. Bella speculates at the beginning of the book that Jessica tried to ask Edward out, or get him interested in her, but that she struck out. Is that what happened? Is the only reason Lauren doesn’t like Bella because she likes Tyler and Tyler likes Bella, or is Lauren jealous of Bella’s relationship with Edward too?

问：贝拉在书的开篇猜测杰西卡曾经约过爱德华出去，或者试图想引起他的兴趣，但最后都被打枪了。 那到底发生了什么事呢？造成劳伦不喜欢贝拉的唯一理由，只是因为劳伦喜欢泰勒可泰勒又偏偏喜欢贝拉吗？还是劳伦也妒忌贝拉和爱德华的关系呢？

A. Jessica tried to flirt with Edward and was met with icy disinterest (of course). She was never brave enough to ask him out in the face of his obvious dislike.

答：杰西卡曾经尝试对爱德华暗送秋波得到的却是冷若冰霜的回应（当然啦）。面对他毫不掩饰的厌恶表情，她 根本就没有勇气开口约他出去。

Lauren is jealous of EVERYTHING about Bella. Before Bella came to Forks, Lauren was the most sought after human girl. She hates all the attention Bella gets, even more so because Bella doesn’t try to get attention (or want it).

劳 伦妒忌关于贝拉的一切。在贝拉来福克斯之前，劳伦是最受欢迎的人类女孩。她讨厌贝拉所得到的一切关注， 特别是贝拉从来就没有试着 去（或想要去）引起注意（就 轻松地把她的风头抢过来了）。

Q. When Bella and Edward are sitting in her kitchen before they go to meet his family, Edward wants to know if Bella is going to introduce him to Charlie as her boyfriend. Bella says she was under the impression that he is “more than that.” What does Bella mean by that? How do each of them see their relationship?

问：在贝拉要去见爱德华一家之前，他们两个坐在贝拉厨房里的时候，爱德华很想知道贝拉会不会把他以男朋友的身份介绍给查理。贝拉说在她的心里他 “远不止这样。” 贝拉这么说是什么意思呢？他们各自如何看待他们之间的关系？

A. As many people have guessed, the word “boyfriend” seems sort of trite and schoolyard-ish in the light of how Bella feels about Edward. He is her entire world, and she knows that’s not going to change. Soulmate would be her preferred word. And Edward feels that way even more strongly.

答： 正如很多朋友认为，比照贝拉内心对爱德华的真正感觉，“男朋友”这个词似乎有点老土和过于学生气了。他是她的整个世界，永永远远都不会变，这一点她很清楚。精神伴侣会更贴切一些。爱德华对此感觉则更为强烈。

Q. What did Esme, Rosalie, and Alice’s wedding dresses look like?

问：埃斯梅、罗莎莉和爱丽丝的婚纱是什么样子的呢？

A. I don’t have any pictures of that. Alice’s was an adorable 50s number, and Esme’s was a very traditional ornate-lace-and-orange-blossoms affair. Rosalie has had one for nearly every trend.

答：关于这点我还没有构想过呢。爱丽丝的婚纱是迷人的50年代风格，埃斯梅那件则是装饰有橙色繁花和蕾丝的复古华丽风。至于罗莎莉的那件几乎混合了所有风格。

Q. On pg.20 when Bella first sees Edward and his family around the table and he starts talking, what is he saying?

问：第二十页（中文版是P13-14）讲到贝拉第一次看见爱德华和他的家人围坐在桌子旁边，然后他开始讲话，他说了些什么呢？

A. Here’s another teeny piece from Edward’s version:

答：下面是另外一个来自爱德华版本的小片段。

“Jessica Stanley is giving the new Swan girl all the dirty laundry on the Cullen clan,” I murmured to Emmett.

He chuckled under his breath. I hope she’s making it good, he thought.

“Rather unimaginative, actually. Just the barest hint of scandal. Not an ounce of horror. I’m a little disappointed.”

“杰西 卡 斯坦利一直给那个新来的斯旺女孩灌输卡伦帮不可告人的秘密呢。”我对 埃美特嘀咕道。

他咯咯地轻声笑了起来。那我就祝她心想事成了。他想。

“实在 太缺乏想象力了。都只是些最微不足道的流言而已。惊悚程度还不够一盎司呢。真令人失望。”

Q. Do all the vampires Carlilse has turned live in the same house, or are there others that he didn’t have live with him and if so why?

问：所有由卡莱尔转变的吸血鬼都生活在一起吗？或者还有一些没有和他住在一起，如果是这样的话是为什么呢？

A. Carlisle has only changed Edward, Esme, Rosalie, and Emmett. There aren’t any others that live elsewhere.

答：卡莱尔只转变了爱德华、埃斯梅、罗莎莉 和埃美特。并没有其他“卡伦家”吸血鬼生活在别的地方。

Q. Can Edward read Alice’s mind while she’s having a ‘vision’?

问：当爱丽丝正在感应未来的幻像时爱德华能从她的脑海中读到 吗？

A. Yes–he can see it just like she sees it.

答：可以的——爱德华看到的景象就和爱丽丝看到的一样。

Q. Can vampires get drunk? 问：吸血鬼会喝醉吗？

A. No. 答：不会的。

Q. Do the Cullens and Hales usually attend school dances, or where they just going to the prom on the behalf of Bella?

问：卡伦和黑尔他们经常参加学校的舞会吗？还是他们纯粹是为 了贝拉才去参加舞会的啊？

A. They were mostly going for Bella. Extracurricular school activities are not the norm for the Cullens. Rosalie loves the chance to dress up and show off, though.

答：通常他们都是为了贝拉而去的。学校的课余活动从不在卡伦的日常行为规范当中。罗莎莉倒是很热衷这个可以让她尽情打扮和出风头的好机会。

Q. This is not meant to be offensive in ANY way, shape or form, but do gay vampires exist? What if someone changed a human, intending them to be their permanent companion or something and it turned out they were… er… well, gay?

问：在这里完全没有任何想要冒犯的意思，请问有同性恋的吸血 鬼吗？假如某吸血鬼有意去转变一个人类，想着让他们双方成为永恒的同伴什么的，结果会变成……呃……好吧，会变成断背吗？

A. If someone was to bite a gay person, that person would still be who they were before, so they would still be gay.

答： 如果有吸血鬼要咬一个同性恋的人，那个人被咬前是什么样的人咬了之后还会是什么样的人，所以他们仍然还是同性恋。

Q. And also, will the whole series have an official name, or is it just going to be called The Twilight Series or whatever?

问：还有，整个系列将会有官方的书名吗？或者就直接叫暮光系列什么的就好了？

A. Good question. Wish I had a good answer! Right now the powers that be are calling the Twilight Series because they haven’t come up with anything else. I haven’t thought of anything good, either.

答：真是个好问题。希望我会给你一个好答 案！现在的主流媒体偏向于 叫暮光系列是因为他们还没想出其他更合适的。而且我这边也一样没有想到更好的。

Q. When are Esme, Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Alice’s birthdays?

问：埃斯梅，埃美特，罗莎莉，贾斯帕和爱丽丝的生日是什么时 候？

A. Because these haven’t figured into the story yet, I haven’t chosen exact days. It may never come up, or it may show up someday. *shrugs*

答：因为这部分内容还未列入到故事中，所以我也还没有确定好是哪一天。有可 能在将来的某一天会写出 来，也有可能永远都不会知道（耸耸肩）。

Q. What is the deal with Alice? In the beginning everyone is apprehensive about her meeting Bella, but she seems extremely nice and approving of her, so why is Edward so weird about it?

问：爱丽丝到底有什么问题呢? 起初知道她要和贝拉见面大家都很担心，可最后她似乎做得很好而且对她也很满意啊，为什么爱德华对此会觉得这么奇怪呢？

A. Alice is nice to Bella because she’s going with the assumption (from a tentative vision she had) that Bella is going to become one of the family. Edward doesn’t want Bella to become a vampire, so he’s not especially happy with Alice’s motivations.

答： 爱丽丝对贝拉好是因为她假设（来自她临时的预知能力）贝拉将成为家庭成员之一。爱德华不想贝拉成为吸血鬼，他很清楚爱丽丝对贝拉如此热情背后的最初原因，因此并没有感到特别的高兴。

Q. I was just wondering you need a degree in literature in order to publish your work?

问：我只是想知道你是不是需要有文学学位才能出版你的作品呢？

A. You don’t need any degree at all to be published. Christopher Paolini and others were in high school when they got published (ah, I see someone else mentioned the author of Eragon…). Studying literature and the English language definitely does help with the writing. I learned everything I know about writing from all the reading I did in my life.

答：你并不需要任何学位证明也能出版读物的。像克里斯托弗·鲍里尼还有很多人的作品在高中时 候也就出版了（我看到有人提到伊拉龙的作者哈……）学习文学和英语对 写作会有很明显的帮助。我所有关于写作的技能都是通过生活中大量 的阅读而获得的。

Sue注：克里斯托弗·鲍里尼 （Christopher Paolini）：生于1983年，是一个从未进过正 规学校、全部教育来自母亲的少年。长期以来对奇幻小说的迷恋，促使他在十五岁时写出自己的处女作《伊拉 龙》，2003年，更凭借这部作品而蜚声国际文坛。

Q. This may seem a bit random but do Edward or any of the other Cullens/Hales like to ski? For some reason it seems like a sport they’d like because it’s so… fast.

问：这有点像是随便乱问不过爱德华或其他卡伦/黑尔家中成员里面有人喜欢滑雪吗？我猜他们会喜欢是因为这项运动速度十分之……快。

A. I imagine they enjoy skiing a lot. I’ll bet Emmett prefers snowboarding, though…

答：我想他们肯定十分享受滑雪。不过……我敢打赌埃美特更喜欢滑雪板 ！

Q. How old are Renee, Charlie, and Phil?

问：蕾妮、查理和菲尔各自多少岁呢

A. Renee is 37, Charlie is 41, and Phil is 29 (Renee is a cradle robber!!).

答： 蕾妮37岁，查理是41岁，而菲尔才29岁（蕾妮不就是老牛吃嫩草吗？）

Q. Why don’t the vampires in your books rule the world? Don’t get me wrong, I am glad they don’t, but they’re basically indestructible. Let’s face it, in reality it would be totally likely some crazy Adolf Hitler vampire could totally try to take over the world. He could enslave humans or something and if he got enough vampire followers, who could stop him or her? And what vampire wouldn’t want to join in and rule the world?

问：为什么你书中的吸血鬼并没有统治 世界？不要误会，我很庆幸他们没有，可是他们基本上都拥有不死之身啊。面对现实，事实上有点疯狂如果希特勒当吸血鬼的话，他肯定想方设法去统治世界。他会奴役人类，如果他有足够多的 吸血鬼追随者，谁能够阻止他/她呢？是什么使吸血鬼不想加入统治世界（这位读者朋友，呃，是有什么暴力倾向么？？？？）

A. Vampires have their own world within ours. They don’t see the distribution of power quite the same way we do. To most vampires, humans are like a herd of cows. Who wants to be king of the food supply? There is a power hierarchy of sorts within the vampire world, and that will be dealt with in future books.

答：在我们的世界中，吸血鬼拥有他们自己的 世界。他们对权利分配的认知与我们相 当地不一样。对大多数的吸 血鬼来说，人类就像牛群。谁会想要当食粮的国王啊？在吸血鬼的世界存在一个权 力阶级，这在未来的书中会涉及到。

Q. Would a vampire’s hearing be good enough to be able to hear someone/something in a sound-proof room?

问：吸血鬼的听力有没有厉害到连隔音的房间里的声响都能听出来呢？

A. That would depend on how close the vampire is, how loud the sound inside the booth is, and what the booth is made out of, etc. But it would be possible.

答：这取决于吸血鬼距离有多近，电话亭内的声响有多大，电话亭用什么材料制成的等等。不过那绝对是 可以听到的。

Q. What came first, the vampire or the bite?

问：是先有吸血鬼还有先被咬呢？

A. If you go with Edward’s version of intelligent creation, then the vampire.

答： 如果你能带着充分的理解力 和创造力去阅读爱德华版本，那就明白是先有吸血鬼的。

Q. Is the house the Cullens live in real?

问：卡伦一家住的房子是有实体的吗？

A. I made up the house. I have no idea if there are any three story mansions on the outskirts of Forks.

答：房子是我构想出来的。我不太清楚福克斯的郊外到底有没有这样的三层公寓。

Q. Do you have your own favorite quote from the book? Or what part did you enjoy writing the most?

问：书中有没有哪一段你是最 喜欢的呢？那一幕的创作是你最享受的呢？

A. I can’t really pick a favorite quote–there are too many that are special to me. My favorite parts to write were…the meadow, because it was first and started it all…the conversation in Port Angeles and on the way home was so much fun…The Angel chapter after Edward saves her from James made me cry when I was writing it (that was a first)…the baseball game…her visit to the Cullen’s house…her conversation with Jacob Black…okay, I could probably name them all Writing Twilight was an incredibly enjoyable experience from start to finish.

答： 我真的很难从中挑出一段最喜欢的——因为这里面有太多太多对我来说别具意义的部分。我最喜欢的一幕是……草地，因为它是一切发生的起点……在天使港和回家路上的那段对话也很好玩……天使那一章当我写到爱德华从詹姆士手上救出贝拉的时候我哭了（那是第一次哭）……棒球比赛……她参观卡伦的房子……贝拉与雅各布的对话……好，我都可以一一说出来暮色的写作从开始到结束都是个非常难忘而且让人很享受的过程。

Q. I was wondering what Bella got Edward for his birthday.

问：我很好奇爱德华的生日贝拉送他什么？

A. He didn’t tell her it was his birthday. Can you believe that? Men!

答： 他没有告诉她生日是什么时候，你能相信吗？男人啊！

Q. Have any of the Cullens ever owned a motorcycle?

问：卡伦家有没有人开摩托车的啊？

A. Not recently.

答：到目前为止都还没有。

Q. Alice’s visions-are they animated or like photographs?

问：爱丽丝的幻像——是连续的动画还是像一幅一幅的照片呢？

A. Both, but more often like still photographs. She gets motionless images most of the time. The moving visions (and the ones with sound) are only of things that are very concrete and sure (usually the ones that are almost about to happen).

答：都有，但经常是以照片的形式闪现。她大部分时候接收到的都是静态 的影像。而动态的幻像（还有会声音）只有在非常具体和确定的时候才会出现（通常那些都是即 将要发生的）。

Q. How many periods (hours) are there before lunch in Forks High?

问：在福克斯高中的午餐前一共有几节课呢？

A. Four 答：四个

Edward’s schedule爱德华的时间表

1) Calculus 微积分
2) Government 行政管理
3) English 英语
4) Gym 体育
Lunch 午餐
5) Biology 生物
6) Spanish 西班牙语

Bella’s schedule贝拉的时间表

1) English 英语
2) Government 行政管理
3) Trigonometry 三角学
4) Spanish 西班牙语
Lunch 午餐
5) Biology 生物
6) Gym 体育

Q. What exactly happened the first time that Edward kissed Bella?

问：爱德华第一次吻贝拉的时候到底发生了什么事呢?

A. I get this a lot. To understand, you have to put yourselves in Edward’s shoes. Okay, so you’ve never kissed anyone in a hundred years. Now you really want to kiss this girl, but you’re terrified that if you get too close to her, instinct will take over and you will crush your teeth through her jugular vein, and probably break her neck in the process. So you’re being very, very cautious about every move you make. You expect this girl–who knows that you are a vampire, for crying out loud–to be just as careful. Actually, you’re expecting her to be terrified to be so close to your teeth. You’re expecting her to maybe pull away, or at least to freeze in place. You touch your lips to hers–and hers are all warm, which doesn’t help you as you try to concentrate on anything other than her blood–and suddenly, she locks her fingers in your hair, trying to pull you closer, blood rushes to her face (you can smell and feel that), and her lips encourage yours to open… Of course you panic. Your reflexes are all demanding that you bite. The best you can do is freeze and try to get some space before you kill her.

Are we all clear now?

答：关于这个我要好好讲讲。想要弄清楚，你就必须设身处地站在爱德华的立场上来。好的，一百年来你从未吻过任何一个人。现在你非常想亲吻面前这位女孩，但是你又惧怕如果太过接近她，会突然失去理智，猛然用锋利的牙齿把她的颈部静脉咬穿，期间甚至还很 有可能弄断她的脖子。所以你会非常、非常谨慎地控制住自己的一举一动。你只希望这位女孩——明知道你是个吸血鬼，拜托——也同样要谨慎一点。事实上，你又期望着她应该会被你靠的太近的牙齿所吓到。你想她可能就此转身逃开，或者至少会被吓得僵在原地。你的嘴唇触碰到她的——感觉如此的温暖，可这无补于事，尤其是当你同时正集中精力去抵抗血的诱惑的时候——突然间，她张开手牢牢地抓住了你的头发，试图要把你向她拉近，血液涌 上她的脸颊（你能够嗅到和感觉到），她的唇怂恿着要 张开你的唇……你当然感到恐慌。你全身的神经反应都在要求你准备大开杀戒。这时你唯一可以做的最正确的事就是马上静止并在你要杀她之前尽可能的与她保持一段距离。

我 这样说大家都明白了吗？

Q. So my question is, If the blood inside the newborn vampire is used over a year, does that mean the vampire doesn’t have to feed for the first year?

问：我的问题是，如果新生吸血鬼体内的血液足够使用一年以上的话，是不是意味 着成为吸血鬼的第一年里可以不用猎食呢？

A. No. Newborn vampires are voraciously thirsty and almost unthinkingly wild. It’s a hard transition.

答：不是的。新生的吸血鬼都处于一种极度饥渴并且充满兽性的状态中。那是个很艰难的过渡期。

Q. Hey, I was just wondering when the paperback version of Twilight comes out, how many pages is the first chapter of New Moon going to be?

问：嗨，我想知道《暮色》什么时候出平装本，还有《新月》的第 一章会有多少页呢？

A. I’m not sure of the exact date–I think May or June. The first chapter of New Moon is 27 pages long (29 if they include the preface).

答：我不太清楚确切的时间——我想是五月或者六月吧。《新月》的第一章有27页那么长（如果加上前言就有29张啦）。

Q. I was wondering if Bella had any other interests besides Edward?

问：我想知道贝拉除了爱德华之外有没有其他兴趣呢？

A. Bella is a first and foremost a bookworm. She also likes to cook. She enjoys drawing, but she doesn’t think she does it very well. She takes care of her parents–bookkeeping, housekeeping, shopping, etc. She likes the house run just right, ha ha.

答： 贝拉是个一等一的书虫。她也喜欢烹饪。她很喜欢 画画，但她不认为她画得很 好。她照顾她的父母——记账啊，做家务啊，购物啊等等。她习惯把家里安排得井井有条，哈哈。

Q. When Bella was in the hospital she slipped and asked Edward why he didn’t just let her turn into a vampire.

问：当贝拉在医院的时候她问爱德华为什么不直接把她变成吸血鬼呢？

A. I don’t want to get into this too much–Edward’s reasons are more clearly dealt with in New Moon. But he does have reasons, and they are serious ones (not the “she won’t be soft and warm and smell tasty” reasons that I see floating around a lot. He’d much rather she didn’t smell tasty, and “soft and warm” = really breakable. Also not a good thing)

答： 我不想在这里太深入去探讨这个问题——在《新月》中会更清楚地讨论到爱德华这么做的理由。我可以这么说，他所做这一切的理由是经过十分严肃和认真的考虑（并不是我所见的“她不再柔软温暖和好闻了”这个四处流传的说法。他宁可她一点都不好闻，“柔软温暖”则等于的确十分易碎。同样也不是什么好事。）

Q. Why does Edward always kiss her neck more than her lips?

问：为什么爱德华总是亲她的脖子多过嘴唇呢？

A. It’s a little be safer (her reactions put her in danger). Also, because he’s just so SEXY!!

答： 这样会更安全一些（她所做的反应会使她处于危险之中）。同时也是因为他是如此的性感！

Q. If Rosalie still disliked Bella by the end of Twilight (which I’m not sure she did, but they had no interaction at the prom) and then was messing with Bella’s hair by the outtakes, what happened to make Rosalie soften up a bit?

问：如果在《暮色》的最后罗莎莉依然不喜欢贝拉（虽然我不确定，不过他们在舞会上是没有交流）然后就是小说中被删去的帮贝拉整理乱七八糟的头发的那一段（在原著出版前因为种种原因被删掉的小说片段， 梅尔在她的个人网站中重新整理并发表出来，以后有时间我也会翻译给大家看看——sue注），是什么原因让罗莎莉态度软化下来呢？

A. Didn’t I put this in the note? That outtake was written before I’d really developed Rosalie’s character (she was still Carol back then). Rosalie didn’t have any problem with Bella in the rough draft–or much of a personality, either. It was only later that her personality came into focus for me. Suddenly I realized that Rosalie didn’t like Bella at all, and then I completely “got” her. It’s funny, because it was as if Rosalie had always had this problem with Bella, but she’d just been hiding it from me. Yes, my characters are WAY to real to me.

答：我没有把它写进补充笔记中 吗？那个被删减的片段是在我真正设定好罗莎莉这个角色之前就已经写好了（那时她仍然叫卡罗）。在草稿中罗莎莉和贝拉之间是没有任何问题的——同时也没有什么突出的性格特征。是要到晚一点的时候她的性格才清晰地向我显露出来。突然间我意识到罗 莎莉一点都不喜欢贝拉，然后我就彻底地“抓住”她了。这很有趣，就像是罗莎莉其实一直都对贝拉有意见，只是她对我隐瞒罢了。没错，我故事中的人儿就是这样对我真实的。