STUDY IN CHINA GLOBAL (SCG)作品原文
沙黾农 《漂亮的耳朵》
一天，更深人静的时候，他跳进村子后面的小河里洗澡。忽然间，一个飞碟毫无声息地降落在河边，紧接着，从中走出一位头戴帽盔的外星人。他吓得魂不附体，爬上岸衣裳都没来得及穿便夺路而逃。哪知外星人三脚两步便拦住在他面前，仔细地打量着他的全身，而后哈哈一笑说：”难怪你们地球上的人宣称，世界上最美丽的衣裳是人类的皮肤！”他低头瞧了瞧月光下自己的裸体，下意识地用双手捂住肚子下边。哪知外星人笑得更厉害了，”其实，你们人类最难看的地方并不在下身，而在头部 你们的耳朵！”外星人说罢便走进飞碟远走高飞了。
人最难看的地方是耳朵？他家里的墙上贴满了画，有一张画着中国古代的四大美女。唉，不看她们的耳朵则罢，一看耳朵，美貌全无；死盯着看，耳朵越来越大，更显得每个人都丑陋极了，简直成了一只只猫！
他顿时领悟到，为什么世上那么多文人都尽情地用文字去描写、赞美人的眼睛、嘴巴、鼻子，什么柳眉杏眼，樱桃小口，高高的鼻梁……，甚至还去歌颂人的头发，下巴、牙齿……，可就是没人去描写人的耳朵如何漂亮！
他不觉笑了起来，也许是我们人类在自我解嘲吧，耳朵分明已很丑陋了，还希望它长得越大越好，说什么越大越有福，越大越长寿。猪的耳朵才大哩！……怪不得有那么多女人戴耳环，那是为了转移视线，便视线下移……：还有，人们都说双眼皮比单眼皮漂亮，可每个人的耳朵都是”双耳皮”，这，为什么没有任何人说漂亮！
他赶紧去照镜子，注视着自己的耳朵。像什么？像……头颅两边各挂着一个问号，陶罐的把子，山洞的洞口，腌制的萝卜干子……
他越来越不能容忍自己长着这么一对奇丑无比的耳朵！他想起有些姑娘嫌自己的眉毛长得太粗，便索性剃光用眉笔勾勒出细细的一笔：他想起许多肥胖症患者去美容院拿掉身上的脂肪：他想起瑞典有位名叫雅珊的女子足球明星，为了增加在球场上奔跑的速度，毅然割掉了双乳！
他割掉了自己的双耳！
如今，尽管他的听力受到极大的削弱，可是，他认为自己比天底下所有的人都美多了；而别人则从他失去双耳的头部发现，我们每个人的耳朵是多么漂亮！
作品译文
Beautiful Ears
Sha Miannong
One quiet night he jumped into the river behind the village to take a swim. Just when he started to have fun, a UFO landed moiselessly by the riverside and an extraterrestrial, donning a helmet, walked out. Scared out of his wits by the sight, he crawled ashore and broke into a run without even putting on his clothes. The extraterrestrial overtook him in two or three big steps, stopped him, looked him up and down, and burst out laughing.
“No wonder your earthlings proclaim that the most beautiful clothing in the world is human skin.”
He loved his head to see his naked body under the moonlight and instinctively reached to cover the part below the belly. The extraterrestrial laughed even more loudly:
“Truth being told, the ugliest part of the human body is not down there; it is in your head, instead—your ears!”
With that the extraterrestrial returned to the UFO and took off.
The ugliest part of the human body is the ears? The walls of his home are covered with pictures, one of them being the Four Greatest Beauties of Ancient China. Oh, look at them, look at their ears; their old beauty is all gone. Yes, the harder he stared at their ears, the bigger they grew, and the uglier the Four Beauties became. Indeed, they all became cats!
It suddenly dawned on him why so many poets in the world had poured their hearts into describing the beauty of human eyes, mouths, noses—almond eyes, peachy lips, classic, well-sculpted nose—and into celebrating human hair, chin, teeth … yet no one had ever bothered with describing how beautiful ears were!
He heard a laugh escaping his lips. We humans are probably making fun of ourselves. The ears are already ugly enough yet we want them to grow bigger, the bigger the better, the bigger the more fortune, the bigger the longer we live. Pooh! Pig have really big ears! … No wonder nowadays so many women wear earrings. It is to divert our attention … divert it downward. What’s more, people say double eyelids are prettier than single eyelids, yet although everybody’s ears are “double lids,” why hasn’t anybody said ears are pretty?
Once home, he looked at himself in the mirror and gazed hard at his ears. What do they look like? Like … two question marks hanging from both sides of his head, like handles of an earthen pot, like two holes in a mountain, like pickled radish …
How could he bear the sight of himself with a pair of ugliest ears! It occurred to him that some young women, unhappy with their thick eyebrows, would shave them completely and paint much slenderer ones instead; some obese people would even go under the knife to remove the extra fat in their bodies; one Sweden women soccer star, Pea Sundhage, even had her breasts revoke in order to run like fierce wind in the field.
So he cut his ears!
Nowadays, even though his hearing has weakened dramatically, he believes that he is much more beautiful than all the people between heaven and earth. Everyone else, however, has discovered, from the sight of his ear-less head, that the ears of everyone of us are so beautiful.
