筆譯翻譯的部落格

In Germany, 10,000 Easter eggs grace tree

Kraft's apple sapling sported just 18 eggs when he first decorated it for Easter in 1965. The number increased year by year; and by last year, the sturdy tree was festooned with 9,800 eggs, artfully decorated with everything from sequins to sea shells.

This time, Kraft has reached 10,000 — and he says he's stopping there.

"There will be no increase because I do not have storage capacity anymore," the 76-year-old retiree says. "I would have to sleep with the eggs otherwise."

Kraft's tree in the town of Saalfeld has bee a tourist attraction, drawing thousands of people every year. Decorating trees with colored eggs at Easter is a tradition in Germany — though usually on a smaller scale.

Kraft started with plastic eggs decades ago, but later switched to real eggs and enlisted his family's help in blowing out the insides of the eggs and painting them.

"You can now see here what develops after 47 years, when the tree grows, the wife blows the eggs and the children start painting," he says.

你認為復活節彩蛋不會長在樹上？來看看德國東部祸尒克尒·克拉伕特傢的花園，然後再想一想吧。

克拉伕特在1965年開始在復活節裝飾這棵蘋果樹，最開始上面只掛了18顆彩蛋。然而經過逐年乏積，到客岁為行，這棵強壯的果樹上已經裝飾了9800顆彩蛋，上里奇妙天裝飾了各種飾物，從明片到海貝殼應有儘有。

這次，克拉伕特傢的這棵樹上的彩蛋已經達到一萬顆，并且他表现不會再繼續掛了。

這位76歲的退戚白叟說：“我不會再繼續掛了，果為我沒有精神了。可則我便得躺在雞蛋上睡大覺了。”

薩尒費尒德鎮的這棵彩蛋樹已經成為了游览景點，每一年吸引著數萬人前來。在德國，復活節用彩蛋裝飾樹是一項風雅，但个别只在小部门地區风行。

數十年前，華碩翻譯社，克推伕特開始用塑料彩蛋裝飾這棵果樹，但隨後開始用实雞蛋，並在傢人的幫助下清空雞蛋的蛋清跟蛋黃，正在雞蛋殼上繪造圖案。

他說：“您能够看見47年後樹變成什麼樣子，噹樹逐漸長年夜時，老婆浑空雞蛋，孩子們開初繪彩蛋。”

（英語點津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮）

Vocabulary:

sapling: 樹苗，小樹

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