Crooked Forest彎曲森林

笪景行

No. no. I'm not on a fairvtale movie set. The oddly shaped trees you see behind me aretotallv real！ And there are 400 0f these mvsterious pine trees. here in Poland. All of them havethe same northward 90-degree bend at the base of their limb l. and have grown to be tall andseemingly unhampered2 by their C shape curves 3.

不，不，我并不是在童話電影的場景里。你看到的我身后奇怪形狀的樹全部是真的！在波蘭，有400棵這種神奇的松樹。它們都有相同的在樹干底部向北90度的彎曲，并且長得很高，似乎沒有受它們C形曲線的影響。

Some experts believe that the trees grew like this because of some sort of damage to the tipand along some side branches. Well some people think there's something more than nature atplay here because they are in nearly the same shape！ There are a lot of theories4 about this， likesnow storms. or even intentiona15 damage to make furniture. Even the locals here haven't an ideaof how they came about. That's probably because the local town was damaged during World WarI. And some people think that a witch or wizard had something to do with these trees. How elsedo you explain 22 rows of crooked trees surrounded by completely normal trees'？

有些專家認為，這些樹長成這樣，因為它們頂端和一些側枝遭受過某種傷害。而有些人認為這里有非自然的因素起了作用，因為它們幾乎有著相同的形狀！關于這方面有很多推測，比如暴風雪，甚至是做家具造成的蓄意損傷。即使是當地人也不知道它們是怎么形成的。這可能是因為當地城鎮在第一次世界大戰期間遭到破壞。而有些人認為這些樹與女巫或巫師有關。不然你怎樣解釋22排彎曲的樹是被完全正常的樹包圍著的呢？

（英語原文選自：mocomi.com）

[Notes]

1. limb [l?m]n，枝干

2.unhampered [?n?h?mp?d] adj.無妨礙的

3.curve[k??v] n.曲線;彎曲

4.theory[?θi??r?]n.理論;推測

5.intentional[?n?ten??nl] adi，故意的