在回转寿司店中，几位鸟人并列散坐在寿司流水线边上。他们来这里庆祝春雨。
In a conveyor belt sushi restaurant, a few Birdies sat casually along the sushi train. They were here to celebrate the arrival of April showers.

这个节庆在至少一千多年前开始在鸟人国形成。它跟鸟人国的气候没有关系，而是周游鸟人带回来的娱乐活动。当年一支周游鸟人在春游中路过一处园林。园中有酒香，隐约有人们在谈论诗歌文章。鸟人们对谈话内容很有兴趣，于是混入园中。酒香浓处是一群达官贵人的聚会。
This celebration began to take root as a custom in Birdsland over a thousand years ago. It has little to do with the Birdian weather but rather an entertainment brought back by Birdian wanderers. One spring day, a group of Birdian wanderers stumbled upon a private garden where the fragrance of alcohol wafted through the air and faint conversations about poetry and literature could be heard. Intrigued, they sneaked into the garden and saw that at the heart of the gathering sat a group of noble lords alongside a winding stream.

这群男人列坐在一条水渠两侧，不时把一些酒杯放到水上，又不时把漂流到自己面前的酒喝完。他们写诗喝酒，写不出诗也喝酒。一个看起来像是主人的男人突然叫侍者拿来纸笔。鸟人们看这个男人眼神迷离，猜他已经认不清人脸，于是从侍者手中骗来了文具，把纸调包成特制的双层纸，呈给男人。
They laid cups full of alcohol on the water and drank the cups that floated down to them. They drank while composing poems and even when they couldn’t write any. At some point, a man who seemed to be the host instructed his servant to bring ink and paper. His eyes looked muzzy. The Birdian wanderers assumed he couldn’t recognise and remember faces properly. So they deceived the servant and replaced the papers with their specially crafted double-layered sheets then gave them to the man.

男人果然毫无察觉，挥毫落纸，给集会所作诗集写了序。众人，包括鸟人们，都惊讶于男人书法和文章的厉害，发起一阵推杯换盏。很快男人们都醉了。鸟人们于是剥开双层纸，留下一份墨宝，带着另一份离开了。这幅书法作品和这种集会形式被这些周游鸟人带回鸟人国，受到极大的欢迎，逐渐成为鸟人们在春雨天的消遣。
Unaware, the man began to write, brush dancing as ink met paper. He wrote a prologue for the collection of poems written at the gathering. All guests, including the Birdian wanderers, were amazed and raised a toast to the man and his masterpiece. Soon these men all became intoxicated. The Birdian wanderers then peeled off the two layers of the work. They saved a copy for the men and brought the other one back to Birdsland. This custom of celebration were then introduced to the Birdies and became a popular ceremony in the spring.

约莫百年前，几位周游鸟人外出春游，走到一处合适他们庆祝春雨的河边。他们沿河坐下，一个鸟人用鸟人语说：“快睡着的时候像是坐在思绪的浪花上起伏。”一个鸟人用鸟人语说：“为了荒诞的绽放。”一个鸟人用读者能明白的语言说：“河里有人！”
Less than a hundred years ago, several Birdian wanderers went on a spring trip and arrived at a riverbank where they wanted to start their April showers celebration. They sat down along the river. One Birdie said in Birdian, ‘Cresting waves of thoughts at the verge of dreamland.’ Another Birdie said in Birdian, ‘For the bloom of absurdity.’ One Birdie said in a language that the readers understand, ‘Someone in the water!’

鸟人们看见一个女人正往河里走。他们迅速跑到离女人最近的岸边，向她喊话，而女人没有回答。她在自己的世界里。春天还有点凉，她穿着大衣，口袋里塞满石头。鸟人们这时认出这个女人，不久前他们才撞见她浑身湿透地从河边走回家。女人在浪中踉跄，跌入河水中消失了，她的世界也随之流走了。
The Birdies saw a woman walking into the river. They run to the nearest spot to her on the bank, calling out to her, but the woman didn’t respond. She was in her own world. It was still chilly in the spring and she wore a coat with pockets full of stones. The Birdies then recognised the woman. She had recently been seen, completely soaked, walking home from the river. She tripped then vanished into the water, her world disappearing with her.

今天鸟人们在回转寿司店庆祝春雨。无言中吃饭，与过去对话，一厢情愿地。
Today in a conveyor belt sushi restaurant, a few Birdies celebrated the arrival of April showers. In silence, they had meals, talking to the past wishfully.