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在北极圈最寒冷的地方生活的爱斯基摩人中流传着一个故事,每到冬夜里最难捱的时候人们就讲起它。故事说的是一位住在阿拉斯加最北端的一位孤独的寡妇,由于无法打猎和捕鱼,她完全靠邻居们的施舍过活。在这个贫穷的村子里,邻居们也很少有剩余的食物,于是饥饿和孤独令她难以忍受。一天早上,老妇听到一场婴儿似的哭叫。她走到门外,看见雪地上一团毛绒绒的东西。那是一只出生不久的北极熊,母熊刚被猎获,
There is a story circulating among the Eskimos living in the coldest part of the Arctic Circle, and people talk about it every hardest time in every winter night. The story is about a lonely widow living in the northernmost tip of Alaska, completely dependent on the charity of her neighbors to live because of her inability to hunt and fish. In this poor village, neighbors have little remaining food, so starvation and loneliness make her unbearable. One morning, the old woman heard a baby-like cry. She went outside and saw a furry thing on the snow. It was a very short-lived polar bear, the mother bear had just been harvested,