美食祈祷恋爱影评 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 83 (192):我的朋友尤弟

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 83 (192):我的朋友尤弟  

I have a new friend. His name is Yudhi
which is pronounced "You-Day." He's Indonesian
originally from Java. I got to know him because he rented my house to me; he's working for the Englishwoman who owns the place
looking after her property while she's away in London for the summer. Yudhi is enty-seven years old and stocky in build and talks kind of like a southern California surfer. He calls me "man" and "dude" all the time. He's got a smile that could stop crime
and he's got a long
plicated life story for somebody so young.
He was born in Jakarta; his mother was a housewife
his father an Indonesian fan of Elvis who owned a small air-conditioning and refrigeration business. The family was Christian—an oddity in this part of the world
and Yudhi tells entertaining stories about being mocked by the neighborhood Muslim kids for such shortings as "You eat pork!" and "You love Jesus!" Yudhi wasn't bothered by the teasing; Yudhi
by nature
isn't bothered by much. His mom
however
didn't like him hanging around with the Muslim kids
mostly on account of the fact that they were always barefoot
which Yudhi also liked to be
but she thought it was unhygien-ic
so she gave her son a choice—he could either wear shoes and play outside
or he could stay barefoot and remain indoors. Yudhi doesn't like wearing shoes
so he spent a big chunk of his childhood and adolescence life in his bedroom
and that's where he learned how to play the guitar. Barefoot.
The guy has a musical ear like maybe nobody I've ever met. He's beautiful with the guitar
never had lessons but understands melody and harmony like they were the kid sisters he grew up with. He makes these East-West blends of music that bine classical Indonesian lullabies with reggae groove and early-days Stevie Wonder funk—it's hard to explain
but he should be famous. I never knew anybody who heard Yudhi's music who didn't think he should be famous.
我未曾遇见过比这个家伙更有乐感的人。吉他弹得优美，虽不曾拜师学艺，对音韵却了若指掌，犹如一起长大的姐妹。他创作的音乐合并东方与西方，结合传统印尼摇篮曲以及雷鬼经验与早期史提夫·汪达（StevieWonder）的放克（Funk），难以解说他的风格，但他应该成名。任何人听过尤弟的音乐，都认为他该成名。
Here's what he always wanted to do most of all—live in America and work in show busi-ness. The world's shared dream. So when Yudhi was still a Javanese teenager
he somehow talked himself into a job (speaking hardly any English yet) on a Carnival Cruise Lines ship
thereby casting himself out of his narrow Jakarta environs and into the big
blue world. The job Yudhi got on the cruise ship was one of those insane jobs for industrious immig-rants—living belowdecks
working elve hours a day
one day off a month
cleaning. His fellow workers were Filipinos and Indonesians. The Indonesians and the Filipinos slept and ate in separate quarters of the boat
never mingling (Muslims vs. Christians
don't you know)
but Yudhi
in typical fashion
befriended everybody and became a kind of emissary beeen the o groups of Asian laborers. He saw more similarities than differences beeen these maids and custodians and dishwashers
all of whom were working bottomless hours in order to send a hundred dollars or so a month back to their families at home.