組圖:兩隻仙鶴的幸福愛情故事(中英對照)

Love and loyalty are the words when we talk about two storks from Brodska Varos, Croatia. It all began in 1993 when Stjepan Vokic, a school superintendent in Brodska Varos, found a stork with a hurt wing from a hunter’s bow. He adopted this bird and has since then healed it because the poor stork could obviously no longer fly. He named the stork Malena, and during the whole winter he took good care of her. 9 years ago another stork named Klepetan fell in love with Malena. Each spring, Klepetan returns from warmer climates back to Malena, on the same day, almost at the same hour. Since then, the happy couple from Brodska Varos has made 35 baby birds.
這個故事發生在克羅地亞的Brodska Varos，一位學校的校長Stjepan發現了一隻被獵人打傷的仙鶴。可憐的仙鶴後來被這位校長所收養並治癒了它的傷病，可是它卻永遠不能在藍天自由得翱翔。他將這隻仙鶴取名爲Malena，在那整個冬季都對它照顧得很好。9年後，一隻被取名爲Klepetan的仙鶴與Malena墜入了愛河。每年春天，在同一天的同一時間，Malena都會從南方回到Malena的身邊。自從那時開始，這對幸福的仙鶴夫婦生下了35只愛情的結晶。

This year at 13rd March a male stork landed on the roof of the school building in Brodska Varos. Stjepan thought that that it was Klepetan but he thought it was a bit weird because he always use to come around 24th March. It was another male stork that Malena scared away from her nest. When Klepetan did not appear after 24 March Stjepan was afraid that he had died on the way from Africa or that it is already too old to travel all the way from there to Croatia.
在今年的3月13日，一隻仙鶴着陸在了學校建築物的屋頂上。Stjepan認爲它可能是Klepetan，但是有點奇怪的是它一般只會來3月24日來到這裏。Malena在它的巢裏嚇了一大跳，顯然那位小三不是它的丈夫。當Klepetan在3月24日沒有出現的時候Stjepan心想它可能已經死在回這裏的路上了，又或者它已經老得不能飛回克羅地亞了。

When almost everyone gave up on hoping that he would come, Klepetan still came, followed by the Croatian media, and landed on the nest to be with his Malena. And therefore this unique love story from the animal world of love and commitment of two white storks, called Malena and Klepetan, can still continue!
當所有人都幾乎放棄Klepetan會回來的時候，它最終還是回來了，回到了它和Malena狗共鑄的愛巢裏。這個在動物界與衆不同的愛情故事又兩隻名叫Malena 和 Klepetan白鶴來承諾，並且還會繼續下去。